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Kaladin was stabbing a spren with a presence in the Physical Realm, he just happened to have a weapon that could also cut on the Spiritual level which let him kill it. The distinction is, he was targeting the actual thing with that attack while an atium/electrum/gold/malatium shadow is not the actual thing and does not have its own spiritweb that can be attacked.

A polestone drained of color by an Awakener would become useless for soulcasting or for use in fabrials but it would probably still be able to hold stormlight albeit not as well. And this would work on diamonds too.

They're Shards and they've been Invested on Roshar for thousands of years, they'd have godmetals whether they want to or not and there's at least one metal per Shard. But yes, we know specifically that Shardblades are an alloy of Honor and Cultivation godmetal because Brandon has said so explicitly: Tagged for length and because eh, SA material on the Mistborn forum...

We really don't know enough about Fortune and F-Chromium to be sure that would work, though it's certainly a possibility. We know Hoid has some way of knowing where he needs to be but he doesn't know why, it just leads him to locations and he hangs out until he figures out what he's supposed to do or gets bored and leaves. He's got a lot of experience to draw on and he still can't figure it out all the time. So it might be that F-Chromium can't do something like guide you towards the right spot to place a spike/draw lines to form a new Aon, or it might be that it can do that but it's not your destiny to do so because someone else will and soon enough that the future is largely deterministic and no amount of Fortune is going to shift that. But it's definitely a magic application I want to learn more about. xD As for the easiest (non-morally-bankrupt) way to get lots of Breath, have lots and lots of money and just buy the things. We know that Idris was able to afford enough Breaths to get Lemex to the Third Heightening so if you've got a substantial amount of money you can buy your way there eventually, you just need to do what Lemex did about a hundred times over. But hey, once you hit the Fifth Heightening you've got all the time in the world... Oh, and Brandon has implied that there's a way to harvest Breath from Nalthis itself. Possibly there's a way to grab them after someone has died but before their Breath gets recycled back to Endowment, or possibly given the reference to Mistborn you could somehow convert Endowment's godmetal into a bunch of Breaths if you had some and knew what to do.

Passing on that for a second, if it qualifies as one such that it's viable in the Metallic Arts there would be a pretty big followup question: What would you need Connection to in order to interact with it? We know that mistborn aren't naturally going to be able to burn the Honor/Cultivation alloy that is Shardblade godmetal. If dragonsteel is a godmetal or something similar enough to be viable, you'd need to form that Connection to use it. So, would Connection to Yolen do it? Do you need to be a dragon? We do have this WoB though it doesn't really tell us anything useful. Since his company and the future series is named after the metal, I think it's a safe bet that it's going to be Really Important even if it changes a bit from what we've seen in the Prime excerpts and even if it's not some sort of 'Adonalsium godmetal'.

Very nice spot! And yeah, I'm pretty certain that Brandon got the patterns from there (or really, some earlier paper since that one's only a few years old) since that's exactly how we got the shape of Roshar's landmass and people have even found the exact slice of the Julia set that gets the shape.

The only reason I know leetspeak is because of Megatokyo, starting here. That said, I'm also just old enough to remember when LART was a common term. xD

Yeah, not only can you go back to those later but some of them are flat-out impossible to even attempt when you first encounter them. Generally speaking, CS2 will allow you to revisit everything with the exception of some one-time dungeons that are usually pretty obvious from context. EDIT: Since I hadn't spotted it before but someone brought it to my attention, Dengeki has shown off their special PS4 theme for Hajimari which includes a teaser of a particular location's normal battle BGM. Got a rather nice rotating selection of character art as part of it, though there's an inherent Crossbell spoiler in there for anyone skittish of such things. And there's going to be a final Dengeki stream this Thursday including new gameplay footage. SECOND EDIT: The first Hajimari leaks are starting to come from this week's Famitsu. Spoil-tagged for obvious endgame CS4 stuff: All this and in less than twenty-four hours we're getting new footage too. xD

If you don't know where it is in Physical space it's going to be harder to find in Cognitive space and it's possible the world looks weird in the latter realm due to the momentous things that have happened there (like the Shattering) and/or due to its competing ecosystems that probably give it a rather odd subastral as well. It's also probably got a much smaller Cognitive presence than an inhabited planet normally should because we know its (sapient) population is small enough that you could reasonably count to it.

The Q&A board doesn't strictly track posts in chronological order; if someone votes an answer up or down it will appear out of order. The line you were responding to was already answered by that WoB, which appears before the post it's responding to due to upvotes. Yeah, it's kind of wonky at times but it ensures that if a 'best' answer is determined it's the first thing people see after the question.

I am quite certain that Kelsier would have noticed an entire fork being made out of atium and commented on it. Especially given how much money that much atium represents and how utterly absurd it would be to make an eating utensil out of it.

There was a Hajimari site update this week but nothing huge. A new update to the rotating downloadable wallpaper focusing on some of the supporting Crossbell characters and an announcement of the drawing contest they're holding (as they have for the last few games) where you're eligible to be chosen as one of the winners if you can fill in a blanked-out line from the game. In this case the line is (minor spoiler for the back half of Cold Steel) Which is bound to be hilarious. Oh just wait, there's a scene near the end of the game where one of Class VII's members reacts to something that has for years been way more hilarious than the developers probably intended to begin with, though they seem to have taken the idea and rolled with it in subsequent games.

Yeah, I just saw Brandon confirm that they're counting add-on purchases and later orders towards it so it sounds like it is going to happen at some point, which is awesome. He does offer the option to Elhokar before opening hostilities, which suggests that it's seen as a valid means of removing someone from power without killing them, possibly even one Dalenar has offered before. While it's hard to say what future books would have done if Brandon had developed the series from Prime instead of the rewritten Way of Kings, I never really got the impression that Dalenar the Tyrantbane was dreaded in the same way the Blackthorn was. There's a definite hint that before that Dalenar was something similar to the Blackthorn, a man who killed hundreds on the battlefield and enjoyed it, but it sounds like it was the war against Jarnah that changed him. So it's possible that Dalenar, sick and weary of all the killing, offered Jarnah the same thing he later offered Elhokar, only the former accepted what the latter would one day reject. And then for whatever reason Dalenar ensured that the official accounts stated that he'd killed the tyrant. Another possibility (not mutually exclusive) is that Jarnah said something that made Dalenar hesitate and decide that here was someone worth keeping alive, just in case. We know the Shin invasions (which are old history in SA) were a recent event in Prime and that they believed the khothen were returning and saw allying with Jarnah as a reasonable decision in preparation for whatever was coming. This just happens to have been the same year that Merin, Shinri and Renarin were all born, the year that old magics started returning to the world. There's no way that's a coincidence. Maybe Jarnah knew something about the khothen and/or the magic (or thought he new something) and Dalenar realized that it made more sense to keep the man alive in case he turned out to be right.

A Splinter is watching you and weighing how much you really know and whether certain plans need to be altered... So, softball question first: Why are your members so active on Roshar when your ultimate goal is to introduce instant noodles to Scadrial?

From the various things Brandon has said, we're going to be looking at the early days of computing on Scadrial so I expect there's going to be a lot of integration of the Metallic Arts into technology a la what the southerners are doing. I suspect that we might even get hints in the direction of how a Cosmere AI would work, especially if there have been (or are onscreen) breakthroughs in understanding the more esoteric bits of realmatics that they're only just starting to poke at. I don't think we're likely to see a true AI yet (Era 4 now...) but some hints at least, maybe the protagonist sketching out ideas that future generations can later put into practice. Brandon has floated a 'Mistborn Cyberpunk' work set between Eras 3 and 4 as a possible project so my guess is that technology like this would either go there or in the latter era, but we might see the early prototypes that they'll develop from. I mean, we know unsealed copperminds can be made now, but the kind of really sophisticated and tiny cybernetic modules seen in sci-fi that can be used to learn skills, enhance reflexes etc. are probably farther in the future than Era 3 will take us. Yeah, I'm really hoping we get to see F-Chromium in Era 3 because I want to know what storing and tapping Fortune will look like beyond the generalized assumption made in Era 2 that it manipulates 'luck'.

Welcome to the Shard! Ahhhh, I don't think there are plans for that right now. They missed unlocking that stretch goal by about two hundred thousand so I wouldn't expect an audio version unless there's a later announcement that they've worked it out. Missed that goal but we did get those awesome coasters at the end. I've got a friend that has read Jordan but not Sanderson so I'm hoping to get a chance to serve them a nice cold glass of RAFO some time as a way of encouraging them to also pick up Brandon's books. xD I think for me I wasn't so annoyed with that one as I've seen other people be, so much as the words that are almost but not quite what we're used to from SA. Stuff like Shinavar and Dalenar instead of Shinovar and Dalinar, crom instead of crem and so on...and I'm glad I'm not the only person whose mind went to Conan for the latter . But the thing that was probably the hardest for me with terminology was all the invented words, like I mentioned in my last post. Switching some of those things we were going to be hearing a lot to real words for ordinary usage (like Epellion becoming Radiant, saving the fantasy word for the listener language) helped smooth things out a bit. There are hints from Taln that there's something more to the blades than what we see in WokP but we don't really have enough information to know what it was. But yeah, the lack of spren and Brandon mentioning elsewhere that he cannibalized elements from a concept project that never took off to make Syl and (in another WoB) that he originally only intended for there to be a few major spren in SA means it's got to be something significantly different. Apparently it still goes back to how the Shardblades are made, but Taln is surprised that nobody is making them any more so their creation doesn't sound like something as big as what it became in SA. It reminds me a lot of Timothy Zahn's Thrawn from the old Star Wars EU, who performed a similar level of analysis at the species level based on the art they produce, or on an individual level from what they collect. In fact, I'm pretty sure Brandon got the idea for Ahven from Thrawn because he mentions loving the character and that inspired some of what went into Wayne. Given that, I'd be shocked if Brandon hadn't been consciously drawing on the idea for Ahven too. The argument that he could have been the tyrant Jarnah is an interesting one and it would fit with canon!Vasher and his many dimly-remembered identities as Strifelover and Kalad the Usurper. We know something about the account of Dalenar defeating Jarnah isn't true and Vasher training Merin in a style of combat designed for a battlefield instead of a dueling arena and for fighting multiple opponents fits as well.

Well, it's not Mistborn specifically but if we're thinking 'Disney does the Cosmere' the first thing that immediately came to mind is that if Hoid isn't singing his take on Aladdin's Friend Like Me at some point, they're doing it wrong. It could even be a recurring thing across all his major appearances, where his name isn't revealed until the song plays and that serves as your clue that yes, this is Hoid. I've got a ton of songs that sprang to mind for non-Mistborn uses but I don't want to go into those here in any detail so onto the ones I've come up with for just this franchise: - Go The Distance from Hercules would be a good fit for Wax as he's trying to find where he belongs upon his return to Elendel. - Fixer-Upper from Frozen could go any number of places in the Cosmere, but probably the best way to make it work in Mistborn would be Wayne singing it about Wax during the first meeting with Steris and Marasi. Obviously Wayne was trying to set up Wax with Marasi in the book but it still works. - On just about any of Wayne's chapters across Era 2 where he goes 'trading' things, cue Aladdin's One Jump Ahead. - I seem to be on an Aladdin kick (hey, it has a lot of great songs) so let's keep going. When Wax uses allomancy to bypass the line at ZoBell Tower in Shadows of Self, it would be a great time to cue up a duet of Whole New World with Steris. - Going way back to The Final Empire, a lighter and softer version of World's Greatest Criminal Mind from The Great Mouse Detective would be a good intro song for Kelsier. - I'm having trouble figuring out a lot of good Hero of Ages songs. A rearrangement of Jack's Lament from The Nightmare Before Christmas could probably work for TenSoon as he's despairing late in the book, before realizing that he needs to go and help Sazed.

I don't think Soulcasting is geared for the incredible amount of things that the spiritweb seems to use to determine your true age. Age is part of your Connection to places, people and time and you're going to have tons of those. Bear in mind that the one application of feruchemy that we know manipulates Connection specifically would not be able to pull off a stunt like that. Brandon mentions that there is some way Rashek could have used Connection manipulation to affect his age but Brandon describes it as being actively difficult, meaning a simple one-and-done application of any single magic system just isn't likely to cut it.

Here's the thing: Characters in this series are to an extent specialized. If you're trying to use someone like Emma or especially Toval for physical damage you're completely wasting their potential. Toval isn't just a caster, he's an insanely fast caster and one of the most powerful playable characters in the series if you use him properly. It doesn't matter that EP is limited early in the game; by the time you're done you'll have more restoration items than you'll know what to do with so you might as well start using them now. Related to this, balance out your use of harder-hitting but expensive and slower Arts with cheap and quick ones that don't hit quite as hard. There are times when you'll want to go big but quite often a cheap single-target spell will be all you need and casters do way more damage that way than they're going to with their weak regular attacks. The only caveat to this is when you have someone who can inflict magical damage with a regular attack (Elliot and Emma mainly) and you're fighting enemies with low ADF, in which case their attacks will frequently do a lot of damage.

This is a coincidence, as Brandon told us in the annotations that 'Nightblood' was not its original name.

Welcome to the Shard, Corim Danex! Almost anything. They pretty much have to be of a single piece because turning into multiple weapons or a multi-part weapon would require splitting the spren's soul and they wouldn't like that. Oh, and there's some upper limit on how big they can be, though anything bigger than the forms we've already seen would start to get ridiculously unwieldy so it's kind of academic.

As mentioned, atium compounding has an upper limit so while it can dramatically extend your lifespan, you'll eventually reach a point where you can't tap enough stored youth to overcome the pushback from your soul that is trying to snap you back to the age you should be. This is because your Spiritual aspect knows how old you really are (very long and detailed WoB here).. It's also for this reason that healing magics in the Cosmere do not prevent you from dying of old age, even though the biological causes of age may not be present. Like Brandon says in the WoB that Karger posted, even if you're Miles and have all the compounded health in the world, you're eventually going to drop dead despite being in otherwise perfect health because 'it's your time'.

We know it can happen on a larger scale (Harmony) so there's little reason to think it can't also happen on a smaller scale. It might take a lot more work to restore a Splintered Shard but once you get enough of a critical mass together that you could Ascend the rest probably becomes easier. Another point is that in Oathbringer, Odium tells Dalinar that he realizes now that he can't leave behind the Splinters of Honor like he thought he could. Clearly he's worried that he didn't do a thorough enough job the first time. But yeah, that WoB is pretty definitive. xD

You know, since you made a bunch of topics on the exact same subject in the span of about an hour, know that its okay to combine them into just one topic and ask multiple questions. Just saying, for the future.

The metal in the spikes is from a Shard that we already know and it's the actual Shard involved, not somebody stealing another Shard's godmetal and messing with it. Because 'Trell' has to be associated with one of the known Shards, it's pretty easy to figure out which ones it isn't by process of elimination. We have a WoB that it's not Endowment, Ambition, Devotion, Dominion and Honor are splintered, Odium is trapped on Braize and Cultivation is busy opposing him and it can't be Preservation or Ruin because Sazed doesn't recognize it. That leaves Autonomy as the best candidate. There's a bit of wiggle room for Odium and enough time has passed that maybe something has happened with D&D offscreen, but they're distant second places to the Shard that has an intent that could very well be interpreted along the lines we see Paalm doing (Brandon makes a point of how Autonomy can mean a lot of things without clarifying which one he's using), who we know is interfering on many worlds and who likes creating avatars of herself to carry out tasks.