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Mistborn Era 4 is going to be that conclusion. In addition to what's already been provided, here's another WoB where he's quite explicit about it:

Hmmm, good thinking there. It probably wouldn't stop you from feeling kinda lousy and taking a long time to recover if you were injured (since your body is still doing a worse job of maintaining itself than baseline) but all that Breath should at least prevent you from getting sick while you're storing. Of course, that much Breath would also probably prevent you from getting drunk while storing, so Wayne would lose his favorite method of coping with the 'feeling lousy' part of the process...

@Narglet That was really worth the thread necro... But since this topic has been briefly revived, we have some WoBs (which were around when this topic was fresh) that suggest that F-Bendalloy is storing calories: And in the context of 'How could you adapt feruchemy into a D&D game?': And one more where he implies (via not contradicting the questioner) that F-Bendalloy stores caloric content while leaving the food itself to be eliminated normally Given that Brandon describing it in terms of calories just looks at the total energy you could get from a given meal but doesn't answer how it treats the nutritional makeup of that meal, we don't have a definite answer. My own guess is that you'd be storing all the relevant intake for whatever you ate, so eating five hundred calories worth of vegetables versus five hundred calories of pancakes are going to result in two different kinds of storage, rather than indistinguishable blocks of 'five hundred calories, tap when hungry'. Since the bulk of the food is still in your system, my guess is that F-Bendalloy wouldn't help with poisoning of any kind, because you're not digesting the parts that are making you sick and they'll still be in your body after you've stored the nutrition you'd otherwise have gotten from the food.

Brandon has confirmed that a 'Seonblade' or 'Skazeblade' could be created but something would need to happen to pull them more fully into the Physical Realm. Using Forgery to take an ordinary blade and make it as sharp as possible and keep that edge while using it should be pretty easy though that would just be a super-sharp weapon rather than one with supernatural properties. Brandon has already told us that making a sword-shaped metalmind and dumping a ton of Investiture into it wouldn't make it Shardblade-esque on its own, though the result would definitely gain some ability to resist being cut by a Shardblade due to Investiture resistance. Making an unsealed metalmind into the shape of a weapon would give you a 'magical' weapon that lets you use particular allomantic or feruchemical powers, sort of like an Honorblade granting Surgebinding powers except that it would require physical contact to function. The weapon portion itself would be entirely normal, except that the need to mix multiple metals would result in a weaker weapon or at least an unbalanced one, depending on how it's constructed. There's also the fact that an unsealed metalmind for allomantic powers still requires the user to have a separate supply of the metal to burn.

That's not a chronological listing of the works, as can immediately be seen by the fact that Dragonsteel is listed late even though it's the chronologically earliest work. Another clue would be that Brandon has MB Eras 2 and 3 listed between the two halves of Stormlight Archive even though we know the gap between Mistborn eras is going to be measurable in generations while the gap between the two parts of Stormlight will be maybe a decade. Obviously that's not intended to be chronological. Nigthblood takes place before The Way of Kings and currently there aren't any stories planned to be set between those two. Exactly how many years pass between the one and the other we can't say.

Yeah, it wasn't really meant to be resolved since aside from Aviendha at first, there wasn't any indication that any of the parties were in conflict. All four members expected that Rand was going to die within a couple of years at best (so let's make whatever we can of it) and one of them is from a society where polygamy is accepted so once Aviendha got over her own hangups, she didn't have an issue with the idea and was able to get Elayne onboard as well. That left Min, who had a Viewing that told her she and two others would fall in love with Rand and they'd have to share him. Given the 100% accurate track record of her past viewings, she seems to have just decided to roll with it. Now, from a Doylist viewpoint the idea was probably to invoke the Maiden/Mother/Crone symbolism.

The answer to this is 'Yes, sort of'. We know that Hoid's version of Lightweaving was 'broken' to some degree and that he's happy to get access to Rosharan Lightweaving so he can do things he couldn't before. We can assume the Shattering was probably the cause of this but whether it was a direct effect or a side-effect of something else (like whatever happened to make Hoid as immortal as he is) we have no way of knowing right now. It's also vaguely possible it was broken in some other manner unrelated to the Shattering. We do know that either other users of Yolish Lightweaving exist or that knowledge of how it works is readily available, because Khriss has to know a fair amount about it in order to draw the comparison between Yolish and Rosharan Lightweaving that she does in the Ars Arcana. We also know that Hoid's super-healing predates the Shattering but that's about all we know. As with Hoid's Lightweaving, we don't know what the conditions to access the magic were and whether they could still be done by someone who was born post-Shettering. Per the WoB above, most of the magic systems that we see either existed in some form or are echoing magics that existed before the Shattering. Brandon has said that for worlds without Shards (ie 'minor shardworlds') the magic is largely going to be a part of the setting, won't be interacted with as directly and will be generally weaker than worlds with a Shard in residence. Trimmed for length: So any magic that existed on the worlds without a Shard but which eventually played host to one would probably have looked more like First of the Sun does or what we know of Ashyn, and then the arrival of the Shards provides a way to interact more directly with that magic and makes what can be done with it more potent. We know the general mechanism of access on a major shardworld is based on the intent of the resident Shard(s) so once they arrive, the subtle interactions of their intent, any magic that predated their arrival and the sDNA of the local populations will result in a new way of getting to the magic. The question of 'who controls access to magic' on minor shardworlds is flawed because it implies a conscious agent, which doesn't fit what Brandon has said or the examples we've been given; Humans access First of the Sun's magic by forming bonds with the Aviar, who themselves get the magic from the grubs. No entity consciously says 'you get magic, you don't' and instead it's more like 'If you (Aviar) eat a grub then you get magic, then if you (human) bond with the Aviar you get to benefit from that magic'. Likewise what we know of Ashyn indicates that bacteria are the source of the magic so there isn't an agent controlling the process, it's just 'you encounter the bacteria in the environment and get magic while also getting sick'. There's a social mechanism that's been put in place by the human population to ensure that specific beneficial magics are readily accessible but actual access to the magic is still an environmental thing and new magics can be found as people catch new diseases whether they intended to or not. Oh, and since it's somewhat related we know that Adonalsium had established some boundaries before the Shattering so things like creating Fabrials would have been extremely difficult if not impossible unless Adonalsium allowed you to do it.

Knowledge of the Aons came before Elantris: The exact details of the city's creation is (almost certainly) connected with Sel's resident Shards and thus something we'll probably learn more about once Brandon starts revealing more information in the sequels. We're in a holding pattern there until at least 2024 according to the most recent State of the Sanderson, since he's not planning on working on them until The Lost Metal and Stormlight 5 are out, the latter being planned for 'Fall 2023'.

Magic systems are a function of the Shard(s) and the planet interacting, so if the two uprooted themselves and then took up residence on another planet, you wouldn't get 'Harmony and Endowment's current magic systems with influences from the other' but something new shaped by the way their powers interacted with the planet they Invested. Here's a couple of relevant WoBs: Given the example of Roshar where there was a pre-existing manifestation of Investiture that Adonalsium had put in place and what the Shards did was put their own touches on it without changing the underlying mechanisms, it's likely that any Shards settling on a new world would find similar 'pathways' in place and any magic system(s) they manifested would go through those and also be filtered by the sDNA of whoever or whatever actually manifested the magic.

My guess is that it would have to be in metallic form to be something you could push/pull on, in the same way that silicon is a metalloid but allomancers can't push/pull glass (maybe stained glass if you're powerful enough to push off the trace metals) and the reason that mistborn and Inquisitors use obsidian weapons is because they can't be detected or affected by allomancy even though they're made largely of silicon.

Given that he mentioned Liar specifically and the available excerpts show that he used handfuls of dust as a catalyst or focus for Lightweaving there while telling stories... I think it's more likely than not that he intended that to be magical.

Brandon's directly confirmed the former was an application of Yolish Lightweaving and more or less confirmed the latter as well, especially since he mentioned interactions plural with Kaladin.

Shardplate is very heavily Invested by nature. Trimmed for clarity: And here's a WoB to back up @RShara's point while I'm perusing Arcanum.

Brandon has confirmed that he had Shinto as a major influence when it came to creating the spren and the way they're perceived. There's definitely a lot of resonance there, as kami run the gamut from local entities associated with a particular place or thing to anthropomorphic entities closer to, say, a deity that someone in ancient Greece or Rome would understand as a god. Let me answer this with an example. There's a particular form of theistic belief called Deism, which posits that some entity that we might call God created the universe but takes no active role in it beyond that, including any conception of an afterlife. We might say 'here's an all-powerful and all-knowing entity, it's God' but not necessarily see any point in worshiping such an entity because it doesn't need, want or possibly even notice the worship and it has no effect on the worshiper either. In a purely materialistic viewpoint, it would be akin to worshiping the Big Bang. Likewise one could posit a deity that created the universe and is actively involved but isn't worthy of worship. This comes up in some forms of Gnostic belief for example, with an entity who created the material universe and everything in it, but the material universe is imperfect and the goal is to escape from it into a more perfect spiritual one, or the creator entity is actually evil. In either case, it might have the powers that could be attributed to an omnimax god but still not be something you'd want to worship. Jasnah in that passage seems to be looking for something that both fits her definition of a God and which she would feel worth worshiping. Or waiting for someone else to provide her with proof of such a God if she can't find it herself. Given that by the end of WoR Hoid has revealed to her that Honor was originally a mortal man named Tanavast who once bought him a drink, I think it's safe to say that she's got a better handle on the subject than most Rosharans.

That's an old WoB and we've already seen a non-Nalthian use Breath to Awaken things. We also have a much newer WoB that states that it really is as simple as 'Get Breath, you can Awaken'. As for what 'Edglium' might do in the Metallic Arts, I really like @Elegy's idea that allomantically it would function sort of like A-Duralumin except that instead of boosting the other metal(s) you're burning, it would give those abilities to whoever you're touching for as long as you keep burning. Very Endowment-ish and while godmetals don't necessarily work that way in the Metallic Arts, it would be a cool ability and fit with the sorts of things we've seen before. For feruchemy, I could imagine it working like BioChromatic sense, in that you'd find the world duller and be less attuned to nuances of sound and color while storing and be better while tapping, though with some limitation so F-Edglium and compounding couldn't just replace the effects of the lower Heightenings by itself. Okay, I suppose the rarity of the metal might be its own limiting factor. We have no idea what Endowment's godmetal is right now so it's possibly either extremely rare or is in a form that's difficult to refine into something that would work in the Metallic Arts. For hemalurgy I'm guessing that it could take any or all of something (atium can steal anything, lerasium 'steals all abilities' and 'trellium' seems to work like H-Atium) but I'd want to know more about H-Lerasium and what that description means before even venturing a guess as to what other godmetals can really do hemalurgically.

Very amusing, that. Of course it also fits perfectly with several observed figures in the Cosmere who are perceived as gods. Lightsong doesn't believe his own religion and has fun trying to cause theological paradoxes by messing with his high priest and Harmony's own religion has as a core tenant 'Don't worship me!'.

Here's an even more direct WoB, albeit a paraphrased one:

F-Cadmium/Bendalloy if we're looking at pushing/pulling pairs. Going without needing to breathe for long periods of time could be useful in all sorts of circumstances (I dive, so I can easily imagine ways you could have a lot of fun with that power) and being able to store nutrition is one of those things where tapping and storing are equally useful. Store while eating/drinking and gain no weight (at least, no weight that stays in the body longer than a day or two) and tap when you're hungry/thirsty and don't have ready access to food. Actually, once unsealed metalminds and compounding become more common I wouldn't be surprised if both those metals become important in Era 4, with F-Cadmium being useful as an emergency oxygen supply (or reducing the bulk of a spacesuit by not requiring a purely mechanical tank) and F-Bendalloy similarly allowing a ship to carry all the nutrition its crew needs in a tiny fraction of the mass. Oh, and A-Iron/Steel for allomancy because both powers are cool and useful on their own and using them together would be even moreso with practice. I like to think of the combination as the 'Allomantic Spiderman' pairing. Though I guess you'd also need A/F-Tin for the full package... or possibly F-Chromium depending on how that works.

Throw The Way of Kings at your friend and blow her mind. 'Wait, you mean there's a world with one three ten thirty magic systems?!' <sound of synapses frying> But yes, Brandon's ability to create so many awesome and distinct magic systems the way he does is definitely a special talent. Possibly even his very own Smedry Talent.

Since Hajimari has come up, I'll just drop a little something I did here for people who are interested to check out, it's a translation of the teaser website: http://www.falcomromancia.com/hajimari-no-kiseki-teaser-site-translation/ As you can probably tell, I'm a huge fan of this series. xD There's a conversation in CS4 that actually gives us some hints about Orpheus and Ouroboros' goal and since Hajimari is only moving us towards the ending, I doubt we'll get anything like the full picture but we might get some juicy hints. (CS4) The person Rean's facing is almost certainly Matteus Vander, he hasn't appeared yet but he has artwork (see here) which tells us that Falcom intended him to appear somewhere and which looks spot-on for our mystery figure. As for the 'Hermit', we actually have some reason to think that's the Oathbreaker because we know that characters from CS4's in-universe novel 'Three and Nine' are appearing (they're the pair confronting Rixia) and there was another character from the novel that those two nicknamed 'The Hermit' who went about in a mask. Due to circumstances, there's some suspicion that this character was based on the Thousand Oathbreaker.

Hoid is immortal but it's not because of the Fifth Heightening. The entire system of BioChroma didn't even exist when he was born (nor did pretty much any Cosmere magics we've seen) and we know he was aging oddly even before he became actually immortal.

'Somewhat related to Scadrial' is such a vague idea that it can mean practically anything.and Brandon will cheerfully admit when he's done so after the fact, if a good opportunity arises. The linking of the Shin and metal (which as I pointed out isn't even about the metal, it's about the stone that metal ores are found in) could be as simple as the Shin knowing what a godmetal is and knowing that the honorblades are Tanavastium, in the way that Scadrians are aware of godmetals. Or it could be that some of the Stone Shamanate are Cosmere-aware and know that Scadrial exists. Since Scadrial was involved in some way with an interplanetary trade network, it's possible that the Shin had some involvement there. For all we know, the whole 'damaging stone is blasphemous' thing only applies to Roshar, metal sourced from Scadrial is totally fine and at some point in history they got a shipment of metal from there. Nothing in that extremely vague WoB (well, actually an extremely vague question) requires the conclusion that the Shin come from Scadrial or anything along those lines. As for the 'answers are coming' bit, again I can't emphasize enough that this was asked at an Oathbringer signing. The 'answer' that's coming could be as simple as 'Hey, when you read this book I'm about to sign for you, you'll know, har har' on the assumption that the questioner was one of the many people who will go to a signing but not have finished the book yet.

I think it might have been an easier sell than you think, because we know that to a Shard time is something they have an effectively infinite supply of. Meanwhile we know that the kinds of 'wounds' a Shard receives do not heal in the same way they do for mere mortals and Odium would have known going in that he was at a numerical disadvantage. Agreeing to a set of terms with Honor and Cultivation that reduced his own direct exposure to danger probably wouldn't be too hard of a deal to sell, especially if Odium was pretty confident he'd win quickly. Even under the circumstances that transpired with him getting stuck for some six thousand years or more, in his long-term view it's only a matter of time until he clears whatever the winning conditions are, then he's free to go after Cultivation on a one-on-one basis instead of fighting at a disadvantage. I suspect that part of the terms Tanavast offered to entice Odium involved deliberately leaving himself vulnerable to attack in some way. This way Odium gets a shot at one Shard regardless of the current state of their contest and is more likely to agree to something that potentially traps him for a long time. As far as the creation of the Fused go, we know there's something at work in the Oathpact which causes the Heralds to return to Braize when killed rather than Roshar and which causes the Fused to go there when killed even though they also 'died' on Roshar. Well, before the Everstorm anyways. We know that Shards can influence things across a solar system even when they're bound to one particular world in it, so Odium having some ability to affect Roshar even when he's 'located' on Braize isn't really a huge stretch.

Yeah, the thing the Shin have with metal isn't even so much the metal itself, it's the fact that they consider it blasphemous to damage stone and pretty much the only way to get useful amounts of metal requires breaking up stone to get at metal ores. Meanwhile, they still find metal useful for all the reasons any other civilization does. Hence they value Soulcast metal simply because it didn't require any stone to be damaged. They'd presumably be just as happy with meteoric iron if there was a way to get some to them.

My guess is that the person asking the question hadn't read Oathbringer yet (it was asked at a signing for that book and I doubt they'd read it through before the event) so they didn't know that all humans on Roshar came to it from elsewhere and Shinovar is where they first settled. Thus, they were working with the one thing that make the Shin stand out from the rest, being their distinctive eyes that other humans on Roshar lack. Thinking the Shin might have been particularly special, they saw the fixation on metal and decided 'hey, metal's important to Scadrial, maybe there's a connection' and asked that question. Remember too that not every person at a signing devours every single bit of information available to the fans. This is why so many questions that have already been answered still get asked, by fans who are new to the Cosmere or who haven't made all the connections yet.