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Yes, Brandon has repeatedly confirmed that magics work anywhere as long as you have the right components. It only gets weird with Selish magic (which is region-locked) and if you try to hack the magics together. Here's a very long (BioChroma-centric) WoB that spells it out very clearly. BioChroma's the easiest magic to use because Breath keys itself to your Identity so all you need is for someone who already has Breath to give some to you. The metallic arts are also really easy, if you satisfy the genetic requirements for allomancy or feruchemy you can use those magics anywhere as long as you have the right metal. It doesn't have to be metal from Scadrial or the planet you're currently on, the only thing that's important is the purity and for alloys, the ratios. No, that's not how it works. See above. Have you not read Oathbringer? He uses Awakening at the end and we see it work exactly like it does on Nalthis. The only thing not described is color-draining and we can assume that's just a narrative filter because Hoid's not really paying attention to it at the time. Also, 'Azure' uses Awakening earlier in the book.

Brandon's said on multiple occasions that the Herdazians are meant to have a Hispanic feel to them, so if you're looking for inspiration for chouta you'd want to be aiming in that direction. I'd always imagined chouta as being more like a shawarma before learning that, but such is the power of perception. If you look around you'll find more than a few topics discussing ideas about how to make the stuff. Here's a couple to get you started. The language was definitely modeled that way. Brandon's said that culturally they're a mix of Polynesian, Russian and Scots. And yeah, with the examination system I definitely see some Chinese (or at least broadly Confucian) influence on Azir. Actually, Brandon's given us that one. He also mentioned some influence from India, at least in the way they treat homosexuality, crossed with the Confucian bureaucracy element.

We have Word of Peter that the bond is between the Deadeye and the bearer and the gemstone is just a go-between. If you remove the gem the bearer can't dismiss or summon the Blade but putting any gemstone onto it will reestablish the connection Yuu can't steal a blade, replace the gemstone and make it work that way so there's no reason to think that trying to put multiple gems on the same Blade would do any better.

You would be correct, the Amberite crystal regrows after it's damaged. Just after she takes the bud, D'Naa thinks to herself that Raeth's crystal will grow back in a couple of months. Since Mraize's trophy room contains what's obviously meant to be a chunk of Amberite, it's the only aether we have any reason to suspect as the source of the stain so absent any new information we can be safe in assuming it's the source. They're never described. We see the obvious physical manifestations of Bestarian bonds and those Ferrous who have become Corpates but we don't know what the aethers themselves are like. Raeth does at once point think that women were allowed to bond those aethers (but not Amberite or Verdant) so there must be a physical component they bond to, but we don't know what they look like. Since those bonds are transformative, it's likely the aether itself is enbedded in the chest somewhere and we're never given a good look at it, unlike the more obvious hand/wrist bonding points for Amberite and Verdant respectively.

Abrasion can be used to increase friction as well as decrease it, Lift just doesn't know how to do it yet..

Unless you want to argue that Oathgates create perfect duplicates of the people being transported and then 'delete' the originals (a la the philosophical thought experiments) there is a unit of time involved, even if it's so small that it's beyond the Rosharan's ability to measure accurately. The people using the Oathgates aren't in two places at once so there's an interval that could be measured with a sufficiently accurate instrument or set of instruments. So, no dividing by zero and no making Pattern unhappy due to people doing inappropriate things. Brandon has said that under his current conception Oathgate travel actually obeys the speed of light limit, which means that the time delay between gates is going to be (very slightly) affected by the distance traveled; We're talking differences of small fractions of a second at most. Whether Scadrian FTL and any other potential methods of realspace interstellar travel manage to crack the speed of light without recourse to the Spiritual Realm is something we can't say for sure, but since Brandon has called it 'actual FTL' on multiple occasions, it's likely he'll find some sufficiently plausible workaround that lets him have Physical Realm FTL without breaking causaliy into itty bitty pieces. In twenty years or so...

This may be an easter egg on Brandon's part but it's just as likely to be unintentional. There are only so many words in English that work for any given concept and they aren't always going to point to a Shard with any deeper meaning intended by Brandon. The comment Hrathen makes about how Jaddeth accepts ambition in his servants as well as devotion is an example of the latter case.

I have a feeling this ls like the behind-the-scenes reason for why silver wasn't made a different allomantic metal after Brandon had to replace it with tin fur metallurgy reasons: It's something that would have been discovered in a thousand years of allomancy. Soothers and Rioters are common enough and have metals that are easy enough to obtain in quantity that if you could use it on yourself, people would have been independently 'discovering' it frequently and eventually it would become more or less common knowledge. So yeah,there are times when the in-universe knowledge is demonstrably either wrong ot at least incomplete but I don't think this is going to be one of them.

There are only two ways to get it: You can request a circulating copy of the book if you happen to be a member of a library that BYU will share the book with on an inter-library loan (I have no idea which ones that would include but I'm guessing it's major academic libraries only) or... you have to physically go to BYU and read the non-circulating copy that's sitting in the library there. There are no electronic copies.

Edgli seems to be pretty good at future-sight, since the entire deal with the Returned revolves around giving them visions of the future and a purpose to try and fulfill when they go back. She's probably got some justified confidence that she can out-scry Odium if it becomes necessary. She's also got a lot of potential tools and she may be subtly playing the game even now, without looking like she's playing at all. One more thing in her bag of potential tricks: Information and communication. Nalthis has an actual Cognitive customs agency that helps worldhoppers visiting the world, which means that Edgli has regular access to information from around the Cosmere and a source of potential messengers if she needs to send word to other worlds. That's a pretty big advantge to have.

They're Elantrians, who are not Cognitive Shadows. We know that Riino is one of them and he just transitioned from the Physical to the Cognitive in the same way that anyone else would when entering a Perpendicularity so there's no reason to assume he 'died' on the other side and became a shadow when what we already know fits the facts just fine. Between him and Secret History we see the Ire operating in the Cognitive 'zones' of two distant worlds, whereas we know it's difficult for Cognitive Shadows to get away from the system where they were originally from. Yes, we could hypothesize that they've all learned 'the trick' that lets them move freely but it requires fewer assumptions to just go with 'they're Elantrians, they simply prefer hanging out in the Cognitive'. Especially since in the circumstances they've been in, it's so much safer there.

Welcome to the SHard! Ahhh, we know Nilto isn't Hoid. Brandon mentioned a while back that Hoid only got an indirect reference in the prose version of White Sand as one of Ais' old cases. This means that he can't be any character who actually shows up in person, or outside of that context, while Nilto plays the same role in the graphic novels that he did in the prose and thus is out of the running for Hoid's cameo. Not a bad bit of lateral thinking though!

We have Word of Peter on the mechanics that confirm this is the case. So yeah, the gem is needed to form the bond but once it's been formed, the only way to break it is to kill the Shardbearer or get them to willingly break the bond. The fact that you can replace the gemstone and the bond will still work makes it clear that there's notihng special about the gemstone used, it's just a go-between and the actual bond is between the Shardbearer and the Deadeye.

Proof from Words of Radiance that polestone type is irrelevant This is irrelevant. Aluminum is known as Ralklest within the Rose Empire but it still works exactly the same as aluminum does everywhere in the Cosmere. If there's a universal principle it's going to work the same on one world as it does on another regardless of proper names and the series being (largely) intended as standalone works. So far as we can tell, nobody on Roshar has a name for the metal Honorblades and Shardblades are made from but it doesn't matter what you call it, they're still Honor's godmetal, or a mix of Honor and Cultivation's metals depending on the spren.

The only thing I've found that sounds like that is Brandon stating that A-Aluminum would be a better method of countering Shade withering than F-Gold if you found yourself on Threnody and didn't have/know about silver. That doesn't necessarily mean they operate on the same processes more generally. If there's another WoB comparing the metals more directly I'd be interested in seeing it too but Brandon seems to be saying otherwise in this WoB for example..

We don't know that Odium was actually the god of the humans on Ashyn, only that he was involved with what happened there. The Dawnsingers considered Odium to be the humans' god and the latter gave him more of an ear when he arrived but it's not confirmed that humans actually worshipped Odium or were consciously aware of his existence.

For what it's worth, Brandon has said that a lot of what we see on Roshar (obviously excluding humanity and the flora and fauna they brought with them) was the result of natural evolutionary processes. Well, 'natural' when you have huge amounts of Investiture and symbiosis unlike anything we have on Earth, but natural by Cosmere standards at least.

Bonding any other type of spren would require him to swear oaths and keep them, Cryptics only require 'truth' and are thus a lot less restrictive, especially when you have thousands of years worth of experience to draw on and you're already very familiar with the underlying principles. Plus, I suspect Hoid would get a lot more out of Transformation than he would Progression and we don't even know if a Truthwatcher can do the full range of things that Shallan or another Lightweaver can.

Yes, sort of. Brandon has said that the magic sysem on Ashyn was slightly different but operated on the same basic principles. The disease-based magic that is there now isn't exactly the same as what was there before the caraclysm but Brandon has RAFO'd specifics.

@Jruesch2 Have you had a chance to check out Arcanum yet? It's really easy to use and contains (almost) the entire total of our knowledge of what Brandon's said outside the books. It can also devour your free time just like Nightblood devours Investiture. Then consider this ninja technique for the future: Type a short response to get in first, then edit it so that your locquacious urges are satisfied.

I think Admins have the power to adjust reputation points so I suppose if you asked really nicely and told them it was always your ambition to be a zucchini it might be possible... but otherwise no, those levels are only listed for legacy purposes since there used to be a way to get negative reputation.

I don't think we've ever seen what happens if you try to summon a Blade in a space too small for it. My guess is that it won't coalesce unless there's sufficient room but I don't think Brandon's given us any hints one way or the other.

Yes, you can push something into/through another object so long as the strength of your push is sufficiently strong to overcome the resistance of the second object and the thing you're pushing is strong enough and pointy enough to not deform or get stuck in the process. And you're probably going to want to have an anchor in the opposite direction to help counteract the resistance if you're pushing through anything more substantial than cloth. Now, pushing something that's piercing a person is a different matter because then you get interference from their innate Investiture, which is why it's very hard to detect (much less affect) a coin hidden in the mouth, metal flakes in the stomach or anything like that. That kind of thing requires flaring and to significantly push on it you're going to need more power than your typical allomancer has on their own. Pushing something that's inside a person which is also Invested (ie, a hemalurgic spike or a metalmind) is harder still because the Investiture will add another layer of interference. EDIT: I may have misread your question. If you want to push something that's got a metal core but is encased with something else, yes, that should work too subject to all the usual caveats... as long as you don't completely encase it in aluminum at least.

Only if 1) Nale knows about what Vasher did, 2) there's some valid Nalthian law he could use to justify it and 3) He's obtained due legal authority to carry out such a sentence. Given that several of the countries involved in the Manywar no longer exist and Nalthian history is so shaky that only the other Scholars, Susebron and Vivenna know that Kalad, Peacegiver and Vasher are all the same person, good luck with that.

The gemstone is a sort of go-between that lets the spren synchronize to the person currently holding their Physical Realm corpse. The heartbeats are how long it takes after this pseudo-bond has been established to 'wake up' the spren enough to summon the Blade. It's basically tricking the spren into a semblance of life. The spren is still 'dead' when it's summoned, the ten seconds are the time required to trigger the pseudo-bond and summon its Physical form back to the bearer's location. Remember that the spren is already trapped in the Physical Realm, having the bulk of their being pulled there by the original Nahel Bond. The pseudo-bond they form with a modern-day shardbearer allows the blade to be dismissed, then the heartbeats act as the triigger to summon them back. The gemstone clearly doesn't contain the spren, as can be seen when Adolin crushes the stone in one of the Blades he wins in a duel. We see spren escape from damaged gemstones, like when Eshonai breaks the stone holding the voidspren but this doesn't happen with the gemstone attached to a Shardblade. It's the go-between, not a vessel for the spren. It's also noted that this action wasn't required because all it takes for a shardbearer to break the bond is to will it. It's like a very limited version of the Nahel Bond that's created by means of whatever mechanism makes gemstones the local magical storage medium on Roshar in the first place.