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Well, presumably the creation of the Honorblade qualifies as exactly this sort of thing... The scene with Ash and Taln happens on the same day as the battle. She thinks to herself that Taln had hidden and whimpered during the fighting today when nothing would have kept the old Taln from a fight. So the scene may not have happened within minutes of the battle ending but it was certainly no more than a few hours.

Rayse is not concerned so much by the possibility of conflicting Intents as he is that taking up any other Shard would alter his personality and he's adamantly opposed to that. Brandon has been pretty clear that Rayse will not absorb power from another Shard because he doesn't want his personality altered by the Intent in any way, and it doesn't take an entire Shard to do that. For example, it doesn't take many Breaths before you start to be influenced by Endowment's Intent. Taking up any chunk of a dead Shard's power would be enough for Rayse to be influenced and he's not having any of that. Brandon has said that Odium's edge when fighting the other Shards can at times involve him being more powerful, but that's because he actively avoids Investing any of it in a world while the Shards he's fought have locked up at least some of their power in that way, leaving Odium with more power at his disposal. Not because he's secretly absorbed part of Ambition. Oh, and it's been confirmed that yes, Ambition was on the top of the hit list because Rayse felt that Shard was the biggest potential threat. Given what Edgli had to say about Uli Da, Rayse was probably justified in putting her first.

Just to throw it out there, the concept of a deity creating and then dividing itself up in its creation is an old one. It's part of some branches of Judaism that God created the universe to see Himself within it, there's tenth century Christian theologians who proposed similar ideas and there are aspects of it in Hinduism as well, just to name a few examples. The concept has been introduced in the Cosmere already with the story Ym tells about the One who knew everything but experienced nothing and so became many to experience all things. This may not be where Brandon is going exactly but it's a well-attested concept that can fit with the facts as we currently understand them, regarding why Adonalsium would allow himself to be Shattered.

Please do not triple-post in the future, it's bad form and clutters the board. We know they're going to develop FTL by Era 4, the Aviar tracker can be explained with mechanical A-Bronze and a kandra can fake death easily, or a feruchemist could use F-Cadmium. No, it's going to be actual FTL. Several magic systems including the Metallic Arts have the seeds for FTL travel 'built in'. Brandon has not given details and we've been trying to guess how it might work for years, but we do know that for Scadrial it's going to involve applications of the magic that we're only just starting to learn about and we have a step yet to see before we get to the kinds of machinery in question.

Brandon has said that there were Shards on Vaeria (on Page 2 in his introduction and here's a WoB too) and implies that the Twins were originally conceived as two Shards, but they don't entirely fit either our current understanding or what Brandon would work out later once he started seriously canonizing the Cosmere with Mistborn. Agaris in the prologue sounds like a Shard in terms of his power but he's got the Former and Decay above him in power, which doesn't fit Cosmere reality. Similarly, we know that in writing Mistborn, it was Decay who went on to become Ruin (so by extension the Former kinda inspired Preservation) which would bump the Twins down a level. Yet, the Twins are definitely on a level of power that we've only seen from Ascended individuals, So in short, the answer is 'Yes, and no' xD

The epigraphs are written from an in-universe perspective, by someone who admittedy is not yet very aware of the big picture. He has discovered the name 'Adonalsium' for example but doesn't really know anything else. His understanding of hemalurgy off Scadrial is thus limited at that point. We know from Brandon that you can use hemalurgy to steal things from non-Scadrians, who have no connection to Preservation at all. For example, you can steal Elantrian-ness in theory using one spike for the power and another for Connection to the right land. You can spike ownership of a dead Shardblade or steal things from spren. You could steal an Aviar (or their power) with some work. Here's Brandon being as explicit as can be: So yes, if you can spike an Aviar you can totally spike things out of other animals.

Adonalsium created the entire system. Adonalsium didn't 'call' the spren to Roshar from anywhere, they're Splinters which are a Cosmere-wide phenomenon and the 'common' spren or things like them could exist on other worlds. Why they're so prominent on Roshar likely has to do with the world being so 'Investiture rich' and the constant highstorms blurring the lines between the Realms. Plus Adonalsium probably had a hand in making things turn out that way for reasons we can't fathom. Anyhow, we know that things like the greatshells evolved as they did because of spren bonds and this predated the arrival of the Shards. Similarly, we know that the pairing of Surges was fundamental to the system. These natural bonds include things like gravity manipulation (how greatshells can exist) so it's likely that rather than creating new systems per se, the Shards arriving on Roshar simply co-opted what was already in place and made it possible for people to interact with the magic directly. This is in fact the key difference (after 'the presence of a Shard') between a major and minor Shardworld. So I don't think we can point to anything on Roshar and say 'that's Adonalsium's magic, completely distinct from the magic of the Shards'. By now, it's been altered by their presence and is no longer exactly what it once was.

Ahhh, I must have missed that one. Okay, new slogan time: Forton's Finest, Invested beer so good it lasts forever!

In addition to what @Scion of the Mists already said, have another WoB: He eats Investiture but it doesn't make him stronger and he doesn't care what form it takes. Whether it's Investiture from the wielder in any form or the innate Investiture of something he's destroyed and fed off, it's all the same to him.

It pretty much can't remove innate Investiture or a Leecher could literally kill anyone with a touch by damaging or destroying their spiritweb, think of how Nightblood destroys matter on a smaller scale. I think a Leecher could affect Breath in an Awakened object (Type-II) but not the other BioChromatic Entities, because the latter have the Breaths irretrievably 'stuck' to them, and not Breath held passively by someone for the reason above.

This is in fact part of why Brandon wanted aluminum to be the Cosmere-wide Investiture sink. He wanted something that would be extremely rare initially but would become more common as his worlds progressed, making a counter to the increasing spread of magic systems and providing new challenges for his characters. We'll probably see this happen with Roshar over time as well and we know it's used on Sel as a check on Forgery, with likely applications to the other magic systems as well even if we haven't seen them yet. And now a thought experiment: We know that Forton's potions in Elantris are Invested and we've seen other liquids with magical properties like the Ire Connection orb. Does this mean that an aluminum can would destroy the Investiture in a liquid placed within it? I could see that becoming a big thing on Sel. Or the advertising on Scadrial... Drink Breeze's Brown Ale, we guarantee it's not Invested with anything strange and you can use the can to prevent Soothing and Rioting when you're done!

One more thing to add to the 'ease of offworld magic' discussion is Taldain's magic. The sand can be recharged with any kind of kinetic Investiture so a Sand Master could use their magic offworld and still be able to recharge the sand. It also makes uncharged sand into a handy 'Investiture radar' even for someone who isn't a Sand Master. But yeah, setting aside Sel's location-dependant magic the systems with the biggest limitations on their offworld use are those that involve Splinters (ie, Surgebinding with the Nahel Bond between Radiant and spren) because they're bound to the Physical/Cognitive 'zone' where their Investiture is rooted, which is a less extreme version of what's happening with the Dor. Brandon has said that getting a Splinter offworld isn't hard per se but you'd need to learn how to do it. We know it's possible and we've even seen someone do it, we just don't know how yet.

To add to the discussion of other known works, while Mistborn Era 4 is going to be both the Big Crossover and the final planned story in the Cosmere sequence there will be other stories taking place after Stormlight Archive and before the big finale. Mistborn Era 3 for example is going to be at least a couple generations removed from the current books and thus post-SA and Brandon has toyed with the idea of a 'Mistborn Cyberpunk' story that would be set between MB3 and MB4. Brandon recently revealed that he had an idea for a Sixth of the Dusk sequel which would also be set some time in the (pre-MB4) future from the perspective of the other existing works. But yeah, there's nothing currently planned to take place after the final Mistborn series. Brandon has however said that he'd like to get to MB4 while he's still young enough that if he wants to write more stories that aren't covered in his current plans, he'll have time to do it. That doesn't explicitly exclude the possibility of something taking place after MB4 but any such works would be outside the main sequence.

It probably has to do with the nature of the Investiture that's being added to their spiritweb. We see what happens when a kandra tries to operate with non-matching spikes and they rejected it (and only retained partial lucidity while the 'foreign' spike was in them) so there's probably some Realmatic dissonance or somesuch where spikes that lack matching Investiture don't feel 'right' to them. Relatedly, Brandon has said that the kandra not recycling Blessings to make new kandra is more cultural than magical, but the need for matching spikes definitely has weight behind it. Here's where Brandon makes the existence of a block explicit. It's something Rashek did to all the living Terris feruchemists (except Kwaan) while Ascended. It needs to be two spikes because a single one doesn't provide the Investiture needed.

This gets into the question of what makes you you in the Cosmere. One's Spiritual template is basically your Platonic ideal and that can persist even in the absence of a Physical body. The Heralds aren't clones in the way that you might be thinking; they have the same soul the entire time but through some method they're obtaining new Physical bodies each time. The Spiritual ideal ensures that their new bodies match their original ones, which we also see with a certain Cognitive Shadow in Mistborn who found a way to return to the Physical Realm and retained distinctive physical traits..Cosmere healing generally works on the same principle, with your Spiritual template overwriting your Physical form to match the ideal where you aren't injured, sick or drunk. The Cognitive acts as a mediator, which is for example why Kaladin's brands don't heal. Anyhow, this is a slightly roundabout way of saying that I don't think Brandon intended that particular musing of Arclo's to be taken seriously.

The Investiture is not annihilated but Nightblood also doesn't seem to absorb it for long, because that black smoke is Investiture leaking away from him.

Yeah, there's a bit of weirdness with Rock being able to draw that bow which has yet to be explained.

Kandra need two matched spikes to be completely sapient and sane. Look at Paalm and ReLuur to see what happens when they're missing a spike or don't have a properly matching pair. In the case of the kandra, the spikes are using Investiture to circumvent a Cognitive block that Rashek put into the spiritwebs of the original feruchemists (and which their mistwraith offspring inherited) so paired chunks of metal with enough Investiture might replicate the effect even if they're not properly hemalurgic spikes. The koloss on the other hand use their spikes to transform into the ugly blue berserkers so they need the specific spikes they have. With Inquisitors, they need that lynchpin spike because they have so many bits of spiritweb stapled to their own (and consequently so many holes poked in their original web) that the central spike holds the entire construct together. But they're the only ones whose sDNA resembles Frankenstein's monster.

Welcome to the Shard! Yeah, as mentioned the bowwas probably inherited from Sadeas who was noted to use one in WoK, typical of people with Shardplate but no Blade. Though it's also possible he obtained one for himself when he took Helaran's Shards, to have a ranged combat option. The text doesn't make it clear.

Here's one, check out linked image too beceause he wrote a response that's not captured by Arcanum but is relevant. In it he says that another object with a thousand Breaths would not be as Invested as Nightblood.

Aluminum vanishes along with whatever else the allomancer had inside them. Brandon has said that if you were able to become a Savant you could purge the effects of other Investiture from the body. Brandon has also left open the possibility that a way to weaponize A-Aluminum might exist.

Mine is a Stigma from the Kiseki/Trails series of JRPGs by Nihon Falcom. They kind of look like the glyphs of the Knights Radiant orders (and in-universe are associated with their own knights with special powers) so I thought it would be a fun one to use.

We can also assume that any discussion of the Big Picture was not on the menu, as Brandon has said that Jasnah isn't Cosmere-aware and doesn't know about Adonalsium. Though we can infer that she knows a little bit, since Hoid mentions having once been bought a drink by Tanavast so she at least knows that the Shards weren't always gods and that Hoid is old. But this couldn't have been a topic of much discussion off-camera, if Jasnah's not to be seen as aware of the big picture.

What Calderis said. We're already starting to see this in Mistborn Era 2, where tinfoil hats are (literally) able to shield you from emotional allomancy, so people who can afford it line their hats with aluminum foil, but it's still not as ubiquitous as it is on modern Earth. See: The incredible value of the aluminum bullets and guns the Vanishers were carrying. Roshar hasn't yet hit the point where it can be produced at scale (though Surgebinding is also rare at present) but once that changes, it's going to serve as a check on various applications of magic. We don't know how it's used on Sel outside of the Rose Empire where it's applied as a very effective counter to Forgery.

They're from a world that we'd already seen at the time the story was first published. That rules out Silverlight which we still haven't seen directly four years later and which Brandon wouldn't even indirectly reveal to us for another year or so after that WoB. Scadrians are the most obvious candidates since we already know they're going to develop FTL travel and the various things we see in the short story related to the Ones Above can all be explained in Metallic Arts terms and possibly (though not necessarily) with a kandra playing the role of the one who 'died'.