King's Twit

I don't really know how heavy metal poisoning works, but I imagine that, if it can get into your bloodstream through digestion, it can also get into your bloodstream sublingually (absorbed under the tongue). This wouldn't be a problem with the tooth idea, but some of the other "keep it in your mouth ideas" might have this problem. Also, do we know if the metal itself has to be touching something inside your mouth/stomach? Could it be incased in something that couldn't be digested like small plastic beads, or another cheap metal that they can't burn and that isn't toxic? Someone would probably have tried this by now if it were possible. Wax and Wayne era might not have plastics yet, but they could definitely do it with metal plating.

Maybe, but I was thinking that she could actually change her age, only it works like Atium Feruchemy and your body remembers it's true age, so it's easier for her to make herself 20 years old when she is actually 30 than it is to make herself 20 when she is actually 100. She could maybe extend her life for 50-100 years, but any more would probably require a large supply of investiture. Returned never seem to need more than 1 breath per week, though, so who knows.

This post has minor Warbreaker spoilers. So, this has probably been brought up before, but the Thrill seems very similar to what Nightblood does to those who wield him or are near him. Both give a lust for violence and killing, and both also seem to cause extreme nausea in those who are "pure" or above their temptation. Also, Dalinar got sick from the Thrill in a similar way to how Vivenna did when she was first exposed Nightblood, though her sickness was much more severe. I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the implications of this, if I am correct about them being similar effects. It could mean that the Thrill is being intentionally caused by something, maybe Odium, but we don't really know enough about how the Thrill or Nightblood's magic work to say this conclusively.

You're probably thinking of the Feruchemists who became the first generation of Kandra. He may have also talked to the original nobles while he held the power, but AFAIK it is not stated in the books or the annotations that he did so.

Hadn't Alendi conquered most of what became the Final Empire before he even went to the Well? Maybe Rashek knew that it would be much easier to just appropriate the power structure that was under Alendi, rather than try and set up a completely new one. Then there would already be a clear aristocracy for him to turn into the modified nobles and a proletariat to become the Skaa.

Is Steris already more open with Wax than she is with Marasi. Dang. I never would have expected to say this when I was reading AoL, but I love the Wax/Steris relationship so much. Also, digging the 'lost metal' reference. I wonder what the 'labyrinth' part is referring to; I guess there is some in-world mythology centered around one of the god metals. Atium seems like the most obvious choice, since it is the only one that was widely known about (unless the story of Elend using the Lerasium is publicly known in Era 2). The Pits of Hathsin were described as being very maze-like, maybe they are the labyrinth that Marasi mentions, with the Atium they contain being the lost metal.

It says it right in the quote. "They also know who they are attracted to." It's the very last sentence. If they are attracted to different Kandra, I think its safe to say that they would act in a similar way to the way Paalm acted when she was attracted to Wax, which seems to be similar to how poeple act when they are attracted to someone. If Kandra are willing to pursue romantic entanglements with people (though I realize that Bleeder is not exactly an average Kandra), I don't see why they wouldn't pursue them with each other. MeLaan had, maybe still has, a crush on TenSoon. If Kandra can feel attraction in a similar way to people, then it seems logical that Kandra would try to act on that attraction, even if it only happened rarely.

I agree with DreamEternal that Odium will not destroy himself, but I like the rest of your theory, and could see it being true. Odium could be splintered at the end by whoever are the protagonists at that point and result in a Cosmere without Adonalsium or his (original) Shards. I think its a part of the chat filter, because I've seen that in a few different places. He's probably just typing Brandon (or something), and then it is getting replaced with MISTER.

I haven't read the unpublished works, but I remember in another thread someone mentioning that Topaz could be in reference to an object in one of those (It may have been Aether of Night). Based on the wording in the letter, I think Frost could be referring to both Hoid's alias Topaz and to the name's source or inspiration, so Brandon saying that the letter refers to Hoid's old alias does not mean that it is only referring to the alias.

I like this. It's interesting and I'm almost certain that Kelsier will become relevant again in one way or another; it could be that he will be reincarnated (or pseudo-reincarnated). We know that Snapping involves creating cracks in your spirit web which the power of Preservation then fills. What if a cognitive shadow (of a person who is mostly of the power of Preservation) could get in there fast enough to fill the cracks themselves, or at least be a part of the power that fills the cracks? Maybe this is more difficult with adults, since they already have developed minds and personalities, but a baby, like Vin when she Snapped, is pretty much a blank slate.

It was a part of the WoB I posted earlier in the thread

I think the distinction here is based on the difference between gender and sex. Kandra do have two biological sexes analogous to the human male and female distinctions. What Kandra do not have, though, is a concept of gender (like the concept of man and woman). They do not have cultural constructs of gendered traits (masculine vs feminine) based on those sexes, probably because of their shapeshifter nature. So Kandra do have something like the male and female sexes, but they do not distinguish amongst themselves in the same way humans do with man vs woman or masculine vs feminine, except apparently when it relates to sexuality (do they prefer the "male" Kandra or the "female" Kandra)..

If Bleeder was not the first to digest Tan's body, then she would have had to recreate his face accurately enough for Wax to consistently pick him (or her) out of a crowd. TenSoon apparently does this fairly well with Kelsier's bones. I don't remember what was said of Bleeder's ability to shapeshift, was her skill comparable to TenSoon's? Also Tan would probably need to not have hair on at least his head, but I think I remember that being true.

Don't the magnetic poles on Earth switch every X number of years? Maybe Scadrial's magnetic poles are currently (or always have been) at the opposite arrangement to how Earth's are today.

What about after the Heralds gave up their honorblades? I wonder if any of them are currently on the track to becoming a Radiant like our protagonists. Several of them would likely refuse to advance the bond and maybe try to actively "kill" their spren, but maybe one or two will join with Dalinar and the gang in their new iteration of the Knights Radiant. They could definitely provide some much needed information on how they were set up originally.

Are you referring to Kelsier or Ati? I think there's been WoB confirmation that Kelsier is still hanging around Scadrial somewhere. I'm still a little on the fence about whether or not Ati still has a cognitive shadow, but since Leras's disappeared, or at least stopped being able to manifest in the physical realm, when he died, I think that Ati's might be gone as well. If the Rust piece of Ruin's power doesn't grant an intrinsic knowledge of Hemalurgy, Ati being the holder would explain how Paalm was able to do so much with spikes. While I do like pizza Shard, I've taken to calling this piece of Ruin's power a minor Shard, since it appears to function in the same way as a Shard but on a smaller scale.

Here's an interesting thing about the Royal Locks that I didn't know until I read it in the annotations. So she, and the others of the Royal Line, are more quasi-Returned than they think (and probably more than they would want to know).

There is a WoB (somewhere) that the Lord Ruler had at least one child. Baseless speculation, which I favor purely because I like it, is that his child, or one of his children, was named something close to Lutha, leading to the city name 'Luthadel' (paralleled with Elend/Elendel).

Poorly understood and largely irrelevant in the modern era, yet still captivating and fascinating. Nale is like google translate.

So they left Damnation for Hell... These Threnody folk aren't the brightest.

I'm not entirely sure on what is a Shardpool and what isn't, but I think that might be a distinction here. The power at the Well was a much higher quantity (or at least similarly large) and was a liquid which I'd think would be easier to coalesce into a single entity, and yet it never developed any Intelligence either. The Pits of Hathsin were another Shardpool (I think), and so their product, Atium, faces a similar limitation on its ability to become a splinter. This might be because the power is exhaustible. The liquid in the Well and the Atium cache both ran out, their power returning to the source of the Shardpools' Investiture. This source is not the Shard itself, as burning the Atium would have then returned the power to Ruin, which is what Elend and the Mistfallen succeeded in avoiding. I'm not sure what that source would be. I remember a section of the annotations. or possibly an epigraph, where they mention how Preservation intentionally locked away some of Ruin's power in the Pits which led to them producing Atium. I guess that was a long way to say "I don't know", but I do think it might be related to the different natures of mostly-physical manifestations of Investiture, like the Atium, and mostly-cognitive manifestations of Investiture, like the spren.

As in 10 per day or 10 ever? Probably a dumb question, but if it's 10 ever, I need to start making them count. Edit: I'm an idiot who didn't realize the post was more than one page. Asked and Answered by page two.

Another Ruster! Welcome to the club! There's lots of leftover pizza in the corner; I was hoping more people would show up. One minor detail, semantics really, is that Rust is not a splinter. A splinter is a piece of a Shard's power that has its own sapience, and we know from a WoB that there are no splinters of Preservation or Ruin during the time of the Wax and Wayne novels.

Kandra do have a gender, and apparently gender-specific sexuality (not that this would preclude the possibility of bisexuality).

To provide a bit of tinfoily support for your theory: There's a fairly recent WoB where someone asked for an endgame (era 4 at this point?) Harmony quote, and he replied with "It is yours". What if this is Sazed giving the Harmony Shard to Hoid (or someone) to begin, advance, or complete Hoid's effort to rebuild Adonalsium?