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in the topic title, do you mean Epilogue (chapter after the end)? Epigraph is the blurbs that start a chapter (llike Alendi's Logbook). Concur, with the addition that he said it the way he did to imply to Kell that it wasn't possible at all (not just that the Kanda could not duplicate the process). After all, if Kell could use Lerasium (and did) then he would be a stronger version of himself in Era 1; but if Kell could give Lerasuim to other Ghostbloods. . . that's scary! (Mraize shows that not all GBs are as beneficient as Shai/Moonlight)

I took this to be "I don't want to answer you, so I'll give you a lie you can beleive." We already know that having a Bronze Spike inreased Vin's ability with Bronze (pierce Copperclouds), and we also already know that Inquisitors had multiple Iron and/or Steel Spikes - giving them augmented Pushes and Pulls. However, little is known about Inquisitors by the time of TLM (as filtered through Sazed's Words of Founding); so I think Marsh said that as a way to avoid explaining how multiple spikes of the same type (or having a spike that matches a natural ability) increases your facility with that ability.

Do we know if Wellid is Wellen's descendant, or is this just a callback for the laughs? WoA Ch 43: HoA Ch 52: TLM Ch 69:

Does anybody else find it odd that Not-Wax didn't have a Spike granting Pewter? Afterall, he's using Duralumin Steelpushes all over the place, but we know from Vin that: So, is Hemalurgic Duralumin just weaker, or is something shady going on? The crushed car from Not-Wax's Durlumin push implies it should still cause massive injury without Pewter (or F-Gold) to compensate. . . but he was shown to not be a Bloodmaker and nothing was ever said about a Thug Spike. Does it perhaps depend on how much Steel or Iron is available when Duralumin "flashes" the metal - we do see Vin use Duralumin-Steel without pewter in HoA Ch 37: EDIT: Duh Me - I missed the reference to his Pewter in Wayne's POV Ch 65:

No, the words of Brandon describe that the reason they were at the South Pole duing the millenium of the Final Empire was because Rashek moved them there. Harmony moving them back is part of HoA Ch 82: So the Southern continent was in it's current location during the days of Alendi, Rashek moved them to the South Pole, Sazed moved them back. But since he also fixed the orbit, their climate was cooled even if they moved closer to the equater from their South Pole location

Correct - Also from WoBs: (quotes edited for space - full WoB at the links) So, basically Rashek put TFE at the North pole and the Southern Scadrians were at the South pole (but only because of his changes). When Harmony restored the world's orbit and landmasses; the landmass that the Southern Scarians in habited, which used to be at the Sountern Pole, was moved to it's current location. So they are geographically north of their pre-catacendre geographic location, but still have a new climate significantly cooler than their previous "no ashmounts-too close to the sun" landmass climate. The difference, presumably, would be like taking the ecosystem that evolved to survive in Death Valley or the Saharan Desert and moving them to Mid-Canada (Summer high temps still below the coolest previously known temps; but winter low temps bordering on Tundra-cold)

Agree completely, though I was really hoping she was going to rub it in a little in her Epilogue. Something like: "You realize if the Ghostbloods had shared what they knew of the Set with us years ago, these crises could have been avoided. . . "

Technically, what we know is that the Malwish consider it to be cold and frozen. Also, we know that they SoScads had a millenium of adaptations to the intense heat cause by TLR, but without the adaptations of Ashmounts to prevent overheating. I think it is more like taking somebody from (for example) southern Texas who has never seen snow and letting them visit Michigan in May. The temp will be 50s-60s and the locals will be wearing shorts and t-shirts while the Texan will be bundled in a jacket and still feel "cold." WoB:

Ch 59: Ch 67: Past perfect tense - had proven e-Book: It seems some hyphenations from the physical print were not reversed for the epub version (and/or have a space added): Ch 1: reputation Ch 11: gray-and-white Ch 13: anteverdant Ch 52: obvious Ch 69: distance Ep1: platform Ep 7: spot-on Inconsistent spelling - Gray: Alloy of Law uses the American English: Gray Lost metal seems to use the British English exclusively: Grey Ch 10: His drooping mustaches had greyed in recent years Ch 11: A large grey-and-white short-haired Ch 32: She had frizzy grey-black hair and a disheveled appearance Ch 36: they found the grey-haired editor Maraga Ch 45: though those colors were mostly muted dark greys and blacks against the brilliant red sky Ch 56: She wore a fine grey-blue dress Ch 69: Her skin began to turn grey Ep 1: on the strangely grey skin of her arm I don't really care about which spelling is used - more that I thought you might want to note the inconsistancy.

I always felt that the duel scenes were more about who they were "booing" not what they were "booing." And you still have some of Pattern's Top HitsTM to look forward to. . . such as Oathbringer Ch 13.

I'll explain this in two parts because in BoM we have two reference examples, and a related example from SoS: So, as an object passes the edge of a time bubble, parts of the object are in different time frames causing a "lurch" that Wax notes induces nausea in people (SoS). This is why a time bubble is stationary unless the Allomancer is on a sufficiently massive object (like a train) to support the entire bubble. This is also why objects passing the time barrier deflect (like bullets) as the change in time reference skews the angular momentum (think of a prism bending light). The smaller the object, the greater the induced change. Partly, this is because (as the WoB notes) energy is either gained or lost (depending on if the object is speeding up or slowing down to match the new local time frame). WIthout a conversion of investiture into kinetic energy, light passing the time barrier would shift the same way physical objects due - inducing redshift or blueshift. . . Red and blue shift is a loss or gain in energy in light photons, inducing a change in wavelength and frequency. IRL, this is usually caused by a Doppler effect between moving objects (at astronautical speeds and distances - lightyears of distance and kilometers per second speeds or faster) or light being bent by changes in gravitational potential. With time bubbles, what would happen (without the induced conversion of investiture to energy) is "stretching" the wavelength as it passes the barrier would decrease the energy and frequency (blueshift) causing the blue part of the spectrum to "stretch" into UV and X-Rays while compressing the wavelength as it passes the barrier would increase the energy and frequency (redshift) causing the red part of the spectrum to "compress" into infrared and microwaves. Basically, the WoB is saying that investiture is converted to photon energy as light passes the barrier, preventing the changes in wavelength, frequency and energy that would result in these shifts (and irradiating the people in the time bubble) - while anything more massive than a photon does not "add" enough energy passing the bubble to prevent the lurching effect. As far as moving time bubbles are concerned, if the bubble moved with the Allomancer, then everything you pass would be lurched and affected as it passed through the bubble's barrier (like the shots that deflect coming in, and deflect again when leaving); or (as in the BoM Ch 17 example) if the coach was in the Cadmium slow-time bubble while still attached to horses not inside the bubble then death and mayhem would likely result as instead of a single lurch of the bubble popping as Marasi was pulled out, you would have an increase in pressure (is this the right word?) as horses not slowed down were killed trying to pull on a coach moving in a different time frame (both objects are moving at a given speed in meters per second, but the coach's "seconds" last longer and therefore are slower and "tug" on the horses trying to pull the bubble). Hope that helps.

The answer was above: Act like Wax Ladrian - use the metal enough in practice and practical applications that you develop new techniques (same as Kelsier in TFE being able to push/pull on the ends of the bars while fighting the inquisitor to make them spin but not push/pull away) but not flare it so much that you actually descend into becoming a Savant that is "addicted" to the metal. Min/Maxing theories (Savants, Hemalurgy, etc.), like a game, disturb me. These are stories and Sanderson's Second Law* applies. I am much more interested in increased nuance than increased power. For example: could Wax learn to tap weight only to specific part of his body? Imagine making just your fist double-weight for a fraction of a second during a punch? Is that all in the subconscious command used when tapping or would that only be possible by a Savant?

The soulcasting Savant in Oathbringer (Kaza - Interlude 4) shows that you can die of savantism. The Coppermind notes that Pewter Savantism often leads to death (but that is more psychological than a direct consequence like Soulcasting Savants).

Yes, that's what the first WoB was about (I excerpted the part applied to your post, but the whole thing is available from the link). The Steel bubble was meant to be a sign of Savantism . . . but:

The Mistborn era's do not equate to a specific real world year in history - they meant to evoke an environmental theme. The main reason they do not strictly correlate is because the science is off-sync. For example: The Final Empire had Steel and Tin Canning (1810s), Limelights (1830s) and was meant to evoke Victorian England (mid-to-late 1800s) - but was completely lacking in Firearms and had very minimal understanding of Chemistry (because the science had been suppressed by TLR). So, Era 2 is meant to evoke the rustic and "lawless" American West circa 1900, combined with the Labor Crises and technological age of the 1920s (Electricity, Motorcars) but distinctly behind in Telephonics (Telephone, Telegram, Morse Code, etc.) and just beginning to explore Radio (as seen in BoM part 2). Hope that answers your query.

I think you mean one of these WoBs (or may be conflating them into one in your memory when they were separate entries): The thing is: Wax is displaying what you are talking about (Savant-like ability without the extreme side effects ref: Steel bubble and splitting steelsight lines into multiples per object not pointed to the object's center of mass) and that is a problem according to Sanderson. The lack of flaws is an incorrect representation of Savantism (or at least its original intent).

I waffled between Oliver Platt and Nathan Lane

There may be some element of the Cryptics watching Elhokar were hiding from Syl when Kaladin was around. But if the King was still eventually chosen by Design, then she obviously didn't drive the Cryptics away entirely. Also, Elhokar had not yet said the First ideal (much less said it and meant it) so he couldn't have been too close to forming the bond.

There are definitely bird species other than the Chicken East of the Misted Mountains. A parrot is seen in the menagerie in WoR (Ch 45 and 55), and both Shallan and Lift refer to Mraize's Aviar as a chicken. Felt points out the sparrows found near the Valley of the Nightwatcher (OB Ch 114) The Koala simile was meant for *why* they would develop an incorrect (or less accurate) verbiage for avian species. A better simile for why that would go unchanged so long miight be the word "bug" - despite centuries of taxonomic classification the general populace will still use "bug" to refer to everything from flies to spiders to worms (the latter two not even being insects). And while we have the vocabulary to be more distinct many people don't bother. Additionally, you might see "bug" referring to something like a solifuge - which is also not an insect (being a type of arachnid related to spiders and scorpions) and I would bet only a low percentage of population would know the term at all (because of it's rarity and a lack of exposure or desire to learn the difference). Another example that linguistic vocabulary results in distinctions and generalities based on a exposure and cultural need is the word "uncle." Many cultures and languages (including English) only have the one word - but in a culture where the distinctions are more important the language accommodates the distinction. Korean has six words for "Uncle" - they roughly translate to: Father's older brother Father's younger brother Mother's older brother Mother's younger brother Spouse's parent's older brother Spouse's parent's younger brother But really, the only point is that Sanderson is using it as a part of worldbuilding - just as the Alethi call all alcohol Wine when we would call the various wines Vodka, Whiskey, Rum, etc. Shin Wine is the only variety that would also be called Wine by the readers. WoB

Please do not double post. I think Quantus meant increasing the percentage going to the Trust. Example: If pre-disturbance 75% of Atium collected at the pits went to the trust, 15% went to TLR in Luthadel and 10% was released to the economy; then post-disturbance, they used the distraction to make it 80% to the Trust, 15% to TLR and now 5% to the economy. . .

Well, a Spren that Navani thought might seem to be a Radiant Spren. But that leads to another question. Is there a "slumbering Syl body" in the cognitive anytime Kal uses his Shard Spear? If no - then it could be one or more spren in the Physical Realm in the shape of the Soulcaster working with/controlled by a slumbering Radiant spren in the cognitive. Also, would you expect that only an Inkspren or Cryptic could make a Soulcaster (since they have access to the surge of Transformation)? If yes, then how do they also attune to essences other than Oil and Blood? Or could an Honorspren become a Soulcaster attuned to Air? If there are spren-as-metal making up the physical metal of the soulcaster, then it could still be as I said above - just with the "Radiant Spren in control" aspect this implies. Any way it goes, we still have pieces of the puzzle missing but I think you are onto something that, if not exactly correct, is at least close and parallel to correct.

Roshar has a number of bird species - non-Shin cultures use the word "chicken" to name them all because they don't have a vocabulary of the differnt species (similar to how the Koala was called a "bear" when first discovered by the west when it is not a Bear at all - simply because early Colonizers had no concept or understanding of Marsupials and they visually reminded them of Bears). Note that when we get scenes from Szeth's point of view (because most birds are still in Shinovar where they can survive highstorms) you get similes like "He soared up, then dove again, causing the others to dodge like sparrows before a hawk." (OB Ch 98) - showing that the Shin do recognize the different avian species and have a vocabulary to match. Roshar has no native Bird species because of it's divergent evolution - so all birds are transplants, presumably coming with the first Human settlers. Patji information is included in the Epigraph letters in Part 2 of Oathbringer. The timeline for the story in Sixth of the Dusk was confirmed in a WoB and is discussed in the Coppermind.

Exactly, I'm not sure I understand either. If all (most) fabrial soulcasters use three gems, but can only access one or two of the three modes; then there is something we may be missing. Most likely a factor of Intent by the Spren when it assumed the soulcaster form (which begs the question - if you could communicate with the Spren that forms the soulcaster, could you convince it to make another Mode active). Alternatively, is it possible that a soulcaster could be more than one spren working together? If there are three - then if all three spren working together are the same type of spren, you get a soulcaster with one mode (but really good at that mode) - two types (say two Lifespren for Emerald and one Logicspren* for Zircon) you would have a primary mode and a secondary mode. A soulcaster than has 1 ea of three different spren might, theoretically, access all three modes - but finding three different cousin spren that will work together to make a single fabrial might be difficult - which may be why three-mode soulcasters are unknown (or hidden by those who know). *Based on the guess that Elsecaller Shardplate is formed of Logicspren

It's not about oxygen's combustibility; it's about how flame behaves in a high oxygen environment. Afterall, that's why we have things like Oxy-Acetylene torches - to take advantage of higher concentrations of Oxygen causing a fire to burn hotter and faster. Also noted in Khriss' essay: As far as firearms are concerned - note that the "flash" in "muzzle flash" is fire being ejected from the barrel along with the heated gases (that actually propel the bullet). That may or may not be affected by a high oxygen environment - discussed in a stack exchange here.

Well, the coppermind notes: So, even if the spren forming the soulcaster would have covered all Oil, Blood and Grain; it might not have access to the Blood mode - or just not have a Garnet in one of the three spots (if, perhaps, during the fight at the Rift it had 2 Emeralds and 1 Zircon). Also, note exactly what Navani says (OB Ch 109): That could mean: No Soulcasters make Blood (and other soluble liquids) The Alethi Nation does not have any Garnet Soulcasters The Alethi at the Shattered Plains did not have them The forces at Urithiru did not have them Also, the way she says "were able to use garnets to make any liquid that was soluble in water" implies that they might not know how to use Garnets in a soulcaster - so the one at the rift might have been able to make use of a Garnet, if the user knew how to utilize that mode. I would imagine actually using such a Fabrial in the same way that Jasnah soulcast Shallan's blood to remove the poison would be very difficult and require a different-than-normal technique and command (since you are only soulcasting a portion of a body rather than turning object A into substance B).