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Taln never broke He appeared outside Kholinar, not the Warcamps. His blade was stolen and replaced while Bordin travelled with him to the Warcamps from Kholinar. This is RAFO, because Brandon is reserving this information for books 6-10: Chana Died - we don't know how, but it seems to have happened sometime before the events in RoW. WaT Day 8 Ch 99: Hope that helps

Please see White Sand Versions.

It is in the category of old storis that Brandon feels comfortable enough to share.. That said, it i not a bad story, It is . . . interesting to see previous versions of Characters you already know. If you have read WaT, there are now References to this story in that book. The magic system is not very fleshed out (which feels very weird for a Cosmere book) and it's obvious this was a very early draft. I would say if you have not read any of the non-canon books, I would suggest both Prose White Sand and Aether of Night before Dragonsteel Prime - but I would recommend Dragonsteel Prime over Way of Kings Prime. In the end it comes down to what interests you, and if you can live with knowing there are cliffhanger questions that will never be answered. . .

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I don;t see a specific delivery date in my email, but I know they already arrived - so, around 2 weeks? These were replacements for the softcover I loaned out and was not returned (yet). Also, if you get the ePub, that digital download should be available in less than a day. Hope that helps

Possible, but more likely refering to the Connection Honor has to the Heralds, and the Splinters of Honor expressed as their honorblades (both of which are weaknesses in a Shard that can be exploited) - and in this case Honor (Tanavast) specifically made those Connections, and reinforced them over the millenia as well as slightly weakening himself through voluntary Splinters (Stormfather and the Honorblades).

It was indirect WoBs that basically put a huge flaming Exclamation point over the fact that Elantris' Chronology doesn't fit well - there are two whole Shards' worth of investiture sitting in the Cognitive realm where it does not belong. Meanwhile - Elantris is supposed to be at-least centuries before Mistborn The Final Empire, yet the Ire in Secret History appear to be like Reod Elantrians (but most Ire were off-World during the Reod). WoBs: Brandon has said that he will not canonize if/how much time dilation is happeneing on Sel because of the Dor until he finishes Elantris 2 and 3 - but it is heavily implied that the whole planet runs slower than Cosmere Standard because of this effect. Hope that helps

Two quick notes: 1 - We have a WoB on one guaranteed method of causing time dilation in the Cosmere (and it pre-dates WaT by years): Taravangian, being the foolish new Vessel he is, basically just went hog-wild ripping apart things in the Physcial and Cognitive Realms (Stormfather, Highstorm, Spren, etc.) to make his brand-new-spanking "I'm only doing this because someone must. . . now everybody worship me" storm. In short - way too much investiture pooled into the Cognitive and Physical at one time - hence Time Dilation (as per WoB and what's been going on with Sel for a long long time). 2 - We have no proof that Sazed did not cause Time Dilation in the remaking of Scadrial - we have only Sazed's "Spiritual Realm" PoV, Kelsier's Cognitive Realm PoV (that's all shades of messed up - like a montage of a cross country stroll). Otherwise, we know Spook woke up healed - and they emerged into what was to become Elendel Basin, and that subjectively was hours-to-days for the Scadrians (the part about Breeze working at the desk implies days, but there is no actual verification of time). So, we do not know if those changes on Scadrial were compressed and outside of the Scadrian System, it may have been weeks, months or years for the rest of the Cosmere as Sazed remade the planet.

Nose Ball, implied to be street hockey (or similar - based on sticks/bats and the fact it has a goalie position) Wayne discussed this exactly - TLM Ch 16: Hope that helps

if you click the copy button in the top right, you can paste it in the forums instead of linking it (and the WoB includes it's own link at the bottom anyway). WoB: Hope that helps.

Concur completely. I almost quit the Cosmere due to Alloy of Law (right after HoA) because, back in 12ish when I read them I did not realize it was a shared universe, and both the setting and tone was so different (discussed more here). If I had not found the Free Warbreaker on Sanderson's website, I may have never read another Sanderson book at all after AoL.

Again, that WoB is referencing the Swap of Taln's Honorblade at Kholinar (or in transit before reaching the Warcamps). The question was about the two different descriptions of the Actual Honorblade (extracts above) - In WoK Epilogue when Taln still had his blade and In Shinovar when Szeth faced the Honorbearer that was now using Taln's Blade. Hope that helps

It may not be a discrepancy, it may be the PoV of the person (Hoid perceived a spike shape, Szeth a Wedge (because that was what he had been taught and seen depicted in Shin artwork). Consider mentioning it in WaT Typos and Peter will clarify if it was a mistake or intentional. That was the sword that Taln showed up with in the Warcamps. That sword was bonded by Dalinar, then used to discredit Amaram and unbonded in Urithiru when he became a Bondsmith. @Hoids Imaginary Friend is referencing the WaT Scene where we find out it had been the Shin who stole it from Kholinar (or an agent who then delivered to the Shin) before Taln moved to the Shattered Plains. WaT Ch 40: For comparison, WoK Epilogue: In reality, Wedge Greatsword: Long, Straight, Narrow - could easily be described as a Wedge or a Spike Shape. Hope that helps

Compounding itself is already bypassing the Compression loss of increased tapping - by definition, Compounding is using external investiture to power the stored trait. If you store 1 minute of 75% speed, then tap it you get one minute of 175% speed. If you, instead, Burn that metalmind you get an amount of "speed-focused Investiture" equal to 10x (roughly) the amount stored - either 1 minute of 750% speed or 10 Minutes of 175% speed (ikely based on Intent while Compounding). Normally, this would not be translated directly into action - because most compounders store the trait they are Compounding in other metalminds. Duralumin would have almost no bearing on that process - since the burn output is still going directly to storage input. Trying to Duralumin enhance the Compounding process directly into action is likely to be even more fatal than just Duralumin was for Vin as a normal Mistborn (please see this post where I collected all the quotes I could find where Duralumin would have killed Vin if she did not also burn Pewter simultaneously to survive). WoBs: Hope that helps

I detailed all of that info in the Sharder FAQ (Extract below): But part of it is definitely practice. I've been looking up and posting WoBs here for a few years now - so there are some WoBs one can recall well enough to find quickly based on the keywords - such as Seon&Shardblade keyword search. Hope that helps

Have you tried putting about an inch of water in a half-sheet pan, and placing the muffin pan in that? The water bath should help the cake batter heat evenly without getting the outsides done too quick for the center to finish cooking. Note: I have not done this with buttercake, but I have done it with a swirl of pumpkincake and brownie batter to make chocolate pumpkin swirl muffins. In other news: Tonight was V4 fo Jägerschnitzel (pork) with mushroom leek sauce over butter-parsley Spaetzle. I'm getting closer with with the spaetzle, but this time the batter(dough?) was a bit too thick so the spaetzle was more little balls than noodles (but the flavor was about where I wanted it).

Well, we already know that Iyatil and Dlavil are part of the Ghostbloods and have SoScad heritage (non-Mistborn Spoilers) So, I would think that Kelsier's crew would maintian influence on both continents. Even if he might not be a force for peace until and unless large-scale problems arise. I think he is well aware of the trend that technology advances much quicker in times of conflict than in times of peace.

Thank you for the list of unread Cosmere works in your profile. Please consider checking out the Sharder FAQ for useful tips and forum info. Keep in mind that the Spren are heavily influced by Human Perception. In the early days of Radiance - the Shardplate Spren would have been copying what humans already considered Armor. In live plate, the eye slit is not much of a weakness, so there would have been no impetus to change the design. So, while Deadeye plate can still offer some advantages of sealing the face covering and becoming translucent, without the eye slits it both would not match human perception of Armor and would be less effective due to the difficulty in dead plate achieving the same levels of transparancy that Live Plate can achieve. WoK Ch 13: Hope that helps

The thing to keep in mind is that Harmonium is unstable because of Sazed's conflicted Intent. So, parts of Atium and Lerasium make sense as residue from Ettmetal because harmony's own intent is comprised of, specifically, maintinaing the Intents of Preservation and Ruin in Balance (even if he's not very effective at the Balance part yet). Possible, but we have no indication that Investiture in a Solid Matter State is also susceptible to Tones the way that Gaseous Investiture is (we also see the Mist react to tones as far back as TFE, since Burning Tin - which emits Preservation's Tone to the Rhythm of Tin allows the Misting to better see through the Mist). Since we do not know how The Set explored these experiements, we cannot compare Wax's methodology to their's to identify differences. I could see the sealed chamber being part of the reson, but I am unsure that a possible Vaccum and separation from Tones is the factor - if only because Rhythm and Tone is less a part of Scadrial's MoIs than other places like Roshar. This WoB (below) indicates why Brandon will make some Realmatic principals more or less of a factor for each Magic System (such as Command being a very important piece of Awakening, but only slighly important in Surgebinding and Allomancy). So, while we know that Tones and Rythms are a factor for Bronze Allomancy, we have no indication that they are a major feature of all Metallic Arts in a way similar to how they premeate all things on Roshar. Not impossible there is a correlation though. Hope that helps

Not quite (it's 10ish years in-world) - the current plan from the State of the Sanderson: Still quite a long time until the Dragonsteel Trilogy

Welcome to the Shard. The Sharder FAQ has informtion on searching the Coppermind and Arcanum. I also highly recommend adding the Annotations to your re-reads. Annotations are free on Brandon' site (navigating them has become a bit more difficult since the site "upgrade") - so here are links: Elantris Mistborn Era 1: The Final Empire Well of Ascension Hero of Ages Warbreaker You can actually reread the book and annotations together on the website, since the book is free there too - going Ch 1, Annotations Ch 1, Ch 2, etc. They add a mix of trivia, information that did not make the book, character backgrounds and motives, etc. as well as explanation as to why the author made some of the decisions he made. The were, for the most part, written during the copy edit of the book while preparign for the first publication. I enjoyed them enough that I added them to my personal eBook copies (warbreaker ePub comes with annotations already loaded - or mine did when I bought it years ago which is what gave me the idea). The Annotations are in the Arcanum as WoBs, but are more difficult to follow there (for me) because they are by "subject" rather than by Chapter, so sometimes when an Annotation reads "in this chapter I . . . " you have to dig to figure out what chapter he means and which events are being referenced. - - - As far as WoBs are concerned - some people will just read entire Events at one sitting (example Goodreads Q&A 2010 has 32 WoBs). I did not enjoy that experience because any given "event" had WoBs on many different topics. So, my method was to pick a tag I was interested in (such as #Worldbuilding) and order it "oldest first" then read through those WoBs - falling down the rabbit hole of opening a new tag in another window when a WoB I wanted more info on had multiple tags at the bottom. That way I could move from subject to subject, but keep "focused" on one topic at a time (just how I work). Hope that helps. @Obeythelaw7 - this post may also interest you.

Disregard - My apologies.

So, it's speculation? To be clear, I'm fine with it being theory - what I have a problem with is when speculation is stated as if it were Canon Fact (and no source information). Qualifiers like "I think" and "It seems" go a long way here. My point is that it seems more like the YH are forging Connection with the Spirits, but it does not have any characteristics of a Bond (based on current known data). WoBs indicate it is similar, and would function almost like a Nahel bond if an Elantrian and their Seon were on Roshar. WoBs:

Note - Brandon did not say that Vessels were not Evil - just the Shard, the power itself, is not Evil. The Intent of Ruin - that all things break down and end is not Evil, though Ati may have become so by the end with most of his original personality wiped out by the Shard's pressure. And Rayse was almost assuredly an Evil $%^&*( as a mortal, and only worse once he became a Vessel.

Welcome to the Shard. Please consider an Intro Post to let us know what you have or have-not read (whichever list is shorter). Also, please consider checking out the Sharder FAQ for some useful forum info and tips. Elhokar's WoBs: Cryptics were foreshadowed pretty heavily since WoK