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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. Please check spelling or autocorrect - both of your posts are not using the term Investiture correctly. Vasher has his supressed Divine Breath and some unknown amount of normal Breath (used on-screen sparring kaladin in RoW). His Divine Breath, like Nightblood, can consume any investiture to maintain itself, so he is not losing 1 Breath per week as he would on Nalthis because he uses Stormlight for that. However, in order to use Stormlight for Awakening, it would need to be converted to Breath first (or distilled into an Unkeyed form - which is what Iyatil's Ghostbloods have been trying to do). Stormlight is Kinetic Investiture when in use, and cannot be held long by Humans (due to the lack of a Gemheart), so while static in the body it provides some of the same increase in speed, strength and resiliance that Elantrians have with their Connection to the Dor. But it has not been shown to grant other heightenings at all. Heightenings are an effect of Static Investiture (which is why your Heightenings decrease when you make Breath active by Awakening). We don't know for sure which Heightenings are Nalthis Specific and which are universal. We see that Riino has some form of Lifesense in Oathbringer when he senses Kaladin without seeing him. We suspect that Elantrian Agelessness is similar to the Nalthian Fifth Heightening. However, we also know that on Nalthis, Heightenings affect visual and auditory senses, but Rysn also experiences changes to taste - so we suspect that affected senses are at least somewhat dependent on what form of investiture is held. It is likely that all of the Warbreaker higher Heightenings are specific to BioChromatic Breath - because they deal with how people interact with that Manifestation of Investiture (MoI) specifically. If ther are heighening-like effects above Agelessness with other forms of Investiture, we do not know what they may be. Hope that helps

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. You have posted this in the Coppermind forum, which is about managing the Coppermind Wiki (please see the Sharder FAQ for tips on searching topics there). Book discussion belongs in that book/series section. For the Cosmere, if the discussion involves more than one Book or series, then please use Cosmer Discussion. The main forum page describes all of this for you up-front: I have reported this post so hopefully a Mod or Admin can move it for you, but please pay attention to these descriptions so you post in the correct place. As @Timiny said - Atium Mistings are actually Electrum Mistings, because in order to trap Ruin's power in an investiture cycle, Preservation created the Pits of Hathsin so that Ruin's leaking investiture was contaminated with the Electrum content. Leras then changed the Metals by removing Bendalloy and Cadmium to make space in the Temporal Quadrant for Atium and Malatium (preserving the Sign of 16) No, because Harmony restored the original Temporal Metals - reversing Leras' changes. WoBs: Hope that helps

I do not think the stories will ever need the term. Fans want the term for things like Fullborn Vs Hallandren God King. Rusting vs threads

Did you recognize any of them? Minor Spoiler Hints:

It's about perception (like much of the Cosmere). Realmatically, all emotional influence (including Soothing and Rioting) works by lapping the investiture against the Cognitive Self (in Shadesmar, your Cognitive Representation isn't necessarily a body and appears differently on different Shardworlds, as seen in Mistborn:Secret History and Oathbringer). WoB However, human perception (especially on Scadrial) is that the "Head" was what is rioted or soothed - so enough Aluminum there helps to shield that portion of your Cognitive Self from this influence. Unlikely, because Manifestations of Investiture are rarely about personal perception (on the large scale - it can absolutely matter on the small scale). On Scadrial, Allomancy is a combination of the Shards' Intents, the Shardworld's focus (metal) and the aggregate of the populations perception. If, in a thousand years, the most dominant perception was that the heart was the seat of emotion - then likely the way Soothing and Rioting works would shift so that aluminum armor worked instead of hats. Unfortunately, once something like this becomes known and used, it is unlikely to shift in that way. Not impossible, but less likely.

Just keep in mind that the Fandom created that term as a compound of Full Feruchemist + Mistborn. It was never meant to imply somebody born with all 32 abilties.

There are no guarantees, of course, but we do know that in the past he has selected Beta readers specifically for their insights into these kind of references (such as the First Reponder beta-readers for WoK that were added to make sure Kaladin's field medicine was well represented).

This is answered in-text (spoilers for Wind and Truth). I will note that because scientific knowledge and the application of the scientific method is changing terminolgy (not to mention Worldhoppers and linguistic exchange) there may be some disparity, for now, in terms used by Scadrians and terms used by non-Scadrians.

You can view them collected here, but I will copy them below in case you are worried about accidentally scrolling too far and spoiler later Epigraphs for the book (but please note that teh Coppermind has all Stormlight Archive epigraphs collected by-book, simply search <book>/Epigraphs - e. g. The Way of Kings/Epigraphs or The Hero of Ages/Epigraphs, etc.) Each book will feature a different set of Flashbacks. Characters are not guaranteed to still be alive in the main storyline when their flashbacks are featured. Minor Spoilers for first arc: Hope that helps

Thank you for the thoughts and insights. While we can't yet know what he has planned, or how that plan will be implemented - we do have two (possibly strong) indicators (Minor Stormlight and Rithmatist spoilers): I think this implies that Brandon is willing to let his plan be challenged and to shelve it if he (or alpha/beta readers) feel it is being unjust to teh represented cultures. But also note that he may also mix other inspirations to make a society that is functionally feasible to the Cosmere setting. We know that Sanderson has already used elements of a Caste system already (Listeners), so if he does add Caste system(s) to that world, he is likely to take it a different direction than already used. This may mean it is closer to the system you describe, since the current Caste representation had a very different feel and purpose (Caste mobility instead of rigidity - but where any given person's current caste was reflected as a physical change to their body and thoughts). WoB: Have you considered offering to be on the Beta-reading team for that story? You can use his website's Contact Us page to send a message. Let his team know that you are skeptical, yet hopeful, of how that story will reflect India's heritage and offer to be a native Beta-Reader if they would like feedback on the systems and messages the story employs. Hope that helps.

Consider checking out this thread.

We don't know what most of the Form-granting Spren are, but it's possible that some or all of the Armor Spren also can grant forms - however I doubt that a Singer could bond one of those that already have a Bond to a Radiant for Armor (even their own). However, that would not preclude bonding another of the same type for a Form. Of the three confirmed Forms, two are also ArmorSpren.

Welcome back, hope you enjoy catching up and that life lets you keep a decent reading pace. You are asking interesting questions. Some may be answered inthis book, some in future books. One answer(ish): (Mistborn, Warbreaker Ref)

Unknown - we only know that Cusicesh opened a perpendicularity, that Demoux thought was "odd," for them to begin the migration to leave Roshar. If Cusicesh travels with them or they have some other means of transitioning back on the next world if RAFO for now.

You rock, thank you.

Interestingly, I've of late found out that this is mostly right. Here is the full WoB (if you use the copy button on the top-right of the WoB, it will include the link back to the Arcanum entry as well as provide the date(s) and associated data for others to find the source on Arcanum) Please see the Sharder FAQ for more info. Hopefully Chaos will find time to chime in, as the post is likely to be in their wheelhouse.

Will the thread in Cosmere Discussion be pinned?

Have you considered choosing one of the Terris Alphabet metals? Images should have their artist attributed, so be sure to request permission if needed for fan art. (An admin like Taln can verify, But I think snips of official art are authorized for use on this site)

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. No - they were both in different cities at the same time during Hero of Ages. Depending on what you have read, you have already seen Wit under a different name in (spoilers):

They is referencing the Superiority (same as the sentence before that), and "few" is the small number of member species. It fits with previous Kitsune dialog. Defiant Ch 13: But good to have it on record for review. Thanks

We have no definitive WoB on this, but it is presumably because Odium parked three Unmade in the city (Ashertmarn, Sja-Anat, Yelig-Nar) to help block off the city from influence and support, just as he sent the SecretSpren and Fused to enforce a prohibition on Fabrials. Note: Ashertmarn's influence was seen before the Everstorm - in WoR Interlude 12, but more subtly and without a physical realm presence.

First, this is the Q&A section - it is meant for answering questions, not for theories. Second, SA5 is still in the spoiler period and all discussion of that book (and anything revealed in that book) must be kept to the Spoiler Zone until the Spoiler Period has ended. Please remove all WaT content from your post, or hide it entirely and re-post in the Spoiler Zone. If you do not know how to edit or hide a post, please see the Sharder FAQ.

I, personally, would like to see it handled like the AMA forum, a Sub inside of Cosmere Discussion as "Cosmere RPG Discussion" (so it grows as other Shardworlds release). Then, if they also want a Cosmere RPG section in Roleplaying for actually running games on the forum, or coordinationg IRL games, that can be separate.

Confirmed Dangerous. WoB: So, if she had not Ascended, she would likely have been consumed by the power.

Not quite - the molecular structure of the metal is the "key" to Preservation's power, and that "shape" defines the way the power enters the physical realm and what work it does - much like the shape of an Aon (in AonDor on Sel) determines the effect the Dor has as it comes through the equation. Each Metal's Bronze pulse is a Rhythm of Preservation's tone, which is why they alol sound different to Seekers. WoBs: Hope that helps