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His metal minds did pierce his body, to help prevent them from being pushed or pulled, but they were not hemalurgic spikes (and didn't pierce bind points - much less wanting to allow others to control him through Hemalurgy, the way he controlled Kandra and Koloss). He was strong with Allomancy because he didn't get his allomancy through a Lerasium bead (he used those as bribes) - he granted himself Allomancy while holding the power of the Well. Ruin didn't need a person to have a Hemalurgic Spike to talk/influence others - he was influencing Sazed through his Metalmind piercings as well (reinforcing his despair over Tindwyl) - any invested metal piercing was enough to allow some influence (even if less effective than a Hemalurgic spike would be). There's also the Teaser from Brandon that fans refer to as "reverse compounding" because he has implied there is a way to compound for Allomancy as well (we just don't know it yet). WoBs: Hope that helps

Assuming by "cut somebody" you mean creating a blade deadened limb, how would razor wire accomplish that? Unless you have an entirely different idea of what razor wire is and can accomplish, what I am familiar with from the mailitary would certainly bleed a limb, but it won't "cut" through the center of the limb to deaden it.

It has already been theorized that both are based on some of the principals of Hemalurgy, because both allow normally fatal changes to the body to work by rearranging the body around the obstruction, and both involve some measure of control to be exibited by an outside force that knows how to do so.

It has an inkwell, she carrys the ink for it. WaT Ch 21:

I don't know about a trip wire severing the legs - since the Spiritual Ideal of a trip wire is not a sharpened cutting edge, and Lift's WyndleRod shows that a manifested living Spren in a non-edged form doesn't cut. The Sunlit Man explores much of what is possible with manifesting a living Shardweapon. As for a whip - mayby a Chain Whip is possible, but it all has be connected and metal, so that is a factor. TSM Spoilers: Hope that helps.

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Glad you are enjoying the story so far. You didn't mention anything about the interludes? What did you think of the glimpses of other Roshar cultures? Notice anything else? @alder24 is correct - it's great following somebody's first journey through Stormlight Archive. So much RAFO Doesn't everybody but Ialai?

That has been speculated, but not offiicially confirmed.

Welcome to the Shard. Thank you for letting us know what you have read, and please consider an Intro Post. Please consider checking out the Sharder FAQ for some tips and tricks. The way I categorize these things for new readers I am recommending to Cosmere is this: I categorize connections between books at three levels - Major (Impacts that have significant plot impact, so it is suggested that these books be read before the book being discussed) Minor (Impacts that have some small plot involvement, so reading these books first will likely aid in understanding those plot points Easter Eggs (references that are there for people to recognize if hey have read these books, but otherwise will not affect your ability to enjoy the story without them) Stormlight Archive has, by far, the most Cosemere references. The Lost Metal has 1 minor spoiler for all of Stormlight Archive (well, books 2-5). My Stormlight Archive Connection Synopsis is: Hope that helps

The Sunlit Man is significantly in the future of the Cosmere, but we do not have a specific timeline yet. Likely after Stormlight Archive 10, but not a guarantee. On a separate note - when you get to TSM, we would be interested in hearing about how Sigzil's events in this book affected your reading of that book, as there has been debate about whether it is better to suggest new readers finish WaT before or after TSM. (TSM has minor spoilers for WaT)

I think @Dofurion's point was that she had already touched his Soul once, so that may have made what she did possible because she already had unique insight into his soul.

In WaT CH 144, Ishar implied that Szeth's arm would be restored once he was a Herald. The same should apply to Kal's fingers. Possibly, more telling, in the Postlude Kalak takes Kaladin's hand, but there is no mention of missing fingers anywhere in that scene. So, no guarantees, but the implication is that it is at least possible.

Except that Elantrians are not cognitive shadows, and they have not died. The Reod Elantrians (during that book) believed themselves to be dead because they were mid-transformation; so their bodies were in a partially-changed unchangeable transformation state (hence your bolded part about them not dying). We should get more information in the Elnatris sequels, but from known data, they are more like a Surgebinder with permanent access to Investiture (Dor) that sustains them (agelessness, quickened physical traits, healing, etc.) as well as fueling AonDor.

Have you read the Annotation translations for the 4-person conversation in TFE Ch 24? The Coppermind page has the dialog, but not the Annotation translation. It's unlikely we will get much more High Imperial information, much less enough for full translation. Luckily, it's meant to be vague neough you can mostly just make it up as you go. WoB:

This is unlikely because, by definition, Allomancy is drawing on Preservation to create the effect of the Burned metal. Compounding, based on known data, is changing the key of a metal by burning an Invested metal to create the effect that is invested. Examples: Burning Gold draws on Preservation to create Gold Shadows Burning a Goldmind (with stored health) draws on Preservation to create Health (that can be either used or stored into a different Goldmind) If you tried burning Awakened Gold, the breath would have changed the Key for what Gold is doing, but Preservations Allomantic power would not recognize what Breath is in that context, or what effect to create from that Awakened Gold. If you tried storing breath in a piece of gold (which may or may not require the seventh heightening to accomplish) then tried to burn that, then the Gold would have a changed key, but the investiture in the gold does not produce an affect at all (since it's static storage without intent or command) and the result is probably a whole lot of nothing. If you try Awakening a Goldmind, then Investiture resists Investiture, and this would be orders of magnitude more difficult than just Awakening a normal metal. Depending on Command and Intent, this may or may not produce a different effect than just Burning a Goldmind. The only WoB on the matter was a Hard RAFO: Hope that helps

It wouldn't be a Resonance, as the Windrunner Resonance is Squires - but it could be a change in the application of the Reverse Lashing between Honorblade and Bonded Radiant. It could also be a difference of capability by Oath level. Honorblades only have one static version of the surges, but Radiant Surges increase in efficiency and effect with higher Oaths.

Did you see the post previously with the Enderverse Chronology (if it matters and is helpful)? Did you only read from Ender's Game forward (Ender in Flight, Ender's Shadow, etc.) or did you also go back and read First Bugger War Trilogy and what we have of Second Bugger War trilogy? Short Stories like Mazer in Prison? As for Last Shadow - I'm glad I read it once, but it was not my favorite for the series and I am unsure if I will re-read it on future re-reads. For whatever that is worth. Hope you enjoyed what you read.

The Sibling's bond didn't so much "give Navani" the ability to hear the Tones of Roshar as it made such things easier. Navani had already trained herself to hear and hum/sing the Tones and Rhythms of Roshar (that's the largest portion of her Arc in RoW - and how she Bonded Sibling to begin with, she supplied Honor's Tone for Sibling's Cultivation Tone and they worked together to recreate the Tower Tone and Rhythm). RoW Ch 110 Part of the equation is likely Intent - Navani has recognized these Tones, Rhythms and Lights as important to her, their bond, and Fabrials. Also, Sibling is already comprised of two of the three tones anyway. Dalinar has none of that going on - he has not learned the Tones, nor does he view them as important to what he is doing as Stormfather's Bondsmith. He could liklely learn, as Navani did; and the Bond would probably make that easier for him than it was for her before her Bond - but it hasn't come up because it was not a part of his Character Arc. Hope that helps

Thanks, now I want a Microfiction of "Death visits the Elendel bakery". . . Please Spoiler tag your non-Scadrial content. This is the Mistborn Forum, not Cosmere Discussion. Technically, Hope that helps

I think this is the flaw in your reasoning. Tone is not synonymous with Identity. And they did not "strip" the tone (it did not have a tone to remove - that was Navani's point), they prevented the light from "hearing and echoing" the tone. RoW Ch 97: Identity is a Spiritual Realm Property (such as when Shallan reclaims Drehy's Stormlight from the lashing by mimicing Drehy's Identity) and Tone/Rhythm is a property that is expressed in the Physical Realm (or more, insufficient data). That Stormlight still had Honor's Tone and Rhythm, while expressing Drehy's Identity until rekeyed to Shallan. Separating the Investiture from the SR echo of it's tone does not change the Light into unkeyed investiture (it still looked like voidlight, and likely would still power Voidlight Fabrials but not Stormlight Fabrials) and we do not know how Unkeyed Dor was unkeyed. Unkeyed Investiture would still be the same Shardic Investiture as it began, and would still create the same Godmetal - e. g. Unkeyed Dor is still Dor and would create Dor's Godmetal (An alloy or Skaium and Aonium). Hope that helps.

We have no indications either way. It's last known status was Landed at the Shattered Plains to offload the Hearthstone Refugees (RoW Ch 18). It seems to be forgotten after that, except the three very brief mentions quoted above. If Offscreen Inertia holds true, then it was landed in the Shattered Plains being inspected from it's initial test mission when the Invasion of Urithiru happened. Which would imply it was still grounded at the beginning of WaT (the next day) - which implies it was not airborne during the Stormlight Recall event. Of course, the problem with that theory is; if Fourth Bridge had been grounded in the Shattered Plains, why was there no mention of the thing during Sigzil's Battles? Unless we get a WoB, we will not know its fate until Book 6 (at the earliest).

That's my point though. The torture may contribute to the Herald's PTSD, but it is not the root cause of their problems. The shear weight of millenia of memories for a being not mean to hold that much is their main problem. SprenThorn living out many desolations of training will cause the same reaction - whether he enjoys the experience or not. WoBs: So, even if you mitigate the negative experience aspect, without a memory management technique like Hoid's, the weight of age will still make them insane (just, possibly, slighlty less so). I'd hate to think of the recursive effect of overlapping non-identical instances of the same memory would have (Groundhog Day and other stories all show this driving people to suicide, sooner or later - and that seems very realistic to me).

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Clarified by PM: Concur on all points - except the "Matrix style download." I don't think that works in Cosmere mechanics, or we would have seen it employed instead of visions so far. I also think that if Retribution had SprenThorn live multiple desolations as training, that he would end up broken the same way that Heralds and Fused are broken.