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The Sharder FAQ discusses the preferred method for this (techniques for splitting off a new topic to re-address an old thread). Also, I do not think Q&A is th ebest place to "Discuss" anything - that's why we have discussion forums. Q&A is meant for (newer) fans to ask questions that might have a legetimate answer they cannot find themselves. The voting and sorting makes it rather difficult to follow a "discussion" here because the post voting constantly resorts the conversation anytime somebody clicks up or down on a post. We rely on experienced Sharders to split off topics when a new Sharder accidentally Necros a thread (rather than engaging in the Necro itself, unless it meets one of the Admin Exemptions) Hope that helps

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I don't know if anyone but me ever saw the show, but Chef Richard Blaise had a short-lived show called Hungry Games (which I thought was awesome, so of course it was cancelled first season) where he explored aspects of the culinary industry outside of the kitchen. In one episode, whe was exploring how naming and presentation affected diner's reception of a food item. One of the experiments in an episode is he made a Salmon dish - to one half of the customer's he labelled and presented it as "Salmon Ice Cream" and to the other half "Salmon Mousse" (same dish, different name, differnent bowl). The first got universally 1-2 star results, the second all 4-5 star results. Anyway - your idea made me recall that episode. . .

There are conflicting ideas about this kind of sentence construction, with some thinking that adding the second "doing" becomes too repetetive, while this phrasing some consider more "colloquial" (similar to speech). A clearer (but less informal) phrasing might be: They are all valid constuctions, and it mostly comes down to preference and/or implied tone.

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Mistborn Secret History has spoilers for Bands of Mourning, but you have it later than Bands. Alloy of Law has spoilers for Allomancer Jak, which you also have later. Shadows for Silence in the Forest of Hell is referenced in Mistborn Secret History and Oathbringer, but you also have that before either.

I took Jasnah's "soulcast blood" to mean she was soulcasting the poison molecules into untainted blood (thereby removing the poison from the blood). I would imagine though, that once they find Intraveneous techniques, a skilled Soulcaster could use a Saline Drip to add liquid volume to a body and soulcast the saline to match the body's current blood.

I do not think that 1+2=5. When compounding, you are burning a metalmind, and storing that attribute. If you are not storing that burned attribute, you are also not tapping a metalmind. So, you burn a metalmind and start using the speed being released. That speed means you are burning slightly faster, releasing more speed - which you will have to store (at least partially) before it kills you. But you can't store and tap the same attribute at the same time. So, you store 80% of your speed for 1 hour (going too low also kills you) to have a metal mind charges with +80% speed for 1 hour duration (or compressed as +160%, +240, etc.) Burnign that metalmind results in +800% speed for 1 hour (at the Era 1 proposed 10x multiplier) - which is a deadly amount of speed (which is why you would need to be storing at least some of it, if not all). But once the metal is burned, you will need to swallow a burn a new Steelmind (likey one just made with the excess) to keep going. Not sure how you get a feedback loop from this process - just a slightly faster compounding schema for when burning Steel for speed increases the rate of burning steel for speed.

Overall, I can see why this one went unpublished. I'm happy to have read it, but I'm not sure if I will read it again. Much more of a downer ending than normal (likely due to the series it was planned to become - like another Prime version). It seems obvious that Brandon had not yet really "codified" his three laws yet, as there is not much clarification on Microkinesis or the other abilities shown. Jerrick's story does seem much more in-line with the standard fantasy hero trope (peasant beginnings, raised up, becomes a leader and has magic) - except the ending of course. Loved Bat'Chor's arc, though the "dialect" was not handled as well as his later works deal with it. Enjoyed the Korean/Hanja references for the Tzend language. Still confused over Trexandos, which seemed to sometimes refer to a city, sometimes a country (neither of which appear an any of the maps - unless it was supposed to be "Tronos" on the map - much like the map shows "Karg" but the text only uses Jarg) - I kept getting Trexandos and Tzendor confused for the first half of the book. Decent skeleton of a story and I look forward to the final version in a decade or three. . . Concur. I can certainly see why Brandon decided the Shattered Plains would work better on Roshar. I was surprised at how many scenes were direct parallels - I had known for a long time that he moved the Shattered Plains arc from Dragonsteel to Stormlight, but Rock , Gaz, the rescue of Tzern that became the Tower fight to rescue Dalinar. I had not realized that so much was directly moved over, then adjusted. Then you have the WonderTwins character building with WoKP - where it seems that (WoKP spoilers~ish):

As i read, I thought the "Nine Lords" were all Dragons (in disguise). We have this WoB: By the end, I kind of thought the whole plot was like "sibling rivalry through global war" - dragons influenceing people, groups and nations to fight for their "cause," likely due to boredom or a sense of entitlement.

Interesting theory. We know that Brandon has said that the Dragons are Fain (WoB Below) but what if they are really both - a Fain form and a Human form. Then the Humans are recreations/descendants of one form and the ShoDel may be recreations/descendants of the other form (and why they need Dragonsteel in their bodies, like the Dragon Form dies). WoB:

I also noticed that the ShoDel arent described with six arms. In the early chapters, I thought possibly the ShoDel Assassin was using illusion to hide them (while trying to blend in as Torell's servant). Interestingly, the "lizard" is described with six limbs (Ch 1): Then we get to the Shattered Plains and all those scenes, but not only are they never "shown" as having four arms/six limbs - their fighting is described in a very "two-arm" fashion. But, then, the Shen Da are also described as six-limbed (Ch 30): I can only guess this was all detail that he would have cleaned up on revision, since he almost always writes the first draft straight through and fixes details during revision. I think it was impied that this only applies to adults. Topaz thinks the ShoDel that attacked Ekrobila were not real, but he likely does not know (at this point) about why and how the ShoDel use the Dragonsteel. So, no Dragonsteel in their bodies/bones as "children" then whatever process they use to become an adult with Ana Ku Mae. (Ch 47): So, the ShoDel invading the north were likely children, Sha La Men Ves, or a combination of the two.

Right. That's covered by two of those WoBs (and specifically mentioned in the last one). Unkeyed Liquid Dor could peovide enough investiture for a Suolstamp to make you Metalborn (for as long as the Stamp lasts), then burning metals would grant you access to Preservation's Investiture and perform Allomancy. On a tangential note, you may want to consider checking out the Sharder FAQ which includes tips and tricks on searching the Coppermind and Arcanum (as well as useful info for the Forums).

Soulstamps generally would not work like this. WoBs: Generally speaking, when using Stamps for investiture related effects, you need as much (or more) investiture tofuel the stamp as the effect you are making would use' but Forgery is an inherently low-investiture art, so it needs outside sources of Investiture to pull something like this off (like in TLM). Hope that helps

Ruin is not closely aligned with Odium (and Odium does not want to combine with another shard at all). Ruin is closer in Intent to Cultivation. WoBs: Hope that helps

Also, not sure if it was just a change or something else. I've noticed that the Map names the kingdom west of Melerand as "Karg," but in txt it seems to only be references as "Jarg." Ch 35: Topaz frowned in confusion. “Why were men left behind? Are they sick?” Should be Tzend (not Topaz)

There are also these WoBs: @Koloss17 has done much theorizing on F-Tin (ab)uses.

Ten Deaths WoB: Spoilers for Tress: Will you be reading the novellas on this re-read? Also, are you aware that there are Sixth of the Dusk references in Rhythm of War? SotD: Hope that helps

There's also this nugget from the Annotations and Epigraphs:

The Mental effects were discussed in the books (especially Vin and Ham's talk about beating an Atium wielder without having Atium yourself in WoA) and clarified in the poster. Just as the effect of Pure Atium (as per the poster) was compared to Elend's a-ha moment at the end of HoA when he burned a large reserve of E1Atium with Duralumin. (Same WoB as above - edited): So, while the poster says "temporal and mental effects," it is unlikely to mean "Temporal effects" and "mental effects" and more likely means "Temporal effects with enough mental augmentation to use the new information." WoA Ch 22: Hope that helps

You already saw them both. The Mists are Preservation's equivalent, and the black smoke outside the well was Ruin's Equivalent. In Era 2, there are actually two different Mists, one for each (the ruin mist is slightly darker). I'll update with WoBs when I have some time later tonight. Yes. WOB: Hope that helps

Sorry. Copy all. I thought they were asking how to add it to the Arcanum so it could be cited as a WoB. I'll shut up now.

What I have been doing (YMMV) is right before/after a re-read, I'll use the Arcanum Tag Browser to select tags the from associated book/series and read though the WoBs that way - so it's not (usually) as cumbersome as some of the longer Event sections, and they can chain easily by clicking another tag from the bottoms of WoBs in the first set. E. g. Elantris City has WoBs leading to AonDor Tag, Shaod Tag, etc.

WoBs: Hope that helps

Interesting theory. Sound reasoning (but I have never been a fan of the internal/external flipping theory because basing anything on a single use-case seems, to me, to be an unsound foundation). External? The question was 2011 - the retcon is older than 2009 (from before HoA was even published) and is only really a RetCon because while Sanderson wrote all three books (first draft) before publishing TFE, he found the problem while editing WoA and HoA - but after TFE was published. WoP: