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Ok, I am going to go to work here on the following things. We can make an observation that the following three processes observed in Cosmere, and discussed by Brandon in various Q&As actually may be facets of the same. 1. Sazed taking the Shards of Ruin and Preservation and holding their combined powers. 2. Hoid travelling around Cosmere and acquiring (or attempting to acquire) the ability to store and use Investiture in ways provided by Shards (Breath, Allomancy, etc...) 3. Uses of Hemalurgy to transfer Investiture handling abilities from one being to another. I have another thought. There is a lot of Q&As in which Brandon lets it be known that the Cosmere magic systemns are susceptible to hacking - using Investiture gained from one system to power work of another system... I am used to viewing all this: questions of the form "what would happen if a Nirosil Misting who received Breath on Roshar tried to draw Aons using a silver knife while on Taldain?" with a healthy dose of irony.... But now I think, what if this hacking is NOT a simple by-product of how Shards are organized? What if this is *precisely the point* of the Cosmere stories? What if Hoid's trope is actually some sort of a noodle implement that requires a combination of 16 Investitures acquired from all Shards and applied to each other in very specific ways? What if what he is doing is essentially getting to a point where he can do some compounding on very serious drugs? Brandon has given some hints that Hemalurgy has a very special place in Cosmere because it steals every possible type of Investiture-based abilities. So, there is Hoid's way of getting to that noodle implement. And there is the Hemalurgy way of doing the same.... And now we have a race condition, because some very suspicious folks have just about figured out Hemalurgy for themselves. If this is the case - CLEVER CLEVER Brandon! This is very well hidden right in front of us.

I'll have to miss the actual festivities, but I hope that there is going to be archiving of the answers. From a different thread: * What would Hoid think of Ym's religion? Also: * Has Harmony actually ever talked to another Shard (not Ruin/Preservation)? * Are there svarkiss in Bands of Mourning? * Did Sazed taking up Ruin and Preservation help or hurt Hoid's plans? (I expect a RAFO here, but...) * Are Khriss and Baon part of the same "team" now, or are they working on independent "projects"? * Is Cultivation more difficult for Odium to deal with than Honor? Why? EDIT: a general "What's up with Yolen?" might also be warranted. Finally, are we allowed to ask Aether of Night/White Sand-the draft questions? Because I want to know where Hoid is in both (there is only a passing mention in one WoBs about White Sand), and how many Shards are on Aether's world.

Geodes themselves are vessels/vehicles for atium beads to concentrate. The perpendicularity must be somewhere in the depths.

I think it is the latter. Bleeder is fighting the control Harmony exhibits over spiked creatures. She is not incorrect - kandra have an argument that their free will is an illusion - because it can be violated at any time by Harmony or by any powerful Soother. If Southpolers have some duralumin/brass combo medallions, any shmuck and their grandmother can take a kandra over. If you are an immortal being.... that must suck.

They are acclimated much better. Allik was able to withstand prolonged cold with only a visible inconvenience. But they also rely on personal heating devices a lot.

If that is the case (and I am far from convinced it is), there have been other hints at that - Ym's religion being probably the most blatant one (largely because it is the only text we have at this moment that does not consider a Shard being completely splintered as a "problem" to eventual recostruction of "the One"... in fact, it suggests that all Shards must be splintered first before "the One" is back).

All you really need is a bit of nicrosil in a handle, or some aluminum (if the effect is performed by storing Identity).

This simply might mean that Adonalsium him/her/itself did not know much about Spiritual Realm.

My immediate reaction was that they actually decided to move him to a different world and Uncle Suit has just became a worldhopper, but I may just be taking things too literally.

Take a village from somewhere in South Sudan, or Tamil Nadu. Move the village - inhabitants, buildings, housewares, clothing etc. to the vicinity of Murmansk and freeze the time to be early March (or late November) forever. Count how long the villagers will survive. (also minimize their access to wood). The reason why people can live in Arctic regions is change of season - even during short summers, it is still possible to prepare for the long winters, not succumb to scurvy, and have enough firewood/coal. Also - 1000 years of burning ettmetal - that's A LOT of ettmetal. An argument can be made that Rashek got ettmetal (nee sodium) from table salt, but I am dubious.

K and N, are clearly Khriss and Nazh. Khriss studies Twinborn at the time the broadsheet is out. I'd say, unless something goes horribly wrong in Book 5 of Stormlight Archive, chances of finding Nightblood (who is NOT a tool) on Scadrial are roughly nil. There is one example of talking to someone via the use of metals on Scadrial - this is how Ruin and Harmony converse with spiked people. I think K and N are trying to discover a special type of Twinborn whose compounding abilities (Connection and ... Soothing/Rioting... or Tineyeing) allow them to talk to Sazed or something else via chunks of metal. Maybe a metalmind that stores Identity behaves this way ("Hi! I am Bob!").... Bottomline - I think we need to look for explanations of "talking tools" on Scadrial, not elsewhere in Cosmere.

I think you may be onto something with your last comment. It seems like the thing that would hurt Cultivation the most would be destruction of what she, well,... for the lack of a better word, cultivates: which is life on Roshar.

I suspect that just as Love is probably out of the question, so is Grace. Too close to Devotion. Effectively, portions of Devotion and possibly Endowment would've formed Grace in an alternate Cosemere, where different 16 people we Shattering Adonalsium.

I had some technical issues posting - did not see the post come up, saw error messages. I actually did not realize it got posted, as I eventually abandoned my attempts. Apologies for inconvenience.

I am going to quote the wiki on Ym's religious belief: (http://coppermind.net/wiki/Ym) Religious Belief He believes, long ago, there was only one being which he simply calls One. One knew everything but had experienced nothing. And so One became Many in order to experience all things. As each experience is different, it brings completeness to One. Eventually, all will be gathered back in when the sum of land is attained and they will once again become One. Every person is a different mind of a single being experiencing different lives. As Many, they need ignorance. Each fragment of the One’s mind has its own body with different passions and inclinations. They exist in variety to experience all kinds of thought. That means some people must know and others must not. Just like some people must be rich and others poor. This is why he is interested in collecting other people's experiences. In light of Khriss's words on who Shattered Adonalsium, I think, this needs a revisit. When I first read the Ym Interlude I felt that this was *way too close* to the truth to ignore it. There is a mystery of how such a belief - easily describing a version of the Shattering - could have reached Ym. But now, after Khriss's revelation, I want to go back to this and ask a question: what if this is indeed a version of a description of the Shattering? If it is the case (and I think it is the case), then, the second line there: "One knew everything but experienced nothing" appears to be crucially important. Beyond Khriss's description of the motivations of the 16, this is the only possible evidence of what that motivation might have been. Or, alternatively, the post-Shattering hagiography and apologia. The other important thing to notice is that this belief presents us with two opposite notions: knowledge and experience. * Adonalsium: omniscent, but not omnipresent * Shards after the Shattering: omnipresent (collectively) but not omniscent. It also explains why (some) Shards further splinter themselves! (think Endowment - this religion described what she is doing on a daily basis). If there is a master list of questions for Brandon, how about this one: "What would Hoid think about Ym's religion?" Thoughts? (PS. This is, incidentally, why, of all single-Interlude characters thus far I liked Ym over Lift).

This actually lends good support to my prior observation that a true opposite of Odium would've been the Shard holding "god's divine Love". Now, one way to interpret Brandon's response is: 1. the Shard of Love does not exist 2. Devotion *is* a close Intent to Love, the closest there is among the 16. 3. Therefore, while these two are not direct opposites such as Ruin and Preservation, Devotion is the closest real opposite to Odium, there is among the Shards. I am going to stick with this theory until RAFOs or WoBs prove me wrong.

I think you got Dominion and Endowment somewhat skewed. Dominion: a god of Control. Proscribes very specific rules by which his followers must live, and very specific punishments for disobeying them. (starting religious cults is secondary - it is more of a "how this is done" thing). Endowment: a god(dess) of Gifting. She bestows upon every sentient being (every human) a Divine Gift, that enhances their life sense. This is her primary function. I also don't think Cultivation is "having a plan for your life" (this is actually more of a Dominion). Cultivation: a god(dess) of creating conditions for life to flourish. There is some level of control and design in the name "Cultivation", but I do not think it is as much a plan for life, as it is "let's see how you do under these circumstances".

Is this a quote from a fragment that has already been released? The bullet-point list looks good to me. I would add one more bit - the we know from the past: * it is possible to affect things in Physical Realm by applying sufficient quantities of Investiture to their representations in the Cognitive Realm. In Roshar's Shadesmar this appears in the form of a trading game that an Elsecaller or a Lightweaver can play with the Cognitive aspects of things (also a Willshaper maybe?).

Yes. I second that.

As long as the statue did not also contain a backpack and a kind of a bandoleer, I am not worried.

Shin have a thing about metal made out of ore, so *this* is why they only want Soulcast metal. I actually think that metal is not that rare on Roshar - after all it has mountains and gems - there must be plenty of ore there - remember Talanel's mantra about what each Herald will teach the good people of Roshar.... I, for one, think it is easier for Hoid to apply a file to a chunk of brass or zinc, than to have to travel to Scadrial to get it. Also, Soulcast metal may actually be a good choice (especially the alloys) because purity.

Sorry. My bad. I stand corrected.

Reading the conversation Sazed has with Wax it is clear that the red haze is not an actual physical haze, or even cognitive red haze - but rather is a representation of some danger to Scadrial that Sazed explicitly chose to depict that way. This is not a "deepness is the killing mists" kind of thing - the haze is not literal. This is just a rendering of Sazed's sense of unease about the situation.

If I remember correctly, Threnody is in Roshar system.

Theoretically it is NOT impossible that Hoid carries metallic dust from Scadrial, but in practice, I think it is a safe assumption that he is using local metals.