Lewis Nethur

Considering that the death rattles come from people with a variety of different native languages, an improper translation seems plausible to me. Alternatively, the dying Rickshaw puller who spoke the epigraph could have been seeing the scene from far off, or, since they were seeing the future, it could have been an imprecise vision. It's also possible that when Sanderson wrote that particular epigraph he had intended for someone else to be trapped in the caverns with Kaladin. The gem heart, the glory spren, and two "dead" people coming out of a pit just seems like too much to possibly be a coincidence.

Thanks! I've actually read them both a few times but never managed to put that together...

Granted. (It's because you did it once due to a misunderstanding during early childhood and had it ingrained in your routine as an unbreakable habit.) For a bane you now have an incurable toothache. I wish for a new laptop!

I was reading through the epigraphs in WoK and had some predictions about what some of them might be referencing. I don't claim to have a whole lot of ground to stand on with these, but I had some fun with them so I thought I'd share: The very first epigraph in the series: My prediction: Odium's last words; it would be poetic for the first epigraph to predict the fall of the main antagonist Chapter 9: My prediction: The viewpoint characters joining forces immediately prior to whatever the ultimate conclusion of the story is. The wall could represent a literal wall, or an assembled army of voidbringers Chapter 64: Chapter 67: My prediction: This was Dalinar's request to the Nightwatcher Let me know what you think or if you have any predictions of your own!

They haven't had much screen time yet, but I imagine most, or possibly all, of the Heralds were driven at least partially insane over the course of their repeated bouts of torture by Odium. I think you've identified a very deliberate irony in the story intended to demonstrate how twisted and warped Nale has become. While we haven't gotten a look into Nale's past, it seems reasonable to assume that his current single-minded zealotry and devotion to the letter-of-the-law is a bastardization of his formerly honorable and/or righteous devotion to maintaining order and justice. Think of him like you would someone who loves cats so much that they go out and buy a hundred of them, then, unable to take care of them, proceed to mistreat, neglect, and hug them to death: True (in an chull-backwards way) to their original intent, but also certifiably insane. TLDR; Don't let Nale near your kittens

I happen to have the uncanny luck to have had a business trip scheduled that'll put me in the area that day; here's hoping I can sneak away for a while without anyone noticing!

I'd support this theory. If Scadrial hits futuristic tech levels, they could wind up with 10 billion people connected to the cognitive realm who look up at the stars and other shard worlds and think, "Yeah, those are super far away." Combined with Scadrians actually traveling through and inhabiting that space, I could definitely see Shadesmar being reshaped, at least immediately Surrounding Scadrial, to reflect the vastness of space. It wouldn't make world hopping to Scadrial through the cognitive realm impossible, just arduous and time-consuming.

Wow, I never even dreamed of using time bubbles for the manipulation of the half-life of nuclear materials... It's probably in poor taste to discuss the design or construction of even fictional nuclear armaments, so I'll just end this post with this: If Scadrial does receive a sci-fi type trilogy, at some point they'll either have the knowledge and capacity to make planet-destroying weapons, or an as yet unknown rule about the nature of allomancy (or the nature of nuclear physics in the cosmere) will have to be introduced to explain why such weapons wouldn't work. Considering that they are slated to discover faster-than-light travel, and considering how much I like Roshar, I'm hoping it's the latter... Theory: After Sazed eats Trell and absorbs his shard he'll push his people to develop the technology to expand his dominion over the rest of the Cosmere in hopes of reforging Adonalsium. Hoid, being the secret hero of all the preceding Cosmere epics sets out on a quest to find the weapon originally developed to oppose Adonalsium that has been confirmed to still exist somewhere. Great struggle ensues, some hand-waving occurs, cosmere is almost destroyed, Sazed, realizing the power has corrupted his mind after he finishes reforging it, releases it and dies, and Hoid, our reluctant hero holding the power of creation in his hands, has the epiphany that no man should pretend to be God, and splinters the power beyond repair. In 20ish years I'm going to cackle like a madman if this turns out to be right.

I believe you're right, but all that means is they would need even less cadmium to make this work, and by my math, they would, in total, need less than a fifth of one penny's worth of cadmium to do this. Edit: I did some bad math earlier so I think they'd probably need about 2 cents worth of cadmium to pull this off. nbd.

I greatly enjoy the shenanigans that can be performed by bendalloy mistings and haven't seen much discussion on the topic. From The Coppermind and WoBs: Bendalloy speeds up time by about a factor of 8 and multiple bubbles have a compounding effect If five sliders stand in a pentagon about 6 feet on each side and turn on their bubbles, then their bubbles overlap inside most of the pentagon (the geometry isn't perfect, but you get the idea). Note however that each slider would still only be inside one bubble. The super accelerated overlapping region, which none of the sliders are physically inside of, would then be experiencing a speed increase of 8^5 = 32,768 Meaning, 1 second outside all of the bubbles would be equivalent to about 9 hours inside the super accelerated region and only 8 seconds for each of the sliders. so how about it, how would you take advantage of freezing time using this service? How do you think this could be exploited in future books?

KidWayne: Love the addition, you're almost certainly right that this would only work once, so let's make it count: I left out some back-of-the-envelope calculations before- Given: 1 nugget of bendalloy compresses 2 minutes into approximately 15 seconds according the the coppermind In BoM Wayne makes a bubble with a radius of 5ft We have WoBs that multiple overlapping bubbles multiply the temporal effects and cadmium bubbles exactly cancel out bendalloy bubbles Thus, cadmium slows time down for the user by roughly a factor of 8 Assumptions: Let's say 1 nugget of bendalloy is about 1 cubic centimeter (which seems pretty big to me) that should be about 8 grams I don't know how fast mistings use cadmium, let's just say it's the same rate as bendalloy for simplicity Thus bendalloy, and therefore cadmium, get burned at about 4 grams/minute (as felt by the user) If we have people squat on the ground closely packed they'll each take up something like 2 square feet For simplicity, let's say all Pulsers' bubbles are roughly the same size All Pulsers have $5,000 in liquid assets they're willing to put toward this cause Cadmium costs $2 per kilogram Scenario: A bunch of 18 year old pulsers sit tightly packed in a circle with a radius of 2.5ft, so if any one of them puts up a bubble all of the others will be in it. They pool their money into a brokerage account, let's say that, long-term, they can expect something like 8% average annual return (which I think sounds reasonable?). They realize they IRS will be coming after them once they're 70.5, so to avoid the worst legal problems they agree to stop time traveling after 52 years. Calculations: pi()*2.52 = 19.6 Let's call that 20 square feet of sitting space for our pulsers, giving us room for 10 of them 10^8 = 100,000,000 our pulsers can therefore slow time for themselves by a factor of a billion 525,600 minutes in a year * 52 years = rounds to 27,000,000 minutes they need to pass 27,000,000/100,000,000 = 0.27 minutes = 16 seconds 4 grams of cadmium /minute = 0.067 grams/second Each pulser only needs about 1 grams of cadmium So 10 pulsers pulsing together for 16 seconds jumps them 52 years into the future. Neat. Now, how much money do they make? Total = Starting capital * (1+ average yearly return) ^ years passed Total = $50,000 * (1.08)^52 = $2,700,000 or $270,000 per person (before any taxes or fees of course) Total expenses = $2/1000 grams * 1 gram = $0.02 (lol) tldr: ******************************************************************************************* 10 pulsers crammed next to each other can jump 52 years forward by turning on their bubbles for about 16 seconds and make a lot of money. ******************************************************************************************* Edit: Embarrassingly bad math earlier, think it's fixed now, but again, these are back of the envelope calculations, so it's meant to be a little hand-wavy

But then why not just dip their lead bullets in a thin coating of aluminum, they would almost certainly not be exposed to enough wear while chambered to remove the outside layer? See following quote from Wayne in BoM that I believe implies aluminum bullets are solid aluminum: “With a single aluminum bullet, mate, I could buy you an outfit that don’t look so stupid and have money left over for a nice hat or two.”

Let's remember, Tor did publish The Sword of Truth series...so depicting Melaan swallowing babies on screen for science probably wouldn't be a problem for them, but hopefully an editor would step in a stomp out that dumpster-fire. I think this is just one of those issues that best solved with hand-waving and misdirection. Do "female" Kandra experience menstrual cramps? Can Kandra get herpes? If a Kandra eats a baby and no one is around to hear, does it make a sound? Answer: ~Silent Hand-Waving~ "Is this your card!?"

Three words: Cadmium investment banking. (Cadmium costs around 1$ per pound!) 1. Invest all money in guaranteed government bonds 2. Jump 100 years forward burning cadmium 3. Mourn your loved ones 4. Profit

I'm having trouble finding a quote that explicitly expresses that Wayne was carrying a piece of aluminum while inside a time bubble, but I think it's reasonable to assume that aluminum follows the general time bubble rules. If aluminum were immune to time bubbles then a pulser wearing aluminum armor could freeze people in a bubble around them while moving at normal speed, and aluminum bullets entering a slider's bubble would move at a glacial pace. I don't know if we have enough information to thoroughly disprove the theory, but it just strikes me as bad physics.

It sounds to me like you're suggesting Harmonium might be able to grant Feruchemy if burned by a normal person based on the idea that since Harmony combines the powers of Ruin and Preservation, and when Ruin and Preservation worked together to create the people of Scadrial they (either intentionally or unintentionally) made some Feruchemists. I was searching to see if someone had posted this theory already, so congrats on beating me to it! As for my contribution to the discussion of when/how Hoid got his Feruchemy powers, I think that it probably hasn't been decided yet, but I like the "getting it from Adonalsium" theory . Once Dragonsteel comes out in 20ish years maybe we can get some resolution on the issue.

I think Harmony should definitely be able to produce lerasium since he made Spook a full mistborn. I believe there's a vague WoB somewhere that implies giving lerasium to a misting or mistborn would have a different effect than giving it to someone with no allomantic ability though...but if he can't "produce" it, then he seems to have some way of conferring its effects onto people via manipulating their spirit web. I would think it logically follows that he should be able to do the same for atium to at least some extent. (Unless that power was somehow slivered or splintered off him)

This post is really about clarifying my previous post to avoid causing any confusion or misinformation. If I had to make a serious prediction on the matter, I'd wager that aluminum would only dampen a lurcher's ability to affect an object encased in it in some manner proportional to the surface covered and mass/thickness of aluminum. I'm basing this on the idea that the last mistborn trilogy is supposed to take place in a modern or futuristic setting and it's highly likely they'll discover the processing methods necessary to make harvesting aluminum super cheap (like we did in the real world). This might be considered a Bands of Mourning Spoiler: Allowing aluminum foil to completely render metals inert to being pushed or pulled seems counter-intuitive. Plus, I think the Set uses solid aluminum guns. If they could just coat the guns in aluminum to get the exact same effect they probably would. I'll be curious how this gets resolved in the future due to the serious impact it could have on how powerful steel pushing and iron pulling are perceived to be in the last novels.

I think we're all forgetting that one-handed flutes do exist: http://flutelab.com/flutelab.com/flutes-for-one-handed-playing/ It doesn't seem like that huge of a stretch to imagine a one-handed recorder

Question: Can a lurcher pull on a chunk of metal that's inside an aluminum box? What if it was just wrapped in aluminum foil? Has this ever been explored?

Wasn't the projection/puppet Ruin used to torment Vin (posing as her older brother) able to use allomancy? He could apparently only be seen by people with spikes, but it seemed like he was able to walk around and physically affect the world.

I think Eshonai commented to herself at one point that the parshendi had assumed that the Alethi would eventually get tired of war against them and give up. Based on how the parshendi handled the assassination and the war that followed, I think it's safe to assume that they didn't want to just get away with the crime. That is, they wanted Gavilar dead, but they also felt compelled to accept retribution for killing him. At the same time however, they certainly had no intention of letting themselves be massacred, hence the siege on the shattered plains.

Or maybe they're regular horses pumped full of hemalurgic spikes? lol

Agreed, something wonky must be taking place. I'm confident someone will find a way to reconcile the weirdness someday, but maybe the ultimate lesson to take away from all of this is that relativistic and astrophysics are hard.

I think you're thinking of Gemmel, who was the mistborn that trained Kelsier. Walin was just a prisoner who was at the Pits when Kelsier destroyed them.