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I read that one somewhere. You should be able to look it up. The simple answer is yes you can; the real question is HOW?! I doubt it's easy, which is probably why the set isn't doing it. Not to mention that the Mists in their time will distill to Harmonium, not Lerasium. Going into theory mode, I think tapping Harmonium as though it were a metal mind would cause one to become a feruchemist. (Burn for allomancy, tap for feruchemy, spike for hemalurgy. It makes sense that you'd need to burn a metal to become an allomancer. Not so much for a feruchemist, which is why I think it requires tapping investiture.) I also think it is a 50/50 alloy of Lerasium and Atium, as that is what Harmony is (half Ruin and a half Preservation.) So my belief is that you could take Harmonium and break it down into the two other God metals. I doubt doing any of those things would be easy though... probably just easier to spike people.

"'O'There is always another secret' rightfully belongs to Secret History. I actually really like the one about silk and ash. Two from Alendi: "Sometimes, I worry that I’m not the hero everyone thinks I am." And "When they see me, do they see a liar?" Both fit this book very well; understandably as they are respectively the first and last lines in the prolouge's epigraph. Also from the prologue: “New days are coming. Survive a little longer, and you just might see great happenings in the Final Empire." Considering what follows... And this: “That wasn’t foolhardy—that was just a small diversion. You should see some of the things I’m planning to do!” If only Dox knew just what Kell meant... could you imagine his reaction? The following has huge spoilers, so be warned.

I did find one really awesome Mistborn tic called Found Objects on fanfiction.net. It has MAJOR spoilers for everything under the Mistborn title though, so be warned. Yes, including the BoM epilogue and SH. As a fan of art history though it was VERY funny. There are a few others as well, but you really have to look and many are incomplete. There are also a few on Archive of Our Own. Again, you have to look. The gems are worth the slog.

I agree with the above poster. This is a very interesting premise but events in the epilogue of Secret History indicate someone is influencing Spook. If you read every other Cosmere book then you should really read SH as it is the most Cosmere aware tale we have yet. It's also a LOT of fun. If you'll only get one Brandon ebook then get that one.

Depending on the how the nicrosil hack works, it may not work for other worlds. And I agree about the black market; we know we'll have a programmer and a swatt team in the modern day... having them run into a black market/crime syndicate would make sense.

I keep thinking the second 'sun' is actually a neutron star. They emit little light but a lot of radiation; the light they emit is unusual and could be described as 'dark light'; and they do occasionally appear in Binary systems. Thing is, the inner star would then be Dark Side's as neutron stars have more mass but less area than regular stars. (They are basically black hole failures.)

Bloodmaker medallions and thug medallions would be wonderful for emergency care... I suspect that there will be a LOT of regulation on how abilities may be bought and sold though.

Sweat has water in it, and since simply holding sand doesn't turn it black I'm guessing something is going on. Otherwise the sand would blackened if it was touched.

The sand didn't seem to be much of an issue on her trip, so it may be that the lichen causes it to act differently. Our sand doesn't have a micro organism allergic to water attached to it after all, and sweat contains water. Personally, I've never had an issue with desert sand, but then I tend to wear long loose clothes which are good for that sort of environment.

As noted above, the issue may well be the setting. Poland doesn't really have anything analogous to the Wild West era of the U.S. which may lead to some disconnect. It also has a very different history; in many ways Elendel is 'Britain', practically forcing all trade to go through the city and taxes being a big complaint, while the other cities are the 'Colonies'. Not a perfect analog at all, but close enough to resonate unconsciously with most Americans, or countries with a similar history. The ones who colonized too, for that matter, as we are on the side of the Imperialist in the Adventures books, which is a nice twist.

Actually, having visited a desert (in Utah of course!) REMEMBERING to drink can be the problem. Because sweat evaporates almost instantly you don't feel as hot as you do in technically cooler places that are more humid. I kept having to remind myself that even if I felt cool it was a 100+ degrees and I had to drink regularly. So Khriss may not be feeling as thirsty as she is.

I'm talking about Dayside lichen. Dark side certainly has some, but I can't discuss it here. Only in the prose forum. And photosynthesis actually seems to be pretty important to the process.

Then I'm going to go with UV rays are killing the lichen or the characters are wrong about sand not charging on Darkside.

I wonder why I can read Marvel comics without a problem? Strange...

According to the intro Dark Side has a 'sun' of some sort. I'm leaning toward a neutron star of some sort... It is possible that just like different metals do different things on Scadrial, different light sources do different things on Taldain (while remaining one system.) The lichen can also die for more mundane reasons; UV radiation on Dark Side is much stronger than Dayside. Another possibility is that, since no one has actually brought the sand over to Dark side, the characters are laboring under a a misconception and the lichen will grow. (I actually find this most likely, due to prose spoilers. Also due to Brandon liking it when his characters are wrong... just to trick us readers...)

Paraphrased because I can't remember the exact words but "Short English guy with hairy feet has to throw his Uncle's ring into a hole in the ground.' Best LotR description ever!!! Also, how often is a VOLCANO described as a 'hole in the ground.' This naturally lead me to come up with 'seven kids go looking for their Dad's stuff.' Spoiler: everyone dies (pretty much. Except the one guy who went for a walk on the beach.) I LOVE the Silmarillion. Now I need to create ones for each part... Ainiluindale: God creates the Universe and music. No, this is not the Bible. (Unless you are an obsessed Tolkien fan.) Valaquenta: We name a lot of people, mostly forgettable and unimportant. Children of Hurin: Guy sleeps with sister and everyone dies. Lay of Leithian: Girl dies because of a boy. Nirnaeth Anoiedad: Everyone cries a lot. Awakening of the elves: People wake up. Aule and Yavanna: Tree hugger and Industrialist quarrel. Did I mention that I love this book? Several of those are out of order as I'm writing them at random. Thanks for the inspiration Alcatraz.

I didn't get this on the kindle, but I have other comics that I did. I had no issues reading them. It showed the full page, then double tapped to see individual panels, or to zoom on double page spreads. I have read them on two generations of the Kindle Fire. Most of those comics were Marvel, some recent, some Golden and Silver age reprints.

It's not Elorin. The artist just isn't that great.

Sandlings eat the sand lichen. We are allowed to talk about sand lichen now that Brandon put it in the newsletter, right? Also, the sandling may not have been trying to eat Kenton. Perhaps they are territorial and it just wanted Kenton out of his sand?

Taldain is actually inaccessible for unknown reasons. At least in the current time. With regard to the magic system, I'm pretty sure I read a WOB a while ago that said the process of photosynthesis has something to do with the magic. With regard to lichen growing, it may just need Sunlight. I actually think Dark side magic will be harder to transfer as, judging by the above WOB and the book intro, it should use some sort of plant that would need a high UV concentration to grow. Possibly this 'black light' too.

I am a graphic novel reader and I enjoyed it. You really can't read it like a novel though. Graphic novels are all about the images (or should be.) I think this one suffers from the awareness that this was prose first. The words are telling as much of the story as the images. Some of my favourite graphic novels have entire pages without words because the image is telling the whole story. The first page really annoyed me because of that. DON'T give me a verbal description of the sand. It takes away from the image. The wind comment was extraneous. If there is wind show me! (I honestly think a better intro would have shown us the sands of Dayside, a brief glimpse of nightside, and a full double page spread of Taldain in space between two stars.) The art style does work, but isn't my favorite. We'll see if they stick with the same artist throughout. These books often switch and I'd like to see more styles. All in all this was a good fun read. I did prefer the prose, but that had less to do with this being a graphic novel and more that this wasn't handled as well as it could have been. It felt like they were trying to squash a novel into a graphic novel, instead of letting it BE a graphic novel. Which is a pity, because then it could have been a great book instead of a decent one.

Khriss' entrance made sense to me... because I'd read the prose version. She's pretty arrogant and spoiled and sheltered here. The loss of her early chapters is probably my biggest con, as well as the abrupt transitions to Ais. They both needed a better intro.

Only certain elements of the MAG are. They do get some input from Brandon, so they are usually considered worth keeping in mind until Brandon reveals more.

Shardblades are Splinters. Nightwatcher and Stormfather are particularly large ones. So are Seona, Skaze and Returned. The Bands were close to being a Splinter, but didn't quite make it (that was how I recall it anyway.) Splinters are fragments of Investiture that have gained sentience of a kind. Sometimes a Splinter can become a Sliver but it does not seem to be common. [spoiler\] The Stormfather is the Cognitive Shadow of Honor and is thus a Sliver as well as a Splinter. [/spoiler]

All Returned are Splinters of Endowment, so you may want to add that to your theory.