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I think you need at least 2 balls. One where they meet and one where she ends up fighting Shan. Granted, the second doesn't have to actually spend a whole lot of time on the ball itself. A creative montage might be necessary. There are probably ways to develop Vin and Elend outside of the balls. Maybe he comes to visit when she's recovering? Maybe she makes a shopping trip into Luthadel (perhaps cover for some other activity) and runs into him briefly. I just think their relationship is already pretty close to a cliche, shallow, young adult fiction romance. And I *really* don't want a movie to take the easy way out by going that direction.

As a start, there's this Reddit thread, with responses from Brandon (among others). His top comment:

LOL The problem with this is that, in my opinion, her romance with Elend is hard enough to believe as it is. The movie would have to develop their relationship somehow beyond what we see in the book, and cutting balls is going to make that more difficult.

I don't think this will play out in Stormlight... But I wouldn't be surprised if he survives Stormlight in some capacity, and goes on to play a bigger role in the Cosmere. Maybe Honor will be put back together somehow and he'll take it up? That's my best guess.

I'm also not really sold on the aspect of them bonding certain spren in some situations. But it definitely sounds like you've hit on the basic origin of the horneaters. Curious how the Herdazians might fit into the puzzle...

This has always been my interpretation. I'm not sure if I have a basis for that belief, or if it's entirely my own interpretation. I imagine that Honor sacrificed himself in order to trap Odium. I think he hoped to survive the ordeal, but I imagine he figured his odds weren't great going into it. I like this. Or maybe just a simple, "I will protect myself." (i.e. cut "before others") Kaladin really does need to learn how to take better care of himself.

I find this solution very dissatisfying, because I don't see any good reason why things are different NOW. I think it's pretty clear that the Knights Radiant (in the time of the books) are good and necessary. Like, we're not going to be rooting for another Recreance in the end. So how come the Recreance was a necessary evil THEN, but NOW having the knights is okay? The only argument I can think of is something along the lines of "it's too late". Maybe it's all the sprens' faults for getting things started again without knowing the implications. Maybe it was definitely a good idea, but just not good enough. So now that the Desolations have come anyways it's a moot point... Okay, but Taravangian believes "the secret" can potentially destroy the Radiants all over again. This doesn't fit with the idea that it's too late to matter. If the secret is the idea that "nahel bonds make bad things happen" (e.g. Desolations come, Odium is freed/empowered, etc.) then it implies we shouldn't be rooting for the Radiants, which really doesn't feel right. And if you then try to argue that "it's too late, so they're okay now" it means the secret is no longer very relevant or meaningful to the story. Which is really unsatisfying and also probably not right.

There may be a better way to make your database accessible online, but I do know you can put together something that works with Microsoft Access Runtime, which is free. People would download the runtime and then use it to open your updated database.

If you search, I think there's another thread already where somebody has collected pretty much every notable cremling sighting.

I'm sure most of us want the book to be changed as little as possible if it were made into a movie. But film is a completely different medium than a book. You've got to make some changes in how you tell the story, and you've got to fit the whole thing into a time limit. If you were tasked with fitting Mistborn: The Final Empire into a 2-3 hour movie, what changes would you make? What liberties would you take? Bonus points for doing the rest of the trilogy.

The metal for Allomancy just has to be "in your body". Not necessarily in your stomach. Most of the characters don't realize this, however, as far as I can tell. There's some element of having to "know what you're doing" involved.

I don't agree that this is necessarily the case. You're referring to Feruchemy with Duralumin. It seems like a big assumption to me that ALL "Connection magic" works exactly the same way.

I doubt that's the case. It's always referred to simply as a "year" without qualification, and that's the basic definition for a year. They don't have seasons to measure by, but they do have the stars. I expect that the Weepings are simply in sync with the revolution around the sun- either for natural reasons or otherwise.

Writing about it is only a short step away from doing it. He very well may have. Had more to say about the future of Hemalurgy, but it's way off topic... So I made a new thread.

I was thinking about this yesterday... Hemalurgy comes across as such a monstrous form of magic. But it is super powerful, and we see at least a few "good guys" who are interested in dabbling with it. Taken at face value, Spook's writing about taking from the elderly and terminally ill is pretty creepy. But I started thinking how modern medicine and society might change to accommodate Hemalurgy. With superior anesthetics and better surgery practices, Hemalurgy could become a fairly normal practice. Think about it. Of course there would be laws that doing it against somebody's will is wrong. But certainly some people who have powers would be open to passing those powers on, right? Particularly if they can pass it on to a family member or friend. Or donate them to a perceived noble cause (scientific research, the military/police/government, etc.). Hemalurgy could be used to do a lot of good. So you fill out the legal paperwork, and when you're on your deathbed and have said your goodbyes a surgeon comes in, knocks you out, draws some blood to store the spike in, takes your powers with a small spike, and then they let you pass. Boom. Humane, ethical Hemalurgy. Now the fire department has some F-cadmium or F-gold spikes to help their men get in and out of burning buildings more safely. The police force has some A-tin and A-pewter spikes to keep the streets safer. The hospitals have F-copper spikes so that doctors and surgeons have a wealth of easily accessible knowledge. And scientists can being investigating the magic systems more methodically. And of course, an even better solution for the Feruchemical uses is to pair it with advances in unsealed metalminds. Grab some aluminum and nicrosil spikes and you can start pumping out unsealed metalminds to do all of these things. Make these people compounders and they can really go to town.

See, I think this is totally possible. It wouldn't surprise me one bit to learn that Kelsier killed somebody to get a spike. Especially if he didn't like the guy he got it from. Kelsier's not above hurting someone if it's for a perceived greater good. Or if he doesn't like you. One could also argue that he got it from some other source that we're not aware of yet. I'm also not convinced about the need for trellium spikes. I think I would need proof that Harmony can't figure out what's going on for me to assume that's the case, and I don't see it yet. It clearly was with Paalm, and he made it clear. I would expect the same for the Set, but we haven't seen any hint of that. And I'm not convinced Trell particularly cares to hide from Harmony. It seems to me that he's mounting a direct attack against Harmony and Scadrial. Harmony doesn't understand what Trell is, but he already know that it's bad news and that it intends him and his world harm. The time of secrecy is gone.

Thanks, I'll have to give that a look.

I don't think we have enough information to answer this yet. Perhaps in Oathbringer we'll get a sense of how much Stormlight Vasher needs, which would help... Rosharan years are 1.1 "standard" years. This means there's about 19.3 hours per Rosharan day. Returned need one Breath every 8 days (Warbreaker annotations for chapter 14). IF we assume Nalthis has a "standard" day length of 24 hours, this means they need one Breath every 192 hours. So Vasher needs one Breath worth of Stormlight about every 10 Rosharan days (2 Rosharan weeks). So IF you can assume that Vasher is not gaining/losing his store of Breaths while on Roshar (probably not true; I imagine he's stocking up) then you can check how much he 'consumes' every ten days on Roshar to get the answer. You'd probably have to express the answer in terms of a particular sphere denomination.

Wait, I'm confused @robardin. Why are you assuming Ruin created a nicrosil spike? To get more back on track, I agree with what @Yata said here: I don't think the Set is using trellium spikes to hide from Harmony. You seem to be assuming that they're trying to hide from Harmony. I don't think that's the case. Harmony knows what the Set is up to. The point about limiting spikes is to prevent Harmony from taking control of them (as Ruin did Marsh, for example). And by their estimation, they can have three spikes before this becomes a concern.

Are you sure it works that way? I'm not convinced that someone with F-Alluminum can just storeIdentity to tap ANY keyed metalmind. My understanding is that if a metalmind is keyed then you NEED the key (the creator's Identity) to use it. Having no Identity doesn't give you a skeleton key into all metalminds. It just means you can make metalminds with no key.

Her name is Iyatil, and yes... sort of. Brandon has said that she's not directly from Scadrial, but that is her heritage. Source

If this is the case, why not let the secret out now and cut them off before they even begin reforming?

I think this is a fantastic point, and it's supported by that relevant line from the Diagram. If Taravangian wants to stop the Radiants from forming, then why not just reveal the secret now? Like, why wait for them to form and then say, "Aha, here's the secret! Now you will all be crushed and have a Recreance again." If the secret is just some kind of really discouraging 'knowledge' then he could reveal it now and stop the Radiants from forming in the first place. I mean, perhaps he's just not sure if he wants to ruin the Radiants. So he wants to keep the secret in his back pocket just in case he decides that destroying them needs to be done. But feels more likely to me that the secret is more powerful than some piece of knowledge that just makes the Radiants decide to give up.

This would be an interesting thing to ask Brandon. I would assume that Wax definitely can't compound. It dosen't matter that still is mostly iron. As far as Allomancy is concerned, a metal is within the acceptable ranges for a certain metal or it's not. Wax can't burn "mostly-iron steel" any more than a lurcher can burn "iron plus some stuff". The interesting thing to me is about what happens with the stored investiture. As I understand it, if you melt down a metalmind, the molten (and reshaped) metal hangs on to the investiture. Split the metalmind and the investiture is split between the two. So what happens when you take that molten metalmind and alloy it? My gut says the investiture is going to be locked in there and inaccessible for a steel Allomancer AND an iron Ferring. The latter because he can't do magic with stuff besides iron and the former because the investiture is "tied" to the iron in the steel. Presumably if you could separate out the iron again, into something that could be called "iron", then it could be used for Feruchemy again. But this raises some other questions: Does the "iron-invested" steel act like an invested metal? Meaning, for example, it would be hard to push/pull on the steel because it is made from invested iron? Could a Mistborn/Feruchemist store in one metal and then burn an alloy made of it? Could a Mistborn do this with an unkeyed and/or unsealed metalmind?

Didn't Marsh say he approves of Wax because he's "doing my brother's work" or something like that? I get the sense that the two get along well in Era 2.