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I think we've discussed this before I would still argue that it's more correct to say that "the effects of density don't change" (though I'm not sure if that's always true) or something, since density isn't a fundamental property, it's just defined as mass divided by volume. The universe never "uses" density, it's pretty much just mass and how it is pushed. Density is a shorthand that's easy to plug into equations sometimes. But eh, I guess it doesn't really matter (!) how you say it, in the end. Magic messes with everything anyway.

The WoB about Allomancy and Feruchemy interfering is earlier in this thread. I think it was page 2 or something. The Terris people kept themselves mostly separate before the world of ash, which is why Feruchemy was kept fairly "pure", and never spread to other peoples. After Rashek's Ascension, the Allomancy potential of the population increased significantly, as the lerasium beads were distributed to Rashek's early allies. We can't know for sure what Rashek saw during his Ascension, but he did view Feruchemy as the threat to be contained. That is why he made all Feruchemists into mistwraiths, and then tried to exterminate his own people. Later, he instead began the breeding program. This kept Allomancy and Feruchemy separate still, even if Allomancy was much stronger in the general population than it used to be. After Sazed Ascended, the Terris people were suddenly free to have children with whoever they wished, and also lived in the relatively small area of the Basin, together with people of higher Allomantic potential. And so, pretty much for the first time ever, people with high Allomantic potential had children with people with high Feruchemical potential. This interbreeding (interference between Allomancy and Feruchemy), together with the massive weakening of Feruchemy caused by the extermination of all Keepers just before the Final Ascension, led to more and more Ferrings appearing, along with the Twinborn.

Thanks, @Kaymyth! I think you are most likely right. For 2a), the detail about metals not disappearing is important for the story, since the gun isn't destroyed, just... discharged. Or something. I thought that detail was mentioned in the story as an actual showcase of metal not disappearing, but it could just be her made-up excuse to make the story seem more plausible, and her powers more useful for an adventurer. (Although, I guess being able to destroy metals would be even more useful, but...) Still, the gun probably does exist.

Feruchemical iron is weird, and one of the more hand-wavy parts of the physics-based magics in the Cosmere. You can increase your mass in order to break through a floor using gravity, but apparently your punches don't have more mass behind them... From a physics perspective, the two are the same. So it's kind of a mix between "real" mass and magical mass, somehow. tl;dr it's weird.

A Mistborn Bloodmaker would have been enough to be dangerous for TLR, as would (probably) a Mistborn Steelrunner. Or an Augur Feruchemist. Not just because they would be able to challenge his power (somewhat), but also just because they would be able to figure out that Compounding is an actual thing. TLR didn't want that kind of knowledge out there, especially not if his Inquisitors got hold of it. Chromium and Nicrosil were never gone from the Misting pool, there was just no way to know if those Mistings had any powers. Preservation did exchange one of them for atium in his force snapping though, since he actually needed atium Mistings for the plan to work. Ferrings exist because of the interference between Allomancy and Feruchemy (the WoB about that is earlier in the thread). They existed before Rashek's Ascension too, but were very rare.

There isn't necessarily anything special about this, it could just be a survival strategy. If they couldn't hide, they would be dead, because the predators would have found them. As it is, most predators don't even bother going up into the trees, because they wouldn't be able to find anything. And presumably, the predators' ability to feel minds also has origins in the same magic. I'm thinking it's either a shard that Invested and then ripped free (because all the magic seems to be concentrated around the perpendicularity, which would have been the biggest concentration of Investiture when a shard was there), or that this is one of the worlds Adonalsium visited. Not sure which one is more likely.

I don't think so. Wayne's limitations seem to be pure PTSD, no magic involved. I think Hoid's limitations have more mystical origins.

There are, but only when she converts a lot of food into Stormlight. (Which would be equivalent to any other Radiant breathing in Stormlight.) Edgedancer contains many references to people seeing her glow (when dropping the grain down into the city, and when showing the scribes what they should be looking for, for example). And I'm pretty sure there's at least one time when she activates her Stormlight just to get extra strength and speed. If she was using Stormlight constantly, she would feel like that all the time, except when she's completely out. Lift just doesn't know the difference between nutrition and Stormlight. It's all just awesomeness to her.

The Ring is a council of spren. I think they are Cultivationspren in particular, and they might be the leaders of whatever society or civilization the Culturespren have in the Cognitive Realm. Wyndle mentions it in the WoR interlude too. Actually, I'm pretty sure she's not storing Stormlight - just normal energy from the food. And just like for non-awesome people, that energy is used up over the course of the day. I think the energy (or food in general, I'm not sure which) is only converted into Stormlight when she actually becomes awesome.

Wow, I did NOT catch that I need to hone my Hoid-finding skills! But WHY would he get himself eaten? There is the "Hoid sense" people mentioned earlier, but... I mean, it's a pretty mean thing to do. Lift was evidently pretty emotionally scarred by the event, thinking he died...

No, Shuffle. There's Sleeping Pikachu, Happy Pikachu, Angry Pikachu, Spooky Pikachu, Winking Pikachu, Holiday Pikachu... Probably others.

Yeah, but other nests don't seem to have changed, yet. At least from what I can tell. I think they just upped the Pikachu spawns for this event, and kept the other stuff mostly the same.

I thought they would drop the whole new generation all at once, but I guess not! Nice way to introduce gen two though. That generation focused on eggs and breeding, and baby Pokémon were basically created just to show off that mechanic. Since eggs already existed in GO, starting off with baby Pokémon was a good idea, I think. And I found a Pikachu just outside, and they've never spawned around here before. So presumably they spawn more often now? Edit: Although, the costumed Pikachu make me slightly worried... Another Pokémon game has like ten different Pikachu costumes to catch, and it's getting kind of out of hand... Hopefully that won't happen in GO

Yeah, that's a good point. My last comment was mostly to the topic in general, not specifically to you.

We don't know what happened between Vasher and Nightblood, but I think I read somewhere that they had some kind of "falling out". I think Vasher is planning on staying on Roshar indefinitely, but there could be reasons why he'd want to go back, I'd assume. It's very hard to stockpile Stormlight, since it leaks out quickly. And remember, during their Scholar years, they were revered as Gods by the Cult of the Returned. That is how they could collect such hordes of Breath. They never had to worry about Breaths back then. I mean, Vasher wouldn't have to either, if he revealed himself to the Court, but he's a much different person to who he used to be, presumably. A Returned can become a drab, as long as they are careful to not include their Divine Breath when they get rid of all the other Breath. As long as they have a Breath to consume at the end of the week, they are fine. And barely enough Breath for the first Heightening still means he could stay alive close to an Earthen year. (And the reason he has so few Breaths is because he used all of them to kill Arsteel.)

Isn't there a WoB on Allomancy basically being about as diluted as it will be, reaching some kind of equilibrium? Yeah, but Harmony could create more if he wanted to. Probably. Also, remember that there is a recent WoB that

The Fifth Heightening grants agelessness, so she could have an indefinite lifespan too, in theory. So short answer: Maybe, but one of the most experienced Awakeners in the Cosmere has not managed to figure out how to accomplish it.

Are you sure it wasn't actually the Stick, then?

As the thread shows, different sources claim different things. And the "would look really weird" was Kaymyth's comment on it, not part of what Brandon said (also explained in the thread).

As evidenced by this thread, there is some confusion about whether or not Leeching destroys the metals of the victim, or just renders them Allomantically inert (but leaves them still existing). Which one is true? (And would Aluminium work the same?)

Worldhopping is generally done through the Cognitive Realm, so Hoid has spent quite a lot of time there. I do think the spren would be more friendly towards an Elsecaller though (despite the Recreance), so Jasnah probably has an easier time with them. Not to mention her information from them is more recent.

That would assume that Honorblade bonding works the same as for other shardblades, and also that Taln would have the presence of mind to actually think about doing something like that. I can't think of any time where someone with an Honorblade dismisses it while not holding it, but I might be wrong about that. Honorblades work differently from other shardblades: you actually have to will it to disappear, instead of will it to remain. How bonding with Honorblade works is still a bit of a mystery. But he was (most likely) unconscious or at least unresponsive when his Blade was taken, so I doubt he had much say in the matter. My theory is that Nale swapped the two blades. In Lift's interlude, Wyndle points out that there is something wrong with the blades Nale and his underling have. Lift also sees Nale being awesome, which probably means that the blade Nale uses at that moment really is an Honorblade (most likely his own). However, Wyndle says that both weapons are wrong - and I don't think that would say that if one of them was a dead sprenblade and the other an Honorblade. He would expect a normal shardblade, after all. So I think it's likely that Nale's underling is using Taln's Honorblade. The main argument against it I can see would be that taking the Blade could be seen as theft, which Nale probably wouldn't want to do. But there could be a lot of explanations for that.

True. That's why I'm thinking Brandon may have been thinking about Nicrosil.

I wouldn't say those are irregular. "Sh" is just one sound.

It's from a story in BoM, but the author (and main character) is an actual Chromium Misting. Also, there's probably more truth to the story than the average newspaper reader in-universe would think. After which the gun holder does something that recharges the gun (which shoots ghosts (probably Shades) (I have not yet read SfSitFoH)) and makes it work again. Though it reads like a fantasy story, the narrator's opponent is likely Nazh, so it's probably less imagined than it's supposed to look. However, Allomantic metals aren't actually Invested, so it can't be Investiture in particular that Chromium drains. It seems to just change the metal so it doesn't work as a key anymore. Probably only temporarily, as well. Obviously this is contradicting the WoB @Spoolofwhool posted. Either BoM overrides it, being published later, or the narrator of the broadsheet story is just wrong, or Brandon thought the question was about Nicrosil. I don't think the narrator is wrong, just because her power does work on the gun. Of course, she's only telling a story, so she could have just made that up.