@SwordNimiForPresident, that WoB is from 2014. In Shadows of self, wax fires a hemalurgic bullet. We know it's possible with kandra, but they have fluid bind points, so you have to be much more precise with humans.
I notice there are only 15 people listed in the OP. I would be happy to round out the 16, but I only participated in round 4 prelims, so if I didn't advance far enough to qualify, I understand.
Presumably how a Nahel bond would affect your ability to use unsealed and/or unkeyed metal minds from southern Scadrial.
The opposite of whatever happens when you store identity and soulcast; does tapping identity while soulcasting make you more effective?
Yes. Our universe, the closed system is the entire universe, confused was saying that doesn't hold in the cosmere and that the dwarf galaxy cosmere is a closed system itself.