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Basically, your spiritual self has an age which it knows you should be at, and it forces the body to match that age. This is why you can't use healing powers to change your age, as healing first takes your spiritual self, which immutably applies your physical age before the cognitive perception changes it. While tapping atium, it changes the age the soul thinks it is, which then produces an effect in the body to match that. TLR died at the end of TFE because the removal of his atiumminds immediately shifted his spiritual age to over a thousand years and changed his body to match that. As one thousand year old human bodies are non-functional, he proceeded to die. If you could, and managed to move your body to the spiritual realm, you probably still would physically age. Time doesn't exist as a constraint there, but it still exists as a concept and a factor and I think your physical body would still undergo the effects of it, partially because it was created as a body which ages.

VenDell explains in BoM that the Terris are working to consolidate bloodlines to birth a full feruchemist again. Wax suspected that the Set kidnapped the woman to breed more allomancers, but that hasn't been verified as far as I could tell.

True, but in Silverlight's case, people are born there, live there, and die there.

I would assume so since there's a community living in the Cognitive Realm and it would be hard for that to work if kids born don't age.

There's a complicated process for creating medallions and it involves connection feruchemy somehow. As such, I extremely strongly doubt it is achieved through a property of a metal. Furthermore, I see no reason why nicrosilminds would somehow operate completely differently than other metals and automatically give non-soulbearers the ability to tap it. That goes pretty far beyond what we've seen happen before.

What do you mean by this? Why it no longer be Harmony? It's still Ruin and Preservation's power together, even if the power is destabilized towards Ruin. Once Ruin took in the power, I think it would be reintegrated into his greater being, no longer the separate system that Preservation created. Therefore, it should be used and cycled like how a shard regularly uses its investiture.

Honestly, I don't think the connection to a shard a part of the Bondsmith spren. The reason I think this is because the connection between the Stormfather and Honor is because the Stormfather merged with Tanavast's cognitive shadow, but you have to realize that the Stormfather was bonding people before that, before Honor was killed. Therefore, originally, that connection didn't exist, and I personally doubt that the Stormfather had a significant connection to Honor previously, any more than most ancient spren.

Ruin can give the intent to create in place of the person spiking. Personally, my impression were like long nails for the spikes, with length of around railroad spikes. I never thought of them being cones.

This is true, but Shinovar still has mountains in the West which will buffer the Everstorm, so they should take reduced damage from it.

We don't know that Khriss is immortal or even unaging. She has certainly extended her age with regards to the Cosmere through time dilation and possibly other methods, but assuming she's unaging is a stretch at this moment.

They didn't actually. The atoms that make up Scadrial were not formed from their investiture, but is still permeated by their investiture nonetheless. Atium isn't a good example since it was specifically placed in a system which excluded it from being a part of the greater of Ruin's being.

Theoretically, yes, you can. However, it would require such a fantastically huge charge that it would more than likely be completely unfeasible to do. I'd have to do some math to determine the mass someone would have to be tapping at to turn into a black hole, but I'm pretty sure it would be over a few tens of orders of magnitude. I'll get back when I have a number.

I doubt there is. Note that Odium splintering shards isn't directly becuase of the intent of odium, but rather because of how Rayse, its vessel, has chosen to interpret it. Therefore, another vessel of Odium may not have the desire to destroy shards. As such there is unlikely to have a shard which will generally seek for the uniting of shards, but an interpretation of a shard by a vessel could result in that.

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I'm fairly certain that it was confirmed in a book personalization that Edgli is Endowment. I'll check tomorrow.

Listeners use drums. For Vorinism, I noted the following references to music and musical instruments in WoK. I only have WoK as an ebook and the sample chapters of WoR to draw on though. Flutes appear to be a common instrument. There was a group of flutists playing at the prologue feast before Dalinar has the Listeners bring forth their drummers. References to flutes is fairly common. Flutes also seem to be one of the arts that women compete in at the king's feasts. Pipes and zithers are also instruments; Shallan trained with them at some point in her childhood. Historical ballads also seem to be a common foundation for training high enough lighteye women. Music is a calling; one of the lighteyes Adolin was courting had it as her calling. They have stringed instruments which use bows. Shallan comments on how the bow Kabsal used in the cymatic demonstration was like the ones used in music for strings.

Maybe this?

My signing question to Brandon at Ad Astra was about what it means for an object to be considered invested. At the end, I asked him whether there was a cap on full ("saturated") an object could get with investiture, and he said there was, and mentioned metalminds. I'll try to find the transcript of the question.

It was said that the inquisitors were usually made from seekers or mistborns. That way only one spike granting bronze allomancy was necessary for them to have the power to pierce copperclouds. Also, some relevant information from the epigraphs.

Don't supersonic projectiles fragment when they hit bodies and slow down, thereby causing lots of tiny pieces to spread through the body?

My opinion is that there isn't going to be a shardgun like shardblade sprenblades where it's a spren physically materialized into a gun, but rather more like the shardbows and half-shard shields which are fabrial-enhanced objects. I presume there would be something like a gun which uses a fabrial to propel the bullet, which would not necessarily require gunpowder, but rather the surge of gravitation or pressure to accelerate it.

The bulk of Ambition's power is not on Threnody. It left pieces of itself there, but was ultimately splintered elsewhere.

It's a mix bag by all accounts. Some shards have numbers associated with them, some worlds have numbers associated with them. For instance, Nalthis is associated with five, and Braize is associated with nine. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vBgLhMnGNRYYp4cE00_Oot0NTVWAUJ9fh-vJ3bqp0SA/mobilebasic

Unlikely as it seems most likely that the cause of the original Shattering was the group consisting of the first vessels and associates. Also, Brandon has stated that the Cosmere series isn't an Avengers assemble type saga where multiple threads are pulled together to form a group to defeat a collective enemies, but rather a collection of related stories spanning a period of time in the history of the Cosmere.

They have fabrials attached to them. These probably invest the shield so that it can stop shardblades from cutting it. While it's possible that they're made from aluminum, considering there's disagreement in Team Sanderson on whether sprenblades can magically cut aluminum, I don't think we'll get a response soon.