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Metals may not be the source of investiture, but they are integral in retrieving the power, so there is still some substance required for the abilities to be powered. -
Stormlight lanterns, while effective, have the downside that they require gems. In a society downtrodden and scourged by war often, gems would, unfortunately, likely be relegated to more useful usages such as being held by the Radiants so they can power their surgebinding or fabrial construction.
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They didn't use surgebinding, it was some other magic. Ashyn had its own magic system previously, which gave people powers based on diseases they held. It may have been related to that, or it might have been something else altogether. I doubt it was voidbinding though.
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Well, it doesn't explain whether it's still keeping some of the investiture, or if it just did for a time while it reached some nominal power level. Either way, it's not keeping all the investiture it consumes, hence the black smoke released.
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Yes, but once the Well refilled he could've used the power to reshape his body, either undo the age of a millennia or possibly even make himself unaging so he would've no longer have needed to rely on the atium trick to sustain himself.
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I think it's highly unlikely that Rashek would've had any children after ascended, which is why I think his children were from before he became TLR. Doing so would've counteracted all the effort he put in originally to suppress feruchemy by turning all the Terris feruchemists into mistwraiths. I doubt that anyone can really claim any relation to him.
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No, The Lord Ruler making mistborns and the head of noble families out of his friends was a lie. His friends became the First Generation of kandra, while the origins of the noble family allomancy was due to him bribing the kings of countries with lerasium in exchange for serving under him.
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Yes. People who are stronger allomancers, with lerasium-made mistborns at the top, can burn metals more efficiently, burning them more quickly and drawing out more investiture per mass of metal.
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Actually, his children would probably be weaker than someone born to just a lerasium mistborn as the allomancy and feruchemy genes would probably degrade each other quickly due to the potency of each. Also, it's not confirmed that he had children after he became the Lord Ruler.
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Not at all. Kelsier took down the Final Empire because he was angry that Rashek had killed Mare, because he hated the nobles with a passion, and because doing so would fuel his narcissistic and hero complex tendencies. Helping the skaa was an additional benefit to this, as well as having the rebellion through Yomen enable him. At the end of the day, his hatred for the nobles far out-weighs any empathy for the skaa's plight. This line from The Final Empire most strongly displays that he doesn't care about skaa at all. These are not the words of someone who cares about skaa at all. These are the words of someone who hates the nobles, and views anyone actively supporting them as fair game. If he were a "Scadrial equivalent of a Windrunner" he would be doing what is right and trying to help these guards find better means of livelihood. Instead he's killing them because the only means of livelihood is defending noble keeps where they could be killed by misting assassins.
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He's looking for things to satisfy his hero complex, and if getting involved with the fight between shards is one way, he'll get in there.
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Not a chance that he doesn't write TLM. He knows how important it is, unlike Rithmatist, which while people would love to see the world and the book is highly asked after, I doubt it's as sought outside of people who are actively talking to him.
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To expand further, Brandon was never intending to write Alloy of Law at all when he first planned out the full Mistborn series. It just slipped it when he decided to write a book revisiting it during a break which due to popularity got expanded into a full series. Overall, the reason why it's being written now is that first: chronology doesn't really matter between series. The events of Stormlight Archives are unlikely to have a noticeable impact on the story of MB Era 2, so writing it now or later doesn't matter. Secondly. Brandon likes writing multiple series at the same time, it's how he's able to keep so prolific. He's talked about this at various times, but the main thing is that switching between different series allows him to stay creative.
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I don't think Elantrians are ever really dead. During the Shaod they're caught mid-transformation so most of their bodily functions are arrested and they're physically just sustained by the Dor. Once that was over, then they're basically fully living people again, and may not even need the Dor to sustain themselves.
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You were asking why he didn't act on that info sooner, but half of the things which proved his credibility happened at the end of the OB, so he couldn't have acted before that.
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Removing koloss spikes probably kill them as well as the amount of physical changes to them wouldn't be sustainable with the spikes twisting the spiritual to make that physical form work. Overall, I agree that hemalurgic constructs shouldn't be considered undead. They're just living things badly bent out of portion. Otherwise, you would also have to include Zane as an undead hemalurgic construct as removing his spike would likely kill him as well.
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From the visions, which as you point out are viewable and also a message from the Almighty, not the Stormfather. There's no proof that the Stormfather told him that though, or that it's true. And are you forgetting the whole marriage where the ardents still condemned him.
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[OB] Looking forward for Jasnah and Rlain in the next book
Spoolofwhool replied to Ashaman_Wade's topic in Stormlight Archive
Which Listener group? The ones that ran away? They might be still alive although the thought was that they were going to die to the highstorm. Otherwise, it doesn't seem like there are any Singers who were interested in working for them as far as I was aware. -
Kind of hard to act on the unsubstantiated info in a significant way, bearing aside the fact that most people probably believe that the Heralds are gone. Saying the Stormfather said he's Ishar probably wouldn't be acceptable to most people.
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Why Oathbringer is so Important [Sibling Theory]
Spoolofwhool replied to ILuvHats's topic in Stormlight Archive
Pattern said something in Words of Radiance which implied that the Stormfather was affected by the Recreance because his Bondsmith broke the bond, but because he was so powerful it didn't affect him the same way it affected others. I think that would probably hold true for any of the Bondsmith spren. -
Brandon, master of being sneaky while not being sneaky.
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The nature of Shinovar with its protective mountains does imply that it was intentionally made to be a bastion for non-Rosharan life to thrive.
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Brandon’s inconsistent use of terminology?
Spoolofwhool replied to Fanghur Rahl's topic in Cosmere Discussion
Doesn't really work though since there are 16 shards and hexadiety would just mean six. -
Brandon’s inconsistent use of terminology?
Spoolofwhool replied to Fanghur Rahl's topic in Cosmere Discussion
Yeah, he's not using the actual definition of the word, likely in favor of the way the word is defined by Cosmere scholars. Same for splinter, sliver, etc, so I'm not too mad about it. I'm assuming he's basing it on the actual term. Although, at the end of the day, for all we know the way it's used in the Cosmere is just as correct since we don't know the formal definition of Avatar by Cosmere scholars with regards to realmatics.
