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He's probably saying that Hoid has been involved with the ancient Terris people, which is something I believe has been confirmed before because of similarities in names between a group on Scadrial and a group on Roshar. I forget their exact names, World-something and Worldsingers, I think.

No they didn't. Surges do not belong to shards, they are fundamental forces which govern Roshar and the Cosmere. Surgebinding just grants people the power to manipulate them. No one is ever being granted surges, which is a very thought which I see repeated very often. Also, we don't have any proof that any aspect of surgebinding belongs to one shard over the other.

Right. Just don't forget the linchpin spike in the back as well. The end of TFE should describe where that is precisely located when Marsh goes around ripping them out. There's also a description of Marsh later on in HOA where he has a ton of spikes, but I think they were still all added between the rib cage.

First of all, all of the Inquisitors spikes are either in the head or torso. They have none in the arms. Secondly, I believe the ones in the torso are all around the same length, while the ones in the eye sockets are a bit longer. I know that at least one is in the back, the linchpin spike, and it's located between the shoulder blades. I think the others are in the front, generally distributed between ribs. I believe each spike looks identical, other than the material made for the torso ones. The eye spikes are both steel. Spikes don't have a specific size, but I think inquisitors used the same general size. If you have a copy of Hero of Ages, I would check out the start of it. After the first fight against an inquisitor, the corpse is examined and I believe a somewhat detailed description is made of spike placement.

In theory, this is possible. However, using forgery to increase someone's innate investiture is practically difficult, due to the amount of investiture required. In addition, you would still need to be reapplying the stamp very often. Theoretically, though that would likely be more difficult due to the connections you would have to make in order to make forgery utilize stormlight instead of the Dor. The Dor can provide the required investiture, I just believe that Forgery isn't designed to create a strong enough channel to draw that much investiture.

Brandon described him as actually attaining a level of heightened intelligence, so he was definitely extremely smart when he made it, not that it was some actually spiritual prophetic power. It's possible that something could've connected to his mind and made him inclined towards a specific path over a few others, but I doubt it personally. I have no doubt that at its root the Diagram was written by Taravangian using logical probabilistic analysis to determine what would happen, but the idea of outside interference is not impossible. Mistborn spoilers

It could be that the Oathpact powers the Heralds via the ambient investiture. I remember in fact that there's a recent WoB that the Heralds originally could draw investiture without needing to breath in stormlight, or something similar, so maybe that's it and now that they've turned away from the Oathpact they lost their connection.

Any bond to a splinter such as a spren or seon on Roshar will give the bonded entity some enhancements or abilities. What those are depends on the spren/seon bonded. So someone bonded to a seon might gain surgebinding powers, or they might get something different, like improved physical strength.

Interestingly enough, this is my theory on the matter as well. The Heralds were formed to lead and protect the people in their new world. Once Odium was trapped in the system because of the Oathpact, he slowly invested into at least one of the worlds, therefore being bound. My theory on the Desolations is that he's trying to break the Oathpact, by causing the Heralds to fail to protect the people, by killing everyone.

Actually, the Oathpact was described as indirectly binding Odium, which means it still could've been made with the intent of binding Odium, though I don't think it was. For instance, if the Oathpact enabled specific events which required Odium to remain in the system, and therefore invest into a world, then it has indirectly bound him. Or even if the Oathpact did force Odium to invest, then he would still be directly bound to the system by that investiture, with the Oathpact only indirectly binding him. Brandon's answer to that question can really be taken to a number of difference degrees of how close the Oathpact and the forces behind Odium's binding are.

Odium hasn't picked up an additional shard because he doesn't want to be influenced by the intent of the shard, weakened his hatred. Based on that, it seems pretty clear that a shard can absorb another shard. Sazed was able to pick up both Ruin and Preservation because he had an affinity and connection to each.

On no, he definitely predicted that the Listeners were going to take on the forms of power and call the Everstorm, I have no doubt about that. The point I was making was against your argument that he could've ordered Szeth to assassinate the Parshendi leadership in order to prevent that. He couldn't have known how their society was structured, so would've been reduced to just ordering Szeth to go to the Shattered Plain and kill all the Parshendi, or at least to go there and find people who look important and kill them. Even then, as I pointed out, that wouldn't have stopped the True Desolation, which means that ordering Szeth to instead consolidate power in order to help people survive was a smarter decision, in my opinion. So what you're proposing would've slowed the coming of the True Desolation, while allowing preparation to not occur, instead of allowing it to come, and preparing for it. The Final Desolation was the one which occurred 4500 years ago when the Heralds walked away from the Oathpact. The one upcoming in the present is the True Desolation. If he actually had a way of stopping it, I'm fairly certain that he would've. He doesn't, which is why he is consolidating everyone so that he can pool their resources and at least enable a fraction of humanity to survive.

First of all, I don't think he was able to predict the actions of the Listeners, for a few logical reasons. First of all, while the existence of the ancient forms of power was known to him, the motivations and actions of the Listeners was likely something he was unable to probably predict. Consider, they are a fairly distinct race with very different thought patterns. Unlike for most of the other details regarding the rulers which he predicted, they were very unknown. No lifetime of records surrounding them, or deep understanding of their culture. I don't think Gavilar ever truly got to know much of them, perhaps he was even unaware of how they governed themselves. As such, it seems unlikely that Taravangian could've ever hoped to predict to them enough to stop them. In addition, I believe that the coming of the True Desolation was, in a sense, a fixed event. Preventing the Listeners from assuming Stormform might've slowed it coming, but don't forget that the Listeners are only a part of the Voidbringers, and that the Unmade would've still been active, along with whatever else consisted the ranks of the Voidbringers. As such, stopping the Listeners would've been nearly a waste of time, considering the time that could've been spent elsewhere in order to buffer the coming, and inevitable, Desolation. Secondly, it is possible that Taravangian needed the Everstorm, but I doubt it. He wanted to save people. If stopping the Everstorm would've prevented the entire Desolation, which I doubt, he probably would've tried to stop it.

Are we talking about the beads of lerasium kept at the edge of the well of ascension, or a third bead he removed from their and kept personally? If it's the beads in the well, I believe it was said or at least postulated by Sazed that he did so in the off chance that he somehow stopped being a mistborn, so he could regain that power.

Heck they could also tap when their metalminds are full and keep creating energy, just in the opposite manner.

Mistborn isn't a power, but a collection of powers which must be stored separately in order to enhance. I doubt that full feruchemy is any more different, in that you have to store each power individually in order to enhance its effects. Good point. I misremembered the passage. Thought he was just referring to a brass ring, not a brass and nicrosil ring. My guess is that when you link multiple rings together like that, the unsealing process is applied afterwards for the entire set. Using two different medallions, which underwent separate sealing processes creates interference, but at the same time, trying to unseal multiple nicrosilminds linked together in order to have the medallion grant all the powers is difficult.

Basically what I'm saying is that somehow, each medallion gives the wearer the power to tap a nicrosilmind in order to access the other powers the medallion, a method which we don't know about which is somehow externally granting them a feruchemical power. My theory is that each nicrosilmind of a medallion has been altered so that it changes the holder somehow so that they are able to tap the nicrosilmind of that medallion. They aren't given a general nicrosilmind ability, just one which allows them to tap the specific power in that specific medallion. Furthermore, the difficulties encountered in either raising the number of powers a medallion gives past three or wearing multiple medallions stem from the unsealing of the medallions. Increasing the number of powers requires that the unsealing method simultaneously allows someone to tap all the powers in the medallion, and the complexity increases with the number of powers. Wearing multiple medallions results in each one granting its wearer the limited nicrosil ability to tap it, and the multiple being applied at once essentially interfere with each other and cancel out, because each one is trying to connect the wearer to itself, leaving the wearer unable to tap from the nicrosilmind of any of them, therefore rendering the medallions useless.

Yes, I don't think you would be affected by a 70 degree item, because of how thermal kinetics work. Since the object has a lower temperature, then heat would be leeched out of you.

I thought it was the other way around. Borden was already there because Taln arrived at Kholinar, so he just brought Taln to the Shattered Plains.

Unfortunately tapping warmth wouldn't be that effective. The heat resistance granted would only protect for the exact amount of heat tapped, just like how tapping iron only strengthens the body so that it can support the extra mass tapped, and no more.

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I have proposed a theory on why multiple times in response to your questioning about it. Is there anything in my theory that you find blatantly incorrect or are you just ignoring it?

I know, Dragonball Abridged, Goku, Nappa and Vegeta.

I mean, by your numbers, one breath is 0.7, so Susebron would be over 35000.

What are you referring to? The Bands of Mourning gave the user access to all 32 powers of the metallic arts along with extremely filled metalminds for the feruchemical powers to use. Whether it was 32 separate pieces of nicrosil or 1 single piece is still up in the air.