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The southern medallions are all unkeyed, meaning that the feruchemist had no identity when creating them. In addition, the nicrosil sections are all unsealed somehow, meaning that they have been changed so that anyone, not just a Soulbearer ferring, can tap them. We don't know how, but it has been hinted that it is an additional process.

I pointed this out a bit earlier, but long-range shard weapons might not actually work due to the range limitations of the Nahel Bond. A Knight Radiant loses their powers if their spren is not nearby, and since the spren turning into a shardblade is due to Nahel Bond, chances are that the spren will disappear as well if it goes too far away. A spren wouldn't like being multiple parts because it would require splitting itself cognitively.

The last book I read was Cryptonomicon. A very enjoyable book, I would recommend to people, though it is fairly complex and twists around itself so you don't really know where the plot is heading.

Good point about the Thrill, and it's definitely weird, but there's a WoB which apparently implies that states that both the Thrill and Death Rattles started at around the same time, and according to Taravangian, the Death Rattles started around the time when Gavilar started exploring the Shattered Plains. The WoB is from 2 years ago so it's entirely possible that Brandon has revised it. Maybe I should see if there are any more signing events and ask if someone can drop that question if possible. Good thought about the Unmade. It would also make sense that they belong to Roshar and were just slumbering. Why they can't be over there if Odium could use his powers to move them? Might be because his powers are constrained, per the Oathpact and the Cognitive Shadows of the Heralds in Damnation.

Very nice. Symphonies sound challenging. (Yes literally and creation-wise)

I'm going to go on a limb and say that the True Desolation might happen.

The stormspren probably returned when the Unmade did... but you're right that there is still a question of how they came over. My current guess is that they are cognitively tied to both planets? It likely has to with the constraints of the Desolations, and maybe the voidspren are more tied to the Unmade, and the Unmade are powerful enough to make the crossing. That could work, though I think I read somewhere that the Unmade aren't all necessarily sapient so it might not actually work. Of course, the simple answer might be "Odium is using his powers to move them", which probably be possible.

I uh, wrote this. Guess Brandon beat me to the punch after all.

We explained this in earlier posts. The main thing is that Preservation is about keeping someone the same forever. Feruchemy doesn't do that, since a person has to weaken themselves in the process. However, allomancy does, since by Preservation giving them power, they preserve their own personal strength.

You could awaken a stick to a shardblade-level object if you wanted. Would be easier in fact since you wouldn't need the breath to get to the heighening necessary to awaken steel.

Generally yes, except that your statement about raw investiture and the mists are slightly incorrect. The mists are not raw investiture, nor do I think there really is such investiture such as raw investiture. All investiture is essentially carries a certain alignment, which alignments it for a specific usage. However, all investiture can, in theory, be used to fuel any manifestation of investiture, because investiture is investiture, the fuel for any magic. An example of this is the allomantic investiture drawn from Preservation being used to empower feruchemy through compounding. The mists are not raw investiture however, they are aligned to Preservation, which is why they can easily be used to fuel allomancy, as allomancy is of Preservation, but could be used to fuel feruchemy if desired by Preservation. Warbreaker things

Why thank you. I'll keep that in mind. I think I need to up the word count though, but that shouldn't be too hard.

Allow me to write that part, so hopefully, when Brandon does so, he won't have to, thus saving him time to write the rest of this epic.

My understanding is that the basic and reverse lashings change an object's spiritual connection to the planet, and through that, affect how it perceives gravity, as dictated by fundamental laws of the surge of gravity. A basic lash reinterprets the source(s) of gravitational force on an object to be in a new direction, usually. Reverse lashings work the same way, in that they cause objects in the area to behave as if the infused object is its gravitational source instead of the planet. I'm not sure exactly how to explain weightless half-lashings, but I'm guessing it has to due with creating a weaker connection to the planet while creating an equivalently weak connection upwards, while lashings in a perpendicular direction to up-down simply suppress the planetary connection as well.

First of all, duralumin would not give you enough power to be able to get a steel line in the entire planet. I doubt you would get a line more than 1 kilometer down, and that seems like a huge stretch. Secondly, assuming you could somehow do that, I'm pretty sure that duralumin enhancement does not get around the issue that the force of a steelpush is applied to the entity with the lower mass. Since TLR would obviously be lighter than Scadrial, he would be pushed. I suppose if he combined an ironpull and a steelpush, something could happen, but I still doubt it.

Possibly, but the issue is that it explains the Desolations occurring when the KRs are a thing, but they don't explain the fact that the Desolations began before that, when there was only the Heralds and regular Rosharans.

Stuff can be invested twice, but investiture interferes with investiture. That's why it's harder to push on metalminds and shardblades, and why it would be effectively impossible to allomantically burn a shardblade, because it's so invested.

Interesting thoughts with regards to how sandmastery works, but I think it's really just as Wyndle explained, that she is more into the cognitive realm than most people are normally, so she can reach ambient stormlight somehow. In addition, when someone asked Brandon asked about Lift converting food into stormlight, he strongly implied that it was as a result of the Old Magic from visiting the Nightwatcher. It regards to theory 3 though, Brandon has said that the Nightwatcher is to Cultivation as the Stormfather is to Honor, so I don't think there's any room for Autonomy to fit in there. In addition, I don't actually see how the sandmastery really works, because it seems like a different process. Sandmastery uses water in order to manipulate the investiture around the sound while Lift burns calories to draw upon stormlight. It is in fact more analogous to allomancy that sandmastery in my opinion.

He would need enough Stormlight to invest all of Roshar, since I have no doubt that it is cognitively viewed as one object... so probably not, since assuming he had enough stormlight to actually do that, no, since he would be moving the entire planet. Also, I feel like there would be other factors at play which would prevent the general investing of a planet, maybe because shards have already invested it.

Regarding resonances as Argent mentioned, it is unlikely that Hoid possesses any. Brandon has explained once that resonances only appear when you have at least two powers, but too many, such as being mistborn, results in no resonances because of "cluttering".

That, and the fact that that is how Brandon refers to it in the Twitter post.

To correct myself on 3. Threnody and Sel are closer since they're in the same planetary system. As such, I doubt that they're trying to defend themselves from Shades, just probably Threnodite worldhoppers.

@WeltallI'm questionable on that though, because while it makes sense that a Shard's power would do things like that to the environment, Brandon has described the phenomenon of shades as being non-shard based. Also, another way to look at what Nazh says is that being a shade was always possible, but something happened to make to the Shades more violent possibly Evil, though apparently that isn't related to a shard either.

VERY PRETTY!

Yeah, they're spren and already in the cognitive realm mostly. Also, perpendicularity don't have any affect on travel within the cognitive realm. They would still have to move from Braize's cognitive space to Roshar.