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It's not just allomancy and feruchemy. A number of systems require specific spiritual DNA heritage in order to function. For instance, someone who does not have the spiritual genes for awakening could not go to Nalthis and just start awakening the moment they have breath. On Sel, heritage is also related to how the Dor can be manipulated, be it through AonDor, Soul Forgery, Dakhor, ChayShanan and Bloodsealing . In any case, as Eki said magic systems are not designed. They're more interactions between a shard's investiture and the nature of a planet, so small-scale nuances of the magic system are unpredictable.

Interesting question. My guess is that the shades wither silver similar to how they wither people, which can apparently be described as a "cancerous forging". So in essence, it's physically/spiritually/cognitively changing the silver to a different form and destroying it. WoB on the matter: [Source]

In the greater Mistborn Era 1 though major characters die and stay dead.

You know you're addicted when you cannot remember nor fathom how you spent your free time before finding 17th Shard.

So he was expecting the story to be about some generic male character finding Nightblood and destroying some evil?

You're right about prophecies. However, this line isn't a prophecy, but rather a line which is fairly clearly describing Rayse in the second letter. I don't see why it would be expanded to vaguely describe someone exterior.

Really? I've always interpreted it as Rayse being under the weight of Odium, the divine hatred without other intents. Which has always been an interesting thought because the first letter implied that he accepted the intent of Odium without resistance, while the second implies the opposite.

Good call. Found a WoB on the matter which disproves this theory entirely. [Source] Since WoB says he was in the cognitive realm mostly, it contradicts the theory that the soulcaster was holding him in the physical. Also, it says he disappeared because she pushed him away, not because he was trapped by some other force. There probably would've been a RAFO or something vague if he was actually trapped elsewhere instead of just being away.

Assuming this is still happening, can you redo the Discord invite?

The Schwarzschild radius is pretty interesting, and that of an average human is about 1.20 femtoangstrom, assuming my math is right.

Other than the really good quotes other people have posted, I like a couple regarding Odium. This one is interesting because I strongly think this is Sanderson's hint on how SA is going to end. Also, the line that Odium has suffered defeat is... intriguing. Gives me the thought that the Desolations might've meant more to Odium than it seems, and that he hasn't won yet. Just something interesting about Rayse, once I realized the Cosmere implications. The line itself feels to me to have a heavy impact.

The real question though, is: Can I have a gram made from a hemalurgic spike?

Yes, I think he's counting the Windrunner-specific ideals. Life before Death, Strength before Weakness, Journey before Destination are ideals of all radiants.

This is something I worry a lot about. I'm actually really bad at coming with baseline original concepts. Most of my stories usually are expansions from seeds I draw from other stories. Usually I worry about them being too much of a rip-off, except now that I actually think about it, few of my stories actually look like their base anymore once I actually write them down, and I honestly can't remember what their base was. I guess if you want advice on the matter. If it's your first work, don't worry about it being a rip-off. I feel like at this point, getting into the practice of good writing is more important than creativity. Work on that once you have the ability to actually but your ideas into words well. Besides, a hell of a lot of stories are inspirations of other stories. Would love to see the story if you actually write it.

Parshmen lack a form, and as such are called slaveform by other listeners. Rlain was in dullform to spy, which is physically identical to slaveform but with greater mental capacity.

The question is still whether Nicrosil feruchemy can only store the innate investiture related to the ability to use a manifestation of investiture, or whether it can store kinetic investiture as well. If it is only innate investiture, then it wouldn't be able to store Stormlight, since that is kinetic investiture.

It was described as his weight increasing enough that the floor couldn't support his downward force so he fell through it. We don't know what that weight, but I doubt it exceed that of a building. I'm thinking that he's actually referencing the part at the end when he rescues Steris, then taps a lot and destroys the building she was in through steelpushing. At that point, it would make sense for him to be heavier than a building.

As @Oversleep said, the term Parshendi broadly means "Parshmen who can think" As such, the Listeners, the name of the race, is actually, in essence, divided into only two groups based on those terms, either Parshmen or Parshendi. However, of the Listeners who are not slaveform, there likely exists other groups other than the one that Gavilar met. However, I believe that all Listeners are just one race, a racial group of humans, as Listeners and Humans are, by definition of species, the same specie.

Sliverism Anyhow, interesting thoughts. Not sure I agree with them fully, though religion is not a field I'm interested in much so my thoughts on them are limited. In any case though, really well thought out. I do suggest reading subsequent books, at least Shadows of Self, since they all add more depth to the religions. There is also another religion which is gaining ground, which you didn't mention, likely because the only person you would've seen follow is Miles. Once again, read the books to pick up on it.

That's what I was thinking, except I don't see how there's a method of instantaneously moving a cognitive entity through the cognitive realm since distance is a thing. It's not a matter of a cognitive shadow appearing in Shadesmar, they're already somewhere in Shadesmar because of their cognitive aspect, and killing the physical body just disconnects them from that physical body. That's my main issue, since for what the OP's theory to work as I understand it, there would have to be some sort of universal presence that is everything in the Roshar-location of Shadesmar which is instantly grabbing any cognitive shadow which appears and immediately moving it to the Braize area. It's just that this is something that seems very unlikely, considering Jasnah was on-location and noticed nothing happening.

So it's not possible that the sailors had just such a low amount of investiture that their cognitive shadow would've only existed for an unnoticeable period before moving on to the Beyond? Regarding the mechanics of the actual theory then. What do you mean that Braize is where the souls and cognitive shadows are? The sailors are existing cognitively in Shadesmar before they die, then you say they're in Braize, so do you mean the cognitive realm location of Braize? Shadesmar though is just a name for the cognitive realm, so they would still be in Shadesmar. The other possibility is that you're saying that the cognitive shadows are being moved to another realm, but they can't really be physical and spiritual doesn't have a location, so you're suggesting a fourth realm where cognitive entities can exist as well? I'm assuming the former, in which I'm taking that you're using Shadesmar poorly to define only the cognitive realm located at Roshar. If that's the case, then something would have to be moving the cognitive shadows from wherever they are in Roshar's cognitive space to Braize's cognitive space, something which Jasnah didn't notice being there. So what I'm saying is, while my knowledge of realmatics is still shoddy, I feel it is more likely the cognitive shadows aren't noticeable before going to the Beyond than the possibility that something is moving them instantaneously to another place in the cognitive realm without Jasnah, who is right there, noticing. If there are incorrect assumption, which I have no doubt there are, please correct me.

I thought Sazed stored his mass in order to decrease his downward force due to gravity so he would have an easier time climbing down. Storing mass when falling wouldn't change acceleration due to gravity, just that you would have less downward force. As you suggested, decreasing mass would decrease terminal velocity, at a square root rate, so it would have a difference if you decrease mass significantly. I did some math and found that someone with a mass of 8.07 kg would have a terminal velocity of around 5.7 m/s, meaning their landing would be the same as if a regular person fell around 1.7 m. So, that is, in fact, a doable landing strategy, one which would actually work out to be more effective, assuming my math is correct. Good point. The extra strength the feruchemy grants to normally support the extra mass wouldn't be necessary in a freefall and could therefore help guard against the force of change. Didn't think of that, though it would be hard to quantify if it would be enough. You are could be correct. It's either a conservation of momentum or conservation of energy. However, since feruchemy is removing energy from the system when storing (potential energy decreases), it would make sense for it to be adding energy when you tap, which is what is happening during the conservation of momentum scenario. (potential energy is increasing far more than kinetic energy is decreasing) Either way, there would be some sort of force applied to provoke the change.

That doesn't explain my question of why the sailors not having cognitive shadows is weird. The stuff about everything being flipped is beyond me, and I don't really mind that, I'm more interested in the single facet of my question regarding the theory.

I haven't read Secret History so I could be off-point for this, but based on what I know, I don't see why the sailors would become cognitive shadows when they die. From what I know, cognitive shadows occur when a person dies physically, but they are connected to a large enough well of investiture to keep their cognitive grounded. Otherwise their cognitive and spiritual would just go immediately to the Beyond. As such, I don't see anything strange with the sailors' flames just disappearing when they're killed; they don't have anything rooting them in the cognitive so they're going straight to the Beyond. An interesting theory for sure. I'm hoping to read Secret History soon enough so I can understand realmatics more.

Feruchemy was known yes, but it wasn't general knowledge. As we saw from Alendi's journal, feruchemy was practially unknown outside of the Terris, In addition, the immediate removal of feruchemists who likely held the main knowledge of feruchemy along with the surpression of the Terris prevented it from reaching the outside. As such, no one existed who could identify him as a feruchemist, and therefore explain away the basis of most of his abilities through compounding and other magics which can be accessible to common people. It would appear that not even the current feruchemist had an idea of it either, or at least Sazed wasn't aware of them. Since they weren't even considering the possibility, they couldn't even consider a possibility of how he achieved his long life. The lack of a theory is fairly supported by the idea that Sazed figured it out in days once it was confirmed he was a feruchemist, while no one else came up with the idea over the millennium. Therefore, overall, the lack of knowledge of feruchemy was important, and if feruchemy were general knowledge, it would've undermined him, as I expand on next. While you're correct that a lot of people didn't worship him, that doesn't mean most people didn't believe, or at some level, accept the story that he was a piece of a god, and it was from that that his incredible powers were based. Even Dockson and the others believed that the possibility that defeat of him was impossible because of his unexplainable powers, therefore attributing them to godhood. If it were explained that all the powers he had were possible through means available to more regular people, then his mystic would disappear. While he would still hold the power, people would be far more likely to rebel knowing they're against a regular person with extreme powers versus someone taken to be a god. Therefore, the religion is actually important, and lends additional power to him.