Steeldancer

Does anyone recognize the symbol on the flag? At the bottom?

This is from the last chapter, right? UNLEASH THE SPECULATION

Ah I don't know if anybody read the oathbringer prologue, but

Idk. I'm just hoping he will finish it quickly so he can get around to writing the lost metal or something!!!

I think it's become evident that they are attracted to said events. For example, we know that germs cause illness, but because of rotspren, which are ATTRACTED to the illness, the rosharians are unaware of the real cause of illness. The spren are attracted to the ideals they represent, whether a river, or a storm, or glory, passion, drunkeness, or Honor

I've always enjoyed the idea of love being a shard. All the intents seem to be a driving human force, and what driving force is greater than love? That and some sort of scholarly intent that might be helping out silver light in some way

My brother had that very idea! So i asked Brandon about it... And I got a RAFO

I wasn't even counting it as a magic system. It's a form of investiture, and that might be something hoid wanted to get. Furthermore, hoids soul is WEIRD. Remember when in secret histories how it numbs kelsiers hand? That's not normal. It's not just told feruchemy going on here, this is something permanent

Ok so we know that hoid has collected various investitures from across the cosmere: allomancy, unkeyed feruchemical metalminds ( I got that WoB ) breath, he tried to be an elantrian, and he is a yolish lightweaver. He, as of the moment, has no investitures from roshar. Or does he? What if, early on in his career, he sought out the old magic and asked to be PRESERVED or something similar to that? And so Cultivation made him able to recover from ridiculous spiritual wounds? But she also gave him a curse- he is unable to harm others? And now he HATES that curse. And therefore hoid and cultivation dont get along very well. Realmatically, it would be him drawing closer to the spiritual realm, like lift is closer to the cognitive realm

Well obviously sanderson otherwise I wouldnt be posting it here. With the spirits who jump from body to body.

Don't know who read this, but what did you think of it?

Well she seemed happy with the answer so

I got 2 questions answered. Hoid does have unkeyed metalminds, although I thought he was going to give me an evasive answer there for a minute. He also confirmed that yes the ancient heralds were DIRECTLY powered by honor, albeit through their honorblades. This is confirmation that they didn't need to breath storm light, and sort of explains why they need so much more stormlight now. My brother wanted to know what would happen if one of the ancient heralds held an unsheathed nightblood. Which he RAFO'd much to no surprise from me. My girlfriend asked why stormlight makes things cold, which apparently has to do with water condensing all over the place, which makes things cold. For some reason the investiture causes the water to condense... I wonder why.

He could. But he is not a fullborn feruchemist, otherwise he wouldn't need unkeyed metalminds. But he probably had a limited number of unkeyed metalminds... unless he has just one to store his identity so he could make more... but did the ancient terrismen even know about that ability? Because they can't make that now without hemalurgy or the bands of mourning. ANYWAY, excuse my musing, unless he has a way to store his identity to make more unkeyed metalminds, he can compound, but only until the metalminds he has are gone. At that point, he can no longer use that feruchemical ability, because he doesn't have that metalmind any more. Unless someone made a new one. Do you see what I mean, sort of?

I love how you're tearing apart the whole hoid sense thing, but I'm wondering if he could pull off compounding (which I don't think he can, if he needs unkeyed metal minds and he can't exactly BURN those, because then he won't have anything to store in!), and what kind of fun things he could be doing with that...

I just got a bunch of books signed, and I got a WoB that hoid DOES have more unkeyed metalminds. It probably hasn't been processed yet, but do with that as you will

*sings* unless you're an EDGEDANCER or a DUSTBRINGER. magical solution

Yes I know that mercury eventually causes madness. But imagine vin using mercury instead of horseshoes. An actual storm of liquid metal... In fact, what would happen if you pushed down on a lake of mercury? That could be cool.

Unless you set up large push pull harmonium factories.

I mean I'm used to not overthinking the whole speed thing, because i watch the flash LOL but seriously @hwiles all I truly care about is that it could and hopefully will happen. STEELDANCER

Shockingly there is no friction shenanigans. They feel the heat. They can only go so fast before they will just... burn up. But, if you give them the abrasion surge, wahlah! You have the Flash (or as I'm calling him, steeldancer)

At this point I have something to contribute- get a tin pin, stick it in a spider, and what do you get? Spider sense.

@Itchy SavantI'm going to boskone on friday. I will mention this

My name is Barry Allen, and I am the fastest compounder alive. Once I was just a normal steel compounder. Then I visited roshar and was chosen by the Cultivationspren. With my now unbounded speed, I protect both scadrial and roshar from harm. When I was young, the Steelbringer killed my mother for hemalurgy and framed my father. But now I will hunt him down and bring him to justice. Because I am... STEELDANCER