Wandering Investor

oooo I hadn't thought of that. Could he have had nicrosil combined into his armbands? I'm no metallurgist, but a quick wiki search suggest the materials could have been available, if the TLR knew what the goal was.

The answer is RAFO for most of that. There are no canon stories set on Yolen. Sample chapters from The Liar of Partinel and sample chapters from the Dragonsteel prime are where most Yolen information comes from, and both are non-canon and Brandon discourages people from reading them, so don't worry if you have read anything from Yolen. We do not know why Adonalsium was shattered. Complete RAFO from Brandon. Excerpt from Mistborn Secret History is one of the best answers from someone in world that might know: Some 17th Sharders theorize that it may have involved a danger from fain life (don't worry if you don't know what that is). But that's the best we have. Unknown if a Shard is on Yolen. I just realized you said you only started Elantris. You might have awhile before this makes sense. Good Luck

His YA books are good. I've haven't read the Alcatraz series, but the others are enjoyable read with some cool stuff. The general difference is less depth with more of a focus on a faster paced story, and more jokes/silliness/fun type stuff. For example in the Steelheart series, Brandon had the main character make a metaphor, and it turned out pretty bad. Then Brandon was like, but wait, what if that's his thing?! And then he ran with it.

This meeting occurred soon after the vision in which the Stormfather explained how the Heralds were broken and had willingly abandoned the oathpact, as well as explaining that the souls of the fused were sent back to the Everstorm after death instead of Braize. Unless Dalinar did not share this information, she had to know that the Heralds would not willingly go back, wouldn't last long even if they did, and would only affect the souls still on Braize, leaving them to deal with the endless fuse already on Roshar.

That's a large "might be useful". The Heralds were largely an unknown. That's why I view it as odd that Jasnah would pick killing them for a unknown chance at holding some fused back, without any consideration for the unknown chance of gaining knowledge from the Heralds. Again, some of the fused were already in the Everstorm, so the heralds couldn't have trapped them. So you have to compare the value of trapping an unknown percentage of the fused on Braize, for likely a limited amount of time before the Herald(s) broke, vs the knowledge and expertise that could have been gained from recruiting them. Both options have value, but she didn't seem to give much consideration for the second option. It would have been tough, but tough isn't a complete deterrent to Jasnah. Not to mention the other option is fighting them, which is also tough. I'm not denying that Kaladin and Jasnah think very differently. I'm also not denying that if Jasnah decided one option was the optimal one, she would carry it out, even if it required brutality, and would likely experience opposition from Kaladin. I just didn't agree that these choices were the most logical/optimal ones. Like trying to show off Jasnah's brutal logic, but only picking logic that leads to brutality.

Because just before this meeting, Dalinar learned how the oathpact functioned, aka the heralds had to resist torture, and that the Heralds has lied about the Final Desolation and abandoned the oathpact. Relying on broken souls to withstand the torture needed to keep the voidbringers back is illogical. If they could be forced to hold the voidbringers back, then it would have been logical, but it is extremely likely the heralds would have just folded as soon as they arrived at Braize. And trying out this plan is a extremely low expected success rate would have alienated the heralds as allies. To add on to that meeting, Jasnah learned that not all the parshmen were assimilated. Instead of considering the option of converting them away from the voidbringers, thereby robbing the enemy of soldiers while increasing their own manpower, Jasnah immediately decided the only option was war. That's why I think the chapter was more about trying to create conflict between the orders, than about Jasnah being logical.

During the meeting in Part 2(I think?, maybe 3), shortly after Kaladin returned to the tower. During the meeting Jasnah proposed that the heralds should be found, and then killed, in order to force them back to the oathpact. This plan is likely off the table now for several reasons, notably that the heralds cannot be expected to stay willingly on Braize for long, it has been revealed that the fused return to the Everstorm on death instead of Braize like in the past so it wouldn't matter if the heralds went back anyways, and the heralds are a huge source of knowledge. I never thought it was a very Jasnah like idea in the first place, it seemed like it mostly served to create conflict between her and Kaladin, but that's beside the point.

That "technically" is probably either referring to Adonalsium as some pointed out, or is referring to the Shards representing the fundamental forces connected to everything in the cosmere. If that's the case, then all the shards are woven into every planet (except Scadrial perhaps), even if they can't sense or control the part of themselves that is there, and are therefore "technically" there.

The Radiant gemstone archives also seem to equate the failure of various tower systems in relation to the withdrawal of the Sibling. Still up to some interpretation, but seems pretty reliable that there is a connection.

Reverse compounding can be achieved through nicrosil. Feruchemy can store innate investiture in nicrosil, including feruchemy and allomancy. So you can store your ability to burn pewter in a nicrosil-mind, then withdraw it later for enchanced pewter burning. You can also burn the nicrosil-mind in order to compound the stored power, allowing for compounded allomancy powers. Of course, to make this work you have to either be a full Allomancer/Feruchemist like the Lord Ruler, or you have to make the metalminds useable to anyone like the Southern Scadrial(ians?).

No, for several reasons. The investiture Nightblood consumes is not consumed permanently. It would eventually make its way back to the Shard's available reservoir. Secondly, I'm not sure if Nightblood could feast on the storm's powers in the first place. The Everstorm definitely not since Nightblood was used during one. Highstorm is also unlikely, but unknown. And lastly, the full power of a Shard is still unknown, so the percentage of Honor that the Highstorm represents is unknown. Might be a fraction, or might be an insignificant smudge, not sure. Considering the Stormfather is capable of holding Odium off for a little bit indicates he is not inconsiderable, but still just a fraction of a full shard. For further clarification, the planet of Scadrial is made entirely out of Preservation and Ruin's powers. The planet did not exist before they created it, unlike Roshar when Honor and Cultivation just tinkered with an existing planet. Yet the Shards are described as primarily spiritual creatures, as in most of their power is located in the spiritual realm. Their power in the physical and cognitive is the lesser amount. Also, while they may have been weaker compared to other shards, and we don't have much to go off, Preservation and Ruin didn't really seem any less godly or much weaker for having created a planet for scratch. So if their physical power could create a planet without appearing to take to much of a hit, how large must their spiritual power wells be? That's the calculation I used to determine that the breaths of Endowment and even the Highstorm of Honor(and Culti?) are small fractions of a much larger source. Largely speculation, but it is something till Brandon shows more about the Shards.

There were photos of Calamity. Not very many, but a few. Keep in mind how bright Calamity usually blazed at. Most telescopes wouldn't be able view him properly, or even been able to see the glass surrounding him. But some did know, Prof for instance stated he knew the spacestation was too low for orbital stability, inferring that he knew Calamity was chilling in the ISS.

Not quite. Miles is always tapping at least a little health. Tapping the extra health makes him feel even better, to the point that he doesn't want to ever go back to normal. Almost made it sound like an addiction.

Stormlight healing isn't perfect. Szeth was holding stormlight when Kaladin cut his spine. I also recall reading a quote, I believe from Peter, that if you could crush a Radiant's head faster than the stormlight healed, that would kill them. But I can't find the quote in the arcanum. Plus, with Renarin taking thunderclast blows without much danger, that quote may not be accurate. Unless Renarin is special due to the surge of progression, or he just held a ridiculous amount of stormlight at the time.

He could burn gold constantly if he wanted to, but compounding produces far more health than is needed. Plus continuously burning gold were be too expensive. If the Lord Ruler is any indication, the easier way to compound is to spend some time in meditation, during which you're storing health, burning gold to produce large amounts of health, storing that excess health, then burning gold again to produce even more health, repeat for awhile, then store all the excess. Afterwards, he's constantly pulling from the massive health reserve he created earlier.

So this could be referring to powerful entities, but not gods, on Yolen such as the dragons. Beings that are considered gods by the locals. It may also refer to Adonalisium, but Hoid altered it for the context of Hallandren where people think in terms of multiple gods. Non Canon Dragonsteel Spoiler below

Hoid was originally in Terris looking for the Well of Ascension, as he was fooled by the Lord Ruler's story that the well was in the north. This was later retconned as Hoid was shown to have entered Scadrial through the Well of Ascension since Kelsier destroyed/damaged Ruin's perpendicularity. So he already knew where the well was. It was never explained what he was doing instead, except for a vague "things to do there", so I'm not sure if Brandon ever created another reason for him to be there.

Wyndle mentions his people took steps to send him over in WoR.

Leras did not actually die long ago. He sacrificed his mind to create Ruin's prison. This severely crippled Preservation's mental functions, but was not fatal by itself. It did cripple his ability to fight back against Ruin, basically promising his death eventually. But he did not die in till the scene with Elend, which mentions Leras' body falling out of the mist shortly after. .OB Spoiler

I was under the impression that anyone could tap the nicrosil metalmind. It then contained the Feruchemy power to tap the other metalmind. Once you gained that ability, then you tapped the other mind for the connection/heat/weight. That's why the Southern Scadrial medallions had two metals, one nicrosil, and another for the desired power. I do not see why they would include the nicrosil metalmind, if they could simply unseal the other metalmind in the first place. Reviewed the great Coppermind, and now I'm questioning whether I'm right. Might have to go do a reread. Or wait for the next Mistborn book and see if it is explained how the medallions are created.

One method for accomplishing this would be storing your identity, and then creating the metalmind. The identity part is what keys the metalmind to you. If you have no identity when you create the metalmind, then it is unkeyed. It is unknown if southern Scadrial uses this method or not. But for that method to work, there has to be no identity when storing. So it would be a bit complicated for just transferring breaths, since they can easily rekey themselves.

He was probably referring to Mistborn being published after Elantris (I don't know the exact order off the top of my head) and being in the same in world universe.

Assuming a relationship to hemalurgy, the dagger(metal part) tore off a piece of Jezrien's soul. What that piece is is unknown. It could be his connection to the oathpact, or just the investiture that Honor placed in him, or something else. Then whatever piece was torn off was stored in the sapphire. The lost of that piece caused death. I suspect Jezrien is truly dead and passed into the beyond. It would weaken the story if there are too many fake deaths.

Kalak, because I was considering chossing Willshapers as my desired Radiant, although I might be disqualified due to humanity. Stone Shamans, because they might reveal a new magic system, or greater knowledge of spren/current magic. Cultivation, because Shard.

To expand, the question is whether a command can be forced onto a spren. You'd have to find a spren that can take the command, willingly or not, and the spren would have to be able to channel the stormlight into the correct action. Can you bind a sentient spren to your will? Some theories suggest that the old fabrials, the soulcaster and healing device, may use higher spren.