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Nah, with lyrics like these, he must have been from Nalthis, possibly even someone who declined to be Returned. Just ask the Axis.

I agree, "Stormight undoes Nightwatcher effects" doesn't seem the right "scale". Especially if it undid the curse while leaving the boon. Either it has to do with self-image, like how Kaladin still has his forehead brands, or Dalinar is indeed fated to forget "his wife"... Or a third way we've yet to discover.

"Not all spren are as discerning as honorspren"

I reread what Mraize said to Shallan and if it’s not the bit about her brothers, or his talk about having “answers” for Shallan about her father joining the Ghostbloods or her brother seeking the Skybreakers, then it’s... The statement that Jasnah had killed several Ghostbloods? (But I totally believed that)

I was actually serious (except for the facetious name) in proposing an Unmade that specifically echoes murders committed in a blind rage. Most likely via possession.

Love Stinks (Yeah, yeah)

Dalinar’s recovery of his memories of Evi/Shshshsh can’t be just due to Stormlight intake; he sucked some in right after bonding the Stormfather, and we’ve seen him get Shshshsh’ed while preparing to get married to Navani. Unless he needed to suck in enough to actually visibly glow. i wonder if that means he lost his boon, too.

Or an Unmade is loose, Jaqdaripr, who specializes in copycat killings of murders done in a moment of blind rage.

Actually, the Metallic Arts are very portable - the most portable of what we've seen so far. Using Allomancy taps into the power of Preservation itself - which is an action of a Spiritual Realm that knows not a limitation of distance or location. Feruchemy is innate to the Feruchemist, and not bound to being on Scadrial itself. And we already have multiple WoB that Hemalurgy would work everywhere in the Cosmere and could steal other magic systems' powers, because like Allomancy, the mechanism by which it works is to tap into the power of Ruin at the level of the Spiritual Realm.

Heheh. I was imagining her losing Adolin (possibly due to some kind of "Sadeas Blowback Effect"), turning to Kaladin for comfort, having a bad breakup, and then starting a bounceback relationship with the person Kaladin would hate the most to see around her. Also I've been impatient to see more Gaz/Kaladin sparks. I mean, he is already Shallan's bodyguard and errand boy so he must be around all the time, yet we haven't seen Gaz cross paths with anyone from Bridge Four (much less the Lordling Radiant) since they arrived on the Shattered Plains. So if there is coffee that's been brewing for a long time, why not extra bitter?

All right! All aboard the Shallan Ship Express! Making stops at Shallabsal, Shadolin, Shalladin, Shallagaz, and Cooooooocamonga!

Well if taking the power of Preservation at the Well taught Rashek about Hemalurgy... Though I guess that was more Ruin whispering to him in those moments? And Feruchemy as an end-neutral Art is kind of both of Preservation and of Ruin, no?

If TLR is able to bring his cadre of Inquisitors, not to mention wave after wave of skaa shock troops, surely he could also bring his koloss. On top of being the most innately magically powerful of any of the combatants, it seems like a huge, huge advantage. On the other hand, we haven't seen what all ten Orders of KR can do, nor how many of them there would be. Plus maybe Sazed could get a message passed to Dalinar, suggesting they try playing Monkey In The Middle with TLR's atium arm bracers and to keep them away from him for, oh, 5 or 10 minutes. That would even things out. A LOT. As for Susebron, the ace up his sleeve would be if he mastered the Awakening of steel, and used Peacegiver's Treasure to create, oh, three or four more Nightblood type weapons, with more specific Commands than just "destroy evil". Or, if Nightblood was originally inspired by Shardblades, what would a Nightblood level version of Shardplate be like?!

I think they're pretty dissimilar. We don't know nearly as much yet about Surgebinding as we do about Allomancy, but for starters, Surgebinding requires either a spren bond or an Honorblade, and spren can't really travel off of Roshar since they're of the Cognitive Realm. On the other hand, Stormlight appears to be raw enough Investiture that it can substitute for at least one other kind of non-Roshar-specific Investiture required, as we see from a Returned from Nathlis being able to use it to fuel himself to live (though not, as yet, to do Awakening). What'd be interesting is to find out if an Allomancer who moved to Roshar could bond a spren. Per WoB, we've already seen Hoid use Allomancy on Roshar (most likely the powder he dumped in his own drink when meeting Shallan was some kind of metal - brass or bronze, would be my guess?), and Demoux was at the Purelake, though as an Atium Misting he's not very useful lately on the magical side, unless Marsh or Harmony were feeling very generous. [EDIT: just noticed your user name/board handle. Bummer, dude.] But, imagine if a full Mistborn, or a really badass Twinborn like Wax, were to show up on Roshar and pick up the Windrunner Honorblade. I'd assume he could use it. And who knows, perhaps a compounder like Miles Hundredlives could produce surplus innate Investiture to the point where he could fuel his Surges with it even without Stormlight. If so, the question of "Did the Lord Ruler know about the Cosmere" gets really interesting. "TLR with an Honorblade kicking chull during a Weeping when everyone else is low on Stormlight" just might be the most unbalanced "Who Would Win In A Fight" matchup imaginable that didn't involve a Shard. (I think even Hoid might be terrified!)

I mean, Ruin might have chosen to give the Inquisitors he granted F-spikes the ability to compound gold. But that would also mean giving them spikes for A-gold, and unless an Inquisitor had been Mistborn, it'd be kind of hard to find an Augur Misting to spike. And even for a Mistborn Inquisitor, it'd be more obviously valuable to give him offensive F-spikes like for F-steel and F-pewter based on the very few Keepers in existence. As for them having to figure out compounding, I assumed Ruin would know all about it...?

Right, he can allomantically burn his own goldmind after getting spiked for F-gold, which heals his feruchemical ability back. So really those Ruin-enhanced Inquisitors in HoA should all have had compounded gold and been REALLY hard to kill...

No, it's that Ash (Shalash) herself is going around defacing, destroying, breaking, or removing images of herself all over Roshar (we've seen this in several scenes, including the one where we first meet Lift).

Considering that her "second go-round" Truths #3 and #4 both involve admitting to herself what she did in terms of killing her mother with a Shardblade and then later, her father, I wonder what her Truth #2 and #3 were from her childhood.

This... Seems true. so it's possible (at least for Lightweavers) to "repress" or "degrade" a bond (weakening the spren's attachment to the Physical Realm) rather than breaking it (killing the spren and, if advanced enough, trapping it as a Shardblade).

Shallan, like Kaladin, has broken her bond in the past and re-formed it. She must have been advanced enough in the Nahel bond as a child to be able to summon Pattern as a Shardblade in self-defense against her mother, and then repressed/forgotten it all. Based on her flashbacks, it seems the way to break her "truth oaths" is to repress or deny the truth about herself; and based on the chapters we just read, speaking a painful truth to advance the bond means she can no longer repress it. It's scary to think what is left for Shallan to "truth" to herself for the next Ideal. Maybe something about her ambiguous attraction to Kaladolin?

Right, that the only reason someone like Wayne (who has A-bendalloy) can't already use his speed bubble to do a deadly burst of bullets is because of the refraction effect. Compensating for the refraction would require some complex adjustments: "aha, so when I do a speed bubble effect at 50% burn and radius R, the bullets go off at a 35% angle, so I should fire at THIS angle to get it corrected" - and to do so while actually firing a gun rapidly, in between one bullet's trajectory (to see how to adjust) and firing the next one (with the adjustment), is just not humanly possible... Unless you could speed up your thought process to a degree like Wax does with the Bands of Mourning during his showdown with his uncle.

I don't agree that not physically needing to sleep is the same as not mentally needing to sleep. I've stayed awake for 48+ hours in a row, and it wasn't fun by the end of it. I could imagine having "wakefulness" restored from a bronzemind being like having yet more coffee, except with true mental alertness and not just that brain buzzy feeling. That doesn't mean not ever having an REM cycle wouldn't do other things to you. Could tapping gold fix that? Yes, but that's healing in a restorative sense. Inasmuch as sleep is necessary to process and build new mental connections, to learn new things, I think a never-ending tapping of bronze and gold could do weird things to one's mental state. That's just my own gut feeling, though; there's no indication in anything in Mistborn or any WoB, as far as I know, that Rashek's paranoia or megalomania were in any way linked to his not having had a night's sleep for nigh upon 1000 years.

So, how about F-zinc (speed of thought) with A-bendalloy (speed bubble)? Imagine having an aluminum gun and being surrounded by enemies, even Metalborn ones. You put up a speed bubble and shoot them all. But wait, there's a "refraction effect" when using projectiles in or out of a time bubble, which is difficult to account for when firing. Well, with practice and mental speed, you could work it out.

Not physically, no. He could compound and tap "wakefulness". And in fact, he had to, in order to keep filling and tapping the atiummind. I'm just surmising that spending 1000 years without sleeping, while "hearing voices" to boot, would have a deleterious effect on Rashek's sanity. Actually, that makes for a pretty interesting alternative ending to Mistborn: The Final Empire. While struggling with TLR to rip away his atiummind arm bracers, somehow his bronzeminds shake loose, and he just has a thousand years of deferred sleepiness hit him like a wall.

Yet at the same time, as seen from what happened to him shortly after he lost his atiumminds, he had to stay constantly awake to tap youth from them in order to stay alive (something I never fully realized until someone on this forum pointed it out to me). Plus he had Ruin constantly whispering at him, kind of like what drove Zane over the edge. Imagine spending a thousand years, bored but awake, counting down time until the next time the Well of Ascension refilled, nothing to do but put down skaa rebellions or watch noble Houses war with each other from time to time, and having Ruin whisper sweet nothings at you. Sure he could tap compounded gold, but who says that covers mental health?