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Interesting, it's possible, but judging by how Leras behaved in SH, by that he didn't remember what was the plan, was just hoping people would recognize it without his intervention, or by that he didn't wanted to preserve Kelsier from going into the Beyond until Kelsier showed an unbreakable will to save himself and convinced Leras to made him into a CS, I think at that point Leras was too far gone to do anything as a part of his plan - he didn't know what his plan was. I think it would be more like what happened at the Well at the beginning of SH - Leras was just impressed by Kelsier's actions and just felt he deserved to be preserved, not knowing he would ultimately serve a role in his plan. Leras didn't predict Rashek would die, he didn't predict Ruin would be soon freed, he didn't know he needed to do anything this time as he thought Rashek would Ascend again, thus maintaining the status quo.

Yes, Szeth is bonded with Nightblood, but that's not a Nahel Bond. It's a bit different than that, but working by the same mechanism. This bond allows Nightblood to read Szeth's mind or sense where he is for example. This would not interfere with a spren bond, a person can be even bonded to multiple spren at once and that would cause no problems.

Just to point out, having a broken soul isn't required to become a Knight Radiant - the Nahel Bond bypasses this requirement and allows the power to seep into the soul of the knight. It helps, but it isn't needed as a sapient entity is also involved who can choose - a spren. I am not 100$ sure Kaladin has fully broken his Ideals at this point. He was close, but not there yet, he didn't do what Shallan did when she fully broke her bond. Kaladin had sworn two conflicting oaths to two different people, but he still wanted to protect people. That's why he had to just swear the 3rd Ideal and his bond and Syl were back working. If he were to follow and assist in assassination of Elhokar, then his bond with Syl would have been fully broken, just like Shallan's bond with Testament - swearing the 3rd Ideal would not work anymore, Syl would be a deadeye. At least that's what I think was happening. In that case, if Kaladin were to fully break his bond with Syl, he would have to reswear all of his Ideals to bring her back to life.

The pure tone of Preservation was most likely what Vin felt with A-bronze as the pulses the Well of Ascension was sending. Allomantic pulses are also related to the pure tone of Preservation. Feruchemy would most likely send out tones related to merged tones of Preservation and Ruin (as Feruchemy is a balanced system between Ruin and Preservation), while Hemalurgy might be related to the pure tone of Ruin. What happened when Navani sang a pure tone of Honor? Not much. What happened when Raboniel sang a pure tone of Odium? Not much. Those tones allowed them to manipulate and move lights associated with them, but it didn't give them any boost of investiture. So a Mistborn would not get invested just by singing. However it's possible it would allow them to manipulate Mists to some extent, but it's unlikely they would be able to draw power from Mists directly. One needs to be strongly Connected to Preservation and Mists to do that - like Vin. Yes. 100% it would hurt them just like it hurt Raboniel when she heard the anti-tone of Odium. But it should not break them or destroy their spikes, just hurt them really badly. They can, but they might have to be more invested to hear pure tones of Scadrial. But they would still be able to hear regular Rhythms even off-Roshar. Vin was chosen by Preservation to be its next Vessel. She was prepared for this role and that gave her Connection strong enough to draw power from Mists. HoA epilogue epigraphs: Vin wasn't the only one who ingested Mists, Wax did that too, but he was chosen by Harmony to be his Sword. It's more likely that Harmony directly made it happen, giving him strength necessary to work on his behalf, than he was naturally so strongly Connected to Mists like Vin was. He didn't breathe in Mists like Vin did, he didn't fuel his Allomancy with it, but they gave him strength and calmness, they were always there in the most important moments of his life. The Mists he took in were but a tiny drop compared to what Vin took. If I were to point out a moment from Era 2 where Wax breathes in some Mists, I would pick this from AoL ch 18. There are probably more moments like this but they aren't obvious and it's not confirmed if Wax ingested Mists in those moments, or it's more like Harmony's emotional Allomancy acting on him through Mists. They can hear Rhythms: But Roshar is unique, Rhythms are uniquely strongly manifested on Roshar (4th WoB I've posted), so it should be much harder to pick them up on Scadrial.

Just to point out, a Spren leaving Roshar is a very hard thing to accomplish. They are bound to Roshar, just like Heralds are. I'm not sure if they lose immortality without Dor. Sure they got weaker and fragile, Ire in SH had to drink Dor to sustain themselves, but I don't think this is confirmed that they will become mortal or age without Dor. They will stay Elantrians even far away from Elantris, but some visual characteristics of their Elantrianess will fade. Is immortality part of their "staying Elantrians," or "visual characteristics" - I don't know. But they do need Dor daily in some way to function. Technically speaking investiture in the Spiritual Realm is infinite, anyone who can tap into SR taps into an infinite source of investiture - like Allomancers who also never run out of investiture as long as they have metals to burn, or Heralds who were powered directly by Honor through SR. They didn't need Stormlight before they broke the Oathpact. This is also just a part of Selish magic. Their investiture comes directly from SR. Elantrians are more invested than Returned, they likely have a direct Connection to Dor that sustains them. They are more similar to Cognitive Shadows than to normal Invested users like Surgebinders or Alloamncers. Because they have this Connection to Dor, their strength fades the further away they are from Elantris. Elantrians existed before Splintering Aona and Skai and that's before Dor existed in CR. So the fact that they never run out of investiture isn't unique to them, this also happens in other magic systems, so this isn't because Dor is in CR. This doesn't matter. Being in CR doesn't make you any closer to Investiture. You are on Harmony's planet, his investiture is everywhere around you. The only place where you can be closer to Harmony's investiture is in a perpendicularity, where you can peer directly into the Spiritual Realm which is where investiture is. But to actually tap into Harmony's investiture, you need either a strong Connection to him. Yes, once they figure out the correct Aons/the way to hack the system, they will be able to draw investiture for AonDor and be at full strength - as seen in TLM. Shay-I drew an Aon based on the Elendel Basin and she feared she will stay as Elantrian indefinitely - this means she isn't just feeding on the jar of Dor she consumed when transforming (this jar most likely fueled her transformation only), she is constantly Connected to a source of investiture that will power her almost forever. I think that's just Dor. She hacked the system to feed on Dor from that far away and we know there is another way to do it - by tapping Connection to Elantris an Elantrian would be able to use AonDor outside of Sel. So your Elantrian won't use Harmony's investiture, you don't need another source of investiture, they can tap directly into Dor like Shay-I did. This isn't unkeyed investiture, but it might be possible for that Elantrian to use that Dor to power their Surges as it's keyed to their identity, or something else might be needed to that Dor for it to fuel Surges (like fully unkeying it). We don't know. Mixing magic systems is generally hard in Cosmere and we don't know what needs to be done for this to work. If it's just the identity of the user, meaning as long as Dor is keyed to you, you can fuel other Invested Arts you have access to, then your Elantrian won't have much problems in fueling their Surgebinding with Dor. But if it's something else, maybe if it needs to be keyed to a specific Shard, fully unconnected, or some other things, then they need to do this before they would be able to use Surgebinding. We don't know.

RoW ch 30:

Agreed, those sound like good compromises. While the random selection defines the purpose of "Brandon answering questions he wants to answer," when you have 100,000 questions you have to bring your expectations down a lot.

I'm not that attached to a certain order to pick one as definitely mine. The idea of Radiant orders is that you can choose the one that you like the most, even if it's not the one you're the most fitted to based on your personality - a person can be fitted to many orders at once, they change and aspire to be worthy of being a Radiant of that particular order. I would advise you to go with what you love, not necessarily with what the quiz assigned you to. The last time I've done the quiz it was a year ago, I'm 80% Truthwatcher and 58% Skybreaker on the second place by the quiz results, and I agree with them (4 other orders follow just 1-4% below Skybreakers so that's not really a solid second position). They both fit me well. I would add Lightweavers as the third order, I think I would benefit a lot from their Ideals, even though they are in the middle of the quiz list. While the core ideology Truthwatchers is a good choice for me, my problem is that we've actually never seen Truthwatchers in action, it's hard to say how they progress and improve, what their Ideals are, or what they can do with their powers. We don't have a full picture of all orders for now and that's why I'm not attached to one specific order. I'm waiting for more data to make an educated decision - a very Truthwatcher thing to do.

You do realize if you want Brandon to answer questions he specifically wants to answer, then he himself must read most of them to choose those questions himself? His team doesn't know what Brandon knows, sure they know a lot, but not everything, they don't have to know what's fascinating for Brandon to answer, Peter knows the most but he still isn't Brandon. And he and his team also don't know what question he answered in the past in WoBs, which Brandon often tells when somebody asks him about what he said in the past. They might remember a question that is often asked, or a very significant question about some interesting theory, but generally speaking they have no idea what he answered - there are hundreds of WoB answers each year, 15,000 WoBs in total on Arcanum and not to mention Reddit. Nobody can remember them all and searching for them is out of the question, as that's even more time consuming. Assuming that each question is 10 words long (which is a very generous assumption), all questions asked would be 1 million words in total - more than twice the word count of RoW. That's just too long for Brandon and his team to just read through all of them. It would take days or weeks to do that and this time could have been better spent on writing books - and his team has their own work to do, they also don't have time for this at all. Sure, I agree, it would be fun to hear a question Brandon has chosen to answer, but on the scale of crowdfunding campaigns, this is simply not feasible when you have 100,000 backers. Brandon now is doing what you are proposing but on a much smaller scale - he can now see questions people ask him in the chat during live streams and answer those he finds interesting. This is manageable, but 100,000 questions, 1 million words or more, that's simply not gonna happen even with his team engaged.

I was simplifying things a little bit. You need to have Aonic descent and live within the borders of Arleon or close by. You need to have a strong Connection to Arelon, which generally speaking means you have to be born there. Quote, TLM ch 53:

Fun idea indeed, but there were 102,000 backers. It would be too time consuming to just look through all those questions. It might be more manageable if each backer were given to opportunity to submit a question AND have 5 votes to choose 50 question that Brandon would be answering, delegating this task of looking through questions to fans - which is often happening with live-streams, as fans are posting questions and voting on reddit.

That was the myth Rashek spreaded to hide the fact that his friends were Feruchemist and he was as well. The epigraph from my post earlier is clear on that - Rashek held the power, created the race of nobles and when he started to conquer Scadrial, he offered a few monarchs Lerasium and they joined him. The simplest explanation is that those monarchs were already nobles, that Rashek changed pre-Ascension nobility, or those with a high social status into the race of nobles. The whole thing about supporters and opponents turned into nobles and Skaa respectively is most likely a fabrication. The class of nobility had to be made during his Ascension and the only nobles that survived his conquest were those who supported him, the rest were most likely killed until their children supported him, or entire bloodlines were ended. I don't really see any contradictions. We know Rashek held the power and that's when he created nobility and Skaa. Because he couldn't have known who would support him and who would oppose him, he had to do this by some arbitrary or random rule and when his conquest began, the entire population had to be already divided into Skaa/nobles. We know the origins of the race of nobles - the Well - the modern nobles are just those who survived Rashek's conquest and supported him. Nobles who opposed him most likely perished, or were forced into being Skaa while also being genetically superior, which might have been the catalyst for diffusing the differences between those two groups. And I'm bringing Rashek's friends because we know that this part was a false flag, so the stories of the first nobles might have been also partially untrue. What is credible is Sazed's words and based on that we can figure out what had to happen.

I don't see it as contradictory. When Rashek held the power, he divided the population into nobles and Skaa, but he probably turned those who already had a high social status into nobles, such as aristocrats or kings who were later offered Lerasium. I think those first Mistborns founded the first Great Houses. The story of the first nobleman is a fabrication - it was said his friends became the first nobles, not just those who sided with him. The kings and rules who sided with him became the first Mistborn in reality. It's most likely that not all of the nobles he made sided with him, but those would have been dealt with - killed. HoA ch 62:

Once you are a Radiant go to Shadesmar and just talk to other True Spren, trying to find a one that is willing to bond, but also fits your personality. Make sure your spren and that willing new spren are on good terms (and that your spren is willing to share you at all) and try to persuade the new True Spren to bond with you, explaining the benefits of this for them - they don't have to lose their mind in transition to that extent, they can just immediately anchor themselves to you which would ease their mental degradations, you have a fitting personality, you already know a lot about progressing as a Radiant, so while you on a different path now, you know you shouldn't be doing to not harm the spren and stuff like that. The best chances you will have if you find a friend of your spren - they already like each other, they might be willing to work together more than with some unknown spren. A Highspren and a Honorspren are unlikely to bond the same person, the same goes basically for any Cryptic (although one Inkspren was a friend to Testament so Cryptics aren't that isolated) and Honorspren as they both have a bad reputation in CR and other spren just don't like them. Lightspren and Peakspren are both travelers and sailors, so they seem to be a better fit to each other, but Willshapers and Edgedancers seem to be more in line personality wise - one cares about those imprisoned, the other about those who are forgotten and those often are the same people. Overall I think there are many good pairs of Orders whose personality would fit together, but the hardest part is to convince spren to bond you and share you. You need to find two spren that can accept to be in crowded Nahel Bond and if your first spren is unwilling to share you at all, you have no chances of becoming a dual Radiant (you don't choose your spren, they chose you). Once you are a Radiant, the best way to find a new spren to bond is to talk to meet as many spren as possible in CR and persuading them the benefits of choosing you. You are unlikely to attract a spren by just waiting, you have to talk to them. I don't think it matters that much if you are an Ideal 3 or 5 Radiant, as long as you are officially a knight, you've proven yourself enough.

That was only the case for when Mists were Snapping people, I don't think it was said this was also happening naturally. But truthfully it makes sense for Snapping to invest people, otherwise unsnapped Mistborn would be as invested as Snapped Mistborn, which feels wrong. Spook's bloodline was strong in Allomancy for a reason - he was a Mistborn. First Mistborn created very strong Allomantic bloodlines because they were Lerasium Mistborn. The likelihood of becoming a Metalborn is increased for a Mistborn's bloodline for certain, the boost in power should also happen. Here is even WoB that confirms that certain mixing can increase the power of a Metalborn. I think that's a pretty reasonable assumption. If one Metalborn parent increases chances of Metalborn children, then two parents should increase it even more. And the proof you're looking for is right in the WoB above. The Allomantic genes were present across the entire population of Scadrial except for Terrismen. They have always kept themselves separate from other nations and thus from Allomancy as well. Terrismen were not being Snapped by Mists - only them. No, they were real. But after 1000 years of mixing, those changes became negligible. HoA ch 25 epigraphs:

I haven’t thought of that interpretation of this story before, but it seems to fit a little. However the fact that humans were the original Voidbringers was only one of several reasons that lead to Recreance. Earlier Radiants did know that as well, but Honor was always there to assure them their actions are just. Another big reason was fear of destroying Roshar with their Surgebinding powers, just like their ancestors did on Ashyn - this doesn't fit Hoid's story about Uvara.

Connection to Shards is hereditary, a Nalthian or Scadrial born outside of their planet will still have their native Shardic investiture in them, thus Connection to them and even Breath - though it might not last for many generations if they dilute their genes too much (WoB, WoB). I feel like Connection to land will also work like this. One of the hardest Invested Arts to gather is possibly Scadrian Metallic Arts, because you have to be born with those genes in you - if you don't want to use Hemalurgy. If you are willing to use Hemalurgy, then it doesn't matter where you are born. But Hemalurgy aside, becoming a Mistborn or a Feruchemist if you are not a Scadrian is incredibly hard. You have to use Lerasium to become a Mistborn (which was in a very limited amount during Era 1, now it's not available almost at all) and use some combination of Scadrian god metals to become a Feruchemist. So assuming getting god metals is impossible as for now, you either have to pass on those Invested Arts, be or be born with them. But there is one other group of Invested Arts highly dependent on your Connection - Selish one. To be an Elantrian you have to be born in Arelon, you have to have a strong Connection to the land itself. The same goes for every other magic on Sel. Those two types of Invested Arts are the hardest to get if you aren't native to the land, but once you have them, things get a bit easier. Starting as a Forger is a great way to gain access to many Invested Arts, if you know how to and have enough pure investiture. You can forge yourself to become a Mistborn, or an Elantrian, so if you don't need to have all powers all the time, this is a great substitute. AonDor can basically replicate everything any other Invested Art can do, it's the most versatile magic in Cosmere so being an Elantrian alone would be enough to do anything you want. But if you really want to play Pokemon with Invested Arts and catch them all, both Feruchemist and Elantrian are a great starting points as can manipulate their Connection and Identity and that might help acquiring other genetic magics from Sel or Scadrial, however it might require some non-standard workaround (WoB). You can also technically try stealing Band of Mourning and be a Fullborn as long as you have them, but that's not making you into actual Fullborn spiritually. Breaths can be bought and taken off Nalthis with little to no problem, once you have them, you are an Awakener. To become a knight Radiant you have to just convince a spren to bond you, a Connection manipulation might help (WoB). Sand Mastery from Taldain is a bit harder, we don't really know how to get them, it seems one have to be invited by the Master to become one yourself - so it might be possible to for an outsider to become a Sand Master by just getting a proper invitation - the same actually goes for becoming an Elantrian, as seen in Tress (thus starting as a Full Feruchemist is a better option as it's a little harder to become one than to become an Elantrian). To become an Aetherbound you probably need to find an Aether, be willing to serve them and be worthy of becoming their servant. Aviars are relatively easy to get, we've seen non-native people having those chickens, so they aren't really problematic to get for us. Ashyn magic is disease-based, you catch an illness, you gain powers. It might be limited through Connection, but it seems easier to get than others. Yolenish Lightweaving is probably out of your reach, we don't know anything about it except that Hoid has it. Yoki-Hijo seems to be hard to get as you have to be chosen by Spirits at birth, but maybe Connection manipulation can overcome that.

Yes, it is possible for a Fullborn to be born naturally, but that's highly unlikely. It's possible through breeding to select specific genes and strengthen the bloodline so more Metalborn will be made - Spook's bloodline is a bit stronger and that's the reason Vanishers targeted people related to Spook, the Set try to breed Allomancers with those people, Rashek did the opposite with Terrismen, trying to get rid of Feruchemy through selective breeding, modern Terris try to bring back a Full Feruchemist by trying to bring the purest Terrismen together. It’s possible for a full Mistborn or a full Feruchemist to be born out of this, in fact the plot of Era 3 might be centered around catching a full Mistborn criminal. But a Fullborn, while it’s possible to get naturally, it’s highly unlikely to be born because Allomantic genes interfere with Feruchemical genes, breaking them apart, which resulted in Ferrings and Twinborns. But it’s still possible to mix them together and get a Fullborn - that was what Rashek feared, that’s what Sazed fears. BoM ch 3:

I saw you've posted the same topic in the General Brandon Discussion subforum - that's unnecessary, please avoid double posting or reposting the same topic in a different section. You can edit your post to change or report it and ask mods to move it to another section if you wish. Both options are available if you open the three-dots menu in the top right corner of your post. Now back to the topic: Warbreaker. I simply adore Awakening. Its versatility and limitations are fascinating to me, the idea of magic based on recreating life and utilizing colors is amazing. It's always fun to imagine what can be done with Awakening. This magic system is not as combat oriented as others in Cosmere, but it can offer a great advantage for those with good imagination. This is my favorit magic system. And I love the story and all the characters - Vasher especially. For me it's the best book. I'm often catching myself rereading some parts of the book just when I wanted to grab a quote or check some detail. It grabbed my heart and doesn't let go of it. You’ve nailed it. While I personally like TLM, I felt something was off and that's a great description of its problems.

Sleepless are only one layer of protection. The question in the WoB is clear - if a person had an opportunity to spike a Dawnshard out, it wouldn't work because Dawnshard self-protects. Sleepless and Larkins would have denied that opportunity in the first place, but Dawnshard can protect itself even without them. Not just Rysn's Dawnshard, but any Dawnshard, and as far as we know only the Change Dawnshard is protected by Sleepless. TSM spoilers:

Well, there is a certain assassin in white who showed rulers that they can't rely on the protection of their guards and soldiers. Rysn on the other hand is now basically unkillable - Dawnshard self-protects - even if she doesn't have any usable powers from her Dawnshard. Sure, there might be ways to extract her Dawnshard, but that's not something people on Roshar would know. Dalinar is not the leader of the world, in fact most of Roshar follow Odium, not Dalinar. Only the Azish Empire and Thaylenah, plus all Alethi people that are on the Shattered Plains or in the Tower are now a part of the Coalition. Alethkar, Jah Keved, Herdaz and Iri with its conquered territories are now all part of Odium's side. Dalinar is constantly losing more land as the Desolation progresses. Not to mention that Dalinar is not an absolute leader of the Coalition - it's a coalition, all members decide on what is the next action they have to take, they all have to agree, Dalinar can't force them to act against their interest. His power is severely limited. But in terms of being powerful, Dalinar is certainly close to the top. Excluding Shards (and Splinters), Ishar is even more powerful. Taln has proven to be an exceptionally skilled fighter, even in his current state of mind he still was capable of acting and protecting Amaram from darts. I don't really have anything more to add, as @Trusk'our listed all, except for Szeth. He's extremely skilled fighter, not as good as Taln or Kaladin, but still very good, he is highly knowledgeable about all Surges, their applications and how to counteract them, on top of that he has Nightblood - the only object known to us that can easily kill Hoid, the only man-made object capable of killing a full Vessel. Szeth is very dangerous, especially in combination with his mental instability. He deserves to be on the list.

That's 100% a Seon. They can show a face so why not an entire body and a cloak? It's just a type of Lightweaving. He didn't look normal at all - he was blue: A glowing sphere with a rune at the center - that's Seon. RoW ch 115:

That means that after they finished fighting, Kaladin looked at cut and used sheets and saw them moving and shifting a bit. He thought that other people can dismiss that movement as the wind, but he knows the wind, he knows it's not it. It was the cut sheets themselves that were moving, not the wind. Agreed. He recovers them after all. He knows he's not at risk of losing any significant amount of Breaths, otherwise he would have not fought Kaladin with Awakening. The key-word here is "trying." Sure they try, but they can't as the material is so damaged that it can't function as per its Command anymore. The more out of shape the material is, the more damaged it is, the worse it functions. A rope cut in half will still try to fulfill its Command quite well, but Awakened clothes won't work anymore if cut in half as the entire shape of it is broken. They might try, but they won't work well. The same thing happened in Warbreaker ch 56: But that's what the healing does, it fixes your soul, it reconnects cut off pieces with your soul. It creates a patch on your soul out of investiture. That may have some consequences, but in normal cases it's negligible. With healing flesh wounds it's even more obvious - investiture is used to recreate your body, even an entire arm can grow back. It doesn't matter what's lost, healing can restore that.

No news for now, but Brandon will be visiting Hollywood in following weeks, he said it in the last weekly update. Maybe something new will come from this. However Brandon keeps repeating that Hollywood is hard to work with, it takes time to do anything. However the Mistborn movie is/was in the early stages of development, but it all stagnated as the writers strike started in previous year. If I remember correctly it got to the point where Brandon was seeing some casting, or some early scripts reading, or something like that. Brandon has a full insight into the development process and is in the position to be making demands and decisions - he wanted to have greater control over his movies for obvious reasons and he succeeded in that. Here are two WoBs from the State of Sanderson 2022&2023. I'm pretty sure he talked about it in one of the recent streams as well - this is an often asked question so it repeats every few streams.

Of course it depends on how much it is invested. An Awakened cloth is still a non-living object, even if it's invested, it would primarily act like a dead piece of rock (which also has a soul and is cut by a Shardblade). So a cloth Awakened with only 1 Breath would not resist a Shardblade and would be cut into 2 pieces, with its Breath being cut into 2 recoverable halves. But I think some tiny bit of investiture would be lost as well, because of the way in which a Shardblade cuts non-living objects - it vaporizes some matter into investiture to allow a blade to pass through. A piece of Breath attached to that vaporizes part of matter would be lost, as that loss is how the Breath is cut into two parts. Something even more invested can resist it or even block it like a Shardplate/Half-Shard, taking a few hits before it breaks. We saw Kaladin cut Vasher's Awakened sheets, they are cut and they still try to move after being cut. RoW ch 15: Lifeless would act like a living being, a Shardblade would cut its Breath, not the body - 2nd WoB. The difference probably is that Lifeless is almost alive compared to a type 3 entity like Awakened ropes. They are more self-aware than people think. Actually they are both invested with more investiture from spikes, so they would resist Shardblade a tiny bit more than a normal person. I think broken spiritweb wouldn't matter for a Shardblade - spikes held it together. A broken soul with no spikes might be a tiny bit easier to cut - if investiture is lost when cracks appear. But at those levels there would be no difference.