AbsentKeeper

I think most of Renarin's odd behavior is cleared up by the end of WoR. Spoilers for WoR because I can't remember where this post is I suppose there could be more I missed, I'm curious as to why you think he's suspicious though?

Wayne is one of my favorite characters in the cosmere, and there's a lot of great quotes here. This is my favorite though. Edit: Oh, and this one.

Haha I consistently confuse my friends and family with Sanderson profanity, usually without even thinking about what I'm doing.

I wasn't aware there was another version besides his and the Graphic Audio. I think every Sanderson audiobook I've listened to was Michael Kramer. I do really like his interpretations of all the books though. And to answer your other question, I believe he does, if a little bit gruffer in stormlight.

Actually, in BoM, Jordis tells Wax that the sovereign only taught them to make the heat storing medallions, and that they used the technology he left to figure out the rest. That means he really only needed access to brass and nicrosil feruchemy to do what he did, if even that. We still don't know anything about the mysterious 'excisor' machines. Edit: I'm dumb, you're talking about the actual bands. Yeah, I have no clue how that would be done without being fullborn, or at least having both a full feurchemist and a Mistborn to help.

I posted there, and got a copy within a few hours. I believe that the reason they've been given charge of handing it out is for the speed.

I really can't take the credit, its referenced on the coppermind

Confirmation that Edgli is Endowment's Shardholder resides in this thread. The actual photos containing the wording are not working, but people in this thread were acting like Brandon confirmed it. Edit: There's a link to the confirmation of her gender on the same page, if anyone was still searching for it.

I'm almost certain that it hasn't been confirmed yet. I read a thread a couple weeks ago where people were discussing it and it seemed pretty evenly split on opinions. For my two cents, I think Endowment is female. Edit: @Calderis I didn't see your post at first, I know that it's confirmed that Edgli is Endowment, but I've seen a lot of debate still on whether Edgli is female or not, where was this confirmed?

We know from Mistborn era 2 that spikes can be split up into separate parts and maintain a charge. I guess it depends on how much investiture is in the planet to steal in the first place and how big the spike actually is, whether there would be enough investiture to split up into hundreds or thousands of working spikes. It wouldn't have to go in another planet. Edit: And of course we have know way of knowing what they would do, even if they did work.

Hmm I did a similar thing when the change happened, I didn't even consider shardic influence though I seriously doubt that he did either, but that would be amazing.

I just meant that it is a concrete example of a shard manipulating another's investiture without taking it up. You can take that however you will, it could support a lot of different theories in the right light.

We already know that a shard CAN do this, as Odium gathered the power of Dominion and Devotion in the cognitive realm, unless they just gathered there naturally after they were splintered. It would only be pointless for personal gain. If you're right, and being a more powerful shardholder already would make the power easier to gather, this would make someone like Harmony capable of gathering up a splintered shard for someone else to take it and ascend, which would be helpful in a number of ways (backup for defeating 'evil' shards, avoiding contaminating his intent, ect)

I posted the other topic that was similar yesterday, you explained it a lot more consisely than I did though. What eventually ended up breaking the theory for me is that age isnt the only storable trait that decays over time, memories also do. If only copper stored memory quality instead of specific memories, this would all make sense. Copper is the real strange one in feruchemy.

No one said it would be easy, just entertaining. Hey, a worldhopper's gotta have a hobby, right?

I've been meaning to do a reread, looking specifically at Hoid, as Stormlight is his biggest appperence as a character so far. Obvious things to watch for would be: 1.Correlations between when he disappears, and the arrival of a temporary character that could be him in disguise. 2. Evidence of times he is using allomancy, other than the one we were supposed to catch. 3.Evidence of him awakening anything. 4. And any general evidence for his goals on Roshar. Other than that, the only thing I can think of is to keep an eye on any parshmen who seem to be acting too smart.

Kelsier meets a character carrying an aluminum (and/or silver) knife in Secret History, I don't wanna spoil anything if you haven't read it, but you can infer some of the answers you're looking for from there. Edit: Just realized this is the cognitive realm, not the spiritual. Still has some interesting implications though.

This was quite possibly this best thing I've read this week, even if it is a departure from the other discussion Not sure that I can say it's off topic though, as the title is 'uses of hemalurgy.' I can definitly say that it's silly and brilliant though

If Brandon said so, ill have to accept it, but I always saw it as more of a correlation than a causation. Like, shards just went where there was a lot of suitable material to use as their focus, or made a place that had it.

I guess this is the part that I don't agree with. What does scadrial have to do with metal, or Nalthis have to do commands? Nothing at all, except thier magic. There is metal on every shardworld, and any of that metal can be use for allomancy, in the right alloys. Humans give commands everywhere, but objects can't only be awakened on Nathis, thats just the only place there's breath to do it. The way I see it, the focuses are an extension of the shard that powers them, and of these, only Aeon Dor is inherently linked to a single planet. Preservation and Ruin created Scadrial from scratch so they made a planet with lots of metals. Doesn't mean that they couldn't have picked an existing planet and still had allomamcy fueled by the same metals somewhere else, if they had wanted to.

You're talking yourself into circles here, first saying that he is confusing focus and intent, and then doing it yourself. The color is the focus on Nalthis, made from dyes from the flowers of Edgli, and providing a conduit for the power of endowment (the breaths) to pass from one place to another. Hemalurgy should be the same way, it doesn't violate all of the realmatic laws that we know of for hemalurgy to use the proper kind of focus for the type of investiture it is manipulating. In fact it makes more sense this way, because otherwise, how would a metal spike match the proper spiritual pathways to draw power from any source except the two powers that already have metal as the focus. Think about it this way, there were at least two metals in the time of the final empire that TLR either didn't know about, or didn't have the technology to make, even though he did know. This means that these metals did not exist in any physical form on the planet at the time hemalurgy came to be, and so it can follow that the spiritual conduit inside these materials is a naturally occuring one that simply matches the power coming from preservation and ruin. As has already been stated, hemalurgy is just about stealing investiture, and we've been shown that investiture is mostly universal. I don't see why its so much of a leap that hemalurgy would need a different focus to interact with another type of investiture. For example, if there were naturally occurring surgebinders on scadrial, would you then be able to make a gemstone spike to steal their powers, just because they live there? There is already investiture, and (presumably) there are already gemstone in the planets crust on scadrial, we just haven't seen this capability because theres nothing on scadrial for them to steal by making a gemstone spike. I guess its just not clicking in my head why the planet the shard chose to settle on matters in the slightest.

I've seen Brandon RAFO several questions about whether materials other than metal can be used in hemalurgy. Its my personal opinion that hemalurgy has been mistaken, in universe, as a metallic art, when its really just a universal way to manipulate investiture. There really is no proof either way until we see someone steal something other than allomancy or feruchemy, or Brandon finally answers that question though.

most attributes grow stronger for the first half of the life or so, and the weaken from there, mostly in balance. I didn't think about memories degrading though, that one does kinda blow a hole in my theory, especially since they only degrade while not in a coppermind. Well, maybe time to admit I was reading too much into this one. *sigh*

I'm not arguing this, the power that goes in and comes out is balanced, but Atium is the only metal that stores a trait that is itself end-negative. Strength, physical speed, mental speed, and even healing speed are all things that don't change over time, unless an outside force causes them to, whether it be excersices, or illness or whatever. Age is anomalous among the feruchemical traits can be stored, in that age is end-negative. Are you telling me this is just a coincidence? Edit: I think its the title that's causing the most confusion, but I couldn't think of anything else...

My viewpoint on it is that metal is probably not a 'spiritual match' for other forms of invesiture. It only acts as a conduit for stealing allomantic and feruchemical powers because the metals are the conduit those powers draw investiture through from Preservation.