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1 hour ago, #1 Taln Fan said:

I do feel like the Ghostbloods are the obvious choice, but I also feel like Brandon could be trying to mislead us. I do like the idea that its the Ire, or another group. I could see it going either way.

The majority of fans probably aren't as clued in as Sharders are.  So I tend to go toward the obvious because he's laid the clues out and the majority of readers will be surprised.

The Ghostbloods are definitely the ones recruiting Marasi. Kelsier's stated goal at the end of Secret History is to protect Scadrial. Just because the people recruiting her are off-worlders that doesn't mean they work for an off-world organization. If these people have Invested arts outside of Allomancy and Feruchemy, which it sounds like from the blurb, Kelsier probably brought them in to be an Outside Context Problem for any Scadrian opponents he has. I doubt we'll get too much about Roshar so as not to spoil SA5. The safe bet is an Autonomy Avatar.

48 minutes ago, Czernobog said:

Mixing of allomantic abilities is not what Khriss was referencing with respect to blending investiture leading to an added effect, I think. It was specifically in reference to Twinborn, which is mixing allomancy and feruchemy.

My more general question is whether or not hemalurgic allomancy blended with hemalurgic feruchemy would lead to that added effect.

Quoting from the resonance article which is the mechanic to which you are referring:

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An individual with many powers, such as a Mistborn or Full Feruchemist, may lose this added effect.^[6] With so many powers, the individual powers effectively wash out any resonance. It is still possible for such people to have a resonance, but it would be much less pronounced.^[7] Temporarily gaining additional powers, such as from the Bands of Mourning, would not deprive someone of a resonance they previously had. Someone with one power who began using the Bands of Mourning might develop a resonance between their original power and the Bands.^[5] It is possible for a Surgebinder with multiple Honorblades/Nahel Bonds to develop a resonance or resonances between the four Surge

With the sheer amount of powers Kell might have at this point, any resonance would likely be negligible.

7 hours ago, Czernobog said:

Tangential thought, having just finished a reread of Bands yesterday, Khriss says in the ars arcanum

Does this extra "effect" only arise for natural-born blendings of Investiture, or does hemalurgy also grant the same sorts of effects? Tying it back to Kelsier, does he possess the extra "effects" from blending allomancy and feruchemy?

Since he's a Mistborn and has all sisxteen powers he doesn't get those effects.  There's a Wob on that.

If Urithiru was an ark, I bet Nohadon built it.  It would be... Nohadon's Ark.  I'll see myself out.