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Are the leather bound books a limited release? Or are they expected to be available for purchase continually?

I posted this on the Sci-Fi and Fantasy StackExchange , but realized it might be worth posting here as well since there is not a huge Cosmere presence over there.

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Brandon has said a Vessel can give up a Shard:

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Questioner: Can holders of Shards give them up voluntarily?

Brandon Sanderson: Yes, a Vessel for a Shard of Adonalsium can give up their power if they wish.
_{FAQFriday 2017 (Jan 2017)}

 

 

 

However, all cases of a Vessel being separated from the Shard were involuntary (or in Vin's case, voluntary destruction) and resulted in death.

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[Vin] didn't shy back, though the conflict of opposites ripped her apart. Ruin screamed in terror as the force of her power completely melded with Ruin's.

Her consciousness—now formed and saturated with Preservation—moved to touch that of Ruin. Neither would yield. And, with a surge of power, Vin bid farewell to the world, then pulled Ruin into the abyss with her. Their two minds puffed away, like mist under a hot sun.
_{The Hero of Ages - Chapter 81}

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We know from Secret History that they weren't destroyed, but rather bodies reappeared as dead...

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Outside, something appeared, as if from mists, then slumped down in the bodies beside Elend's corpse. It was followed immediately by something else, a second figure, which also fell motionless.

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[Sazed] tapped a bit of steel and dodged the koloss attacks. He moved quickly through the mass of confused-looking koloss, climbing over bodies, moving up to the scrap of white cloak that marked Elend's resting place. His corpse was there, headless.

A small body lay beside his. Sazed fell to his knees, grabbing Vin by the shoulders. Beside her, atop the pile of dead koloss, lay another body. It was that of a man with red hair, one whom Sazed did not recognize, but he ignored it.

For Vin was not moving.

No! he thought, checking for a pulse. There was none. Her eyes were closed. She looked peaceful, but very, very dead.
_{The Hero of Ages - Chapter 82}

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And their cognition passed on...

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Ruin stood up nearby, blinking. Or . . . no, it wasn’t Ruin any longer. It was just the Vessel, Ati. The man who had held the power. Ati ran his hand through his red hair, then looked about. “Vax?” he said, sounding confused.

“Excuse me,” Kelsier said to Vin, then released her and trotted over to the red-haired man.

Whereupon he decked the man across the face, laying him out completely.

“Excellent,” Kelsier said, shaking his hand. At his feet, the man looked at him, then closed his eyes and sighed, stretching away into eternity.

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Vin looked to Elend. To Kelsier’s horror, he had begun to stretch out. He turned toward something Kelsier couldn’t see, something Beyond, and smiled, then stepped in that direction.

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Then [Vin] let go of [Kelsier’s] hand and followed Elend into the Beyond.
_{The Hero of Ages - Chapter 81}

 

 

So is this connected to the giving up of the Shard? Or a result of how Vin and Ruin clashed? If a Vessel gave up the power voluntarily, would they return to their physical forms? Or would they too end up as a Cognitive Shadow and pass on?

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I'll accept Chaos' photography if it means more giveaways. These people make some legit stuff.

4 hours ago, robardin said:

So if lerasium is expanding the little bit of "Allomantic potential in everbody" - i.e., Essence of Preservation - to make a non-Allomancer like Elend into a Mistborn, would it work as well for a non-Scadrian?

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Yes, Hoid took one of the beads and uses emotional allomancy in Way of Kings, so its effect is not limited to Scadrians or Scadrial

The Hallendren line of God-Kings didn't have the Royal Locks in their blood (this is why Siri was so important to them). So none of those children would have the Royal Locks. Not to mention the fact that the Royal Locks only manifest in a potential heir. So the daughter would have had them, but not her children, since the Crown went in the other direction.

At a minimum, a speedrunner can go supersonic. Evidenced by Wax (or was it Marasi?) being able to see a vacuum when they moved their hand while holding the Bands. Probably close to Mach 4-5 to be able to cause then see the vacuum. That should be enough for the bullet-time we see with Bleeder in Shadows of Self.

On 10/6/2018 at 1:25 PM, etmental said:

There is a lot that we don’t know about copper. We have seen Sazed tap written information out of his coppermind, but we have only seen him store images.

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In the Conventical of Seran, we see him store "text.

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Sazed lit the lamp with a flint from his pack. The lamp's ghostly light illuminated a stark, daunting hallway. He stepped into the Conventical, holding the lamp high, and began to fill the small copper ring on his finger, the process transforming it into a coppermind.

"Large rooms," he whispered, "without adornment." He didn't really need to say the words, but he'd found that speaking helped him form distinct memories. He could then place them into the coppermind.

Then again when looking at Qwan's text.

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"I have to copy this down, Marsh," Sazed said, reaching for his pack. Taking a visual memory wouldn't work—no man could stare at a wall of so much text, then remember the words. He could, perhaps, read them into his coppermind. However, he wanted a physical record, one that perfectly preserved the structure of lines and punctuation.

So, somehow, reading (audibly or not) allows him to have the text and then pull it out en mass later.

As Koloss grow, their skin goes from super loose to stretching and breaking.

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It was a creature of smaller size—perhaps six feet tall. It was man-shaped, with two arms and legs, though its neck was hard to distinguish. It was completely bald. The oddest feature, however, was its blue skin, which hung loose and folded.

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Like... a person wearing a mask made of skin, Sazed thought, trying to push away his disgust. So... their body continues to grow, but their skin doesn't?

His thought was confirmed as a massive, ten-foot-tall beast of a koloss wandered into the group. Smaller creatures scattered before this newcomer, who thumped up to the fire, where several horses were roasting.

This largest creature's skin was pulled so tight it was beginning to tear. The hairless blue flesh had ripped around the eyes, at the edges of the mouth, and around the massive chest muscles. Sazed could see little trails of red blood dripping from the rips. Even where the skin wasn't torn, it was pulled taut—the nose and ears were so flat they were almost indistinguishable from the flesh around them.
_{Well of Ascension - Chapter 19}

 

They are also fairly violent creatures who fight a lot. Which, of course, damages the skin more.

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One of the koloss beside Sazed howled in sudden anger. Sazed spun as the koloss jumped at one of its companions. The creature ignored the sword on its back, instead punching his enemy's head with a blocky fist. The others paused, turning to watch the fight, but none of them seemed alarmed.

Sazed watched with growing horror as the aggressor proceeded to repeatedly pummel his enemy. The defender tried to protect himself, getting out a dagger and managing to score a cut on the aggressor's arm. The blue skin tore, seeping bright red blood, as the aggressor got his hands around his opponent's thick head and twisted.
_{Well of Ascension - Chapter 19}

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But Koloss also reuse the skin when creating new Koloss.

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Vin rushed ahead, cutting him off just as he reached the tent with the wounded. "Human," she said warily. "What are you doing?"

He ignored her, slamming the dead koloss down on the ground. Now, finally, Human ripped the skin off the corpse. It came off easily—this was one of the smaller koloss, whose skin hung in folds, far too large for its body.

Human pulled the skin free, causing several of the watching guards to groan in disgust.

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A spike. A small metal spike driven into the side of the dead koloss. There was a rip of blue skin beside the spikehead, as if...

As if the spikes were holding the skin in place, Vin thought. Like nails holding cloth to a wall.
_{The Hero of Ages - Chapter 37}

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^{(all bolded emphasise mine)}

So if the skin is reused, but also extremely prone to damage, where does new skin come from when they need to replace one? Over here, someone postulates that it is the skin of the "host" human, but I'm not convinced.

On 7/30/2018 at 8:29 AM, StarrFall said:

First, and more simply, would it be reasonable to assume that a Lurcher could potentially learn to use an "Iron Bubble" a la Wax's "Steel Bubble", whereby they Pull on all metals around them generically?

 

Its possible. But this WoB says that that is more a result of savantism than an intrinsic ability of the metal.

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Things like Wax's steel bubble are tricks I wanted to save for people like Wax. (He's what we’d call in the Mistborn world a steel savant, so capable with his metal—and having burned it so long, for so many years—that he's got an instinctive ability with it that lets him be very precise.)

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By the way, Brandon talks about his Zeroth Law in this BYU lecture (50:59).

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So we'll go to Sanderson 0th law. So I called it the zeroth law for a couple of reasons. One is because Clark and Asimov I think both have a zeroth law and so it's a fun kind of insider joke. But the idea for this one was I was thinking about it then like, "Brandon do you really, do you really do all this when you're sitting down to design your magic system? Do you say 'Ooh what are the flaws? how do I..." you know. And the answer is "yes to an extent", but I'd be lying if I say that's the origin of my magic systems. That's how all these three laws... these are how I refine my magic systems and how I use them in my stories. Where do they originally come from? They come from Sanderson zero flaw which is always err on the side of what is awesome.

On 7/6/2017 at 7:45 PM, Spoolofwhool said:

It was about being a feruchemist. His father was one so he figured he had a good chance of being one, but never got his hands on gold until later in life to know that he was one.

This is insinuated more than anything else

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“Did you know you were an Allomancer?”[Marasi] asked.

“Sure. That was kinda why I was in the Roughs in the first place, but that’s another story. Anyway, bendalloy is hard to make. Bismuth and cadmium aren’t the kinds of metals you find in your corner store. Didn’t know much about Feruchemy yet, though my father was a Feruchemist, so I had an idea. But storing health, it takes gold.”
Alloy of Law - Chapter 10

Spear fighting and sword fighting are two entirely different forms will little to no overlap. Sure, a sword can mechanically perform the same actions as a spear head, or any other blade for that matter. But a spear is 85% handle, you hold it and move it and swing it differently. You can't use the handle of a sword in battle, but that is an important part for spearmen. 

This annotation answers the question, I think.

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The scene with Vin and the Inquisitor is the place where, finally, I got to bring some closure to the Reen plotline. What the Inquisitor says is true. When it came down to the end, Reen didn't betray Vin. He died before he let that happen.

Reen was not a good person. He beat Vin, he was selfish, and he was conniving. However, he did love his sister. Most of his beatings happened because he was worried that she would expose them somehow and get herself killed. He knew that the Inquisitors were chasing her because of her half-breed nature, and so he uprooted them constantly, moving from city to city. He kept her alive, teaching her to be harsh, but teaching her to survive.

And, in the end–after the Inquisitors got him–he didn't betray her. That says a lot about him.

Basically it was the only form of consequence he knew. Do something you shouldn't, get beat. Do something you should, don't get beat. He wanted to get across certain lessons, and this was how he reinforced them.

Are we sure the specific eye color is an effect of the order of radiant? I can't find any information saying that certain colors or gemstones are significant to each order.

If you have any interest in the full Cosmere, then yes, you should. At least once anyway. Given the pivotal roles it seems Stormlight and Mistborn will play in the full Cosmere arc, it might become essential later down the road (circa stormlight 9-10 or Mistborn era 4) when Brandon starts pulling everything together.

1 hour ago, Weltall said:

Here's wikipedia's summary, which might give a good idea what Scadiran gowns of the Final Empire era would look like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1795–1820_in_Western_fashion#Gowns

Oh... Thats that weird nightgown phase they went through. I don't like it.

I always envisioned early victorian era. Which is roughly the same technological level Scadrial was at when The Lord Ruler took over.

On 1/13/2018 at 4:03 PM, Walin said:

No; pewter increases strength and durability. However, it doesn't enhance healing very much or at all. That's more the territory of...Regrowth! And Gold Feruchemy!

But sadly, not pewter, in either Allomancy or Feruchemy.

You are correct. I was confusing Pewter with Gold for some reason.

Though I would be interested to find out if Gold can heal a shardblade wound.

I figured I'd round out the trifecta. I think I broke some rules in regards to article usage, but I'm not sure. Critique welcome.

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Life Before Death

Abounding life // To give us all // Self // All of us give // Life abounding

Strength Before Weakness

Mind and arm // A protecting strength // Young and old alike, old and young // Strength of protection // Arm and mind

Journey Before Destination

Step by step // Moving onward // Forward, ever forward // Onward moving // Step by step

I don't think so. Stormlight and Pewter both heal physical aliments. But healing from a shardblade wound seems to be more along the lines of reinvesting the life of the arm rather then ordinary healing.

On 1/9/2018 at 7:26 PM, Kingsdaughter613 said:

 in world Vin’s name is pronounced ‘Vah’. 

Why would this be the case? When reading, I'd have never read it like this. And neither does Michael Kramer.

If I recall correctly, Koloss are 5 people. A person and 4 spikes. This means once Koloss can breed true, they just become one person.

This seems interesting. Can you post any screenshots of it in use?

Argentum is Latin for Silver which we know to have no allomantic power. This site seems to get around that by introducing some Nickel. Either way, many of these are made up powers.