Maelstrom

Hey, @AC12! Don't listen to people like @MasterJack! The cookies here are perfectly safe! Have a Cookie and upvote! What is your favorite Sanderson book?

I think that, when making a post, there is an option for either making the post a 'content' or 'poll' There should be a dropdown menu with a 'content' as default.

Hello! Welcome to the 17th Shard! Have a freshly baked cookie and an upvote! English is my first language, but I think that's awesome that you read Sanderson's books in English and French!

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Hello... I am hoping to become a denizen... I did this... I own a mine... Jak stole my key... can I join... Hemalurgy, although not at all related to what goes on here, is very whimsical and has endless possibilities....

That it is, fellow cosmere lover. Since you are new here, I would like to offer you an amazing gift. There are free cookies everywhere, and the majority of the sanderfans would love to offer you one... They're delicious

OB and WoR spoilers about Szeth, But if you don't want to read that here's this Alcatraz one: Alcatraz had very dark talents He thought he was not very valiant He found some good friends But then it all ends Because his darn father upset the balance

I was just browsing the coppermind when I thought of this, so feel free to shoot me down: If a Koloss blooded human was born with the ability to burn aluminum, would they be able to appear human? Aluminum burners can get rid of unwanted investiture by burning, correct? So if an aluminum 'gnat' with Koloss blood got rid of their investiture, would they gain the appearance and abilities of a normal human? The Koloss were only created by adding hemalurgic spikes, so would burning aluminum reverse those effects? Brandon said that: If so, chromium burners would make a fortune off Koloss Blooded...

If you want to find a book with a lot of hints facts, you should try Arcanum Unbounded, as it has many hints facts that were not well known before. However, it is a short story collection, and I've heard some people don't like those. You still will have to check WoB's and the forums for more tidbits of cosmere-ish things. Good luck!

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Is it wrong that I want to see this? When the series gets farther along, perhaps in era 3 or 4, the government passes a law that allows the elderly to donate their allomatic powers to science? So allomancers or feruchemists consent to being spiked at the end of their lives and allow their powers to live on after them? That would allow scientists to experiment with the powers and for compounders to be created easily. Would that be too inhumane?

Hello there! I was re-reading the part of Oathbringer when Dalinar kind of ascended-ish and, when Odium thought Dalinar had ascended, he screamed: "We killed you!" Does this mean that multiple shards-maybe Odium and Cultivation- teamed up to destroy Honor? Any theories or answers?

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This has most likely been asked, but I cannot find it. In the fifteenth chapter, Alcatraz talks about doing something with the first fourteen chapters? I can’t figure it out for the life of me. Can someone answer my question or direct me to the appropriate thread? Thanks!

Honestly I’d like to be a narcosil ferring and a coinshot. I feel that the ability to vary your pushes and pulls by flaring the steel then varying your capability to burn steel would be extremely useful. Most people aren’t constantly burning metals, so the metalmind would be easy to fill.

Hello, this is my first theory, so here goes. The twinborn system of thought says that being an allomancer can enhance your feruchemy, but it does not work the other way around. There is now way known for other systems of power to augment your ability to burn a certain metal. For example, there is a way to gain almost limitless speed with steel but no way for feruchemy to enhance the way you sense metals with steel. I've noticed that there may be a triangle of power throughout the mistborn series. The first point is that Allomancy enhances Feruchemy in the twinborn. When burning a metalmind, you can release its power tenfold. I have a theory that, in some way, Feruchemy can enhance Hemalurgy and Hemalurgy can enhance Allomancy. The obvious way Hemalurgy can enhance Allomancy is by spiking an allomancer and increacing their power, as was done to Vin. But could burning a hemalurgic spike release some of the stolen power into your body? On Feruchemy enhancing Hemalurgy, what would happen when a metalmind is a hemalurgic spike? Could the spiritual identity of the metalmind and the person recieving the spike be altered in a way that they would be able to gain some sort of power from the spike? ie. a brute ferring with a pewter hemalurgic spike. The ferring could tap existing stores in the spike, or have the power he stores become augmented by the hemalurgic properties? I hope this may become a discussion about the interactions between different powers in the mistborn universe If there is already a topic about this, please direct me too it and I'll discontinue this one. Feel free to correct me, add to the theory, or shoot me down. I'm pretty new to this.

That is an amazing point! The only question would be how she got the gold. Do you think that she could have been drawing tiny bits of Preservation’s power when she didn’t have her earring? For example, her pewter reserves were replenished automatically just after she drew upon preservation’s power to defeat the Lord Ruler. Could she take in small amounts of metals whenever her earring isn’t on?

I’ve read most of sandersons books except the shorter stories like perfect state. I haven’t yet finished oathbringer though.

Hello! I’m semi-new here! I can’t wait to (hopefully) start interacting here! I picked up the Rithmatist about four years ago and ever since have been reading Brandon Sanderson’s works. And... um... I prefer brownies over cookies? Do you guys have any cool info for the 17th shard other than don’t accept cookies? : )