Scion of the Mists

Then yes, he is making “mini-Shards” - sort of. All Splinters (e.g. spren, seons, etc) can be though of as mini-Shards. They can have sentience/sapience, autonomy, and even their own intent. However, they’re still considered part of their parent Shard. The Stormfather is still of Honor, even if he’s a separate being.

What exactly are you referring to by "creating lesser shards"? Are you talking about him Splintering Ambition/Honor, him stuffing Dominion/Devotion in the CR, or something else?

I think he'd get the stored weight back out, not that it'd be turned into stored speed. I don't think that the stored attribute is going to change when the metal is alloyed. He would still not be able to compound though: If it produces weight, he wouldn't be able to store the weight in the steel, because it's the wrong metal. If it's converted to speed, he wouldn't be able to store the speed, because he's not a Steelrunner. To be able to successfully compound, you need to be able to both store and burn using the same metal.

I believe you are overestimating the amount of control that Shards have over their magic systems - it's not absolute. For example, a Shard can't refuse to power a magic user. Also, the magic systems "weren't 100% created by the Shards, bu they do also have the Shard's influence on them."

Wouldn't it make more sense to put your argument/theory in it's own thread, and then link people to that thread? Also, I think you are overestimating the number of things that have proof (vice just being theories).

Because Nalthis is one of the primary Shadesmar destinations. It's a lot easier and less dangerous to get to than Scadrial, Sel, and Taldain. They even have customs!

Yes, the Surges are a Roshar- or Cosmere-wide phenomena, and are separate from Surgebinding, which is a particular method of accessing the Surges. Whether or not you lump pre-Cataclysm and post-Cataclysm Ashyn Surge-wielding into "Surgebinding" is largely a matter of semantics. What I meant by Odium "copying" the Rosharan version Surgebinding, I mean that the Fused's magic system is extremely similar or identical to the modern Rosharan KR system (obviously one of the Surges is missing), and distinct from the Ashyn versions.

It will not be possible unless Harmony specifically makes it so. My interpretation of what Brandon's said on the matter was always that the Shard whose metal it is is the one that has to work to make it Allomantically viable (by e.g. Investing in Scadrial), rather than Preservation/Harmony.

Yeah, it's not confirmed that literally all the native-to-Roshar magic deals with gemhearts (most, but not all). As far as the Ryshadium go, I don't think I'd consider them natural magic, as they're not native to Roshar. In fact Brandon has drawn a parallel between them and the humans, as "non-native species who have started to form spren bonds like native species do." The WoBs we have on them don't mention any external involvement, they just use phrases like "they evolved symbiotically" and "a symbiotic bond with a spren has started happening."

He appears in almost everyone of Brandon's works (every novel, some of the shorter works). Have you checked out the Coppermind yet? It's basically the Cosmere Wikipedia. Hoid's article has a list of all of his appearances: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Hoid#History. P.s. Double (or quad) posting is against the site rules. If you need to add something to a previous post, you can use the "edit" button. Or, if you want to reply to multiple people you can do it all in the same post. You can quote additional people by using the "plus" sign (multi-quote) or by highlighting the passage you want to quote and hovering over it with the cursor, which will display the "quote this" option.

According to the Stormfather, the Fused did not originally have access to the Surges. From Oathbringer chapter 38: I think you are overestimating the amount of control that the Shards have over their magic systems. Magic systems have been described as a natural outcome of the interaction between a Shard and a planet. When Odium copied the Surgebinding that the Honorblades granted, he was probably restricted in what he could do. Otherwise, why not make all Fused able to use all the Surges?

My interpretation of that WoB is not that each of the three magic systems are a blend of both Shards, but rather that the collective systems stem from the Shards (i.e. Hemalurgy->Ruin, Allomancy->Preservation, Feruchemy->Both). There are other (more recent) WoBs that explicitly say that Hemalurgy is "of pure Ruin." P.s. It's helpful if you use the "copy" feature from Arcanum, because it includes a link to the WoB as well as the date (which can be relevent). Or at least put a link to it.

FWIW, I wouldn't really consider this to be a game as much as a physics simulator. Anyway, here's what Brandon's website says is his policy on fan-made media:

Feruchemy, not Hemalurgy, is from the combination of the two Shards. Hemalurgy is Ruin's magic system. You've used this term a bunch - what does it mean?

Yes.

Don't worry about it - some people are just better at spotting those kinds of things. I missed almost every single appearance of Hoid. I had read through all of Mistborn + WoK/WoR before finding out that the two series were connected...

Yes - see the series' Coppermind page: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Mistborn_(series). We don't know a ton about it except that it'll be a Sci-Fi series and is the finale of the Cosmere saga. The Era 4 WoBs: https://wob.coppermind.net/adv_search/?tags=mistborn+era+4

For future reference, the Coppermind article on Hoid has a listing of all of his appearances: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Hoid#History.

I see that now. I was referring to your post from Friday when you said that one thing that struck you about Nohadon's vision was "how that entity was referred to as a Surgebinder and not a Radiant." For the inverted First Ideal to be how the Fused gain power, that would mean that it came before the Knights Radiant First Ideal (as the Fused predated the KR by a lot). That would mean that the Fused version was the original and the KR version was the inverted one, which just doesn't feel right.

@Eran of Arcadia Have you checked out the Coppermind yet? It's the Cosmere version of Wikipedia. The article on the Oathpact has a great synopsis:

I think everything in the first two sections has been confirmed already. All evidence points to the "magic numbers" being tied to the planets, not the Shards themselves.

Brandon RAFOing a question doesn't tell us anything. It's the Brandon equivalent of "no comment."

That was my assumption too.

Red in the Cosmere frequently symbolized corruption (i.e. corrupted Investiture).

So you think that Hoid's overall goal in the story is to rid himself of the effects of various magics? That doesn't seem nearly grand enough for Hoid.