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Except that the Basin people don't have those either anymore, nor are they getting any more ettmetal from the south to build more. They are also sufficiently disorganized and divided that they couldn't offer much resistance if SoScads invaded. In the future, I guess that they'll have to find their own ettmetal somewhere for the Cold War to happen. At the moment, SoScads have massive technological superiority, actual military experience _and_ the Bands. BTW, the new map is fairly confusing to me too - there is no ocean between the Basin and the South? Somebody could have just walked over? Did Sazed smoosh continents together during Catacendre? I think that he lied - he does that a lot.

Huh, this was a trip. Some thoughts, having just finished it: I didn't find the explanations about why Marsh couldn't be actively involved or why the Ghostbloods were caught with their pants down to the degree that they have been, convincing. Harmony clearly created atium and lerasium in that second lab explosion* and withheld atium from Marsh until the dust settled... why exactly? He was still able to enhance Wax and Wayne, so he isn't completely paralysed and having Marsh functional would have required less active intervention. Additionally, you'd think that Kelsier would have learned how to manipulate Connection to slow/stop aging during his stint as Preservation and shared it with his brother. Also, no medallion use by the Ghostbloods, not even of the medallions commonly available in SoScad, where Kelsier seems to spend considerable amount of time?! I understand that Marasi is supposed to have different strengths than personal combat prowess and weight manipulation is Wax's signature "thing", but that was just jarringly unbelievable. Also, you'd think that Wax and Steris would have funded aluminum equipment for her use. *there is no way that the Set wouldn't have discovered the god metals, after all their experimentation with blowing up ettmetal with trellium, if they had been the normal product of this process. And speaking of SoScads, what on Scadrial is the deal with the Bounds of Mourning? Who made them, since now it clearly couldn't have been Kelsier? Was it TLR, after all? Was it Sazed, maybe? Spook and some unknown Full Feruchemist who survived Catacendre? Or only first manifestedhis power during the 10 years before Kelsier went South? Who drained them? Why the whole rigmarole with the temple? Was Daal snatching them part of Kelsier's plan? What is to prevent them from attacking the Basin now that the threat of the Bands is gone? And, of course, we learned nothing about the medallion production, except for one thing in appendices: Second Era hemalurgists can't compound. Which throws out most of the theories about their making. The hints about what happened to Kelsier are quite intriguing - I guess that he probably has a mistwraith body, as has been speculated? Which is why he can't use Metallic arts? Though Harmony might be lying about some of it. OTOH, medallions work on the kandra, and presumably he had been able to use the Bands, so I don't understand why he didn't make some for his own usage before giving them up, not to mention that he should, again, have access to SoScad ones. Oh, and things like Breaths and such, I imagine. I am 100% with him on making Metallic Arts widely available and very much hope that we'll finally see it in the 3rd Mistborn trilogy. What we learned about Harmony is quite ominous - he really needs to learn to use his Ruin to protect Scadrial instead of trying to suppress it completely. Not sure why he doesn't produce atium either. Lerasium I understand, since making it would weaken his Preservation even further. Also, did he really kill Wax's parents, and, presumably his cousin? And tried to kill Telsin? Speaking of whom, I somewhat understand her bitterness towards Wax from their youth, since he not only had won a genetic joker in Metallic powers, but was also treated as heir presumptive to the Ladrians despite being younger and less politically capable, due to sexism. It must have been hard to hear that in the end even Autonomy liked him better. Set's research into synthetic hemalurgy is very exciting! Too bad that it is more than likely lost, if Shai can't be recovered and returned to her normal state. The permanency of her mark is more than a bit odd, since in the Emperor's Soul marks on people had to be renewed every day and her jar of investiture should be finite. Is she going to experience Reod when it runs out, I wonder? I was very glad to see her again, though! I generally liked the trajectories of the central characters. They felt appropriate and satisfying. I have felt that Marasi should be a great reformer from the beginning, but with Wax with Steris's help seemingly moving into this spot in the preview chapters, I was also excited by her potentially becoming a worldhopper. This decision felt fitting for who she is, however. Ditto for the rest of them, particularly Wayne. The Ghotsbloods need to up their recruitment game, though - that's the second protagonist turning them down. At least this time it was amicable and with possibility of a future collaboration. Oh, and I almost forgot - who were Autonomy's soldiers? They couldn't have just been Iriali, could they? I mean, in such a case, even with better guns they wouldn't have been as devastating as all that? Are they some kind of Awakened constructs or similar? And how would they have cleared Scadrial of all sentient life?

There are also some small birds in the Nightwatcher's valley - Dalinar makes note of them in his respective chapter in OB.

Given who their boss is, they surely have access to something better than the Southern medallions - like medallions for powers that SoScads don't yet know how to make, with more than 3 abilities, etc. I wouldn't expect Kelsier to outfit them with the Bands of Mourning, nor with unsealed metalminds that they can re-fill themselves, but otherwise it is a fair game. They may also have hemalurgic spikes. I am sure that's what Mraize did to poor Gereh. And speaking of Mraize in particular, I am certain that his ability to easily and quickly insinuate himself into groups of people despite his memorable appearance and, according to Shallan, mediocre acting skills, is due to a medallion or a spike.

Some more thoughts: So, the idea about a squad to deal with Metalborn criminals is a nod to Era 3, or the original idea for it, but it never made any sense to me that they don’t have that already. Maybe not fully integrated into police structure, but working on more lucrative contracts, like the Coinshot messengers in SoS. How are they supposed to police illegal use of emotional allomancy like SoS said they do, if they don’t employ Seekers? How are they supposed to overpower Thugs and Coinshots? Not to mention how incredibly useful tin allomancy and feruchemy could be for finding evidence. Etc, etc. But what I find even more jarring is that we didn’t see any Metalborn among security forces of the Houses either! Except for that one Seeker in Winstig’s employ. You’d think that House Tekiel would have thrown the Metalborn guards and investigators at the Vanisher problem, but nope, we have only seen mooks who were easily mown down. Ditto Erikell’s payroll in BoM. Ditto the governers’s security in SoS – I guess that Paalm could have fired all Metalborn, but then it should have been something for Wax to notice. Basically, Our Heroes are always the only Metalborn on the scene defending public order, which, to me, feels very contrived and actually diminishes them. Why not show how they are better than other powered professionals in the field instead of reserving Metallic Arts just for the protagonists and the opposition, with everybody else being hopelessly overmatched? Oh, and there are also missed opportunities to show how allomancy is a part of everyday life – there was some of it in SoS, but for example why doesn’t Wax ever see other Coinshots and possibly Lurchers hurry on their errands or working in sky-scraper construction when he jumps around the city? Why is he always alone? Etc. This is my main issue with Era 2, which I otherwise enjoy, as I was reminded on my just finished re-read – the comic-book mentality. Though, I guess that it fits with Wax and Wayne’s adventures being turned into comics in Era 3… It wouldn’t surprise me if the family of the man he has killed is named as Wayne’s heirs in any case. Though lurid rumors of the kid’s parentage might dog them for their whole life, anyway, particularly if Wayne gets killed in this book or choses to disappear at some point. As to the men of gold and red, I have a crackpot idea that they are (SA spoiler)

I thought that Kelsier was the strongest Mistborn of his time, until Vin appeared? And that this, along with with being a superbly coordinated person used to make split-second life-and-death decisions due to his previous life experience is what made him so powerful so quickly? I mean, he had only been a Mistborn for a couple of years at the beginning of TFE and his training with Gemmel was quite short.

The memories degrade with each retrieval, though, so the same may be the case with Nicrosil Feruchemy. Anyway, I think that the excisors aren't hemalurgic spikes, but universal metalminds, in which anyone can store and which anyone can tap. Probably made from an atium-lerasium alloy or a stable alloy of both with ettmetal. It was strongly implied that excisors weren't something that the SoScads could replicate, while I am pretty certain that they routinely use hemalurgy in the ways outlined in Spook's book. Given that Spook's ideas there had to come from Kelsier. And that Metal powers are much more scarce in the South, so they can't afford to lose them to Metalborn dying, or leave the likelyhood that enough people with powers essential for making medallions would be born in each generation, to chance. Not to mention that you really need twin metal compounding to produce them in sufficient quantity. I also think that hemalurgy was used to make it possible for anyone to use the medallions. WoBs say that burning a hemalurgic spike that is outside one's body is like trying to burn somebody else's metalmind - i.e. an allomancer would sense the charge, but couldn't access it. But what about burning a spike that is in one's body, in a correct bind-point? I think I saw somewhere that it would be exceedingly painful and would knock a person out - but I couldn't find the relevant WoB just now. However, Kelsier could get around it by flaring pewter or even using a Duralumin push while burning both the spike and pewter. So, I think that he had an F-Nicrosil spike put into his body and burned it while storing his Identity in aluminum and manipulating Connection in such a way that the charge reacts as if it is a correctly inserted spike, when it just touches somebody's skin, and stored the result in Nicrosil, using his native Nicrosil Feruchemic ability as a Fullborn. Now, the good thing is that it only needs to be done once and then a stock can be indefinitely maintained and amplified either by somebody having both Nicrosil powers and F-Aluminum via spikes or by using universal metalminds*. Like cheese cultures are/were IRL. Then individual powers are amplified via unkeyed twin metal compounding and stored in Nicrosil, etc. Ditto heat/connection/memory in the respective metals Yes, I know that people seemingly don't tap powers separately when using medallions, but immediately access attribute storages. IMHO we don't know enough to explain it. It also seems likely that there are nuances to storing individual powers in Nicrosil and possibly also their compounding, so that each requires a somewhat different method. Which is why we saw medallions for some powers, but not others. *Here is how I think that it could work with universal metalminds - an Aluminum Ferring stores his ability while storing Identity. Then a Nicrosil Ferring does the same. Then a Nicrosil Misting burns the hemalurgically charged stock originally provided by Kelsier while storing Identity and tapping F-Nicrosil, stores it in a Nicrosil metalmind and burns it. Rinse, repeat. You can short-cut a lot of it if everybody has 3 spikes, but to make a medallion with 2 powers you'd still need to use universal metalminds a couple of times for transfer between the Metalborn involved.

It probably has, because _any_ Mistborn would have provided stronger allomantic heritage to their offspring than any Mistings. But let's not forget that Wax's mother was a Terriswoman and that neither his uncle nor his sister were allomancers. There was also no hint that Wax's father had been one. So, it isn't like being descended from Breeze and Alliandre between 10 and 15 generations back guaranteed anything re: allomantic talents. In fact even back during FE being a noble didn't ensure having allomancy, though, of course some who supposedly lacked it may just have been Mistings of as yet unknown metals.

Nobility was forbidden to interbreed with the skaa and the Terris, though, so allomancy mainly remained within a relatively small group of people, who intermarried with each other. That was no longer the case after the Catacendre, so abilities got diluted more. Feruchemy and allomancy genes also interfere with each other, which is why there are no full feruchemists around in era 2, just ferrings. No, according to Word of Brandon (WoB), Spook was actually a very weak Mistborn. And also, they reached the bottom, as far as weakening is concerned. The real reason, of course, is that Sanderson wanted to write about people using a few abilities skillfully and cleverly, rather than just being massively overpowered, like the Mistborn were.

What a brilliant - and horrifying, plan! I do think that turning Scadrial peoples against each other, exploding the Basin and causing nuclear winter everywhere else as a consequence, are all part of weakening Harmony for the coup de grace. Since WoBs suggest that Trell will continue to be a problem in Era 3, something needs to change about Harmony to make him less vulnerable. I really, really hope that it isn't a change of Vessel, but rather Sazed integrating his powers better and learning to use his excess Ruin against the outside threats to Scadrial. Ettmetal will also need to change - MAD can't work if one of the sides would like nothing more than mutual annihilation and it is that easy to achieve! Nor can Harmony just withhold it entirely, since it is the foundation of Scadrian magitech.

Whew, I for one, am glad that no legendary metals were obtained so easily. But since WoBs strongly suggest that Trell will continue to be a problem in Era3, something needs to change to make Scadrial less fragile, while retainining foundations of it’s magitech. So, Harmony can’t just stop producing ettmetal, but it needs to become less explosive? I am somewhat disappointed how the issue with Allriandre was uni-laterally decided by Wayne without her having her say or appearing on page. First he stalked and harassed her for years, now he arranged things in such a way that people are going to think that she is his (ex)mistress. All even without a courtesy of a letter or anything. I also thought that Wayne would have invested in something else cool – like air plane invention, expeditions beyond the Roughs, etc. Or, you know, put money towards feeding poor children, though I guess his housing projects fill the charity niche somewhat. Instead – cars and sports? Oh well. How is he hoping to keep his wealth secret with all these cars? He must only very rarely have a chance to drive any of them. I am now also very curious about the unusual provisions of his trust. I love Steris’s PoV and also that at long last Marasi and her have actual conversations and a relationship. Having re-read the Era 2 books, it is really weird how they have no meaningful interaction in AoL or SoS, though it begins to improve in BoM. Constable Garglen is totally an offworlder, namely a , yea? It has been mentioned that he had occasionally been Marasi’s police partner in the past, and he is freakishly tall. His reports must have got his organization interested in her. Both Wayne and Wax have ominous vibes around them! Well, we’ll see who, if anybody, bites it. Concerning VenDell impersonating the Cycle – it should be a bit difficult since Marasi is the only one who heard him speak? And also he needs to somehow imitate the man’s Metallic powers, of which we saw only 2 out of 4 during the fight, IIRC. Marasi being a woman won't help with the subterfuge either, because so far there have been few women among either the lower-tier Set operatives or the gangs they hired. So they would be particularly memorable/noticeable. And, of course, Telsin knows Marasi's face. Here is to hoping that Wayne creates a good disguise for her.

Given all the stuff that Wayne heals from without being a Gold Twinborn, I'd say that a Bloodmaker with decent health stores definitely could swallow harmonium in oil suspension and survive the process. Excellent point about stomach acid, @Bzhydack - but IMHO it would still be far too dangerous for anyone but a Gold Ferring, because what if a flake of it touches tissue before arriving in the stomach? They really should have experimented on Wayne, eh?

Far more than that. The chimaeras in Shadows of Self were also transformed via trellium spikes. Whether or not the medallions routinely require hemalurgy to be made, making medallions of the Aviar powers certainly would. And presumably the few birds that the factions intend to let the natives retain, if them claiming that they do is not a lie, wouldn't change the balance of great powers in any meaningful way, even if the opposition gets it's hands on them. These powers may be particularly effective in combination with those the factions already have? Particularly Rosharans probably could profit from abilities similar to Metallic Arts. For instance, a Seeker probably can detect the use of Surgebinding, so having an Aviar with Coppercloud effect, like one of the Sixth's would be quite helpful for the latter. The Scadrians may just want to keep the birds away from Rosharans. I just don't see how one could distill metal from the Aviar anymore than one could produce lerasium out of allomancers. It is also entirely possible that Trell went to Scadrial as a response to the Ghostblood meddling with some of Autonomy's worlds. Though Autonomy claiming multiple worlds is kinda cheating, of course. Nah, I don't see Shallan as a founder of the Set or anything, though given that there are WoBs that Trell would continue to be a nuisance into era 3, IIRC, I could imagine her cooperating with them on some things. It does seem that Trell is afraid of Scadrial falling under Odium's sway in the future - i.e. "men of gold and red" and it's attempts to destroy Scadrial are in part aimed to prevent this.

OTOH, Trell, who is very likely an Avatar of Autonomy, IMHO, seems to be rather profligate with their metal, given all the trellium spikes that we have seen in action so far. So, I don't know about it being so rare. Concerning the Aviar, maybe they can be utilized in making of the medallions? Or Scadrians just want to deny their abilities to other powerful space-faring civilizations, even though they themselves don't gain much from posessing them, because of similarity of powers. We also haven't seen all their powers - I doubt that they are prized on the mainland for the same kind of abilities as Sixth made use of in his story. Indeed. It seems to me that much in the situation in Era 4 and attendant hostilities will be about the consequences of prior meddlings of various entities and organizations on worlds alien to them playing out. Ghostbloods on Roshar, Ire and Trell on Scadrial, etc.

So, the offworlders recruiting Marasi from the blurb are , as expected. I have been wondering why they haven’t already dealt with the Set, but at least they seem to be investigating at long last. Are they a on Scadrial? If so, then not as overtly as elsewhere, or Wax and Marasi would have recognized their symbol. There would have been too much of the conflict of interest for Marasi as well. And, of course, there likely was no need, when What does the symbol remind Wax of, though? Apparently it is a reversed marewill flower. Does it being reversed have any deeper significance? Never mind, it is not actually reversed, I am just confused . The note seems uncharacteristically clumsy and not remotely circumspect. Unless they want to recruit them all, perhaps? It is also as good as confirmed in my eyes that trellium is I imagine that we’ll find out that even if that explosion did successfully split ettmetal , it got mostly converted into energy. There may be some trace amounts of atium and lerasium, but you’d need a humongous explosion to get enough of them to be useful. Particularly the latter. Which would nicely limit the likelyhood of producing new Mistborn. I really hope that nobody becomes one in LoM. I suspect that we’ll see some atium, though, and given the WoB retcon that we didn’t actually learn what pure atium does in the first trilogy, it will be revealed here. Will this book lead to a better integration of Harmony? I wouldn’t want them to lose ettmetal or anything, or for the Shard to change hands, but I have long thought that his excess Ruin could be aimed at the outside threats to Scadrial without upsetting the balance on the home planet. Can’t kandra eat human food and in fact have to do so during their impersonations? They just don’t particularly like it. But then again, if they faithfully copy a human body, wouldn’t they also copy taste buds? Do we know for sure that Paalm chose to remove one of her spikes to begin with? Couldn’t she have been ambushed and had it removed against her will? I don’t know how I feel about Wayne continuing to stalk and harass the daughter of a man he had murdered for 6 more years, and being only told to stop now. IMHO, it would have been better handled as a flashback and involving Allriandre herself as an active participant. Didn’t she want to study law? Maybe she should have sued him to stay away from them or something. I’d very much like to learn what she is doing as an adult. It would make her feel like a character with agency and not just a prop for Wayne’s characterization. P.S. Ouch, I accidentally posted a lot of cosmere spoilers - I hope that I have hid them all.

Not only that, but Kelsier is a Sliver of Preservation and we saw him in Secret History resolving to learn as much as he could about the Cosmere, so that he could protect Scadrial from any outside dangers. He is pretty much the opposite of Trell, who wants to genocide and possibly destroy Scadrial!

I am not sure that's true. Didn't Odium intend to do just that with Dalinar after winning the duel of champions? To send him out into Cosmere as his human Fused emissary? Just because the Fused don't know how to leave doesn't mean that Odium or any Shard, is equally ignorant. He himself is imprisoned in the Rosharan system by the powers of Honor and Cultivation, but they aren't. Concerning Axindweth, I think that she was a Ghostblood, while Gereh was of the 17 Shard.

Feruchemy. It is just more versatile and allround useful. Some metals benefit you both storing and tapping, BTW: brass, bendalloy, tin, while iron is actually mainly useful for storing. Storing mental speed in zinc could also help when doing something simple, repetitive and boring, but necessary. Or to fall asleep sooner, etc. I also don't think that storing speed and strength when you are relaxing or engaging in something requiring primarily mental activity would be all that miserable. Etc. F-Tin is actually much better than A-Tin, given that you can chose what sense to enhance, so wouldn't be so vulnerable to distractions or sense overload. And also, in the era of unkeyed metalminds, well, there are WoBs that it can store senses from powers, like bronze sense or steelsight. Maybe even sense of balance and timing that constitutes A-pewter's "grace"? A really underated and extremely versatile ability, in other words. And sure, you can't fly without technical aids with Feruchemy, but you would be able to make big jumps or fly muscle-powered gliders, where iRL the main obstacle for it is human weight. Oh, and F-tin would, of course help detecting helpful air currents. So, lots of cool applications, beyond the merely useful ones, IMHO.

I agree with you - particularly if we are talking about a double steel compounder. My current head- cannon is that a human wouldn't have been able to replicate Paalm's feats without incurring a debilitating injury. She was also using up life-long storages of a Ferring in a couple of bursts of super-poweredness and, of course, also had centuries of experience as an assassin. So, a simple steel Ferring probably wouldn't be that overpowered or skilled. But a compounder, who'd have unlimited speed storages and all the opportunity in the world to actually practice with them? Yea. OTOH, a Mistborn would be able to easily take Miles or any other Twinborn, except for the steel compounder out. I mean, the trick with Miles was to take off his exterior metalminds and then hurt him until his implanted ones ran dry. A combination of steel, iron, pewter and electrum allomancy + duralumin-boosted chromium once he is immobilized would do nicely. In any shoot-out, a Mistborn with tin, pewter, electrum and bendalloy would have an overwhelming advantage too. Once you bring in feruchemical medallions, it gets even worse, because now a Mistborn can compound. IMHO, 16 basically unlimited powers is just too much. Even in the first trilogy, with fewer powers, everyone except for the Mistborn and Sazed was side-lined for that reason. And Elend was even made into a Mistborn to remain relevant. It worked well enough there, but repetition of the same pattern would be boring. IMHO, lots of people having access to some powers and the protagonists having to be clever and skilled to prevail, rather than relying on an unbeatable inborn advantage, like they did in the first and to somewhat lesser, but still significant degree in the second series, would be much more interesting*. Re: badass normals, sadly the only times when they don't feel incredibly contrived is when they are the brains of the operation or technical/ emotional support. Hazekillers did well enough against single mistings, I am sure, but they weren't much of an obstacle for the Mistborn. And would have been even less so with all the additional metals. *Which is why I was somewhat disappointed by the fact that there were again so few Metalborn in Era 2, when the mist-snappings should have resulted in 16% of the survivors of Catacendre being mistings. For that matter, while Sazed was remaking them, he could have made everybody who wasn't already a Misting a Ferring without disturbing his Ruin-Preservation balance. But maybe, hopefully a society where everyone has some powers, whether naturally or mechanically will appear in eras 3 or 4? It would be much fresher and an interesting inversion of the usual trope of a few rare powered individuals among the sea of normals.

Except that Mistborn would have access to all these things too, for even more overpoweredness. Compounding via feruchemical medallions, ettmetal grenades that they can charge on the fly with any allomantic metal, etc. Aluminum guns and bullets aren't very good either and being practiced at burning electrum would help avoiding getting hit by them. As Mistborn era 1 demonstrated, there is no matching a halfway skilled Mistborn, even as a group, unless you are a full Feruchemist with sufficient stores. Full Feruchemists without compounding were at least limited by the need for preparedness and clever use of finite resources. I also don't see why broad mechanical access to the Metallic Arts and advanced technology shouldn't be enough to make Scadrial powerful in the future? Why can't Kelsier remain the only Mistborn, since he is hanging around throughout Mistborn series chronology anyway? Why be so attached to heroes who are special by birth?

The plot thickens! Given Marasi's mention of tectonics, there is totally a giant tectonic fault under Elendel that was stabilized by Harmony, right? And the Set intends to dump a massive ettmetal-trellium bomb in it, which they think would not only destroy the city, but also cause ash-mounts to erupt. The Set having enough ettmetal for this endeavor likely means that they have found a source of ettmetal on the northern continent - maybe even around Bilming? Or that Trell has been working on the southern continent too and SoScads supplied it. Though this does seem less likely, given the many covert flights that would have been required to transport it. OTOH if they unloaded outside the Basin and skirted it during their flights, they could have done so undetected. Ettmetal may then have been brought to Bilming under a guise of normal ore caravans from the Roughs. I love Wax's and Steris's scientific experiments, but I am in the minority re: lerasium. I don't want the Mistborn to return - they are far too overpowered, even more so with the new era 2 metals, and therefore boring. I also suspect that having them would skew Harmony's Ruin-Preservation balance even more. I'd rather see people being clever and creative with a handful of powers via medallions, which also have the advantage of not requiring a win in genetic lottery to access. Melaan breaking up with Wayne should better not be a prelude to pairing him up with Marasi! Not every friendship between people of different genders needs to turn into romance!

Given the experiments with anti-lights in RoW, maybe the same could be done with Shard investiture in metallic form. Could trellium be anti-harmonium somehow?

@robardin, a good summary, but IMHO there are reasons to suspect that the real maximum limit on one medallion if no Fullborn, Mistborn or Full Feruchemists are involved in it's production would be 4 powers. Let's not forget that the Metalborn are much rarer in the South, which would mean that Twinborn would be vanishingly rare and 2 of them probably haven't been alive at the same time during the last 3 centuries. And number 4 would fit better with 16 allomantic metals. In other words, I think that the limit is not in the stacking of powers, but in the number of people involved. Which for 2-power medallions would probably be either 2 or 3 if hemalurgy is part of the process, depending on how Connection is involved in making them. Also, all medallions that were on Allik's ship had 2 powers, IIRC - F-Brass and F-Iron for heat and weight or F-Duralumin and F-Iron for translation and weight. So, it doesn't seem that combining 2 powers is difficult for modern Malwish, on tha contrary, it appears to be the norm.

Hm, interesting that Harmony apparently only now starts sending kandra out into cosmere. I thought that some suspected worldhoppers in other books may have been kandra and even MeLaan herself some years/decades ago, but apparently not… There is a set up here for Marasi becoming a worldhopper and I very much hope that it comes to pass. Maybe the woman briefly seen in chapter 8 was not another member of the Set, but somebody from the organization mentioned in the blurb? And she recognized Marasi as a possible asset? I also hope that Wax doesn’t forget to warn Allik about the new ambassador – the poor guy is very much going to find himself between a rock and a hard place shortly and will have to chose between going home for good or staying ditto. Who are the university researchers investigating spikes? I thought that in the previous book spikes went to the kandra? I’d really like to see people other than Our Heroes figuring stuff out. My wish is for hemalurgy on Scadrial to eventually become something like donating a kidney, rather than murder and robbery. Oh, and trellium _is_ silvery, just with reddish spots. Maybe an alloy of atium with some other godmetal, after all?

We have seen (former captain) Demoux from the first Mistborn trilogy on Roshar in the Purelake Interlude in WoK, and he is a Misting. There was never any indication that Metalborn are limited in their movement across cosmere in any way. There were also at least 3 Seons on Roshar in RoW - Shallan, Mraize and Hoid all had one apiece. It is currently unclear why the method used to move Seons around can't be applied to spren, Heralds, Fused or Kelsier.