R_P_Gamer

Hello all. I visit these forums infrequently, typically only when some question about the cosmere is itching in the back of my head that I need an answer to (or at least a sounding board for). Well, that time has come again. In what I believe is my only other post on the 17th shard, i asked about what would happen in shadesmar if a ship containing peoples from a particular cosmere world was passing through in space in the physical world (would a ship from Scadrial be towing a bank of mist, a ship from Roshar thousands of tiny beads?), as we know mistborn will eventually push into the world of technology and science fiction. A reply to my question stated that they thought travel to and from worlds would be through worldhopping, and I thought no more of it until recently. But... how sure are we of that? Presumably, the first books to show us cosmere space travel in detail will be set on Scadrial, and Scadrial is maybe the only world in the cosmere that we know does NOT require worldhopping to get to other planets, just through the nature of the magic present on it. In alloy of law, we saw how feruchemy and the technology of the southern peoples of Scadrial could be combined to lower the mass of an object, something which not only allows Alec's people's ships to fly, but throws the entire rocket equation out of whack (provided the change in mass does not have an effect on the chemical potential energy of the rocket fuel) and potentially allowing near light-speed travel. Scadrians are also the only peoples who may have a means to travel the vast distances to other stars without dying on the way, as cadmium could presumably allow for the construction of stasis pods for the crew, greatly limiting what supplies need to be taken on a flight. Another point, the ones above from Sixth of the Dusk are... well... from ABOVE. They don't appear at the singularity, despite it being necessary to transition (and if they did appear there, I think they'd go straight home, Patji does NOT seem a hospitable place). What do you think? Have i missed some Word of Sanderson on this, or are we working entirely on speculation? Any thoughts about why physical space travel could or couldn't work, or why worldhopping is or isn't how the peoples of the cosmere will travel to other worlds?

I was aware of the ability to use other magic systems on the disparate cosmere worlds. It just seems so odd that hemalurgy is so ubiquitous. For the other magic systems, you are always... carrying something with you, or tapping into a more local power source. Breath is carried by an individual, surges come from a bonded spren and stormlight, sand mastery uses the invested sand of Taldain... Though... when you consider metal as the "key" to allomancy (by tapping into preservation/harmony), rather than the power source itself, that makes using hemalurgy about the same as using allomancy off of scadrial (something Hoid has presumably already done with Shallan's father)... Could that have something to do with Ruin and Preservation as universal forces? We are asked all the time in stormlight what spren really are, and how they are divided into natural forces and emotional or cognitive ones (wind spren and honor spren, for example), do you think shards could be divided similarly?

Hemalurgy is one of the most fascinating forms of investiture yet revealed in the cosmere books, but i also find some of its properties confusing, namely where and how it can be used. For example, hemalurgy doesn't seem to be restricted by place, allomancers only appear on scadrail, breath is granted to the peoples of nalthis, but you could use hemalurgy anywhere in the cosmere as long as you had the intent to create a hemalurgic spike, why is that? Can only scadrains create hemalurgic spikes, making it a part of the scadrain spiritual DNA? Do they need to be made with Scadrian metal? If neither of those are the case, is all metal in the cosmere invested with the ability to create hemalurgic spikes? If so how did THAT happen, when all of the other systems of magic are tied to their respective planets and shards? Second question is about worldhopping, and is more of a curiosity. We know that distances between worlds in the cognitive realm are significantly smaller than in the physical, i presume that this is because there isn't a whole lot of thinking going on in outer space. We also know that Mistborn will eventually go sci-fi, presumably resulting in starships out in the vastness of space, and therefore, thought. Would this create ripples or eddies in the cognitive realm for worldhoppers? I wonder what they would look like, considering the differences in the cognitive realms of each world. Would a rosharan starship create a pool of beads and a scadrian one a bank of mist?