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Possible Answers: 1: The Lord Ruler caught them. He's strong enough that he'd see them coming the moment they walked in the door 2: They made plenty of noise. Inquisitors would have definately heard something with tin 3: Ironlines go through walls. Hence, Inquisitors probably see through walls, exposing Vin and Kelsier 4: Tripple Bronze Inquisitor, or maybe even a double, may be able to pierce a double coppercloud regardless of if it stacks 5: It's not like they stayed very close together at some points, it's plausbile that they stopped overlapping long enough to be spotted 6: Maybe overlapping doesn't double the effect. Maybe it simply didn't raise it enough to matter. My.....6 cents.

We don't know and I think Brandon RAFO'd it when somebody asked. The metal is simply to valuable, rare, and (currently) impossible to get that there really isn't a way to know what it does Feruchemically and Hemalurgically. Hopefully AoL2 and the second trilogy will tell us something.

I've considered this as well. Notice that AonDor is named for Aona, another shard. Keep in mind that the Terris people interacted with Preservation, and would probably learn things from him that way. It could also be something you inherently learn from holding the power of Atium, similar to the well. Also, I'd imagine the Elantrians had interaction with Devotion, so that could explain it too... Argh, so much we don't know! I hope the next Cosmere book is a much a goldmine as WoK was, because we really need a few more Red Herrings to run in circles with...

I never liked the idea of Parshmen being Voidbringers. Why? There are 10 more books. No way Brandon's showing us the hidden enemy of legend and using the timebomb thing again. I always figured they were some kind of servant of Honor considering the way they do things...

I was wondering where that came from... Think of it like so: This is going to be a 10 book epic. There is almost no way Brandon would play his hand and tell us who the big baddies are so early on. I'm guessing the Parshendi had something to do with the Voidbringers, but I don't think they really are them. Normal Parshmen appear to have telepathy, and I honestly have no idea how to explain that short of...wait a moment... What if, like on Scadrial, every Parshmen has a little bit of Honor in them, and somehow it can be activated to create a full-blown Parshendi! They take their dead outside and stick them on stone slabs, which might be why they revere stone so much. It awakens a new Parshendi, or maybe it does something totally amazing we have no way of being able to observe at the current time. Maybe I'm just crazy, I don't know! Still, I like the idea of the odd changed wrought on the Parshendi being caused by unfocused shard power. And do we know if what they sing is a Dawnchant? /clutter

Fine then. We'll just have Sazed use Ruins power to turn them into little red stains on the wall. Ruining them to Preserve himself, oh yes, that's what I'd do

The problem is, you can't think "I'm going to sorta attack and then change to whatever this guy thinks I'm about to do." I don't think your atium shadow would work properly with that. I'm fairly sure you have to be totally comitted to your course of action, and then change based on what is seen. In this event a coppermind would be wonderful. Just suck out the knowledge of the Seer's impending doom and put it back in your head just as he starts to block (Assuming you're either a full Feruchemist or your thoughts move like an Inquisitor with Tetanus.)

God metals are pieces of Harmony, and the creation of each one makes him weaker. I'd imagine the only reason Marsh gets his Atium is because he'd be unbalanced otherwise. Think of it this way: from what we know, the metalmind is like allomantic metal, it doesn't hold the power itself, it's just a gateway. I'd assume the power to be stored in the spiritual realm, as it can't be physical and cognitive seems a tad unlikely. We know the height of a Shard's power is in the Spiritual realm, so storing in metal would just be giving Sazed his power back. My guess is that all shards (Remembering some quote that, without a body, a shardholder needs to use the Shard as fuel to keep him/herself alive) are constantly compounding to keep up with the power losses they go through to stay alive, think, etc. Short Answer: Yes, but I don't think it will make a difference.

Somewhere in the epigraphs I'm pretty sure Sazed explicitly mentions that Ruin knew he couldn't stop Preservation from snapping people, so he simply helped along, thickening to mists to block sunlight and pushing the mistsickness to the point of killing, creating the problem known as the Deepness. One moment, let me see if I don't have the epigraphs up on one of my seven million tabs... Found it! (Bold mine) So yes, I'd say that Ruin played a large part in the mist killings, though some of them were just from lack of a large cognitive factor in the mists.

As I recall, there were female inquisitors at Kredik Shaw in the end of Hero of Ages, but Brandon simply thought that bringing it up would be distracting. Ah, here we are:

From what I can tell, Preservation couldn't even Ruin to Preserve, which seems odd to me, considering Ruin could create to destroy. (This is all based around the assumption that Preservation could never kill Ruin, even if he knew it would Preserve the world. The idea dies if Ruin's guess was simply based on Leras' hesitence to kill him due to knowing there was a better way.)

I'm guessing it's like Hemalurgy. Using some form of Domination is how Dahkor magic works. It all seems to involve people dying, albeit willingly, to fuel it. Somebody dies to teleport, fifty somebodies die to create somebody who kills Aons, I assume somebody dies or gets weakened to create a monk. See what I'm getting at? As mentioned above, 50 people died to produce that effect. In many cases, I'd prefer 50 guys to one tougher guy, though I can see the advantages of having a small pack of Aon resistant monks.

I have this sneaking suspicion that Brandon would never allow that. As his annotations state, AonDor isn't terribly exciting once it's up and running, considering how amazingly powerful and easy it is to use for somebody like Raoden. To endure a whole book with an all-powerful magic system would be tough without one of Brandon's typical mixups. If anything the tatoo doesn't work, the Aons fail to create a new city in time for some new threat, somebody threatens to kill somebody if they make a new city, or the Dahkor sacrifice OVAR NINE THOUSAND!!! people to create an invincible army, forcing the Elantrians to just rely on their fists to solve problems. Did I miss anything?

I always assumed that the Parshendi chants were Dawnchants. Am I the only one? Besides the above post, I do like the idea of the Parshendi having something to do with Honor. They do act honorably in battle, but we know so little of their actual culture that we can't make much of a judgement. Nothing we know of says that the pieces of a splintered shard can't be picked up or bestowed individually, so it is entirely possible that Honor used the last of his will to lodge his splintered pieces into some Parshmen, which would give them at least a small sense of honor at the barest minimum, and at maximum would make them mini-shards with some wierd powers(Like armor growing from them anyone?) and a telepathic communication with all other pieces of honor (Sound familiar?) /rant

Keep in mind that we have no idea how long the Slendyspren have been stalking her. They on recently bonded(I'm assuming it's a bond, though I'm not certain) enough to show up in pictures and actually clommunicate. Who knows how long she's been seeing them unknowingly, or how long it takes to bond with them to the point that even your drawing try to show the full truth (ei: Hidden spren. Ooh! Could Shallan's paintings show any other kind of invisible spren? We need to get her near Szeth and some of those hidden Heralds...)

Honor+Cultivation Ruled either Tranquiline together, or they had different worlds they controlled. Didn't WoK mythos mention a "Hell" of sorts somewhere in the Voidbringer stories? What if Odium reigned there? It never said they have to be working together or even on the same world. It could simply be that they reigned on connected worlds before something broke the peace. Warning, slightly wacky theory above. Take seriously at own risk.

Again, if a shard can power an ability, why can't it negate it? Sazed woul dhave to, in the nature of Harmony, giving up his Preservation side without a fight would not only go against the Shard's intent, but also the mind's.

Like...the Human intent corrupted the Shard's? I always wondered if a strong mind could do that. The only way Odium makes sense is if he has a counterpart. Otherwise we can't say much about how he fits into all this.

Point. If Hoid can't beat a shard into submission, he can just absorb it. Can a shard refuse to give you power? Do the opposite of what Vin did, and negate magic? That'd make this methoid useless once the shard figured out what was happening.

After his problems in Teod, you'd think Roaden would get over the loftiness and just bibitty bobetty boo the problem into nonexistence. Oh well, can't have everything, BS will probably nullify this idea in book 2.

You have a point there actually.....

My real point was that if you drew in enough Shard power, would you gain an intent and become, essentially, a piece of it?

Once again, I don't think that's possible. Not to mention that Sazed can probably deny you his power when you attempt to use it.

When you use Allomancy, all you draw on is the Preservation within you, not the actual Preservation. Sazed's balance is safe for now.

I have compiled a list of possible alloys for sodium with the base 10 metals and itself. Note that these were tested on drunk Sodium mistings, so this list's accuracy is less than ideal, and probably very silly and innacurate. Printing Pewter's Hemalurgic results was difficult for obvious reasons. Allomantic-------------------------------------Feruchemic---------Hemalurgic Pure Sodium: Creativity------------------------Ideas--------------Steals Ideas Sodium/Iron: Creates extra personalities-------Plot Twists--------Steals Plot Twists Sodium/Steel: Draws Inspiration----------------Epigraphs----------Steals ability to be inspired Sodium/Copper: Shields from idea theft---------Sense of Safety----Might steal insanity. We don't speak babble well enough to tell. Sodium/Bronze: Shows nearby ideas(?)-----------Biases ------------Steals character roundness Sodium/Sodium(Godly): Gives you Cardiac Arrest-Bone Solidity------Blows up recipient's head Sodium/Brass: Suppresses nearby ideas----------Climax weight------Steals long-term colestrol Sodium/Zinc: Enflames nearby ideas-------------Romantic weight----Steals twist prediction accuracy Sodium/Gold: Shows ideas you could have had----Bedside inpiration-Steals Salt tolerance Sodium/Pewter: Creates Red Herrings------------Witty lines--------Steals your printer Sodium/Tin: Grants Ham's personality-----------Foresight----------Steals Philisophicalness Sodium/Atium: Shows twists/ideas to come-------Coherence----------Steals ability to survive on mountain dew and pizza