Observer

Do splinters need an intent? Because, if so, what part of Endowment is Nightblood? On a side note, if you were to absorb a rediculous abount of Stormlight, hold an absurd amount of breaths, or somehow burn all your metals at duralumin level for an extended time, would you eventually hold enough of a shard's power to become a splinter? If so, would you gain an intent to go with it? Just a question. Also, quick question: Does a splinter retain the mind of the original shard, at least in part? (Like a hemalurgic spike split, or a feruchemical metalmind shattered. See where I'm going with this?)

Quick brain dump. Where these thoughts will lead me is up in the air. Who's "broken"? 1: Honor 2: Adonalsium 3: Devotion 4: Dominion Possibly: Cultivation and Hoid Crazy idea: What if Adonalsium is the broken one? Say he/she's making a comeback, that his/her mind is split between all the shards, and that he/she's using those mental fragments to accomplish some goal? Could there be a fourth shard that reigns over ever Odium? Could the phrase about the broken one be prophetic? They talk about the Everstorm to come,so what if one of them is talking about a broken somebody taking over? If that's true, everything we know about who comes out on top just got turned on its head.

From what we've seen, Spren aren't exactly the most intelligent or thoughtful beings until they bond. They could be like Preservation's mists: totally oblivious to the fact that they're driving the old man nuts, simply carrying out their purpose mindlessly. Brandon's always been clever, and those Gaz chapters seem to indicate something. I doubt it's Truthspren, but I'm certain there is something following him around in the shadow of his lost eye.

I'm not sure if BS would do a repeat of his old magic system, so I'm against the idea of it being their respective home-geography. As for Dahkor, it seems to be somewhat similar to AonDor, but creating permanent Aon investment inside of a person, like a Kandra blessing. Similar to Hemalurgy, it runs on the life of others (Examples: Teleporting kills 1, Dalif's invulnerability to Aons killed 50, so who's to say creating a dahkor doesn't kill people too?) and seems based in dominating the powers and wants of others to suit your needs.

Argh...I feel like there's a connection right in front of me, and I'm completely missing it.... Is there any known material that can enhance AonDor? It never specifies what it's a wealth of, so it could be a wealth of stone, wood, magic, gold, anything. If we're talking wealth like numbers that is. If we mean the "richness" meaning of wealth, I honestly can't say. Maybe bits of Devotion (Wealth of power there I say) that took physical form?

Thank you very much. Quote's here: Bold is mine.

How quickly does Atium return to Sazed after ebing burned? I guess it doesn't really matter so long as he can give it back to Marsh instantly and it doens't take so long that the poor guy dies of old age. Still, do we know? OT: Odium vs Harmony: Odium's good at killing, but Ruin is made to destroy. My money's on Sazed.

Anybody have the link to the conversation where somebody asks about using allomancy on Shardblades? BS says it's because they have too much "Investure". What if Investure is also what keeps you from pushing on metals in the body? Sounds somewhat plausible to me. (I made a post about it here.)

Actually yes. Bavadin's shard is called Lawyerism, which is why Hoid hates him. After the painting is taken from Kaladin, Jasnah will turn out to be Baxil's mistress, leading to a two chapter long catfight between her and Shallan, who is secretly Cultivation.

That actually sounds like it would work. Would Aluminum have done that too, or is Ruin's a different kind of Allomancy? EDIT: Stroke of genius. What if Investure is the reason Dilaf was immune to Aons? They took the investure from fifty others and dumped it into one guy, making him effectively untouchable by the AonDor. This makes me wonder if Allomancy would work on him or anything he was touching/near. My answer is: probably not.

In the above quote from Brandon, somebody asked if a Shardblade could be pushed or pulled with allomancy while doing one of those MB vs WoK things. Brandon said that it could not, due to it being too heavily invested. Once more we get the word "Investure" This is slightly far-fetched, but what if it's the same reason you have difficulty pulling on metals in the body? So by storing investure, you'd be able to tap it and prevent yourself (and maybe what you touch?) from being allomantically affected. Like being walking aluminum. Thoughts?

Untrue. Alendi was a Seeker. Mistings were far rarerer back then (Alendi may have not even known he was burning Bronze), probably something to do with how powerful allomancy was back in the day.

Was there any mention of the Metalurgist being Terris? Or maybe there's some science behind the percentages we're not aware of. It's not like people can afford trial-and-error with expensive metals (See AoL: Bendalloy)

What if the consequence of Emotional allomancy is that other Soothing/Rioting affects you more powerfully? Might explain the difficulty of using it on somebody like Breeze. Or maybe there just isn't a consequence we have any way of knowing yet. *Grumbles about waiting for the next trilogy*

I'm fairly sure that it's the mixing of Allomancy and Feruchemy that created Ferrings. Once they no longer had totally pure Terris blood they could only become ferrings. And let's face it, Mistborn have only been good at once thing: Killing people. The new world can't afford flying one-man-armies-of-doom at this kind of time. And if Sazed told of Hemalurgy back there, we'd have a rediculous number of government people running secret inquisitor-programs, to the point that they'd be forcing people to die to create their super-soliders. The world would be...well...ruined.

"Once three reigned" There are three shards on Roshar, Honor, Cultivation, Odium. So what if this quote is hinting at a higher force, something beyond Odium? Bavadin is the only likely choice for that though. Or it could possibly mean that all three got kicked out of Tranquiline Halls, rather than Odium having done the booting I'm probably taking this in all the wrong directions.

I believe this is the quote you're talking about.

I think I'm going to go with the theory that the excess power of Ruin is siphoned off in the form of Marsh's Atium bag, which Sazed will probably endlessly refill to keep Ruin and Preservation even.

Come to think of it, that bag of Atium Marsh has, if Sazed was kind enough to keep restoring it, might be the reason for his balance...

I'm leaning towards something Hoid was doing being the thing that spooked her. I like the theory that he was humming a "Bronzetune" as I'll call it. That would set off some subconscious alarm bells. Did Vin have much experience with informants back in Camon's crew? Hoid was "Trusted" by Kelsier and Cett's standards, and that kind of thing takes a while to build. She may have met him before.

Woah. I never noticed that. I always point at Vin to contradict the "Preservation can only read" theory, but we ignore the piece of Ruin inside everyone. +1, I love it.

I should have known...nobody could possibly be so amazingly good at storywriting. If a compunder has to constantly burn his/her metal to prevent from reverting, (TLD with age, Miles with health) does that mean that if he ever stops burning sodium that he'll suffer a massive idea withering? Quick! Feed him more salt!

Hoid as a Sliver? I like the sound of that. What if he was a piece of Adonalsium that tore itself off. That "stole" itself from the greater whole? Kind of far-fetched, and it may not really work well with what we know of Shards, but it's an interesting idea.

My two cents to throw in: If the recipient is so big on non-intervention, and Hoid is so big on meddling, it makes sense said recipient would be constantly angry with Hoid. His reference to a constant of the Cosmere seems to be a little joke at the fact that somebody who doesn't like meddling will be constantly angry with a person like Hoid The mention of "The Element" is something I find very interesting. Particularly the mention of how he would "protect it like his own skin". It could simply be a joke about Hoid's self-preserving skills, but it could also indicate that he absorbed it, IS it, or something related. The letter's recipient has been around for at least as long as Hoid has, considering that the writer assumes the reciever will understand and recognize the names of all the Shardholders. Both writer and reciever knew each other closly at one time. Though the opening could be taken as sarcasm, which is Hoid's style, the mention of old grudges and old friends, among other things, indicates that they knew/know one another well. It is entirely possible that, like Ati, the recipient chose non-intervention and dislike of Hoid simply because it was the Shard's intent. It would explain a shift from friend to "enemy". And well, this has gotten a bit longer than I expected to fit into two cents. Could be me taking too much from too little, but who catches the reference to the fact that Hoid relies on the recipient's perpetual health? Is it possible that they've had dealings similar to this before? I'm not really sure where to go with that information...