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Brandon has made public comments on the existence or absence of dragons in the book i believe. I am absolutely intrigued to learn any details of the book. It is rough as people have said but I love all of Brandon's work and would love to read more. I am good at compartmentalizing and would be quite able to read it while being aware that it will not be finished for a long time and that several of the elements have been cannibalized. Sadly I am from the UK, so there is no chance of me ever being able to read it ;(

Maybe if you banged a spike through a spike? Edit. I know this wouldn't work, no blood.

A hemalurgical spike can only carry so much charge. While you could bang it through multiple people you could only charge it up so much. It would be a quite wasteful process. Edit. I can't find the source for this. Sazed was saying in hero ages that repeated use of the spikes could make Koloss more human. Found it. To steal the stolen you can just take the spike. I know that. Inquisitors did reuse spikes.

http://coppermind.net/wiki/Thunderclast Thunderclasts seem to rip themselves free of stone during fighting at the most recent Desolation. http://stormlightarchive.wikia.com/wiki/Midnight_Essence “ReShephir, the Midnight Mother, giving birth to abominations with her essence so dark, so terrible, so consuming. She is here! She watches me die!” http://brandonsanderson.com/library/120/Warbreaker-Prime-Mythwalker-Chapter-Four "The guards say he's some kind of Desicrate demon that has taken over a person's body," Skeer noted. "They're executing him tomorrow." Devin grew cold, watching the creature Ix. The Desicrate? Night Spinners? The stories said they could call down the Demon God's unholy followers and set them upon unsuspecting mortals. The priests of Hess had always taught against them, warning of their dark rituals. http://brandonsanderson.com/library/137/Warbreaker-Prime-Mythwalker-Chapter-Seventeen The way Ix's wound bleeds should be familiar to anyone who's read chapter nineteen of The Way of Kings. Brandon also wrote The Aether of Night two books after abandoning Mythwalker, and creatures of that type made an appearance there as well. This is an example of how Brandon keeps trying out an idea until he finds the right book for it to appear in. We know from Mistborn that magic flows like water through a turbine. It can be used for some purpose and then reused again. As such I have a theory- void monsters are some sort of summoned creature, as the Night Spinners are summoned by the Demon God's unholy followers, likewise the Thunderclast are voidbrought from stone. If you destroy them in time the magic can return to the priests of the void (voidbringers) and so they are impossible to defeat unaided. The priests will just keep summoning them, wearing you down. Shardblades are unique in that they destroy spirit and investiture as in when they destroy feeling in a limb- we know that how you connect to others is spiritual so I suspect that feelings are spiritual- and so they stop voidbrought monsters from being re summoned by annihilating the magic of Voidbringers permanently. This works for a while until the priests of the void can repopulate, bringing a new desolation. Evidence. “Taking the Dawnshard, known to bind any creature voidish or mortal, he crawled up the steps crafted for Heralds, ten strides tall apiece, toward the grand temple above.” They bind vordish creatures? Perhaps preventing them from being re summoned. "I hold the suckling child in my hands, a knife at his throat, and know that all who live wish me to let the blade slip. Spill its blood upon the ground, over my hands, and with it gain us further breath to draw.” Perhaps they wanted to kill the descendants of the vordbinders to prevent further deaths, and this caused the knight radiant's corruption?

Counter. Shardarmor is made to resist the magic from voidbringers. It being able to resist magic is an entirely wanted and designed property. How half shards block shardblades. It could be both hardening and investment. The two things are not mutually exclusive. Perhaps they have a surge increasing the strength of atomic bonding, making it harder. This incidentally increases the strength of spiritual bonding, allowing it to resist magic.

Brandon doesn't explain in any depth. He just says that theoretically you could use it to tap another's metal mind.

I am not making any claim that any of Sazed's copperminds are useful. They would have symbolic importance. Most metalminds aren't that useful to steal- you could just make your own. Plot significant items have a way of surviving off screen. If Brandon chose to introduce this as a plot point he could just have someone dig them up as part of an archeology thing. Allomancers and Feruchemists can confirm the presence of a charge on a metal mind by trying to use it. Vin did that when she tried to burn Sazed's Pewtermind. If they could read the coppermind they could prove who had owned them. That sounds like an interesting conflict- some powerful charismatic person trying to make themselves heir to Sazed directly contrary to religious teachings. They would need charisma too, and they would get that by using their identity metal mind. They would be incredibly interesting to people.

He had backup copperminds, and some other metal minds may still have charge. If someone was able to steal them (and Brandon mentioned they may appear again) they might be able to gain some religious authority as the heir of Sazed.

I found some interesting things in that book too. Aluminium metal minds can be used to steal metal minds of other people. Sazed's metal minds may be stolen, along with the secrets of the control group being revealed.

From what I hear, Dragonsteel is book 3 or 4 in the series. He wants to write book 1 and 2 first.

Yes, I see the Parshmen as an honorable and good race on a whole. It is only when dark and evil magics are used to corrupt them that they become mass murderers. The Pashendi, being formless, are likely especially vulnerable.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/k0fp8/iama_professional_fantasy_novelist_named_brandon/c2gmfco Brandon likewise believes God is all powerful. It's clear he dips into theology quite a lot for themes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exaltation_%28LDS_Church%29 Exaltation or Eternal Life is a belief among members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) that mankind can return to live in God's presence and continue as families.[1] Exaltation often referred to as being a more literal belief in both the ancient and modern Christian doctrine of deification or divinization. Exaltation is often referred to in Mormon Christianity as "eternal progression" and is believed to be what God desires for all humankind. The LDS Church teaches that, through the atonement of Jesus Christ, believers may become joint-heirs with Jesus Christ.[2] The objective of adherents is to strive for purity and righteousness and to become one with Jesus as Jesus is one with the Father (God).[3] In the Doctrine and Covenants is found a verse that states that those who are exalted will become like god and, thus, will inherit God's glory through Christ's atonement.[4] When reading him it's helpful to remember that he views men becoming gods as one of the greatest gifts God can give them. They would presumably have limited if massive power in the Cosmere.

I wasn't aware, no. I could copy pasta some of the new information across. I've updated quite a few minor characters.

I guess. I was hoping I would find some other characters. Ah well. I'll just help update the wiki as aetherstorm.

Brandon has said all shards are not paired. I would assume that god only has godly attributes. He doesn't have shame or guilt, the opposite of honor. http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/121.45?lang=eng Reading through these for interesting ones that haven't come up yet... Suffering. Jesus sufferred with us. Perhaps this world where people get diseases and then get magic has suffering on it? Knowledge. Finally a god where you can learn magic by studying? Holiness. Purity, free from sin, free from taint. I can imagine this would present some interesting features for an empire of religious people, though I believe Mormonism may not believe in this as strongly. Righteousness. A just god? Brandon can have an overarching religion of justice and he can have a police agent to track and annoy the hero. Les Miserables anyone? Truth. A god that was powered by truth and always sought the truth? My own thoughts, God is a jealous god. Jealousy. A magic you get through jealousy? That would be quirky. Death. Always a part of god, along with life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu This is probably where preservation and ruin came from. The man balanced between them held both.

Time is probably spiritual. An object's past is in its soul, as TES proved.

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/jung.html This has some interesting stuff on Jung. You can recognise some of the things in there. The dead are haunting the collective unconsciousness? Why, that is what Odium does. The hermaphrodite of opposites and wisdoms? Hello Sazed. Vin is not a conventional hero though, being an intelligent criminal woman who is mentally unstable and an assassin. She is more the child archetype. She represents new hope and salvation and redemption. She once was bad due to criminal influences and her bro but kindness turned her good and made her trust people (although she's also a mass murderer, but it's good mass murder). She is the Jean Valjean of the modern day who reinvented herself to be a better person. Elend is the hero. He is noble, self sacrificing, dashing, has a high IQ but is as dumb as a post and lost his kingship because of it. Ruin mind controlled people, Preservation brought out their best, perhaps relying on those archetypes mentioned as you said. I am fine with murderous jokes, I have joked with friends about murder all the time. I have a very dark sense of humour. I can understand why your friend had issues, but I am much more casual with such things.

10 shard worlds exist in the dwarf galaxy that is the cosmere.

I suspect that dead souls hang around in the cognitive realm for a bit, but they have an option to carry onto a final afterlife from which they cannot return. This afterlife is probably similar to the Mormon afterlife. A generally good place to be, where you don't have to be a believer to get in. Edit. Poorly received post.

As Gaotona said. They work pretty hard to maintain a cognitive dissonance on what their forgeries are. If even she didn't know for sure then it's a good chance it wasn't public knowledge. Souls are also generally harder. Plus, she seemed to say she was worried about something beyond rumors of the falseness of her forgeries. If she was just worried about secrets she probably wouldn't have said it like that.

A hand grabbed her and pulled her down. Pretty attacky in my books. I agree that the stormlight of Jasnah was used to control the beads and make a raft.

Yeah. Preservation had awesome future sight and knowledge of what would happen. Everything Preservation did, back so many years ago, it was part of some super long term plan. Preservation may have known that malatium would help Vin defeat the Lord Ruler and as such later free Ruin, thus allowing final defeat of Ruin.

I'd guess that the spheres give you spiritual energy or investiture, as Kaladin had, and she was advising her that it was a poor idea to enter that realm without a lot of magical energy to deal with the common threats within. She was instantly attacked, so I imagine that was the main issue.

https://sites.google.com/site/brandonothology/QA-by-book/mistborn