Invocation

He wouldn't touch Nightblood with a 10 foot pole, regardless of reasoning.

Depends on if he's voluntarily warning them. Depending on how deep the no harm thing Hoid has going on runs, he may have to warn them or risk the unpleasant consequences, if something he has or will do may come to harm a major player like that.

I have issues with the trailer, and already have issues with the movie (read: combining the first two books into one movie, making it live-action instead of animated) but solely in the trailer one two things stuck out to me as off ahead of everything else: Butler having hair and the bow scene. Butler being bald was a matter of his professionalism, to the point that Artemis thinks it's strange to see him with hair post-healing in Eternity Code. I also do not remember Butler ever using a bow (if I'm wrong please tell me). Rewatching it brought other things up: 1. Butler stepping back at the sprite transformation was a big downturn for me. He's supposed to be a nearly unflappable, stoic juggernaut of a bodyguard. 2. Artemis's attitude seems off. He looks up in wonder at the transformation, awed. That is not the Artemis Fowl I remember, who was careful to bottle up his emotions so no one got a read on what he was thinking. Also his hair was too long compared to the short hair he's supposed to have. Time Paradox shows how much different he looks with any sort of long hair, literally being unrecognizable. 3. They redid the Gnommish language. It looks far too much like English now. That was an entire plot point of the first book, introducing us to Artemis's character and determination as he tried to translate The Book. Now it just looks like stylized English that any layman can read. 4. Apparently that was supposed to be Julius Root narrating. They cast Root as a female, which (in any other scenario) I would not have an issue with, but the whole thing about Holly being the "test case", as they call it, for Recon was that she was the first female fairy there. It removes some of that power (and later when they eventually do The Opal Deception it ruins the whole "first female major" thing, since Root spent time as a major before getting to commander) that comes from her character arc and her desire to prove herself. Solid characterization, out the window. 5. The troll fight. How is Disney going to get away with that level of violence in a children's movie that's live-action? Animated is one thing, but this is Disney we're talking about. I don't think they'll do it right, with Butler emptying bullet after bullet into the chest of this feral beast and getting horribly messed up, not to mention the section where he literally tortures the thing with nerve punches. Now, credit where credit is due: there were some nice visuals and transitions in the trailer alone, and I'm going to enjoy watching the movie regardless of how it turns out, but I will not deny that this would have worked better as an animated TV show a la Teen Titans.

Both fair points, and if the Stormfather were to bond Kal as well, he could probably look after her better like he wants, though I do think that Kaladin wouldn't do as well as the Unity Bondsmith as Dalinar is currently doing. His Resonance, after all, is the massive amount of squires he has: and Bondsmiths don't have squires, I believe.

Welcome to the Shard (again)! In case you didn't already know, don't take the cookie.

I believe Feruchemy does not require Snapping because it's a more naturally present manifestation of Investiture on Scadrial, with the genetic component of the spiritweb being more latent than Allomancy. That, or the Snapping threshold is incredibly low and people are Snapped the first moment something bad happens to them. It's also possible it doesn't require Snapping because it's using only your own attributes (disregarding universal metalminds) and putting them back, so it doesn't need a crack for the Investiture to get into. EDIT: Here's some WOBs I found about various things: Maybe because it was a gift it doesn't require Snapping in the same way. Alternatively, this is a thing ^.

Dulsing

I think Bondsmith would be one that wouldn't be able to bond multiple because of the restrictions it has, much in the same way that they don't have Blade or (probably) Plate.

Triple Surge Resonance would be interesting.

It's likely got something to do with the way Selish magic works. Why else would Hoid snatch it?

So you can theoretically bond more than one spren and become a multi-Radiant. What happens if those spren and their corresponding Order grant you a shared Surge? Does it end up like Hemalurgically granting someone a power they already had and become more powerful or what? Side note: since the Oath progression allows you to use Stormlight more efficiently, is there a point where that plateaus or would bonding multiple spren allow absurd amounts of Stormlight efficiency?

Cool quiz. I got Rioter which is a little surprising, but not all that much. I knew I was probably going to end up with either Zinc or Brass.

Theoretically, I think so, but that would take a lot of power.

I mean she kind of saw him. Sort of. Spoiler because SH:

Probably not Kell's original body, since it was eaten by a kandra and then TenSoon carted it around for a while. Might be Spook's physical form, for all we know.

Part of it, like @SpaceGodPerson said, is that leadership on pretty much all the worlds would require someone getting hurt and he gets nauseous even thinking about hurting someone, including himself, much less ordering executions or armies to march, which probably would count.

There was a topic about this a few months ago, I believe. There was a WOB somewhere about it (one way or the other) but I can't find it right now.

Die sind Gefährlich. Hüte dich vor den Keksen. (I don't know if I did everything right there, since I'm not so good at German)

I thought that was just a normal highstorm as they sailed through it, though there was a mention of rumors of a perpetual storm that surrounded Aimia as being one of the deterrents. I might be wrong. It's been while.

The reason I have so much trouble answering these questions (and you'll see me struggling to get an answer in the 10-15 seconds I have when someone asks me in a signing line) is because this isn't an either or. Is this computer I'm using matter associated with Earth, the Big Bang, or such-and-such star that went supernova long ago? Well, it's probably all three. When people ask, "What shard is this investiture associated with" it gets very complicated. Shards influence and tweak certain investiture, giving it a kind of spin or magnetism, but all investiture ever predates the shattering--and in the cosmere matter, energy, and investiture are one thing. I always imagine investiture having certain states, certain magnetisms if you will, associated with certain aspects of Adonalsium. So it's all "assigned" to a shard--because it's always been associated with that Shard. To investiture, Adonalsium's shattering meant everything and nothing at the same time. We generally mean the term "Invested" to mean a Shard has taken permanent residence in a location, a kind of base of operations--but at the same time, this is meaningless, since distance has no meaning on the Spiritual Realm, where most Shards are. So imprisonment of a Shard like Ruin or Odium is a crude expression--but the best we have. Autonomy never "invested" on First of the Sun. But even answering (as someone else asked) if they created an avatar without visiting is a difficult thing to explain--because even explaining how a shard travels (when motion is irrelevant) is difficult to manage. It's a subject that I intend to be up for debate, discussion, and argument by in-world philosophers and arcanists. You can see why I have such troubles explaining these things at signings--and why I fail when I try to, considering the time limitations and (often) fatigue limitations placed upon me. These are concepts I intend to spend entire, lengthy epic volumes explaining and exploring. Let's say you were Autonomy, and you have--through expanding and exploring your understanding--found a gathering of investiture that has always been there, you always knew about, but still didn't actually recognize until the moment you considered and explored it. (Because even though your power is infinite, accessing and using that infinity is beyond your reach.) Were you "invested" there? No, no more than you're invested on Roshar, where parts of what were Adonalsium still exist that are associated with you (in the very fabric of mater and existence.) But suddenly, you have a chance to tweak, influence, and do things that were always possible, but which you never could do because you knew, but didn't know, at the same time. And...I'm already into WAY more than I want to be typing this out right now. If it's confusing, it's because it's practically impossible for me to explain these things in a short span of time. I'm going to leave it here, understanding that no, I haven't fully explained your question. (I didn't even get into what avatars are, what Patji was, and what happened to Patji the being--and how that relates to Patji the island.) But hopefully this kind of starts to point the right direction, though I probably should have just left this question alone because I bet this post is going to raise more questions than it answers... Overlord Jebus You've confused things so much now. We thought we had a pretty good grasp of this whole Patji situation (Autonomy visited the planet at some point, got themselves all Invested and created an avatar which is called Patji by the locals). Now you're saying no Shard has ever visited there? And that the pool would have existed if no Shard had ever interfered? But that Patji still exists and is a Shard? Does that mean Autonomy edited First of the Sun from afar without actually going there? And that the pool would have already existed without any intervention? Does this mean it was associated with Autonomy from the beginning? I'm really confused now. Brandon Sanderson I don't believe I said no Shard had visited. I said no Shard was there during the events of the story. Investiture on First of the Sun predates any shards fiddling with it. Shards have fiddled with it by the time of the story. I think fandom might be going down too far a rabbit hole on this one. Chaos Are you saying here that Patji is an avatar of Autonomy, or is it a separate Shard and not an avatar of Autonomy? Brandon Sanderson When I said Patji was a Shard, I was meaning Automony--but it is not quite that simple. Take this post to mean "no, you should not be looking toward another Shard for Patji's origins. Autonomy is the one relevant." But Autonomy's relationships with entities like this (not sure entity is the right word, even) is complex. I'm not trying to confuse the issue, though. source

I'm with the other two: STAY AWAY FROM THE COOKIES. What's your favorite magic system?

Fair enough. Wonder if you could still make a dragon into an Inquisitor?

That raises an interesting idea: when a dragon is in human form, do they have the same bind points as a normal human? Inquisitor dragon?

Khriss has called Hemalurgy the most useful magic to the cosmere at large, which, combined with me reading a ton of dragon stories recently, got me thinking: How would cosmere dragons react to Hemalurgy? What could you spike out of them, and what benefit would they have to getting spiked? Are bind points even present on a dragon's physiology?

There's a special process to it that Harmony knows and presumably Paalm knew as well, but no one else. That's all I think we know about the creation of kandra spikes.