Invocation

Maybe some extreme expressions of Growth need the willing participation of other elementalists as a fuel source or it ends up strictly limited in power and drawing on the body heat or water content of the caster to replicate those things in what the magic is growing. Cuts and stuff Wood elementalists can heal readily, broken bones and deep gashes take lots of effort, but things like regrowing a limb take the presence of Fire to make the limb live and mesh with the body heat of the patient, Water to replicate the blood, and enough Wood to fuel it in general. That kind of thing.

I was mostly ambivalent to it. On the one hand, I liked the simplicity of it. On the other...it was just kind of eh.

Beta feedback is in and the first third has been revised. The title is no longer Nowhere, but we don't know what it is. They're on track for a November release with three novellas coming slightly before.

In Compounding, what happens is that the two metalborn abilities fuse, functionally creating a temporary new metal from the chunk of burning Allomantic metal that has some Feruchemical storage inside it. This new metal patterns the Investiture from the Allomancy into being whatever Feruchemical storage had been in the bit of metal. The metalborn is then free to dump all of that nearly-effortlessly generated attribute into their usable metalminds and end up with a nearly infinite supply, since the attribute is coming from the Spiritual Realm the way the Allomantic power would, instead of the typical Feruchemical way that results in a balance of time spent storing and time spent tapping. Most people don't use the same metal that they're burning to store the outflow of power because most metalborn burn off their metals at the end of every day to avoid poisoning themselves, and it wouldn't be a very good idea to get rid of all that power daily only to have to recreate it the next day when you can divert the flood of power into bracers or anything else of the metal and then pull it out at your own leisure. If you were to not have a way to store the outpouring of attribute after Compounding, it's probably a reasonable thing to assume that the entire rush of Feruchemical power would get dumped into your body all at once, making you blindingly powerful in whatever that was for as long as you can keep the flow going. Don't quote me on that, no idea if it's accurate or not. You can. No idea why you would, but you can reverse the process. You would presumably have to choose one way to do it or the other each time. I hope I'm clearing things up, it's a little hard to put into words. (Also if I'm incorrect on any of this, I'm sure another Sharder will correct me, so don't consider me a complete authority on this.)

Still sad the new movie got delayed.

Yeah, I know they have it. It's more a matter of if they'd truly be selling it to other planets. Creating it doesn't do much good if you don't use it. I did not phrase my initial thing right, that's on me.

Worth noting is that Soulcasting is not actually the only place on Roshar to get aluminum. Probably because mining is so hard when crem fills in the mine as it floods on a very-often basis, and volcanic activity is very low, so they don't have the Scadrian out of scouring the inside of volcanic stacks for meager amounts. But yes, you're probably right. Soulcasting is a very easy way to get aluminum, and will be nearly the easiest until Mistborn Era 3 happens. Might be the easiest, depending on what's going on over on Sel and Taldain. Selish folks that have magic and the knowledge required could create aluminum too and arguably, given how far back in the timeline Elantris is, could already have a stockpile. Taldain, at least the dark side of it, has a lot of technological advancement too, so they may have found out how Bauxite refining works and have their own amount. It's all part of that aluminum chess game. He who controls the aluminum controls the cosmere.

Draft 3.0 is officially turned in, title is still unofficially Nowhere, but it might be changed for the next draft.

Presumably it was also whatever Hoid was looking for up there. Likely more Lerasium.

Tinfoil hat time: she's planning for a clone army.

Count on it.

It may not be cosmere fanfic, but I may steal the idea for a short story.

I'd read it. I can imagine cult leaders having enough juice for one major thing and then they have to relax and build it back up after a while. Politicians, kings, and that one guy in the village that no one can ever stop talking about all being super powerful relative to everyone else.

The last one was released five years ago already. Spring 2022 is the publisher's date. It is not Brandon saying that vaguely, while at the whims of the publisher's schedule, since he let the publisher guide the release date this time instead of pushing for a more aggressive publication date. So, realistically speaking (as you phrase it), expect the book in the first quarter of 2022, until or unless we hear something different by way of the publisher.

It's presumably something from how many Returns he's been through. The Fused appear to have some serious influence from other planets (they call aluminum by its Selish name of ralkalest, for example), so it probably dates back somewhere there.

When I read that, my assumption was that since Nightblood had been separated from Vasher, they couldn't find him, so they were just trying to find anything that might be Nightblood so they could stop the potential havoc of having a sword capable of doing some truly funky things out and about.

It looks to be a lake at the bottom of there, so that's probably erosion marks of some kind. The one image I could find from the perspective of the a visitor shows sings that look like miniature fjords ending in places that are mostly below water, so millennia of erosion seems like a good enough explanation to me.

The first one might be possible (here's a link that might help, though I don't have a google assistant to experiment with any of this): https://www.techjunkie.com/change-ok-google/

I think that would take a lot of power because, while the amount of Investiture in each spike isn't much individually, you throw them all together and that's a lot to change all at once, especially since you have to find a way to make an excuse for the donated power's original owner to have lived, or for the Inquisitor in front of you to have not gotten that spike. Totals up fast.

The difficult but viable one came later, so that one overwrites the other.

There's a theory (that I kind of like) that the Dawnshards were like magnets, stretching Adonalsium in four directions to allow for the Shattering, which shaped the Shards into being influenced by the Dawnshards, so each Dawnshard's Intent has 4 Shards that line up with it, more or less. The Dawnshards in this theory were Change, Create, Destroy, and one as the opposite of Change that I think was put down as either Stasis or Still. I'm very partial to that explanation, because it's neat.

State of the Sanderson said the final book is estimated to come out spring 2022, no full date released, being written from Bastille's perspective and co-authored with Janci Patterson.

The issue with the strawberry jam was that she had never had it before, so she didn't know how to make an approximation. Meanwhile she's been absorbing knowledge about fancy medicines on-world and off-world through her time in Shadesmar and using all the resources being the sister of the king of one of the most powerful nations of Roshar gives her, and anything she missed off-screen she'd be able to catch up once she's queen and be just fine.

In the Final Empire days, I think it was partially because of their need to remain secret (and after TLR's fall their habits built up from that necessity). Era 2 Scadrians, though, I think just don't need to do that. Wax and Wayne are a little bit of exception, since their activities lead to them running out of their stores a lot more frequently than most people would. Most of the Ferrings of Elendel could probably get away with a nightly mediation that fills their metalminds, with the exception of the bronze Ferrings, and only rarely run up against the edges of their storages. Sure they could store more, but they also could be doing better things with their time than preparing for an extremely unlikely event that would disrupt their normal rhythm and wipe their stores out.

If by 500+ pages you mean every book, this series won't cut it, but if you mean 500+ pages total, it'll work. It's an interesting and ongoing series with solid worldbuilding: Cradle, by Will Wight. Book 1 is called Unsouled.