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Boy will everyone be surprised when we find out Jasnah is the pregnant one

Dude. I say in the first line that of the quote you used that I don't think it's likely. Calm down. Secondly, we don't get a single perspective from Lift after she's captured by Mraize. At least that I recall, and the Coppermind doesn't list any perspectives from her after. So no, we don't know that she hasn't become a spy. There could be any number of ways he could tempt her, he's a manipulator after all. Maybe he knows she didn't want to grow up after spying on her for a year and offered a way to keep her from growing up. Maybe he tempted her with the excitement of spywork. Etc. Lift had been spying on the very conversation that Mraize had said they got tipped off by their "new recruit". Is it likely she's a spy? No. But that doesn't mean it's not a possibility.

Is it likely she's a spy? No. Is it entirely possible she's a spy and Mraize manipulated her? Very much yes. Look, I wholeheartedly agree the Ghostbloods aren't infallible. That's been clear to me since TLM. But at the same time, there has been enough circumstantial evidence that I won't be at all surprised if she is

Lift is an entirely valid suspect. She was alone with Mraize for an unknown amount of time during the occupation of Urithiru and she was listening in on the plans to enter the Spiritual Realm. Could their contact have just been Sja-anat possibly. But there isn't any reason to believe that it couldn't have been someone else either and they just charged Sja-anat to monitor him after being contacted.

I can't believe nobody has said anything about how Lift is likely the Ghostbloods spy. Also I like the confirmation that what's going on on Roshar with the Ghostbloods is Iyatil going rogue.

We only really have two examples of F-Zinc to pull from. Sazed's use allowed him to calculate movement trajectories in an instant, allowing him to predict and account for Marsh. While Wax was able to think of several plans in the moment between one word and the other. But we also have those WoB indicating that it allows for intuitive leaps. My guess is that while it doesn't really make you smarter, it gives you more an equivalent of RAM and CPU boost to your mind. @Trusk'our what I think is that like with a supercomputer as long as the information going in (the information the Sparker has) is correct, the end result will be the same just many times a faster result. A Sparker can store while they don't need the mental speed such as when they're relaxing, or eating, or whatever and then tap when they need that boost. So if they are tapping while working and storing during other time, there would be a net positive to productivity.

I have a feeling we are going to see the culmination of Sazed's plans in Era 3. Era 2 was unplanned and much of TLM seemed to be setup for Era 3. There does seem to be too much working in Sazed’s favor for it not to be him knocking over a few dominos

I got Truthwatcher by a large margin. The only one that was close was the Elsecallers. Not overly surprising to me but it was more one sided than I expected

We still don't know much about that fabrial. They might have some Leecher grenades though which would be a problem for Shallan. Assuming they are available at this point in the timeline.

Hmm, about the time he met a certain Kandra

Chanarach being Shallan's mom isn't anywhere near the stretch you seem to think it is. Stormfaker was always a bigger stretch. The really crazy one to me is the "Shallan is Chanarach" but people have reasons to believe it even if it seems like the single biggest stretch of all the book 5 theories. But the more that's been revealed the more Chanarach being Shallan's mother becomes plausible. For your three premises, let's break them down. The first, we know Taln didn't break, Brandon has outright confirmed that. The second is a bit harder, based on the confirmed aspects of the story, another Herald dying and then breaking on Braize is perfectly reasonable as we know that a Herald has died about a decade before the Fuzed were released, and we know that the Oathpact still exists. The more logical answer is that a Herald broke and let the Fuzed free as that's the known mechanism rather than Odium just finding a way around it. So, not shaky at all. Lastly, you're right that it doesn't necessarily mean the Herald needed to die on screen, but there are multiple narrative reasons that point to Shallan's mother being likely. First, her death WAS onscreen, or as much as her flashback could indicate. Second, Shallan's mother died relatively near the time that we know a Herald died even if we don't know the exact time. Sure, you might not like the Chanarach theories, but it's not like they don't have ample reason to believe it.

I assume he already had a plan to strike the heart of Azimar, then would have paused it after the contract was made if he hadn't died. Then Mr T just took advantage of it to exploit the loophole.

Having Felt's comment cemented my thoughts that Iyatil's branch is behaving far more ruthlessly and underhanded than the rest of the Ghostbloods would approve of

Good Interludes. I had wondered if Felt was secretly a Ghostblood, so it's nice to have confirmation. I see why Odium has liked to call himself passion, but his flavor is still very much anger. Righteous anger perhaps but still rage and hate. Seems to be that a big part of the passions that Todium feels are things that would lead to the emotion that Odium represents. Pain, sorrow, indignation, etc.

It looks like there will be a decent amount of lore. They've said that some things that haven't been present in the SA books will be in the RPG and the adventure that will be released with it will be a canon event that will be informative for background events of SA 2-5

HYYYYYYYYYYPE!

So metal has specific reactions to Investiture, this is most clearly seen in the epigraphs in RoW. They don't always line up 1 to 1 with the Allomantic effects. Aluminum doesn't really destroy Investiture but neutralizes it's effects. This is why it blocks other Investiture. It wouldn't destroy a Breath, but you may be able to contain a Breath with Aluminum. Brandon has confirmed that you could scoop up the Investiture from a Perpendicularity like the Well of Ascension in an Aluminum container for example

This. I will die on my theory hill that Crasher Resonance is instinctively understanding of force vectors

I don't think they will fall out of relevance, just that the list of options will expand. But that expansion will be affected or even bounded by the magic systems you have.

Considering Wax's perception in BoM and Kelsier's in TLM, it seems that Steelsight could look into into the Spiritual Aspect of a Spike with a tweak

I'm not sure how that reads to you, but based off the context of the conversation, that reads like "plug themselves into the Spiritual Realm to power their Invested Art"

I think you may have misunderstood the original comment. Quantus seems to be talking about drawing power directly from the Spiritual Realm, not going into it.

Technically every time they burn metal

Considering how quickly breakthroughs have happened in the real world (car to landingon the moon in less than a century), most of those are reasonable in only a century or two. South Scadrial already has the technology to make machines use Allomancy for example. They already have the seeds to what they need. Also, Scadrial has much more reason to invest in space travel than we do. Space development continued advancing and making breakthroughs while we were still funding it but then as a society space travel stopped having the appeal. Partly because we hit the walls of real world physics limitations, but also it became harder for countries to justify the spending on further developments. Take Space-X for example, many of the developments they have done were theorized decades ago, but actual money and engineering were put into it. I agree that it would take decades to develop colonization and research outposts, but if they create an FTL drive in only a century after Era 2, they could have all that by two hundred years post Era 2. YatNP shows that Investiture is a very good means of propulsion considering the society personally visited another planet in their solar system at a tech level at best comparable to ours.

I think you are vastly underestimatin how much Allomancy and Feruchemy would ease space travel. One of the hardest parts of space travel is just gravity. Iron will be immensely useful for that. Food, water, air storage? Cadmium and Bendalloy. Heat buildup? Brass. Calculations done with Zinc. FTL made possible with time bubbles. Many of the hurdles we have with space travel are things the Metallic Arts already have answers for, or at least have aspects that simplify the problems.