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Hoid is also one of the original humans. I would expect this already gives him the necessary Connection to speak the languages.

Seeing as it is mentioned that the shards created their humans using the originals as blueprints, this would make sense.

If they didn't have a soul then presumably they wouldn't be able to be spiked, or do I have it wrong?

It sounds almost like a royal or at least distinguished name, Octo-king seems to be the safest bet.

I would think that she was another shardholder as the sixteen original shardholders must have planned for an age before finally bringing Adonalsium down, maybe her and Leras were a thing before the shattering, or maybe she holds a shard extremely similar to preservation and saw eye to eye before going to their respective shardworlds

There's also a shard that only wants to hide, could it's influence be the one hiding Yolen away?

It could be that Adonalsium's splintering left the area of space around Yolen untraversible on all 3 realms perhaps

That would make sense as after the splintering of Dominion and Devotion on Sel it was difficult to travel there, and that was only two shards of the whole

I think that "The Sovereign" would have been purposely sent by Harmony though. He wouldn't just let the southerners die and without help they were going to.

 

Would Harmony have been able to see what was going on with the Southeners as they were out of his sphere of influence?

Maybe Kelsier went down south to see what the Ire was like in the physical world, happened to carry on to the southlands and stayed to help, with his ego and his drive it wouldn't have taken long for someone to bestow upon him a title as melodramatic as 'The Sovereign.'

It said that Mr One Spike (as he shall now be known) has scars on his arms, which means its either Kelsier or Zane.

It has to be Kelsier, without a doubt.

Forge yourself so that you got a haircut instead of actually getting one

Tap luck when reading a choose your own RPG adventure book

Flare pewter when drinking so you don't get a hangover in the morning (but unfortunately don't get drunk either, waste of alcohol really)

Store identity when you see your ex in public so no awkward glances/conversation occurs

Granted, but your internal thoughts are in the voice of Michael Jackson

I wish that I wasn't in work right now

You follow your budget obsessively and briefly notice that you did not include enough healthy food. You die three days later due to malnutrition.

I wish that I could change my gender at will

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u99/miyanamistborn/DSC_01041_zpsc0d18d68.jpg

This is my Ruin tat on my right arm.

I'm getting Preservation on the other arm, and the sixteen metals in their alloys/pairs on either side of my spine (excluding Lerasium, Atium and Malatium)

Rereading is the best part, you get to uncover more embedded stuff as the series goes on

(I see no problems with this boon)

Granted. Every decision you make now depends on d20 rolls.

I wish that I could have a conversation with Jasnah

Granted. Your loved ones gain the age instead, shriveling them before their time and leaving you alone, with nothing but your treasured entertainment items.

I wish I could read twice as fast.

Granted. You have lost the ability to understand whatever you read.

I wish for there to be only gender neutral bathrooms in the world

For an AoL-era ultralight craft, it'd pretty much have to be made of wood and fabric.  The only metals that I know of that are light enough for that sort of thing are aluminum (which still needs electrolysis technology to be developed before mass production can happen) or titanium (which is pretty scarce).

Not to mention the fact that allomancy doesn't work on aluminium

Yeah I've had my copy since before the new year, I may have squealed in the bookshop but it was worth it to finally get my hands on it

I've seen a few recent posts saying that Raoden was on Roshar, but I have no idea where this sprung from. One implied that he was the third man in the Purelake interlude of WoK, but that was debunked ages ago by WoB stating that he was from an unpublished work (As far as I recall, anyway).

 

 

I didn't realise this had been debunked, i'm sorry guys!

Umm, do you have proof for that?  Because I've never seen anything about that.  We know Galladon is in the Ishikk interlude but we don't have anything about the assassination (and we don't have anything on Raoden worldhopping).

It was in a Brandon Q&A, I'll see if I can hunt it down

Maybe Brandon is an Augur in disguise and saw who he could have been

This discussion took an...odd turn.

 

 

 

Ah, fair enough. Ivory's speech is pretty hard to comprehend, so that could explain Jasnah's being wrong (wait what, Jasnah is wrong?!)

I absolutely love Ivory's speech patterns and Pattern's too come to think of it. Definately using 'harmmore' in everyday life though

I've always found religion odd in the Cosmere, with the exception of the Mistborn Trilogy all religions seem to reference either the Shards assigned to that world or Adonalsium.

What about Sazed and Harmony? The merging of Ruin and Preservation must have warped their shardic intent massively, would this mean that all of the shards couldn't be put back together now as they wouldn't fit?

A pretty well known one that doesn't seem to have come up is that Raoden and Galloden are on Roshar and are present when Szeth assassinates Gavilar

I think we're unable to say whether travel would be possible to Sel or back as - last I knew- it was cut off from the rest of the Cosmere somehow, maybe the sequel to Elantris will hold the answers to why Galladon and Raoden managed to reach Roshar.

Edit - Spelling mistakes!

Allomancy definately, it includes travel, battle, manipulation of both people and outside forces, warping time, and ways to cripple other allomancers, as well as heightened senses and reflexes. A good well-rounded ability I think, provided you have the metals to hand and the ability to practise.

I honestly can't picture Kaladin having big emotional outbursts, he's a very private character, Shallan too to an extent. We may see big emotional scenes in the coming books but I don't think the characters are quite developed enough yet, they still have to work through all of their trauma. 

Like the poster above, I didn't find the ending rushed at all, it fits in with the rest of Brandon's writing.