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That's why I asked about the injured Seons whose owners were affected by the Reod, not the uninjured ones like Ashe. It seems logical that adding the chasm line to the injured Seons would repair them and allow them to regain their sanity.

That's true, but the end of The Hero of Ages explicitly mentions how Sazed's consciousness expands to hold the content of his copperminds and hold their contents successfully. I doubt Brandon would have mentioned that unless it was significant.

Something just occurred to me regarding the Seons on Sel that were injured by the Reod: - Is it possible to add a chasm line to the Aon inside of an injured Seon? - Do any of the Elantrians as of the time of The Emperor's Soul know how to do this? - Does doing so affect the Seon's ability to bond with humans that are not affected by the Shaod?

Brandon Sanderson has previously said that Harmony can be labeled as the most powerful entity in the Cosmere. Most of the posts I've read and most of the tidbits Brandon has said stated suggest that Harmony is the most powerful because he has two Shards. However, with the recent Reddit quotes about the 'mindless' powers on Sel and their effect on the Cognitive Realm, I have an alternate idea: Harmony is the most powerful because he has the most spiritual power under his cognitive control. This makes sense to me because of how Brandon worded his statements about the Shards on Sel. It suggests that if someone managed to reassemble Devotion and Dominion and then take them at the same time, they would be equally as powerful. It also makes me wonder if Harmony, in some ways, is a more capable thinker and planner than Odium, because of the nature of his Shards and the expansion of his cognitive aspect to hold them successfully.

I always wondered about the cognitive aspect of Adonalsium too. The idea that the 17th Shard wants to add some aspect of itself to a rebuilt Adonalsium is an interesting idea too. The first thing that comes to mind is a classic power struggle - Hoid may believe that he should be the new cognitive aspect of Adonalsium and the 17th Shard may believe that one of their members should be the new cognitive aspect. Something else I wonder about is if the 17th Shard is going to try to rebuild Adonalsium with a cognitive aspect made up of more than one person.

I've always wondered if an aluminum gnat burned their metal while touching a Hemalurgically charged spike or while they were pierced with a Hemalurgically charged spike. If Brandon's statement can be believed, the spike's Hemalurgically charge would be eliminated, and I'd love to know what happens to that investiture when the spike discharges. Likewise, I've always wondered if an aluminum gnat could discharge a Feruchemist's metal minds by touching them while burning aluminum.

Well, now we know why Shadesmar doesn't exist in interplanetary space! What an interesting explanation for why Shadesmar was a "special case". Brandon's comments about the mindless powers rampaging through Shadesmar on Sel also make a lot of sense. I wonder if we'll ever get to see an in-story attempt to enter Shadesmar on Sel anytime soon.

I can reproduce the mobile to desktop site behavior for on-site links using the Atomic Web Browser application. The site starts out in mobile mode and then switches to desktop mode, and then sometimes it gets stuck on desktop mode and won't switch back to mobile mode. So far it always alternates between desktop and mobile mode when it doesn't get stuck.

Yes, that's correct. As I alluded to in this thread, I agree with those who say that the time bubbles that Pulsers and Sliders create are anchored to the planet because of the Allomancer's three aspects interacting with the planet's three aspects, including the effects of gravity and the inaccuracy of claiming that the bubbles "don't move". Extrapolating that factoid, I realized that the Shadesmar is clearly integrated very tightly with both the Physical and Cognitive aspects of the Cosmere's planets, so I pulled the threads in my mind and reached the conclusion (now confirmed by Brandon) that when you go beyond the influence of a planet's three aspects, you go beyond a boundary of Shadesmar.

The quote in the OP was his whole response, as best as I could remember it.

It was a guess on my part. His response suggested to me that Shadesmar's boundaries are related to a planet's three aspects.

You're welcome! The answer to my first question raises some very interesting avenues of investigation regarding Shadesmar and its boundaries. Brandon's reply suggested to me that Shadesmar might have boundaries based on the influence of a planet's gravity well. He might have said something else but I don't remember it.

I got an answer to my question!

I was fortunate to be in line at Brandon's book signing near Baltimore and got to ask him a question. I asked him if it was possible to enter or exit Shadesmar in interplanetary space. He laughed nervously for several seconds with a look that suggested "Uh-oh!" and replied (as best as I can remember): I also referenced the recent Q&A and this post, and speculated that the reason why the original poster thought Wax's sister was a duralumin ferring was because of Wax's comment that he did not feel any strong emotions as a result of her death. I told Brandon that the poster must have thought that she was deliberately suppressing her Connection with Wax by using Feruchemy. I said that I didn't need a yes or no answer from him, and he replied that he would neither confirm nor deny my statement and would only agree that it was very interesting.

For some reason, the first thing that comes to mind in response to Brandon's response about Hoid is a combination of Nicrosil or Chromium Feruchemy. We know very little about Nicrosil Feruchemy so I could see Brandon using it as one of the reasons why Hoid keeps popping up, but I would expect that Chromium Feruchemy plays a major part as well.

I recently posed the question of whether or not it is possible to enter or exit Shadesmar in interplanetary space. Knowing what we know about the third Mistborn trilogy I'd expect such a question to be RAFO Bait, but you never know...

While reading this thread about the frame of reference used to anchor a time bubble while on a spaceship, I remembered a related thought: can you enter Shadesmar when you are in space? I've been thinking about this for a while in relation to the discussions regarding the Physical and Cognitive aspects of non-sapient things like furniture in relation to Forgery and the Forging of such objects. Based on what we know about Shadesmar on Roshar and Sel and how strongly it mimics the Physical aspect of the planet in those instances, I'm wondering if the influence of that Physical aspect (such as a planetary gravity well) also defines the boundary of Shadesmar, and outside of that boundary it is impossible to enter because it is simply not there. The same thought applies to exiting Shadesmar in space, if it is even possible to enter - you could end up floating in the void...

That is quite possibly the most awesome answer I could have ever expected to get. Thank you for posting this!

That quote basically explains my OP by providing the motivation for Preservation to create atium in the first place. By doing so he brings Ruin down to his level of power and he provides a useful tool for Allomancers.

I checked the forums and the question that was RAFO'd was basically "Who was Lutha?" Part of my question has more to do with the name itself, and the other part has to do with why they were/are famous enough to lend their name to a city.

You make a really good point here, and I suspect that the numbers 16, 10 and 3 will probably have more background revealed as more books are published. I also agree that we might get more numbers that are Cosmere-significant. Still, it seems like there are a lot more references to even numbers for Cosmere constructs but only one reference to odd numbers for Realmatic Theory. It sticks out too much to not be significant, in my opinion.

As far as I know, Hemalurgy is not limited to not stealing magical powers; it can be used for things as varied as anchoring a kandra's Cognitive aspect and stealing the sDNA that binds Shardblades to a person. That's why I wondered if Hemalurgy could steal anything else, including abilities granted via Essence Marks. As for the links with Bloodsealing, Brandon said once that the motion of human blood within the body is important to Hemalurgy (Unfortunately I don't have a citation so I might be wrong here). That made me wonder how it cold be linked to Bloodesaling; I envisioned a scenario where Shai gets spiked to steal the abilities granted by the "Shaizan" mark and then the spike is used to Bloodseal her into another prison.

That's a good point. I'd love to know if certain types of spheres are better for traveling to Shadesmar and if the transition is easier if you have a lot of spheres, if you have spheres of certain colors, or if you have very bright spheres.

Something that has really puzzled me about the Cosmere is that almost every aspect of it revealed so far is based on even numbers - sixteen Shards, ten Shard worlds, the four groups of four metals for the Metallic Arts on Scadrial, the Ten Heightenings of BioChroma on Nalthis, the 30 different types of Rosharan magic, the four sides of Aon Rao and the city of Elantris on Sel, and so on. Yet, there are only three Realms in Realmatic Theory. Why is that? Why is this part of the Cosmere based on an odd number, and the smallest odd prime number at that? What makes three special here? (The big hole here is that the Ars Arcanum in Elnatris has 41 Aons listed, but I'm hoping that the list is not complete and that there are an even number of Aons.)

You do make good points about everything seen so far in Warbreaker having to do with the visible spectrum, but one of the interesting points about white-colored objects in the real world is that they require greater energy input to reach a certain temperature. An obvious example is a white shirt versus a black shirt; you'll feel cooler in the white shirt. My thought was that even if a person at the Tenth Heightening couldn't directly perceive infrared radiation from a heated object, their use of that object's colors to fuel Awakening would still cause its temperature to drop because it is now reflecting more energy then it was beforehand. Once I thought of that I wondered if it could be extended to a scenario where that temperature drop could happen immediately because that infrared radiation is indirectly contributing to the overall input to the action of Awakening.