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This post is in reference to the Hal-Con notes in this post. Brandon said that the process that Preservation used to force some of Ruin's power into a Physical aspect of Preservation's choosing was "kinda like splintering", and that it had to do with how the Shard's powers clash with one another. Since the two Shards were supposed to be in balance with one another after Preservation used his Cognitive aspect to trap Ruin's Cognitive aspect, I think that Preservation forced the creation of atium specifically to weaken Ruin enough to allow him to be trapped. I'm curious to know if this is at all plausible.

Near the end of The Way of Kings, Jasnah's admonishes Shallan pretty strongly for traveling to Shadesmar with only a single dim sphere. This suggests to me that there is a minimum safe number of spheres or a minimum number of lumens of Stormlight that is needed to travel to Shadesmar safely on Roshar, and maybe larger numbers of spheres or a larger sum of lumens is needed to do anything one you're there. Does anyone have any ideas on what those amounts could be?

After I finished reading The Emperor's Soul, three questions came to mind: - Can you use Hemalurgy to steal an ability from a Forger when that ability was granted by one of their Essence Marks? - Can you bind a person using Bloodsealing if all you have from that person is a Hemalurgically charged spike? This obviously assumes that the person is still alive and that their sDNA wasn't too badly assaulted by the creation of the spike. - Following on from the second question, can you use a Hemalurgically charged spike to sic a Bloodsealer's monsters on someone? I'd love to know what forum goers think about this - Brandon has said elsewhere that Hemalurgy is applicable Cosmere-wide and I'm curious to see how it affects the magics in TES.

While I was looking at the Ars Arcanum for Warbreaker I noted that the Third Heightening confers perfect color recognition and that the Tenth Heightening allows an object to be drained to the color white to fuel Awakening. These points make me wonder about the following questions: - Can someone at the Third Heightening see and perceive infrared and ultraviolet light? If they can see infrared light, can they tell what temperature an object is from observing it? - If someone at the Tenth Heightening touches a colored object that is radiating thermal energy in the infrared spectrum and drains it of all color, does its temperature drop?

One of the things that I'd noticed when reading The Alloy of Law was the name of the city of Elendel, presumably named for Elend. So, with that in mind, I'd like to find out someday if Lutha (assuming that the -del suffix in Scadrialese is a natural syllabic suffix for place names) is a male name or a female name, and what sort of person they were (or are) to be notable enough to have a the capital city of the Final Empire named after them. (P.S. First post!)