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I didn't really read this thread, I admit. But Eshonai is a very good guess. From what I recall from her reading, she'd like to leave and explore the world.

Yeah, but she travels to Shadesmar ...

From my gut feeling I think Jasnah is the explorer.

I apologize, I can't go with this idea as well as for not quoting, but it's a bit broken and so I dare answer without quotes. -- That Tearim isn't mentioned in TWoK might be because he's still in Kholinar (as somebody already said) or because he died in that night (after giving Dalinar's Shardplate and Shardblade back to Gavilar). -- Somebody mentioned that "Gavilar was described as a great duelist, too" (paraphrased). Skimming through TWoK I don't find any evidence for this. He surely was a great warrior (he got a broken nose and a bad scar on his chin during fighting (this is from TWoK, too)). While Dalinar, the Blackthorn, was the most renown warrior of this time, he himself thought his brother was "the only worthy opponent he could see" (TWoK Ch. 5). So even if Gavilar was the man for tactics, he knew how to fight, too. What is my point: Not being a fighter myself I'm sure a duelist has other qualities than a practiced warrior. The one doesn't exclude the other as we see when Adolin is fighting, but being a good duelist isn't necessary the same as being a good warrior. Then there is Szeth's observation during the first part of his fight with Gavilar: "The man was dangerously skilled with that Blade." (TWoK Prologue). Even if Tearim was a very good duelist, he wore the Plate and the Blade only for a short time and I'm inclined to think that he wouldn't be that good with the Shards yet. -- How should Szeth know who to kill if he wasn't told and shown Gavilar before? Szeth knew Gavilar, he saw him at the feast. And he was sure, he fought Gavilar ("Szeth knelt down, inspecting the man’s pain-wracked face. Strong features, square chin, black beard flecked with white, striking pale green eyes. Gavilar Kholin." (TWoK Prologue)). I know, the illusion ... My question about this is: Would an illusion stay when the subject dies? We don't know this yet. So in my estimation Gavilar was murdered by Szeth this very night.

I've some formatting problems for some weeks now, too. I'm using Win 7 Home SP1 and Firefox 23.0.1 at home and Win 7 Prof and Opera 10.x (and alternatively Firefox) at work. I've the problems on both computers. edit: I just got this after hitting the "quote"-button: There was the quote and this: Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 0) (tried to allocate 523188528 bytes) in Unknown on line 0 I've deleted this line and the post worked well, but it's confusing.

Some quotes regarding the question whether non-Scadrian metals can be used by Scadrians too, though nothing is really explicit. from December 2013 (emphasizes mine) from October 2008 This older quote seems to imply that Feruchemy or Allomancy can be used on other worlds and this let's me think that they, too, work with non-Scadrian metals.

Thanks for sharing your experience with us. Surely you will be right then. I imagined that Cenn might have had kind of a -- probably not sharpened but -- twisted sense for his environment.

As far as we know only Sel's magic is regional.(ref) A Sliver is a person who held the power (or at least a large amount of the power) of a Shard of Adonalsium and let it go (or used it, as the Lord Ruler did). The person holding a Shard of Adonalsium (here we use to call that a "Shardholder" while BS himself refers to both -- the power and the person -- as Shard of Adonalsium) takes up the power of a Shard of Adonalsium and keeps it (that's what Sazed did with Preservation and Ruin's powers). hth :=)

Because I'm shy and my request was offtopic. So I used [ size ]

Thanks a lot!

Thanks to you all and especially Hoser! I see that there might not be a straight translation and my post is not that clear (as for I wanted to ask how the native readers interpret this word), but you really helped me.

I know it's off topic and you're busy, but I like to add that the time shown in the forums still doesn't work correct. Only the timestamp in quotes shows the right time. It's not important (only a bit confusing) and not urgent.

And Yelignar seemed to be a foe to Nohadon and his people: (TWoK Chapter 60) I know this is not at all a proof for my idea . He does. But Taravangian also uses Szeth as a "killing machine" apparently without feeling bad (yeah, I know, for him he does this for the "greater good").

I might misunderstand you here but IMHO it's not "possible that Breaths are tied in with Innate Investiture", they are Innate Investiture. source Please bear with me, if I did misunderstand you. edit: As for the Mistborn-Misting-Children-part: source Perhaps that helps a bit. I'm sure I've read another quote about that topic but I don't find it at the moment.

Just spinning an idea. How did I come up with it? I found this quote: source I see that the question was about “Surgebinding”, but for me the answer is of more interest: Szeth does not need a(n Honor)spren to get access to his powers (though he, too, needs Stormlight). Then I ran over this (not for the first time, but with the above quote fresh in mind …): source And we know that Szeth's way is different from Kaladin's: source So I got the idea that Szeth's lashings don't work on Shardplates because Shardplates might be Invested with/by another 'Investiture' than Szeth's lashings derive from. I take as a premise that neither the Knights Radiant nor the average Shardbearer from 'modern Roshar' were/are Voidbinders, I think that – in opposite – Szeth is Voidbinding and so his type of 'using Investiture' interferes with Surgebinding (i. e. the type of (possible, but at the moment not yet known) 'using Investiture' that for example Kaladin does). Or, probably, if the Ten Fools would use Voidbinding, perhaps Szeth is on his way to become a follower of the Ten Fools (i. e. Knights Radiants 'are' followers of the Heralds, so the Ten Fools might have (had) followers, too). source What do you guys think?

And again I beg for your help. This time it's about the word "Truthless". I always understood it as "without truth" (which seems to fit with this definition (devoid of truth)). But I'm a bit confused because in the German book it's translated as "Der Unwahre". I didn't come up with an exact translation of this noun back into English. "Unwahr" (the adjective) means false, untruthful, untrue. But "untrue" doesn't mean truthless (devoid of truth), or am I wrong here? Can anyone help me? Is Szeth <devoid of truth> or is he <untrue/untruthful/false>?

I'd like to add some thoughts of mine to this thread. I apologize for not quoting. 1) Someone mentioned that the Elhokar's Shardblade might be an Honorblade passed down the royal line. This "royal line" does only exist since Gavilar, Elhokar's father, after he reunited Alethkar's highprinces. And Elhokar's Blade and Plate were given from his mother's side (TWoK Chapter 12) (though we don't know anything about her family). 2) Apparently Honorblades could be summoned and dismissed like (normal) Shardblades (TWoK Prelude). 3) It's theorized that the Blades were kept in the Cognitive Realm when not summoned. They might get their powers there, while "resting". This, too, would/could explain why the Plates of old (which could apparently be summoned and dismissed, too (TWoK Chapter 19)) didn't need to be powered by gemstones. 4) Elantris's world is Sel, yes. :=) 5) That quote about the spren being release valves on Roshar was about diminishing the dangers for traveling from Roshar to the Cognitive Realm (other than on Sel). source

I'm sorry to disagree. (edit: the url to the smiley broke so imagine a smiley here) I'm confident, that Cenn -- who suffered from a great blood loss and was near death, lying on the stony ground -- heard the galloping horse. His body might have felt numb but I think his senses where alert and took in what the others missed hearing (at least in this group; we were never said what others who where in that Shardbearers way, saw or heard). Too, his oversensitivity led him to think that the armor "seemed to radiate light." Second edit for another thought: @Natans: You think he might have used travel-surge? But then: Why the horse and can a horse even be transported by that travel-surge?

I don't know whether this has been asked before (a quick search didn't help me): What would happen with the Returned's Divine Breaths if Endowment were Shattered (violently)?

Though there seems to be no women "in modern times" fighting (with Shardplate and Shardblade), but we know that there is one woman possessing a Shardblade.

Thanks to both of you, your answers are very helpful for me. I'm glad I have been on the right track about the term "hardwritten", but I needed some confirmation. And, what happens when one ingests Lerasium? Does it add the information "user is (now) Mistborn" to their spiritweb? Ah, I see, it's a step later than I thought. PS: upvote for both of you for your help

I dare ask you once more for a term I don't understand. In the Ars Arcanum of Alloy of Law is written: What means "hardwritten"? And does "softwritten" exist, too, and what would this mean? I tried to find a solution myself but neither Google nor the German translation of the Ars Arcanum (I was "lucky" that it showed up in the preview of the German book). And another request: The "actual outlet" -- I understood this as for the practitioner could not choose whether they were Mistborn, Allomancers (and here: which kind of Allomancy/metal they can use) or Scadrian "drabs". I apologize for bothering with such questions.

Hey Silent One , welcome to the forums. I don't know how big chasmfiends can grow, but we have seen only one adult chasmfiend in TWoK: Because chasmfiends and the chrysalises were hunted (mostly for their gemhearts) for more than five years they might be threatened with extinction. My impression is that they don't really grow much more than this one chasmfiend described in TWoK. And I think the pupation is the last step to becoming a matured chasmfiend; I don't believe that the pupate more often than once (at least when they already pupated to a chasmfiend).

Your link gives 207 entries and there's a lot about Blades. Which quote do you mean exactly? And just for my understanding: You say, if a Herald would kill a person, he'd die and that person would become a Herald? Or just a Knight Radiant? Or if a Knight Radiant would kill someone that one would become a Knight Radiant? This seems very unlikely to me. We know that (at least some of) the Heralds are still around (i.e. Shalash). I understood this as they were "really" around, not only as ghosts (am I wrong you meant Kelsier with that "dude"?). Something like this surely would not have happened prior to the Last Desolation. So, when would this have started? After the Heralds abandoning the Oathpact? And why should anybody of the Heralds or the KR kill somebody who's not a foe, but someone honorable and "not-odius"? I'm quite sure if this would have been the method to make "Heraldhood" survive the "Heralds" would have died out long before The Way of Kings takes place. All in all I'm curious for clarification what exactly you meant.

He did? Where? This is confirmed. source