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Weird thought, but honestly I hope Hoid gets developed as a character then dies. I want Kelsier to unite the shards into Adolasium.

For you @The Harlem Worldhoppers 1) I love surgebinding and allomancy, but since you can have a larger variety of powers in allomancy, I would choose that. (unless you could have ALL of the surgebinding powers sorta like a mistborn) 2)The 5th? That's a hard one that I haven't really thought about, though the 4th is most definitely shardplate. Though I don't have a real answer to this, I think a fun speculation would be acquiring one or more extra surgebinding abilities. 3) Okay so one is sort of weird, but I really liked in the Wax and Wayne series how High Imperial speech is literally Spook's street dialect. Two is probably how Adolin's sword is starting to come back to life (something I totally called back in WoR because spren are made by human personification and Adolin treats his sword like a person). Three is literally all of the discussion of philosophy and religion in any of Brandon's books (these are not really in order) 4) Theories? I don't know, I just really want the people of Yolen and the other Cosmere aware people to have a battle against all of the main characters of the other books led by Hoid (Hoid/surgebinders/allomancers/etc against the Yolen people). Another theory is that someone will try to recombine all 16 shards back into God. 5) My favorite Cosmere character is probably Shallan. I'm not yet completely sure why yet though. 6) I loved Oathbringer, everything about it, I thought the pacing of all of the Stormlight books were very good. The worst book pacing wise in the cosmere that I have read is definitely Elantris.

Sorry for taking so long to respond. Thank you @Archer, @Gray to, @The Harlem Worldhoppers, and @Barbarian AL. For Archer's question, I would like to say that all magic forms in the cosmere are extremely versatile and therefor any one of them is limited only to the user's imagination and skill. I do like Gray to's answer of Feruchemy, however, I am going to try to answer this based on evidence and what I remember from the book. From what I can tell, the magics that have been used outside of combat by characters are Surgebinding, the AonDor (and similar), Allomancy, and Feruchemy. Of these, I have to say that the AonDor from Elantris is probably the best answer, for it has the least amount of restrictions on it than any other magic. Surgebinding is limited to two combined, very specific powers and while, those can be used outside of combat (lightweaving, etc) they are far more restricted. Allomancy's abd Feruchemy's problems are the same, though you can see more examples of their usefulness in the books. These mainly appear in the Wax and Wayne series related to Ranette and various other instances of Allomancers selling their abilities (soothing salons, etc). So, yeah, I would say AonDor.

Welcome to my topic, let’s just talk about anything and everything in the entire cosmere. Who’s up first?