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The first is a good question; an answer would give us insights into the spiritual genetics involved. Although, keep in mind, the Lord Mistborn presumably ended up with Beldre, a coinshot, and yet none of their kids, or grandkids, turned into Mistborn, so perhaps not? As for the second, Mr. Sanderson has expressly said that the introduction of allomantic genes breaks feruchemy into its component bits. His phrasing makes it pretty certain that no, you cannot be a full Feruchemist if you have any allomancy at all, though perhaps he was being inexact. That I know of, we have no hard data on whether-or-not Mistborns are affected that way, so until we hear otherwise, it's possible to be a Mistborn-ferring.

Yes. This, this, all of this. I absolutely think that this is how it works. This explains why it's so important for a Shard to Invest not just in the people of a world, but in the planet itself. I also think it would make worldhopping far more interesting.

My friend asked Mr. Sanderson exactly this question and was given the next-best-thing to a RAFO. I'm trying to get him to join the fora so he can tell you himself what the man said.

Well, since by my count, no matter who I vote for, Grayv will die, unless a lot of people come here and edit their votes, so for simplicity's sake i will abstain from voting today. Functionally, this is the exact same thing as if I'd voted for Grayv, or if I'd voted for absolutely anyone else. Unless my math is wrong.

I agree with very little of this, particularly how you interpret what I said. My underlying point is, I do not believe that Intents are as all-consuming as they are often portrayed. They are strong compulsions, yes, and taking any single action to directly contradict it (like Preservation attacking and killing Ruin) are the next thing to impossible. I simply see people post their thoughts here on the forum taking it for granted that an Intent is the first, last, and only factor in a Shard's powers, actions, thoughts and deeds, and I don't feel such an all-embracing idea is supported by the text. I think that making the sixteen most powerful beings in the cosmere such one-dimensional beings would make for a very boring story.

Is it confirmed, or just the MAG, that mixing lerasium with any other metal makes you a Misting of that metal? Thus, an alloy of lerasium with atium would, allomantically, make the one who burned it a Seer. Of course, there's certainly no basis to guess yet what such an alloy would do hemalurgically or feruchemically. And don't forget, lerasium with 2% atium and lerasium with 20% atium would be two very, very different metals.

I didn't understand any of the things you just said.

Leras was winning. He and Ati were in perfect balance, and that meant nothing changed. That's the definition of Preservation's Intent. Leras managed to fight his Intent to change that, to risk ultimate destruction in the cause of creating something able to grow and evolve. All to change a scenario that was literally his own victory.

The basic point, in book, is that it's a concept in Shin culture that other cultures don't fully understand. So the confusion you feel now is deliberate. Eventually, the concept will be explained in-text in some future book, but I suspect it will end up having a tangential relationship to the definitions of either the english word Truthless or the german word "unwahr". Right now, I don't believe we've got a great understanding of what Szeth did or why it has anything to do with the Truth, its lack, or falsehood.

Do Idrian Returned have Destinies? They all die after a week. Do they serve some purpose? Are they given week-long Destinies, or do their destinies by-and-large go unfulfilled?

... I wasn't saying the Almighty is done at last, i was saying @KevThinker is done at last. That's who he (not she) is. But... thanks?

Entirely possible. I feel like we on the Fora give too much credit to an Intent. It is, at the end of the day, as Leras proved, nothing more than a strong, STRONG suggestion. A truly strong personality can overthrow it without breaking it. It isn't some obstinate, definable, law-of-physics hard-and-fast rule. Even after millenia, it can be overcome without Splintering. Just my two cents, I suppose.

Confetti, parades, three rousing rounds of hip-hip-HOORAY, pass the cigar and uncork the champagne, thank The Almighty, he (she?) is done at last.

I always took it as, "metals are Invested on Scadrial, therefore any Shard would be metalblind on Scadrial", and "Forms are Invested on Sel, therefore any Shard would be formblind on Sel," but I suppose I could be wrong. Stranger things have happened.

Darnam the mortician "Wow, that is one messy corpse. This man wasn't just killed, he was mutilated. Can barely tell it was him. Still, the widow was able to identify his face, once I found all the parts of it. And nailed them back onto the skull. From the looks of this body, I sure am glad I just bury people and our world doesn't have any branch of science that would enable me to learn anything about the killer from the body. NEXT!" EDIT: Could the narrator perhaps edit the original post with a comprehensive list of who exactly is in the village? I am having the devil's own time keeping track. And perhaps a summary of who is currently dead, and what we know about them?

Wouldn't being that cold freeze the air itself? Would you pass out from lack of gaseous oxygen in seconds?

First, there's a way to use Aon's phonetically, as the word "dor" itself is phonetically spelt out. So if you've got the sound "cow" you can use Aons to write it out phonetically. Second, I mean you could always come up with a single symbol that means cow and use it in your own language. It just wouldn't have any magical cow-related effects when drawn by an Elantrian.

Except that having one shadow makes you a god, and having a ton of shadows makes you confused, so more shadows isn't always good. Are Lightsong and Stennimar the same person? If you burned malatium and looked at Lightsong, might you see Stennimar?

Darnam sits quietly in the corner with a small cup of port. "If everyone died... who spread the story? In such detail?"

Keep in mind there are limits to how much brassminds can store. If you're at 0K, anything even slightly mobile would be filled in seconds, at the most. You'd have to be touching something the size of a bridge, made out of a single piece of brass.

Can Fafen (the sister of Vivenna and Siri) actively prevent her hair from growing, the way Siri can make it grow, in order to reduce how often she must shave her head as a monk? Siri uses metabolic energy to grow her hair. Is this similar to what Lift does? Or is it, because "growing hair" is a natural process, she's simply got the ability to do so with great rapidity, but still using the same energy source it would normally use? If so, it's not quite what Lift does, despite using food to fuel a process that's magical in nature, and it's not quite allomantic pewter, despite the fact that it's a simple enhancement of a basic physical human ability. It isn't really feruchemical gold, or the healing effects of Stormlight, either. The only other hair growth I can think of that we've seen in the Cosmere was when Raoden regrew Sarene's hair. It's all but explicitly stated in the book that the base Aon he drew was Ien, the word for "wisdom" whose magic is healing. Presumably, when Returned change how they look, their Deific Breath provides the energy, the way it provides the energy for an Awakened rope to throw boulders. Now that Vivenna has a lot of Breath, will it provide the energy for her hair growth? There's WoB that Vivenna can shapeshift like any Returned could. If Siri did so, would it require metabolic energy? Is it even possible to have enough metabolic energy in one's system to power a change to that much of one's body at once? ...Talking about Aons gave me a random thought. You cast illusions in Elantris using the Aon Shao, which means "change". On Roshar, the surge of Illumination, used for illusions, is right next to the surge for Transformation. Coincidence? EDIT: For clarity.

First, I'm not sure we mortals can speak to what's more "likely" for a functionally omnipotent being that's been alive several thousand years at least. Also, if you're right, and simulating the person is cruel, then it's it likely Honor would avoid doing so? No offense... it sorta seems like you're trying very hard to be offended here. You are correct, it's possible Honor did something bad here, but we have not the slightest bit of information that makes either possible theory, or any of a dozen other possible theories, any more or less likely. If you want to have an opinion, that's fine, but you have to admit, with the tiny scrap we've got from the books, it'd be like trying to deduce the plot of the Way of Kings from reading three pages; you simply cannot say that any one interpretation is, objectively, more "likely" than any other. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying that nothing you've said so far is anything more than sheer speculation, so I wouldn't count on it convincing a jury of your peers.

That theory was debunked, as well as several others were. The connection makes it a little dicey, and somewhat possible, for Mitosis to be dead. Maybe enough clones dying at once, or just enough of them hearing it at once, could kill off literally every clone (though as they say, clone's a bad word, cuz there's no primary one. Every instance? Every avatar?) On the other hand, maybe the ones really far away started to suffer the effects, but the music killed all the ones nearby before the ones far away could be slain, and if even one lived long enough to recover, he's good. On the other hand, he's now SO nerfed. Presumably, there's no reason for the Reckoners not to share this intel with the other Reckoner cells, if not everyone on the planet. Even other Epics, why not, they'll kill Mitosis for you if given the chance. And it's not like his weakness is hard to produce; finding someone who truly did not fear Steelheart was difficult even knowing what his weakness was, Mitosis's weakness can be hummed. I suppose he could deafen himself. Would that even protect him, or does his body simply have to be in the presence of the soundwaves of the song? Would writing out the lyrics work?

I have some general thoughts on Blades and Plate... I think that the Blades are going to turn out to be like Gold was to anyone who read the first Mistborn book. We're given an in-world explanation that makes some sense, and we just accept it. End of story. But it turns out it wasn't even close to correct. I suspect none of us readers know as much about the Blades as we think we do.There's a ton we don't understand yet. They're the only Investiture that we've seen on Roshar that don't need Stormlight. What does power them, then? If Plate could be directly powered once long ago but can't anymore, why can Blades still do it? Why are there, by Dalinar's reckoning, 80-90 Blades in the world right now, when just two Orders (and we do know that the Radiants who showed up to Feverstone represented literally ALL of the Radiants of those two Orders?) gave away 300. That means, presumably, at least 1500, and for-sure at least 300. What happened to the other 210, or the other 1,410 Blades? There is simply so much that does not add up. I can't offer any better suggestions because my point is, I don't think we know nearly enough come to any conclusions, and I think that over the next nine books we'll learn that all the "conventional wisdom" circling fanon about Shardblades is gonna prove to be all wrong, just like there is no way for anyone whose read just the first Mistborn book to realize what exactly is up with gold, and what it implies for the rest of the allomantic table.

They may well be alive, but does that mean they're human? Maybe her existence is for this purpose, and maybe she's fine with that. Not being biological, she cannot procreate, has no need to eat or do any of the basic human drives to survive. Perhaps, for a being like she is, this is the ultimate purpose, and she feels a sense of fulfillment at being able to accomplish it so well.