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    Kelsier
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    If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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    ... I really don't understand what you're saying there. What's supposed to be special/not special about coal?
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    Yeah, I have to agree with you on this. We've got the sections from Preservation's perspective in Mistborn, and while the shard can see a lot of things it can't see everything.
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    The thing is, we know how the (non god, non compounded) metals work. The molecular structure serves as a pseudo-aon. So as long as you have the same molecular structure (and don't have it heavily invested, like Nightblood or the One Ring), it should act like any other metal of the type. The metallic arts are the 'easiest' ones to use on other planets, so it really wouldn't make sense if metals procured onsite didn't work.
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    But that one's canon.
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    I think this song works pretty well for later in the trilogy
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    Maybe. I expect we'll get a lot more clues in Words of Radiance. I just hope those clues aren't part of the 650 pages that get cut from the first draft
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    Honestly, that part's kinda weird, best explanation I can come up with is that the shardblade cuts the body and soul apart, rather than actually damaging the soul (Szeth's explanation is 'A Shardblade did not cut living flesh; it severed the soul itself.' - so there's room for that interpretation, though I'm not sure how much people in universe know about how shardblades work on a realmatic level. Pity the ars arcanum doesn't have it - but Words Of Radiance is supposed to show us how shardblades are made, so we'll probably have more info there). So the feruchemical gold would just be reestablishing the connection. You can apprently do really weird things by messing with the links between realms - mistwraiths are humans who have a block between the two realms, and if 'turns you into a jellyfish' is a possible outcome for messing with realm links, 'makes your arm useless' seems pretty small potatoes. But that's just my guess; shardblades are kinda weird. Here's the cite on mistwraiths. Then again, it's also possible that the 'body template' is spiritual realm, and the shardblade cuts into the cognitive bit of the soul, or the template is cognitive and the shardblade cuts the spiritual bit. I find the difference between cognitive and spiritual is kinda fuzzy in a lot of cases, and though some people have fairly well-developed theories, I don't think we really have a lot of data.
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    Keep in mind that when Heralds die they get transported to a dimension of infinite pain and torment. Presumably the honorblade vanishes because it goes there with them.
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    Eh, Brandon said all sixteen were in the circle on the chart. And I don't really see any need or narrative benefit for there to be more.
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    The point is that you end up with significantly more pounds of Miles than you started with; he isn't going to starve to death because he regenerated an arm. It's celar that normal cellural mechanisms of growth aren't being invoked. But how does the healing know what a cell's DNA 'should' look like? As far as realmatic theory goes, the obvious solution is that it's a soul-based 'ideal' version of some variety. Basically, the soul has a template, and healing causes the body to conform with it. Otherwiese there'd be issues with (for example) inquisitors rejecting their hemalurgic spikes, like how Miles' flesh spits bullets back out. There's similar stuff going on with the Returned from Warbreaker, and (to an extent) the Heod from Elantris. If you end up cutting a bloodmaker into pieces, the piece with the soul is the only bit that regenerates. He learned about all sixteen of the metals at the well - including ones that were impossible to create with the technology at the time. Given that he was able to precisely modify bacterial metabolisms, I think it's safe to say his knowledge of biology was sufficient so that he wouldn't have overlooked an easier method of gaining immortality. There's a ton of additional information in interviews and other novels. This particular piece came from the reddit Ask Me Anything earlier this year.
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    Well, Brandon said 'all sixteen'. God metals are obviously a seperate thing, but we already know that those are planned to show up later.
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    Warbreaker reference Anyway, gold healing routinely creates matter out of nothing. What determines how the freshly created cells'should' look? It clearly isn't based on the cells next to them - since otherwise you'd end up with gold cancer. Trying to make aging out as strictly a matter of healable damage isn't that profitable as a means of inquiry; there has to be a template, and there's pretty good evidence the template shifts over time. And the Lord Ruler knew how feruchemy works, and there's no reason he'd compound atium instead of gold if gold worked like that. Same with sazed and marsh; we know marsh needed to have an atium spike for immortality. Also, gold feruchemy heals shardblade wounds, so it really isn't vaguely biological
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    You could just as easily argue that gold healing 'should' cause rapid aging, since each cell goes through more divisions. There is definitely a supernatural element to aging in the cosmere; for instance, young children on Nalthis have noticably stronger Breaths than old men.
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    I don't see any reason why it would, since the physical structure of the metal is known to be the important bit...
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    Vanish if the user is dead. If the user wills to put them down, though, they just stay put, embedded in stone and not at all drilling into the center of the world.
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    I'm saying that in their default, unactivated state, shardblades don't do anything weird in terms of interactions. They act just like a 'normal' sword - so their 'cutting through the soul' isn't a manifestation of being an entity with limited physical realm presence.
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    If nobody is holding a shardblade, it falls to the ground, and noticably *doesn't* burrow a hole to the planet's core and kill everyone. The blade only cuts through stuff when it's active.
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    I believe there's a minimum level that spikes will decay down to, so they'd still have trace charge.
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    I'm saying that spren are insubstantial, whereas shardblades are not. It isn't a question of 'being present in the physical domain', it's a question of 'can you touch it, y/n'? Anyone can touch a shardblade. They're visible to everyone. Heck, you could balance an orange on one if you really want to, and though their blades have the nasty effect of cutting apart the soul, that's an entirely seperate thing.
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    There were literally over a million koloss spikes lying around right after the ascension.
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    All entities are in all three realms, so...
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    Syl, at least, is present in the physical realm. Being bound to Kaladin gives her a stronger presence, but she's definitely got a physical presence of her own. EDIT: darn quote tags!
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    Are you saying that Syl is not in the physical realm?
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