Phantom Monstrosity

It isn't 'can't use allomancy in the vicinity of the pits'. It's 'steelpushers and ironpullers can easily shatter the crystals by pushing and pulling on the trace atium'. Old theory, I'm afraid. There's a lot of evidence against it. Nope, we know that Lerasium can be used in hemalurgy. What it does is 'next trilogies' stuff, though. "Various mental and temporal effects", according to the chart.

It's a live chalkling, and it's angry.

I figure those... complications could be similar to the results of burning spikes, but we just don't have the info. If you got additional SDNA permanently attached, I figure you could easily end up as a double misting. Instead of erasing+rewriting a book with lerasium, you're getting some glue and attaching half a dictionary onto the way of kings.

Do soulcasters glow?

I think it's more complex than that

Steel Inquistors get knocked out from pain if they try to burn their own spikes. I figure it's just impossible to keep burning the metal long enough to accomplish anything.

Trying to burn your spikes is apparently a bad idea. If steel inquistors get knocked out trying to burn their own spikes (and dudes have to have insane pain tolerances), I figure that it's impossible, practically speaking. You'd go unconscious before you could accomplish anything. And since burning powerfully invested stuff is dangerous, that probably is also a factor. The One Ring is pretty thematically simliar, really.

You're trying to read 'splice to' as if it isn't a transitive operation that combines two things. If you splice together a rope and a chain, you start with this and end up with this There isn't any 'tearing off' involved.

Ah, right, here's the proper page: http://www.brandonsanderson.com/book/The-Emperors-Soul Right at the bottom where I missed it the first time

Basically, if you have a copy of Legion or The Emperor's Soul, you can just email brandon and ask politely for an ebook copy.

Nope, the tech level was lower than modern earth.

How far do lines of forbiddance go, again? Horizontal wall-lines would be really annoying. Or let you make instant floors and walls? for a building. Heck, maybe use a very thin flat surface, make a lightsaber?

Well, they finally broke the curse

Load chalklings onto rocks, drop them outside the moat.

He could be Aes Sedai truthing. What if there were a bunch of splinters of some other shard, that only came over as splinters?

Dragonsteel is a rare and super valuable metal, which starts as a liquid form of ink, distilling in small pockets within the Pits of BYU. When used in feruchemy, it stores canonicity. While filling a dragonsteelmind, you and the rest of the world around you become less real, and subject to large amounts of change without affecting anything outside the bubble. By properly tapping a large number of charges, it's possible for you to become canon in a different work entirely. However, you need more charges to create a lasting impact; a small number of charges gets you only a cameo appearance, which is hardly canon at all. Hoid initially was unable to tap more than the smallest amount of canonicity, as he was a feruchemist and had limited reserves to draw upon. However, having stolen the lerasium beads from the Well of Ascension, he has gained the powers of a mistborn as well. Hoid is now, therefore, a dragonsteel compounder. And free to become canon and create changes in any story he wishes. At least, that's my theory. I think it explains all available evidence about Hoid. For instance, his origin story and all possible sources of dragonsteel are, like Dragonsteel, now noncanon. Hoid is becoming canon in more and more novels, as well - and he always shows up in vaguely the right place because you can't become canon unless there's a novel to be canon in. All known reserves of Dragonsteel have, on multiple documented occasions, vanished mysteriously, and we know that Hoid loves to steal important things. As I have not read Dragonsteel myself, I neither have - nor wish to have - any evidence against this theory. It is therefore impossible to disprove, and thus perfect in every way. Well, unless dragonsteel is, in fact, Dragon's Teel, the sesame oil of dragons. Which sounds like some sort of delicious hot pepper coating for bagels. I want some

Well, there's no reason to assume he only took one. It would make way more sense for 16 beads to be produced than only 12 or 13. He could have used any other potential beads. My theory's always been 'luck, a ton of darts, and a map'. He only gets a vague idea of where important things are happening, so...

Note that 'carapace' counts as nonliving, even on a living greatshell. I believe you could actually use a shardblade to shave.

Please don't necropost.

Well, we know that any remaining pre-shattering magic systems are pretty limited. I think that rules out any ur-allomancy.

Obscure info from TWG.

Of course, there are already people with near-perfect memories who don't even use copper (Kwaan) so it isn't like it's really an allomantic power per se.

I don't think the annotation is quite getting at what you're implying The cloth he wears is the the thin blindfold over his eyes. It isn't a matter of single-sense-focusing, AFAICT.

To measure a growth rate you'd need to measure it at multiple instants!

It's permanently destroyed. In the (extremely) long term, it's possible for allomancy to entirely deplete Scandriel's supply of metals.