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  1. Phantom Monstrosity
    But personality is stored by a spiritual metal in feruchemy!
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    This is literally like, two pages after, and part of the same conversation where Shai is defining what she means by 'realms'. If she didn't mean 'how an object sees itself' was part of having a soul, she wouldn't give that as her first response. Since she's trying to clarify how forgery works to someone who doesn't understand it, this should have precedences for informing us, the readers, about how forgery works. The thing is, there aren't any narrative reasons to make it possible for bloodmakers to recover from shardblades. It's a really weird thing to happen, so it pretty much has to be the consequence of realmatic stuff. Saying 'feruchemical health doesn't care about whether wounds are physical or cognitive' is a sensible extrapolation that doesn't require extra explanation. Saying 'feruchemical health works for spiritual wounds, but has an entirely seperate set of mechanics and limitations when dealing with them' is just inelegant. It'd require way too much explanation to ever seem logical, and doesn't feel like Sanderson's style.
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    Not necessarily. The 'soul' is often used to refer to cognitive stuff in TES. Also, bloodmakers can repair it - and if it were spiritual realm damage, that would set a precedent of 'spike a feruchemist barely nonfatally, have him heal up his spiritual damage, repeat'.
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    That's not how the metrics are measured. Otherwise emotional allomancy would be end-negative (mess with emotions for no lasting increase in energy, destroy a vial full of brass)/.
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    I'm not sure if Dakhor is necessarily end-negative. It's a measurement of investiture, so it could just be a messy end-neutral. After all, a Returned has to die to use their divine breath healing, but that's still a end-neutral system.
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    I don't think so necessarily. The only real quote I can recall on the matter is one about people not from Nalthis trying to Awaken. It would seem like a bit inaccurate for Yolen people to be able to use Breath as well, though the limit might be non-identity related... Incidentally, Hoid 'probably' has acquired a Breath.
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    The quote implies that there are others. The current version of the ultimate list of questions has 'Have we seen any other end-negative investitures besides hemalurgy' on it, so hopefully someone will ask that at some point
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    Splicing X to Y is identical to splicing Y to X, since you're combining the two objects together. You're overthinking this.
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    Though, I think if TLR had some gold teeth he might have survived. I assume the issue there is mostly one of metalmind access - the part with the brain can't contact the metalminds to start healing. Normally the soul jumps to the bigger half
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    Well, personally I think that book 2 has a bit of a 'middle book fatigue' during the first half, but after that it's just continuous escalation. Welcome to the forums, mind your head, and don't pick up any shardpotatoes.
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    I've added this to the ultimate list of questions "Does Hoid ever show up somewhere, stand around for a while, realize that there isn't a novel-worthy plot going on, and leave?"
  12. Phantom Monstrosity
    The guess is that since hoid's precognition is super vague, he's just using luck, a map, and a big pile of darts
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    Well, there's sufficient secondary abilities to hit some pretty high limits
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    I'm not entirely ceratin it isn't avaialbe somewhere - I've seen RAFOs that were also answered before and after.
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    In principle theoryland and coppermind serve that niche, but it just is impossible to consolidate everything.
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    Speed is granted by a pewter spike, so physical.
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    Ferrings exist because misting genes interfere with the expression of feruchemy. With less lerasium in the gene pool, you presumably wouldn't get that interference. That said, this quote seems to mean that ferrings don't need to snap:
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    Sazed isn't making any atium ATM, but that could easily change. http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=727 Incidentally, the fact that sazed *can* make atium if he wants to probably says something about how his mingled shards work.
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    Someone without a discernable personality would have less personality to store, yes. Just like how someone without any muscle mass would have trouble filling pewterminds.
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    Not stubbornness so much as own-personality-ness. A compassionate person wouldn't care much about others while storing identity, but when tapping it they'd be really really compassionate. But yeah it isn't *that* useful since generally being more who you already are isn't very helpful.
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    Of course, I think you can still tap 40 pewter, add 40 nicrosil, then store all 80 of it into a different pewtermind. It's like compounding+storing, basically.
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    You have to tap from another metalmind, yeah. And you can only drain from one other at a time. Basically it lets you shuffle between metalminds. Though, there's a mention you might be able to like, store the power from the well of ascension. I wouldn't be surprised if you could use a nicrosilmind and like, pump up a normal Breath to like 2000x the size and have a pseudo-Divine Breath, but you'd probably have to be a compounder or something.
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    The thing is, they don't really make sense as a cohesive whole The 'Yes, this is important' bit is a real cheat if there isn't some extremely basic triggering.
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    On reread, there is definitely interactive stuff. Problem being, Dalinar is interpreting general advice triggerd by questions as specific insight into his exact situation.
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    Well, I was able to find a RAFO on it... http://brandonsanderson.com/article/93/Tweets-November-14-16-2011 That said we know that you can steal a shardblade with hemalurgy, even when it's not summoned.
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