Phantom Monstrosity

I doubt it. It doesn't have weird enough effects.

As is, they knew of fifteen. And Lerasium looks like an enhancement metal.

Didn't Rashek congeal some of the well's power to make the Lerasium.

This question comes up fairly frequently. Sanderson's answered it a couple of times - it boils down to 'Preservation was screwing with the system to make a point'.

Atium's color is actually somewhat inconsistent as well.

I dunno, man. My skeleton does just about what I ask it to do.

I actually *was* considering the idea that aluminum wasn't really a proper allomantic metal at all. After all, heavily invested stuff can't be pulled or pushed... and neither can aluminum.

And I mean this in the nicest possible way. That nicrosil and chromium are identical in effect to aluminum and duraluminum is *very* odd - it just doesn't match how other metals work. Let's look at the other metal groups. Physical: The externals (Iron and Steel) are duplicates of each other with the opposite direction. The internals (Pewter and Tin) are sort of related to each other, but only vaguely related to iron and steel Emotional The externals (brass and zinc) are duplicates of each other with the opposite direction. The internals (copper and bronze) are... well, they're a little more closely related to the externals than the physical metals are, since copper protects against the externals, but overall they're more related to each other. Temporal The externals (Cadmium and bendalloy) are duplicates of each other with the opposite direction. The internal (gold and electrum) are sort of related to each other, but not exactly So that's a pretty fixed pattern for all the other metals. Externals are always mirrors of each other, internals are different from the externals and don't mirror perfectly. For instance, you don't screw with your own emotions by burning copper and bronze. Nicrosil and Chromium follow the pattern for the externals metals perfectly. Duplicate effect, opposite direction. So the weird ones are aluminum and duraluminum. They're something *very* peculiar about the fact that they're duplicating the external effects exactly. That's something that doesn't happen with other metals. Aluminum and its pair are *also* the metals that are seemingly useless for mistings. And "[brandon] built aluminum to do all sorts of funky things to all the powers". So... what to conclude from this? Probably that nicrosil and chromium do something beyond just boosting or sapping metals. Though, I suppose it's possible it's just the legacy of whatever Preservation did to screw with the 16% misting rate. When he reset misting distribution to normal, Sazed might have just picked the obvious 'same as internal, but external' option.

Which supports my theory that all soulcasters are fake.

Being able to use a 'search' function on the entire series at once?

We aren't necessarily certain Hoid only took one.

Well, the quote we have is that nightblood is 'orders of magnitude' more magical than a shardblade. Even if we're going on a high end, and saying that shardblade is equivalent to ~50 breath... the god-king alone has 50,000+ Breaths, and each of the Returned has 2000 - and there about 25 of those in the court of the gods, so that's another 50k. Plus, of course, the Breath that everyone has to start off with. I really don't think that the amount gathered in Hallandren's capital should be enough to be a 'significant' shardic investment. After all, if a shardblade's magicalness is at maximum equal to fifty random guys on Nalthis, it doesn't feel like they should be metaphysically expensive.

Shardblades are way less magical than nightblood, though. So they can't be *that* significant an investment.

Book 1 is the most self-contained of the three, and wraps up its main plot pretty well. Book two doesn't really resolve very well on its own - it mostly leads into book three.

A Misting with a Hemalurgical spike... I pick steel and a spike that stole a shardblade. Come at me, bro!

Well, Marsh learned about the Inquisitor's linchpin weakness from the other obligators. That kind of implies that other people have exploited it in the past.

Not exactly. If it stored gravity's effect, you'd fall faster when tapping weight - that is something that Wax explicitly says doesn't happen.

Preservation meddled with the system. The miststriking is already artificially controlled, after all Well, the overall effect is 'increasing your connection to preservation'. Becoming a mistborn is just a side effect. Grants any, not all. You still have to put the spike in the right place - Atium is a wildcard, but that doesn't mean you steal everything with a single atium spike.

I think Wayne got poisoned in Alloy of Law, and was just annoyed by it.

It's a pastiche of E.E. 'Doc' Smith (specifically, Gray Lensman). I'm worried that it isn't overdone enough.

I quoted something upthread about it. Where you're born *does* have an effect - and Brandon also mentioned that after a few generations, immigrants from other worlds who ended up in Sel would be able to be transformed into Elantrans.

He has a MUCH bigger piece.

Obviously the Seventeeth Shard is based out of Dragaera. After all, seventeen is a super mystically significant number in that series, and we know that Vlad Taltos is narrating these books to someone. Steven Brust is just Brandon Sanderson's penname! They have the same initials! It all makes sense!

Presumably sDNA is handed out at the same time as regular DNA. After all, rocks have spiritual aspects, so it'd be kinda weird if embryos didn't. The extra Preservation in people is what gives them sapience. So anyone sapient on Scandriel obviously has a spiritual bit attached. We know that stillborn babies can Return, which implies that it's at least present at birth. IIRC, there's also some comment about how the God King passes on his Breaths that implies it involves in utero stuff... which means it predates birth. Personally, what I find weirdest is the fact that your cognitive self is also inherited - we haven't seen any of that happen yet.

I think Rashek raised the ashmounts, though. The ashfalls were his fault.