Phantom Monstrosity

Just listing a few I think have been answered... I believe all of those are answered with: http://mistbornrpg.17thshard.com/topic/230-questions-for-brandon On the next page of that thread That's supported by http://brandonsanderson.com/annotation/399/Warbreaker-Chapter-Twenty-Two ---- I can't dig out the source, but I know Brandon said in a Q&A that Elend was just recalling his training. ---- From the West Jordan Q&A Answered with: "Funky things to all the powers" seems pretty clearcut. ---- Answered here: Looks like that one's been asked multiple times.

Dug it up from the annotations. http://www.brandonsanderson.com/annotation/352/mistborn-3-Chapter-Seventy-Six

Using your Divine Breath to heal your own papercuts.

Involving hemalurgy seems too cheap a method - after all, if you steal a feruchemical power from someone, you ALREADY get access to someone else's metalminds. Dug up my copy of the RPG to make sure I could get the exact qutoe Actually, the question of identity-tagging something seems to come up in several magic systems. You've got breath/metalminds/shardblades, which all only respond to a single person. Might be worth looking into.

There's also this blog post Sanderson made. "(and I hope he eventually tells or shows us exactly what happens when someone tries to use lead or silver, since those two are obviously missing)."

Maybe it's the other way around - if you store all your identity while filling a metalmind, that metalmind doesn't belong to anyone in particular.

Speaking as a jeweler? No, they really aren't. I actually am seriously doubting that the 'rubies' uses are actually rubies as well. Sanderson is very good at managing little details, and having sapphires and rubies do different things in the same magic system is extremely sloppy. I suspect they're actually spinel - the great imposter of the gemstone world. Many of greatest rubies of history turned out to be spinels in retrospect.

I've done a little bit of searching on this, but haven't turned up any Sanderson Q&A... of course, I suppose it's possible Nightblood will end up revealing some of this. How do living plants act when you hit them with Breath? Obviously you can awaken deadwood all day with no issues, and it's less tricky than bone, so it shouldn't be as difficult as animals. For example, if someone walks up to a tree and tosses fifty Breath into it, does it hit the first heightening and create an aura bubble? Or does it act like any normal inanimate object infused with Breath, and just stand around doing nothing? Could you get the breaths back out of a tree, or is it too alive to give the Breaths back? EDIT: Got the answer at a signing. You can't awaken living plants, but they probably have auras As a related question, if you take a living squirrel and chuck fifty breaths into it, does it get a biochromatic aura or not? You can't get Breath back from a squirrel lifeless, so obviously you wouldn't be able to retrieve them (without somehow teaching a squirrel to awaken, anyway).