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Could Hoid be a possessor of Original Feruchemy? Could Hoid be one of the original creators of Feruchemy and Terris itself?

Adonalsium was killed by the Weapon, so I don't think he really wanted the Shattering!

Sorry, yes, my mistake!

Not at all - as far as I am aware, there is no evidence that FotS or Threnody are in the Greater Rosharan System.

Another point - apparently Braize, Ashyn and Roshar are the only Shard planets in the greater Rosharan System, but there are other planets with some sort of sentient life on...

The other guy is called Baon, and he is from Taldain (I was one of the first to make this connection, and got it confirmed in a WoB in my copy of Steelheart)

Hoid could easily visit to determine what is going on in Braize - we know that there are three planets within the Greater Rosharan System, including Braize and Ashyn, so it makes sense that Braize, with Odium being tied there, is the epitome of Hell for them. As for Yolen, it is too important a planet to be anything other than just Yolen, IMHO. As for being expelled from the Tranquiline Halls - it makes sense that humanity has a race memory, passed down through generations of being forced to leave an idyllic place due to the actions of powerful beings.

At the Sheffield signing for Shadows of Self, I asked if there were pigs on Yolen, and Brandon said that yes, there are pigs on Yolen.

I was thinking more along the lines that different levels of Investiture from different Shardworlds may have altered Hoid's sDNA - we have not really seen ( as far as I am aware) the effects two or more different types of Investiture would have on a human...

It's suggested that Hoid does have allomantic abilities in Shallan's flashbacks as a child in WoR. She seems him pouring a poweder into his drink, and then suddenly becomes calmer (almost as if he had become a Soother)

Anikoli, you are right - it was in one of my most recent posts - both of those were WoB I received in my books.

A simple argument could be that Hoid was human pre-Shattering, but since everything has been going on, he has been collecting elements of Adonalsium - having a bead of Lerasium turned Elend Venture into one of the most powerful Mistborn who ever lived - Hoid has a bead, alongside other relics of power throughout the Cosmere. My hope is that we end up with a showdown with another collector of Cosmere artifacts...

While I love the theory, my concern with this is that the Vessels may not have had the highest connection with that particular Aspect of Adonalsium - evidence for this is seen in the First Letter when Hoid talks about Ati...

Maybe we could get a Reckoners-Apocalypse Guard - Rithmatist Crossover for truly epic Earth-based Cosmerity, which should become a word now!

I have always believed that the pinkish gem was an Aether (having read AoN, it sounds very much like an Amberite Aether...)

So I received my beautiful slipcased copies of Shadows of SIlence in the Forest of Hell and Perfect State today, and there was a preface in SoS that wasn't included in the previous versions of the story - I have typed it below for you, word for word, as I think it provides some interesting insight into Threnody... "When George R.R Martin approached me to ask if I'd be willing to contribute a story to Dangerous Women, I was ecstatic. George is known best for his Westeros books, but he is also an excellent author, having put together many anthologies. His recent themed anthologies with Gardner Dozois ave become something of a "Who's Who" in the fantasy and science fiction world. It was a real honor to be invited/ After he told me the theme was "dangerous women", I at first thought of Perfect State, the other novella in this collection. I had a very rough draft of that done, but hadn't submitted it anywhere for publication I sent that to George and Gardner, and they felt it wasn't on theme enough, and asked if I had anything else. I didnt, not yet, but something had happened recently that had planted a seed in my mind. I had been involved in some genealogy work, and had run across the name of a Puritan woman called Silence. That intrigued me. Who would name their daughter Silence, and for what reason? Charity I can get. Faith makes total sense. But Silence? Perhaps she was late int he birth order, and her parents were really hoping to sleep through the nights this time. Either way, the name stuck with me. I'd had the idea for Threnody, the Cosmere world when a group of pilgrimesque people fled the Old World because it was overrun by a terrible evil long ago. It was actually a very early Cosmere world, developed around 1999 or 2000. (Though the name didn't get assigned to it until Isaac gave a suggestion upon reading this novella.) Having an intriguing Puritan name and a world that took inspiration from early American history seemed a ready-made match, but I had to ask myself, how was Silence going to be dangerous? I was worried that the anthology was going to be stuffed full of women either in the "femme fatale" vein or the "I wear black leather and kick demon butt" vein. I've often felt that we, in fantasy, sometimes do a poor job of representing people (both male and female) who are powerful and capable in ways other than their ability to stand in a fight. Yes, giving a woman a sword is one way to make her dangerous, but I resist making every powerful woman into one who has become so by forcing her way into a traditionally male-dominated realm of face-to-face combat. The world was mostly formed in my head, though over the years I'd added the diea of the shades for various reasons. One was to show off a few hints regarding the Cosmere afterlife, and another came during my initial research for the Stormlight Archive, where I read a lot about classical Hebrew life and philosophy. The original idea for Threnody was to make a system of magical rules with their roots int he Law of Moses and Jewish tradition. (Not mixing blood with milk, not kindling flames after nightfall on the Sabbath etc.) Many of these rules transformed over the years, leaving their roots behind in the same way that the Stormlight magic system left behind its roots in the fundamental forces of physics. But you can see those hints still having an influence on the tone and setting of this story. This intersection of these ideas developed into this story, one that soon became one of my favorite Cosmere tales. I hope you enjoy it! (And no, for those searching, Hoid does not make an appearance. Unfortunately, he needed to be somewhere else in the timeline at this point.)

Jason, there could be the potential to combine Reckoners and Rithmatist with the Apocalypse Guard, thereby creating a YA Cosmere-esque set up, but Scadrial, Sel, Roshar and all our other worlds exists within theor own little dwarf galaxy

For further tie-ins with timing - Sixth of the Dusk is apparently the furthest into the Cosmere timeline we have seen - suggesting that the Ones Above are Scadrians/ possess Scadrian tech. Vathi is also Khriss.

No. Reckoners, Hell, ANY series which features Earth (so Rithmatist, potentially Apocalypse Guard etc) DO NOT have any connection to the Cosmere. Sorry.

What if Khriss and Frost are the ones in contact? Hoid suggests that the 17th Shard are Frost's friends, and if anyone in the known Cosmere would befriend a dragon, it would be our dear Khrissala. As for known members, we do not know when Galladon, Baon and Demoux were recruited into the organisation...

Upvote for the Dark Tower Reference

When I was reading Allik's description of what Ettmetal was - i thought that it sounded chemically similar to Magnesium...

The Weapon no longer exists in its original form as it's power was expended when it was used to kill Adonalsium.

He confirmed it with me in my WoB for BoM - he referred to Adonalsium as He

By placing the bodies of the Elantrians into Devotion's Shardpoool, it could be seen as the Elantrians returning to Devotion, or becoming part of a greater whole? Domi is implied to be short for DOMInion