Oltux72

Yes, but the Elantrian Shardpool does not have a layer of water. The Horneater lakes do.

Unless they were operating on Voidlight

Given how Kelsier ... continued, I've always wondered what happens to people drowned in a perpendicularity. That seems to be what they do to people who break the rules.

I doubt that we can seriously maintain that TLM lacks worldbuilding and does not introduce new characters.

The idea is cool and has merit. It just has an obstace to overcome. The admiral being present in the meeting means that he wants the Northeners to know that the South now has the Bands. Yet the admiral seems to actually want war. If I want you to attack me I will not start by demonstrating that I now have your strongest weapon. If he wants to attack anyway, there is still no point. He would prefer to sow discord between the Northeners and the Kandra. I am not saying that these points are unsurmountable. But you cannot ignore them. For now it really looks like there is a traitor among the Kandra.

It seems to me that something is an unsealed metalmind on condition of having something stored in the nicrosil. Once that part is entirely dry, you just have an ordinary metalmind. If he had been able to swap the Bands for fakes, he already had the real thing. There was no need for him to be present at the meeting. They would have discovered that the Bands were inoperable anyway. They would have to blame the Kandra. Now they will suspect him. There was nothing for him to gain.

None of them was a Fering. The dry bands are just a metallic object to them. Why would he want to let them know that the Bands were dry? He makes them suspect him. The Northeners are not stupid. They will suspect that the Bands were his reason for insisting on being present at that meeting.

On first sight this may be an odd question. But after you apply an essence mark, you are somebody else. Removing that mark will destroy that new individual. Is that an ethical thing to do? Why would the new person be any less important than the old one? Now you could argue that you are restoring hence defending the old person. Yet she did it to herself.

The Set has hemalurgy. Therefore they can use people who have emotional allomancy and duraluminium. You cannot use a hemalurgic construct against them. You also have to explain why Harmony did not send TenSoon.

They exist to protect Scadrial. They say so. It is number 1 on the list. Literally and figuratively. Of course they act differently at home and abroad. They simply are nationalists. For a Rosharan or other non-Scadrian to be in an organization dedicated to the protection of an alien world, you need to be, well, let's say, unusual.

Now, I am serious. Are they getting shorter in the sense of their internal time covered in them? TLM took a few days. In fact is that just me or does this book have no middle? It felt like intro -> Sanderlanche starting without barely a transitory part. Elantris and Era 1 books covered the better part of a year in most cases. WoK and WoR are many months. Oathbringer was already shorter. RoW a few weeks. I see a general trend.

It is the same difference as seeing the troops of your country in combat in your own country as opposed to abroad. At the risk of repeating myself: The core tenet of the Ghostbloods is nationalism. It is officially the very first point of their agenda. Kelsier even stated the reason in Secret History. Rosharans are at best neutrals to the Ghostbloods. If the good of Scadrial requires them to be used, you will use them. And use them up if need be. In fact I would go as far as saying that Kelsier and Jasnah are mentally speaking extremely similar, they just work for different entities.

Unless you are ready to assume that making the Bands of Mourning is the reason he no longer is an Allomancer. Though under that premise it turns extremely hard to explain why he gave them away. Equal in terms of Investiture or amount? Can you assume that atium and lerasium are equally invested? That does not explain that they are limited to Arelon. There is no evidence that the Dor covers less than all of Sel going by the storm in the CR. Or that there is a medaillion for steelpushing on that airship and that they all know that, it being standard equipment. Or Kelsier having an assistant who is a Coinshot whom they all know to be in his company at that time. This is very thin evidence.

Where are post that relate to one of the secret projects supposed to go?

Not only were question we were quite sure would get answered not answered, but a lot of new questions were raised. How come Kelsier is no longer an Allomancer? And if he is not, how did he make the Bands of Mourning? Did he make them? If not, who did? If Kelsier is the Sovereign, why did he give the Bands of Mourning away? Who sold Chouta on Scadrial? Why do normal Aons work on Scadrial? That is why do the Aons themselves work, as opposed to AonDor? Shouldn't symbols based on Scadrial's geography be required? Why do the Core Aethers cooperate with the Ghostbloods?

Kandra copying humans a almost indistinguishable from the real thing. That should also involve reproduction. Hence they would be human, in fact human feruchemists. Let's spin the yarn to completion. Their ancestors would be Cognitive Shadows colloquially also easily referred to as ghosts. Now we need to assume that blood does not mean the literal stuff in a circulatory system, but the bloodline. Here we are.

Now that you made me think about it, this has implications. Kelsier may have some mental issues, but he is not an idiot. Hemalurgy is prone to errors. He would not use himself as the first test subject. There must be prototypes, if you will. And they will have descendants. They will be feruchemists to a degree, if they stayed segregated from the general population.

The problem is practical. The bands involve metals that weren't available when Spook helped Kelsier reincarnate. So, yes, hemalurgy explains how Kelsier returned, but nt that he is a feruchemist. Hence the simplest way to explain that is to assume that he was stapled onto a full feruchemist.

Note that you not only have to explain why he is in a physical body again, but also why he could make the Bands of Mourning. They mean that he is also a full feruchemist, like The Lord Ruler. Medaillions cannot explain that. Neither were there enough feruchemists around to work into spikes, nor would Spook cooperate on that or Sazed allow it. It would be strange if these feats were unconnected. So I would propose that he did take a mistwraith, but that he is not a Kandra, but turned back into what Mistwraiths by descent are: human feruchemists

What allows the conclusion that Trellium is a pure metal as opposed to an alloy?

Meaning that Trell could be a worldhopper later turned into an Avatar. It need not imply that that happened on Taldaine, although that is the easiest answer. For all we know Harmony is developing subconcious suicidal tendencies or Ruin had created an Avatar that survived Ati's demise.

Some, possibly even a majority would have done so. However, first, those would not be the ones TLR would send, and even if they absconded, why would TLR care? They cannot reproduce and people out there already know that Scadrial exists. There were reason for a Kandra especially an old Kandra to go off world willingly or even eagerly. Simple adventure No allomancers Beauty. If you remembered classical Scadrial, would you want to live in the world of ash? Loyalty. There were potential threats out there. Scadrial would need the warning, should it come to that. And there were reasons to be loyal to TLR Fear. You need to make sure he does not change his mind about the worth of the Kandra Loneliness. If you were on a mission alone and wanted to return, you better keep the reports flowing. Loyalty to Scadrial, again, if there is a threat coming you want to warn the home world. Gratitude. Some Kandra did genuinely think of TLR as their father.

(First of the Sun)

If you ship in and distribute that much Harmonium, you will be discovered. That stuff is seriously valuable and you are working with common criminals. If you wanted to ship in a considerable amount to hide it and then blow it up at one point and time, you'd hide it on the bottom of a river barge or bring it in with coinshots. It looks to me like the Set wants to smuggle in weapons other than ettmetal bombs.

Presumably yes, if it were using Investiture. (Roshar) But this stuff is merely made from Investiture, not using it. It seems like Investiture behaves fundamentally different in solid form. In fact, is it even made from atoms?