HSuperLee

See, it really seems like we don't have a good name for the species. I have been told (mostly by shardcast) that anything related to parsh is a slur, listeners are a specific group, singers, while I guess it could apply to the whole species just comes across as a name for the newly freed population, so I mostly have resorted to calling the species the dawnsingers, but even then people tell me that name only applies to pre-desolation ones. It's apparently complicated.

I don't think he'll be of any help, but I really hope Talk finds some way to be of use. Mostly because, in the words of our great overlord, Taln is best human.

If I can get breath, awakening, without a doubt. If I can't, feruchemy is a close second.

I read this series over 2 weeks. It's not long, it's good. Maybe not perfect. Maybe not super deep. But it is good. Honestly, I think the ending is less rushed if you read book three right after finishing two. I actually really liked how it ended.

Wal-do.

The difference though is that in Lift's case it's a closed loop, and thus entropy kicks in. That is not the case with allomancy as the metals themselves are not providing the investiture. I'm not saying I'm sure there would be a net gain, but there could be, and if there was it would be drawn from Preservation.

I don't think Shadesmar can ever get close to the size of the physical realm. You can understand the distance you use in everyday life. You can understand ten, twenty miles. Then take everyone on the planet, and that population can pretty well understand and think about the entire planet. There is no way to understand the distances involved on a cosmological scale. The human brain just cannot comprehend it. As such, I do not believe that Shadesmar can grow the spaces in between planets very much. Now, new planets emerging and warping space I can get behind.

Well that is the issue isn't it. We know hacks with other investitures are possible, such as fueling awakening with stormlight. The problem it seems is getting the investiture "undirected" or "directed to a different frequency" so to speak. I have no doubt someone burning mists could use them for the surges if they were a radiant, as that power is directed by the intention of the person burning it and the physical capabilities they have for magic. As for how to replicate that effect with normal metal, I have no idea.

Here is what I have to wonder. Let's say a lightweaver Mistborn soulcasts some metal and then uses a hack to let it fuel soulcasting. Would the Mistborn be able to have a net investiture gain as a result of directly tapping into Preservation's power? Anyway, on the point of illusions, as we know they can form basically any kind of wavelength, maybe they also could create illusionary bronze pulses.

Wait. There's another Skybreaker? Who be they?

Which, good luck staying out of range of someone with enhanced mobility and speed. Also, if slamming the armor with hundreds of low energy projectiles worked, then we would know, as shardbearers are mentioned as running into storms of arrows and all they need to do is cover their eye slits. I assume if nothing else, the fact shardplate can repair itself severely limited the effect of repeated low damage blows.

The two reasons I think Kel would choose a mistwraith instead of a random body is that he 1. Might have wanted his old bones back. But I don't know how sentimental he is. I certainly would if I had the opportunity, but I am highly sentimental. 2. So that he gained even more power than the fullborn stuff. Shape-shifting, some levels of innate regeneration and expanded lifespan, that kind of stuff. As well as the ability to claim, "I am even more immortal than the Lord Ruler, and hold powers even he can't command." As well as, "I am the true embodiment of the metalic arts!" Because he's bombastic like that.

Ati enters the beyond, and meets Leras. L: "Did you meet Kelsier?" A: "Yep." L: "He punch you in the face?" A: "Uh-huh." L: "...Ten bucks on Rayse being next." A: "You're on."

It's gods all the way up.

I am biased. Mistborn will always be my favorite Cosmere series. It was my first Sanderson book, I love how it completely averts the medieval stasis trope, I love the political intrigue of the second book and the theological discussions of the third and sixth books. I absolutely love Mistborn. Trying to make me choose between the Mistborn books is evil. It's like choosing a favorite cousin. I love them all for different reasons. Maybe I'm closer to some than others, but I love them all and couldn't choose a favorite.

We also need to consider that while the cognitive realm is great for lower technology civilizations to travel between planets, it still takes a long time to worldhop at present. The Cosmere is really a small star cluster, which means that most of the planets are going to be within several parsecs of each other. It might be faster to take a FTL spaceship from planet to planet than to traverse the cognitive realm.

Is not really all that useful to be constantly burning when it comes to compounding. You could argue that with the TLR he needed so much age at once that burning was efficient, but otherwise, compounding gives you so much a burst that you end up having too much of the resource to use efficiently. Thus, the storing a compounded trait in a metalmind so that you can draw the resource in a controlled manner. Okay, back to the original topic. I've figured you probably can tap while sleeping, it just takes practice. My evidence for this is how Wayne stores health. I believe he says he prefers to spend a week drunk and sick so he can just sleep through it instead of feeling a little sick all the time.

Speed bubbles do not interfere with the making of new speed bubbles.

You are correct, pressure is also able to induce phase changes. Basically, phases are just how tightly a material's molecules are holding onto each other. Increasing the temperature increases the amount of energy the molecules have, and with enough energy, they are able to separate into more loose forms, aka liquids and then gasses. Increasing the pressure does the opposite. It forces the molecules to be compressed into a tighter and more specified shape, turning gasses into liquids and then into solids. Interestingly, most substances I know of have a specific pressure and temperature where solid liquid and gas can exist together called the triple point. The fact that we've seen all phases of investiture in relatively the same conditions indicates that standard environments are the triple point for investiture, which might suggest that it's relatively easy to change from one phase to another.

"Periodic Table of Investiture." That better be a poster Sanderson sells in 25 years when we get to Era 4.

Oh. Wow that's a hard question. I'm going to have to go through this systematically. Windrunner: Not protective of all equally. Skybreaker: He doesn't like rules. Dustbringer: Maybe. Don't know enough about them to be sure. Edgedancer: Kell don't care. Truthwatcher: Not sure what their ideals are. Lightweaver: Probably. He'd like the magic, they'd like the lies. Elsecaller: Promising. He does like a logical plan. Willshaper: Same as Truthwatcher. Stoneward: Same as Truthwatcher and Willshaper. Bondsmith: Kell doesn't care about oaths or unity. So, I'd go with most likely lightweaver, maybe elsecaller.

Under ideal circumstances, they probably view it like when your cousin gets married. It's like, "Well, this new person is kind of part of my life now, but I'll only see them at family gatherings and it's not really a super big deal." With the present circumstances in the series, it probably feels a lot like if your cousin got married to a drug dealer. Basically, "I guess it won't affect me, but why on Roshar would you do that!"

I think you're underestimating the bond between people who have survived a war together, as well as the distress someone feels when they see a friend questioning their religious faith.

Oh good gosh. Y'all just made me respect OB Shallan. Before my biggest complaint was that she was fracturing rather than progressing and that didn't make sense, and now y'all made it make sense. Welp. I can't bash Shallan anymore now. Thanks y'all. Now I need to find another character to be annoyed at. This post had a lot of y'alls. That wasn't intentional.

Even assuming this is a standard trait of cognitive shadows, singers are able to be possessed due to their gem hearts being willing to accept cognitive entities. It seem the death of the original singers results from the fact that a full cognitive shadows is "bigger" than a spren, and thus when it enters through the gemheart it displaces the original cognitive aspect. If that's the case, Kelseir would still need to find something that can act like a gemheart to allow his cognitive aspect to enter another person.