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I totally agree that he wouldn't mind stealing someones body, he'd easily justify his actions in his own mind and dismiss any guilt. I'm saying I personally would feel better if he used a mistwraith body.

If he did just spike himself to a mistwraith, then I wonder if there's a chance he's using his old bones. While I'll admit it's unlikely that bones would survive for 300 years without being sealed or buried, it's certainly not impossible. Frankly I prefer the idea that he's using a mistwraith body. It bothers me slightly less than the thought that he stole a body from somebody. As for the scars, those were very much a part of his cognitive view of himself, so they'll probably go wherever his mind goes. SA spoilers:

Except for that when you take hemalurgic decay into account, it's very unlikely you'd be able to restore your entire soul, so you'd still have a few holes or thin parts to it.

I will say, it is probably far more difficult, if not impossible to soulcast around a moving target. Now, let me anticipate a response to that. Yes, Jashnah has soulcast people that were running away from her. That is not the same as soulcasting around a moving target. The target themself is just a single "identity" to spoulcast, while the air around them is constantly new air to try and pursuade, and the faster they're moving the harder it would be. I will definitely agree though that soulcasting may he one of the most deadly and powerful magics in the Cosmere. Doubly so if it can in fact create aluminum.

Could Jasnah kill Kaladin? Yes. Would it be clean. Nope. Her best opportunity is to soulcast him directly before he has an opportunity to breath in any stormlight. Once he does, it's probably fair to say Jasnah can't soulcast him without more than he is currently holding. From their, her best bet would be to trap him in a box of stone or metal. Jasnah likely does not know of aluminum, and thus I see it as unlikely she would be able to trap him in it. But let's say she traps him in stone. Kaladin would be able to then lash the stone upward, and then back downward enough for it to shatter. At this point, he would be low on stormlight, and it would be Jasnah's best chance to stab him with her blade and kill him. If he counters, then they are both low on stormlight and both armed, which means an extended fight is about to begin. Jasnah would then be at a disadvantage due to her lack of combat training. Assuming she has plate and Kaladin doesn't, she has a slight advantage, but Kal has beaten shardweilders before, and ones much more trained than Jasnah. In an extended fight, Jasnah is slowly beaten back until she's forced to open a perpendicularity and retreat.

I agree that you'd run into issues where you cannot store fast enough to not burn. However! And this is interesting. I participated in some research over the past two years that measured the vital signs of firefighters over the course of a year, and during fires, there was a tendency for their core temperatures to go well over 100° F. Theoretically, if in a modern Mistborn era you had brass ferrings in bunker gear, they could store the massive raise in core temperature firefighters normally experience and thus massively reduce the strain on their heart that a firefighter normally feels.

Huh. This is the first question I asked when I joined the 17th shard. Someone proceeded to show me a WoB, which I cannot find again, where the question was asked and RAFOed. Thus I started a thread theorizing on it, and concluded that we really just don't know.

Personally I'd go with the theory that hemalurgy would be lost, but that the act of destroying Scadrial while there are Inquisitors would transform them into something else which is possibly more powerful and more helpful to Ruin. Maybe they would have become cognitive shadows, but ones with "holes" in them allowing them to pick up any local magic when they arrived in a new system.

One thing we can be sure of. If it did happen that person is now dead.

I hope this doesn't in any way stress you out, but just remind yourself to stay calm and level headed. You may not do as good as you hope, but you'll rarely do as bad as you fear. As long as you try your best you can know failure is not a possibility, and thus the test can only be good for you. I realize this isn't exactly tips to do better, but hopefully it help reduce your stress.

It's implied that they have a way to transfer connection to the stones. Basically, you can think of it as they are able to trick the stones into thinking they're much closer to where they came from than they actually are.

Dalinar flashbacks and Kaladin's first flight.

Some people aren't going to like this, but I think there shouldn't be an attempt to make every member of Bridge 4 relevant. Yes, Bridge 4 is important, but there are already too many members to keep track of. Back in Way of Kings, the members I cared to remember were: Rock, Teft, Lopen, and Rlain. Words of Radiance made Moash significant with him getting shards and then attempting to kill Elhokar. Oathbringer made Lyn significant as the first Bridge 4 girl. I know others on this site love other members of Bridge 4, but to me most of them just aren't important enough to spend time focusing on. That said, I trust Sanderson to make good characters, so I'll probably be satisfied with whatever he does.

An explanation of cohesion.

Mistborn is still my favorite Cosmere series. Though, I read all six books that are currently out in one go over the course of 3 months, so I can't really separate the original trilogy from Wax and Wayne era mentally. To me, it's one story in two parts. If I try to just think about the first trilogy, I would say that it's very satisfying. Mistborn always felt very grounded to me. Kill an immortal god-king, deal with the political and sociological consequences of doing so. Give a man the power of a god, but watch as he dooms the world without the knowledge to use it properly. Etc. So yeah, I love Mistborn.

You could probably awaken it, but realmatically it would probably count as a different and inanimate object. Now, if say, someone took a what lase through a lung, you might be able to awaken it with the command, "Breath regularly" and have it artificially sustain the person, but in the long run, without a brain to keep it balanced with the rest of the body, it would probably decay and become a necrotic and mostly useless mass of tissue.

It comes from being able to ninja people.

Perhaps next time of you don't want to get ninja'd you'd do what I did and only type two words.

It is.

So, clearing up what seems to be a minor misunderstanding. Vin's atium shadow didn't split because she reacted to what Zane was doing, it split because Vin used atium to see the future, which interfered with Zane's atium. Now yes, technically Vin did this by proxy, but the point is that for that brief moment, she acted upon future knowledge and created a prophetic loop. Based on this, I do believe a steelrunner would be able to replicate the effect, but I think they would have to know what they were doing. Either way, you can only react as fast as you can react, so atium still looses to massive steel speed.

While I do think Rashek tends to be overestimated, in that he doesn't have unlimited of every feruchemical attribute, I will keep saying that fullborn are the Cosmere equivalent of kryptonians. I think if he could kill the Heralds, it would take a while and he'd start getting frustrated and sloppy as he discovers he can't instantly kill them. Considering the first few hours would be everyone against him, we need to assume that the Scadrians would inform everyone else of the importance of his metalminds, and then the other powerhouses can find a way to deal with them. Either way, Rashek would eventually go down vs. everybody else, but he would take a vast majority with him.

Do they get to bring any resources with them? If not it will probably come down to whatever beings are able to fight and survive without access to magic. I'd put Dallinar and Adolin up there, and I think Kelseir could survive quite a while off trickery and fighting dirty. If awakeners can survive long enough to out last Radiants and allomancers, they'll make it to the finals so to speak. My bet would honestly be on feruchemists though, and specifically full keepers like Sazed.

You probably could shape water with cohesion (I think that's the one that lets you reshape stone, not sure), but then you have the issue of water already being fluid, so even if you reshape it, it's just going to fall back into a puddle or surface of a body of water. Not sure if any surge could harden water, but it's possible.

We never have gotten to really see what damage aluminum bullets do. The big thing is just that they can't be manipulated via allomancy, we're not actually sure how much damage they do. For all we know, they're really crappy bullets, just the only option for resisting magic. It might be that an aluminum bullet can't get deep enough or spreads out too much to work as a spike.

It's implied that the Ministry of Steel only knew of about 50, but yes, there are like 300.