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He did have Pewter in his system. Vin gave him one of her vials to wash down the bead.

We don't know what Lerasium actually does when burned. Connecting you to Preservation is just a side effect.

I just finished re-listening to the three Stormlight books and am now re-listening to the Mistborn books, and I realized something. An Edgdancer Mistborn would be freakishly powerful. I mean, yes, any Order mixed with Mistborn would be powerful, but the combination of Steel/Iron Allomancy, while burning Pewter, and having the Surge of Abrasion... Imagine, you're gliding down the road through the city, pushing/pulling yourself along using any and all the metals around you, easily leaping through the air to clear obstacles in your path. Not only that, but when you're "Awesome", even the WIND can't touch you! That means no wind resistance! You'd cut through the air, either soaring from a Steel Push or just skating on the ground, and not only will wind not knock you off track, but you may as well be moving in a vacuum. There'd be no real limit to the speeds you could reach. And while burning Pewter, you're able to have all the balance and strength you need too stay on your feet. Burn Bendalloy every now and then to avoid running in to vehicles and what not. In fact, I think Bendalloy savants can move their speed bubble with them, so if you had that, you'd basically be The Flash. It's not exactly flying, but it is an upgrade to normal Steel Pushing, and you'd also have Plate, Blade, Stormlight Healing and the Surge of Growth/Regrowth, not to mention every other metal I haven't mentioned, and access to every God Metal. Grab a couple Medallions, specifically Steel, Zinc, and maybe Iron, for increased physical and mental speeds and the ability to shift your weight to make it easier to move yourself around, as well as the fifth heightening for all that coolness, and you're a speed demon god, even if Compounding doesn't work with Medallions (which I don't see why it wouldn't, but there has been some conjecture.) So that's what I'm going to pick. A Edgedancer Mistborn of the Fifth Heightening, with a F-Steel/F-Zinc Medallion and an F-Iron Medallion. All of that should be reasonably attainable, in world. Easier for a natural born Mistborn, since all he has to do is bond a Cultivation Spren and buy some Breaths, and because there are no more Lerasium beads, but still.

So, the Fifth Heightening effectively makes you immortal, as in you no longer age, if I'm not mistaken. So if you were a Feruchemist and got ahold of some Atium...would you still make yourself younger? But even if you could make yourself younger, you wouldn't age again. You'd have to put your Breaths somewhere else and then store youth to make yourself older, and then take your breaths back to get older. Or if you tried to store Youth, would you not age, since you don't age as you grow older? Could you, effectively, store an infinite amount of youth in the Atiummind? And then if you stored your Identity completely before storing a near infinite amount of Youth in the Atiummind, and then created a Medallion that allowed the use of Atium, could you effectively sell a medallion with the power to make anyone who wore it as young as they wished, forever? If that's how it worked, you could literally sell immortality, or near enough. Yes, on the one world, you could just buy breaths, but you have to take other people's breaths to do that. This way, there's not as much moral implications. My goodness, the economic implications...

It's reasonable to be born a Mistborn, or a Feruchemist, or a Twinborn. We know that at least a Mistborn can bond a Spren. And anyone can get breaths. So having all three of these is not unusual, especially since Hoid does. There's also Hemalurgy, which anyone can get, though if you get more than 3, they interfere with each other. There's also Medallions, which can grant some any Allomantic or Feruchemical power. So there are a few options, both of which have the 5th heightening. That means any combo would have the Enhanced Senses of the 5th Heightening, perfect health and effective immortality, the ability to Awaken, Shard Plate and Blade, and all the healing, speed and determination that Stormlight gives. The first option is basically Hoid, a Mistborn Lightweaver. With that you'd have illusions and, more importantly, Soulcasting, which ensures you have, effectively, an unlimited amount of every Allomantic metal. Not to mention all the other cool things you could do with Soul Casting. These guys are the ultimate manipulators, creating illusions, then Soothing and Rioting to make you more likely to believe them. Add a single Hemalurgic Spike of your choice for compounding, or get yourself a Medallion for the same. The second option would be a Feruchemist Radiant. The Order would be up for grabs, but being a full Feruchemist with the powers of a Radiant is astounding. Feruchemists can create Medallions, which could break an entire economy. Add to that the ability to use Stormlight, and you can store much more than the average person. Again, as above, add a Hemalurgic spike or Medallion to add an Allomantic power of your choice for compounding.

Hmm. Looks like I was just a little late putting this up.

We know that Hoid is a very powerful individual. He's a Mistborn, and a Lightweaver Radiant, and has a good number of Breaths, along with whatever else he's managed to grab. It's got me thinking about interesting combo's with powers in the Cosmere, and I'd like to hear what others would take if they could cherry pick which of each magic system they would like. 1. You are either a Mistborn, Feruchemist, or Twinborn. 2. You are a Radiant. You get to bond one Spren. 3. Just for giggles, assume you have the Fifth Heightening My first instinct is to go with Hoid: A Mistborn Lightweaver. Able to Soulcast whatever metal you need, and therefore have, effectively, an infinite source of Allomantic metals, so unlimited pushing/pulling metal, Pewter strength, enhanced senses, mental manipulation, temporal manipulations, etc, along with all the cool stuff Lightweavers get (Shardblade and Plate, Lightweaving, Soulcasting, Artistic ability). Not to mention the 'infinite money' part of soul casting. However, the sheer number of attributes you could store as a Feruchemist while using Stormlight is astounding. Breath, strength, physical speed, healing, determination. Potentially Stormlight itself, if Nicrosil works the way I think it does. Be a Windrunner, and you can increase your weight using Stormlight, and then store that weight in an Ironmind. Tap weight when you lash yourself and you can increase your weight without having to use as much stormlight for additional lashings. All of that winds up having an end neutral effect, but if you can store Stormlight in Nicrosil, you can just store all your gems as soon as the Highstorm is over, and not have to worry about it running out before you get a chance to use it. Do that every High Storm and eventually, you have a near unlimited amount of stormlight. And the concept of being a Twinborn and compounding alongside the powers of a Radiant and someone with the 5th heightening. A Tineye Twinborn, who can store all those extra senses from the 5th heightening into various Tinminds, could do some wild things, not to mention Pewter and Stormlight mixed. Plate may make that obsolete, but it depends on whether the Plate enhances your strength or just sets it to a certain level. I'm interested to hear your thoughts.

The problem is we can't just say "Well, that person's weird, so we're not going to count them", when they're literally the only one of their kind we've seen. As far as we know, they're all weird, and every individual Radiant is different, except for Wind Runners and Sky Breakers, who all seem to follow the same progression. Although, we still don't have confirmation that Szeth can even summon a Shardblade yet, even though he's sworn the 4th ideal (just not completed it, yet), because he's got Nightblood. There's also a WOB that says that Shallan is one oath ahead of Kaladin, which matches up if she swore the first ideal a long time ago, and the second was "I'm terrified," the third was "I killed my father," and the fourth was "I killed my mother." (I still think the fifth will be "I am Shallan"). And just look at the power level differences. Dalinar has more power at the third ideal than any radiant ever! He can literally charge people with stormlight, without needing the Stormfather to do it. He can create Honor's Perpendicularity. And he's only on Rank 3! So he's weird. Fine. And Shallan is weird. Ok. And we all know there's something goin on with Renarin. And Venly is a Listener who's also radiant, apparently. And Kaladin can control the winds, which shocked Syl. And I think Adolin will revive Maya. And Lift can metabolize Stormlight and is partially in the Cognitive Realm. And... See what I mean? They're all weird. They're all different. We have no real baseline to say "Oh, they obviously all get their blades on third and plate on fourth", because we have at least one Radiant who is on her Fourth Ideal, as per Brandon, and she has no Plate, as pointed out to by Jasnah. And if Jasnah had plate, she'd likely have used it during the battle at the end of Oathbringer.

Problem: Shallan. As far as we know, there's nothing special about her as a Radiant, like with Lift, but she had her Shardblade after just the First ideal, and is currently on her fourth without having any Plate. This has led to the speculation that each order, along with having different ideals, also earn their blades/plate after different oaths. If Shallan is a typical Lightweaver, then that would mean Lightweavers get their blades immediately, but their plate last. Bondsmiths, or at least the one bonded to the Stormfather, don't get Shards at all, or at least not Blades. Windrunners seem to get their blade after the 3rd, as happened with Kaladin and Teft, but need at least the 4rth to get their plate, maybe 5th. Edgedancers, or at least Lift, got her after the third as well. No idea when Renarin or Jasnah got theirs. And are there any Skybreakers alive who have sworn the forth oath and succeeded on their quest? Because none of them have used Plate so far. That would suggest it's the 5th oath that grants Plate for them. Just some thoughts.

I thought Lerasium and Atium made one an Atium Misting... However, if that's the case then any other god metal alloyed with Larasium would make one able to burn that metal.

Get really dehydrated and chase it down with cooking oil?

Didn't Ham survive as well? And who knows how many other Mistings. Demoux survived because he's in The Stormlight Archive looking for Hoid, and he's an Atium Misting. So...yeah, a lot of Mistings survived.

Mmm, I don't know about that. Honor is about keeping one's oaths. Being bound by your word. And I mean that outside of the books. It is about doing what is right, not about meting out punishments on those who deserve it. Sure, you have people like Moash who will justify their revenge by calling it "justice", but that's just a justification. They convince themselves that it is right so it must be justice. But where does Justice come from? Emotion and passion do nothing but cloud the issue. One could argue 'the law', but what if the law is unjust? That is possible. So what makes one thing just and another thing not just? Honor is about keeping oaths, but Justice is about getting what is deserved. These are two different things. For a good person, justice is getting something good. For a bad person, Justice is getting something bad. Oaths and bindings have nothing to do with it, nor does passion. It seems to be its own thing.

Brandon stole my ideas before I had them. I wrote a fantasy book a while back. It hasn't been published yet, but I'm working on the second one, now. I wrote it, oh, four or five years ago? I only started reading anything Brandon Sanderson in 2018, so I'd never heard of the Stormlight Archive at that point. But I'm going through my old book and I realize just how many ideas I had that are in The Stormlight Archive. Here are a few. Fantasy world, which is one planet out of many, each with their own magic? Check Very powerful storms that circle the continent which is secretly caused by (or at least related to) the death of a godlike being? Check Magic systems created by spiritual bonds with the spirits of the Forces of Nature? Check Humans actually being from another world but it's been so long that nobody remembers that and Humans have basically driven the local population into small, out of the way settlements? Check A branch of the local population having a connection to magic that causes them to alter their forms? Check Knights that are called based on their character and who are granted great power and who can fall if they break their oaths? Check Oh the details are very different, and none of the characters are even remotely similar. It certainly doesn't feel like Roshar. But my goodness, the concepts are too close for comfort. I read through it and it feels like I ripped off the Stormlight Archive, even though I'd never heard of Brandon Sanderson when I wrote the thing. Granted, it is no where near the quality of the Stormlight Archive, but that just means that not only did Brandon steal my ideas before I had them, but he did them better than I did! That's very disheartening. On a happy note, the sequel is going well, and I should have Part 1 of Book 2 done soon. So I've got that going for me.

There is no "my way", I'm just saying that the ones we have seen seem to fit. And if any of the shards is going to model their magic system after the Shards themselves, it'll be Preservation, who will want to keep things the same. I could very well be completely and utterly wrong. I just find it interesting that three of the shards we know have to deal with binding, Honor, Autonomy and Dominion, but one is binding one's self, one is binding others to you, and the third is being unbound. Then there are three known that affect the physical world: Ruin, Cultivation and Preservation. And then there are two emotions, Odium and Devotion, both of which focus on others but one pushes and the other pulls, and two enhancement, Endowment and Ambition, which both focus on growing power (push) but one is external and the other is internal. It just seems to click to me.

Ok, I'll do this again. Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Enhancement Spiritual Attributes - These have to do with bindings and authority. At least two of these are dead. Honor - Binds one's self - Internal pulling Autonomy - Freeing Self - Internal Pushing Dominion - Bind Others - External Pulling Unknown - Freeing Others? Salvation? - External Pushing Physical Attributes - These affect the real world. Growth, Stasis and Decay are the three we know, the fourth, I believe could be Ingenuity or Creativity. They have said that Cultivation only cares about growth with no thought to consequences, Preservation cares only about stasis and nothing changing, and Ruin cares only about decay with no thought to the future, so maybe the fourth Shard on this list only cares about planning with no thought to actually do anything. Creativity could also be a Mental Attribute, so it could fit down there as well, as I'm not sure whether to make it internal or external. Of note, at least two of these are also dead. Cultivation - Growth - External Pushing Ruin - Decay - External Pulling Preservation - No Change - Internal Pulling Unknown (Maybe Ingenuity) - Creativity/Planning Change - Internal Pushing Enhancement Attributes - These are all about enhancing, but we only know two. From those, we can infer the other two. I know a lot of people say Odium and Honor equal Judgement, but that just doesn't make sense. That would just make Honor Passionate and Angry about binding things. I think Judgement, or something similar, would be its own thing. Maybe Indignation? This would be a passionless exercise of Judgement, because it is missing its Odium. The magic system would be based on the law, and a kind of 'tit for tat', 'quid pro quo', 'what goes around comes around' sort of thing. Maybe a Karma type magic. For the other, I think Humility accurately describes decreasing one's own power, and the magic system would likely have to do with denying self or not thinking of one's self. Endowment - Increase Other's Power - External Pushing Ambition - Increase Own Power - Internal Pushing Unknown - Decrease own power? Humility? - Internal Pulling Unknown - Decrease other's power? Punishment/Judgement? - External Pulling Mental Attributes - At least one of these is dead. These are mental processes, with love and hate being emotion, or internal, and Wisdom being more intellectual. Creativity could also fit here, instead of up with the Physical. I put Humor instead because I like the concept of a Shard called Humor, with a Magic System based on bad puns. The Cosmere's first Comedy! Devotion - Love - Internal Pushing Odium - Hate - Internal Pulling ("Give me your pain!") Unknown (Maybe Wisdom) - External Pulling? Unknown (Humor! This is my new go to.) - External Pushing? Brandon has said not every Shard has an Opposite, like Ruin and Preservation, but even Ruin and Preservation aren't opposites. They're just diametrically opposed. Technically, Ruin and Cultivation, or Preservation and Cultivation, are just as much opposed to each other as Ruin and Preservation.

Why? When you store normal strength, you get smaller, when you tap it, you get bigger, but when you burn Pewter, you don't get bigger, you get denser. But let's say your right. Lets say that even if you burn Pewter and then start storing, and you then had to get smaller when storing, you'd be storing effectively double or triple the strength in the same amount of mass, so even if it DID make you bigger, it would make you bigger but with double or triple the strength than normal. Then, while you are bigger, you can burn pewter, making yourself stronger, without making yourself bigger, by two or three times, and then store all that strength, making yourself smaller. Now, it's been multiplied. Your previous 2-3 times strength has now been multiplied by 2-3 times, so you now have a pewter mind with strength inside that adds 4-9 times the strength, but with the same amount of size. Now do it again, and you've multiplied your strength by 8-18 times. And again, and it's multiplied by 16-46 times. And again. Until you effectively have an infinite amount of strength, but barely any actual growth, if any. You could tap just a teeny, teeny portion of the actual size increase, and get more strength than you could possibly handle. You'd basically be the Juggernaut. Nothing would be able to stop you once you got moving. Or even if you weren't moving. You'd rip through metal like tissue. And this isn't even with Traditional Compounding. This is just by storing Allomantic pewter strength, which converts it to Feruchemical pewter strength, and then burning Allomantic pewter while tapping Feruchemical pewter. And the cool thing is, even if you did that, you could still control how strong you were, so you can be gentle when you need to, and unstoppable when you aren't. At least, that's how I see it working. When Brandon gave his answer about storing Allomantic pewter into a Pewtermind, he gave it rather flippantly. "Sure, it'd probably be easier just to compound, though." I don't think he actually gave any thought to how this would work. In his mind, Compounding is just faster. And while yes, he's "God" in his world, and his word is law, there have been times when he has mentioned he gave an answer too quickly, and had to go back and correct himself. In this case, I think that just burning Pewter and storing the strength, then burn pewter while tapping, rinse/repeat, would do much the same, and with less upsizing. Perhaps you can even add in Compounding. Store strength, swallow it, burn it, increasing your strength, then burn regular Pewter at the same time. Whatever you got from the Feruchemical pewter you are burning would be doubled or tripled. It's compounded Compounding.

That Jeffery Epstein killed himself. I'm sorry, when I first read the title, I thought it said "What is your Wildest Conspiracy Theory". I think Dalinar or Sazed will become the new Adonalsium. Probably Dalinar, as I think the "Unite Them" refers to the Shards, not the Alethi or Rosharans or Honor's Shards in particular. I think Odium will find a way to kill Cultivation before the end, shattering her. Dalinar will become Unity, and he will take up the pieces of Cultivation, Uniting them with Honor (Unity) to create something more powerful than Sayzed's Harmony, because his two pieces are not diametrically opposed. Maybe he would be called "Community". Binding and Growth combined. Odium is going to be facing two Shards who have collected two Shards each, and so he will be scared. I think Series two will be Odium finally deciding that if he is to beat them, he needs to combine shards. I'm guessing the one that makes the most sense for him to take would be Ambition, since he already shattered that one. He just needs to take its shards. Odium and Ambition = Destruction? Judgement? That will be the end of the second series. The Third Mistborn will be a cosmic crossover, so I'm thinking Sayzed and Dalinar will try to figure out a way to separate Dominion and Devotion, and each will get one. Dalinar will get Dominion, Sazed will get Devotion. Dalinar will have Dominion, Cultivation, and Honor/Unity, and will become Authority. Sazed will have Preservation, Ruin and Devotion, and will become Creation. Then its up to the other Shards at that point. They'll all likely oppose Odium, but some may actually oppose Sazed and Dalinar. And as an addendum to my original thought, in the end, at the final scene, Dalinar is mortally wounded, Sazed is dying, Odium is shattering, all the other Shards are shattered, and Kelsior will walk up and snag them all and become Adonalsium.

I don't believe you'd store all of what Pewter gives you in f-Pewter, just the strength. But I do believe you can store Strength from A-Pewter into F-Pewter, and thus gain the strength without gaining the mass. I think it's less strength than just compounding straight from F-Pewter, but if this is the case, you can, with a few more steps, gain an infinite amount of strength without needing to worry about growing bigger. We're talking Duralamin levels at all times. Now, it could be argued, I suppose, that storing A-Pewter would only allow you to draw out so much at one time, or that it would take more of it to get to Duralamin level strength, thus making it impractical, and that F-Pewter, which has no upper strength limit other than what your body can deal with musculature-wise, can compound an infinite level of strength while using less of a charge. However, combining the two creates an interesting result that I hadn't thought of. Let's say you have a Pewtermind with a near inifinite amount of strength, and so you make yourself like Sazed did during that final battle, making himself the size of a Koloss. He was incredibly strong, much stronger than the strongest pewter arm you'll ever find. He crushed Koloss like they were made of play doe. So lets say you make yourself that big, and keep yourself there nearly indefinitely, because you can. And then you burn regular Allomantic Pewter. Allomantic Pewter increases your strength by, what, two or three fold? And the stronger you are, the more it gives you. So you'd literally be two or three times as strong as Sazed was in that scene, while only being as big as him. On a normal day, you could simply up your bulk so you looked like a body builder, and kept your body in that position at all times, never needing to store because of your compounding. Pop a regular pewter pill and your strength, health and all the rest increase by two or three times, while in your bodybuilder form. Or make yourself half as strong, and look all scrawny. Then burn regular pewter when you need to and have normal strength while looking like a weakling. There are some interesting things you could do with being a pewter twin born.

Humor! Hold is actually an Avatar of Humor!

A publishing company has to release so many books a year, and has to release them at certain times. And they only have so many slots per year. At any point in time, they're working with many, many authors to get their books out there. If an author can't hit the deadline, but other authors can, then the authors that make the deadline get put in that year's line up. It's not fair to the authors who got their books in on time to have another author come in and take a publishing slot, even if it's Brandon. That said, it's Brandon, so they'd definitely give him priority. But there's no guarantee after Jan 1 that he'd be done by Jan 8. He could say Jan 8, and then he's not actually done until late February, in which case the publishing company has lost its chance to put another author in the slot slated for Brandon's book. Having a hard Jan 1 deadline helps make sure the publishing company is still releasing books and the authors are taken care of.

You mean Dalinar's version of Honor? Honor is the Shard of putting things together, connection and liaison. He seeks to merge the things he sees. He just interprets the intent as binding one to their promises. And he does live in a system with sapient beings, and his magic system is all about oaths. Pretty sure Dalinar actually says "I am Unity".

I wouldn't be surprised if Faith and/or Hope were Shards. I'd imagine Faith's magic system would be something to the effect of the more faith you have, the more powerful your magic. Losing faith, or doubt, would result in loss of power. Now, what they have faith in would be dependent on the story. If we put all the Shards we know together, we get a being who feels passionately, who keeps their promises and keeps everything together, who allows things to grow but also to decay, but is himself unchanging, who has dominion over all but nothing has dominion over him, who loves and endows those he loves, and who, in some way, has ambition, depending on what that means. We are missing some sort of intellect, be it wisdom or intelligence or creativity or something to that nature. We are missing absolute confidence or lack of fear. We are missing some kind of Justice, or Judgement, probably defined by whoever has the Shard. It would be funny if Humor was one (see what I did there?) It's why all the shards we've seen have been such sticks in the mud. They're all missing their sense of humor.

Yeah, I think it's going to be a big moment when Kaladin comes to the realization that he isn't a slave and all the pain in the world isn't on his shoulders, and then the shock of him realizing that his scars have healed.

You mean how one of them is the Captain of the other's guard and is sworn to protect them day and night from any and all threats? I couldn't possibly imagine how they'd wind up spending much time together.