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Tensoon seemed fully aware(he sympathized with Koloss). The reason TLR made the spikes is because kandra that considered themselves bound by the first contract could of course not kill humans. Did he though? As I see it the problems he developed were really always the same. He was like a construction company that kept propping up the same rotting wooden bridge instead of knocking it down and replacing it with a steel one. His solutions were often complex but they were never elegant and he never really learned. In fact if I had to sum up his character it would be "he was smart but he never learned." I honestly think that either Harmony got rid of them all when he remade the world or that some population of them exists somewhere 300 years later. I think they reproduce asexually so it would only take one. I also think Saze would hesitate to extinct a population of creatures that used to be his own people.

I think there is a bit of a difference between making sure your absolutely eliminate all current problems and correctly anticipating future problems. To use a medical analogy it is the difference removing a tumor and curing cancer. With precise enough power that has enough scope getting rid of the first is easy. Reshek could probably "see" every feruchemist on scadrial without trouble(invested people are highly noticeable to shards) but picking out any potential in the Terris population's sDNA for feruchemists to be born in the future is way more difficult. To use your coding analogy if you have spotted and isolated malignant code rendering it harmless is not usually much of a problem. The real issues come from the bugs you simply don't notice. Kandra might not initially have been experts at hemalurgy but unlike the inquisitors they are immortal and not particularly closely monitored by TLR. They also have existences dependent on hemalurgy and work with mistwraiths who they raise as children. This is the guy who overdid everything to the point of ludicrousness. I think he would have been more careful if it was a reasonable issue. It is equally possible that he found some other way of doing so. So would Kel. I don't see their numbers decreasing post remaking. The world is way easier to live in by then. No you wouldn't. All you want is a full feruchemist in that scenario(when you can breed or enslave). If you can undo the blockage then that is all you need.

Firstly that would only work if you found on OG mistwraith and I am not sure any still exist. Secondly if TLR wanted to insure feruchemy was not available in the future it does not seem like a smart move to let feruchemically knowledgeable people also gain some understanding of hemalurgy(first generation) even if they are loyal to you(if he had confidence in that he wouldn't have granted them immortality). Also if that works why have the Set not done it? Seems a lot faster then kidnapping a large number of metalborn and they have plenty of hemalurgic knowledge. Additionally the ancient Terris. Implies to some degree that they could not access feruchemy again by such simple means.

I don't see how using a Mistwraith would improve his ability to use Feruchemy. The WoB I quoted also implies fairly strongly that he used his own bones. I suppose getting a mistwraith to eat them is one possibility but that entire process seems way messier since he would have to deal with a living organism not under his direct control. As a temporary measure having Kel command a lifeless made out of his own body would work(like a puppet or construct). In fact SA Since his body and soul would still be a little disconnected and he has a bunch of extra investiture all he would need to do would be storing some of his investiture in metal as opposed to his body. To use a financial metaphor he has capital and he can liquefy it. The only problem is that he needs the right connection to open a bank account. Since we have no idea how people gained bank access the first time and all individuals since then have either inhered bank access(feruchemy inheritance), borrowed it(southerners) or used identity theft(hemalurgy) we really cannot say how Kelseir managed it(if he did as he might simply borrow as he taught the southerners). Knowing Kel he would probably want to create his own credentials but I don't think we have enough info to say how. Generally speaking we don't really know what causes feruchemy in the first place just that it is passed on genetically.

What BAM(and the rest of the unmade) actually is along with their creation and why it was important are currently unknown(although we have some hints). What we do know is that the imprisonment of BAM by the last group of radiants around two thousand years ago had some rather dramatic effects on roshar. Kelek is hinting that those effects were not a one off and that the damage remains which seems to be why he is advocating for her release. Heralds are of course not trustworthy people these days so if he is right is a different story but the spren are all part of roshar's ecology. I personally cannot imagining summarily removing one to have been good for the world as a whole.

We can't give a concrete answer but I personally think your breaths would just be turned into your divine breath although holding breath in the first place probably makes you a better returned candidate.

To add to Frustration. It is not a particularly large continent either. Also a few humans can overhunt almost any animal to extinction within a really short amount of time.

I assume because the animals could not follow the simple rules?

On the up side that means you could make metals that when burned by a full mistborn do hyperspesific things. Metals that when burned cause it to rain on the Nalthis the next Tuesday or create coughing fits in whoever holds the Alethi throne.

Pretty sure this WoB indicates that a literally infinite number of god metals are possible. Since everything in the cosmere happens due to the intent(s) of a shard(s) there are theoretically as many godmetals as things that have happened. Ever.

My theories are more boring. The shades do seem attracted to humans(even more ones who don't follow the rules). It is possible that the "full of shades" belief is actually a misconception and that the shades were always enraged against the early human explorers who first met them. Also fading does not necessarily imply they dissolve. The fused go through long periods of "hibernation." Perhaps shades did the same when no settlers were around. Their behavior may be much like spren in that they "fade" when no one attracts them. We have yet to see Threnody's CR.

I thought Kaladin's fights at the tower were too long and a bit repetitive. It felt kind of like watching some one else play a video game. Since Kaladin could not loose at all without the entire tower loosing all hope and the sibling dying that made a lot of the early interactions end the same way since it was unfeasible to let Kaladin win either. I think the book could have been significantly better if Brandon had just cut some of it. Honestly Kaladin just reviewing what happened to some of the nodes in a flashback would have worked. It is not like anything particularly important happened mid fight. I feel like the time would have been better spent watching Kaladin do some mission impossible type stuff while struggling with his internal issues.

You mean your second. Sorry I missed that. I don't think we have enough information to say one way or another on medallions because we don't even know what they are. However the very fact that you can make them on any world demonstrates that they are not "world spesific" making me lean toward you can just move them.

That might be true or it might not be. Either way nothing seems to stop you from just assembling them on site. If the GBs wanted them on Roshar they could just bring in their dedicated medallion team.

Axindweth makes use of feruchmey while offworld. It is possible she was using a medalion but either way nothing we know of stops you from making a medalion while still off world since all of the metalic arts clearly work. Apparently some issue is seen with compounding(I personally think the GBs are trying to avoid getting Harmony's attention).

People can usually get offworld without issue though.

Untrue. We as yet do not know how unkeyed metalminds are created but unless the southerners have a full feruchemist(which I personally doubt) or are just using leftover ones to say power their airships(I doubt this as well) unkeyed metalminds can be made without a full feruchemist. I imagine that there was some aluminum at least. I was personally thinking one of Spook's hemalugy experiments would fill the metalmind. Perhaps Spook himself would do it with an inquisitor spike or two(they had several left over). We know that Spook did know about and preform hemalurgy. Even it he did not Kelseir and Spook figured out medalions at some point and the right combination with a full mistborn(Spook) should allow for the creation of an unkeyed metalmind that would allow Kel's body to tap health. So at this point we have a fully functional Kel body. Unfortunately Kel's connection to said body is simply too weak. He needs a "new string." We also have this WoB. Functionally the difference between a spren and a lifeless is fairly minimal. Take Kel's body through a perpendicularity. A deralumin spike creates the proper link between Kel and his body(steal the lifeless's connection to the body and give it to Kelseir). Once done he can flare metals to grant himself a better connection and possibly even remove the spike once done(Preservation's power is very good at fixing/firming up damaged spirit webs). As a side note Kelseir's really weird connection and spiritweb might actually let him gain feruchemy during this time.

Other way around. He wanted feruchemy so he invented south scadrain tec and used that to save the southerners. He already had it when he went south. The name is just confusing. If he had already been a fullborn then why would he have figured out the technology? Lack of necessity of the mother of ignorance.

Vasher makes some sense. More likely he just intercepted a report by Navani.

A full mistborn could gain feruchemy using southern scadrian tec. No need for him to do any kind of body mod. Also Kel is a sliver so he might be able to work out how the Teris were granted feruchemy to begin with. It is possible that the manner in which he joined his body granted feruchemy as a byproduct but that is its own kettle of fish. I would need to make an entirely new theory about the nature of investiture and the way magic systems develop. I think he just needed a bindpoint and thought gaining stealsight at the same time would be a good idea but there may have been multiple possibilities and that was just one trade off. Exactly. Also Allomancy by nature is a preservation power. Vin and Kel note that this type of investiture is designed to shore up cracks in the spirit web. Use it with enough skill and he might just be able to pull his body and spirit together just by burning metals although the exact way in which they were put together might be a bit weird Nalthis spoiler

Thanks. Good to be back Just breaking the lifeless would also work but it might also leave him vulnerable to others who are capable in the same ways(powerful awakeners, soothers, and so on). Not having his body under control would be a problem. Also just having your body on a remote control control might not be satisfactory. A hemalurgic spike may make openings but if Kel himself is in all those openings the problems should be mitigated. The close connection between Kel and his body would make breaking it as a lifeless much more difficult and Kel could probably block someone using soothing(after all even TLR could not force him to quit).

Who or how Kelsier has managed to reconnect with a physical body is a constant question for the fandom these days. Thanks to some recent WoBs I think we can now at least come up with a full theory at least. + If Kel were to have someone get a few breaths and animate his old bones as a lifeless, then have the lifeless tap an unsealed metalmind of healing he could have his body back in perfect physical condition. After he does so the only problem is "making a new string." If you bring the new body into the CR one could preform hemalugy of the same type he uses to gain a connection to Spook. A lifeless does not have a force of will capable of resisting outside control so Kel can then move his lifeless body as if it were his own making it that much easier to connect them even more firmly(compounding connection for example).

No. You can get up to date on everything we know about the cosmere(read all the cosmere books, unpublished works, and WoB) then put together the information available from deductive reasoning. However the cosmere is constantly growing and becoming more complex. High level cosmere scholars like those of us on the shard can sometimes anticipate future changes but even we are surprised fairly regularly.

Navani. She was just there for a while but as we learned more about her she became a fun character.

While we eventually realize that it is possible for good people to do bad things it is much harder for us to get our heads around the idea of bad people doing good things. Understanding that good people make mistakes, have bad days, possess blind spots, and are capable of anger and viciousness is an important part of growing up. On the other hand it is very easy to simply right off someone bad as incapable of doing good or treat their good deeds as somehow incidental. Lin Davar might have been faced with tragic circumstances but abuse is always a choice and he engaged in it regularly. The fact that he was a person who was capable of love and compassion does not change the fact that he was a human dumpster.