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Something that I find interesting is that the Shardblades Dalinar was shown were only from two orders- out of nine who left. If the numbers are even anywhere close, there could be another 500+ sets of shards out there somewhere.

Honestly, I was just wondering how many Shards Alethkar had. I can't seem to find a number anywhere.

I love the irony that Spook's street slang eventually becomes known as High Imperial. It would be like going three hundred years into the future to discover that the new language of the learned was talking like Jar-Jar Binks.

Perhaps all of this comes back to the hacking. If one ignores Paalm, then Trellium may only be allomantically/feruchemically/hemalurgically viable via hacking. Wait. Just remembered something. If Paalm needed a steel spike, for example, to steal Idishway(?)s Feruchemical speed, then didn't she have two spikes? One of steel or whatever else she was using, and one of Trellium? If so, that could explain the lack of glowing red eyes. Maybe it didn't count as hacking enough for that.

Yeah, just thought it was funny that technically, in the right circumstances, you could bond Kelsier. Probably be kind of annoying to both of you though.

Just random thoughts for the most part. First sentence was meant to convey that maybe using Trellium in Hemalurgy is the hacking, but that didn't happen with Paalm, so it's probably wrong. Last phrase is a convoluted way of trying to say that Trell might not be able to use Hemalurgy straight-up, so the hacking is using Trell's Investiture to power the Kandra spikes, if these Trellish Immortals even have any.

It might be that Trellium was not meant to be used in any of the Metallic Arts. Alternatively, it may have been the act of creating the Kandra/Mistwraith itself that counts as hacking, because it's possible that it's not possible for Trell to use any of the Arts.

I'm not sure if this is 100% accurate or not, but I saw on another thread that usually 'hacked' magic has a red component to it. If so, that could explain the glowing red eyes. Kandra created using Trellium, but hacked somehow.

So if you could bond a Cognitive shadow... Does this mean you could technically (with hacking) make a Nahel-ish bond with Kelsier in those years before he got spiked back into the physical realm?

Also, the Shards are pieces of Adonalsium (Surprise!) I seem to recall something in either Oathbringer or Words of Radiance about Odium being "God's own divine hatred, separated from the virtues that gave it context". If that's true, perhaps a similar aspect to Adonalsium may be Sorrow, or something related?

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