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Def like the idea of Atium as a means of Realmatic travel. I think it grants true access to Fortune: like what Taravangian saw at the end of RoW in the Spiritual Realm. Elend seemed to have seen the same thing, imo.

Welcome to the Shard, @cremling_sadboy Here's a good benefit to joining: Go to that link, ask for a copy of Aether of Night (it's an unpublished work of Brandon's). It takes a few days but you'll get a DM with the file.

Dumbledore has greater variety of attacks and defence but Gandalf's not even human, he's Maiar. He cannot really be killed, pushed outside of Arda, subsumed, etc but not killed, I don't think.

Beautifully creepy!

True access to Fortune perhaps?

The new Coppermind logo is great! The Arcanum logo I suppose had to change, given that it was the Cosmere logo, it's good too but the Cosmere logo is, well, the Cosmere logo and so pretty hard to beat. I'll miss the old Shard logo though.

Listening to Amy Winehouse! And uh... wow, some of those songs would really not be well-received today, and for good reason, imo *side-eyes stronger than me & f-me pumps * (and yes, I get that the point was being frank but still). Anyway, rehab, back to black, you know I'm no good are still just as good as ever Decided to give Bring me the Horizon a real try beyond just can you feel my heart and they're no Linkin Park replacement, how dare! But they're still pretty good

We do have this WoB: We also have this WoB, though it's not about reverse Compounding (using Feruchemy to power Allomancy, Compounding itself is powering Feruchemy with Allomancy), but about Feruchemy and Hemalurgy: The Metallic Arts still have a few hidden tricks

Nightblood still looked like a sword in the Cognitive Realm, so I think the Honorblades would as well

Oh, didn't realize there was a thread for this! Happy Birthday, @King Aragorn of Gondor! Happy Birthday, @Chaos!

Yeah, Alloy of Law kinda sucks. Era 2 is really difficult to get into after the grandeur of stuff like the original Mistborn trilogy, Stormlight and the other stories. It only started liking it upon rereads. It's... just too different in flavour from the rest of the Cosmere. Ah, the Metallic Arts, I remember when I first put The Final Empire in my to-read list, I'd thought that they literally ate metal, as in metal instead of food. Yeah, it's kind of hmm in comparison to the rest of the magics. Very input this, to get this. That can take away from the wonder of magic. Also after reading TZKS which has a magic system that actually uses the chemical elements and chemistry in one of its... subcategories of powers, I just can't help but compare the two and feel like TZKS did it better for more scientific magics. But the Metallic Arts are still fascinating enough. I think they're supposed to come off as less mystical. And there's a lot to uncover with the magics and its interactions with other magics. The books are short, push through till Bands of Mourning! That one makes the rest of series worth reading. And once you kinda lose the expectations, the series actually makes for a decent lighthearted reread.

I agree! I theorized that the futuresight might've come from a Resonance between the Truthwatchers' two Surges: Illumination of Progression.

Yes, Brandon himself is religious.

You're conflating the Beyond and the Spiritual Realm. Many people in world think they're the same, but they're not. The Beyond - whether it exists or if it's just non-existence is a philosophical question that Brandon does not wish to impose the answer to upon his readers, the Spiritual Realm is a confirmed plane of existence within the setting.

Hoid?

Lift can convert food into Lifelight not Stormlight but yeah. I wonder if someday, someone would copy whatever whatever it is that Cultivation did to her Spiritweb to copy the ability to metabolize food into Investiture. We have a WoB on this:

The Aviar get the parasitical magical worms from the fruits from the Patji's Fingers at the Perpendicularity on Patji. Because the Aviar migrate. They get their talent there, yes but they don't all necessarily live on Patji, they go to the other islands of the Pantheon too. Plus, there's other rare stuff on the islands that are sold on Eelakin and the Mainland, I would imagine.

Brandon's RAFO'd this, especially and specifically with Nightblood, eg: