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I mean, sure. But the story doesn't really treat it that way. In era 1, Preservation is pretty clearly the "good" one and Ruin is pretty clearly the "bad" one. Ruin is trying to destroy the world, Preservation is trying to save it. Preservation created a prophecy and a plan to help out our heroes. Preservation does what little he can to help them out. Vin Ascends and becomes preservation. Ruin's magic is murder-based, and is used to mind control people, including Marsh who used to be on our side. There was literally a black-and-white motif played straight. Even if all the shards are a bit more gray, not clearly good and clearly evil, in the particular story of mistborn era 1, Preservation is clearly acting as the good one and ruin as the bad one. And I think it would have been interesting to continue the revolutionary themes of the first book by switching that dynamic

I've been assuming for a while that, eventually, urithiru will be some kind of space city. It already has its own self-contained atmosphere and pressure, it's able to be entirely self-sufficient, it has teleporters, and it has the sibling to act as The Computer that runs everything. It has everything it needs from both a logistical standpoint and from a sci-fi tropes standpoint.

If you're interested in that dynamic, I highly recommend reading the Inheritance Trilogy by NK Jemisin. I don't think you'd need to change the shards all that much though; maybe something more like "destruction" and "stagnation", something with a bit closer to the right connotations for this version of the book, but not really a radical shift. No more than is possible through different vessels' interpretations, I wouldn't think

Kelsier is not near as evil as people (including brandon) like to make him out to be based on what we've seen of him. Thematically, I think I'd prefer if it stayed more true to the themes of a revolution and had Ruin be more the "good" one and preservation be more the "bad" one. I'm not saying "wanton destruction is good and the status quo is always bad" but the society here *shouldn't* be preserved and *did* need to be destroyed. Obviously, you can't have a society built on by tearing things down, but if you're going to have one be the "good" one and one be the "bad" one I think it would be a better continuation of the revolutionary themes to reverse them from what they were in the actual series. Obviously though, this would be a very different series from the one we got. (I made a post about this) Overall, a bit too monarchist The breeze/alrienne thing is absolutely horrible, that is a ridiculous age gap, and there wasn't a good reason to include it. I'm not a fan of Elend's character arc. The beard alone... I don't know if this is actually controversial, but I'm a big fan of the atium retcon.

One thing I've considered as a possibility to allow some people, but not everyone, to access a metalmind is if you only blank most of your identity. For example, you remove all parts of your identity except for "being a part of this specific organization". Then, only people from that organization would have the matching identity

This is a better fit for the cosmere board than the stormlight one. These all do seem plausible but i don't think we really know about godmetals yet to really say much, sadly. We only know what one does feruchemically, what two do allomantically, and what two.5 do hemallurgically. I think that a metal storing fertility would honestly be quite useful, there's lots of folk tradition both for reducing chance of pregnancy and increasing chance, so the ability to do either at a whim would be great. Not the kind of power that's especially useful from a narrative perspective necessarily, it's not flashy, but I think it would help things run smoother. Having widespread unkeyed edglium minds would be soooo useful frankly so it's a shame that if this theory is correct it's constrained to a godmetal and not a normal metal that could more easily be mass-produced. What do you mean by "physical maturity" with cultivation? how would that be different than age?

That's possible, it seems Moash's eyes became tan from brown (and I think tan is considered light brown? Not completely sure, I'm colorblind lol). But that still doesn't answer the question of why lighteyed radiants' eyes never change.

Huh. That's very odd, cause it doesn't just lighten their eyes. Kaladin's eyes are brown, but summoning Syl makes them blue. If it just lightened them, this would make more sense. Well thank you for the WOBs!

So first of all, I'd like to be clear: I'm talking from a broad, thematic perspective, and this would of course require significant rewrites of the overarching plot of the book and of the characterization of ruin and preservation. I'm not saying that "Ruin did nothing wrong" or something, I'm talking hypotheticals. Now. The final empire is a story of revolution. It's a world that's had the brutal status quo enforced and upheld for far, far too long. It's a world of stagnation, that hasn't seen much advancement in 1000 years. It's a world where the people in power are extremely successful at keeping themselves that way. Our heroes are people taking a stand, people who are fighting this. People who want to tear down the old world so a new and better one can be built. So why, then, is preservation set up as the "good" shard of the series and ruin the "bad" shard? (yes yes, I know, it's not 100% good and evil but like. Cmon. One of them is trying to destroy the world the other is trying to save it. It's pretty clear. And it's literally black and white). To me, it would make a lot more thematic sense for preservation to be the ultimate antagonistic force of this series, who's trying to uphold the status quo and keep things the way they are no matter the brutality, and ruin to be more on the hero's side, helping them from behind the scenes to tear down the old world. (Even in this version, ruin probably wouldn't be so up on the "and rebuilding better" side of things, and I think that makes for an interesting conflict. How do we destroy what needs to be destroyed while leaving enough to rebuild?)

When a darkeyes bonds a shardblade living or dead, their eyes change to the color that matches the order corresponding to the type of spren. (Full disclosure, I'm really not a fan of this decision on Brandon's part but whatever). But why is the same not true for lighteyes? Sure, they already have light eyes, but why does the color of their eye not change to match the color of their order/the spren of the dead shardblade they bonded? I'm asking this both from an in-world perspective and a "why did brandon choose to have it work this way" perspective. Also, when a darkeyes and a lighteyes have children together, the children will have one eye of each. What happens when a person like this bonds a shardblade/spren?

Philosophically, i disagree with the idea that not considering your own emotions will inherently help you make more rational decisions, I don't think rationality and emotions are at odds with eachother. But i do think they can get in the way of eachother, if you're having a panic attack for example and not able to be more rational about things, or when you know something "makes sense" so you shove down your emotions about it, so I do think this would still be helpful. This does seem like a pretty neat power, I could see something like this being the case! I wish we had more cases to go on for feruchemy with godmetals (do we even know what lerasium does?), but I suppose atium's use of age could be seen as in-line with ruin's intent, since age is the inevitable progression toward death and arguably the slow ruin of the body. So it would make sense if other feruchemical interactions with godmetals have to do with the shardic intent. (Weird that allomancy doesn't. Why does atium let you see the future? Why does lerasium do... connection? I'm not even sure.) Also this is probably a better fit for the cosmere thread, not the stormlight one

Do we? As I understand it, all investiture in the cosmere is aligned with some shardic intent since the moment of the shattering. I think intent is an inherent property of investiture, I don't know if you could make intentless investiture. Maybe you could make investiture that's equally intented toward all shards? I suppose that would be the same

I had this same idea!!! I'm a big fan of this theory, and it just makes sense as something you can do with Endowment's magic system- endow attributes onto others.

That's possible I suppose, but we know it used to be thought that Sja-Anat couldn't corrupt radiant spren. And I don't see why she simply wouldn't if she could have all along. So clearly something changed, at some point, to allow this Additionally, futuresight was well-known to be considered a thing of voidbinding (even in this radiant's time, given they felt the need to hide their vision), so there seems to have been some other means of voidbinding to see the future besides being an Enlightened Truthwatcher for it to be widespread information. But if that's the case, then we have no real reason to assume this radiant was enlightened

We've seen other heralds' madness be temporarily alleviated by radiants (in rhythm of war and edgedancer), it doesn't seem to be something unique to Taln.

I think it's unlikely that a planet is inhabited by cognitive entities with little to no living population in the physical realm. (I know we have Braize but that seems to be a special case). Generally a planet with no living minds on it won't really have a large area in the cognitive realm

Hmm. That makes me wonder, could you make a Shadebrial?

Did Gavilar know about Adolnasium?

I think what they meant is the number of different kinds of kandra blessings

This is getting pretty theoretical, but I think it might be possible to command your breath directly to manifest in the physical realm, as metal. (Presumably in the form of Edglium). So that'd be cool, and pretty useful. There are lots of things you could presumably do with a shapeshifting blob of metal that you can make appear and disappear at will.

If copperclouds can stop other investiture senses, why do they not stop the bluelinesight from iron and steel?

It seems there are ways to fuel many invested arts with foreign investiture. It's not always easy, but there do seem to be ways to. Stormlight spoilers So my guess is, with hemalurgy, you're fueling whatever magic with ruin instead of the usual shard. In fact, next time there's a spoiler stream, here's a question brandon might answer. "Normally, allomancy is fueled by drawing power from Preservation. If that allomancy was gained through hemalurgy, are you instead drawing on the power of Ruin? Or are you still drawing on preservation's power?"

They have. My thought is that its effect is maybe something nonobvious? Maybe something to do with corrupted investiture? Or cognitive entities, which there aren't much around of on scadrial? (With a few very notable acceptions). And there's not 16 god metals, not anymore. [Bands of Mourning]

To me it seems that both the scadrian magics and fabrials work based on universal investiture properties of metal, so I'd be surprised if it was limited to only 10 of the metals arbitrarily. (Frankly, I'm not even sure the metallic arts are as 16-based as they seem. I'd be truly shocked if silver really does nothing, personally, since we know it does have magical properties. It's just probably something that hasn't been discovered yet

I wonder if this is affected at all if you reanimate someone who was a radiant of that type