ShardlessVessel

I disagree about the implication. Brandon immediately denies that Shadesmar is 2D: And we have seen that it isn't two dimensional. Multiple characters in multiple books have visited the Cognitive Realm and it has all four spatial+temporal dimensions. What Brandon was trying to get across is that the Cognitive Realm does not have the same shape as the Physical. Planets are flattened, for example, but the space itself is not flat. That said, the Spiritual Realm may be 1D or simply transcend the concept of spatial and temporal dimensions, replacing them for Connection.

It's actually supposed to be hard for seons to leave as well (spoilered for length): Granted, this was before ROW, and probably before he decided to swap Shallan's tamu kek for a seon, and so he may have just changed the rules to make seons capable of leaving without fuss. Or it could mean that the Selish know how to take Splinters offworld - arguably, the Elantrians themselves should have trouble leaving, tied to the Dor as they are, and we know that they managed it centuries ago - and aren't telling anybody.

The planet is spherical. Shadesmar is flat. Shadesmar is also compressed, and there are areas where there's a location on the Physical Realm which does not have a corresponding location - or, at least, one of the same size - on the Cognitive Realm. What if you took a spren, brought it into the Physical Realm (the normal way, by attracting it with emotion or by summoning a Shardblade), and then traveled around the world such that you brought the spren to a spot that does not exist in the Cognitive. What happens? Could the means for getting a Splinter off their planet be a geography trick? Maybe it's not that simple. I suspect cognitive anomalies may be involved in releasing a Splinter from its planet - the one Cognitive Shadow we know who is also a worldhopper happens to come from a planet with a cognitive anomaly.

Would be interesting to know whether their berserk button is purely magical, though. If a Smoker could stand right in front of a Shade, burn copper and then light a fire without enraging the Shade, it would be insightful regarding their... physiology, so to speak.

I think it's also worth noting that we don't know whether aluminum ferrings actually store anything. It's possible that they don't - given the nature of aluminum - and that attempting to fill a piece of aluminum as a metalmind merely causes your Identity to go blank until you stop, leaving the metal unchanged. This would also mean that compounding aluminum is not possible, as no metalminds are created.

Ettmetal that is not being burned by a fabrial like the airship engine seems to be static Investiture, so it's probably not affected by chromium allomancy, which works better (only? this WOB is not very conclusive in that regard) on kinetic Investiture.

Walk from Abamabar to Urithiru. What would you do if you found a Soul Reaver in your pocket?

What does it mean to use rhetoric, anyway?

Put it back in, it's too long to come out of the pocket; What would you do if you found Morbius in your pocket?

Probably similar to Shards. Either someone drops it and a compatible person picks it up, or the previous Dawnshard directly grants the status of Dawnshard to someone else somehow. I assume the way Rysn became the Dawnshard That Is Not Actually Called Change is the former. But Brandon has been tight-lipped about Dawnshards so far. I'm hoping we'll know more about them in SP4 or Stormlight part 2, but I could see them being left in mystery until Dragonsteel or even Era 4.

That's all I found, though I could swear there were more WOBs regarding this.

Mail it to Christopher Paolini. What would you do if you found Kelsier in your pocket?

Could you clarify the question? I believe you are asking why the primer cube was not depleted when it was used to prime the cube, but I'm not sure what you mean.

There's still the fact that it's Investiture trying to affect other Investiture. It's always harder to Invest something that has already been Invested by someone else.

There is indeed. Pulling on this thread, I was reminded of some very interesting WOBs: Steel sight Steel pushing One of these days I may start a topic to talk about my crackpot conspiracy that the Metallic Arts don't actually have anything to do with metal.

In context, he's talking about which allomantic powers can be stolen using atium, which is any of them. However, it would make sense if atium could steal anything, given that it's Ruin's own metal.

Neither of those things is stolen by atium, by the way. Nicrosil takes Investiture and duralumin takes Connection. Atium takes the ability to use an Invested Art. To steal Sand Mastery, you would use an atium spike. To steal a nahel bond, you would use a duralumin spike. To steal Breath, you would use a nicrosil spike. (Relevant WOB) That said, I'm not certain that you could steal a Dawnshard, given the nature of the thing. A Dawnshard entrenches itself in your spiritweb and dramatically changes it. Even the wording use to describe the process (when you take a Dawnshard, you don't have a Dawnshard, you are a Dawnshard) seems to imply that it completely suffuses the person, melding together rather than just being stuck into their spiritweb. I'm not sure that you could simply rip it off of a person using Hemalurgy. But assuming it's possible to take a Dawnshard with Hemalurgy, you'd want a large nicrosil spike.

Just about any concept you can think of, especially but not limited to emotions, there's probably a spren for it. They're not necessarily common or easy to attract - deathspren and alespren, for example, are really hard to get reports on - but they're there somewhere.

I think those links are set to private, @Adonlasium. You need to change the permissions so we can see them. Or, at least, I got an Access Denied when I clicked them.

That kind of makes sense, honestly. Dawnshards are Commands, and when you "take" a Dawnshard, you explicitly become that Dawnshard. As I see it, a Command is an inherently Cognitive thing, so it would make sense that it would change the person into a Cognitive being as well. If Aux were manifested as a weapon when Sig became the Dawnshard, that Connection could have short-circuited the transformation process, flipping their natures. Aux goes Cognitive to Physical and Sigzil goes from Physical to Cognitive.

It might, but any questions relating to such a metal have been RAFO'd.

I've been convinced by the rest of the replies that it's plausible due to his use of allomantic steel. There could still be some weird stuff going on - literal God has an interest in helping him - but it's not quite so insane when you consider that he's been combining steelsight, steelpush and guns for about two decades of constant practice.

I'm planning a campaign as we speak. Well, I'm telling myself I'm planning it. In practice, I'm probably going to improvise the whole thing.

I don't think it would bounce. The ball would be cut cleanly in half and the halves would keep moving and hit the Shardbearer.

Of course not! I protect a village by summoning monsters.