HavingTheHasHoidAPurpose?

So, I think The extra bit of preservation is what allows humans to ascend past hunting and gathering. They preserve more than they destroy, thus having a end positive civilization. A group of humans with more ruin than preservation would slowly devolve as a society, which is definitely not what we see with the S Scadrians.

They pierced his skin, placing them withing a spiritweb, but I think brandon has made it clear that they were not hemalurgically infused.

So hear me out. Atium is radioactive. Ruin represents decay, and entropy, so this would make a lot of sense thematically. Atium is apparently soft, and breaks down very easily in your digestive tract, showing this theme. (As a converse, Lerasium might be incredibly strong) The shard of ruin on its own is destructive to itself and others. It can only destroy, and theoretically, would come to destroy itself (Rayse expected as much) So what if Atium leaks radiation. Both physical, and invested (probably rather slowly, think uranium length half life, otherwise the kandra would've noticed the stash shrinking) It slowly destroys itself, but also damages everything around it, with ruinous investiture, and harmful radiation. This would be unknown in world, as era 1 has no radiometers or geiger counters, and era 2 has probably barely scratched that tech, and hasn't had atium to work with. This could be related to atium savantism. Perhaps by filling yourself with ruin's investiture to destroy others, you are also slowly destroying yourself. we haven't seen any really old mistborn, and the oldest (Kelsiers teacher) is probably not using much atium. (He's pretty much homeless) Every other mistborn: Kelsier, Vin, Elend, all die young. (as a note, atium also psychologically imprints self destructive tendencies in mistborn, making them feel invincible, and pushing them into taking bigger risks with more dangerous fights, getting them killed eventually)

Well, was he immediately aware of psaalm?

Wow i just realized this is literally an aluminum foil hat theory

I think a POV character with no metallic powers to speak of in a world of magic would be really really cool, as they come up with more creative ways to level the playing field. Brandon should really bring back hazekillers

Yes you read the title. Yes I'm not kidding This is a outgrowth of several other theories and details which i find interesting. 1. Wayne had a really unlucky childhood. (Both parents & uncle dying when he was young, being pulled unwittingly into crime, etc) 2. Wayne has been extraordinarily lucky in recent years from his investments, to picking up the bands of mourning, to giving them to exactly who would need them later. not to mention getting involved in incredibly important recent events. 3. Wayne uses hats to adopt different personas 4. In this weeks chapter, Wayne admitted his lucky hat helped him hold onto his own over the top personality. 5. Many suspect that Wayne will eventually become a Kandra/worldhopper. Sooooo how are all these important? A number of things. Hats in elendel are often lined with aluminum (to shield against emotional allomancy) So heres the theory. Wayne is born to a poor Terris family in tinweight. Full feruchemy has been unheard of since the Catecendre. He lives directly next to a mine. This is where the theory goes off the rails. the town is not called tin, but tin-weight. Guess what metal has a near identical room temperature density as tin? Chromium. This would be the only magically useful metal available to a destitute young wayne. We see from vin, using allomancy as an orphan kid on the streets that complicated metallic arts may not require specific knowledge or intent, just a vague idea of what you want to do. Wayne says he wants to learn cards to help win the family money, and implies he knows how to cheat. Obviously he could cheat with mundane means, but something odd happens in the sample chapters so far. Wayne plays a game of cards with captured set member, but chooses to play fairly even when he knows their cards. This might suggest he dislikes the principles of normal cheating. E.G. peering over your opponents shoulder, pulling out fake cards etc. Wayne has shown a consistent, but rather bizarre set of morality so far, so this kind of hypocrisy wouldn't be too surprising. But what if Wayne knows how he can get a leg up without doing anything so dishonorable. What if he just gets lucky? Here's the thing. With F-Chromium, he could do just that. By making most of his days unlucky, he could channel his luck into gambling, and make big returns. This could be related to a reveal of how wax's uncle did something similar with gambling and F-Chromium. But in the end it backfired. His poor luck killed his mother, and perhaps earlier his father and uncle too. He might have unconsciously funneled his luck in other aspects of his life When he gets older, and learns more about how the metallic arts work, he realizes what happened in his youth. He had just been trying to be useful to his single mother, and had instead just gotten her killed. He goes into a deep depression, and spirals into crime, repressing his childhood trauma, and in the end, killing an innocent man. But then he gets rescued by Waxillium. He finds new purpose in the law, and ends up distracting from his traumatic past by creating over the top personas. Wierdly enough, he links these to hats of all things. Interestingly, most of his hats are fancy rich people hats. Guess what's high fashion in elendel? Aluminum lines hats. Guess what F-Aluminum stores? That's right. Identity. Wax has been magically storing his personas in his fancy hats this entire time. Wax has been creating personas, and stapling them to the hats in his collection. This links interestingly with a theory that the bowler hat men after Wayne are debt collectors, but debtors, or perhaps trying to give Wayne his equity portions from his investments in the last few books. As a kid, Wayne learned that his pursuit of money only lead to his misery, and grief, explaining why he is so apathetic to his newfound wealth in recent books despite growing up dirt poor. He despises what money did to his life as a kid. He gives it away in any way possible. To the family of his first and last victim, to a promising new inventor making a better elendel etc. And how has Wayne been so lucky despite seemingly bumbling through these last few books? Fortune, caused by F-Chromium. Theres been a lot coincidences I've seen people observe.Shout out to @Requiem17 For the idea that Wayne has access to fortune. This is the same mechanic allowing Hoid to show up exactly where he needs to be when he needs o be there. It just works out for him. So heres the kicker. Wayne in the prologue is shown even early on having a fascination with switching identities through his quote on trying on all the different clothes. This, and his hats may foreshadow him eventually becoming a kandra, hopefully with a happy ending with MeLaan. But how can he become a kandra? All kandra were made from full feruchemists turning into mistwraiths, Perhaps by blanking identity, and maybe some additional steps. This could work with this theory, and would be an interesting conclusion to his character. PS: some holes in the theory. Full Feruchemy apparently vanished due to the entrance of Allomantic genes into terris populations post catecendre. Also while the aluminum hats with identity is really interesting it is unlikely that Wayne is subconsciously using fortune, since he probably avoids carrying random metals around just like wax and Marasi. He could have instinctually tapped the bands of mourning when he picked them up though, and thats how that worked out that he happened to give them to Marasi at the perfect time just @robardin pointed out on the forum. The idea that he's doing this subconsiously is also a bit of a stretch, but in less a month, we'll see how this theory pans out

hmmm, mayhaps theres an option you haven't considered. Pre catecendre Kandra. The kandra, especially those of the first generation, were very cosmere aware. And besides, They litterally live under a perpendicularity. Perhaps when brandon is talking about kandra outside of scadrial, it may be these kandra, whom harmony cannot, or perhaps due to his intent, will not exert influence over.

I have a feeling this resultant product of harmonium and trellium will be a super explosive even more powerful than ettmetal not only is a new super explosive mentioned in the book blurb, it could have thematic implications for the carnage that will be unleased when Harmony and trell go to fisticuffs

I think it's presumed that there were many hundreds of feruchemists, all of which were turned into mistwraiths, but not all of whom were immediately given spikes. The mistwraiths found in era 1 may have been just immortal survivors from 1000 years ago, or they might have the ability to reproduce asexually

So heres a crackpot theory: "You are fools! One day, the men of gold and red, bearers of the final metal, will come to you. And you will be ruled by them! Worship... Worship Trell and wait..."-Miles Hundredlives. We are the fools. Trell isn't the men of red and gold, He's actually a stormfather or larger sized splinter of dominion and/or devotion(From the wording of Mile's quote, it might be both, which would be cool).This fragment is not actually odium, but has been twisted by odium after he shattered dominion and devotion, to establish dominion over worlds, and to be a devoted demi servant of odium, A rogue element unbound by his deal with honor(perhaps odium foresaw being stuck on roshar a while), paving the way for odium's future escape and conquests. The red and gold part really doesn't make sense outside of being odiums colors(corrupted investiture is only red, not gold)

Perhaps her mother wasn't really wasting away physically (EG with Tuberculosis), but rather mentally, with the effects of heraldic madness, perhaps eventually taking her own life. Her mother could have reminisced to lift about all her children who she had to watch slowly pass with time, thus motivating lift's desire to stay the same.

Well, I like the theory that the spikes are from identity blanked individuals. I have an idea that occludes medallions. The Final Empire exerted massive resources into the prevention of the continuation of feruchemical bloodlines. So the final empire probably had very few feruchemists to work with? Wrong The Final Empire also exerted massive amounts of resources into ensuring nobles did not spread allomancy to skaa (Especially through obligators) And yet hundreds of skaa mistings were born every year. Enough to keep up an army of inquisitors. Thus I posit - TFE probably used inquisitors to seek out feruchemists among Terris house stewards. Allomantic bronze can detect feruchemical use, just as it can allomancy. Rashek would absolutely know this. Thus his inquisitors not only hunted allomancers, but rogue ferucemists, forcing them to blank their identity, and then spiked them with different metals for different kandra blessings. Only 200 dead ferucemists for 100 sets of blessings every 100 years is very plausible, especially including those found inside the breeding program. This adds a spicy amount of sad horror, as the original kandra are being grafted with the stolen powers of their dead relatives.(Which would also aid in the binding process, as they are closer in relation, and thus have similar spiritwebs) But what do I know, thats just my crackpot theory

Well, we saw how cultivation had such future sight as to coordinate taravangians ascension. I think it’s fully plausible that cultivation ended up switching sides during the periods of desolations in order to end the constant stagnation, planning for a better later outcome

Easy, great great grandpappy spook

So, most metals are classed in 3 ways - internal/external, pushing/pulling, physical/mental/enhancement/temporal. The coppermind page for ettmetal lists says: "The Mistborn Metal Dice Set from Crafty Games lists a non-canonical description of harmonium's properties, stating "Unknown in the Classic Era, Harmonium replicates the effects of nearby Allomantic or Feruchemical metals." It also lists harmonium as an Internal and Pushing God Metal." Notably this is a non canonical description, I think Ettmetal is an external Pushing AND Pulling god metal. That seems impossible, right? Well, you see Ettmetal can both steal allomantic power like chromium (pulling), and project allomancy(pushing) This makes sense thematically for harmony. Ruin was the Shard of Pushing, while Preservation was the Shard of pulling. This manifests in preservation reading thoughts, while ruin can implant them. Harmony can do both, and thus harmonium (ettmetal) can too.

So... We have had Raboniel and Navani name the new combined light warlight, and that naming convention is unlikely to change. They could however, have an incomplete understanding of it's intent at this time, only revealed at the climax of either SL 5 or 10, with the formation of a new unified shard, who discovers the intent. I believe that Justice, or perhaps, Judgement Is a more fitting name for a combination of honor and odium. It is stated that Odium is dangerous because it is Adonalsium's divine rage, separated from the rules that gave it purpose, and meaning. I think that this is foreshadowing for the end of Stormlight. Honor is clearly about what is right, and odium is about destruction. Together, they might perhaps be the hard hand of justice. The rage of odium, channeled only at the unjust. This could play out interestingly, with perhaps altered skybreakers becoming the most attuned order to this new shard.

I think that the a real truth he will tell is the exact opposite of what ya'll are thinking. For example, I could see a new scene where Shallan hugs him again, or Jasnah admits that she does care about him in her own way, then hoid reaches his 3rd truth. "I am not alone". Its pretty clear that the lie that hoid believes is that He is alone in the cosmere, as evidenced by how shocked he is when shallan hugs him the first time. He's used to thinking that no one cares for him. And I just want to acknowledge how crazy awesome it is that Sanderson made the story trope "The lie that the character believes" Into an actual recurring plotpoint.

Well, 2 additional options I'm not sure anyone here has mentioned: first-No need to wait for people to start manifesting feruchemy anymore, Steel inquisitors had begun to use feruchemy spikes near the end, and many probably had F-Gold spikes. Once he was influencing Spook(The literal ruler of the entire remaining N-scadrian humans, and a religious leader to boot) It wouldn't be too hard to find a willing recipient. Its been stated by WoB that a full feruchemist and mistborn working together could make medallions with the right knowledge, so with spook(a mistborn) and various spiked ferrings, kelsier could have made many of the necessary medallions. Not to mention, alternatively, he could have gotten marsh to help(though whether he would is questionable) If kelsier kept the right knowledge from being preservation, he could probably get working medallions within a week, and get on going to southern scadrial. Keep in mind, he probably didn't have to make the bands of mourning until later. Also, keep in mind that after kel destroyed the pits, most worldhoppers on scadrial were stuck there(except hoid, but hes extra crafty), so he probably could have payed one for a breath in order to make a lifeless(though this would require ichor-alcohol if you wanted to use few breaths, which may be annoying to make after the world just restarted)

I meant like, thinking slower, so you dont feel it for as long

For me, an interesting one is A-Tin, F-zinc(mental speed) While tin savantism is damaging, I think good use of F-zinc could make it a bit more bearable(mentally speed past pain) and also to enhance the unique combat benefits with being able to process the mental stimuli faster.

I think that it's probable that the "gun" just channels the charged investiture(probably stormlight or lifelight) into a concentrated beam. The whole benefit of having a spren-blaster is not having to carry it around all the time, so it wouldn't make sense if the Knight Radiant had to carry around dozens of magazines of physical cartridges. Alternatively, it could contain hundreds of needles made of strong materials, perhaps invested heavy metals like uranium(so they cant be pushed) Spren-blades/guns cant be multiple pieces, but they can rapidly change shape, so perhaps the firing mechanism is just an opening and closing reciever+ big firing hammer changing shape and launching the spikes

So Im unclear on this. When the first and second generation died, were their spikes made unusable by the process? or were they used to make a new generation? otherwise, they have extra spikes which are losing potency, but no hosts

So lift metabolizes nutrients into lifelight right? This poses issues as to how much she can store, or obtain at any point, so If she got say, a full unsealed bendalloy metalmind, would she be able to tap it for energy, and then metabolize those calories into lifelight? or would the calories have to be inside her digestive system?