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Considering Nightblood is incredibly more powerful, I imagine it would it he.

On a different note, I need everyone to stop thinking about savants. Apparently Brandon is considering backing up on at least some of the information he gave us on them. I'll keep you posted.

I am pretty sure nothing has changed here - we do have a couple of WoBs that it's not really perfect, just really really good. It might be a matter if thousands of years before it leaks out, but it will leak out.

Woah, slow down there, champ! Let's address things individually First, I think you are confusing Compounding (the process of fueling Feruchemy with Allomancy, essentially) with Resonances ("side effects" people get when they use multiple sources of investiture, a.k.a. magic). Compounding requires one to be able to use the same metal for both Allomancy and Feruchemy - so neither Wax nor Wayne is a Compounder, because they are Allomantic steel & Feruchemical iron and Allomantic bendalloy & Feruchemical gold Twinborn respectively. This means they both get some weird additional and unique powers that other Mistings and Ferrings, who only have one power, wouldn't be able to reproduce (e.g. Wax can "sculpt bullets away from himself"). Only the "double gold" example from your write-up is considered Compounding. So let's go Wit now. With everything we've said so far, Compounding Breath or Stormlight (which we haven't seen him use, by the way) doesn't make sense. We've only discussed Compounding in terms of the Scadrian magic systems. Let's take a look at how exactly Compounding works, because it will be useful in a moment: First, a Twinborn (partially) fills a metalmind with whatever trait they want to Compound. Miles Hundredlives, for example, would store health. Second, Allomantically burn that same metalmind you just filled. Recall that Allomancy works by essentially filtering Preservation's power through a specific metal in order to produce a specific effect. What is important here is that the source of the power is external (hence Allomancy being an "end-positive" system). So when you do the same trick with a metal full of Feruchemical charge, Preservation's investiture being "filtered" through it causes the charge to be multiplied - so you end up releasing a lot of health. Which you then store right back in with Feruchemy. Why is this useful? Well, first because it makes it clear that you can't multiply Breath or Stormlight with Compounding, because neither is a Feruchemical trait you can store. Except maybe you can! Both Breath and Stormlight are investiture, and there is a Feruchemical metalmind that stores exactly that - it's necrosil. So, in theory (and Brandon has RAFO'd this very recently), a Necrosil Twinborn who has somehow acquired Breath (or Stormlight) might be able to store that Breath in a necrosilmind, then burn the metalmind Allomantically for a tenfold increase of that Breath. Bam, Compounding! This makes sense, but is speculative though.

I think @WeiryWriter makes updates occasionally?

This is reasonable.

Turns out Isaac is a little busy with a deadline right now, so he'll get back to me sometime after mid-next week. It's either that or I terrified him with the list of questions I sent him, and he needs time to recuperate.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

It wasn't from Chicago. It was during this tour though.

Brandon did say that people skilled enough with time bubbles can learn to manipulate their movement. Maybe this is what he is referring to?

@maxal I will need to reread the passage before I can justifiably agree or disagree with your assessment of the situation. A normal explanation is certainly possible, but I feel the context made it the less likely option.

So here's the thing. Shards are pretty much just a mind and soul, right? If they have bodies, they are hidden somewhere, there's something odd going on with them. So there are effectively two ways of "killing" a Shard - killing the mind, or killing the soul; or, in other words, killing the Vessel or killing the power. The latter is a non-option, you can't kill investiture (I need everyone to pretend Nightblood doesn't exist here, he is weird). The Shards' powers, their investiture, resides in the Spiritual Realm, where time and space are pretty much immaterial, so you can't really disperse a Shard from its power. Even things like Splinters produced by Shards intentionally (e.g. spren) doesn't really affect them, as where the power is is not important. I say all this as an introduction to the only viable way of killing a Shard - killing its Vessel, its mind, its Cognitive Aspect. It doesn't matter (much) that the power is still there if there is no mind to direct it. And unlike the Vessel's soul, their minds can be located. And Splintered. So in this context, it makes a certain amount of sense that spren or other Splinters are primarily cognitive beings. Plus, keep in mind that investiture, if left alone, will eventually develop sapience (if there is enough of it, at least). Which means mind. I am extrapolating a little bit here, but only a little bit. See this WoB for where I derive most of my information from:

Won't work reliably. Hemalurgy works off of specific bind points (a la acupuncture), so just dropping tiny spikes through someone's digestive system will likely not do much. You might hit a point of you get lucky (as there are many points we don't know about), but it sounds really really unlikely. On topic, the whole thing with the cookies has had me perplexed for a long time. I've been active on the forums for... what, nearly a decade now? and I don't understand the cookie culture. Some memes are just weird.

It's one of the things I really wish I had asked for a clarification about. I don't fully understand the original WoB on this one.

I am not certain about my interpretation of this one: Is he saying that Vasher, whose Divine Breath is a Splinter and he himself is (kind of?) a Cognitive Shadow, has obviously figured out a way around the "Cognitive Shadows are anchored to the world of their investiture" restriction?

Mama Jenn, actually

Oh, he does that. But we had like 20 people there - some of which, including but not limited to @FirstSelector - kept skipping my turn for questions. So I'll need to cull their numbers for next year...

Some of us would've stayed there until our hands could no longer hold the recording devices. Keep in mind, this Q&A was very much for the hardcore fans there, so there should be very little that you find boring You might also be able to hear some teeth rattling towards the end.

You can't even attribute it to that, actually. While the Rosharan year has 500 days, each one of those is shorter than the Cosmere standard day (which happens to be the same as an Earth day, conveniently). I think they are 20 hours, but don't quote me on that. I've seen the math done a couple of times, and a Rosharan year ends up being about 1.1 Earth years - so Lift is really 14-15. But I agree, she can be a lot more mature than what her age would suggest, and there is something fishy going on with that.

I seem to recall Brandon talking about this (though maybe not during this signing). It's weird with the whole plot for the Cosmere. On one hand it's easier because of all the rules Brandon has established, but on the other seemingly inconsequential actions might contradict events planned for a decade from now. So RAFO

You'll want to include the General Q&A (as a placeholder, I guess) in there as well, there were some relevant information there as well. I will upload my own audio of it tonight (though that includes the reading, maybe I'll need to get someone to chop it off for now), so people can at least try to make something of it until the HD one shows up.

A couple of things. Hoid does know about the Sleepless - Brandon not only confirmed that the cremling he is appearing to have a conversation with in the Words of Radiance epilogue is, in fact, a hordeling, and that Hoid knows that. This being said, I don't think he was making a reference to that in your quote (though it's certainly possible). Given his Wit persona, I think he was just taking a stab at the other highprinces by comparing them (unfavorably) to cremlings.

Very much agreed.

Very much the latter. There is a scene in The Way of Kings when Dalinar thinks to himself "What would Renarin think?" and the context of the scene makes it seem (to me) very likely that Dalinar would feel ashamed if Renarin (specifically - both of his sons are in the scene) found out how Dalinar's meeting with the Nightwatcher went. Which suggests he - Renarin - is somehow involved. My latest hypothesis on the topic is that Renaring ended up with the blood disease because of Dalinar's visit.