Argent

Sure. Eventually

The plot stickens.

A very similar thing was disproved in the annotations (and maybe a WoB?) where Brandon explained that Wayne's ability to mimic people has nothing magical to it.

We've gone too deep! Is the knife unusual because we are focusing on it so much?!

Ah, then it's probably best you don't read anything I say. I write long posts than usually end up confusing me, so a better man would edit or delete them and not subject others to the messy that is my brain. I am, unfortunately, not a better man, so people on the forum have to read the madness I type and then pretend it makes sense to them, in case someone calls them out.

I find the dual nature of savantism interesting here. Magic users in the Cosmere perform magic (i.e. use investiture to influence the Physical, more often than not, Realm), which can results in investiture sticking around their Spiritweb, which in turn results in them performing magic slightly differently.

Asked about all three. He hasn't had a chance to reply just yet.

Back to the lamp. I am exchanging emails with Isaac with more details (on this and other things), but here's what he has to say about Sel's lamp: So there.

Oh, hmm. I can't decide if this makes it more or less likely that it's an aluminum knife.

I can't read the second one! "The knife is ???" Argh!

I think you might be wrong on this one. Recall that it's "plausible that Adonalsium could've Shattered into different Shards." To me, this suggests that Adonalsium was more of a piece of glass that shattered into the 16 pieces we got (and that could've shattered into different pieces had it fallen at a different time, in a different way), and not a machine made up of 16 parts that were... separated from each other, and will also be separated into the same 16 parts.

I don't think this is very interesting - we now know that when Odium Splintered Devotion and Dominion, he trapped their power in Sel's Cognitive Realm in order to prevent it from gaining sapience or helping someone Ascend. I guess the thing we didn't have before is that in doing so, he also kind of... pressed... the powers together, because something something opposite powers something something (he talked about this in the General Q&A). So in that sense the Dor is Shard-like. The rest just confirms that Harmony is the only combination Shard.

Ah, looks like it was the wonderful @Botanica who got this one: Source

That sounds approximately like my own reaction to that

The faces in the clouds? No WoBs on this one (other than they are intentional), but some - myself included - believe that those belong to Bavadin.

If I recall Brandon's words from last night correctly, this is actually how Elsecalling works. The difference between what they do and what a permanent perpendicularity (such as the Well of Ascension) is just scale. On topic, Brandon RAFO'd the question about whether the highstorms are/contain Honor's perpendicularity. He did say that it (Honor's perpendicularity) is moving though. You'll want to keep an eye out on the Chicago Arcanum Unbounded thread for when the audio and/or transcription shows up if you want confirmation and exact words for those though.

Good guess, but no. The woman there is 100% Isaac's creation, so she most likely is there just for artistic value. Brandon spoke about it very recently, you might be able to find the related WoB on the forums.

You're weird. I don't think I've heard it pronounced quite like that.

I have good... contextual... reason to believe Dalinar's boon (regardless of what he asked for) has something to do with Renarin. I'll write a paragraph or two about it sometime.

So, the lamp. I asked Brandon about it last night at the Chicago Arcanum Unbounded signing, and his (paraphrased) response went something like this: @Isaac Stewart made those, so ask him. Originally Brandon was going to have just stars (no constellations), but Isaac drew constellations, Brandon liked them (and had Isaac explain them to him :D), and so now they are a thing. Brandon encouraged me to reach out to Isaac and ask him to write an essay for the website on the topic - something I would love to see! - but I think I'll ask for specifics first, see if we can clear up Sel's lamp prior to that (hypothetical) essay. Also, fun bit of trivia - the in-world version of this map is hanging on a wall somewhere in Silverlight, and is from roughly the same time period as Khriss' AU essays.

Yeah, and I brought this up, and Brandon did factor it into his explanation - I just either can't remember it well enough, or it didn't make enough sense to me at the time (and so I can't retell it well enough). I may also be misreporting what he actually said - Brandon didn't actually say "speed bubble", it may have been something like "bullet manipulation." Let's wait on the audio before we drop the final verdict on this one.

And it was meant to be - the last few signings I've been able to only get a small number of questions because our presence as a community has grown. Some of the first signings I went to, I could stay with Brandon after and get pretty much all my questions answered. The Calamity one, it was 2-3 questions during the line and then another 2-3 (per person) after the entire event, so I was preparing for something like that, with a little bit of a buffer just in case. Not for a "we'll start here, then we'll go this way, and the back until you run of questions" type of thing.

So, a more complete signing report will come later (I haven't even checked my audio, but there were better recorders, so I'll probably let their owners post the stuff), but I wanted to drop in and say that - as usual - the signing was a blast. We were a bit short on time (library was going to close 3 hours into the event), so many of us got only one or two questions in during the signing line... but then we also essentially replaced the general Q&A with Cosmere questions, so that helped. Oh, and Brandon also hung out with a lot of us for like an hour after the event, outside, in the freezing Chicago night, answering questions and RAFOing only rarely. Let me tell you, my friends, too much of a good thing is not a good thing. I was not prepared for this many questions. I still missed a lot of what you asked me to ask (I just didn't think to put so many questions on my printout, and I was holding my phone to record so I couldn't browse the forums), but we do have a lot of information about the Cosmere works. Not as much about specifics, mostly theory, but still a lot of stuff. For now, off the top of my head, I'll just drop a few: Reyse/Odium went after Ambition first because of the nature of Ambition's Shard, not because any grudge against its Vessel or anything. Odium was afraid that Ambition (being ambitious) could become a rival of his. Honor's perpendicularity is mobile (but RAFO on whether it's in the highstorms). The Arcanum Unbounded essays were written roughly at the same time, long before Sixth of the Dusk (but after all the other stories). In the Words of Radiance epilogue Hoid is talking to a cremling and a songbird (?) while he is waiting for Jasnah to show up; the cremling is part of a Dysian Aimian, and Hoid knows it. 100% credit to @Zmann966 for both recalling this event, and asking the question. Wax's Resonance is (kind of) his steel bubble. Brandon's answer was a little more complicated and convoluted, but that's the gist of it. Wayne's is a RAFO, as is Lift's / the Edgedancers'. Somebody asked if Hoid has any relatives, and got a non-RAFO answer, but because the question is a little more juicy (and potentially rep-worthy), I'll give them a chance to report it. It's not Cosmere-breaking type of stuff, but we all cherish Hoid WoBs There is a ton more, I am not even remembering the most important reveals, but I am tired and a lot of the remaining stuff is more complicated, so I'll leave it to others and/or the audio.

Yeah, that's fine... I was hoping to use this question to set up my death rattle question, but the cursed @Zmann966 reminded me that a far more rational explanation has the "wall of black and white and red" being simply the Parshendi - which we know to be colored with these three colors. I'll most likely just ask something else instead.

Oh, you are adorable.