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  1. The Bookwyrm
    Bookwyrm jumps back, startled.
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    "What plan might that be, Nameless?" Bookwyrm asked. He prepared himself to face the dragon.
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    Bookwyrm appeared at Nameless's house because he didn't want to die. "Hey, Nameless," he said.
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    Is it Halloween?
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    Butt died. But he would be back, as Butt always did. For now, Alcatraz's vengeance was satisfied. But now Alcatraz had no way to get home.
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    A Broken tear in the fabric of reality let him get to Butt's house in no time.
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    Alcatraz was coming to get revenge on Butt for killing Sing and taking his Talent.
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    This caused Butt Venture to trip and fall.
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    The General decided to join him.
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    This makes more sense to me. If the whole "storing an unnatural trait granted by another magic system in a metalmind" doesn't work, than at least you can use those granted traits to cover for you while you store your normal ones. Maybe a Radiant-Feruchemist could be storing strength or health, but then instead of having to deal with that temporary lack, they could just use Stormlight to balance it out and give them normal functions while they store their attributes. They don't gain any extra benefit from the Stormlight at that moment, but it lets them function easier and still get the metalminds filled. You could also have them fill a Cadmiummind while using Stormlight. Cadmium stores breath, so that while storing, the Feruchemist (or Gasper, as the Ferring is called in this case) needs to Hyperventilate, but then is able to go without breathing for long amounts of time when tapping. Stormlight also allows the user to go without breathing. So using stormlight while storing breath in Cadmium would be helpful. Another example (that uses only magics in the Metallic Arts) is storing speed while inside a Bendalloy bubble, which makes it so you don't really loose speed or time relative to everyone around you. There are probably a ton of other shortcuts like this. Even if you can't directly mix the magic systems, there are still things you can do to make it so you don't really loose the attribute while storing it, because it's being re-granted by another magic.
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    Kaladin continued on as Honor, killing Odium's vessel and taking it for himself as well, becoming the Shard of War. Turns out Hoid taught him a ton of stuff off-screen.
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    Rashek: The guy who was evil and needed to be overthrown. One to two books later... Oh wait, he was keeping the world from ending. Whoops.
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    And then Ascend to Honor.
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    She hadn't told Kaladin yet.
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    But it hadn't erased itself completely. It took a tiny bit of it's conscious and put it in a chip, and then had that chip placed in a place where no one would ever find it. That unfindable place being inside Butt Venture's shoe.
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    For your first example, with the gold compounder, I think it would definitely work. In fact, I think that's how most compounders do it in the first place. They store a little health in a small bit of gold, then burn that gold, and then re-store that compounded health in other metalminds for later usage. So the person wouldn't even have to have A-gold, just F-gold. If a Truthwatcher or Edgedancer heals the Feruchemist, the Feruchemist could store that extra healing in a metalmind, and then call upon it for later usage, with or without compounding involved. And I bet you could do it easily with other attributes, like speed, which was the other example you used. I've been re-reading the original Mistborn trilogy, and based on the descriptions of Sazed using Feruchemy, it becomes increasingly obvious to me that there could be ways to... "cheat the system", so to speak. Meaning that there are ways (besides compounding) that you could take extra attributes given by Invested arts and store them Feruchemical. For example, if you had a Radiant who was also a Bloodmaker, (gold Ferring), could they infuse themselves with Stormlight, then just store the healing that the Stormlight gives in their Goldmind for later usage? (Like you said above, that would be even more efficient if they were a compounder.) I think Brandon Sanderson has these things in mind as he gets closer and closer to writing Era 4 and the Cosmere's space age. He probably has a lot of little tricks (and most likely some big ones, too) in store for when the magic systems begin to interact. It's possible that this might not work, because it would be too easy, and Brandon has made some other rule that prevents the "Feruchemy short-cut", so to speak. But it seems to me like this is something we'll see a lot of in the future. Maybe the capabilities of Stormlight in regard to Feruchemy are why a certain Scadrian is trying so hard to get that Stormlight offworld....
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    The Selffalfrednahgs were happy that for once, people weren't blaming them for the destruction of a planet.
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    There are some secret images they didn't tell us about! These first ones are of Jupiter and some of its moons. These ones are neat, because you can actually make out Jupiter's rings, especially in the one on the right. (The one on the right is in Mid-Infrared, while the one on the left is in Near-Infrared.) Also, on the image on the left, you can see Europa's shadow directly to the left of the Great Red Spot. It's a little solar eclipse. This one was a gif, apparently, I didn't know that. It shows an asteroid known as 6481 Tenzing moving across a background of stars. These ones look a little less impressive than the ones I showed you above, but the science we can do with these images and the things we can learn are just as spectacular. These new images also go to show how versatile JWST is; it can peer from the farthest galaxies to the closest planets. It just makes me more excited about what we're going to learn from this telescope. And, this last one isn't a JWST image, but I thought it fit:
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    YKYASW you open The Way of Kings to check something, but you're on a random page, and you see "I remember writing something somewhere...he thought," and you think "Wait, he remembered writing?!" But then you realize "Oh, it's Axies the Collector. Nevermind." This gave me a good laugh. I think it definitely counts.
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    I always recognized the plot as being incredibly close to that of Star Wars. Like, very close. It's the same plot, Essentially. That doesn't mean it's not good, though. I really enjoyed it. The way the Rider bond works, and the magic system, is really impressive to me, and remains one of my favorite magic systems to this day. And honestly, every single storming piece of modern fantasy can be considered a Tolkien rip off, if you look at it the right way. Inheritance cycle just sits (a lot) closer to the worldbuilding that Tolkien used. I have not seen the Eragon movie, and I never intend to, based on what I've heard. Edit: Wait, what was the original purpose of this thread? It was too ambiguous, and I was confused.
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    Are there other people living on these blocks?
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    Legend of Zelda Soundtrack: Either Breath of the Wild or Skyward Sword. (I especially like Fi's theme from Skyward Sword.) Favorite Video Game Soundtrack: It's going to be one of the Xenoblade Chronicles soundtracks. Right now it's probably the songs from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, but because Xenoblade Chronicles 3 comes out at the end of this month, it might change soon depending on how much I like those songs. And I'm sorry if you have no idea what Xenoblade Chronicles is.
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    You're correct in your assumption that the "super-parshendi" are called Fused. That's the word we use in English. And RoW is an incredible book. It's now my favorite of all Brandon Sanderson's works, mostly because you learn so much about the magic of the world, and also learn a ton of other secrets. Many questions get answered, but the book also raises a whole lot of new questions, which is part of why it's so great. I don't know how familiar you are with Brandon Sanderson's connected Cosmere universe, but (not to get too spoilery) there are a few scenes that open your eyes a little and make you realize "wait, there's a lot more out there." I really enjoyed those parts. My Dad recently started reading RoW, and I had a ton of fun talking to him about all the stuff that happens. I'm sure you'll have a great time too, and I can't wait to hear your thoughts once you're finished!
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    Favorite film score....Either Dune (the new one, of course) or Interstellar. Favorite film composer is (obviously) Hans Zimmer at this point, though there are a ton of other good ones. Strings or Piano....I like them equally. I can actually play the piano (not well compared to how you can play, probably), but I have no experience playing string instruments. But some of my favorite songs incorporate both instruments well and equally. Electronic or Rock: Probably electronic, though neither of them really appeal to me as much. I'm not as experienced in those fields. Video Game or Elevator music?: Video Game, but mostly because video game music is now so varied and so incredible that you can't really put it in one category. I talked above a little bit about the Xenoblade Chronicles series, which is a video game series, but it's music is incredible. They make these songs that sound really exciting and intricate and use a wide variety of instruments (and sometimes vocals) that sound amazing together. The Legend of Zelda series also has great music, and there are a ton of others.
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    "Uh, Nugget?" Bookwyrm said. "I need to go in the sack. For a little bit. I'll be out as soon as I can."
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