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I feel like this could be a question for Brandon, especially where we have both WoB and the Ars Arcanums saying that when you combine magics you get unexpected byproducts.

Well, this has lead me to believe that we probably got our first glimpse into the CR back in Warbreaker Also has be wondering what Drabs and LIfeless would look like from the Cognitive Realm. And just a big echo of what everyone else has said. All the feels; all the nerdgasms. Loved Leras. So many answers, but also so many more new questions.

I don't remember where I saw it, but someone asked Brandon about Feruchemical tin and a platypus's ability to sense electric pulses, and Brandon said it could be stored in a separate metalmind. (I don't remember if I'm getting the details right, but basically, it involved a sense beyond the normal human five.) So I'm wondering if a Seeker-Windwhisper Twinborn could store their Bronze "hearing" while also burning bronze, then tap, probably while burning, to be able to pierce copperclouds without Hemalurgy. Maybe it would even be helpful in more easily sensing other Investitures, since Brandon has stated that Bronze Allomancy can detect more than just Allomancy. Thoughts?

I'm definitely in agreement on the mist spirit reference, but titles can have multiple meanings, much like Changes from the Dresden Files.

As I think on it now, we do have a sidelong reference to Autonomy (self) in the title of the book. Could be a red herring or an Easter egg, I'm not sure which.

Brandon has also said though, that there is a hack to make the magic work off world. It takes some finangling though.

I don't remember where it is, and I don't know how to quote from my phone, but we have WoB saying that Iyatil was born on one world, but that it is not the world her people are from, so unless we've got kandra being born off of Scadrial, she seems unlikely to me.

When the Bands of Mourning were brought up as a pre-Catacendre relic, I could not figure out for the life of me figure out what they could be. Maybe a specific set of Sazed's metalminds? Does anyone have anything solid on that?

I realize this is several pages back, but Wayne would be so disappointed that no one brought this up. There really is no discrepancy or inconsistency to "Taln" being described as having no accent and a Northern accent since the first refers to having, or rather not having, a foreign accent, ie, he is a native speaker, while the other refers to a specific regional accent, because in no language does every single speaker talk the same way. Now for a question I've got. Who was the aged and kindly voice that told Vin to go ahead and release the power instead of using it, or at least implied that she should? Was it Leras, or another of Ruin's deceptions?

I just stumbled upon an interesting WoB that has me thinking a little more that Durn could be a disguised listener. Interview: Jun 10th, 2014 Tor.com The Way of Kings Re-read Interview with Brandon Sanderson (Verbatim) Phantrosity (Tor.com) In The Way of Kings, we see a lot of worldhoppers on Roshar. Have you already seeded worldhoppers FROM Roshar in your other works? Brandon Sanderson Yes. You've met several. I propose that given this, he could well be one of these. And also mention that as we have seen with Zahel/Vasher, some world-hoppers are immigrants, not tourists, since that has come up.

He's also started before that the name combines "Adonai" with a twist on the phrase "ad nauseum." I'll have to find where it was though.

As I've gotten deeper into my listen-through, I'm definitely of a mind that he's probably not Hoid. I'm still pulling for him being a disguised listener, if we have seen his people of origin at this point.

I don't think the fact that there is another appearance of Hoid in the book need necessarily disqualify him. In WoA, we get both his footprint near the well and him disguised as the leader of the group of Terris refugees,so it wouldn't be the first time he pops in at multiple places of relevance on Scadrial. Also, definitely not the first time he plays informant on that world (Final Empire). The bit about Spook noticing his perfect sense of rhythm just seems to me like something just a little too arbitrary to put in for it not to be a clue that there's something deeper to him than what we see at first glance.

I'm doing a listen through of Mistborn, and in chapter 16 of HoA, Spook speaks with Durn, an informant notable for his sense of perfect rhythm and his skill for disguises. Combined with the way he talks and the fact that he seems to be meddling in ways Kelsier may not agree with, this man seems rather Hoid like to me. (Brandon said in a reddit AMA a while back that Hoid and Kelsier don't get along.) The other big possibility I see as to the relevance of the perfect rhythm is that he may be a listener, which makes more sense than my knee jerk reaction that he may be Nalthian. There are plenty of methods of disguise in the cosmere, both magical and mundane which could allow a listener world-hopper to get around unnoticed, especially given that they have ways to gain access to other investitures besides just spiking. What does the Shard think of Durn? (Sorry for the lack of citations. I'm on a smartphone right now, and don't know how to work that in from here, but I'll edit those in once I get to a real computer.)

I've always assumed it to be a non-English sound. I've figured it to be like the Welsh double-l or the Klingon tlh (which are both the same sound).

This sounds both terrifying to execute and very effective.

I don't know where the quote is, but he has also mentioned somewhere about metalminds having a maximum capacity, IIRC. This definitely supports it actually being storage.

Yeah. That's right. And what kroen is wondering is if the intoxication is part of what gets stored if you're storing while drinking alcohol. Since alcohol actually dehydrates you when you drink it, I imagine it would be somewhat counterproductive to making effective bendalloyminds.

I doubt conditions for flying through the uninhabitable zone would have been remotely favorable.

Well, as far as Wax vs. only new characters, Brandon has also referred to sequels as more Wax and Wayne stories, so there's that. As far as the the title, I actually think that we're looking at a kandra reference. I don't actually have the book, so I can't cite it exactly, but in one of the TenSoon scenes in HoA, one of the kandra make an oblique reference to them still having "the shadow of self." I noticed this because I had already heard the title for the Alloy sequel when I read it, so I was intrigued as to what this might be. It was not further addressed.

I like this.

Denth. Without a doubt. What was so shocking about that reveal for me was the fact that it changed absolutely nothing while it changed everything.

Kingdom Hearts. I think that's where you should look for that.

Well, he is assumed to use an illusion based magic system which would be very close to this, but not quite.

I do believe there is WoB indicating a diseconomies of scale for tapping.