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Considering that she allegedly caused the Scouring of Amia, yeah I'd think it's safe to assume that she's very destructive indeed. Almighty knows what will happen when she's deployed on the Shattered Plains, maybe she'll turn off all the Fabrials? Destroy the Natanatan Oathgate? Edit: I wonder if the 'Price' has anything to do with her Death Rattle? Consuming sorrow from people? What if she turns a bunch of people into what Moash is? Unfeeling sociopaths?

New Alert! I'm no longer satisfied with my outline for this story, and thanks to some more interesting ideas popping up for me, I'm going to be rewriting this story on a new thread. Alright bye.

Could have Kandra as a third type of class compared to Allomancers and Feruchemists, with different Kandra that specialize in shapeshifting in different ways, like one that only disguises as people as per usual, one like TenSoon who specializes in animals like dogs for more speed and a smaller hitbox, but less health. Maybe even have a special way for Kandra to 'die' where instead of just falling over dead like human classes, their spikes get removed and they become Mistwraiths and lose control, with their teammates needing to gather their spikes and bring them back to their unkillable but disabled teammate to 'rez' them. Another fun though would be a kind of 'Zombies' mode, where the players have to fight against a Koloss horde. Or maybe just have Koloss be wandering around as a threat to both teams, but also a potential tool to Nicrobursted Rioters/Soothers.

Because not all Spren would have liked a stark raving tyrant god any more than their human partners? I didn't say it did, in fact I said that they wouldn't be on Honor's bad side if they were adopting Nale's "Justice Does Not Expire" type of thinking, since the Honor that only cares for Oaths he would have probably been all for that kind of thing, so Honor wouldn't be oppressing them to keep to their oaths and they would have no reason to go against Honor.

Well, we do know that Honor eventually became more concerned with Oaths and not the meaning of them. I also can't help but remember a WOB about why Odium wouldn't just smite the Fused and the Singers when they betrayed him in ROW. It was because that's more of an Honor thing to do. So maybe Honor became far more strict and controlling and started to force people to follow any oath they followed, no matter what, or he would severely punish them for not keeping it to the letter. I can't help but wonder if the reason that the Skybreakers never quit was because they were already buying into Nale's crazy level of lawfulness, and thus exempt from any of this and had no reason to go against Honor and his madness.

I've always paired Autonomy and Dominon together as opposites in my mind, one is about going your own way and being independent, they other is about controlling things, bringing things into your influence. Dominion is about creating and enforcing a system, while Autonomy is removing yourself from it to forge your own path. Though I wouldn't be surprised if Bavadin, control freak supreme that she is, might hve an affinity for Dominion as well.

He must be really getting around to 'Lay claim' upon all of humankinds hearts.

Most definitely, like giving the Coalition accurate information on all the enemies capabilities would have been great, all details on the Forms of Power, the 9 Brands of Fused, and the Unmade and what dangers they all pose. That would have been a good start. Ominous, is this saying that the Sleepless, or the author of these blurbs, have been working for Odium, even if unintentionally. And 'the sword tha humankind could be', that sounds an awful lot like what Rayse wanted and what Wax is as Harmony's Sword. Stuff we already knew. Nothing to really talk about for this. Her 'Final String' is Dalinar, not Lift? Granted Lift can't really do anything productive to the Contest at the moment. I'm guessing that Kaladin is going to save quite a few Spren from Ishar and his experiments? Which God? Probably Mishram, which sounds awfully dangerous even for Shallan. Nothing new. The Sleepless can, or rather could, see the future? Interesting. The power is coming alive, yep, good to have that confirmed. Also questioning what? The Oathpact? The worth of Humanity? The conflict between Honor and Odium without a human mind to give context?

I wouldn't be too sure on Harmonium. It's a rare material that only has one source, assuming it forms around a Perpendicularity like Atium used to that is, and the Malwish have full control over its supply, they've already cut of trading with the Northerners. The Basin probably won't have enough to really experiment with, and especially not mass produce anything with it. Unsealed Medallions on the other hand are more likely to be mass produced, and they already have the greatest number of Feruchemists in their capital city, they just need to figure out how they're made. No matter what, the Terris will be put into the public spotlight by Era 3, the idea of commodifying Metalborn powers is just too much of a possibility to for anyone to ignore.

So I was just strolling through the Aracum, as we do, and found an interesting WOB and an idea I had about it. Awakened Clay seems like a much better alternative to making an Awakened Golem with T-1000 abilities, problem is that clay isn't alive, so it'd take the 9th Heightening right? But what if it wasn't entirely clay? What if you mixed in human bodily fluids like blood or spit with the clay to make it more 'alive' and then Awakened it? Could that work? We know that using a part of one's own body, like hair, can act as a 'Focus' to cheapen the cost of Breath for Awakening, so if how would it work if living tissue was mixed with a non-organic substance? Would it make it easier to Awaken?

Yes, but she is now technically everywhere and nowhere, so there's reason to believe both possibilities due to just how weird the Spiritual Realm is. Although, if the bond were to fail and Towerlight were to stop being produced, it could lead to a last-second, last-ditch attack on Urithiru. Especially with all that talk from the Sibling about how the Tower is impenetrable. Which sounds almost like foreshadowing.

I foresee some very terrifying possibilities in the future of Scadrial with these Leeching metalminds. -Criminals or Prisoners of war forced to wear Leeching Goldminds, leaving them sick for the entirety of their sentence. Though somewhat lightened by the idea that this stolen health would go to hospitals to help the critically injured and impaired. -Leeching Copperminds, not just to steal intelligence from unwilling interrogatees, but possibly taken a step further and used to brainwash people, like taking most if not all of their own memories, but forcing them to tap a set of new memories to make them willingly join their enemies. -Leeching Elecrumminds, to steal determination, imagine a truly dystopian society where every lower-class person is forced to wear something that makes them too depressed to fight back or do anything beyond what they're told to, like the Soothing Stations of old but so much worse.

Technically the Spiritual Realm is 'All Places in One', and Allomancy is draws upon Investiture from Preservation no matter where in the Cosmere it's used in, so it probably won't? This is weird, because now the human component of the magic is in the Spiritual Realm instead of the Shard/Splinter. An interesting reversal to what we know.

I think that the existence of the latter, especially with Unsealed Metalminds that grant Feruchemy to anyone, will definitely lead into much greater public interest in the Terris, whether they want it or not.

She says something rather interesting on Day 58: Granted it was due to a very specific circumstance, making a new soul for a dead body, and it's only a maybe. But Shai is the greatest Forger, that we know of, in the Cosmere. If anyone has the best chance of being right on this, it's her. So it is very theoretically possible for a person to be Soulstamped so often that they no longer need the Soulstamp to keep the effects. Maybe it'd be akin to Savantism?

I remember Shai once saying that when you use a Soulstamp on yourself for long enough, your soul will eventually stop rejecting the changes of the Soulstamp and you won't need to re-stamp yourself every 24 hours. So what you're saying here has some pretty solid basis. Koloss have shown this through the reuse of Spikes, as they reused them the Spikes decayed little by little, which gave later Koloss more humanity. So maybe if you took a regular Iron Spike, then split it into four smaller spikes, you could make someone into a very buff guy instead of a hulking monstrosity. Now this is interesting to ponder. It would even help explain what Feruchemical Savants do. Being a Savant could help a Feruchemist be more efficient in tapping higher multipliers. Such as with Miles, besides his Compounding, he probably was able to get more out a Goldmind than another Bloodmaker could. And with the advent of Unsealed Metalminds, we'll hopefully see this concept more explored in Era 3.

Unless you frame it as forever preventing the species of Mstwraiths from ever being willing to fight and kill others, even for food. Mistwraiths are purely scavengers who stay away from humans. So you could also argue they are better preserved and more likely to live to old age than a normal human, especially back in the Final Empire. It wouldn't make sense how Blessings allow a Mistwraith to surpass their 50-year lifespan, even one's that don't directly affect their bodies like Zinc and Copper Blessings. The only universal effect the Blessings have is giving the Mistwraith sentience, letting a Mistwraith become a Kandra with just two bits of metal with a chunk of a soul attached to them. It doesn't make sense for the spikes alone to grant agelessness to Mistwraiths unless that is part of their shapeshifting abilities, just one that is too advanced for their limited Mental Capacity to let them utilize. The only true difference between Mistwraiths and Kandra is their intelligence. That is my viewpoint on this.

Their souls are intact, the change was to their bodies and minds. They were mutated and have a 'Cogntive Blockage', as per WOB. Plus, it wasn't Preservation doing this, it was Rashek using some of Preservation's power. He was probably using some kind of loophole to make this 'Bargain' work, he also definitely wouldn't have the time to ask individually, since the Well of Ascension's power only lasted for five minutes, less even. And hunting all the decliners would have been an incredibly difficult task compared to just morphing them with the Well's power and the slightest justification. My personal theory is that all Mistwraiths could become near-ageless like Kandra, it's just that they lack the mental capacity to utilize their shapeshifting like that. Also Kandra can breed just like Mistwraiths, the spikes wouldn't have taken that capability from them, it would just result in Mistwraith children without Blessings to make them into Kandra.

I don't think this would work. I don't think Hemalurgic Nicrosil works that way, or rather that Breath isn't the best example. Breath is a special type of Innate Investiture that is easily transferable and changes its Identity when it does so, making it easy for anyone to gain it and use it. It is a special type of Investiture in this regard. It can be used universally. Hemalurgic Nicrosil steals a piece of a soul, a non-Breath, non-transferable (without the spike, I mean) piece. It couldn't work like that since you can't use a piece of a regular soul like you can a Breath. Drabs can't awaken with the tiny piece of their own soul, nor can an uninvested non-Nalthian use their own soul like that. Maybe there is a way to make it work, but I think there would be easier ways to do what you want to do, like instead stealing the Hemalurgic trait that would grant you more Health to store, as WOB states that any trait that can be stored Feruchemically can also be stolen Hemalurgically.

A big part of it depends on whether the defending Shard has the ability to simply SMITE any invasions. Endowment can smite people, for instance. But if the Shard cannot act directly for one reason or another, then those types of indirect methods would work. I'm pretty sure that a big part of Shardic Conflicts, provided that one lacks the ability to directly or indirectly kill the other, would be the ability to render the other impotent. After all, if Harmony had no one who was willing to work for him, like the Kandra and Wax, then how could he have stopped the Set and Autonomy's plans with his limited sight and actions?

I imagine that the Fused would just die and find a new body. Let's break down the process, Kandra consume and digest creatures in order to mimic them, the Fused can heal injuries with Voidlight. What I imagine would happen is a rather horrifying event of the Kandra slowly consuming a Fused, with the Fused constantly using Voidlight to heal from the digestion until they run out and die from, you know, being digested. The Fused's soul would be ejected from the now deceased and eaten corpse and find a new body, while the Kandra would have a now Fused-less Singer body to mimic, bereft of any powers or anonymity. Probably, they might even be able to have Lesser Spren enter their new Gemheart and acquire Forms, which would be very interesting. Provided that the Spren isn't dissuaded by Hemalurgy that is.

So as of The Lost Metal, we have seen Trell, or more specifically, Autonomy, defeated and forced to leave Scadrial alone for now, with the promise of her returning to finish what she started. But the real question is, how? The resources she had decades, maybe even a century or two, to build up has been taken down. The highest ranking members of the Set have been arrested or killed, their secret base, and all the research within, has been uncovered by the authorities. Her and her agent's greatest strength, anonymity, has been stripped away. Her army of the Men of Red and Gold has been stopped. So now what can she do? Harmony is becoming Discord, but it's very unclear how that will end up or how she can take advantage. And the foundation that she was using is now exposed. Secrets revealed. Here is my theory, each Era has revloved around Secrets in some way, there's always another after all. Era 1 was all about the discovery of secrets, the hidden metals of Allomancy, the secrets of Hemalurgy, the very nature of the gods themselves. All was eventually discovered and made clear. I believe that Era 2 was all about concealing secrets. The big players all held important secrets to themselves, Harmony hid the method to create Lerasium from Kelsier, he hid Lessie's true nature as a Kandra from Wax until it was too late to matter, he (Unsuccessfully) hid the fact that he is becoming Discord. Kelsier and his Ghostbloods hid secrets, he already knew of the Set and could have tried to work more overtly, or even just inform others of what he knew, he did not. He is hiding his existence from the public, one of the core rules of his organization is to not reveal important secrets to outsiders. The Malwish have hidden the secrets of their revolutionary technology, the Harmonium and the Unsealed Metalminds, away from Elendel. There is so much concealment of these secrets, maybe that's even why much of Era 2 just doesn't feel the same as Era 1 to me, because in Era 1, most of the important secrets were revealed, but in Era 2 it feels that a lot of the important secrets were kept hidden for later, which left me feeling kind of annoyed. Nonetheless I believe that Era 3 will be all the unveiling of secrets, we know that Era 3 will probably be a 'Spy-Thriller', with the North and South Scadrians locked in a 'Cold War' with each other. I believe that an important part of Autonomy's next strategy will be to cause chaos by forcefully revealing important secrets to Scadrians in the hopes that they will tear themselves apart from the inside. Revealing secrets like how Harmony has become Discord, revealing the true nature of the Survivor and the Sovereign to all people to make them doubt the most prominent religions on Scadrial and make relations between the North and South even messier. Reveal the existence of Hemalurgy to the entire world so that everyone knows how to use it, possibly by taking advantage of advanced technology and televisions to spread it as far as possible. After all, nothing can hurt worse than the truth.

It will probably be more well known, after all the corpses of high-ranking Set members tend to have Spikes in them, which would lead to interesting questions during an autopsy. Plus there have been notable cases where a person has been witnessed as having multiple Allomantic powers, like Dumad showing off Steel and Duralumin in front of a bunch of Constables. I do believe that we'll be seeing many more people make use of it thanks to all the leaks around it nowadays, even Jak has wrote about it with the Koloss, and he is very popular so a bare basic understanding of Hemalurgy's existence is already known to all of his fans and to most scholars who would research the Koloss. I, for one, believe that it could be an interesting strategy on Autonomy's part if, instead of concealing secrets like she did in Era 2, she spends Era 3 revealing secrets to Scadrial, like publicly exposing the workings of Hemalurgy for anyone to find, in the hopes that the reveal of so many secrets will have Scadrians tear themselves apart from the inside. It would be an interesting subversion, instead of our Era 3 protagonists searching for truth, they have to endure the effects that truth will have on their society or something.

Tanavast is a human though, that's been confirmed. There were no Singers on Yolen when the Shattering happened, and as far as we know, only two of the Vessels weren't human. Ambition (Uli Da) was a Sho Del and Cultivation (Koravellium) is a Dragon. Speaking of which I really hope we get to see Cultivation's Dragon form at some point in this book, because that would be awesome.

Let us not forget that a notable Horneater trait is bright red hair, which of the Heralds has bright red hair? Chanarach.