JustQuestin2004

No but it has been confirmed in a WOB that Trell is related to a Shard. And by process of elimination the only Shard that could plausibly be behind Trell is Autonomy. The facts all line up, there's a guy named Trell in White Sand, Autonomy is known to meddle on other worlds, Autonomy (Or maybe just Patji) also 'Admires Rayse's Initiative' which is a HUMONGOUS red flag for me. It just adds up.

I'm happy that we finally have a description as to what Lerasium actually looks like, a Blueish-White. I was thinking it would be the gold to Atium's silver. Looks like I was wrong. Also the description of 'weird things happen when too much Harmonium is in one place' makes me wonder if perhaps this might be because it'll start bringing the Realms together? Not actually creating a full-blown Perpendicularity but just nudging things together. Also Wax still hasn't asked about the letter he got, plus it seems he does actually want to become a Mistborn. Interesting. Allik calling Harmony a 'False God' is hilarious to me, I can't wait to see if and how he reacts to the whole 'The Survivor and Sovereign are the same guy and isn't an actual God' reveal. And the Ghostbloods are going to try to recruit Marasi? I think that if they try to do it the same way they did for Shallan then they'll either scare her off or p!ss her off or both. The Wayne parts didn't quite interest me the same way but I do hope that Wayne will find a way to overcome his own crippling guilt and self-loathing. Also he's gonna be rich! Good for him.

Oof indeed, Kelsier becoming the Bag Guy? That would be a really big plot twist that no one would see coming. I'm kidding I know what you meant but I just had the thought of someone going "The Survivor/Sovereign was the Garbage man all along!" and I just cracked up. Interesting idea and considering the main guess is that Trellium + Harmonium = big boom would lend some credence to this theory.

Maybe only the more recent memories?

'Had' being the operative word, it's now Taravangian in charge and from what I understand is that a new Vessel doesn't have the memories of previous Vessels, otherwise Harmony wouldn't have so many questions about who Adonalsium was because Leras and Ati would have known, so I think that Taravangian won't remember the exact details of this 'Plan'.

I'd want them to be based around the manipulation of other Epic Powers, I'd especially like to have an Assumer/Gifter Combo, which would mean I could temporarily take the powers of other Epics and Gift them to other people. Plus those kinds of powers will help probably help me stay more sane than most Epics at first, until Calamity is dealt with, which would be a big plus. The Assumer power would be me temporarily 'Borrowing' other Epic's powers via touch, holding onto them with no limits as to how many I can hold but with a catch, the more powers I hold the less time I can hold onto them. I could hold onto a single Epic's powers for approximately 6 hours, 2 for 3 hours, 4 for 1 and a half and so on. With the Gifter powers being the standard 'Give powers away for a while' but with added effect of me being able to temporarily Gift powers I had Taken from other Epics, leading to a lot of confusion and caution for the local Reckoner Cell as to which Epics have which Powers at any given time. Hmm, maybe being alone? If there aren't any people near me that I'm aware of then I lose my powers and get anxiety. Yeah that sounds like an interesting weakness. Probably something dumb like 'Transfer Man' or 'The Taker'. I don't have the best ideas on names. Hmm, my powers would help a bit with preventing it, but I would probably have a strong urge to keep many Epics near me at all times, so I could take their powers at any point easily. Which would lead to many more horrible crimes made by Epics due to the increased number of them. I'd be hated because of the sheer amount of Epics in whatever city I would have set up in. My reputation making me out to be some kind of Evil Overlord or something. I would usually let the Epics in my city do whatever they really wanted so long as they didn't destroy the city and stayed near me and loyal. Edit: As for my costume, I'm not sure to be honest, probably armored and definitely blue with glowing lines and such in it. Tron style. Probably also a cape or at least a cloak of some kind because crazy with power or not Capes would be awesome.

Trellium may be designed by Auto-ahem I mean by Trell to specifically interact with Harmonium in a particular way. Which may or may not be explosive because we don't actually know just yet. Or maybe it's just how Pure Investiture reacts to it's Corrupted counterpart? We just don't quite know yet.

Ha! Nah it means what it means in a literal sense. I was just wondering about this since if you wanted to spike something that has armor on it you'd need a little something extra on the Spike to punch through said armor. Like trying to stab a Warform Singer to get with an Iron Spike to get extra Strength. So what you mean is, so long as the added stabbing tip of the Spike isn't a viable metal and the rest of the actual Spike is touching the target's blood, then it would work?Am I geting that right?

If you add a non-Hemalurgic metal on the tip of a Pre-Charged Hemalurgic Spike then stabbed someone in the right Bindpoint, would the tip that isn't part of the Spike get in the way? Like let's pretend you add a titanium tip to a Copper Spike to help with stabbing through some kind of armor, would the titanium part that stabs in first interfere with the Copper Spikes ability to rip people's memories out of them?

Yeah that sums up my reluctance for the 'Silver/Aluminum is Adonalsiumsium' Theory, it just doesn't feel right. God Metals have always been shown to be distinct, different, supernatural. The thought of a 'regular' metal secretly being Ado's pure Investiture solidified is kind of like if your favorite cup was secretly the holy grail all along, it just doesn't fit for me.

I was making a reference to that specific WOB, yes. I think this helps prove my point, he had a plan for Silver, realized that it wouldn't fit into Allomancy nor could have Aluminum's properties, but still wanted Silver to have some kind of significance and gave it some other unknowable properties that we don't understand yet.

I suppose the writerly answer would be because Brandon still wanted Silver to do something. He just couldn't use it in Allomancy.

Well Aluminum has weird Cosmere-wide properties and I'm pretty sure it's been confirmed that it isn't Ado's Godmetal, so I doubt it's Silver either. Silver is just weird in ways that haven't been explained yet. Edit: Also the only reason why Silver isn't an Allomantic Metal is because Brandon had originally thought Pewter an alloy of silver, he was wrong and then he had to change 'Silvereyes' into 'Tineyes'.

Maybe there's actually two types of Adonalsiumsium, with the difference based on it's formation being Pre or Post-Shattering? Like the Pre-Shattering Adonalsiumsium could be what was described, something not powerful but incredibly fundamental. But Adonalsiumsium that was created Post-Shattering, such as perhaps by alloying all the God Metals together, that would create something very powerful but less inherently fundamental. This is just pure speculation but it has been stated that Godmetals change if their Shard does. Harmonium being an example of this,

Perhaps because Hoid specifically doesn't want to take up a Shard? After all Shards can't stay in one place for too long or they get stuck there by unintentionally Investing into it.

I'm not sure if Adonalsium had the same kind of 'Intents' as Shards do. With everything shown thus far I think that the 'Intents' might just be Aspects of Adonalsium's own personality. Also I could see Adonalsiumsium becoming an incredibly valuable macguffin in Era 4, with all the intergalactic societies trying to get their hands on all the God Metals they can to do just this. After all this theory of Adonalsiumsium granting Divinity to anyone seems like too big a possibility to ignore, especially as info about Adonalsium and the nature of the Shards becomes more and more known across the Cosmere.

Maybe Adonalsiumsium could turn whoever uses it into a a tiny Shard with a brand new Intent? After all taking in pieces of Adonalsium's Pure Investiture was what caused the Original 16 Vessels to Ascend.

Interesting, that would break the God Metal naming pattern but their name is already weird. Would this imply that Ado could be a Dragon? Because everythings better with Dragons.

Maybe it would just never be able to properly form, because Harmonium itself is incredibly unstable, Discordium would likely be far more so.

Eh, minor nitpick but we shouldn't get into the habit of calling Big A a measly Shard. He's the God of the Cosmere after all. I assume that Adonalsium's Godmetal would either be found on Yolen or would form if you somehow alloyed all 16 God Metals together.

Yeah that might make sense, smelting a God Metal Alloy would probably be easier than smelting Pure God Metals. I assume that it returns to being raw Investiture, kind of like what happens with regular metals when Burned Allomantically.

With all this science-y stuff about God Metals that I only half understand one question has popped into my mind: How the hell was Malatium created? Is Atium different? How was that one guy from the Eleventh Metal able to make it?

Elantris takes place a few hundred years before Mistborn Era 1. So yeah it's Wit.

Uh, I don't think that makes it better, I think that makes it worse in my opinion. I'd say when I really started losing pity for him was when he started interacting with the Singers. He seemed to believe in Singer superiority to humans but willfully ignored the fact that the Fused were essentially acting just like the Alethian Nobility that he hated. I don't quite remember if he was having his emotions sucked out by Odium at that point in time but I did not appreciate the blatant hypocrisy in his own thoughts.