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Chaos — OK, got it. The feed is broken, I got: (I use Rhythmbox, it's an Ubuntu thing for listening to music)

Cool podcast. You mention Aona talking to Raoden in the pool. But isn't Aona dead at the time when book happens? Also, I wonder if ‘a Shard that just wants to hide and survive’ is the person being adressed in the tWoK letter. An episode about Hoid and what is he probably doing in the books (Well of Ascention especially) etc would be cool.

Kelsier and Szeth, being the agressive guys, kill each other; Wax and Dalinar decide to work together and fight crime.

AFAIR Sanderson has answered that once, saying that Aon Ati has no connection to Ati and is pronounced differently. I don't remember the source.

+1 Also, if a girl is left-handed, which hand is her safehand (which sleeve is longer)?

Great job! As for ‘ie’ and similar – I think every sequence of same glyph (like ‘ll’ etc) just gets compressed into single glyph, as a general rule. edit: Also, new symbols aren't really new. Look at Mistborn (1st book) chapter headings. All letters are present there, so you can refer to the non-known-metal glyphs as ‘glyph number X’, X being the chapter number.

Dolphins or cookies?

Maybe he somehow stole the super-Breath from another Returned and used it to make Nightblood?

And the answer was 42

Cool post, Eric. Any guesses about Larasium? Just please, don't test them on people. ;-) BTW I remebmer atium reffered in one point as very shiny (when Kelsier gives it to Vin for the first time) and later as rather dark. So it probably tarnishes quickly, as you said.

We know it reacts easily (I'm not sure if that's the correct word, I'm not very good in chemistry, especially in English). Kelsier says that you cannot keep it for too long after swallowing, because acid in your stomach reacts with it. And it isn't a very strong acid... Most metals easily reacting with acid are rather light (weight, not colour), as far as I know. But atium is special, so it can be different.

Thank you for posting it!

Maybe he was humming something weird. Like an Allomantic rhythm (= one you sense with bronze). The rhythms can be universal and appear in many magic systems. I suppose some patterns are universal. And if you study something long enough, you become kinda obsessed with it... So, he may be humming some melody / rhythm she subconciously recognized as something a skaa informant couldn't know.

WoT is not in Cosmere. So the answer is somewhere between no / impossible to check. Unless you mean crossovers, but then it depends on who is writing the crossover. I suppose Sanderson could write it either way, depending on his mood. (BTW Suvudy Kelsier vs Moiraine was awesome!)

Yes, I meant something like that – spiking Kelsier into someone, not the other way around. I just didn't have good words to describe it. Even not necesarily braindead, maybe it just needs a big spike. Or one made of some strange matal.

From Suvudu Moiraine vs Kelsier (emphasis mine): ...so probably, maybe, yes. Though I agree with LevenThumps – definitely not a main character.

If the Parshmen are like super-drabs, then, maybe Voidbringers aren't Parhmen, but they turn people into Parshmen or something similar? Hence the name — they such spirit out of people, thus bringing void. Or they can be kinda both.. BTW I love this theory. It makes sense.

That's an interesting idea. Hoid's origin is in one of the unpublished books, but we don't know where Heralds came from, so theoretically he might be one of them, I guess... That would be interesting. Not likely, but with Brandon Sanderson, who knows?

I think aluminum stops only external metals. Internal metals, like bronze, affect the user, so screening yourself with aluminum won't help.

Sounds kinda like Odium to me.

Sure you can load a raster image to Inkscape! Even a normal drag&drop works, on Ubuntu at least. It'll ask you if you want to embed or link it; linking is usually better. Then you can make a new alyer (yes, Inkscape has layers), or preferably many of them and trace it. I mean by hand, of course, automatic tracing doesn't work very good. And I suppose you can export paths from GIMP to .ai or .eps. or something and import them to Inkscape that way. I don't think I've ever done that, so I'm not sure.

So the blue things are canals and a river, ant the brown things... I agree that they're probably railways — doesn't look much like roads (the shae or something). Also darniil — your post (that big one) is awesome!