Windrunner

I like this idea but one question. Where is it stated that the Shardpool is the cognitive aspect of a Shard? I've seen this said around the forums but I've never seen a quote that says that explicitly. I'm definitely no expert but I don't see how the mind that controls the Shard has the kind of power that is held in the Well of Ascension, also isn't Leras's cognitive aspect nearly gone, expended to imprison Ati's cognitive aspect? I feel like I've missed a step here so if I didn't see where this was discussed earlier, then I'm sorry.

Yeah, the more I think about it the more I want this game. I saw the drawing of Kelsier fighting that Inquisitor and there are no words to describe how cool that looked! I wish I had enough talent to make a picture like that. I can still get the hardcover when it comes out, even though I didn't preorder it, right? Anyway if I had been a Sanderson fan back when they still sold the limited edition Table of Allomantic Metals then I would have bought one too. Getting back on the topic of Spiritual Feruchemical powers, I wonder if you stored enough connection, could you take over a human without any Hemalurgic spikes in them? I bet you could, and think about a Feruchemist taking control of multiple other Metalborn. He could end up with more power then the Lord Ruler and his group of Inquisitors because there would be no Hemalurgic Decay to weaken their powers. Also, how epic would emotion storing be? I imagine it would work similar to a tinmind, with separate emotions being stored in individual metalminds. You could be storing fear while tapping courage!

It's kind of ridiculous how excited I am that all the Feruchemical powers will soon be revealed! Especially since I didn't originally think I would like Mistborn. The fact that this ability isn't the most awesome of the remaining Feruchemical powers is intriguing. I wonder if the emotion storing that Brandon was a possibility would fit under the Spiritual category? Also is there a way to get a copy of this e-book without buying the RPG? I don't have the money or the inclination to buy the full game but I am also so bummed I'm missing the Kelsier short story and the new content.

I've heard a pretty good theory on this but I can't remember where it was or who proposed it. Some people believe that Yelig-nar and the other two Unmade, Re-Shephir the Midnight Mother and Dai-Gonarthis, are the Voidbringer counterparts to the Heralds. Persumably there are 7 more Unmade that have not yet been mentioned.

I always wondered why Alendi could sense the pulsings of the Well of Ascension. As an Allomancer who had his powers brought out only by the mists he should have been weaker then the Allomancers of the Final Empire. Yet only Vin with a Hemalurgic spike to give her increased bronze ability could sense the Well refilling in her day, while the regular Seekers couldn't. It just never added up for me.

I would love to win an ARC. (Especially since that Tor giveaway was for 18 years and and older)

Very true, while I had the idea of the devotion of the Elantrians being the reason they were chosen by the Shaod on my own, Aashyma posted it first. I wasn't trying to steal credit from you I just don't know how to link to specific posts and I was trying to get the rest of my ideas down quickly before they slipped away. Sorry

In Brandon's recent interview on Readit he stated this [quote ]2) One of the 'basics' of the magic in all of the worlds is that the energy of Shards can fuel all kinds of interactions, not just interactions based on their personality/role. I did this because otherwise, the Magics would all be extremely limited. The 'role' of the Shard has to do with the WAY the magic is obtained, not what it can do. I found this really interesting because it clearly defines what the Intent of a Shard does to affect the magic. It also got me thinking that we could use this to help figure out either A. If we knew the Intent of the shard we could figure out how the magic is acquired B. If we knew the how the magic powered by a Shard is acquirred we could figure out the Intent of said Shard I'm gonna start with the shards where we already knew both Preservation-Accesing power from the shard is what allows you to "Preserve" you're own strength. Ruin-By "Ruining" (killing) someone you gain their power. Endowment- Everyone is "Endowed" with a breath when they are born Honor-By acting "Honorably" and following oaths you attract honorspren so you can Surgebind. Ok now I get into speculation Odium- Hateful acts allow you to get power, perhaps attracting Odiumspren Aona's shard is almost 100% confirmed to be Devotion. It makes me think that all the Elantrians were chosed by the Shaod because of their "Devotion" to something. All the Elantrians we me thad some sort of vocation, something they loved. Skai- Unity makes a lot of sense here. Dilaf got his power to negate Aons from the deaths of 50 men, possibly combining their piece of Skai with his like in Hemalurgy Cultivation-her intent makes me think that we will find that the users of her magic are the farmers in Shinovar, the place with the most "Cultivation", going on.

Yeah you're right about the spoilers. I think your idea about Skai is a good one except I think that his (Skai is a guy right?) shard is Unity. Which makes a lot of sense about how Fjorden is unifying the whole world into one country, and how Shu-Korath, Shu-Dereth, and Shu-Keseg all preach unity.

Ok I think I'll break this down for clarity. I don't really understand this. As you mentioned before there was no metals available to prisoners at the Pits so I don't understand how being a Lerasium Mistborn would help, regardless of how powerful Kelsier is. Yes his atium would be more powerful but if you don't think he could get out of the Pits with just Atium I don't see how being a Lerasium Mistborn would solve the problem when he doesn't have any other metals. This is true, however Preservation's mind had long been sacrificed to imprison Ruin by the time Rashek had created kandra at the Well of Ascension. I suppose he could have led them to it as this mist spirit but I find this unlikely. In addition to that for most of the history of the Final Empire no kandra could leave the Homeland except on contract. Another point is that if somehow the kandra had a bead of Lerasium do you think that they would leave it somewhere where a prisoner could find it? Considering the fanatical devotion that they showed guarding the Atium, I don't think that they would have left the a piece of the body of their god unguarded. Also in the Hero of Ages it states that all the tunnels between the Pits and the Homeland had been sealed. I would like to point out that Zane was a Hemalurgist. He had a steel spike, allowing him to Steelpush nearly twice as hard a a normal Mistborn. Also in the attack on Cett's keep Vin meets 50 hazekillers (WoA pg. 532 paperback) and she and Zane defeated them easily while Kelsier struggled to defeat eight of them in the first book. I'm afraid that I find this theory, at best, unlikely. There are entirely too many maybes and what-ifs in it for me, and I don't find any of the original evidence for there being a bead at the Pits compelling. And if Brandon himself has stated that Kelsier snapped in the spoilers portion of the annotations then I don't think he's lying. When there's any major spoilers for future novels in the annotations he either gets evasive or comes out and says that he doesn't want to talk about it so I'd say his statement is pretty definitive.

I always just assumed that he used some of the Atium at the Pits to fight the relatively small garrison there. I think that with enough Atium he would have had no trouble escaping. (Sorry CrazyRioter you posted while I was typing so I didn't mean to say the same thing) Personally I find it difficult to believe that there was a bead of Lerasium at the Pits that Kelsier coincidentally found. In addition to that, Vin never mentions how unusually strong Kelsier is for a Mistborn, while she mentions the strength of Elend's Allomancy several times in the text. I imagine that the short story by Brandon about Kelsier's escape from the Pits and subsequent training by Gemmel that is in the new Mistborn RPG might make things clearer.

I've got a question about the Lord Ruler. Did he get Allomancy from a Lerasium bead like the rest of the original nine Allomancers, or was it a result of taking the power at the Well of Ascension for himself? I always thought his Allomancy came from the Well and there were only ever ten beads of Lerasium but the existence of another bead throws all that into question.

Hey again everyone, sorry for getting so far behind on my responses. I didn't mean to be rude. I was on a sort of mini-vacation and there was no time for the computer. Adrienne I agree that I'll be reading Alloy of Law before Inheritance, I was so disappointed when book three was split! I'm still working my way through WoT and I've just started on the Dragon Reborn. So far I've yet to get into it as much as I did for the Way of Kings but I'm hopeful that I will become more immersed the farther I go. Thanks to everyone for your warm welcomes I feel at home already!

Thanks Joe ST and Adrienne, some of my favorite books are the Harry Potter series, the Shadowmarch books by Tad Williams (although I never got around to getting the last one read), the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, and the Belgariad and the Mallorean by David Eddings. As is fairly obvious my favorite books are in the fantasy genre. What are your other favorite books?

Hey everybody I recently saw your site while searching Brandon Sanderson fansites and when I saw what a great community you all had here I couldn't resist joining. My name is David and I recently became a Sanderson fan when I picked up The Way of Kings at my library because it was the biggest book I could find. I couldn't put it down and within a few weeks I'd read every published book of his except his two Wheel of Time ones. I'm looking forward to making some new friends with you all and discussing the cosmere!