Voidlit Man

I would love a Lego Mistborn Game! Modern Lego games have hundreds of characters, and I feel like Mistborn easily has the potential to fill that roster, with the amount of characters in the Cosmere

If I remember correctly, Clubs couldn't cover the entire building, he had several people burning copper at all times to cover the area. I would guess that you can manipulate at least the size of a copper cloud, but I'm not sure about density

The way this is phrased makes me think that some of the "primal aspects of Adonalsium" were more unpleasant, and that having bad shards couldn't really be helped. I'm not sure if the conspirators knew that before they shattered Adonalsium, or after, but it seems like at some point the members of the group realized the different attributes before they took up the shards, which is part of the reason why I think that Ati could've realized that it would be good for people if he took up that shard Honestly, we really don't know any of the shards very well, especially before the shattering, so all of this is conjecture, but I think it would be really interesting to have some of the "plain evil" characters be shown to be kind at one point. It's possible that another shard we never met, such as Ambition, was a worse person, and that taking Ruin prevented that conspirator from taking it

In the Way of Kings Epigraphs, Ati, the original holder of Ruin was noted to be a good person. He is also noted to have fought against the intent, and has made it kinder somewhat He seems like an all around great guy before he ascended, and slowly became corrupted by the Shard until he became the guy we see in the Mistborn books. Did Ati, when Adonalsium was shattered, intentionally take one of the most dangerous shards to keep it out of the hands of Rayse or other more-evil conspirators, and settle with his polar opposite intentionally because he knew that it would limit the danger of the shard? I'm sorry if this has already been discussed, but it was just something I was thinking of. When Dragonsteel comes out, I would love to see the kind of person that Ati originally was.

Another thing to note, Poland's TFR during 2015 was 1.32 births per woman, and I would assume that Hallandren's TFR is higher, since they are likely in stage 2 of the demographic transition model. T'Tellier seems to be a truly massive city!

This is a fairly straightforward question. There are around two dozen Returned in the Hallandren court of Gods, and each Returned requires a breath a week, (The God King has two), which brings the number up to 25ish. Most members of Hallandren do not sell their breaths directly to the Gods, I'm going to say conservatively that about an 8th of the population does. How many people would have to live in Hallandren in order to have 200 new breaths a week? Is this number too small, or too large? I have little experience counting demographics based on amount of children born.

Interesting. Of Sanderson's planned three main series, Elantris, Stormlight, and Mistborn, Stormlight certainly seems to be the one most about war, so Valor would it into that smoothly. Bravery, Honor, and Hatred together makes an interesting combo, and it might factor into Cultivation's endgame, considering she helped Taravangian gain such emotionality

@TwinSouls Is that profile picture from the Series of Unfortunate Events? I love those books!

Someone gouged out 4 of that spiders eyes! Horrifying! If that thing crawled onto my pizza I would want to die. Pineapple Spider on Pizza? It makes me ill just thinking about it! Just kidding its way rad and quite psychedelic. 7/10

Battle of Thaylen City has to be my favorite. Dalinar alone with a book he cannot read, facing all the things he's done in the past is just so impactful, but I'm not entirely sure if that counts as part of the Battle of Thaylen City. The actual meat of it, Adolin facing the Thunderclasts, Kaladin facing Amaram, I didn't care for as much

She's got problems. A lot of people point to her unique point of view on life, but it seems to be her point of view on death that more interests people, mainly that so many people deserve to die, and that Jasnah is the one who decides who deserves to die. She's not altogether dissimilar to high-intellect Taravangian, who knows that it would be better for society if all the stupid people die, without realizing how much it means to so many that stupid people live, lower than average IQ and all. The only difference is that half the time, Taravangian sees this, while Jasnah almost never does. (unpopular opinion)

YKYASF when every day at school you ask your friend if his secret project boxes have come yet

I agree with this. Man, he makes me want to see what Szeth's spren will be like.

That's what my mind immediately went to upon reading the Ars Arcanum, but I think it could be applicable anywhere. Normal people have manic and depressive episodes. Not as often or as extreme as people with Bipolar Disorder, but being aware could allow you to regulate your mood a little easier

Thanks for the thoughts! That makes sense

It makes me wonder if some sort of super powered steel-pusher, with multiple Hemalurgic spikes would be able to affect them at all, of if it still would be practically impossible

In the 3rd book, I think, Kaladin remarks that it feels weird to swing around a girl weapon, and Syl says that roughly half of all of his spears have been female. This seemed strange to me, because I feel that since more soldiers are men, people would tend to think of spears as more masculine, thus skewing the spear gender ratio towards male. Does spren gender have anything to do with how people view the object? For example, are ships more likely to be female because the vast majority of sailors seem to think of their boats as female, or is that also half-and-half?

Sneak into a tomb no one has discovered, awaken a mummy to "attack the next people who say so and so" (color change likely wouldn't be super noticeable on the cloth or flesh of a mummy), and then write some gibberish on the wall. See if the archaeologists are stupid enough to actually say it. This would make a great hoax

A lot of the time the Koloss come of as funny to me, aswell. It's a society of passive gents that occasionally murder the others because their foot got stepped on or something. Obviously in real life it would be terrible, but since the book is Fantasy, I'm allowed to laugh at brutal murder (I think, otherwise I'm a psychopath)

The magic fish in the Purelake are Cultivation's Godmetal! If one were to take the time to "cultivate" (proof that my theory is foolproof) a fish farm and ate all of the fish in the purelake, they would turn into a shark! I'm pretty sure that's just Cosmere Science It's only a matter of time before Brandon confirms it

I would be third of Sundown

WOB Questioner Can a Shard hold on to the Cognitive Shadow of a person for later use? Brandon Sanderson Yes, that can indeed happen. Questioner Without it being fully Invested? Brandon Sanderson You don’t have to fully Invest it, no. They would have to do some Investing shenanigans, but what you’re asking is quite possible, very possible. So, for instance, let me give you a corner case. You might be asking: could Endowment send somebody back later than immediately after they have passed away? The answer would be “yes.” I’m gonna tell you, I have no immediate plans to do that, but it is possible within the framework of the cosmere. Dragonsteel 2022 (Nov. 14, 2022) This confirms that you can hold a cognitive shadow "in reserve", but the last bit makes me think that if Gavilar was to come back, he would either have to be a cognitive shadow the whole time, or somehow revived in a similar manner to Szeth. If Gavilar was brought back, what powers would he have? Do you think he would be a normal fused, one with all the powers, or one with specifically bondsmith powers? I know that a Bondsmith Fused has never happened before, but with a new Odium, it might be possible.

Another thing to consider, the Terris were close to extinct in The final Empire, but make up a sizeable amount of the population in MIstborn Era II, probably because a much smaller percentage of them died

I would be worried that while storing Electrum, if someone asks you to speak in a meeting or something, you'd have no motivation to stop storing. Sort of an "eh, what's the point" kind of deal, where you don't care about your job. Of course, that depends on how Electrum storing actually works, but I think there is a real danger in just not caring about anything at any time. This one seems like it would really suck to store.

I agree, and think a similar thing would happen to the limb. Cells would die, no hair would grow their again, and you would not be able to feel it. If a part with a vein got cut, likely the vein would still function for the rest of the arm, if I am reading this WOB correctly. Excelsius What's the biological reaction of a limb cut by a Shardblade, because they don't start to rot after being cut? Brandon Sanderson Yeah they don't start to rot, so the bloodflow is still happening. The limb is still attached, it's not going to rot off, but the soul is dead. This is a thing that can happen in the cosmere that can't happen here. Because you have Spiritual, [Cognitive], and Physical DNA. Your soul's been severed in that part, and it just flops around. You can't feel it, you can't control it. It's something that, again, couldn't happen here. Bonn Signing (May 15, 2019) The cells would spiritually die, and you wouldn't be able to feel from them anymore.