Shardlet

The metal in Mistborn glows because that is the focus for Scadrial and Ruin and Preservation are essentially blinded by that focus. His statements regarding the cosmeric interest in hemalurgy due to its universality strongly suggest that the metal on Scadrial is not important to hemalurgy. But, I concede that I could have hedged a bit on the statement.

I Call.

I see your response and raise you my own.

I am more inclined to agree with Argent's metaphorical argument. Sort of, "If you are not with us, you are against us". Or more to the point, like Peter Parker bearing a portion of the responsibility for uncle Ben's death because he did not even attempt to stop the man who killed his Uncle when he had the easy means and opportunity.

Ok, I can certainly agree that the duralumin itself contributes no more than the instantaneous burn of co-burned metals.

No magic metal is required and no investiture at all is required. Brandon said anyone from any planet (within the cosmere). As to using gems, I doubt it. that would suggest that the metal on Scadrial and the gems on Roshar have a particular specialness about them. Which, although it may be worth asking about, seems very unlikely to me.

This is essentially a repost (riposte? ) of my response to your response to the signing report, Kurk. It seems that this will have different effects depending on what metal you are burning. With steel or iron the effect is going to be more definite. But, this better explains what happened with Elend and the atium bead. The effect of that atium burn was compressed into an instant, which yielded an effect that was essentially infinite and let gave him a massive info dump. With tin, the rush of sensory input would overwhelm your brain. With steel we see Vin chuck a dozen or so horses and riders without an effective anchor. With brass or zinc we see control over Kandra and Koloss or complete emotional flatlining or extreming of humans. With practice, who knows what could be accomplished with duralumin enhanced emotional metals. Duralumin pewter makes you virtually invulnerable for that instant. Edit: Between these three threads we should get some smashing further discussion.

This is essentially a repost (riposte? ) of my response to your response to the signing report, Kurk. It seems that this will have different effects depending on what metal you are burning. With steel or iron the effect is going to be more definite. But, this better explains what happened with Elend and the atium bead. The effect of that atium burn was compressed into an instant, which yielded an effect that was essentially infinite and let gave him a massive info dump. With tin, the rush of sensory input would overwhelm your brain. With steel we see Vin chuck a dozen or so horses and riders without an effective anchor. With brass or zinc we see control over Kandra and Koloss or complete emotional flatlining or extreming of humans. With practice, who knows what could be accomplished with duralumin enhanced emotional metals. Duralumin pewter makes you virtually invulnerable for that instant.

I get what you mean. But, It seems that this will have different effects depending on what metal you are burning. With steel or iron the effect is going to be more definite. But, this better explains what happened with Elend and the atium bead. The effect of that atium burn was compressed into an instant, which yielded an effect that was essentially infinite and let gave him a massive info dump. With tin, the rush of sensory input would overwhelm your brain. With steel we see Vin chuck a dozen or so horses and riders without an effective anchor. With brass or zinc we see control over Kandra and Koloss or complete emotional flatlining or extreming of humans. With practice, who knows what could be accomplished with duralumin enhanced emotional metals. Duralumin pewter makes you virtually invulnerable for that instant.

So, Brandon has confirmed that Hemalurgy is absolutely universal to the entire cosmere. An person from any planet can make a spike, effectively place a spike, or be effectively spiked so long as someone involved intends for it to happen. Quote Quote So, once the cat gets out of the bag about hemalurgy, the cosmere is going to get a lot more interesting (and messy).

Although, it does in a sense since it essentially brings the power to an essentially infinite level by expending the entire quantity of the power in an actual instant rather than a second, half-second, nanosecond, femtosecond, etc.

Ok, I finally have my questions that I asked Brandon transcribed virtually verbatim. I only removed some umms and redundancies. I am going to put each question into it's own quote bubble for clarity. So, here they are (this will be a long-ish post): I should followed up a little on a couple of the questions, but I was not quick enough on my feet. I will be posting the other Q&A's from other people in the line after I transcribe them. Wetlander had some great questions she said I could post and I may be able to flesh out some of karaoke's and hoser's answers. There were a couple of other people that gave me permission to post their answers as well. So, more to come.

Here you go my friend. Edit: Actually here you go. This one is the extended version that has the juicy bits.

<huge forehead slap> I bow my head in shame for that stunning display of foolishosity. Every use of splinter in my previous post should have been sliver. I have edited accordingly.

Or at least strongly suggests she does.

The rub is that you would have to be intending to spike him with your bullets. Intent is very key in hemalurgy which you will see when I post my Q&A's with Brandon from Seattle.

I think both of Isomere and Meg are a little off here. TLR was never a Shard, even briefly. He weilded a large portion of the power of Preservation, but Leras was still alive and still in 'possession' of his shard. TLR was a sliver because he held the power of a Shard for a time. Similarly, Vin was a splinter sliver (because she held the power of a shard and released it) before she took up the shard Preservation following Leras's death. Brandon likens a splinter sliver to a balloon that has been inflated and then deflated. It is changed from it's original (human) form because it held all that air (power) but no longer has the air in it.

It is likely because much of those chapters took place at the Palanaeum which was named after Palah.

At the Seattle signing I asked Brandon about the pewter bullets scenario. Namely, using pewter bullets to shoot and kill a bloodmaker by shooting him through the heart thereby removing his bloodmaking ability. Brandon said that it was technicaly possible but it would be difficult with bullets. I'll review the recording to make sure, but he at least implied that the difficulty was due to the smalll size of the bullets. So, bow before Pech and present him with many upvotes for developing such a clever idea. In answer to another question, Brandon indicated that both the physical wound and the damage to the spiritweb are responsible for the generally fatal nature of being a hemalurgic donor.

What may be different is surface-tension (not final name), light (not directly confirmed, but not refuted), transportation v. travel. Everything else is consistent with the info that Brandon gave at the signing. Brandon has said there will be more in-world art and previously said same end-papers for each volume. No mention I know of for maps.

Density though is completely unrelated to hardness, rigidity, etc. For example, gold and lead are far denser than steel, but steel is much harder, as is copper, titanium, etc. Also, (yes it is somewhat of a special case) solid water is less dense than liquid water. Styrofoam is far less dense than lead, but hold out a sheet of lead and an identically dimensioned piece of styrofoam and tell me which will bend (yes, the effective forces at the end of each sheet is higher in the case of lead, I know). @ Argent- Graphene is very strong, but it is not particularly rigid. It is actually quite flexible.

I now embark upon my first intentional double post (and I think you'll agree that it is properly done). I recalled something Brandon said while I was hovering in the signing line that is way cool. This is not official and there is no indication that even if this is happening, it will make it into WoR. So, don't piddle yourselves with happy pee just yet. Michael Whelan reportedly has (spontaneously?) began working on new endpages! Again, there is no confirmation that he is actually doing it and there is definitely no indications from Tor that even if Whelan does do them, that they would be in WoR. But, how cool would that be.

The physics of what you are describing doesn't hold up. Distance between molecules and atoms doesn't really have anything to do with rigidity or hardness or strength. Just density really.

Yeah, I agree with Kurk. A second Edgedancer in a different interlude seems very very unlikely. Palah's order seems most likely (Growth and Light).

Rigidity seems to be the best term to describe the situation Brandon described. I don't like "rigidity" as the name for the surge though, but I haven't happened upon something better in my vast scientific knowledgeness. Cohesion sounds wrong to me. Cohesion is an attractive force and doesn't fit the scenario Brandon described.