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@THE_ORIGINAL_BUTTERWALKER STOP CHANGING NAMES!!! I CaNT KEEP UP!!!

Can the name of our army be the Spren Army?

@A Jo in the Bush If you haven’t noticed by now I have NO IDEA what I’m doing. Everyone was saying that any coinshot should use their kill, which I agreed with (kills tell you the role of the victim; especially if they’re village, you can probably guess that one of the people who started the train was an Elim. For example, last game, when TJ started a Ksohs train, which ended up to him getting exed (eventually)), and you were everyone’s biggest suspicion. I almost killed someone else - Josha, I think - because I was so on the fence as to who to kill. I was split between what I thought and what others thought, but I think I ended up getting bamboozled by an Elim-started train. Sorry!

@Kasimir how did you do the Riot Self-kill, by the way? Your team didn’t have any seekers. Except Josha? But that was the first time I used my Coinshot kill. TELL ME HOW I am deeply frustrated and begrudgingly impressed.

I’ll check it out at some point.

Favorite non-Sanderson author?

On the topic of herald replacements, I don’t think it’s actually going to happen more than once. The ending of WaT made it clear that the heralds were in the process of mentally healing, helped along by kaladin. It’s obvious that Shalash is going to bond an ashspren and become a dustbringer, since we need a dustbringer lead, but I think the current heralds are going to keep their positions - unless Odium pulls out more Taravangianium daggers.

also, I'd like to direct you to This Thread, since your personality is so edgedancer.

I second that. The whole point of Hemalurgy is that you're just taking one part of someone's soul and pinning it to your own. But if yes... this could be the reason why inquisitors can't compound: since their spikes come from different people, the feruchemical charge gets tainted in a way the allomancy can't use.

Hye! What d'you think the Edgedancer 4th and 5th Oathes are?

Teal had been listening around the square, and he thought the most suspicious thing (okay, the only suspicious thing. everything was going so slowly! everything would be easier if they could just communicate mind-to-mind, like the people on that one planet his dad had told him about! but nevermind.) was that Derrick, the not-dead guy, had asked Var why he had chosen to kill another person, and Var's response had basically boiled down to "well, someone had to die". Maybe Teal didn't truly understand what was going on - that was likely as, being a preteen, he didn't have much life experience. But until someone changed his mind, Var had his vote.

First, I think that the concept of a god as a being that resides outside of the physical world and is only detectable due to how it affects the world is just something Brandon writes about a lot. (you could easily make an "if I had a nickel" meme out of this). I think that, yes, Reason would have to explore multiple paths, if only because of the 'two fighting seers' situation. An alternate tangent: Humanity, it could be said, is two parts: Reason, our ability to logically think things through to protect ourselves, and Valor, our compulsion to do stoopid things to save others. It interests me that both of those are missing (Although I suppose you could say that humans are three part: Reason, Valor, and Odium, and maybe virtuosity for artistic inclinations would put it to four parts, but I thing Reason and Valor are most fundamental).

See my previous comment.

My reaction: “whelp. That’s a pretty pessimistic reaction to Chouta.”

I always saw it this way: Shards can have their body in solid, liquid or gas forms, but they don’t have to the entire conflict of tHoA was And preservation had far more of his investiture in matter form than Ruin So I thought that Ruin’s perpendicularity had always just manifested as to condense solid investiture, rather than liquid investiture. The investiture in the Pits returns after use the same way as the investiture in the Well, but if the lord ruler were to save a large amount up, he could condense investiture away from ruin, with the impurities meaning that Ruin can’t absorb the Atium from anywhere unlike how, in WaT, I assume the same thing could be accomplished by spooning liquid out of the well, or jarring mist, although the mist seems to disappear into the spiritual realm at daybreak. I assume the well would refill naturally over 2^10 years, like it normally does, even if the power hasn’t been used. I think we see the same thing happening with purified Dor, although perhaps the purification serves to make it seem to the mindless Dor as if it’s been used.

My school loans out computers with linked emails for each person when you start there, then gives you a computer when you graduate, but deletes the email. I’ve created my account using my school email, but it’s going to be deleted soon, and according to the code of conduct, I can’t create another account can I transfer my account to a different email?

Teal wrinkled his nose. "You smell funny. And for someone who claims to be a savior, you've been kinda ineffective considering you haven't done anything for several days. "Also," he said to Mil, "I think the answer is simple. I'd kill the coinshot, or at least Push him away."

We know that post-shattering, Reason and Valor vanished. I believe that Reason has taken in all the world at the moment of the shattering, Then turned his power inward. This means: Shards can only sense each other when they somehow manifest their power to affect or observe (think of illuminating something to be able to see it; light bounces off) the world. So by not affecting anything and not sensing anything, Reason became undetectable. Why did he do this? Time for a thought experiment! Imagine two mistborn are burning atium, and one is covertly watching the other. The observer has no scenarios where it's possible to affect the observed. The observee would only have one atium shadow to the POV of the observer, because multiplicative atium shadows depends on feedback: one person changes their action based on the future of another, which changes the future of the first, etc. Imagine the feedback between a mic and a speaker: the mic's sounds are reproduced by the speaker, which are picked up by the mic... but if the mic and speaker are too far away, then no feedback occurs. the same would obviously be true of two Seers unaware of each other. But if one was aware of the other but had bound himself to only be able to watch, then the ignorant Seer would only have one atium shadow, because there was nothing the observer could do that the observed could react to. My theory is that Reason took in and memorized the current state of the world, and used the laws of nature and his power as a Shard to see possible futures to determine exactly what would happen next. Since he couldn't affect the world, there was only one future to his point of view, and he could know exactly what could happen, then re-enter the world with a precise knowledge of what's about to happen. There's a few holes: two fighting Seers would still have many atium shadows. But maybe, like some have suggested, Reason is sensing the surrounding world, but while hidden, like in places with lots of metal on Scadrial, or in the shattered plains among the fourth moon's shards. This would allow him to just guess the likeliest paths, once in a while checking what's actualy happening in the present. Or maybe the thousands of years he's been waiting have let him thoroughly explore each path. (This is, in my opinion, the likeliest reason for the absence of Reason.)

Teal wondered where Fox was. According to what he had seen, Fox had spoken a handful of times, then retreated to who-knows where after he got the most suspicion, seemingly randomly.

Sorry to add one more question to the towering heap you already have to answer, but have you ever played Mafia or Werewolf? Follow-up question: would you like to join the Ire *ahem* Shard in a game of Sanderson-themed mafia?

Knowledge of the first seven Mistborn books is required for understanding My question is a weird one, and might have been answered before. Anyone can burn Lerasium. This is confirmed. I don’t remember ever seeing a solid explination for why Ettmetal grenades work. My theory is that godmetals can be used by anyone - anyone can burn Lerasium, Anyone with stuff to store can store stuff feruchemically in Harmonium, as Feruchemy is almost undeniably Sazed’s art, and anyone can Use Atium Hemalurgically, somehow. My best guess as to what exactly “anyone can use Atium as a Hemalurgic spike is: Atium is listed in the Ars Arcanum of tLM as “Steals any power”. I’d guess that either: a) No specific knowledge, only intent, is required for a spike to produce the intended results, b) Once turned into a hemalurgic spike, Atium can grant powers that the victim didn’t posses with the spiritweb of the Hemalurgee altered to burn it anyway using Atium’s power, or c) A victim is not required to turn Atium into a spike. Then again, Mabye the Lerasium and Harmonium can be used p by anyone because Scadrians have more Stilllight than Decaylight (my names for the investure of the two relevant shards) and are ‘tuned’ to the two metals that contain Stilllight, letting them use them without being a feruchemist. That would also explain why one needs to be using Leras’ art to Feruchemically interact with Harmonium. Or Mabye I’m just a crackpot.

Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore the skull of his enemy, fashioned into a tankard for drinking, which contained a pastry or seven, on his head like a hat on the day he was to kill a king.

Teal woke up. Teal looked up. Teal saw the moon. Teal smacked his face with his hand. He’d been hiding from his mom, and had found the perfect spot behind a pastry cart and had… okay. He had fallen asleep. He had been having the best dream! His parents had dragged him to the Grand Canyon, which had been awesome, but there hadn’t been internet, and Wait. What was internet? What was the Grand Canyon??? The details were fading like they always did after a dream. Never mind. His brain vacation meant that he could only glean so much from the chatter of what had happened the previous evening. He’d have to relay mostly on the opinions of those he trusted. “Good riddance”, he thought as he heard of the death of that one Penguin-loving Urchin, but then he immediately felt guilty. She had been innocent, after all. But their families had had a feud, on a different planet that his dad talked about sometimes. He had said that her ancestor had once killed five people at a time, including his uncle, a merry fellow named Tim. Well, he would have to be more open-minded in the future if he wanted to stop the Spiked. He wasn’t sure who exactly he was suspicious of yet. Copper Stopper was acting far more analytical than his Rosharan ancestor had been, and his Ancestor had been a good person. Maybe he was trying too hard? Keldorn was basically the same as ever, and he had no experience with the character of Kéamen. @Araris Valerian He wasn’t sure if he could act tonight. It might have been too late. Plans like the one he had formed were usually planed during the day and executed at dusk, but he wasn’t sure if that applied. He still felt ashamed for missing an entire day. “I will be there”, he promised, “for those who need me”. Then he turned around, stole a spiced baywrap, and gnawed on it as he scampered to a better vantage point over the market square.

In Tress and the Emerald Sea,

Teel was watching in the corner as he devoured a pilfered pastry. “Mister Bald Dude? What did Pernod take from you?”