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A-Cadmium/F-Steel would be crazy. Master of both speeds. A-Pewter/F-Tin would be crazy. Being able to store pain in your metal mind while burning pewter would make you so dangerous. And being able to throw something heavy with pewter enhanced muscles and dexterity with F-tin eyesight would make you so dangerous. A-Electrum/F-Chromium has to be useful. No way those abilities don’t stack. A-Pewter/F-Cadmium might be useful. But it would also be a genuinely horrible experience trying to store breath. A-Zinc/F-Duralumin probably works well together in some form or capacity.

I want my answers and I want them NOOOWWWWW

Hey, if F-Nicrosil stores Investiture, hypothetically could a Radiant Soulbearer on Roshar breathe in Stormlight and then store it in a Nicrosilmind and then transport it through Shadesmar? Is that how it works? Or is Nicrosil just the ability to use investiture, not investiture itself? I feel like having an unkeyed nicrosilmind would solve Kel’s problem of trying to get Stormlight off and not being able to. Is this possible but was the whole agreement between honor and odium trapping everybody in the rosharan system interfering with everything? If it wasn’t, this would make sense about how the skybreakers on scadrial at the end of TLM were surgebinding im at the bar with my boy rn say what’s up

Vin and Kel on the wall, the first night they go out into the mists. Where they just sort of hang out and vibe. The Vin and Elend meet cute would be cool too.

The Feds don't want you to know that The Great Hunt is actually legitimately the best one and that Lord of Chaos is actually the start of the slog. "But Dumai's Wells!" Yeah, Dumai's Wells is amazing. That's one of the best parts of the entire series. But it's the 5 minute "best fight scene" that someone uploaded to youtube that you searched up because you didn't want to sit through 2 hours of mid movie to get to one fantastic fight scene. Nynaeve is bored for the first half of her plotline, and I was too. It's the best of the slog, but it's still the slog. Gonna make an even more controversial opinion here and say that Crown of Swords is actually the worst one because of how insulting that ending was.

Thousands of generals, you say? All in his head? Thousands upon thousands over the course of human history? And you and I live in the first age, while he lives in the third age? He's got memories of dancing with women and speaking the old tongue and stuff about the sea folk, and you're telling me with absolute certainty that he hasn't seen the "what do you have?" "a knife!" video? Surely, you jest. It is 1000% possible. It is 2:47AM where I am. Post other things Mat definitely remembers.

No. That'd be cool, though.

At the very least they could use Exist to clear out the forest for the most part. I sort of doubt we’ll ever get that big threnody book elaborating on what The Evil is, but I’m not too beat up over it

I may be misremembering, but I was almost certain there was an echo of the whole "what is the life of a man worth"-->"everything" moment from tWoK in WaT when Dalinar is talking to Tarvangian. I was almost certain that Tarvangian asked him the same thing, but Dalinar said "Nothing" this time, referencing how he sacrificed himself. But I can't seem to find the moment anywhere. UPDATE: I've got it! From WaT Chapter 145: I copied that manually from the audiobook, so the punctuation might not be accurate.

I was thinking about this listening to an old episode of Shardcast. The Dawnshard that The Nightbrigade is after is Hoid's Dawnshard, Exist. Is the assumption that if they bestowed Exist on any one person, that the holder of the Dawnshard could save Threnody? Exist has made Hoid functionally immortal, and has done the same thing to Sig. Is the Nightbrigade's endgame to hold Exist and then have the holder clear out all the shades in the forest of hell and/or the evil on the main continent? Was this obvious to most readers and I'm only realizing this now?

I loved it when Dalinar stood up to the Blackthorn in that vision. Although he wasn't able to rewrite the past, I loved seeing how he stood up to that past version of himself even if it didn't matter. I feel like that time it was one of those "if only things had been different" scenes that allow the reader to have their cake and eat it too. I also really liked the call back to The Way of Kings where Dalinar trades Oathbringer for Bridge Four. IIRC, Taravangian asks Dalinar what the life of one man is worth and he replies with "nothing" but I can't find the exact quote. UPDATE: Got it! Punctuation might not be accurate, I copied this from the audiobook manually.

Totally unrelated to thread, but I'd argue that the Quick-Eats ad makes no sense from an economics standpoint, not a circumstance-of-birth standpoint. In America at the very least, restaurants survive by paying their staff pretty stinky wages in order to make ends meet. A restaurant's gotta worry about staff pay, building rent, cleaning supplies, the food and other stuff like that. And they've gotta keep prices low because nobody wants to pay $18 for a burger. FiveGuys gets away with it because they know they can and have gaslit the American people into thinking their burgers are worth the price. You can teach anyone to cook. The "Quick" part of the ad makes me think that this establishment is more of a McDonald's than it is a fancy steakhouse. And you can teach anyone to flip burgers or pancakes or what have you. And yeah, you could probably save money by hiring less staff if you had a small enough menu and one person could manage doing all the cooking at once. But if Wayne is an accurate indication, bendalloy seems like a pretty fast burning metal. If your restaurant is open for only lunch rush or dinner rush, you're still gonna need a few hours worth of expensive metal. The ad also mentions a bendalloy stipen as part of the payment. But if I'm a slider, a rare metal born, I'm haggling over my wages. Quick-Eats sounds like the worst job you could work on Scadrial. You're gonna be standing over a grill for hours and hours and hours while time passes much much slower for everyone else outside. You're gonna be in hell, dude. And you're probably gonna be lonely, too. Maybe you've got one other person in the bubble working with you, but who knows. You're gonna be working long, long hours regardless. And if management is more stingy with the bendalloy than the ad initially claimed, and you can only burn it here and there to get caught up on orders, you're still gonna be in the rust behind on orders most days, if the restaurant was popular enough. I imagine it would be. "Whoa, instant food, I just have to wait in a line going around the block? Sure, I've got time." People would wait for that, even if the line still amounted to the same amount of wait time. The ad is looking for a Slider to work 6 days a week, instead of hiring multiple Sliders. Even if they paid top-boxing, that's still one of those "go rust yourself" job postings. Quick-eats is bound to fail. There's no way they could pay their staff enough to keep up with demand all the while keeping prices low enough to be consumer friendly. You could be a slider doing literally any other job and it wouldn't be as bad as that one.

I've been wondering if A-Gold/F-Duralumin would give a person an off-brand A-Malatium ability. By burning gold and tapping duralumin, could you see someone else's alternate lives if you had physical contact with that person? I know Connection usually refers to Connecting your soul to a certain place, but IIRC Handerwym was able to survive the Koloss encounter in Pits of Eltania by Connecting to the Koloss themselves, maybe not just the land. Also, a certain Bondsmith on another planet always needs to have physical touch to a person/object to Connect to them. Could a duralumin ferring Connect to one single person with touch? I don't know, I'm probably misunderstanding how Connection works. I had an idea for a story a few months back about a person with A-Gold/F-Duralumin abilities who goes around spiking people with Chromium (might steal destiny). Part of me wonders how similar that would be to the now-defunct Era 3 serial killer plot line.

Hey there. At the end of TLM, Marsh is able to walk around the middle of Elendel without attracting any attention. I had assumed that he was able to do this by either filling aluminum, duralumin, or both at the same time. I’m not certain if this was the case, as I remember seeing somewhere on the forums that Marsh only has 22 spikes we know about. Because of the limited number, I’m not certain that F-aluminum would be super useful to steal, so please correct me if I’m wrong. All of that being said, could filling aluminum or duralumin or both be how Marsh is able to compound atium? Compounding via hemalurgy normally doesn’t work due to identity contamination, but if Marsh had no identity at any given point, could he get around this quirk of the magic system? Is that how he’s doing it? I’m sure other people have theorized on this at this point, so could you point me in the right direction, please? I know I ask a lot of questions and make probably too many posts, but I think about this stuff a lot. I’m sure you all think about it more than I have, though.

What’s the over and under on if TenSoon got tired of seeing the inaccurate dogs and just mailed this one in himself? He doesn’t seem like the type to care all that much about the historical accuracy of stuffed animals, but I think it would be really funny if this one thing really irked him. This part of the broadsheet is definitely just part of an ad the other soonie pup manufacturing company placed, but TenSoon wrote this himself in my headcannon.

Is there a wob on how Vasher absorbs the light in the first place? I don't think he's a Radiant, but that always bugged me. Is this a similar case to Nomad in TSLM, where Nomad is so invested at this point (or, he was) that he can just absorb investiture with a touch? Vasher would actually do just fine on Canticle, now that I think about it. Shame there's no perpendicularity there. And none anyone knows about on Roshar.

I re-listened to TLM recently, and I've got a few things I'd like to ask about now that WaT has come out. 1. Nazh tricks Nicky Savage and leaves Scadrial via what very well may be an Elsecalling Fabrial. Now that WaT is out, and we know that the technology exists, do you have any thoughts on that? Being able to enter and exit shadesmar wherever/whenever seems pretty useful, all things considered, but you'd think Navani would've had that figured out before we ever heard of Hoid or Nazh using one. The description of the thing doesn't seem super Rosharan either (iirc Sig notices the device uses a lot of gears). Could this be an invention from Silverlight? Do you think something like this will get brought up again when Isles drops in November? Or do you think this is a Threnodite invention? Both things would make sense in my mind. I don't know if Hoid is allowed on Silverlight, or if we know much about it. I just think the device might be interesting. 2. The Coppermind wiki says that the messenger that Harmony sent to MeLaan during her epilogue is its own thing and not a Seon. Are we sure about that? I had just assumed it was a Seon.

I think you could definitely argue Iron being the best overall. Tin I'm more iffy on. You wouldn't want to be a tin compounder, because A-tin and F-tin do super similar things. Sidebar, but have you noticed that tin and pewter have this super weird relationship with each other when it comes to which power is better in which art? Because A-Pewter is way better than F-Pewter, but A-tin isn't as good as F-tin. You ever notice that? But yeah, both iron powers are great. You'd kill yourself compounding iron for sure, but as long as you kept both powers mostly separate and didn't try to use both at the same time, I think iron would definitely be in the running for best metal overall.

Hey there. Let me preface this by saying I have no idea how computer science or web design works. That being said, would it be difficult to implement a "reveal password" feature when logging on? I've got a long and goofy password that's somewhat easy to fumble. I'm fine with retyping my password if I hit the wrong key, but some other sites I use have a "reveal password" feature which allows you to see what you've typed out instead of the black little dots. This lets you correct any typos without having to type the whole thing over again from scratch. Is there a reason 17th shard doesn't have this feature? It is for security, or is it annoying to implement? I suppose I don't need to know, but this is one of those "I'd like this feature if we can get it" posts. That's all. Thanks for reading this post.

Ahh, now I feel like a goober. Thank you for checking for me, I appreciate it. I think that's really unfortunate, though. One of the cooler aspects of Feruchemy is the fact that some of the metals seem to grant you boons even when you're filling them--iron, bronze, brass, etc. I think steel would've been much cooler if you could pass time while filling a metal mind, in addition to already having such a good ability by tapping it. Oh well. You don't think steel's the best over all? What would you argue is the best, then? Duralumin?

@Trusk'our @Treamayne my heroes. Thank you. Not to nitpick, but I just went and looked through WoA, at the scene where Sazed fills his metal minds, and I do think Sazed perceives Clubs as moving quicker than he normally does while he fills his metal mind. Maybe steel doesn’t give you the same effect cadmium does, but it certainly contributes to how your perceive reality. But again, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. Treamayne, do you not subscribe to the hypothesis that spook has been burning cadmium since giving up his tenure as Lord Mistborn and that he’ll be back for era 3?

Hey there. I've got a question (MANY) question(s) I might know the answer to, but would like someone else's opinion about the topic. If I threw Idashwy (the only steel ferring Brandon has written about) (the one Wax and Wayne find dead in her apartment who had a crush on Wax as a teenager) out of a plane, could she survive by filling an empty metal mind? I know in WoA that Sazed specifically fills Iron when he and Marsh investigate the Conventical of Seran, and that's how he survives the long drops, but could he have also filled Steel-and-only-steel and been just fine? Does filling Steel only store your body's movement and reaction speed, or does it fill accumulated speed as well? Are there any wobs on this? It's been a while since I've listened to WoA and I didn't know if it had been updated for the leatherbounds or anything like that. Additionally, could a steel ferring and a Cadmium misting communicate with one another or experience the same amount of time dilation if the ferring was filling his metal mind and the misting was burning his metal?When Bleeder taps speed at the governor's mansion, Wax is able to keep time with her and shoot her using one of Wayne's speed bubbles. This leads me to believe that the inverse is true. Would this make Idashwy and Marasi best friends? Would a steel ferring age slower than a regular person if they only filled their metal mind and never tapped it? What if a twinborn Pulser/Steelrunner burned their metal while filling their metal mind? Is this what Spook is doing right now? Could this same twinborn tap their metalmind while burning steel and be unaffected by their own speed bubble? This sounds incredibly useful. How come Steel gets to be consistently the best metal across arts? That seems a bit unfair. Feruchemy is a much more fun metallic art to think about than Allomancy and anyone can fight me on that. I'd love to know your thoughts about any of this nonsense. What would you name the Pulser/Steelrunner Twinborn? I like "Blinker" or "Timekeeper" as ideas.

Thanks to everyone who replied to this thread. Unfortunately I have another quandary for you all: How the hell were they surgebinding? There's no way Kel just has that much spare Dor lying around. Were they using allomancy to power surgebinding? Is that possible? If so, that would give aluminum mistings something important to do.

Hey, I made an account on these forums to ask this (and probably a few other questions later), but the timeline seems funky going forward. There was a wob from a spoiler stream a little bit ago where Brandon denied that the "ghost blood coin shots" that help Steris out of that jam at the end of TLM were Skybreakers. Knowing what we know now, of course he couldn't out right confirm this, nor RAFO it either or else draw suspicion. Those people must be Skybreakers. But if WAT takes place around the time of Shadows of Self (Hoid is applying to be Wax's coachman during the final epilogue), how on earth did Kelsier manage to snag those Skybreakers with all of the time dilation stuff going on? Now that Retribution is in power, the spren (and the subsequent Radiants they're bonded to) are able to leave Roshar. But with all the funky time-dilation stuff going on, is it really plausible that they could've escaped Roshar in time to become ghostbloods on Scadrial? Or did the ghostbloods always have their own Skybreaker splinter-group hanging out in Shadesmar? The time dilation stuff is so wonky to me. I'm sure the people at dragon steel have at least most of it figured out, but I don't know. It's implied that Shallan might leave Roshar during the time skip, but even when she's talking to Kel via the Seon, there's still so much delay on Kel's end of the call. I know this was really ramble-y, but I'd love to get some opinions on this. What do you think is going on? Obviously there's only so much we can speculate on until 203-whatever/whenever book 6 drops, but man, dude. This one thing is bugging me. Do you think there are more Skybreaker splinter-groups out there than just the ones that don't agree with Nale? There must be, right?