Duskshard

This has probably being asked before, but here goes anyway. Considering once a time bubble is up it can't be moved, does anyone know what happens if someone uses a time bubble while on a moving platform? For instance, a train or a barge. Is the bubble fixed in space and time and therefore unable to move in a situation like that, or is the bubble fixed in place onto whatever object it's created on and therefore will move with the object as long as there isn't any part of the bubble fixed to anything unmovable.

TLR made the mistwraiths when he still held the power from the well and the kandra still exist in AoL so we know Sazed didn't change them all back to humans.

That seem like as good an explanation as any. It does say sever the soul and not destroy it, so it stand to reason that if a shardblade cut through someones wrist then a part of the soul will be trapped in the hand. So we can say that if a shardblade severs a limb, then it is severing the spiritual aspect of the soul from the cognitive aspect and feruchemy can be used to reconnect the spiritual to the cognitive.

That quote at the end of your post actually clears up some of the issues I've had with how the healing system works. So if healing not only effects the body, but the soul, are you saying that the soul acting as a template is whats used to regenerate the body to how the soul remembers it to be, and that the soul ages affecting how the body looks. In other words in this universe people don't age because of biological degradation but as a reflection of the age of ones soul? Have I understood that right of am I complete of base? If that's how it works then my issues about gold have just disappeared. Although it does pose the question, if the body needs the souls template to regenerate, then how is the soul able to heal from a shardblade if that template has been severed?

Gold healing doesn't create matter out of nothing, matter can't be created out of nothing, it's created out of the energy in the metalmind. Of course a cell could model itself on a cell next to it without you ending up with cancer. (cancer couldn't even survive in someone tapping that much healing) Drawing that much healing effectively puts your body into a sort of perfect stasis and whenever it's knocked out of that state it's instantly drawn back to how it was. You can't have a system of healing that's so perfect, that as long as you have enough healing stored that it will instantly heal a bullet to the face and lets you live without breathing but yet the body breaks down on a cellular level. It just doesn't make sense. The Lord Ruler knew how feruchemy worked, but didn't know about compounding and atium until the Well, and if he found out that atium was specifically for holding age then he maybe he could of overlooked the potential of gold to achieve the same result. Or as I said before the decision to use atium could of been influenced by Ruin. I do realize that this isn't how Brandon has created his world and that gold is for healing wounds and atium is for age and immortality, It just doesn't make sense to me so I have to rationalize it so that it does otherwise these little things really bug me. Gold feruchemy heals shardblade wounds? How could you know this, it's from two different worlds. I haven't watched or read any interviews from Brandon, so all I really know is what I've got from the books. Is it Brandon that's said this?

If you're constantly drawing a healing power that's both healing and regenerative then the cells wouldn't decay and age, so you won't either. The same way Miles doesn't need to breath because his healing won't let the cells in his lungs break down and die. I've only read Mistborn and Stormlight so far, so I don't really know what mean about breaths in your second sentence.

That's true, since the highstorms appear to be the common denominator it could just be that spren can only exist where the highstorms touch the land.

I'm critical of gold healing because it not only heals you at an accelerated rate, but it also regenerates the body in a way that not even accelerated healing would allow. (people just don't re-grow body parts no matter how fast they heal) However, even taking the unnatural regeneration ability that's being put together with accelerated healing, Sazed wouldn't of been able to regrow his package. He was made a eunuch as a baby and the wound was long since healed before he became a keeper and learned to store health. Now even though I don't like the whole regeneration aspect, I'm willing to accept it on fresh wounds such as a blown of finger so long as there is enough health stored in the metalmind to do it. What I won't accept however is the ability to use stored health to regenerate wounds that have already healed over and are now a scare. Plus, perception has nothing to do with it. If you're constantly healing at that rate then the cells in your body aren't going to break down, so you won't age. It doesn't matter if you perceive yourself to be 500 years old, your body will still look like that of a 30 year old if that was the age you started to use healing constantly.

Atium isn't needed for Marsh to be immortal, he's got gold and he can compound that. I know it says in AOL that compounding gold doesn't make Miles immortal, but that's just wrong. If someone was to constantly heal themselves at the rate the Miles does then atium becomes redundant in regards to immortality because they would never grow old in the first place. You would stay the same age as you were when you started to constantly heal yourself. Storing age in atium would then only be useful if you wanted to change your appearance by changing your age. Which then poses the question, then why did the LR use atium to achieve immortality instead of gold? Well obviously the real answer would be because Brandon needed a clever way for Vin to defeat the LR, but my rationalization would be that the LR didn't realize that constantly drawing on a healing charge would stop him from aging as well, and so only tapped healing when he needed it. OR. Ruin gave him a nudge in the direction of using atium to store age knowing that by doing so the LR would be creating a weakness that could one day be used to defeat him.

The way I think of it, is that in order of the spren to be visible everywhere but shinovar then the highstorms must be the reason. So I figured that either, The highstorms must affect the environment in some way that makes the spren visible. The highstorms affect the spren making them visible. The highstorms affect people allowing them to perceive the spren. It's been a while since I've read the books, does anyone know if there's any reference of Szeth acknowledging the existence of spren?

There's the full quote.

Maybe when Brandon said that it had been a while since he wrote about it and he didn't quite remember what he had written in the book about the subject, I dunno. The book is quite clear however that the crystals shattering are a reaction to Kelsier burning tin.

I haven't read the whole of this thread yet so maybe this has already been pointed out. Some are saying that only steel and iron destroy atium crystals, but that isn't what it says in the book. It says using Allomancy near atium crystals shatters them. So that includes Allomantic metals such as tin. Here's a quote from Kelsier. "He stepped over to the rift and forced himself to climb down inside of it. Then he burned tin. Immediately, he heard a cracking sound from below." "He could already see his first crystalline atium-hole--or what was left of it. The long, silvery crystals were fractured and broken. Using Allmancy near atium crystals caused them to shatter"