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Isn't there something in the Ars Arcanum about willshapers allowing contact with the greater Spren and taking people to meet them? If so that would imply that they can take others into shadesmar and I think we've had it confirmed that you can use shadesmar to worldhop so that would in turn imply you can take others with you if you have the right inv turn. Sorry for any mistakes I'm working from memory here and that's never been my strongsuit

any ideas on UK signing dates if there are any?

Gotta go with Seth Purely on the grounds that If he has plenty of Stormlight he's going to survive/heal almost anything apart from decapitation but a single hit on Vin with a Shardblade and she is pretty much dead. Her ability with pushing and pulling is wiped out as Seth can fly (I know it's not technically flying but it's close enough) and any coins etc she shoots at him he's either going to divert into something picked up to act as a makeshift shield or just allow to hit him and heal from it. I would think he would simply get himself close and then any hit is either going to cripple her and make it easy or kill her outright. If Vin had Atium however this would be completely different as she could dodge Szeth's attacks until an opening appears to allow a single killing blow (decapitation, crushing the brain etc)

so I've just been reading the transcription from SLCC and there is a mention of a new metal, Harmonium, which might also answer your question.

I thought that they sounded more like cryptic's than Ivory but I don't remember seeing any WOB confirming this and I don't think that the story would really need a second Lightweaver but on the other hand there is no reason why there couldn't be more radiants of each order and it would certainly be more likely that there would be more than one rather than just a lone knight of each order

Darn it lyht I've read those annotations as well and I really should have remembered that.

Sorry the fish was a bit of an extreme example but given that the cognitive aspect of something has been stated to be how it is viewed and how it views itself I was just wondering if enough peoples view of something changed then could that change how the thing viewed itself and therefore affect a change in the physical or dies it also require investure to be involved?

You managed to basically ask my next question in your edit. What would happen then if Vienna became queen and had kids but then a tragedy struck and they all died in a plague? Would the children of the second daughter (I can't remember her name right now) suddenly develop this ability? Also am I misunderstanding the quote or is it saying that this is then a direct effect of the spiritual realm on the physical?

Okay so does that then mean that if enough people believe something or think of something in a certain way then it would alter that thing in the physical realm? For arguments sake if Vasher had persuaded all of Hallendren that a fish could speak would that fish suddenly develop the ability to speak. I just wonder how much influence the cognitive realm has on the physical and what those limitations may be and if they change from world to world. Ie soul casting on roshar or forging on sel

Okay so we know that as a decendent of Vo the royal family can change the colour and length of their hair, Also their beards as I read in one Q&A which I found strangely amusing, but at what point do you become un-royal enough to lose this ability? We know that at least 2 out of 4 of Dedelins children could do this so I don't think it's a stretch to assume the other 2 could as well but what about his brothers and sisters? And their kids and so on and so on all the way back to Vo? I suppose what I'm asking here is why, over the course of the hundreds of years hasn't this resulted in an entire nation of people who can do this rather than just the one branch of a family and will the ability carry on into all of Dedelins grandchildren or only to Vienna children as she is his heir? Edited for some spelling mistakes but I probably missed some as well

Thank you. I think I remember something about the parshendi not being of Odium originally now that you mention it and I know that Hoid etc were from Yolen but I didn't know that it had veen confirmed that the shattering had actually happened on Yolen.

Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere and I've just missed it but I've been listening to a couple of Q&A's from last year and in one of them Brandon answers a question by saying tgat technically all of tge shards gave been on roshar. Do we think then that it is possible this could be the place that andolisium was shattered? Or failing that the planet andolisium resided on pre-shattering?

Just a thought but I believe we have a WOB that scandrial is a low investure planet so if you were burning stormlight, which has s higher level of investure, rather than preservations mists would you become an even more powerful allomancer, be no more powerful but only need to burn a really small amount to have the same effect, or would it just overload you and burn you out? Please note I'm assuming that the person burning the stormlight is already a full power mistborn like the LR or Elend

Thanks for the advice regarding double posting. I agree that it's questionable if this means a full Feruchemist but if he does consider himself a terrisman then you would think this is the sort of terminology he would be quite careful and precise with

Sorry this should have been with the above quote. Its been a while since I read AOL but where does it say waynes dad was a full Feruchemist?

it would have been ground down and used as seasoning in a Beef Madras. I may have thought about this a little bit too much

Here in the UK we had a week last month where there was a thick fog/mist covering pretty much the full country (aparently something to do with a load of pollution from Europe) but I couldn't help thinking for the full week "how much harm could it do just to eat 1 nail??? you know just in case...."

Sorry for the really late reply, I've been off-line for a few days. I think you are probably right in you summation P4thF1nd3r and I was just massivley overcomplicating things and I definately think your right that Prof's toys are all just a cover and the only reason David couldn't use the ability was because he didn't believe it would work without the tensor glove. Anyway thanks to all for the responses to this.

Yeah I can see how she could have gotten a power cell installed but it just seemed like a little bit of a strange then for her to put into the conversation when only a couple of chapters later its shown that she couldn't have been gifted the ability to power the suit. I had a random thought that maybe if she hasn't been using her abilities for a while something about her would change (along with her not being a homicidal maniac anymore) and allow her to receive gifted powers. almost like the powers are actually not the epics own but are channeled from Calamity and so if your using the channel that leads to you all other channels are blocked but once you stop using your powers the channel which leadcs directly to you dries up and lets secondary channels in. I'm probably just over thinking it but I hope that makes sense

No Problem, As you have already read most of those I suggested I will also put forward a couple more thoughts for you to try, if you haven't already: The Gentlemen Bastard series by Scott Lynch and The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss are both very good, although in all fairness I haven't quite gotten around to finishing the Gentlemen Bastards just yet as Words of Radiance came out while I was reading them. I also personally love the Dresden Files by Jim Buthcher but I can imagine they wouldn't be to everyones taste.

the rest of the cosmere stuff is a good start: Elantris + Emperors soul Warbreaker the others in the mistborn trilogy + Alloy of law. I think there all availble on audio book if thats your prefered medium I'm currently listening to another of Brandons non cosmere works, Steelheart, it a little bit lighter than some of the above stuff but still pretty good. If your looking for something by a different author then the Song of Ice and Fire books by George RR Martin are amazing or you could try The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie (I might have misspelt his name there) both a bit heavier going and a lot more brutal but entirley awesome

Hi, I've been re-listening to steelheart and have just gotten past the chapter where they are going to kidnap Conflux when a thought occured to me. During her conversation with David Megan says that she has piloted a suit of power armour and that apart from firing the big mounted machine guns she didn't like it because it was too claustrophobic etc. Now it has been clearly stated that the Power armour suits don't have a seperate power source (fuel tank, battery etc) but are powered directly by the pilot after being gifted the ability. I also seem to remember that as an epic herself Conflux shouldn't have been able to gift his abiliies to Megan so, if we assume she isn't just straight out lying, how was this possible? Forgive me if I've missed something its been quite a while since I first listened to this book and I'm doing my re-listen whist at work so can't always give it my full attention but this just jumped out at me today and I was hoping someone here might have an explanation for me. Thanks in advance