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So Odium is VERY unlikely as per Brandon, Odium is actually afraid or at least doesn't want to draw the attention of Saze due to the fact that he has two full shards...

That is a good point; she did use conflux's power set and the tensors. Only two ways out of that, though they are both long shots. Options: She can siphon other epics powers with direct contact or she can, to an extent, mimic any epics power set that she comes into contact with. This would make her useless in the field unless she was guaranteed to touch them, which with say steelheart would have been impossible as he wouldn’t have let her get close enough to touch him. Besides if she did have either option above she wouldn’t ever use it because it basically would make her loose it completely and then everyone would be screwed anyway. I don’t know I just cant shake the feeling there will be more to Tia than anyone suspects.

Good points on the soada part not keeping her in check, although its about facing the fear to break the hold, they have to overcome their fear i think. as for Tia - i still think she is going to be an epic. her and prof both knew Rigailia, its made very clear that when Prof was running with other epics that she was there too. maybe she doesnt use her powers at all? wonder what they will be. or perhaps her powers are related to and gifted to the other lore-ists?

Tia will be revealed as an epic in the next book, she keeps herself in check through her soda habit, it'll be her weakness. its just a guess...

So i asked Brandon this last year at Powells - well what i asked was could a shard blade kill steel heart, provided they existed in the same universe. he replied "it depends, if they were in the cosmer then yes, if they were in Steelhearts universe then probably not." he laughed at me for it and did say it was agood question and he did think about it for a few minutes.

I think Crem is literally all that holds the planet together. Kinda like chewing gum… ok not really but I do think it serve a purpose to help stabilize the lands after highstorms. It hardens to rock if left, plants feed on it when it still holds moister and it comes with every rain or highstorm.