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You can always look for the WoBs after you've formed your theory, to confirm or deny it

That's the way Rial talks, actually, If you look at the other dialogue from him, he always says "ta" instead of "to".

I actually now really like the idea of an iron savant being a bit anemic.

I don't think that most people would be able to burn the iron in their bloodstream, since it's a much tinier amount than what would be ingested. Also, it'd be in ionic form, rather than the elemental form that they burn.

The times we see people pull out their own spikes, it was not lethal. Spook, Vin, and Yomen all removed their spikes without dying. It depends on where the spike is placed.

So I think there's a couple of things mixed up here. The Oathpact involves the Heralds, not the Radiants. It was meant to bind the Fused to Braize. I don't know that they really anticipated the torture and breaking, since it had never been done before to their knowledge. And I don't think it'd be a good idea to reform it, because that would just start the cycle of Desolations over again. The Radiants abandoned their Oaths some 2000-2500 years after the Heralds broke the Oathpact. And the Radiants weren't binding or holding anything back. Other than, like, their spren and the surges and their personal Oaths, and the like. And also, there's my topic of reasons why it'd be a bad idea anyway

No, but it'd sure be weird if the opposing side were responsible for the other side's champion to show up.

Pretty sure in most contests like this, a time and date are agreed upon, and it's up to each side to make sure their champion appears. And if they don't appear, it's a forfeit.

And honestly, if you have enough control of yourself to try to burn the spike out, you'd have enough control to pull the spike out. Which would be much faster and easier.,

She uses a fabrial for the Regrowth, she doesn't use that surge herself.

I mean, the only reason he could beat up Kelsier was that he wasn't actually hurting Kelsier. Any "pain" that Kelsier experienced was just his mind convinced that it should feel pain. If he'd managed to convince himself that he wasn't getting hurt, he wouldn't have been. So Hoid really didn't do any harm whatsoever to Kelsier.

Kandra, even the First Generation, also aren't Cognitive Shadows. They're normal beings, but with a block between their Physical/Spiritual/Cognitive aspects. The spikes punch through that block so that they can be sapient.

I doubt it. How would you "stamp" an atom, after all? Also, it's not the size of the change, it's the plausibility. Changing the atom...you would have to convince it that during its creation, however many billions of years ago, it ended up with a different number of protons, and that everything that had happened since then was different. Don't think that's going to be happening.

I wouldn't count Spanky since we don't know anything about where he came from, and he went Beyond just after that. And yes, TLR and the others could have stuck around as Cognitive Shadows, but they didn't, so they're...not Cognitive Shadows.

I'll be there!

I wouldn't say that every planet would always have Cognitive Shadows. All of the ones we've seen have been deliberate (or at least willing) creations by the Shard. So some Shards not creating them and some Shards creating them works out. The only CS we've seen on Scadrial would be Kelsier, and that took some fast talking on his part. We have no idea what the process is for Threnody, other than it seems to involve something from Ambition dying nearby. Elantrians are not Cognitive Shadows, by the way. They never died. They were more in a state of suspended biological animation than anything else.

It's not necessary. You can add your thoughts here or there, it works fine either way

Sorry, I very much disagree. The Oathpact just binds the Fused to Braize. Since the Fused no longer return there after each death, the Oathpact is useless. There are a number of other reasons too, that I detail here:

Cognitive...Anomaly.... *Adds about fifty questions to Starsight Signing list*

The cosmere is a star cluster, and each planet/culture/race has its own language, more or less. But they mostly have a common root in Yolish, the original populated planet. The books are "translated" to be in our language, and the "translator" picks appropriate idioms in the given language that match the idea of the saying in the region's language. The cosmere also adheres to our laws of physics, with the addition of Investiture as a state of being, along with matter and energy. So given that, then the usual elements in our universe are going to be in the Cosmere universe.

Well, but as I said, Brandon's never going to confirm or deny the existence of the Beyond. So Adonalsium hiding out there wouldn't work out.

The Beyond actually isn't the Spiritual Realm. The place where Vin and Ruin were in HoA is basically the Spiritual Realm. The Beyond is something Beyond the Realms, that the Shards can't touch, and that Brandon is never going to confirm as a real place or not. It's basically up to the individual or the philosophers to decide, like a Cosmere Heaven.

He knows the signs of Radiancy, and he also has a jar of sand from Taldain, that works like an investiture detector.

Hoid is confirmed to have used Allomancy in WoR--the Middlefest flashback chapter. He dumps brass or zinc into his drink.

It's not too likely. Cultivation doesn't seem like she'd be interested in invading another planet, and she's got her hands full with Roshar.