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Yep. I'm wondering if he's thinking of some sort of Spiritual fission.

Yeah probably Scadrial, since it's the cosmere's earth analogue. With a few exceptions, anything you find on Earth, you should be able to find on Scadrial, pre and post TFE.

Looking at this and the WoB in question, I think the Coppermind quote is a little inaccurate. Harmonium is an element, and distilling it isn't going to do anything to it, since it's already pure. And Brandon said that distilling (or any normal chemical/mechanical process) is not going to create lerasium and atium. Just that it'd be theoretically possible to do it with non-normal means, perhaps something like Spiritual fission? I'll chat with the coppermind crew and see what they think. Edit: Updated the Coppermind article to better reflect what Brandon said.

The beads in Shadesmar are, well, bead sized. About the size of dried pinto beans.

A Hemalurgic spike doesn't grant investiture, it grants the ability to use investiture. A Hemalurgic spike doesn't grant Stormlight, but the ability to use Stormlight. It's a fine, but critical distinction. Whether the spiritweb is made of investiture or not, we don't have a clear answer for, but it makes sense to me, since everything in the Spiritual Realm is made of investiture. Yes, if you spike a person who can use Stormlight, you would be able to transfer that ability to someone else (of course, the spren could decide to break the bond and you're back where you started, but that's beside the point). Even so, I'm not sure how this is relevant to the point?

Sorry, I'm not sure where you're trying to go with this? The Weeping is a time of the year when the highstorms pause, and it rains normally, for approximately two weeks straight. It's not an object so much as an event, and it doesn't contain crem.

Investing a piece of metal with the Dor or Stormlight isn't creating a Hemalurgic spike, though. Creating a spike requires shoving it through a living entity (likely killing it) and ripping away part of its spiritweb. Then stapling that chunk of spiritweb to another entity. A spiritweb is a pretty distinct chunk of investiture--not just any investiture will do, but the innate, intimate portion of investiture that sometimes is called a soul. A spren is another living piece of investiture. It exists without having to kill another entity. And it can voluntarily meld itself with a human, granting them Radiant abilities. Comparing them to a Hemalurgic spike is like comparing a blood transfusion to a firing squad. I'm not sure what you mean by that? Dominion and Devotion mixed together are what form the Dor, which is limited to Sel, because the Dor is crammed into the Cognitive Realm, rather than the Spiritual.

I'm not sure. The use of Incubators makes me thing the bacteria are always present and looking for hosts. It's possible, but I think that H+C are pretty intrinsically tied together in the entire Rosharan system.

Rysn uses a crossbow to kill the Fused that invades the Thaylen Gemstone Reserve.

We don't really know how Splintering works, so there's no way to know how he killed Honor, Ambition, or Dominion and Devotion. Ripheus is right that what he did to D&D was different than what he did with the rest, since he somehow shoved them into the Cognitive Realm.

Yeah it's the former. The potential is there in your DNA, but without the Snapping, it never activates.

IIRC, Brandon's doing that on purpose, to show some of her immaturity and naivete.

Nightblood was not previously black. He was made of steel, and then turned black after being Awakened.

Did you read the note at the very end, after all the footnotes and stuff?

The metals are a key, but the ability to use them is genetic. A person from Sel wouldn't have the genetic component that lets them access metals, unless they managed to get their hands on some lerasium. In which case they'd be drawing on Preservation, anyway. The Dor, unlike most cosmere magics, is region dependent, and so it wouldn't work off-world without some interesting shenanigans. Now, if an Elantrian was also an Allomancer or Feruchemist, it's entirely possible for them to "hack" the system, and get Preservation to power their Aons. But we have no idea how or how difficult this would be.

In short, Jasnah was also terrified. She, however, isn't a 16 year old naive girl on her first trip alone. She's a grown woman, a scholar, and a princess. Seeing something impossible for the first time isn't about to make her lose her wits.

Yeah. You can tell from her reactions that she's never met him before, or talked to spren before.

Jasnah saw Ivory for the first time the night that Gavilar died. We get her PoV and the circumstances of it happening.

As Kurk said, Scadrial is basically the cosmere "Earth" so anything you can find on Earth, you're going to find on Scadrial. Chickens, dolphins, whales, insects, bees, and so forth.

I don't think Brandon is much into tsundere. And also, the fact that Shallan is married to Adolin and Kaladin has realized he didn't actually love her, make this scenario very unlikely.

Someone on Reddit who lives near Brandon posted a pic! https://reddit.com/r/Cosmere/comments/acocyt/oooooh_hemalurgy_chart/ Looks like the alloys are a lot more versatile than the elements, and holy crap the Spiritual and Temporal metals!!!!!! Edit: By stealing all abilities, does that mean lerasium can steal and hold all abilities at once in a single spike?!??!?!?!?!??!?!

Hmmm interesting. I think there's more a strong influence of H&C, and a possible weaker influence from Odium, myself. The seeing the future could easily be from Cultivation, instead of Odium.

In the exerpt of The Silence Divine that Brandon read from a while back, we learn that Ashyn has magic that involves a person getting infected with a disease, and that disease grants them powers as long as it is active in their system. We also have a WoB saying that in some cases, those diseases cause a flaw. This sounds suspiciously like the Nightwatcher's Boon/Curse mechanic. Since Ashyn is in the same solar system as Roshar, even though it doesn't have a Shard directly dwelling there, I propose that the magical influence of Honor and Cultivation dwelling on Roshar is nonetheless enough to have Ashyn follow many of the same concepts as Rosharan magic. 1. Brandon has said that the magic on Ashyn is the same basic principles, with the system being a little different. This theory would fit with that statement. 2. Bonds: On Roshar, people attain magic by forming a bond with a spren. On Ashyn, I theorize that they attain magic by forming a similar, weaker bond with bacteria or viruses. This bond allows them to use some version of the surges, perhaps in more limited ways. Then, once their immune system kills the infection, the bond breaks, and they need to reform it. In the reading, we see a woman changing a goblet of liquid into other types of liquid (Soulcasting/Transformation?) and others are able to float/fly (Gravitation?) or see the future (perhaps Odium's influence/Moelach?) 3. Boon/curse: On Roshar, people can go to the Nightwatcher and receive a boon and a curse. From the WoB above, at least some of the powers on Ashyn work the same way. You get the power to float a city, but you go deaf while having that power. 4. Echoes: (Wild speculation) I also theorize that the Echoes are from the accumulation of the dead bacteria's spiritwebs. We've never seen what happens if a spren permanently dies while being bonded to a Radiant. Since it seems likely that the Radiant and spren's spiritwebs are partially merged (more and more) as the bond grows, I'm thinking that if the spren dies, a piece of their spiritweb would be left in the Radiant. If this is the case, then the bacteria or viruses that are dying while bonded to the Corpsperson might be leaving behind tiny spiritwebs of their own. With enough time, that accumulation could cause the Echoes that they experience. Thoughts?

As @The Forumlurker said, the Allomantic ability is overwritten by the Feruchemical one. So when you burn your own brass metalmind, you get a ton of heat (which you can store in a separate metalmind, that you tap as needed). TLR stayed alive for a thousand years because he stored youth in atiumminds, then burned them to release a compounded amount of youth, which he then stored in more atium, and tapped.