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Actually, I just remembered that you can drain color from gemstones, and the color there is largely due to metallic impurities, so I think I just proved myself wrong.

The only thing described is the palace stone, half of which had turned bone white, and Lightsong, who'd turned gray. Blushweaver, for instance, was still normal colored, and bloody. If the palace is marble, which seems likely? it would still be organic, although "far removed from life". And yeah, we're talking about the color drain, not the ability to awaken. Some types of stone could still possibly be considered organic, and we have seen stone drained of color. I can't think of a single instance where metal was.

Stone might be from organic origins, depending on the type, though. Like, limestone can be the calcified remains of sea creatures, and marble often is metamorphisized limestone.

I think she's had close calls. Her shadow going the wrong way happens a couple of times in the Prologue, if I'm remembering right. Maybe it's whenever Ivory is observing her closely, or her thoughts and emotions bring her closer to being an Elsecaller. I don't think it's related to her childhood insanity. Remember she's already around 30 at this point, so that would be a good two decades ago or so.

Doesn't the Color have to be from an organic origin? Or at least, it's a lot harder to get color from non-organic sources? I'm not sure if you can take the gold color away from gold.

Yes, her experience in the Prologue of WoR was when Ivory and she first interacted.

I was going off the OP's statement, since my chemistry is sadly pretty flimsy. That alcohol prevents oxidation a bit more than water? Or did I misunderstand?

One very common misvisualization is that the Alethi are Caucasian, when they are actually very dark skinned, with epicanthic folds, and are closest to a Arabic/Asian/Indian mix. I personally have a hard time visualizing people, so I pay really close attention to descriptions

I don't get the impression that the alcohol is there to prevent oxidation. Like, the vials were used quickly enough that they weren't likely to oxidize. The alcohol is just to make it easier to swallow, and good enough for the short amount of time, since water would be a really bad idea.

Anyone can become a Herald by attracting a spren, and Ash seems quite fond of taking things apart now

She's pretty likely to be a Willshaper, yeah.

I don't think the earring will bother them too much. They won't like it, for sure, but I think most of them would be okay with it, esp if they understand it's current context.

There's also a kandra running around on Roshar that was on screen in Oathbringer somewhere, which would definitely count.

I like that! (Also, Song of Secrets would get confused with Shadows of Self a lot, since they'd both be SoS)

Yes but we can generally drop the "The" at the beginning when acronyming it. And things starting with The really don't count

I don't like Song of Secrets because there's already too many titles that start with S.

It's his Resonance, not savantism. I could see steel savantism causing metal to always glow and be hard to see, even when not burning.

When he's hanging around near the beginning, Kelsier's just a Cognitive Shadow with a bit more investiture than most. At the point where he manages to talk to Spook, he's a Sliver, having held Preservation for some time. So he's vastly more knowledgeable, and I suspect there's a significant power level difference between the states. Just having a spike doesn't seem to be enough to see Cognitive Shadows as far as we've seen in the series. The person who wants to appear needs to have the power to do so as well. Also, Vin's earring had only a very small charge left at that point.

Because he has some of Ruin's investiture in it, which repelled the mists, which were of Preservation.

1. If they're near to the perpendicularity, then yes, he should. 2. Only in that they're both vaporous forms of their type of investiture.

We know that a steelrunner, even if they had the Abrasion surge, wouldn't be able to run as fast as The Flash. Beyond that, no hard numbers, unfortunately.

The thing is--First, the Fused don't return to Braize when they are killed, so having a Herald or 10 on Braize wouldn't do anything. Second, Honor is dead, so it's very unlikely that anyone would be able to figure out how to make a new Herald at all. Third, having the 5th book, which is supposed to be the end of the first set of books, end on what's basically a cliffhanger, I think is a bad idea, thematically. The first 5 are supposed to have their own arc and conclusion. Renewing the Oathpact is a stalling tactic at best, if it's even possible, and I don't think it'd be a satisfactory conclusion to the first arc. We know there's only going to be 15-20 years between book 5 and 6, so unless any new Heralds are really weak, they would last much longer than that.

The civilizations were set back so far that they didn't have time to recover by the next Desolation. Taln's mantra indicates that most of the time, they have to be taught to soulcast bronze in order to make any kind of decent armor and weapons, which means they haven't even reached the Bronze Age yet. So they are primitive.

Would Bloodmaker Ferrings exist in this category as well? If not, what about someone compounding Gold? Brandon Sanderson Yes, you are correct. Shagomir As a Bloodmaker ages what keeps them from healing the damage and carrying on as a very old, but very healthy person? Do they come to a point where they can't store enough health to stave off the aches, pains, diseases, and other things that come with old age? This makes sense for traditional Feruchemy as it is end-neutral, so storing health becomes a zero sum game - eventually, you're going to get sick and you're not going to be able to overcome it with your natural healing ability no matter how much you manipulate it with a goldmind. ...Unless you've got a supply of Identity-less goldminds lying around. Would a Bloodmaker with a sufficient source of identity-less goldminds (or the ability to compound, thus bypassing the end-neutral part of Feruchemy) eventually just die from being too old? Brandon Sanderson Basically, yes. They can heal their body to match their spiritual ideal, but some things (like some genetic diseases, and age-related illnesses) are seen as part of the ideal. Depends on several factors. source

No, probably not, because it would take so much investiture that it would be impractical, and the stamp probably couldn't channel that much. Also, it'd be really implausible that you were actually born on another planet, with a Connection to Ruin/Preservation/Harmony in just such a way that you were actually a Feruchemist.