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He's speaking a little vaguely to avoid spoiling OB, since this was the general Q&A. But the questioner specifically asked about Adolin and Maya, so it's pretty obvious that's who Brandon is referring to

And also, I feel it makes it pretty clear that Adolin *is* going to revive Maya.

Yeah, not smug AT ALL!

For your reading enjoyment, fresh from the Idaho Falls signing!

This is where I wish we had a detailed timeline of Roshar. I don't have anything to base this on, but my impression is that there was a decent amount of time between humans settling Shinovar, and them starting to invade the rest of the planet, then some more time before the Binding, and then time for Odium to decide to make the Fused, and the Heralds deciding on the Oathpact. I'm not sure if Ishar would have lived that long.

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I don't think that their spiritwebs look like human spiritwebs any more. Mistwraiths breed true. If he'd just put a blockage on all living Feruchemists, their "children" would be human. I think that he ended up changing all three aspects of their DNA, along with the "blockage". Otherwise, if their spiritwebs were the same as humans, they should be able to become Feruchemists again once the spike breaks through the block. And we know that if you cut off a kandra's limb with a Shardblade, whatever their spiritweb does still lets them recreate that limb (probably their spiritwebs are mutable, so they can use another part of it to grow that limb, even though the part that was originally assigned to it is now dead).

I don't know. I mean, the Fused predate the Heralds, because the Heralds are meant to bind the Fused. Why would Odium, who has very carefully kept from investing himself on any planet so far, create the Fused out of his investiture, if he were still free? His goal isn't to kill humans, it's to Splinter Shards. I don't see how the Fused would help in Splintering in any way. They seem more geared toward affecting mortal armies, rather than Shards.

*squinting diminishes slightly*

*squints harder*

Siri is not Returned, but she is descended from one (or some). So she has a fragment of a Divine Breath from that heritage, that gives her the Royal Locks, among other things. The color appreciation is just a difference in personalities. Suri is rebellious and likes colors. Vivenna is a good follower of Austre and shuns colors.

WoB=Word of Brandon. Things Brandon has said at signings and the like. RAFO=Read and Find Out. As in, you'll probably find out someday, just not now. Brandon uses it for anything from "I don't feel like answering right now," "I don't remember," "I feel like trolling," and actual "You'll find out in the future!" Patji is from Sixth of the Dusk, a short story in Arcanum Unbounded.

haha. Don't get me started on that.

I quoted it in my thread about the Oathpact! I know you read it! Or DID you?!?! *squints*

? The physical Tranquiline Halls were confirmed to be Ashyn.

"Atium is like a mini-black hole."

They brace themselves or push backward, is how that's explained. As Quickbronze said, I believe Brandon thought the chest was the center of mass back when he wrote Era 1, and he's kinda stuck with it now.

It's not actually center of mass. It's the chest, which could be considered the center of the Cognitive mass. Your center of mass is actually a little below the belly button, depending on gender.

That's like skipping to the last page of a book!

Sorry, I missed this. I'm not sure, tbh. I think that either Odium will be Splintered, or they'll find a way to bind him safely, so that he can't affect any other worlds/people/spren/etc. Devotion, from Sel, is not likely to feature in SA, because then Brandon would have to explain where that's from, or people will need to read Elantris, and Brandon doesn't want that to be necessary yet. And Brandon already did the doubleshard thing so I don't think he'll use that as a conclusion again.

Yep, the WoBs are on the previous page

Yolen still exists, and still has life on it, so it is probably not orbiting a red dwarf or a red giant.

Now the first thing I want to point out is that Odium being bound to the Roshar system would almost certainly pre-date his creation of the Fused. Odium specifically doesn't want to invest his power anywhere and keep as much of his power under his personal control as he can. The reason I think this is because he would have no reason to create the Fused, which are basically meant to fight mortals, unless he had to. He has bigger fish to fry, and divesting that portion of his power isn't something that he would want to do, no matter how significant or insignificant. This leads us to two possible conclusions: 1. The Fused don't take a significant amount of his investiture, which is what I posited in my post. So binding them affects him, yes, but not a huge amount in any case. 2. The Fused DO take a significant amount of his investiture, and so binding them binds him. I don't think that he would do this, because he still wants to save most of his active investiture to himself, to take on Cultivation when he's ready. Endowment is far more invested in her planet than Odium is, from what I can tell. She has millions of people living on Nalthis, and dozens of Returned. That's millions of Breaths. She has a perpendicularity somewhere on Nalthis, she has the Tears of Edgli that are named after her. She's intimately involved with the planet and the people. Nalthians are also naturally more invested than normal people. Not as invested as the Fused, but more than a normal Rosharan. Braize is a lifeless, cold rock, inhabited solely by the Fused (and sometimes the Heralds). Even a few hundred Fused aren't going to compare to what Edgli has Invested in Nalthis. Assuming the voidspren also number in the hundreds or thousands, they still wouldn't compare to the millions of people on Nalthis. The WoBs in question--I should probably put them in my OP. So Brandon says that what binds Odium is greater than the Oathpact in the first one. In the second, he says that only the Heralds and Honor were part of the Oathpact, not Odium. In the third, the Oathpact is not a direct result of Odium not being able to leave the system. But it's a little part of it. Because the Fused Do take some of his investiture, and he wouldn't want to leave that behind. And as long as they are bound to Braize, the Fused can't fulfill the purpose that he made them for. So he's hindered in his goals. At least, that's how I view those WoBs.

It's been RAFO'd, but theoretically, it should be possible to store any type of investiture in nicrosil, assuming you have the ability to use them both.

Uh hey, you know last post on this thread was six years ago? Edit: Sorry, I didn't see that it was your first post. Yes, the element Hoid was given was confirmed to be Lerasium. Also, Welcome to the Shard! Have a gander at the Site Rules, and enjoy your stay!