Tarion

Good point. In chapter 3 of tWoK, Shallan notices skyeels hunting for "rats or fish". Also, crabs - there's likely a fair amount of crossover outside of mammals.

I'm doing a whole Cosmere re-read, trying to pull out everything that might be useful to Words of Radiance (Primarily Hoid and the other Worldhoppers, but also lots on the nature of Shards and Realmatic theory) I've already done Sel, Nalthis and Shadows for Silence. Currently going through Scadrial - I've already finished book 1 (plus annotations) so I'm getting there.

Chickens are another Shin animal - This was confirmed in one of the Rysn interludes. I think it's more than that. Here, he discovered that he doesn't have enough knowledge or the right setup to do real science. There are too many variables. But he doesn't have to. A lot of the work has already been done. The Ardentia and artifabrians have been using infused gemstones for power for a decent chunk of the last 4000 years. Hell, I bet Dalinar himself could tell you a fair bit, just from "feeding" his armour over the years. They'll already know how much a specific sphere can hold and how the cut of the gem effects it. I'm fully expecting another chapter of "Eurgh, we just don't know enough" before Shallan drops the knowledge in passing, as if it's completely well known, and frees Sigzil to focus on the new variable - Kaladin's power.

It's worth noting that he didn't really say he needed to practice with a Surgebinder. I'd say that a Shardbearer could be a worthy sparring partner.

It's interesting that he thinks of it as his Shardblade now. I don't think he used those terms in WoK.

Honestly, with the strength that Shardbearers have, they could probably just strap a Halfshard to their arm, without losing too much. It'd let them take a couple of extra hits, which if you're trading blows equally with your opponent is huge. Being the first to lose a chunk of Plate puts you at a serious disadvantage.

It's worse than that, I'm afraid. Lighteyes have their bodies Soulcast into statues after death. Unless there's something specific we don't know about illusions or Soulcasting, I don't see it working. Which is a shame, because I like the idea of Gavilar surviving. I could see an argument for Gavilar being further along the path to Knighthood than Dalinar, to the extent that he's recently given up his Shards to his bodyguard. Maybe. If he had already attracted a spren, it might have been distressed by his Shards, as Syl was. In fact, if Gavilar did survive, I'd picture him wandering his kingdom, living the lessons of Nohadon. As for his Shards, here's what we're told about them It's worth noting that "almost seemed to glow" is used precisely three times in the book. Here, when "Gavilar" fights Szeth. When Dalinar catches the claw. And the eyes of the Radiant who heals Dalinar in one of his flashbacks. You could definitely interpret this as Gavilar being Radiant-ish, but if that's the case, it would have been him in his armour. If it was his bodyguard in the armour, he was most likely a Surgebinder. If Gavilar were a Surgebinder, he could well have survived (provided it's possible to summon your blade to somewhere not your hand). Szeth doesn't actually say that he sees him die. He "fell still", and then his blade appeared. It could, at a real push, be similar to the trick in Allow of Law Szeth assumes he's dead, because it's a wound that should be fatal. Gavilar than takes in Stormlight and heals As for where Galivar's Shards are now, there's nothing in the text that I can find. Elhokar's armour could have been repainted, but his Shardblade sounds distinctly different to Gavilars EDIT: Actually, glancing through the Way of Kings, there is another Shardblade that sounds similar to Gavilar's. The Shardbearer Kaladin kills: No idea how to explain his blade ending up there though.

I'm reading through the series at the moment (Doing the whole Cosmere + annotations as part of my WoR prep). I didn't spot anything else in book 1. I'll keep an eye out through 2 and 3, and have a result for you in the next couple of days.

I doubt it would go that far. The actual line was "Make certain Taravangian heard and acknowledged the words before harming him" That gives even an idiotic Taravangian plenty of time to remember the correct response he had formulated. It'd probably just be a case of showing him the Oathstone and telling Szeth to come back the next day.

I wouldn't be surprised if mirrors had some significance in the Cognitive Realm. Per The Emperor's Soul, the Cognitive is "how an object is viewed and how it views itself". A mirror is literally how you view yourself.

Sorry to throw a wrench into what looks like a nice explanation, but there's another instance of feedback. Not only does Vin feel the wall, but from Kelsier's reaction, he does too. And they're not trying to affect Hemalurgically spiked individuals, they're just Rioting their own team against the immense Soothing of the Lord Ruler.

Well... yeah. Hence also being interested in the other order with access to gravitation. Basic and Reverse lashings are great, but the other one seems pretty meh. My hope is that the other order gets another, more useful, power to complement them.

That's a fascinating angle to take on this. I'd absolutely trust my girlfriend with emotional allomancy and I'd love for her to be able to Soothe or Riot me in certain situations. Just imagine, it's the night before a big interview and you can't sleep because of the stress. Or you're feeling down because something bad has just happened. To channel Breeze for a moment, they're already influencing your emotions in these situations. Allomancy would just make it easier. Now personally, I'd lean towards a Twinborn or a Surgebinder. I want to play around with "flight"/gravity. For the Twinborn, it'd either be a Crasher, or more or less anything with Steel. I like the idea of compounding Steel, but frankly it seems a little lacklustre - Zinc probably provides more as a pairing, even without the ability to compound. Copper, Chromium and Gold are all fun too. As for Surgebinding, I'm very curious to see what the other order with access to gravitation can do with their powers. But being a Windrunner would hardly be the worst thing in the world, either.

Pride? The Alethi value martial skill. A warrior backing down from a fight is going to be embarrassing. In fact, given that combat is a masculine art, I don't think I'd be misleading if I described it as emasculating. Renarin can take that. He's never been a warrior. He's been taking that his whole life (Although hopefully, we'll see him develop into something he can be proud of). A highprince though?

Alternatively, the Southern Scadrians were influenced by Ruin throughout the Lord Ruler's era, as a backup plan. He wouldn't have been able to devote much effort to them (I don't think he had much effort to devote until the events of book 2/3, and then he was busy with his actual plan) but he could have prodded them down a specific path of development. But it's very out of character for Ruin to provoke someone towards growth (especially since he wanted to kill them all later), which would explain why they didn't develop too much.

The problem is, IMO, that US TV networks aren't set up to do this sort of thing. The things that succeed on TV wouldn't work with Mistborn. I can't see it fitting into 24 40 minute episodes. And I really can't see Sanderson signing off on it getting the HBO "boobs and cliffhangers" approach. It'd work better in the style of something like Sherlock (3 hour and a half episodes). Do it on the BBC where ratings aren't the only driving force. In fact, I'm hoping that Feel Films are going to have a lot of success with the Rivers of London adaptation, and lead to a lot more adaptations being picked up. That said, I think Alloy of Law might work better. It's got a better flow for TV, it doesn't need quite as much infodumping (You don't need to know every metal and every magic system. Know the powers of a couple of Twinborn and you're most of the way there) and the world is a less work to do right.

Is there any way to work out the kinetic energy of the Grandbow? I mean, theoretically, it's just a longbow with a particularly heavy draw. You'd just need the approximate strength of a Shardbearer. The Count - A normal coinshot isn't going to do it - They're stopped by regular, wooden shields. Wax, on the other hand, would be able to smash them quite handily, if he had enough weight stored. But that's true of more or less anything. Give a Crasher enough time to store weight, and they're ridiculously powerful.

Thinking about it, this seems oddly possible. We know that 2 orders can mess with gravity. Presumably, this can be replicated with fabrials. So if you set multiple fabrials into the base of your "island", it's perfectly possible that it would float - The only tricky part is working out the correct pull to keep it where you want it to be. But that's just mathematics, rather than anything insurmountable. And then, because it's floating (preferably over the storms, for the comfort of everyone "on board") it should be out of the way enough to be safe, while being periodically recharged through exposure to the storms. The biggest issue is the "batteries", which would presumably just be a whole load of gemstones set into the fabrials. You'd need enough storage to be able to run the anti-gravity (or more accurately I suppose, the counter-gravity) for 2 weeks (Assuming that the Weeping is the longest period of time between highstorms - 2 two-week periods, with a highstorm in the middle). That's a lot of stormlight, but I don't see the Knights being unable to afford the gems. Like most people here, I'm not sure it's going to happen, but it's fascinating that the world could support it.

I'm wondering whether this ties into Elhokar's plate shattering. If the Larkin continues to have a draining effect on Stormlight, it could be a benign explanation for it.

Unless there's a quote saying otherwise, I suspect it's gone. It's more likely that there's a new god metal coalescing somewhere called "Sazedium", with spectacular Feruchemical properties (As well as being incredibly useful for Hemalurgy and Allomancy).

I'm not quite sure it would work, but I think there's an argument for it. I'd go full Metalborn, Lord Ruler style, and use Feruchemy/Compounding to give everyone I like my powers. Using a combination of Aluminium (To drop my Identity to zero, allowing anyone to access the metalmind I'm about to create*) and Nicrosil, to store my Investiture (I.e. the fact that I'm both a Feruchemist and a Mistborn). Anyone tapping the metalmind would become a Mistborn Feruchemist, and be able to Compound their Investiture to make it essentially permanent, so long as they have access to Nicrosil. *I'm assuming you don't need Feruchemy to actually tap Metalminds, as long as you have the "correct" Identity for it. This is sort of born out by Vin being able to sense Sazed's metalmind the same way a Feruchemist would, just without the ability to tap it, since she had the wrong Identity. And yes, I realise it's a colossal stretch, but the idea has been playing around in my mind.

The quote you're looking for: Kabsal, in Chapter 45. It's worth noting that he's hardly a reputable source. But as he's playing the role of one, I think that he'd stick to the truth for this.

It really reminds me of the setup on Scadrial, And I really can't tell if that's an argument in favour of it (I.e. "The author obviously like the idea") or against ("He wouldn't do the same thing twice").