The Bookwyrm

Granted, but you are a house elf from Harry Potter, not an KOLTC Elf. I wish that this world was a fantasy world and wasn't so boring.

This is a good question, though I am unsure of the answer. Something that's interesting to me about this happens during the disadvantaged duel scene in Words of Radiance. I think Kaladin touches one of the duelist's Shardblades, and because of his bond to Sylphrena, hears it scream. However, not only did he hear the scream, but the Shardbearer who had bonded the Shardblade also heard the screams, but only when Kaladin touched it. How do you think that fits into all this?

This is something that hadn't crossed my mind, but it makes perfect sense. Brandon did hint that it is possible to get Atium and Lerasium out of Harmonium, but he didn't say how. I just hadn't made the mental leap to come to the conclusion that Navani's experiments would be the basis of what let you do so.

I didn't think about this. We haven't really seen anyone using F-Duralumin in the books commonly (unless I'm completely forgetting something, in which case I am, please tell me), so we can't really be sure how all the mechanics work. I think there's a good chance there might be a way to use F-Duralumin like this.

I had a weird experience with this book, too. I've read it twice, I think, but right now I can barely remember any of the major plot points. I remember that in the period of time before my first and second reads I remembered even less. Like you, I didn't remember the spearhead plot twist, and a few of the other things. The fact that I have trouble remembering many of the mechanics that are revealed in this book is why I'm somewhat hazy when it comes to theorizing about the Southern Scadrians and Medallion technology. (I have a copy of this book now, I seriously need to just go read it again.) I do vaguely remember the scene you're describing, but I don't know if it's an actual memory or my brain making up something to fit the missing scene you're describing. I definitely remember Wax getting very beaten to a pulp, but I can't say for absolute certain whether or not I remember him ever towing an airship with a rope. Because my plot details of this book are very hazy, I can't really confirm or deny whether this is an actual scene or a weird brain trick. Sorry. I think it's very weird that I can barely remember many of the plot points of this book. The real answer is probably that I just need to go read it again. I'll look for a scene like the one you're describing when I do, though!

This theory makes perfect sense to me, simply because we see it so often. Spren with their Radiants, Ruin with those who have been Hemalurgically spiked, other Shards with other people they are Connected to in some way. There are some other instances that I'm forgetting, I'm sure. So, I think we can assume that telepathy becomes possible with Connection. What I really wonder about is if a large amount of artificial Connection, created through means of Feruchemical Duralumin or Bondsmith powers, would facilitate telepathy. If you were to tap a bunch of Duralumin at once, would the Connection that it gives you to other people let you speak to them telepathically? Likewise, could a Bondsmith use their powers to facilitate telepathy? We see in Oathbringer that Dalinar uses Bondsmithing (is that the correct term?) to forge a Connection to someone from another country to speak their language, even though he never learned it. I think it's also implied that F-Duralumin would let you speak a foreign language. Is this a kind of telepathy, or something different? I think using Medallion technology could do interesting things with Connection when using Duralumin, but I don't know how you'd use it to allow telepathy. On a side note, how would you make it so that the F-Duralumin focuses specifically on a single person? I understood that using F-Duralumin Connected you to everyone around you, so if you did use it to allow telepathy, wouldn't you have a telepathic connection to everyone around you?

The weird thing about Lift is that she can get investiture from food. So, eating food gives her the fuel needed for her Surgebinding. However, if she were to burn Lerasium and become a Mistborn, I think that burning metals would not really affect her Surgebinding at all, but rather act like normal allomancy. This is because the metals she is burning are specifically keyed toward allomancy, and therefore do not affect her other powers when she is burning them. But certain aspects of Allomancy (and Feruchemy, I might add) have weird effects on investiture, specifically the enhancement metals (Aluminum, Duralumin, Chromium, Nicrosil). It's possible that if a Surgebinder (or anyone using another kind of magic) were to access the enhancement metals in both Allomancy and Feruchemy, then we'd have amplified effects of those other magic systems. This is why I'm excited for Mistborn Era 4: In the Cosmere's space age, we'll get to see an interesting mixing of investiture. So you're theorizing in the right place, though I think in the end it will probably be more complicated.

"I don't think we should be giving universe killing bombs to people all over the place," Darrin said.

Darrin blinked. "A...bomb. To blow up a universe. How in existence does that work?"

Darrin sighed. "I know that. I mean, can I hold the box? Look inside? Carefully inspect it?" Darrin turned to Nameless. "Out of curiosity," he asked, "Which kind of chickens do you hate? Normal ones, Rosharan ones, or the cucoos from Hyrule and the surrounding areas?"

Watching Rena walk over to the man with the gauntlet and the buttoned box, the boy (Who was named Darrin Meyer) thought to himself: Huh. I guess I won't have to be the one to talk him out of destroying a universe. It relieved him, in a way. His work generally pertained to the conflicts within universes, not random ones that threatened universes themselves. But who is this man? And what's in his box? And who's in charge of this mysterious pocket dimension? "May I look at the box?" asked Darrin, gesturing to the strange container covered in buttons.

"I would say destroying a universe is a rather odd thing to do on any day," the boy said. "Who's paying you? Do you know why?" He thought for a moment. "More importantly, how? What method or magic or device is giving you the capability to do this?" He gestured to the man's gauntlet. "Is it that? Because if it is, it's incredibly dangerous and should probably not exist." He looked around. "Who's in charge of this place, anyway?"

The boy hesitated. "It's a good thing there's more than one, then. May I ask why?" He paused, then added: "And may I also suggest that you don't? Universes are usually pretty amazing places. I would hate to see one obliterated."

"Ah, I see..." The boy said. "That makes sense. I've heard of this place before." He turned to the man in the strange gauntlet. "What appointment are you waiting for, out of curiosity?" He asked politely.

"I'm actually waiting for a flight, believe it or not," the boy says, looking up from his computer. "I was unaware that airports had secluded waiting rooms like this. Very interesting..."

A boy in his mid teenage years walks in. He is wearing a simple outfit consisting of a blue T-shirt, jeans, black sneakers, blue glasses, and a very large backpack that looks like it's filled with books. A small leather pouch is tied to his belt. He looks around the room in interest, then sits in a nice comfy chair and pulls a computer out of his backpack. Though he seems to be focused on typing on the computer, he often looks around the room, as if analyzing it and those inside.

Powers: Manipulation over the fabric of Space-time, to start. This would allow me to fly by changing gravity, teleport, manipulate timeflow to an extent, and would give me a Prime Invincibility by putting myself in a space-time pocket that lets light, sound, and air in, but nothing else. Secondary: Slight fire powers, but these fires would be blue. Nothing on the level of Obliteration and Firefight (Or what Firefight appears to look like, anyway.) Weakness: If someone thinks I'm a normal person, and not a nerd who is different from the rest of society, then they can hurt me. My paranoia is resolved by making sure everyone knows I'm weird, and a nerd, but in a specific way. So instead of widespread propaganda based on fear and lies, like what other epics do, mine is based on fear and truth. Name: Nightfire. Evil Manifestation: If someone is really into some aspect of modern pop culture (though I don't know how much of that is left in the Reckoner's universe), I will be very annoyed. My underlings make sure that I am never exposed to "popular" songs, because I generally hate them. I will show mercy on those who are fans of a specific pre-calamity author who's name is Brandon Sanderson. (In this timeline, he never wrote the Reckoners series.) Costume: A simple blue t-shirt, black cargo pants, blue glasses, and black sneakers. And a deep blue cloak to look cool. City: I rule over a floating city with twisted gravity. It's a very disorenting place to live in, as different areas of the city have gravity that pulls you in different ways. You could be driving on a road one way, and in one minute be completely upside-down relative to how you were a minute ago, but you would still be pulled toward the road. This design makes it difficult for the Reckoners to try and kill me, because if they do, the entire city falls out of the sky and very many innocents die. (I understand that there is a floating city in Lux, but I actually haven't read it yet, so if something doesn't make sense about it, just know that I haven't read the only canon example of a floating city.)

Maybe Hoid just doesn't like the Heralds, so he pretended to be them doing dumb things, and poof! The Ten Fools now exist as part of Vorin Culture. On the Whimsy theory, I do like it. However, it seems a little implausible that Whimsy would get involved in a multi-shardic conflict just to make a joke. But who knows! This is Whimsy, after all. They can do whatever they want, acting on every little Whim. ...I do like the idea of insane cognitive shadows wandering around the Cosmere causing chaos, though...

We do see that the Singers were kind, welcoming those from Ashyn after they accidentally destroyed their own planet. They gave the Ashynites Shinovar, which is why the whole area is a lot more Earth-like. However, we now see that these Ashynite humans eventually went on to take over the entire planet. The interesting thing to me is that at one point, Odium was the god of the Ashynites, and Honor and Cultivation were the gods of the Singers. So something happened during that ambiguous time lost to history where the two groups basically switched gods. Perhaps conflicts were arising between the two peoples, and the Singers called on Odium for help, or something along those lines. The thing to keep in mind when reading Stormlight is that the real villain is Odium. The Singers, for the most part, are just a people who have constantly been given the short end of the stick. When looking at Singer viewpoints in Words of Radiance and Oathbringer, and especially the scenes where Kaladin temporarily joins a group of Singers, we see that these are good people, with a unique culture, who have suffered and been enslaved for far too long. There are some other scenes in Rhythm of War that kind of help to enforce this. I don't know how the rest of the conflict is going to go, but I do agree that the Singers should be able to live peacefully and freely on their own world again, ruling over it rightfully, once it is all over. If any humans remain on Roshar, then they should be living peacefully with the Singers, instead of trying to rule over them. I'm sure most of the singers would be overjoyed to be freed from Odium, and I think that if all goes well in this war, that goal just might be able to be achieved. Especially if most of the humans are able to return to their original home of Ashyn, though considering the state it's in, I have absolutely no idea of how you'd make it fully habitable again. (Except maybe a Dawnshard, but those are what destroyed it in the first place.)

I'm currently reading through the Shadow Saga series by Orson Scott Card. (I recently finished his Ender Saga.) I need to hurry up and finish it, because then I need to read the Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov before Brandon Sanderson's Secret Projects come out. (But knowing how fast I gobble up good books, I'll probably be looking for something to fill the time between Foundation and SP1.) I really need to read Wheel of Time again. I got to book eight on my first attempt, and then just fell out of it because I started reading other books when I shouldn't have.

I am a huge fan of the Xenoblade Chronicles Series, and have completed the main story of every game and DLC (including Future Connected). Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is my thing to look forward to, then the thing to keep me occupied, until Brandon Sanderson's Secret Projects come out. I can't wait! Did anyone catch the part in the second trailer where they all summon their weapons like Shardblades?

A-Bendalloy, then either F-Copper, F-Steel, or F-Nicrosil. If I had F-Steel, I could just drop my bubble, move really fast until I need to stop, then throw up another one. Everyone else is in infinite slow-motion. I can also just store my speed while I'm in the Bendalloy bubble, so I don't really loose any time relative to everyone else. F-Copper, because I'm known as a smart science nerd, and it would be really handy to be able to store memories like that. If I'm a worldhopper though, with lots of types of magic at my disposal (like Hoid!), it would be nice to have F-Nicrosil, to store investiture and use it for later. And whatever other weird things F-Nicrosil does. So there you have it. My rant about being torn between F-Copper, F-Steel, or F-Nicrosil.

This has spoilers for Rhythm of War, Hero of Ages, and late Mistborn Era 2. (and possibly minor Elantris spoilers.) If you haven't read them yet, proceed at your own risk. This is a question that I've wanted to ask Brandon Sanderson for a while. But now I have an account on the Shard, so I can ask all of you and see what you think about it. At the end of Hero of Ages, we see that Sazed takes up both Ruin and Preservation and forms a new shard, Harmony. All the investiture of both Ruin and Preservation becomes part of this new shard, and so the investiture of those shards is now instead keyed toward Harmony. We see that Harmony also has a new god metal, Harmonium. Here's a WoB, however, that I find interesting for this theory. So we see that the fundamental aspect of the investiture has changed, so that the solidified form of Harmony's investiture is physically more than just a mixture of the solidified investiture of Ruin and Preservation. Now I want to talk about Rhythm of War. In RoW, Navani conducted experiments that led her to discover Warlight, which was a fusion of Honor's and Odium's investiture, and Towerlight, which is a fusion of Honor's and Cultivation's. (I think it's also implied that there's a fusion of Odium's and Cultivation's investiture.) When we take this into account with what happened with Ruin and Preservation at the end of HoA, it makes me wonder: If, in some crazy hypothetical scenario, Honor were to fuse with Odium in the way Ruin did with Preservation, would the resulting shard's investiture be Warlight? Likewise, if Honor fused with Cultivation, would the resulting shard's investiture be Towerlight? Or is it more complicated than that? If Navani were to take the gaseous investiture of Ruin and Preservation, and perform with them the same experiments she did with Stormlight and Voidlight, would the fusion of those investitures make Harmony's investiture? Likewise, if that new fused investiture were solidified (I don't know how you'd do that), would the resulting metal be Harmonium? There's also another example of the possible fusion of Shardic investiture (Is that a real term, or did I make it up?). The Dor. The Dor is a somewhat...unconventional fusion of the investitures of Dominion and Devotion. (Not that any fusion of Shards is conventional.) If we had Navani take Dominion and Devotion's gaseous investiture and fuse them, would the resulting investiture be a little piece of the Dor? Or is the unstable and chaotic nature of the Dor different than two shards being held by one vessel? So, basically, this theory is just wondering if the fusion of investiture from different Shards provides a glimpse of the investiture that would be created if the Shards were fused. If this idea turns out to be correct, it kind of opens up the ultimate Cosmere mix-and-match of Shardic investiture, with the potential for way more types of Lights and God Metals than we ever expected. Tell me what you think! Is this crazy, or does it actually make some sense?

Thank you! I'm happy to be here. I'm happy that I can talk about things here like Cognitive aspects, Spiritwebs, Surgebinding, and supposed gravitational time dilation due to massive amounts of Investiture, and people won't look at me weird. The Shard is a great place. There's another one: You know you're a Sanderfan when you can talk about things like Cognitive aspects, Spiritwebs, Surgebinding, and supposed gravitational time dilation due to massive amounts of Investiture and people look at you weird.

I'm new here, and I have a whole list. When people at your school who are complete non-Sanderfans know what Shardblades are. When you spend $200 on the Secret Projects. When you have a dream where you hover slightly without realizing it, and attribute the ability to Windrunner powers. When you have another dream where you summon a Shardblade when you're attacked. When the white board at your work always has a stick drawn on it saying "I am a stick." When you're writing a persuasive speech in oral comm about why people should read Brandon Sanderson's books, then get distracted and spend half the class period looking at quotes by Brandon Sanderson. When you stay up till midnight finishing Rhythm of War, then spend another hour and a half reading articles on the Coppermind. When you daydream about meeting someone who is just as big a Sanderfan as you, because you seem to be all alone in your Sanderfan-ness. And I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting, and more that will come in the future.