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== Top Questions ==
* there seem to be two definitions for "focus". 1) Something required for magic control. 2) The theme or common attribute of all the magic on a planet. Those two are not always the same, (like on Nathis). Do you have different terms for those concepts? For which one do the shards have a weakness? (He seems to be using catalyst.)
* Does every planet have a number of importance or power? Or every shard? Or a combination of the shards on a planet?
* Is the drunk in the prologue of the Way of Kings one of the Heralds?
* Could an Aluminum metalmind be used to heal physical wounds?
* Are there other ways, in other magic systems, to do what Hemalurgy does, specifically to create a work-around in the spiritual DNA to give you access to other magic systems? Could Forgery do it?
* If you have used a Soulstamp on yourself, and then worldhopped, would it still work on the new world for at least the rest of the day? The next day?
* If Harmony left Scadrial, would Allomancy still work on the planet?
* Did Hoid ever have a chat with the shard Preservation?
* The names & characters of the Unmade seem to all be based on characters of religion and mythology. Who is Sja-anat based on?
* Which world is currently the most technologically advanced?
* Do all worldhoppers we have seen have the ability to worldhop on their own or do some of them hitch a ride with another worldhopper?
* Is Frost on Roshar? Is Frost human? (I think the answer to both is no)
* You have mentioned there was a Terriswoman with a cameo in Warbreaker. Have we also seen her in any other book, either the Mistborn series or others?
== [[White Sand]] - [[Taldain]] ==
=== Open ===
Unpublished
* is it lichen that covers the sand?
* does water trigger some magic from the lichen? There is a flash. But if it is, how is it doing that?
* why are there prismatic light effects from the sand?
* how does the tip of one thread kill another?
Graphic Novel
* Why did all the arrows seem to go to his father.
* Why did his power go away when it did?
* Why did it come back when it did?
=== Closed ===
== [[Elantris]] - [[The Emperor's Soul]] - [[Sel]] ==
=== Open ===
* Why is it hard to worldhop to and from Sel? Is it because both of the Shards are dead and Splintered? Or is it because most of the magic is location based? I read a WoB that said it was dangerous to go to the shadesmar on Sel. Is that why it is hard to get there? Why would be dangerous? It seems that most people that go in the shardpool get disintegrated, they have to be very strong will to not. Is that related? WoB: It has to do with the Dor and the lack of an entity controlling much of the power [i.e. the two shards] Odium left in his wake on Sel. WoB about how you can worldhop, something about Raoden did not correctly interpret one of the Aons. Is part of the reason related to the fact there were two conflicting intents uncontrolled?
* Seons communicate with other seons through the [[cognitive Realm]]?
* Seons don't have access to extra information in the cognitive realm? They don't seem to be able to talk to each other without seeing them? (Sarene’s Seon, Ashe, seemed he had to go find some other Seons) Except they can connect across distances? Only if they know them?
* Do Seons only exist near Elantris, because they are Aons, and because of the geography? They seem to have been created there, but they can go anywhere? (There was a quote by Brandon a about seonds traveling to other planets)
* Seons sleep? “He didn’t like being disturbed after he had fallen asleep”
* How do Seons travel? Mai was broken in Elantris, and they awake in Teod. Did s/he wander over there? Dio was in Teod, then showed up on the wall of Elantris to talk to Hrathen. And he had to make that trip quickly, because he was sent when word got back to Eventeo that Salene was in Elantris, and showed up there after two or three days.
* Keseg taught unity. (There was a conversation about it. Don't remember where) Could that be a unity between Devotion and Dominion? Or is Unity just Devotion? Or could it just be a reoccuring theme of the cosmere?
* Dilaf’s hatred seems excessive for Dominion. Could he be affected by Odium? When did Odium Splinter Devotion and Dominion? Was he still around, or could his influence still be felt?
* What is the Dor? Is it the Splintered power from both Dominion and Devotion, and all of that is mostly just floating around in the Cognitive right now?
=== Guessed ===
* Why is the elantrian magic so freaken powerful? On Roshar you have to convince an object to change, or use a fabrial and pay for it with your health, plus it is never quite right. Over in MaiPon (Emperors Soul) you have to write a plausible history for the object that could-have-been, and the seal must remain attached. In Elantris, you just draw up the correct Aon, and BAMB, garbage is food. (someone's comment: In a word, Elantris. It's a massive power booster the size of an entire city. The weak, pitiful effects prior to Raodan fixing the Aon are the normal, unboosted level of Aondor power. There's also been some theorizing that prior to the creation of Elantris, all Arelons could use Aondor just like Forging, Dakhor, etc, and that Elantris concentrated that power into a select few, those struck by the Shaod, and thus gave them an extreme powerup. My comment: could this be called compounding?) WoB, something about the way it accesses the Dor. (https://wob.coppermind.net/events/358/#e10728)
* How did the Seons come into being? A: We know that Seons are splinters of Devotion, and they did not exist before Odium kill and splintered Devotion. So they were not likely created by purpose by a shard. They are most likely splinters that gained sentience after Devotion splintered. However, they have Aons at their center, which doesn't seem to me to be something that would happen by accident. Sounds like someone found a way to draw an Aon in the air, with a control that would keep the Aon from getting triggered. But when they did, the splintered power built up behind the Aon, enough that the splinter gained sentience.
* Brandon once said that the ending of Mistborn was hidden in the first chapter epigraphs. What does that mean?
* Tan (Alloy, chapt 1) said He saw God, death and life. which I assume is ???, Marsh and Kelsier. Is there a Kandra (TenSoon?) still playing the part of Kelsier?
* The other weird thing is the entire display of dead people seemed to be for Wax's benefit, like he knew he was coming. Hoid is supposed to have some way to know the future a bit. Some feruchemical way. Although I think it probably has to do with an Atium alloy.
* "Drop of red glass colored like blood". What is that? Not likely to be something to be with the ghostbloods. But still, what is it?
* why does tan keep talking about being puppets? What he just crazy, or is there something more going on?
* how did bleeder change so quickly into the Governor after being shot, and even had time to go down the tunnel and leave a message? Just all through speed?
* is there a difference between how Atium works and other metals? All other metals are just the key to pull investiture which would power the magic. Pulling that investiture is pulling a bit of preservation. And we know the the mists are also part of the body/power of preservation. But Atium itself is part of the body/power of Ruin. So, Atium isn't a key? Or it is Both?
* Wayne says "Blarek" in the first book when he gets poisoned by th Butler. What does that mean?
=== Closed ===
No, Sazed fixed them a bit. Made them better and able to have children.
* Constable-General Brettin was not acting like himself at the end. Was he Kandra? '''A:''' Yes. He was TenSoon. WoB: http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=706#9, http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=706#12
* Marsh said "His brother's work", is that Kelsier? '''A:''' Yes, and Kelsier is still meddling. http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=706#6 although it was actually just in reference to Kelsier's original goals of taking care of those that could not take care of themselves. http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=1151#79
* What is the pun from mistborn of “Holds the future of the world on his arms”? Just that the wording sounds like “In his hands”, or hold it “In his arms”. But because it is “On” it really means the copperminds? Yah, got to be.
* Can someone from another planet burn Larasium and become mistborn? In other words, does larasium require sDNA to work, or does it change sDNA? It seems that Hoid was sure it would change him, so it must change sDNA and modify your spiritweb (and pDNA and cDNA as well) to make it work.
* Brandon once said “I wonder what Sazed is doing with the extra power from Ruin to keep the power in balance?” I am sure it was RAFO tease, but yah, what IS he doing with it? What COULD he do with it? He would have to push it off some of it somewhere. I can only think of two options: 1) physical investiture (shardpool) in liquid, solid or gas form, 2) or splinter some off into living creatures or make spren. It doesn't look like it can be the second. (Q: Are there still no Splinters on Scadrial, after the events of the Alloy of Law? A: Yes, there are no Splinters on Scadrial. Unless they've been brought. [Several people cried out "Hoid!"] There are no Splinters of Ruin or Preservation. http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/4254-chicago-steelheart-signing-2-wheeling/#entry66703)
He is sending it back into the pits again, as we found out in the second book.
* Tan (alloy, chapt 1) In the same instant, Tan yanked Lessie to the right. How did he know the timing? Options:
** Atium. No, according to WoB
** Electrum misting: He could have seen his own actions and known if he didn't do something he would be shot in the head. However, how did he get the timing right? And he was shot in the head later anyway.
** Chromium ferring: Store up enough luck that he could get the timing just right?
** Electrum/Chromium twinborn:
** Chromium twinborn compounder: Super luck? Would it be needed?
** Tin savant. Not likely, he didn't have anything shading his eyes.
** Steel (speed) ferring, or steel compounder: But would "speed" be enough? The time it takes for his mind to register the gun shot, it might be to late to move fast.
** Tin and Steel twinborn: Might help, he could hear Lesley blink.
** Zinc (mental speed) ferring, zinc compounder:
** Tin and Zinc twinborn, or Electrum and Zinc twinborn:
** Hemelergy?
** '''None of these, that Harmony actually forced Lesslie to move, to get Wax to move back to the city.'''
* is there anything supernatural about Wayne's ability to mimic, mix accents? Nothing supernatural. (https://wob.coppermind.net/events/80/#e5278)
== [[The Stormlight Archive]] - [[Roshar]] ==
=== Open ===
* So many people seem to have Violet eyes. Usually light violet. Is there a reason? (I saw a WoB that eye color relates to the original KR Orders, which I think would mean the people we have seen are descendants of a a specific order)
* I have seen several WoB quotes now about how all the Shards have been on Roshar at some time, or invested on Roshar. What up wit that? Can I find the quotes again?
* What was the black sphere Gavilar gave the Szeth? It's likely voidlight, but does it hold a voidspren? Or an unmade?
* So, Gavilar told Szeth to tell his brother to find the "Most important words..." which I have to think are the oaths of the Knights Radiant. However, his shardblade didn't seem to be a live blade... and he didn't seem to have any other powers, like healing, etc. So did he know them or not? Did he just know about them?
* Someone figured out that Honor was Splintered, just from WoKs. Brandon said “Someone was paying attention” so it wasn’t obvious. Which tells me that just because Odium killed Honor, it doesn’t mean it was Splintered. So how do we know? Maybe Odium would not just kill, but Splintered all shards he killed, because he is trying to become most powerful. So is Cultivation still alive, and not Splintered? Maybe Odium doesn’t care about killing, but he only cares about Splintering, which requires him to kill. Another thought, it seems spren are the general outcrop from splintering, although they can be created by a non-splintered Shard, all the shards we know are splintered have spren.
* There are three Honorblades out in the world. Who has them? Szeth had one, but now Kaladin has it. I thought for a second Dalinar had one, but now I don't think so. Nale has his, cause he went back and got it back, so the Shin never had it. But we still don't know who has Taln's. And is that it or are there any others out there.
* Liss the assassin either has one of the Honorblades, or an unknown Shardblade, or is a surgebinder and has a live blade.
* What is Rinarin’s box? (watch for it this time)
* The stormfather acts like everything in his bond is new. But he has been bonded before, right? Whats up?
* How does a Desolation actually end? All of the fused are killed?
* Was Ilamar a potential Windrunner? WOK 382, Windspren danced past as he charged.
=== Guessed ===
* Why does Szeth's eyes change color with his honor blade (Wor, pg 314) but Nale's don't, (don't remember for sure where), and Taln's don't (end of wok)
** Could it be that szeth has to pull in stormlight for his surges, but the heralds have a hack that lets them get investiture from somewhere else? https://wob.coppermind.net/events/100-rbooks-ama-2015/#e3398
=== Closed ===
* The Knights all seem to have Regrowth, in addition to their two abilities. How does that work? Maybe Regrowth is different from general healing.
** '''Answer''': Universal healing is a general power.
** WoB: question: is healing a universal stormlight power then? Answer: Yes, within reason. some are better at it, but it is a universal power.
* Why does Kaladin’s bond only work to protect? Did he lose his bond because he made two conflicting oaths, so he could not keep both?
** '''Answer''': Not really. The only oath that really matters is the oath of the Knights Radiant, the words of the oath. If he breaks that however, he loses the bond, and kills his spren.
* What would happen if Kaladin hangs onto the honorblade of Szeths? Would that be a compounding of his current abilities?
** '''Answer''': Some.
** WoB: Q: If a non Windrunner picked up Jezrien's honorblade would they gain Windrunner powers as well? A: Yes
** Q: If a Windrunner picked up that blade, would their abilities be enhanced? A: There would be some compounding but strength is not as much an issue with surgebinding as is the strength of the spren bond and how much Stormlight you are using.
* Vasher/Zahel? Who is that? I guess we have seen him, but I dont remember who it is. I read the Vasher was on the Warbreaker planet and had Nightblood at some point.
** '''Answer''': Oh, that is the swordmaster. I thought he was a worldhopper.
** WoB: Q: How long has Zahel been slumming it on Roshar? A: For quite a long time, on this planet he can get something quite easily that is much harder to get where he came from.
** Q: Why is Vasher on Roshar? Is he trying to get back Nightblood? A: Kind of a RAFO. I won't go into all his reasons right now but there is one thing that was difficult to get on Nalthis that is much easier to get on Roshar. Going to Roshar solved that problem for him.
** Can stormlight be used instead of Breath to keep Vasher alive?. Yes. [http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=1160#18]
* What is the [[Stormfather]], another spren or a Herald, or both?
** '''Answer''': He is a god-spren. A large powerful splinter of Honor.
* Aren’t Ghostbloods an organization created by Taravangian?
** '''Answer''': No. His group is called the Diagram.
* Wait, Nalan is Darkness? http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/6698-missing-honorblade/ what evidence do we have for that?
** '''Answer''': It seems that his description is enough. Later books we know that for sure.
* why would the diagram send Szeth to kill Dalinar and then a small group to kill the king? Why not Szeth for both?
** '''Answer''': The small group was not doing it on the direction of Taravangian. Groups have freedom to do what they want. And that group thought they had read and understood the plan, that it would be best served by killing the king. Even so, they planned on blaming it on Szeth.
* Odium can affect people like Ruin did. How?
** '''Answer:''' He can affect the Parsendi when they take on the stormspren, because those spren have a hole in them like what is caused by the spikes. But Ruin could also just push the people a bit, as could Preservation. But they could only do that because they created the people. Odium can affect people also, but has to do it through the unmade.
** WoB: Can Odium influence people the same way that Ruin can?... etc [http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/20500-orem-library-signing-on-december-6/?p=204063 orem signing 2014])
* Dalinar did not have an Honorblade, because the stormfather called it an abomination, and I don’t think you have to bond with an HonorBlade. So either the Stormfather lied, or Taln is not Taln, the Herald? Because a Herald would not have an dead-spren ShardBlade.
** '''Answer''': Someone swapped blades.
** (WoB: Q: At the very end of WoR, Dalinar touches a Shardblade and it screams at him. Should that particular Blade have been safe? A: No, it should not have. It's a clue that something has happened. There are other clues that something is wrong with what the story you've been told is.)
* What is Elsecalling?
** '''Answer''': This is the ability to drop into the Cognitive Realm.
** WoB: Q: Is Jasnah still alive at the end of the book, since the whole scene where she kind of appears… A: Yes, she is. Q: Why does she take so long to come back? A: Because Elsecalling is not precise even if you know exactly what you're doing, which she doesn't.
** There was another WOB where he says she should know how to get back, but she has not figured that out yet.
* Three different types of Shardblades: (WoB: You have seen three different kinds in WoK: http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=977#108)
** '''Answer''': Either Honorblades, Live blades and dead blades, - OR - Honorblades, Radient blades, and Created blades like Nighblood.
** WoB: Nightblood is a very unique kind of Shardblade, but IS a Shardblade. https://www.goodreads.com/author/38550.Brandon_Sanderson/questions
** [http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=1084#15]
* I am not sure about the reason the Final Desolation is coming, It seems circular. The Final Desolation is going to be caused by the Parshendi turning into voidbringers, but that is happening because they saw surgebinders returning, but the spren are binding with men again because they sense the Final Desolation is coming.
** '''Answer:''' the spren see the return of Odiums spren. It is the return that will cause it, everything else comes from that. WoR page 109, chapter 13 "spren of ''him''. they come."
* Dalinar wife? How did she die, and why can't he hear her name? I think he can’t hear her name because of a Nightwatcher curse... I can’t remember.
** '''Answer''' Answered in Oathbringer. She died in a battle he caused. Cultivation erased his memory.
* What is Nightwatcher? Old magic? She gives boons and curses. You ask for a boon and a curse comes with it, but how does that work?
** '''Answer''': She is a god-spren like the stormfather, a splinter of Cultivation. We see her in work (along with Cultivation) in Oathbringer.
** (WoB: Q: Nightwatcher's curses all appear to be neurological in effect, are the boons limited in any particular manner? A: Yes.
* What causes the Desolation? Why has it not happened for so many years? Taln was the only one left, and nothing happened for 4500 years.
** '''Answer''': The Desolation is caused by the Fuzed coming back. But they can't come back unless one of the Heralds agrees to let them come back, or if none of the Heralds go to Braize after the end of the last one.
** WoB: Q: Is a Desolation caused when a Herald breaks under torture? A: This person is asking the right kinds of questions.
** Q: What caused a Desolation to end? Was it just the defeat of Odium's forces? Because the Desolations start when the Heralds break under torture. A: Because the Heralds can no longer be in existence. There is a certain period of time that they can be there, and after that, if they're there, they will start a new one. So the Heralds do need to leave for a Desolation to end.
** Q: Oh. So they've got a time limit. A: They do. Otherwise the Desolation will start again. What they discovered is not all of them have to. As long as one remains, the Desolation will not start again.
** Q: So, by the nine leaving, did that actually break the Oathpact for them? Did it change the cycle of Desolations? A: They have not completely broken the Oathpact, despite what they may think.
* What are Voidspren, vs regular spren?
** '''Answer''': Any Shard can create spren, especially on Roshar which had many non-intelligent spren before the Shattering of Adonalsium. Voidspren just belong to Odium.
** WoB: Um, there are spren of all three shards. And those spren can work within the bounds of the magic that has already been set up on Roshar.)
* What was the reason the Parshendi killed Gavilar? Were they afraid he would bring back the KR, which would cause them to bring back the Void Bringers?
** '''Answer''': Explained in Oathbringer. He had voidlight, and wanted to bring back the voidbringers, which he hoped would then bring back the KR.
* I think Parshendi are different than Parshmen. There was some phrase like “our dullform makes it easy for us to blend”. If so, then will all parshmen turn into voidbringers? Or only the Parshendi spies?
** '''Answer''': Answered in Oathbringer. Parshmen have lost part of their sentience. They are different than dullform which is a choice. When Parshmen have that restored, they are just like other Parshendi. Then they could merge with a voidspren, or even worse, become a fuzed.
* Are other species able to use magic?
** '''Answer''': yes, but each possible in different ways.
* I am not clear about how everyone stopped the Desolations. It seems everyone broke out of what they were doing. The Parshendi turned to dullform, the KR gave up their shardblades and their oaths, the Heralds gave up their honorblades and their oathpact. But since I don't know why the desolations come, I don't know what that did.
** '''Answer''': These events happened at different times. The Desolations stopped because the Fused could not get back, because Taln took so long to break. However, it took about 2000 years after the end of the Last Desolation before the fighting fully stopped, after the Parshendi lost their Connection because of the capture of that one spren, and the KR broke their oaths.
== [[Warbreaker]] - [[Nalthis]] ==
Spren are splinters (WoB). Splinters have intent (WoB). Splinters are chunks of investiture (WoB). Chunks of investiture can gain spontaneous sentience (WoB). Nightblood is fundamentally the same as a spren (WoB), and is a chunk of investiture (Warbreaker), has been given an intent(Warbreaker), and is sentient(Warbreaker); thus he is a splinter (Deduction).
* How or Why does Denth have the Royal Locks? WoB: Q Does Denth have the Royal Locks, independent of being a Returned? A Yes. (Good question.)
* Why does Denth and the God King’s head priest have a variation of the same name? VaraTreledees and Treledees.
* Why is lightsong so good at detective work?
=== Closed ===
In this chapter, we also get the first hints that children and animals like Vasher. That’s another hint about his nature—though a very, very subtle one, since I haven’t talked about how animals and children all like Returned. They can sense the divine Breath within him, and it comforts them.
(http://brandonsanderson.com/annotation-warbreaker-chapter-forty-nine/)
* How much Breath do you get back from an Awakened object, when you take it back? 100%? A: Yes. (WoB: Q: Is Awakening and BioChroma an end-neutral system? A: Yes. The amount of Breath you use, you don't lose Breath in the process of Awakening. [http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/7267-words-of-brandon-compiled-x-2/ Link])
Q: The definition you gave me a few years ago was that the Commands were the focus for Awakening, and Aons were the focus for AonDor, and metals are the focus for the Metallic Arts... and you haven't given us a proper definition.
A: RAFO)
* What are willshapers? On Roshar?
* Are there tools on each world (other than a hemarleric spike) that can change the sDNA to match the world? Or are there other ways to do it, perhaps unique to each world? (leading to, how the heck is Hoid getting power from each world?)
* Can Splintered shards be put back together? Can Adonalsium be put back together?
A: They are a group of people who aren't convinced that Hoid should be doing what he is doing.)
* Why does Aluminum have weird effects on all magic systems? (WoB: Q: You said that on Roshar the only reason they have aluminum is that they can Soulcast it, right? I think you said something like that … maybe? I was wondering how that would work, if an Allomancer were to-- A: Aluminum has some weird properties on all of the magic systems, not just allomancy. It does not have the same effect, but aluminum has some bizarre effects.)
* Three sentient races on Yolen? (WoB: Q: Were the original sixteen Shardholders after the shattering all human? A: Uh … RAFO. There are three races on Yolen. Three sentient races.) We know of Human, Dragon, and ???
* So who all was there for the Shattering? 16 + Hoid and
* How can Hemalergy work with other magic systems? Does it take the investiture or the sDNA from the host. I think the sDNA, but then what about other worlds where sDNA doesn't seem to mean as much as on Scadrial?
* If you managed to create an Aon that would work on Roshar, which Shard would you be pulling power from?
* So could someone pick up devotion or dominion? Or honor?
* Smoke from shardblades: What is the relation between the smoke that emits when a shardblade cuts, and smoke from Nightblood? Are they the same thing? What are they? (http://theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=666#5 WoB: Q: Is there any relation between the smoke that is emitted when a Shardblade cuts somebody and the smoke that Nightblood emits in Warbreaker? A: Yes, there is.)
* Some people are saying that Bavadin showed up on Sel. [http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=1146#2] What the heck? I can't find the original discussion on 17th shard to see where that is from.
* Investeture can not be destroyed. [http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=1116#3] so what does Nightblood do? [http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=1161#2]
=== Closed ===
* Can the magic on one world even work on another? They require the spiritual and genetic codes of the people born on the planet, so someone on another planet could not gain the power. However, can planet jumpers use their powers on other planets? Can the power work that far away from the shard / planet? ANSWER: Yes. from Brandon: Question: Can magic systems from one world work in any given other? Answer: For some, it will take quite a bit of work, but it's possible to get them each to work. Sel's magics are regional, and so they are going to be tough. Scadrial's magics are the easiest.
* Does every world have a cognitive realm? A version of shadesmar? (YES, they would have to since that seems to be the way to world hop, and it seems everything has a Cognitive and Spiritual nature)
* Does Hemalergy require the death of the person the sDNA is pulling from? No, but in most cases it would cause it because it causes damage to the soul. (WoB: Q: Hemalurgy, does the person having the metal shoved through them have to die? B: It has to rip off a piece of their soul. That normally results in death. [http://www.17thshard.com/news/events/giant-transcription-of-slcc-audio-r201 SLCC Transacription]) (WoB, Miles would probably be dead if spiked. https://www.goodreads.com/questions/109483-could-miles-heal-back-his-allomancy-if-it and part two: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/14995-goodreads-qa/page-4#entry169380)
* Who is the Author of the Ars Arcanum? What is it? (I think it is latin for “Art [of] Secrets” or Book of Secret Stuff.) Maybe Hoid wrote it? (Although the copper mind says no, it gives no reference) When was it created? Is it one book, or just a holding place for the secrets of each novel? It is one person, and not Hoid. Maybe Khriss? (WoB: Q: The Ars Arcanum in the back of [The Alloy of Law] - who is written by? A: Same person that's written every one of them.) (WoB: Q: A couple of days ago, you mentioned some person called Khriss. Has he actually appeared or been referenced in any of… A: She! has appeared and.... Q: I guessed as much because one of the pictures says "Dear woman!" toward the end of the book. A: She has appeared in--if you ask around about Khriss, she has appeared in unpublished books.Q: Is Khriss the author of some of the Ars Arcanums? A: [Teasing]Oh I dunno. That's very interesting Q: Does Khriss owe Nazh a new coat? A: [Long pause]I'll stay closed mouthed on Khriss.) (WoB: Q: In whose voice is the "Ars Arcanum" written? Hoid's? A: I've avoided answering that question. It's either Hoid or a member of the 17th Shard. That's as much answer as I'm giving anyone right now.) It is a woman that writes it, WoP: It is not a coicendence that the actor reading that part is a woman, http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/7131-nazh-in-words-of-radiance/page-2?qpid=166639. I am sure it is Khriss: [http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/23181-ars-arcana-author-confirmed/?p=226286 link].
* What is a “Dragon”? Someone from Yolin who has been around a while and done stuff? Some of which took up shards, and some of which did not? Dragons are dragons. They were one of 3 sentient species on Yolen. They can make themselves look human.
* Can stormlight be used to increase your hightening level? No. [http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=1160#18]
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