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Mistborn - 17th Shard, the Official Brandon Sanderson Fansite I was recently introduced to the Cosmere by my brother and I started reading Mistborn Right now I am reading the Well of Ascension, and something doesn't make sense Vin and Elend can't find the atium stash anywhere in the city, but it has to be nearby, right? I just got to the part where Dockso
The origin of Adonalsium (the word) - Cosmere Discussion - 17th Shard . . . Out of curiosity I was trying to dissect the name Adonalsium to see if there may be something interesting there to understand This is what I found Using Google translate (I know, not the most accurate source of translation) I found I could break up the the word into Adon and Alsium Adon is a t
Shallans Sketchbook - Part I - Rhythm of War Liveblog - 17th Shard . . . I can really imagine those inward-facing balconies becoming a thriving neighborhood community It’s interesting to me that the main atrium at least does not close off between tiers I’m really not up on deciphering the numeric glyphs, and decided it wasn’t worth it at this time since i don’t know what units are being used to measure things
[Secret History] Hoid and the Well of Ascension You have right, but while he wrote Secret History, He notice that would be impossible to Hoid to be with the terrismen when they met Vin and reaches the Well before her (because the Well is the only active perpendicularity on Scadrial at that moment) So he change the Hoid route, He knowed where the Well was, he took the Lerasium and THEN he went with the Terrismen
Cosmere Discussion (no WaT) - 17th Shard, the Official Brandon . . . You can further wonder if Discord, which I guess you could imagine might separate Harmonium or could cause it to instantly detonate, could be somehow created with specific application of tones in a perfect un-harmony, but as everything that comes even close to Harmony and Shard Tones rhythms gets RAFO'd, and as Preservation's rhythm may simply be "The infinity of a note held perfectly, never
Official Hemalurgy Chart!!!!! - 17th Shard, the Official Brandon . . . Refining would be required to remove the "impurity" of the alloyed metal, giving you a "purified atium" (patium? p-atium? atium prime? atrium?) that could be used as a Hemalurgic wildcard This would also have implications on the last Wax and Wayne title - the Lost Metal being this purified atium
[OB] Dimensions of Urithiru - 17th Shard, the Official Brandon . . . EDIT: Updated with some suggested numbers from the thread It is a little hard to grasp the scale of the tower city Even Shallan can't capture it on the page! (To talk about that issue and whether it is driven by scale, psychology, or magic, see this thread ) Here are all of the physical descript