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Quote from: Ari54 on April 01, 2010, 11:50:04 PM

Ruin and preservation working together ala Sazed is what we'd probably see if any two Shards of Adonalsium worked together.

Any two that fit each other as perfectly as Ruin and Preservation do.

Which of course leads to the speculation that they might come in pairs.  Hmm... what would we get if we mixed Preservation with, say, Endowment?

Quote from: happyman on April 02, 2010, 03:31:58 AM

What I find interesting is that he was able to use the power of preservation to talk to Spook only because Spook thought of him, at least partially, as divine.  Why does faith play this role in the Cosmere, do you suppose?

As for the rest of the speculation, we know that as an Allomancer, Kelsier had limited access to Preservation's power even in life.  It might be possible that that connection, along with a certain amount of faith from the Church of the Survivor, allowed him to temporarily hack into the deeper powers that Preservation had?

Ah, the world-building is tantalizing.  Any other guesses?

It has to do with the spiritual realm affecting te physical and mental realms.

Go Realmatic Theory!

You should have kept reading Helios.  You know how everyone says it's awesome? They're right!  Shardblades and Shardplate and Lashing and Stormlight and Spren and a King and women with one really long sleeve, all in the same prologue!  I sure I had a big goofy grin on my face the entire time I spent reading it.  Epic Win!

I imagine that something that would have killed anyone else, but not like having his skin ripped off, happened to him, but he used his crazy allomantic feruchemy healing to get all better.  As the story of his recovery spread, the wounds he sustained became more extreme with each re-telling, and he never bothered to correct them.

I was walking through the BYU bookstore in late 2006.  The cover of a certain book caught my eye.  I walked over and picked it up.  There was a blurb on the front by Orson Scott Card, proclaiming it to be the greatest book of fantasy to be written in many years.  I flipped it over and read the back.  At the line, "Eternity ended ten years ago," I knew I had to read the book.  I bought Elantris, which was only $7.00 hardback, presumably because Brandon teaches at BYU, took it home and loved it.  As soon as I finished, I went looking for more.  There was Mistborn.  That was actually full price, and I was poor, so every day between classes I would go to the bookstore, sit, and read.  Once 2007 hit, I went to Japan for two years for the same reason Brandon went to Korea.  But I gave explicit instructions that Well of Ascension be waiting for me when I got back.  I now own all three of the books, and all signed too.  I attended the Warbreaker release party and got #17.  And now, I'm reading the entire Wheel of Time for the first time because I'm a Brandon Sanderson fan, rather than the other way around.  Go Brandon!

Yeah, he'd probably finish SA before starting on Dragonsteel, or, say, the next Mistborn trilogy.  But I understand that he's got a lot of ideas for standalone novels, including possible sequels for Elantris and Warbreaker.

Ahh, but in HoA we learn that Ruin definitely cannot read anything on metal, because he can't actually see it.  It's just blinding light.  That's why Marsh had to read Goradel's message for him.  And aren't we glad he did.