2. I am most of the way through the first mistborn book. I hope to finish it tonight (as I said, I don't have alot of time for reading right now so it takes me 2 weeks to finish a book). I don't recall seeing anything about the shard world info. I saw a post on the forum about how elantris, warbreaker, and mistborn are related as shardworld.
is that the atium? Does that appear in all the books? don't give away too much. I am at the beginning of the 5th part (I think).
Atium has nothing to do with it. Elantris, Warbreaker, and Mistborn are related in that they are all in the same universe with the same basic creation mythos. This has consequences related to how the magic systems work, and there may eventually be some stories tying everything together.
Very minor spoiler about a minor character (copy and paste to
rot13.com to read):
Gurer vf bar punenpgre gung nccrnef va nyy guerr frevrf. Ur hfhnyyl tbrf ol gur anzr bs Ubvq, naq guvf unf orra pbasvezrq ol Oenaqba gb npghnyyl or gur fnzr vaqvivqhny, abg whfg crbcyr funevat n anzr.
Somewhat more major spoiler about the creation mythos/magic system thing (again, rot13.com):
Gurer vf fbzrguvat pnyyrq Nqbanyfvhz (vg'f zragvbarq va bar bs gur Ureb bs Ntrf puncgre rcvtencuf, ohg zvffcryyrq jvgubhg gur y) juvpu jnf, nf sne nf jr pna gryy, cebonoyl fbzrguvat nxva gb Tbq. Nqbanyfvhz jnf oebxra sne va gur cnfg, naq vf abj va gur sbez bs znal qvfgvapg Funeqf, juvpu ner qvfgevohgrq npebff gur inevbhf jbeyqf va guvf svpgvbany havirefr. Gur cbjref bs gur Funeqf bs Nqbanyfvhz ner erfcbafvoyr sbe gur angher naq inevrgl bs gur zntvp flfgrzf va gurfr obbxf.