Bremen

If the machine could steal Design's Investiture than it could logically steal other spren's Investiture. So why would it need to stack rocks to attract the Hijo if it could just take the Investiture?

I've actually been wondering about that. We know far too little about the Yuki-Hijo system to make any certain predictions. Perhaps the Hijo withdraw their blessings when a Yuki-Hijo retires? Perhaps I'm wrong about large amounts of Investiture granting longer lifespans. I swear there was a WoB years ago about being heavily Invested effecting aging, but I could not find it. I could also be misremembering Shardcast discussion about a WoB... the two tend to blur together

I've long thought that was the general consensus... Radiants/Mistborn are not heavily invested, they can access large amounts of investiture, but it is not native to them.

If Red/Blue function as +/- perhaps Yellow is Neutral or Ground? This might be stretching the electromagnetism analogy too far, but I thought it was an interesting thought.

It is similar to Nightblood in that they both turn souls into black smoke (midnight essence?), and both required quite a large amount of investiture turn on. The stacking machine needed the extra power to maintain Hion Lines in line with it's command, and for occasional repair. Nightblood doesn't need to generate power to destroy evil (please nobody ever suggest this to them!), and they don't need repair either due to being so heavily invested. So either the machine is not as invested or due to differences in Nalthins/UTol awakening, or only it's central core/CPU is. That could be rather scary if the core of the machine survived...

Perhaps, but it seems unlikely that nobody would actually test this themselves. In order to be viable the government would have to be keeping watch on every dimensional traveler to make sure they don't get out of line. This wouldn't be that unreasonable in a futuristic society, except we see underworld figures have access to the technology, and we can assume the government doesn't have that sort of control over them.

I noticed this in Tress when referring to Sazed. I assumed this was because Brandon couldn't let him say Discord.

The Kobo one works for me if I manually put it on my device. However all attempts to add it using Calibre have resulted in the previous experience. I'm not sure if Calibre is mangling the book in some way or if something persists from previous attempts. The original epub also has the previous issue if manually put on the device. I am still on Calibre 6.10, waiting on the update...

I used one on backerkit (I thought that's the only one). Also Calibre 6.10, however I am on Linux.

No, I had similar issues on my Kobo e-reader. I tried reading in Calibre instead and everything looked normal. So I'm not sure if the problem is with the epub or the e-reader. I'm guessing Dragonsteel only tested with a Kindle.

I assume we all did

I'm going with Whimsy's world, just like he kept bringing up Aethers because it was on his mind, he also kept bringing up Whimsy and kite magic.

In one of Dalinar's visions Nohadon remarks that not all spren are as picky as Honorspren. Given the variety of people who become Lightweavers I feel it is rather likely that Cryptics are the least picky. They want to understand humans, and all humans are basically incomprehensible to them.

YES! I am unreasonably convinced that most/all of the Unmade were spren created by Adonalsium at the creation of Roshar. My theory was that BAM is the spren of nahel bonds, the shardcast has mentioned her being the spren of spren. Regardless of what exactly she is the spren of, I expect it will be relevant in why deadeyes occur, Singers were lobotomized, and the change in Chasmfiend behavior. As for the Stormfather, we do know the Highstorm existed before Honor/Cultivation arrived (it did not dump stormlight at the time). Brandon has RAFO'd whether the Stormfather also predates their arrival though I see no reason why he wouldn't though. The real question is the Sibling, did H&C transform an existing spren of rock and stone (the spren of Ur maybe?), or create a totally new spren? Functionally it probably doesn't matter, but I want to know

He could be lying, or his knowledge might be incomplete. I get the feeling the fused don't give much thought to what happens to the body's rightful owner. As far as they're concerned that person doesn't exist anymore. Whether they're in the Beyond or some undead hell, is not something the fused would ever bother to even think about.