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So we know that Hoid has consumed the Lerasium Bead he stole from the Well of Ascension as per WOB. We can also presume that he's bonded with Elhokar's Cryptic seen in the epilogue of Oathbringer. Can Hoid, with the requisite knowledge, Soulcast allomantic metal to fuel his allomancy?

I don't see why it would be necessary, considering all the evidence points to the plate being formed from lesser spren.

Ah, I misunderstood what the OP was asking about. Thanks for the clarification. I surmise that there's probably a few still around and that Brandon hasn't written about them yet or just deemed their existence relatively unimportant towards the overall narrative. Do we have a WoB on this?

I'm pretty sure some of the Listeners escaped, or attempted to escape, the effects of the voidspren during WoR in one of the interludes or an Eshonai chapter.

So we have to remember that Szeth was made Truthless for warning that the voidbringers were returning. How did he come by this information? He was already beginning to bond a highspren (in some capacity). Szeth is so confident that he can swear the third ideal here because he's already begun bonding the "hidden spren". This is evidenced after he finally swears the third ideal after the Battle of Thaylen Field. So Szeth was able to access gravitation at Thaylen Field because he'd already started bonding the hidden spren; or it was an oversight on Brandons part. Also Szeth has only sworn up to the third ideal.

I personally think the historical/"true" Nohadon was a Surgebinder, but there evidence both for and against this position. This evidence, as detailed below, will be derived from Dalinar's first vision of Nohadon. I've decided against counting the second because, as many others have pointed out, we really don't know exactly what that is yet. This doesn't suggest either for or against. I've put this here as an emphasis that Nohadon definitely was involved with the order in some manner. This could suggest that Nohadon was a Surgebinder depending on how we interpret the text. When Nohadon says "our own natures destroy us", is he talking about Surgebinders specifically or is he making a general comment on the destructive nature of humanity. I believe it's the former, but it's hard to say. Nohadon talks about holding the Surgebinders accountable for their inherently destructive nature. Furthermore, Nohadon makes a distinction between the responsibility of Surgebinders and the responsibility of "the crown". This distinction between the two groups could indicate that Nohadon isn't a Surgebinder, simply a monarch. The key words here are "perhaps our abilities are proof of a divine election". Nohadon is using the collective 'our' here, indicating that he belongs to this group. What abilities is Nohadon referring to? You guessed it! Surgebinding. And while I do believe that the historical Nohadon, as the evidence suggests (for the most part), was a Surgebinder we have to be aware that the visions Dalinar receives aren't necessarily real. They're constructs. I guess we'll have to wait for these questions to be answered by Brandon or by the text directly.

We know that Hemalurgy works on animals from at least two WoBs, but the effects are currently unknown (unless you count Mistrwaiths -> Kandra, which I wouldn't). It's been postulated that the creatures that fought Wax and Ten'Soon in Shadows and Self might be spiked with traits stolen from animals, but that's pure speculation.

We know it's almost definitely Kelsier, just not exactly in what form. Has Kelsier managed to tie himself to the physical realm, and or acquire a new body? Is it Spook spiked and being used as a proxy by Kelsier, etc? I guess what I'm asking is do we know, presumably per WoB, what exactly is going on here?

Thanks for answering my questions =).

I've just finished a re-read of Stormlight, Mistborn (Secret History, Era 2), and Arcanum Unbounded and stumbled across a few insights that may be novel. While cursing Kaladin refers to Taln in either WoK or WoR as the "bearer of all agonies". I was wondering if Taln was known by this moniker before or after Aharietiam, and whether this has been discussed in a WoB. If the latter is true, this means that the Heralds breaking of the Oathpact, in some form, has become distilled in Rosharan culture and vernacular. What if the Vorin Church opposes Dalinar's preaching of Honor's death for reasons other than heresy. Could the upper hierarchy of the church in-fact be aware of the Herald's betrayal, and their rejection of a Dalinar a fear that the spread of this knowledge could further diminish their historically diminished power base? In one of the Stormlight Epigraphs it refers to Urithiru as being placed westward "in the place nearest to Honor". We know that Urithiru's location differs drastically on a variety of in-world maps, and that it is located above the Highstorm. Could Urithiru be located near the Origin and or were Honors vessel resided at one point in the physical realm? The Diagram speaks of "making to use a truthless" and "crafting a weapon". I posit this did not mean employing Szeth's services post Gavliars Assassination, but rather Taravangian had a direct role in orchestrating Szeth and his becoming a Truthless. This could be one reason why Mr T is proficient in the Shin language, which is noted by Szeth as being an oddity outside of Shinovar. This theory falls apart depending on when Mr T first visited the Nightwatcher, and I do recall this taking place after Gavilar's assassination. As far as I understand spren (on Roshar) are the personification of forces manifest. Syll mentions that some of the ancient spren had four-genders, two not having being imaged by humans. We also know that before humans migrated to Roshar spren had a bond of sorts (pre-nahel) with the Dawnsigners. Does this mean that these extra two genders arose by the Dawnsingers personification of Spren, and were subsequently lost following the collective loss of the Dawnsingers identity post-recreance? Why can Sja-anat corrupt greater or "true spren" (as per the Stormfathers distinction between the classification of spren) when it was said that she could only corrupt, as per the epigraph, lesser spren? Is this related to the weakening of the Oathpact? For example, in one of the Truthwatcher memory gems a radiant of that order mentions that they have seen the future; this is likely dated near the end of the Knights Radiat as a military organisation. Are the "vines" Nightblood induces on its host when consuming that hosts investiture reminiscent of the way Cultivation and her "vines" interacted with Dalinar in their dialogue. Afair Nightblood was based upon Honorblades/Proto-Shardblades as per a WoB. In Secret History, Leras gives Kelsier a vision where he sees an "image of an unfamiliar man sitting on a burning throne looking towards Luthadel with a twisted smile on his lips" (paraphrased). Is this Ruin, or could this be an early depiction of Trell granted by Fortune? Note that the evidence leads towards the latter because by this point Kelsier is intimately aware of Ruin and the appearance of his vessel. In the Mistborn Era 2 Ars Arcanum on compounding, Khriss notes how the combination of powers on Roshar causes a unique chemical reaction. Does this refer to how orders of Radiants had access to two Surges, or Renarin's binding of a corrupted Truthwatcher spren presumably granting him access to the Surgebinding version of Regrowth and the Voidbinding version of Illumination. Apologies for the long-winded post.

It'd also be interesting to consider who "all that live" refers to. For all we know it could be referring to the Dawnsingers rather than Rosharan humans.

Both of your points are spot on and I personally think that these two events aren't one and the same. However, it would be remiss to discount the similarities between the two, no? We should also consider that Odiums precognition has blind spots/has been wrong in the past, and that could shape the event itself. There's also the possibility that Sanderson changed how that event played out post WOK. But you're both probably right that they aren't specifically related.

In Chapter 84 (pp. 812-813 ) Kaladin "saves" Elohkar's son Gavinor as he is being molested by a group of Voidspren. Specifically, Syll transforms into a dagger which Kaladin uses to kill one of the Spren in the physical realm. While this act in of itself is interesting, I noticed during a re-read that this aligns somewhat with the Chapter 57 Death Rattle in Way of Kings. “I hold the suckling child in my hands, a knife at his throat, and know that all who live wish me to let the blade slip. Spill its blood upon the ground, over my hands, and with it gain us further breath to draw.” The connection is seemingly obvious; Gavinor is an infant and Kaladin is wielding a knife. Could this event be foreshadowing Gavinor's role as being an agent of/corrupted by Odium in the second pentalogy or is it just another one of Sanderson's red herrings?

It's from Spice and Wolf. It's basically economics in a ye olde setting.

I'll take that cookie....all of them.