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Pretty simple, do we know if those with enough breaths would be able to hear the Rhythms on Roshar?

Could an isolated group of people who are all completely colorblind become completely grayscale because of how perception works in the Cosmere?

It would be somewhat interesting to see a magic system dependent completely on chance, where its something similar to those assorted flavor bags of jelly beans, but each looks exactly the same, and instead of flavors they come with different effects, good and bad.

Iirc, it hasn't been confirmed that Sazed has actually harmonized the two shards, just that he is a single vessel handling both at the same time. He frequently has difficulty actually acting on anything because the Intents are too dissimilar. He took the name Harmony because he managed to balance the Intents so they wouldn't tear him apart, but it is a very delicate balance, and he could break given a big enough push. WandW spoilers

As far as I've read into it the cut only matters with the efficiency of the fabrial, which is why I left it out, but I could be wrong about that.

I wouldn't focus so much on the body focuses and divine attributes, but I think that the essences and soulcasting properties would be important things to consider in the cosmere going forward. I'm thinking that people with enough cosmere knowledge could create some creative magic system combinations using the gems, metals, breaths, etc. I mean fabrials on their own are an incredibly complex magic system, given that there are three variable factors in the wire type, gem type, and spren type.

If a windrunner/skybreaker got skilled enough, gravitation could become a form of severing. Think windrunner/skybreaker grabs your arm and thinks to lash your lower arm to the left and upper arm to the right, with the same hand. Just because they haven't thought to do/practice such a manouver before, doesn't mean it isn't possible.

I don't know if y'all have watched classic speed racer but I'm thinking mammoth car right now. throw some levitation fabrials on there and you're good to go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgSk7yEheLo

Since the color of gemstones is "paramount" per the coppermind in powering the transformation surge (at least when it comes to soulcasting), if an awakener were to use the gems of a soulcaster/knight radiant to power an awakening, could it stop them from using the gems to soulcast? And in general, besides diamond, could they prevent gems from holding stormlight?

I am leaving this out for arguments saying that this type of transportation is elsecaller specific. The argument is just that assuming transportation involves some sort of realmatic transition, whatever form that may take, because that is literally all we know about the surge, I don't think we can say that the Fused is using transportation. There is no transition of any kind, as the body is left behind, and the cognitive aspect is always seen in the physical realm.

Fabrials definitely have the most potential for growth and complexity, maybe even comparable to the aon system. In the long run I see Fabrials being very important in the future development of the cosmere as a whole because of just how open-ended it is.

That is the thing Im wondering about really, would it be possible to lash a large number of objects at the same time, assuming they are all of small size and minimal environmental interference i.e. the particles are gathered in one place and are not moving prior?

Pretty simple, could a Windrunner/Skybreaker lash a certain amount of a ground-up powder? We've seen them lash singular objects before, so I'm just wondering how something like this might work, where it is a large number of small objects? Maybe an anti-reverse lashing, i.e. making a singular object repel all others, but I'm not sure such a thing exists.

To quote Navani, "What lay before her was an impossibility. Gavilar Kholin couldn’t simply die like other men."

Given that transportation is the surge that specifically allows "realmatic transition" per the coppermind, its hard to say specifically what that means. However, also given that the Fused in either physical or spren form never seems to leave the physical realm, in that he can always be perceived by Kal during the fight, its kind of hard to argue that he is using the surge of transportation. IMO it is much more likely that it is the surge of regrowth, compounded with normal spren movement, and perhaps the Fused with bulky carapace in OB were utilizing transformation or one of the Stoneward surges, considering we haven't seen them fully either. That's the most likely option if this fused isn't capable of bringing clothes/weapons with him. I can't say much abt the other arguments about why husks are left behind, but the conflict of identity theory makes the most sense to me, and the mechanics are similar to shardplate regrowth.

@Scion of the Mists You forgot the most relevant resurrection type, which would be how the Fused are reborn. It might be interesting to see Gavilar return as a big bad in Book Five as his soul was preserved through some method of voidbinding through Connection to Odium.

Kind of a one-off thought, if I was going purely off of name, I’d wager that the Ire are planning something either in conjunction with or in opposition to Odium. Both names essentially mean anger or hatred so there are some thematic connections there.

Why would it have to be one or the other? I believe both are influenced heavily during the bond process by the other. The human learns knowledge of the immortal, and the spren learns knowledge of the mortal. They can reach the same end product through two completely different lines of reasoning, so long as they value the same things in the same ways at the end of the day. Thats an interesting thought on hemalurgy, I hadn’t given it much thought. I think in attempting it, you might just kill both, or at least harm the spren greatly.

You might have a chicken/egg thing going on here, if a radiant pair reaches the fifth, and they are merged completely by the bond, both have been changed enough by the bond that I doubt there would be a difference in opinion between the radiant and their spren. At that point they would think about things in the same ways, and maybe it’s that there would be no need to forcibly end a bond, because either both would recognize the need to separate or both wouldn’t want to. If it got to the point that the two had that large of a gap in thought processes that the spren felt the need to leave, the radiant probably would’ve regressed in oaths.

Also, “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Confucius Sounded very familiar the first time I read it.

Still, though, you kind of have to understand Odium’s mindset in this stuff too, while he is a god of absolute hatred for everything around him, and goes out of his way to attack and kill other shards, he is a coward. He saw one of his victims nearly rise from the grave in front of him, after splintering the guy in the new and improved method that should not have allowed for such a thing. Seeing this would surely rattle him, as his plans all require a way to permanently sever a shard from the physical realm.

Since this is all speculation I’d like to throw out “prismspren”

To be fair, Stonewards would not have too much trouble either, being able to shape and reshape objects. As a fledgling radiant, it could be manifesting as a little stretching here or there in a handcuff.

On this bit, we’re still not sure having more intents makes it any easier on a vessel. As we can see with a certain combined shard, he is finding difficulties in making any decisions whatsoever per the third oathbringer letter. He does keep his personality mostly intact, but it hasn’t been very long that he has held the two shards, and at what cost to his freedom to act?

Anyone else getting stoneward vibes from the herdazian general? In first WOB Lirin mentions that the herdazians are fighting a losing battle, “In Herdaz, men could claim to fight for freedom, but how free were the corpses they left to bleed into the storm waters?” and Brandon says the guy will be important?