Red Ferring

I’m thinking the third sibling is stone-themed. The way that nightwatcher is about life and plants, stormfather is about the wind and skies, I think the third sibling is about the stone. A couple of reasons: the shin worship stone. We know now the Shin are a more pure lineage from the original humans that arrived on Roshar, nestled in a little pocket of terrain made for them that was more akin to their homeworld. and they have their own unique religion that has a reverence toward stone being sacred. Having a major spren (like one of the Siblings) being about the stone would make sense to capture the religious focus of the Shin to worship it. the Stormfather did that for the rest of humanity with the highstorms which we know don’t reach the Shin. Plus, Szeth’s oathstone. What if it’s more than his loyalty and discipline to obey the holder of that stone. what if it’s more about the fact it has something to do with their deity being all about the stone. And it being a spren that tries to inspire men to keep oaths just like Stormfather. Thoughts?

This. I think this happened already. In the scene when Adolin was waiting for Maya when fighting the thunderclast. He counted off the heartbeats and in-story he only got to 7 before she emerged. Now whether that was just how Brandon wrote it, that the full 10 beats lapsed and it just wasn’t mentioned or whether it really only was 7 beats before she came, I’m not 100% sure. But I’d wager it was only 7 and Adolin didn’t notice because of the chaos around him. So maybe that’s part of Maya regaining herself and utilizing whatever form of bond she shares with Adolin, beyond the gem bond

I think this line of thinking makes sense when it’s humans involved and they’re using investiture for healing abilities. But Maya is investiture herself. Who’s to say the rules are a little different for her healing. As her death isn’t a human death and her wounds aren’t physical, I don’t think the laws governing conventional Cosmere healing apply in the same way. I’m just saying I wouldn’t be surprised at all if this sudden collision of realms right next to her was enough to reunite those torn pieces with her broken cognitive self. And give her back the ability to form bonds. Then again, I can totally see the healing coming from a fledgling Nahel bond with Adolin. Maybe it’s restoring her slowly as Adolin makes more of an honorable man out of himself. And maybe that was helped too by their very close proximity to each other in the cognitive realm where she’s more of herself, albeit her dead spren self.

I agree. Even if it wasn’t the magic cure to her being dead. And Brandon explaining that something was ripped out of her when the oath was broken, where did that piece go? My thinking is that piece of her is being filled in from the spiritual realm as the spiritual realm was brought together with the others at the perpendicularity. When normally that realm is not really accessible. Which would leave a spren dead normally. And I’d consider what Dalinar did in unifying the realms to be very difficult and rare, which Brandon says it would take, even though he didn’t specify how exactly

When Dalinar created Honor’s perpendicularity at the battle for Thaylen city, he brought together all 3 realms. Cognitive, physical, and spiritual. Adolin walked through that perpendicularity with his Shardblade aka Maya. Maya is a spren who was killed by her Radiant when the Oath was broken. I’m guessing a spren death is just spiritual because she manifests physically and in the Cognitive realm too, but still considered dead. But later we see her reaching out to Adolin with small impressions and feelings. My guess is that when Maya passed through Honor’s perpendicularity with Adolin, a part (or all) of her was resurrected from the spiritual realm and reconnected to her and she can now think and interact again with the world. And the explanation for her limited engagement with Adolin during his fighting being that she, like other spren newcomers to the world, takes time to regain her self and mind Any thoughts?

The spren are forming bonds with humans because the humans left Odium (their first god who they brought with them from the world they destroyed) and decided to serve Honor instead. I think the spren bond with whoever follows Honor and makes the oaths. And There may be an explanation in the book that I missed but my guess is Odium is using the singers to destroy the humans out of vengeance for abondoning him or maybe also because as long as they live he’s trapped by the Oathpact. Not 100% sure on that and is probably one of the mysteries to solve in future books

-Clod the Lifeless. Like a dirt clod. Plain. Dull -Breeze. Figurative for his smooth talking. -Hammond/Ham. Because he's a muscle man. Ham is just a big chunk of muscle. -Dox. He's a peace maker and responsible fellow of the group. A healer of sorts. Dox. Doc. I know I'm reaching on that one. Those are all I can think of right now. Not exactly what you're talking about but it's what came to mind.

What would happen if you gave a Koloss additional Blessings of Potency? It takes 2 of those blessings in the right spot to make the Koloss to start, but would it just get stronger and stronger with more Potency Blessings? Because we see TenSoon get Oreseur's blessing added to his own and he just gains the ability when the initial Blessing turned him from Mistwraith to Kandra.

Can Lifeless wear Shardplate and have it move for them? Like would it not work for someone who doesn't have a true "soul"? Also, can they bond to a Shardblade? Could you imagine a Lifeless in Shardplate and Blade on a battlefield? Depending on the command, they could be very ineffective or dangerously effective. Can a Lifeless be Hemalurgically spiked and given Allomancy? Would they know what to do? If a part of a person's body is cut by a Shardblade and the soul dies, can that dead part of the body be Awakened and given a command?

So that last part was kind of a tag on. In my head, these Brutes aren't being tortured or held against their will. Or at least, they comply with their "commander" through coercion or whatnot. Maybe they're wearing the collar to fool the enemy that they're just poor slaves but actually hidden Brute warriors. Or maybe the collar is there as a symbol or just for dramatic effect as personal choice of the Brute. More sharing a scene that seemed cool to me than a practical capture method.

You don't "need" it really. It's just for dramatic effect. And also because it's ironic. The very receptacle of all the power that could help them in this situation, is actually what's going to kill them. And how you got the collar on them to start? I just like the idea. I pretend it's an element of a story where all that was explained to my satisfaction.

No. Because Feruchemical pewter doesn't work like Allomantic pewter. It's just strength and the "swelling" effect is the muscles growing. There's no "invulnerability to harm" effect like there is (to a degree) with Allomantic pewter. A real life muscle man couldn't flex out of a metal collar so neither could Feruchemical pewter. That's my opinion at least.

I was thinking of the atrophying effect of storing strength in pewterminds and realized something horrible you could do. Torturing a Brute ferring using his/her Feruchemy. If you got them storing strength, their necks would atrophy, then you'd fasten a pewter collar around their necks which would fit tight around. Then they'd be compelled to continue storing, otherwise their necks would swell to normal size, and the collar would strangle them. This could kill them eventually if you don't give them new pewterminds to fill when they fill their pewter collar. The other application for such a collar would be great imagery in a story in which a commander would "unleash" a pack of Brutes by removing the collars and they then start tapping strength and charging together into the fray of a battle. How cool is that!? feruchemy is my fave

I really think Ettmetal is the Lerasium/Atium alloy. Considering the 2 intents of the shards of those 2 metals (Preservation and Ruin) I think it makes a lot of sense. The cube (made from ettmetal right?) copies your allomancy (Like stealing. Like hemalurgy) yet you keep your own power (like preservation).

You start, but then give up because, "who cares. I don't want to do this anymore". Storing determination is like tapping apathy, right? food for thought.