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I've noticed a strange thing: The word "Soulcasters" is used here as "people who Soulcast on their own" (as I suppose everyone can Soulcast with a device, and I'm not sure if they were even invented yet). So, as we know, a subset of Surgebinders, right? Wrong. Because it doesn't make sense. If Soulcasters were a subset of Surgebinders, as Jasnah seems to think, Nohadon wouldn't say what he said. He'd say just "princes, kings, Surgebinders.". So... is it possible that Soulcasters were something else? Yes, it is possible. My hypothesis is that they were a different kind of magic users from Surgebinders (like Feruchemists are from Allomancers) - using a different magic system. They were particulary good, or efficent, with Transformation (I suppose that this magic system also used the 10 surges in some way), so later the transforming fabrials were named after them and therefore now people use the word "Soulcast" as "transform". Or maybe it was a different magic system, but not based on Surges. Maybe it was based on 10 Essences or something - and all Soulcasters could transform things. It makes even more sense this way. And I assume their magic was strongly tied to Shadesmar and required entering it. Observations supporting this hypothesis: There is a huge difference between what Kaladin and Szeth do and what Shallan does. She enters Shadesmar, talks with weird spren(?) and cognitive representations of objects. They just do things, quite instinctively. Illustrations. First color diagram shows Radiant powers, Heralds on border and map from times of Radiants. The second shows some strange glyphs (resembling heads of those creatures), Jasnah on border and map of Shadesmar. The word "Soulcast" looks (in my opinion) much cooler understood as "cast your soul (as in "cast a shadow" not "cast metal") to shadesmar" than "cast (as in "cast metal" - to shape) object's soul. And I wonder, how Voindbinding fits into that. Shadesmar is kinda void (ok, it's not. But it's all black and dark. )... and Shallan kinda binds it to her will, Jasnah even more. But Kabsal(?) says that Voindbinding was predicting the future. Of course, he may be wrong. What do you think about it? And if you think I'm wrong - how do you explain what Nohadon said?