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Yeah, at least for Plot Events. There's an endgame scene involving a weapon skin that shows up for Plot Reasons even if you didn't do the bonding event to unlock it for at-will usage.

Based on this WoB, the former seems to be the most likely case. When you show up in the Cognitive if you're not prepared or you don't have help on the other side, you get quickly shredded by the Dor plasma storm and get to find out what the Beyond is faster than you normally would. That said, the Svrakiss are probably going to become relevant down the line so we'll find out what's up with them at some point. Brandon has of course RAFO'd questions concerning them, including whether they're a type of Cognitive Shadow.

Yes, with a caveat: We have some other related WoBs that confirm that trying to steal a Nahel Bond is tricky because the spren is sapient, that the process requires some non-standard methods and by way of comparison to stealing an Aviar bond it sounds like you'd need multiple spikes, one for the Radiant and one for the spren..

You'd want F-Nicrosil for that. My assumption is that it would look something like how Honorblade-granted Surgebinding works, where you need a lot more stormlight to use the powers and if healing is part of the package, it wouldn't be as effective either. Connection can do a lot of things but we don't have a good grasp of the mechanics of F-Duralumin yet. We know it can be used to hack Connection to a region (allowing you to speak local languages) thanks to BoM and its description in the Ars Arcanum talks about awareness of others and the ability to quickly form relationships, which suggests that's as far as the Terris people have been able to figure things out at the time Khriss is writing. One thing we know F-Duralumin can potentially do in relation to Surgebinding is manipulate Connection in such a way that you could become a Squire for multiple Radiant orders at the same time, but it wouldn't be the easiest way to accomplish that.

Brandon has said a kandra could maybe mimic the appearance of a singer but couldn't bond a spren or take a form of power. There's an older WoB where he said a kandra can't reproduce the carapace but he may have changed his mind on that.

Nale is a Fifth Ideal Skybreaker and appears normal, and we know that while no mortals have attained it recently it's happened before. I think if reaching that level made you look like Marvel's Eternity, somebody would have noticed and mentioned it by now.

Storing stormlight in metal is described as being hard. You can hide Breath in metal without needing to Awaken it but you don't need a metalmind for that because it's an inherent property of how BioChroma works. Aons aren't themselves a kind of Investiture you can store, instead they serve the same purpose that metal does on Scadrial in that it tells the Dor what you want the Investiture to do, except that AonDor is much more like computer programming while the allomantic metals are more like a program you run. We do know you could potentially use feruchemy to give an Elantrian access to the Dor while far from the city (via Connection, which is F-Duralumin not F-Nicrosil) but it would involve jumping through hoops, you'd need to already be an Elantrian for that to work and Brandon says that would be the harder way to do it.

This makes me wonder whether Ral-na's transitioning due to the influence of the Nahal Bond/Stormlight healing had any effect on their spren's identified gender and how someone in that position fits into the statistical prevalence of bonding to a spren identifying as the opposite gender. Would the 'opposite identity' in this case tend to be that of the Radiant's body at the time of the bond forming, or their identified gender?

The closest thing we have to an on-point WoB is that Hoid can heal the Spiritual damage caused by Hemalurgy, with the side note that Weird Things could happen with Hoid and Hemalurgy.

I was going to edit my post but you responded first so I did have one thought, which is that they could be regionally rare in the same way that concentrationspren are supposed to be uncommon in Alethkar.and Shallan mentions never having seen logicspren in WoK but they appear common in Azir. Since we know the latter are one of the types that make Plate, perhaps relative rarity isn't necessarily a problem?

Maybe the Skybreakers have been hogging them all for the past few thousand years and that's why they're so rare. Selfish chulls... Okay, that's actually a good point and one I don't have a real answer for.

My general assumption is that the singers always could have formed Nahel Bonds but they didn't historically because those didn't exist until after the wars had started (and hence the 'betrayal' that Leshwi mentions) given that we know bonding only happened due to spren mimicking what they saw Honor do with the Heralds. So everything before the cycle of Desolations began is kind of a moot point because there were no Nahel Bonds, and we also have the WoB that while Adonalsium was around he'd set limits on what spren could do which includes No Mating Surgebinding. The 'broth and meat' comparison also suggests that even when bonding is an option, humans simply provide more benefits to the spren half of the bond so they would be preferred in general. Hemalurgy works like all the other Metallic Arts, in that each metal does something specific. The same iron spikes used to make koloss can also be used to make the kandra Blessing of Potency and you could give an H-Iron spike to a human without transforming them into something else. The difference with Inquisitors is that they tend to get different spikes that are specifically used to grant allomancy and sometimes feruchemy. So it's less 'different mechanics for X and Y' and more how the one mechanic is being used. A closer example to what we see on Roshar might be the way that the Fused manipulate the same Surges that Radiants do, but they apply them in slightly different ways. They're similar enough that Szeth is able to counter the Fused equivalent of Abrasion using his own training with that power and Windrunners in general are able to grasp how the Shanay-im work because their Gravitation works on the same basic principles.

Brandon has said that you can't steal multiple powers from the same person, or at least nobody knows how to do it. He's also said that nobody knows how to non-fatally steal anything via hemalurgy (and they'd be worse than a drab due to soul damage) barring the edge case of stealing from a gold compounder who could theoretically repair the soul damage and be used as a hemalurgic donor multiple times. Per Brandon, the rule is that the larger part of the body regrows the rest and if you happened to be split into perfectly equal pieces it would be random which one the soul claims dibs on and regrows from. Presumably Shardplate functions differently because it's not composed of a single spiritweb, though having more of the original armor to work with does give an advantage if there are competing attempts.

This has come up a few times before. Logicspren are confirmed for the Elsecallers and Creationspren for the Lightweavers. Brandon has said that while we can't figure it out for all the Orders yet, he's made a few of them pretty obvious and it's the sort of thing we should be able to eventually work out on our own with the hints he's given or will give us. We see Gloryspren swarm around Dalinar when he's being especially awesome so that could be the Bondsmith one, but who knows there? We know Bondsmiths don't have Blades but we don't know if they don't generally get Plate as well, and we don't know if one bonded to the Sibling or Nightwatcher necessarily would attract the same sort of spren as one bonded to the Stormfather. Thematically, Flamespren would make sense for the Dustbringers, Lifespren for Edgedancers (or Hungerspren for Lift... ) and based on some similarities to Highspren I'm thinking that Starspren are the ones who make Skybreaker Plate.

I actually asked Brandon this at my first signing and while I didn't think to record his exact words, he said that Breaths don't noticeably 'leak' once you accumulate enough. There's still probably some degradation in the same way that an individual Breath gets less vibrant, but not to the point that it measurably impacts the aggregate strength.

The text in question says that Odium thinks it will work, which doesn't mean it actually did work the same way he expected it to. This is the guy who had his Shardic Murder Spree plans derailed by Tanavast and then staked a lot on his plans for Dalinar in OB and Urithiru in RoW and failed both times. He is, to paraphrase Rodney McKay, a very arrogant man who thinks all his plans will work. More importantly there are two things that suggest more is going on here than just 'the Everstorm let Odium cheat'. First, the WoB where Brandon confirmed that Taln didn't break and that we'd eventually learn what happened postdates Rhythm of War by over half a year. If we had the answer in that book, Brandon wouldn't have needed to tell us that it's something we'll learn later. Second and perhaps more importantly, Taln returned to Roshar a full book (and a month or two in-universe) before the Everstorm was summoned. In other words, something happened first that let him return.

This topic has come up before (pre-RoW) and my pick back then was Dominion on the theory that it broadly represents the desire for things to be orderly and hierarchical, on the further assumption that I could control that intent well enough to encourage the development of something closer to ancient Egypt or China (long-lasting and stable civilizations) as opposed to something repressively theocratic like Fjorden. Since then we've gotten the rest of the Shards more or less sorted save one whose Intent we're still speculating on, so Virtuosity would probably take over my top pick based on what Brandon has said it represents, then Dominion, then probably Honor.

Good point, that's also a possibility. My assumption would be that since they're referred to by Hoid as oceans and he's aware of how they work on other worlds, that they're at least somewhat like ours on Earth where you have a whole bunch of different ones that are contiguous (and so in one sense all a single big ocean) with regional characteristics that distinguish them, but I don't think we have enough detail to confirm that. Either way, this planet must look pretty spectacular from orbit, with so many differently-colored spore seas. Or pan back a bit and you get that plus twelve moons to look at. Though I'm pretty sure any would-be astronomers in the Cosmere would take one look at the system and say they have no idea how it manages to stay that way. Especially since the planet somehow manages to have a dozen moons all in geostationary orbits; Brandon uses geosynchronous but if they don't appear to move the former term's more precise. We can probably chalk that up to Hoid not caring about the distinction since he's narrating all of this.

I think the intent of the question was more 'Why didn't he go there before Team Honor rediscovered it?', meaning he wouldn't need to worry about fighting anybody, unless he just happened to show up at the same time as one of Szeth's visits. And at this point we have no idea what Ishar's motivations are for playing god-king in Tukar or what he's been doing for the other ~4490 years since Aharietiam so figuring out why he does anything is going to be close to impossible, especially for the reasons Returned noted. For all we know, it's possible he didn't really care about Urithiru until he realized someone else had found it again after the Radiants abandoned the place. It's also possible he had plans to do something about Urithiru but never got around to it because like all the other Heralds his awareness of the passage of time is... tenuous. He might have had the notion to go seize the city once the Radiants left and never got around to it because in his mind it just happened yesterday and a day or two of waiting won't make a difference. A thousand years later... Or yet again, it could be that he was interested but had specific reasons for staying away (Unmade presence, whatever interests him in the place can't be done without the Sibling) until confirmation that the place was inhabited again reached him. We really can't be sure.

I'm going to guess that most questions about how this planet functions are ultimately going to be answered with some flavor of 'Adonalsium Diddit', where the system is either dependent on Shard-tier manipulation to keep it running, or it's not intended to be stable beyond the kind of timespan Brandon is working within. For the first, I'm going to speculate that the planet has something akin to the ash-eating microbes that kept Scadrial from being completely smothered in ash which helps break down the spores once they're dead. For the second, that's a good question. The fact that we can talk about various distinct seas suggests that the types don't mix. Possibly it's some kind of Investiture reaction with the result that each kind repels the others? Another possibility is that they do mix, but new spores fall from the moons rapidly enough that each sea is able to retain its distinct character and it's only towards the edges (farthest from the lunagrees) that you would see a mingling of types.

I like to imagine that his name is supposed to be pronounced with a y-sound to go with his originally intended callsign (Jaeger) but once Spensa's nickname of Jerkface caught on, everyone started pronouncing it with a hard J so it matched the callsign.

We've seen them work in the Cognitive, with 'complete' individuals who have physically transitioned into that realm. (Stormlight) So as long as you have access to everything you would need to use magic in the Physical Realm, it should work in the Cognitive as well.

Renarin isn't actually dead though, just comatose. He could presumably have been brought back through some method or another had Brandon gone ahead with the work in that form in the same way that Taln was definitely coming back.

Not actually true, while they aren't generally going to be about the past they're not limited to describing future events.

All the clues I mention are found in Stormlight Archive. Frost only appears there (via the letter epigraphs), in a short piece Brandon read at an event and in the unpublished Dragonsteel Prime,; you can read some excerpts here. Oh, and we know from WoBs that he's a dragon, hence Hoid referring to him as 'old reptile'.