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While browsing another topic, I came across this WoB: Either I'm not understanding the WoB correctly, or isn't this in conflict to Wax and Wayne taking the spikes from not-Wax (and/or not Wayne) near the end of TLM to give themselves a-duralumin and a-steel? Or is the question related to having an a-duralumin granting spike and then using it as a a-iron granting spike? Thanks for the clarification in advance!

Sorry for the rant in this post, but, come on. It's amazing how some people don't care for the rest of us that want to avoid spoilers for Secret Projects. Read the spoiler policies. There's dedicated forums for that. All over different forums I have been spoiled about stuff from SPs.

Isn't this Vindication a Vindication 2.0 gun? I do not have the book at hand, but didn't Ranette build Wax new guns and those are the ones Steris packs for the mission?

I'm currently rereading RoW and I'm in the chapter from Navani's POV where Dalinar and Shallan combine their powers to Lightweave Roshar's map for the Mink. In this, chapter, Navani thinks while the map appears that "The Stormfather implied that Dalinar - as a Bondsmith - could do similar marvels with other orders, but so far their experiments have been fruitless." It left me wondering, what would Dalinar's power combined with other surges do? I'm thinking for example: - could Dalinar Connect better a willshaper to the spren of stones and (maybe) create something like Kolinar's windblades? - Can he provide a boost to soulcasting by connecting them to whatever they are trying to soulcast? What do you all think would other combinations do?

Using the following quote from Syl about honorblades: "This sword gave the assassin power to use lashings, but it also fed upon his Stormlight. A person who uses this will need far, far more Light than you will. Dangerous levels of it." From what I understand, this would mean that the honorblade is consuming the stormlight, same as Nightblood, to do what they do, in Honorblades case: grant the surges to the wielder. This led me to a couple of questions: Can the honorblades be feed any kind of investiture, or are they tied to stormlight? (ex. Can a fused use voidlight to fuel an honorblade?) If Breaths can be used to power an Honorblade, could Returned kill themselves using one? And the additional, but maybe it's more related to the nature of Heralds, how did the Heralds get access to stormlight to continuously power their blades, did they really depend on gems? Or can Heralds produce stormlight as part of their perks package? (If I remember correctly Lift mentions that Nale starts glowing suddenly in one of her Interludes)

I have questions regarding Shallan's Mother being a herald: Can a herald permadie with a shardblade? Has any other herald died by a shardblade before? Shardblades affect the soul too, can the heraldness (?) make them immune to soul damage by a shardblade? If I remember correctly, her mother's corpse eyes are burned, so she did die by the shardblade.

@mathiau @Experience thanks for the replies. He did mention the 3 cosmere were from a character we know but that has no viewpoints until now. As only 1 character. Would be weird if they were standalones, with that character in random stories with no interconnection. Guess we'll find out in the coming weeks.

As I was watching the video the first character that came into mind was Nazh for the 3 cosmere books. Did he mention they were a trilogy or stand-alones?

I wouldn't say this points to múltiple Ascensions before Rashek. The quote mentions 2 orbits, which is the original orbit (pre-Raskek and the one Sazed returned the planet to), and the orbit Rashek moved it to.

It's heavily implied that 10 is significant to Honor only, as well as 9 is to Odium. 16 to Scadrial (and bigger picture to the Cosmere in general). I would bet cultivation's number is different to Odium's and Honor's.

I think we see an example of this in the epilogue, when Todium is able to modify/remove breaths from Hoid. He says something along the lines (and bear in mind this is from memory) of "I don't think this would hurt you". Complying with the previous Shards'/Vessels' agreement of not hurting Hoid.

Is this canon? Shardblades I could understand because the spren still exists in the CR. Honorblades are pure Honor God metal, and were given to the Heralds by Honor himself.

There's a point in Warbreaker where Llarimar is explaining to Lightsong their religion and states that: This is exactly what happens to spren, where crossing to the physical realm leaves their mind fragmented and after some time (and finding the right person) they start healing. However, this does not happen to those who have the surge of Transformation, as we can clearly see with Shallan/Jasnah goin to the CR. The only difference I can find between the spren/Returned to the KR with transformation is that the later are alive (have a physical aspect in the physical realm) while moving through realms. And here is where a theory popped up in my head. Spren/Returned being just investiture at the point they cross to the Physical Realm, their mind gets scrambled. The why I have not yet figured out, but I think it happens cosmere-wise and not shard dependent (Why would Endowment do this in purpose? If she returns people so that they can do something about what they see via Futuresight before passing to the Beyond, why scramble their brains?) I don't think we have seen someone from Scadrial return to the PR after being "Preserved", I do have to concede that eventually at the correct time, Lightsong did remember his purpose and the spren eventually get their memories back. But I do think that the mind scrambling happens cosmere-wise and would not be localized to Roshar and Nalthis. I would like to know what everyone else thinks. Thanks!

There's a chapter in which Lightsong is listening to petitions and becomes angry after listening to a woman with a dying child. He them proceeds to storm out and we get the following: We have seen similar reactions to an uncontrolled biochroma: Is this similar to when a Misting/Mistborn is flaring a metal? Could an angered or emotionally stressed Awakener awaken better/easier because of the stronger biochromas? And is this inherent of Returned Breath or can this happen to any person with Breath? Does all magic in the cosmere react to emotion like this ? (I cannot remember an example from other books)

So many, so I'll restrict myself to one a couple: Stormlight Archive -> Jasnah and Lopen Mistborn Era 1 -> Kelsier, Vin Mistborn Era 2 -> Wayne and Steris White Sand -> Khriss Cosmere -> Hoid How about you? Which characters would you like to meet?