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You could also use a larkin to accomplish this. Just have it drain away any investiture the radiant is holding.

Hemalurgy could seperate their spren from the them. Depending on how live plate is actually formed and what it is made out of, hemalurgy might be able to do the trick there as well. Maybe even if it isn't made out of spren like many people assume, I would assume there has to be some form of Connection that it has to the radiant, snatch that connection with a spike and boom, no more plate.

I'd like to add that in during the Kaladin and Adolin team duel Kal was using the plate piece he took just fine without hearing the screams but when he pulled of the lastclap the heard the screams. Seems to further support the notion that radiants could use the current Shardplate as we know it.

We know that the spren are a later arrival to Roshar, as in they didn't exist before/while the Rosharan system was created, the continent itself cannot be spren due to that. Most WOB's and the little bit of information we have about The Sibling at the moment is that they are somehow linked to Urithiru.

Anything and everything having to do with Azure's sword, how is it different from and how is it similar to Nightblood? If Nightblood's creation didn't go as wacky as it did, what would the differences be then? Which of the swords is more powerful, do they do the same thing/can they do the same thing? What is the command that was used to create Azure's sword? How would Nightblood react to Azure's sword, would he attempt to do anything about it. Also a name so I can stop calling it Azure's sword would be great.

Personally I do think that Maya will be revived and Adolin will become radiant. We've already seen the beginning of it, he has a bond with his blade that hasn't really been seen before and I feel that it would add some more, in my opinion, needed depth to his character. I am curious though for those of you that are mentioning semi-radiant abilities and such, how do you see these happening? If Maya does get revived and bonds with him, I don't see how that would hinder the surges in any way. If she gets revived and doesn't bond with him, then in my eyes, he loses a blade and doesn't become a radiant. If she doesn't get revived in general, no radiant. I just can't really see how his potential radiant abilities would be somehow lessened if Maya gets fully revived.

I would also like to point out that using pattern and shallans bond as a basis for anything isn't exactly the most sound idea. Due to the large gap in time of which pattern was locked away she has been regaining her radiant abilities very differently to how others would. So the fact that pattern knows some of these things and is able to tell shallans could be due to the fact that they had figured out some of it before.

If I could change some things then depends. I'd love to be a duelist, and if i was Alethekar seems like the place to be. I'm not positive if my current eyes would allow for that though, they act oddly and sometimes seem pretty light and other times darker. Also not a huge fan of the whole vorinism thing, but I could deal if I had to. Otherwise i'd probably choose Azir or Kharbranth. If I would have access to the Palaneum and what not I'd love to be in Kharbranth, would never run out of anything to read. Azir, seems appealing because of the laws and everything.

I'm not sure if we have WOBS that say otherwise or anything, but to me it seems that the Bondsmith Oaths have to be a lot more individualized based on the spren that the bond with. I don't really think the oaths that we've seen Dalinar say will really apply to another person that is bonding either of the other two spren. The order itself is so oddly unique. I could see these being the conclusion of Dalinar/Stormfather oaths, but not really when it comes to the Nightwatcher, and we hardly know anything about the Sibling that I can't even make any assumptions there. I do love these oath posts that you make though! Keep up the interesting theories!

So something that we do know is Hoid has an innate sense of where he has to be at certain times, not necessarily what he needs to do, but when and where to be somewhere. I think he realized the reason he felt that he had to be in Kholinar at the time was what he gained, being a spren bond. I don't believe the individual spren in itself is special besides the fact that this opportunity was a thing that was going to happen, if you catch my drift.

I'm curious for those that think Tarah and Kal could be a thing, why do you think that? I haven't done a reread in a while but when I read through I always thought that the ship had set sail and the doors the Tarah and Kaladin relationship had been closed. It seems to me that no matter if Tarah potentially wants a relationship with him or what, I don't think Kaladin would allow himself that. To be fair, that's just the general vibes I was getting and I could honestly be entirely wrong.

Dawnshards, Fabrials, Unmade, Urithiru. What will the arms race be for is the big question? I think the dawnshards are a huge potential. While fabrials will obviously continue development I don't think the singers are going after the fabrials. Shards and dawnshards seem like the most obvious answer. What about the Unmade and the Heralds? What will Nale and the Skybreakers be up to. So many questions to be asked, so many answers to hopefully be found.

I don't think studying nightblood would be too helpful in reality. Azure already has a blade akin to Nightblood, we don't know how similar though. But through many WOB's we know that Nightblood is an extremely special case.

I definitely see Ash becoming the Dustbringer and Taln as the Stoneward still. Ash has been on a destruction spree for quite some time. Taln literally held fast through such a long time alone after the heralds decided to abandon the Oathpact, I don't think it has been enough to completely break him down into a fundamentally different person. Seems to me that his Stoneward stubborness mentality and willpower will come back.

Considering we don't know what the Plate really is yet, though there are theories, such as the lesser spren theory, we can't really know how to get this effect. I don't think the same gemstone idea would work as it does with the blades. The blades are the dead spren in shadesmar, and to be able to summon and dismiss them, some sort of connection had to be developed that would essentially substitute in for the nahel bond, and almost breath a little life into the spren again for a short time. If plate truly is made of lesser spren that are already in the physical realm, then the gemstone idea doesn't make much sense to me. Even if that theory is incorrect, which it very well may be, I don't think that gemstones are the answer here, or else they surely would have figured it out by now by experimenting with gemstones and plate after they figured out that was what did the trick with shardblades.