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  1. I think Nightblood was always a special sword, even before it was Awakened. What if it was an ancestral blade, owned by a powerful warrior family and passed down for generations, fighting in many battles. What if had started to develop a strong cognitive identity, like we see in Stormlight during Soulcasting, or in Secret History with the fire? And then Shashara and Vasher gave it a mass of investiture. Perhaps if they had Awakened a brand new, freshly forged sword they would have produced a result more in line with what they were expecting. I could very easily see not considering the cognitive aspects of an object having drastic effects upon the results
  2. I could see using a Light/Anti-Light mechanism to propel a projectile (replacing black powder) or used in a warhead-like capacity where they are detonated on impact. What I wonder though is if the explosions we'd seen in this interaction isn't happening because the pressure of the gemstone? When we have seen people attacked with these weapons, it doesn't seem to cause a large explosion, so much as it burns away the attacked entity. Is that the gemstone providing pressure, or is there something else you can expect to happen when Identity comes into play (since presumably Spren and Fused have Identity)?
  3. Lifeless can accept new orders, but I doubt you could change the Command something was Awakened with
  4. To be honest, I think the very fact that you can get Investiture right from the air on dayside is probably why Autonomy has banned travel to and from the world, given the ambitions of the Ghostbloods. This could also drastically affect technology on Taldain drastically, in fact I'd bet they have a rather sophisticated understanding of Investiture reactions and most likely something similar to fabrials, if left to their own devices to develop them. And yeah that definitely would imply that the light on Dayside would NOT behave like normal light. In theory, this observation might have been what led Khriss into her studies of Investiture, since doing any sort of prismatic experiment in the daylight on Dayside would NOT work like she'd have expected. On the Darkside, they would use candlelight or some other non-Investiture source, so at some point somebody who traveled between both poles would have made the observation. Khriss just seems a likely candidate to me
  5. Metals on Roshar act as a direct Spiritual key to Preservation's power source in the Spirtitual Realm. The microorganisms in the sand are reacting to the Investiture that radiates from the sun on Taldain. "The investiture beats down from the sky and is absorbed by microflora that grows like lichen on the surface of the sand". We've seen enough cannonical examples of Sand off-world that we know the lichen is definitely absorbing radiated investiture, not pulling it from some other source via a key. This is likely a similar mechanism to the Investiture that rains down with the crem during a highstorm, and how plants and spren react to it.
  6. A lot of people on this forum seem to assume that Cultivation has some big grand plan to defeat Odium like Preservation did to defeat Ruin. I think this is a mistake. Cultivation seems to me to be a god of many plans and many options, and in that case they could never truly put their eggs in any one basket. We have only so far seen her act through people who she's touched had to come to her and make a request, giving her a framework she has to work within. Her Intent seems very hands-off to me. That said, I definitely believe she has goals. Things she wants to see happen, but isn't tied to the results. Taravangian as Odium was not a gambit, it was a lottery ticket paying off. Examples: Dalinar. She had no specific plan with Dalinar, no thought that by doing what she did that she'd be pulling a fast one on Odium. She made Dalinar better able to be the man he wanted to be, for better or worse. But there was a small chance she could mess with Odium, so she took it. Taravangian. Again, I don't think she planned or manipulated the situation to maneuver Taravangian into becoming Odium. She saw that should Rayse die (and he was in fact dying even before Taravangian was born), that the Power would need a new vessel, and here was this dude who was pretty well connected to Odium asking for the capacity to do something about it. Sure, why not have a(nother) horse in that race? Nightblood. It was not "oh I need this vessel-killing sword in this place at this time", it was "ooh what happens to the timelines if I can get this shardeater out there" Lift. Not really sure, but I have some wild book 5 speculation that might explain what the heck Cultivation did with Lift and why.
  7. At one point I went back and tried to find all the various Lights referenced in Stormlight and the rest of the Cosmere. This is only my presumptions, and in no way necessarily authoritative, just what I've been able to find and describe. Shard Light Name Color Honor Stormlight White (Blue) Cultivation Lifelight White (Green) Odium Voidlight Black (Purple) Honor+Cultivation Towerlight ??? Preservation Mist White (Grey) Ruin Black Mist Black Endowment Breath Mother of pearl AonDor Too blue (Kelsier's description) ??? RiinoLight Milky White
  8. I believe that the Moons pre-date the Shattering, and that much of Adonalsium's Investiture was already attuned to the Intents of the Shards who were later drawn to the system. Odium says at one point in Oathbringer that he was always part of the world. I don't believe this was part of some grander plan of Adonalsium, but some later behavior of the Shards finding large pieces of themselves. I believe that Voidlight is of Odium, however the Gold light is actually how Rayse wishes to see himself, as the God of Passion, not Hatred. This is why we saw Kaladin's eyes glow gold, he was using Voidlight, but in a way compatible with his Oaths. Righteous fury, an ideal of how Rayse wished himself and his power to be. If only there was a way to CHANGE the Intent of a Shard... Though I think our new Odium may not feel the same way about his power, and I fear we may have seen the last of golden voidlight.
  9. I theorize that Cultivation is part of the "we" in "We killed you!" from the end of Oathbringer. And we also do not know that the Stormfather always had a connection to Honor, we know that before Honor's death he was not as interested in the affairs of men, and Honor's death changed him (Oathbringer Chapter 38). And there's nothing to say she didn't later change sides. Think about it, her husband formed a pact trapping an evil monster in their yard, and made periodically ripping up the garden part of this beast's imprisonment. If I were Cultivation, I would see the Oathpact and Honor's continued insistence on fighting Odium as the biggest barrier to peace on Roshar.
  10. Chicken, Wine, hound, and stormlight? What do these all have in common? Rosharan's have no idea what these thing's aren't. Rhythm of War showed frequently how bad people are at identifying different types of Light, something we hadn't really gotten a good idea of before hand. It seems to me like it might be possible that we're being set up for a Honorlight != pure Stormlight, and that Tanavast, in 'uplifting' the Stormfather, disrupted the 'alignment' of the Highstorm's Investiture and locking it to those Connected to Honor. And this is what I think finally drove Cultivation to kill him.
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