ShardlessVessel

Of course! We do get their combined Rhythm in ROW along with Honor/Odium's, IIRC. And the Old Magic is supposedly a cousin to voidbinding. The term "Wildlight" is new to me, though. I like it.

Because. It's one possible combination. You could have all three, or you could have two separate combinations - one for Honor/Odium, one for Honor/Cultivation.

While Kadash is quoting Vorin dogma in this passage, that it has to do with futuresight is pretty much all we know about it. Remember that this IS a cracktheory, lol It's possible that only some voidbinders can see the future, though. I was looking at it as a contrast to the Honor/Cultivation mix in the KR. Honor is broadly about swearing and keeping oaths, while Cultivation is broadly about progress. The Knights Radiant swear oaths of self-improvement. Odium seems to be broadly about conflict, and if you replace him for Cultivation in the KR, you might get Knights that swear oath that are in conflict with themselves (e.g. swearing that you'll break the oath you're swearing). That's what I meant, if it makes sense. "Life never existed, the Strength is nothing, and the journey is finished" - Sounds similar? I support this theory as well.

I've resisted the idea that this death rattle is related to voidbinders, but I have just now had an idea that I feel I must put out into the world, in the slim chance that it's right. Between the voidbinding chart and Brandon's implication that Renarin uses voidbinding, there is reason to think that voidbinders are something similar to the Knights Radiant (I sometimes like to refer to that hypothetical organization as the "Knights Vibrant"). The soul of voidbinding is to divine the future, so my theory is that the Ideals sworn by a voidbinder are actually the ending for their actual Ideals, as if they were seeing the end of their own service in the future. The death is my life (I have lived before I die, but my death comes now) The strength becomes my weakness (I was strong, and now I'm weak) The journey has ended (I have journeyed, and now I have arrived at my destination) The Knight (?) means to swear the actual oaths, but they simultaneously prophesy their own failure/ending/death. It would be a very Honor/Odium vibe to swear that you'll break your own oath, I think.

I never agreed with the sentiment that having too much Cosmere in the books means you have to read the entire Cosmere before any future releases. It really just means that the other books exist for greater context, and you can get all the information you need to understand their relevance for the plot inside the current book. Just like in TLM. You can go read TES if you want to better understand soulstamps, but TLM already tells you what they do, so it's not like you have to read TES first. On the other hand, I don't care about spoilers and am not particularly attached to "reveals," so my perspective is skewed in that direction.

That seems to be exactly the case:

Identity is stored in aluminum. It shouldn't even be possible to Invest that metal! Until we see it happen in a book, I will not believe that aluminumminds can be tapped. Assuming they can, though, tapping blank Identity should erase your sense of self, I think. Make you easier to Soulcast or Forge and possibly open you up to control like a Hemalurgic construct.

This runs into the two issues of: - Can you even tap an aluminummind? - Assuming you can tap the aluminummind, is it keyed or unkeyed? Both are, to my knowledge, RAFOed currently.

To add: the Nahel is pre-existing everywhere. Seons and other cognitive entities can bond in the exact same way as spren do, though the effects of such bonds are different. It's a basic feature of the Cosmere - a form of Connection. In the case of the Radiant bond specifically, I believe Ishar's input was to add more structure to it. The Ideals of the Radiants are probably Ishar's doing. My speculation is that the Immortal Words are actual Spiritual Ideals that ishar used his power to Connect the spren to. A true spren could no longer empower a human who did not reflect the values represented by the Herald who held those Surges, thus creating a filter that hopefully prevents the wrong people from getting those powers.

The whole crack theory is that this is a misconception of people both in-world and out. That metals are not actually necessary for the magic, and that their use in the Metallic Arts is an incidental byproduct of the natural affinity of metals for Investiture, and that there is a nontrivial method/alternative methods for using those magics which do not rely on metal.

Copper: steals mental fortitude, memory and inteligence.

Allomancy, Feruchemy and Hemalurgy have absolutely nothing to do with metal. The Scadrians simply don't know how to properly use their magic and have been working with a hack this whole time, by using metal to conduct and key Investiture.

It may also be a matter of density. Nomad needs a lot of Investiture. The sunlight may disintegrate him before he can Invest himself enough to even Connect to the planet, let alone Skim away.

I think the latter is likely, but I'm not certain. On the one hand, Investiture resistance seems to be linked to Identity - you can't easily Invest something that had been Invested by someone else. However, when Wax picks up Kelesina's unkeyed goldmind, its steel line is thinner than it should be, indicating that it resist his Investiture. If the metalmind lack Identity, shouldn't it not resist Investiture?

My assumption is that the dot represents the head of the receiver of a hemalurgic spike, while the arcs represent the rest of the body. Looking at the symbol for iron, I envision a human body curled up, with the head facing towards the right and and a pair of spikes though the torso. Looking at the symbol for duralumin, I envision a human body seen from above, with spikes driven into the sides and center of the torso (though as I mentioned before, the spikes seem to be backwards - maybe those are arms?). The symbol for brass also looks vaguely like a human body seen from above, with a spike through the neck or head and a pair of spikes through the torso or shoulders.