Wandering Shade

Maybe its a fancy Ironmind that doesn't increase your own personal mass but instead your clothing and the air around you. That would make you feel heavier without any strength increase.

Ambition or Invention are my personal theories. Even if the planet's Investiture isn't Ambition, I think the Cinderhearts are Ambition-based Investiture.

Yeah, he might not give an answer if asked. Then again, if you try to leave out the idea of "is the Cognitive Shadow actually the person or not" and just ask "Did Yumi's Cognitive Shadow fully break down and Nikaro remade it from the leftover Investiture, or did he interrupt that process and the Yumi at the end of the book is the same Yumi Cognitive Shadow at the start?" then we might get an answer. I suppose the answer sorta depends on your definition of a Cognitive Shadow dissolving/dying. Do you mean that the Investiture is no longer clumped together into a single form, or do you mean the Investiture fully lost the Shadow's Memory and Identity? If the first one is what defines a Cognitive Shadow's death, then it depends on the timeline of events, how fast Nikaro got there. If its the second, then according to your own explanation of what Nikaro did, Yumi's Cognitive Shadow never died at the end of the book.

I think that's exactly it.

Goootcha gotcha. Sorry, I was projecting some opinions that I strongly disagree with that I heard elsewhere onto you. My apologies. Then our biggest point of disagreement is that you think Yumi's Cognitive Shadow fully dissolved. I think her physical form dissolved and her Cognitive Shadow was beginning to get unraveled but that process never finished. The other Nightmares dissolved faster because they weren't nearly as Invested as she was, so it would take longer for her to fully unravel. Nikaro got to her first and the moment he started painting her that process was stopped and being reversed. So, he didn't recreate her Cognitive Shadow, her Cognitive Shadow was never gone in the first place.

I agreed with everything up until you said this lmao I don't think Nikaro created a copy of Yumi out of the freefloating Investiture of the Shroud and his memory/Perception of Yumi. An Investiture Puppet, as I've heard it described elsewhere. I think that's a deeply cynical way of looking at things which is not supported by the text. What Nikaro did was, I think, basically the same thing that Ishar did in his Spren experiments. Using his Connection to her and his Perception skills, he pulled her from the Cognitive to the Physical and there was enough freefloating nearby Investiture in the Shroud to make a body for her. The difference was that the bodies of the Spren pulled by Ishar had no functional biology, so they died seconds after entering the PR. But Yumi's body is human, so once its in the Physical Realm, it just works. I don't think that he created a new Cognitive Shadow (Nikaro is not that Invested lmao), I think her Cognitive Shadow (which hadn't faded away yet, thus the timelimit) was pulled into the Physical Realm and given a body.

I feel like Radiant Soulcasting requiring specific gemstones for the different essences is just a leftover bit of lore from WoK Prime that Brandon forgot wasn't true anymore, and/or changed his mind about. Or he's just being cheeky about the fact that Shallan is limited in Soulcasting with her bond to Testament, and that has to operate with gemstones in the same way that "fabrial" Soulcasters (calling them that because they really dont seem like traditional fabrials at all) need specific gemstones to make specific essences.

Another Mistborn spoiler:

The name of the Sibling seriously does feel like its just to add mystery and confusion, to make it harder to guess the truth. This is not an idea I've heard before and I really like it! Don't know if I agree, but I like it a lot

I'd say its not a wording mistake but a word emphasis mistake. I read it as a "Most of the Knight Radiant Spren are from Honor and Cultivation," meaning that most of the spren are made of both Honor and Cultivation, with the Stormfather and Nightwatcher being the obvious exceptions as they are only Honor and Cultivation respectively. But yeah, as @alder24 said, he could also be referring to the Enlightened Spren.

We know this is not true. You have to be bonded to the Honorblade to use its powers. Simply holding it does nothing, its just a Blade. We even know that Bridge 4 was bonded to the blade, because they were hiding it by having it de-summoned. That requires being bonded to it. Bonding to an Honorblade is not hard at all, from what we've seen. We watched Rock do it, it took him seconds. It was stolen by killing the person who was had been bonded to it, Eth btw, and then taking it off his corpse.

To quickly divert to this topic, I think that's relatively simple. The Honorblades were made before Plate and Squires were thought of, and they weren't altered to provide them after Plate and Squires were around. Shardplate resists all foreign Investiture, even Stormlight if its coming from someone else. They can still breathe in Stormlight, but that seems like a purposefully engineered exception that wouldn't apply to the way that Heralds gain Investiture from Honor. So a Herald wearing Plate would partially resist their Investiture gain from Honor, and that's not worth it when physical wounds mean literally nothing to them already. Plate isn't giving them any benefits they don't already have, aside from a resistance to Lashings and such which they might have just from being a Herald, we don't know.

I've never heard this theory about Jasnah being able to just see where the souls were in the Cognitive. Everyone's always assumed it was a Resonance, but that makes so much sense, I can't believe I hadn't heard about or thought about it myself before. I like that. That the gold-shadow-thing that Renarin did to Moash wasn't a totally weird and out of the blue thing, it was an expansion on the natural past-seeing Resonance of Truthwatchers. To be honest, though, I don't agree that Truthwatchers have a past-sight Resonance, I agree with Longshot that they have, in a much more minor way, a form of Future-Sight.

This is a theory I've been kicking around in the back of my head for a little while. It takes the WoBs about Nightblood's creation (Endowment's involvement and Ruin's Investiture) and mixes them with some timeline analysis to get a final result and hopefully partially answers the question of Nightblood's creation. To summarize in a single sentence: Nightblood was made as Ruin died. I think that Endowment waited until she knew that Ruin was about to die, then pushed Shashara to make Nightblood. She took some of Ruin's Investiture, momentarily free of any Vessel's control, and mixed it into the Breaths used to make Nightblood, resulting in the sword we all know and love, rather than a normal Awakened Sword like Vivenna's Blade. How do I know these events line up? Info from Warbreaker, Stormlight, and Mistborn Era 2. We know that Era 2 starts 341 years after the Catacendre. Era 2 takes place between Stormlight 5 and 6. Warbreaker takes place before SA, probably between 10 and 20 Rosharan years (extrapolated from the fact that Vasher trained Adolin) though we don't have an exact date. The Manywar was ~300 years before Warbreaker, though again we don't have an exact date. Adding the extra 10% from Rosharan years and given that we also don't know how long a Nalthian year is, its possible that the Manywar was happening during Mistborn Era 1. Especially if the Nightblood book adds some extra years in there or if the Manywar over 300 years before Warbreaker. What do you all think? Reasonable? Crazy?

According to a WoB that I'll link when I find it again, "Vasher" is the name of someone they both knew. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/41/#e7138

Wax being made into a Mini-Mistborn by inhaling Lerasium during his experiment is something that has almost no impact on the plot of TLM. All it really did was provide an avenue for Harmony to make Wayne a Mistborn to use Duralumin in the climax. Sure you could say that it made things easier for Wax before that point, but the cases where his Mistborn abilities showed up felt more like Brandon engineering minor difficulties where being a Mini-Mistborn helped and almost all of those could have been avoided. So why do it at all? Just to inject some extra Allomantic potential into the gene-pool? Just because it's a likely result of the experiment? I think I have an idea and it relates to the fact that Wax wasn't the only injection of extra Allomancy in TLM. The Community also existed. The Community didn't technically add more Investiture in the way that Wax becoming a Mini-Mistborn did, but it was designed to concentrate the Allomancy from all those people. And we know, for a fact, that kids were born in the Community. If a number is given, I don't remember it. So that's two different ways to increase the Allomantic potential which both arrived during TLM, and don't forget the conversation between Sazed and Kelsier about needing stronger Allomancers in the future. I don't think all that's a coincidence. I think that there will be a character in Era 3 who is a natural Mistborn, rather than one made via Hemalurgy like an Inquisitor. And that if we follow their family tree back, they're descended from Wax and the Community. Would this be a Mistborn with equal strength to Final Empire Mistborn? No, but the character would still be a Mistborn. Now, could this just be to offset the lower Allomantic potential in the Southern Continent and make it so that in Era 3 or 4 we've reached an Allomantic equilibrium across all of Scadrial that is roughly the same as Era 2's equilibrium? Maybe, but Kel's epilogue seems like its setting up for Kel and maybe Saze to do something about that across the planet, rather than the more personal nature of Wax and the Community.

That's a good number to have, but its also not exactly helpful. It doesn't tell us how much energy is really in a broam at all, just how much energy that stormlight is producing as light.

Shin and Parshendi are not the same. They're actually from opposite sides of the continent. Shin are from Shinovar which is far to the West, while the Parshendi are from the Shattered Plains which is the far East, though not the farthest east.

You're definitely close with some of it! lol Yeah, that's something that really speaks to me too. You don't just need to be alive, you need some reason to be alive. For some people, just being alive is reason enough, but others need more.

Heavenly Ones can't use Reverse Lashings, but otherwise yes I 100% agree that its mostly a thing of Singers being better Light holders.

Hmmm. That's very true. I don't think its a typo though, if only because I'm not sure what other word would be used in that place.

They totally have deserts on Roshar. Its just not deserts as per our world's definition, which relates to the amount of rainfall. On Roshar, a desert is just an area of land which doesn't stay wet for very long after a highstorm is over. I think most of the Makabak region counts for that.

Wow. I never noticed that before, but you're totally right.

Of course you'd say this Sadeas lol But yeah, you're not wrong at all. Jasnah thinks she's hot rust, and so does everyone else, but she makes mistakes and has issues, especially with emotional things.

Hmmm. Based on the number of "My feelings are complicated" I feel like I should've taken that choice out to get a more accurate picture of who likes and does like.