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So the midnight aether mimics things, taking on their shape. This immediately brought to mind Re-Shephir, aka the Midnight Mother, who does exactly this. There's no way that's a coincidence, I think we can all agree. But the question is, is this just magic working by similar principals? Or was Re-Shephir made directly from something aetheric? Cause one of the prevailing theories is that the Unmade were unmade from being *something*.

So after rhythm of war, I saw theories floating around that godmetals were kind of like a supercharged versions of the normal metals. Atium, for example, was compared to Super-Electrum (this was before the atium retcon which throws a bit of a wrench into the info we know for comparison) and raysium with its investure-conductive properties might have been super-nicrosil or super-duralumin. After a certain fact in sp1 caught my attention with Lost Metal fresh in my mind, I want to revisit these theories. In sp1, tress uses an iron tool and a steel tool to manipulate aethergrowths- iron to attract it and steel to repel it. This of course is very similar to what we know of their effects in fabrials, as well as of course their allomantic effect. (And I'm just now realizing that iron feruchemy affects gravity, you're storing and tapping the physical pull of the world on you, though I think it does so through tapping/storing *mass* not gravitational force). This use of steel to repel investiture reminded me of something else- Trellium aka bavadinium. This particular comparison holds up nicely for the purposes of this theory, and I'm interested in the differences between how steel and trellium repel investiture. So of the known godmetals, do you think they're comparable to the allomantic metals?

So, I've an idea for the timeline human arrival on Roshar to 1st desolation and further. Prior to human arrival, singer and spren lived in symbiotic relationship similar to Nahel bond but not exactly the same. The dawnsingers moulding stones in RoW are example of it. Spren used to get similar congenition in physical realn as radiant sprens get. Singers had similar powers to radiants but in an unchained and larger scale. (I think that's what void-bringing is unbound spren-singer power). When humans arrive, Roshar was remade slightly to make Shinovar and humans were said to not to move over. Humans being humans, did start expanding, specially given that we know Ishar was ambitious before madness took him, he would have trued to extend his reach. That's where Nale rose to power as someone who opposed Jezrian and Ishar in terms of expanding. When they start expanding, spren ask the singers to not use void-bringing on humans. That's they betrayal of singers and why they left singers. (Listeners and new singers think spren betrayed but Leshwi's reaction shows singers were the ones to betray.) In a desperate situation, singers force spren to use void-bringing and spren break off all access to singers. Odium takes benifit of this situation and offers to create the fused and give forms of power. He also turms some very powerful sprens into Unmades (That's the reason Leshwi's generation was the Fused generation. Her grandmother saw the coming of humans, her parents saw the first expansion and used void bringing. Leshwi's generation was complicit in the betrayal and then accepted Odium for survival. After the coming of fused and the heralds saw death at large scale at fused hands and are forced to create Oathpact. This desolation had the longest gap ( after this 4500 year gap from the last) and was marred with battles between singers and men but without spren supporting either side. Upon the next return of fused spren start forming Nahel bond suprising Honor and Heralds. (TWoK, Stormfathers mentions that they were surprised by occurence of Radiants). Urithiru was carved during this desolation.

If a Kandra took the bones, carapace, and gemheart of a singer, would they be able to attune the rythms? What form would they take, dullform because their spren left the gemheart or does the spren stay and they take the shape the singer had right before they died? Are the rythms inherent to their Connection to Roshar (Odium with the new rythms), or are they connected to their organs and biology, so that a kandra could copy it? What do you think about this?

before I start I have only read Stormlight and mistborn so does aluminum work on Roshar The same way it works on Scadrial I think there’s reference to it in the books I don’t remember where but would a aluminum knife or weapon completely negate the powers of a radian is aluminum like a universal thing in the cosmere or is it only a mistborn thing I still don't understand investiture that much but does it have to do with that ?

Everybody knows that Hoid is in every Cosmere book, but where exactly does he come from? Like, is there any information whatsoever regarding where he came from and how he gets from world to world? All Google would tell me is that he is from Yolen, but I don't even know what that is. XD Thanks!

So, I’m on my 10th or so read through of SA, and just started RoW again. We learn during the evacuation of hearthstone that Kaladin has lines of squires ready, but that he needs Spren for them to say their third ideal and become full knights. In earlier books, specifically the end of WoR (when Kaladin earns his blade) and End of Oathbringer (When Teft and The Loren earn their blades/become full knights) it is on their second. As well, though this deals with Skybreakers rather than Windrunners, back in Oath bringer, when Szeth is joining the SBs, he says the first ideal, but cannot consume Stormlight, unlike both Vathah (who seems to have done it without saying and ideals at all) or Kaladin (who also seemed to have done it without saying oaths) is this because the skybreakers are more “orderly” than other sects of Radiants? In general, the rules for ideals and progressing through radiancy have seemed somewhat inconsistent throughout the books, the only true consistency being that you get your armor at the 4th Ideal. Actually, we also never seem to see Nale in his armor, even though we know he is a sky breaker of the 5th ideal. Sorry for the rambling, more ideas come to me as I’m writing out this post.