Cohesion

[Staterus he/him]

One of the examples given for how Cohesion could be used is that the user could leave his handprint in a table. This could presumably affect the living. But could this affect shardplate or blade?

[Yata he/him]

I really doubt it (but without explic information) for a couple of reasons:

1) Invested Objects are hard to affect and Blade and Plate are really high Invested.

2) The Plate auto-repair itself so probably it would return to its original shape if you manage to change it. The Blade will return to its original to the next summoning

[Calderis he/him]

I think this is one of those situations where it could, but the amount of investiture needed to over the investiture in the target would make it prohibitively difficult. 

[Steeldancer he/him]

I bet Brandon will do something cool with it

[Landis963 he/him]

I've said this before, but Cohesion reduces any non-Shard material to putty in your hands.  The applications, in combat or otherwise, are numerous. 

[red032 he/him]

You are only thinking about decreasing cohesion. Think about increasing cohesion. 
On inanimate obects it would increase its resistance. I can see a highly cohesion invested sword acting like a second class shard. Or a invested cohesion shield acting like a half-shard.
On a group of people, it would rise morale adn/or interpessoal strenght. On an army, it would rise coordination making them a LOT more effective.

Any more ideas? 

[Calderis he/him]

7 minutes ago, red032 said:

You are only thinking about decreasing cohesion. Think about increasing cohesion. 
On inanimate obects it would increase its resistance. I can see a highly cohesion invested sword acting like a second class shard. Or a invested cohesion shield acting like a half-shard.
On a group of people, it would rise morale adn/or interpessoal strenght. On an army, it would rise coordination making them a LOT more effective.

Any more ideas? 

The few things we've heard on cohesion all seem to deal with the physical structure of objects. 

If it can be used to effect interpersonal cohesion, that strengthens the ability massively. 

[kiapet]

Lashings don't work on someone wearing Shardplate; I imagine other surges would face similar limitations 

[+Kelkamer]

I wish we knew enough to talk more about cohesion.. any theory updates on cohesion or Willshapers since Oathbringer came out?

[NoiseSpren he/him]

Brandon said that cohesion is much more difficult on an invested object than lashing that object.

[CrazyRioter she/her]

Presumably because you are affecting it's structure rather than just it's movement.