Shaggai

Probably like looking through a full bubble. It's slowing down and then speeding up again on the other side.

The Herdazians have probably already done that.

But that doesn't matter if he can predict their actions. He still won't pass laws like "you have to pass a test before breeding" because he's smart enough to know how badly that would go over. Basically, as he gets smarter his prediction powers go up but his empathy goes down. At first this can be bad, since he starts out simulating humans are rational agents, but as he gets smart enough he can predict how people will react without needing empathy.

The "wicked thing of eminence" almost reminds me of the thing with the tomb of Alcatraz the First. If it turns out that Nalan's suspicions are correct, and Surgebinding causes Desolations, that would be a good enough reason for a lot of the orders to abandon their spren.

Because their spren defaulted to Blades upon death. Maybe Cusicesh, since it presumably wasn't a sword at least for most of the time, wasn't forced into the sword category upon death? The sword thing is because they were patterned on the Honorblades, so presumably a spren that didn't become a weapon wouldn't end up as a Blade upon death. 1. Spren could mean spren type, or singular. 2. If one of them wasn't bonded at some point, there could be fewer. More might be seen as blasphemous because it would require an Unmade. 3. Absolutely. Honorspren bind their host to a code of honor. Even if the Unmade wanted to defeat Odium (as I theorize), they wouldn't be able to choose how their hosts would be forced to act. They may be different segments of Odium's personality, but it's all hatred at the bottom and anyone bonded with the Unmade would be untrustworthy. They would more likely be the equivalent of Bondsmith spren for Voidbinders.

What's the third one?

damnation. I knew it was RAFOd at one point, but I was hoping that had changed.

Is it confirmed that Edgli is Endowment?

Not if you stored health. Although, what would happen if you melted down a metalmind and recast it? What if you alloyed it with something else? If a Mistborn with Feruchemical tin stored tin, then used that tin to make pewter, could they get both the effects of Feruchemical tin and Allomantic pewter? What if you did that with a Hemalurgic spike instead of a metalmind? What if you used both?

Given the state of Taln, I'll go with the former. Oblivion at least is painless.

He won't destroy stuff. That's Ruin's job. Things have to exist to be hated. Given the state of Braize (as far as we can tell, anyway), it seems like Odium winning would be much worse than Ruin winning.

He was unwise. His search for power led him far and wide, and then into realms beyond the ken of mankind. He traveled into Shadesmar itself. Yet he did not know enough to survive in the changeable environment of the collective mind. His search went too far. It provoked the FatalErrorspren, and he was Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 387973120 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 489261360 bytes) in Unknown on line 0

Or bendalloy.

Sell. I think he's part of some sort of other Cosmere-spanning organization. There are at least 3 multi-world organizations.

Good luck with that. The second law of thermodynamics and Godel's incompleteness theorems might prove a bit of a challenge, though.

And don't even think about dropping it. Especially in California.

I will edit my posts instead of posting twice in a row.

The claws won't be as effective, but the sheer strength of the thing can probably do a lot of damage. Especially since it presumably will be wielding large boulders. As for Phantom weapons, why not appointments morningstars? A large lump of iron with spikes on is always nice.

The Steel Inquisitors. It's got a nice ring to it.

Well, one of them is molecular bonds, so yes.

Maybe it would reverse the decay caused by holding it in your mind? That way you could take images and have them stay perfect.

When you call upon Ishi'Elin, Herald of Luck, before taking a test.

If so, sell. Since the Surges bind Roshar together, the wholesale use of Nightblood and the draining of Investiture will actually disintegrate the ground around the user.

That... is very interesting. I never thought about that. I doubt it, though. I think Brandon's just trolling us and Taln is basically a Hoed. Taln still thinks he's Taln and has all his memories. Unless they spiked both of those away from the real Taln and gave them to an impostor, possibly along with Taln's physical capabilities, but that seems a bit convoluted.

In his visions, it's the Shardplate glowing, not the Radiants. It seems to be a different effect. Stormlight doesn't really act like light, either, so it wouldn't split into colors.