Pathfinder

I think Sazed is playing the long game. Whatever the red haze is, the people of Scadrial need to be of a certain tech level to be able to even compete. That is why Sazed is regretting what he did with the Basin. Instead of an endless supply of resources jump starting a technological revolution, it made them slow and decadent instead. With the discovery of the southern people's technology, the technology of the world will leap forward which is why Mr. Red Eyes at the end of the novel is "moving up the timetable". That Scadrial may catch up in time to become a problem.

I think his assumption was that Scadrial has a lot of catching up to do due to the Lord Ruler. So he figured that in history one of the biggest hindrances on progress is lack of resources. So he thought if I give them practically never end resources, they will have a monumental spring board to catch up with the rest of the universe. This assumption however proved false. But this is all my own conjecture/opinion.

They are immortal, but whether when they are on the physical realm of another planet that it still works that way remains to be seen.

Allomancy is pure preservation, feruchemy is preservation and ruin, hemalurgy is pure ruin.

But as the people at the time did not have the level of technology to realize that, they would have still called it an aspen. It is shaped like an aspen, has the colored bark of an aspen, grows like an aspen with leaves primarily near the top, but the leaves are darker, people are still going to call it an aspen. It didn't suddenly sprout tentacles, or mouths. Here is a picture of aspen in fall and tell me you couldn't see that fitting right in on Scadrial. https://www.google.com/search?q=aspen+flower&safe=off&espv=2&biw=1440&bih=815&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimuP339tbKAhVMGT4KHVciBk8Q_AUIBigB#safe=off&tbm=isch&q=aspen+tree+fall&imgrc=wM66mALWdOINYM%3A

But they were before the lord ruler ascended. He just changed them to survive the changes he made to the planet. Just like he did to the people to survive an ash world and just like he did to the animals. We know an oak is an oak whether it has all its leaves in summer or no leaves in fall. So just because an aspen lost its flowering, why would the name change? All its other main identifiers remain.

InvestedBeard, you ended up just making a spoiler lol. Since I never got the hang of it, i just click the little button on the upper left of the text box that looks like a picture. Angsos if you hold your mouse over it, it will say "Special BB Code". Click on it, then select the code for spoiler. Type in there what you want in the spoiler box, then click ok. Then your done.

Annnnnnd he also changed the people and animals so my statement still stands.

I took that as Wax being so filled of Investiture that he saw the preservation that was in all things (people, rocks, plants, animals, etc. )

Yes this is petty, and yes this is gloating, but calling 2 years in advance the idea that the Set is much more cosmere aware than most thought especially when I got down voted for it I feel the need to call attention to. This will probably get me a downvote for this alone, but I do feel vindicated

In the Wax and Wayne series lions are called lions, so don't see why he couldn't call an aspen an aspen.

Granted, it rips out your soul as it travels down your digestive track I wish I had mist fabrials, the knowledge to use them, and the means without me having to die or be horribly mutilated to accomplish it.

Yeah that was my thinking too. I feel like the thunderclast and midnight essence are odiums corrupted version of the essences. Thunderclast is talus and midnight essence is vapor. Which makes me very curious to see the other 8 manifestations.

Well shardblades are made of dead spren and yet they are still able to cut through any non living matter, and phase through flesh cutting the limbs spiritual connection, so why shouldn't shardplate still have some of its functionality?

is Odium's investiture resurrecting dead greatshells into thunderclasts confirmed/WoB? That idea sounds awesome, and I was curious the source.

I really hope the cosmere is not a daytime soap opera lol

Well I have had this thought for awhile, that could be utterly and completely wrong, just the way I look at things. That wind spren are lesser spren, and honor spren are a higher version of them. Same thing with creation spren and cryptics. So then death spren would be the lesser version, and a knight would bond with a reaper spren? or a spren with the same theme, but by a different name and more fully fleshed out.

You bond drunk spren and see blurry, and stumble the rest of your life. Your surges are belch and blackout I wish to understand compounding without dying or having my spirit web horribly torn apart

Wax because he could still shoot silver bullets or push silverware into it

Could also be that she hates the way cigars smell and figures a banana would be a better use of his time lol.

I am noticing there does seem to be different gradations (Kelsier and Wax show no negative affects to not burning steel, while Spook becomes blind and deaf without it perhaps to the amount of time they burned their metals vs flaring them) and manifestations (a steel inquisitor who can see via steel lines, or kelsier who can push on different points of metal, or Wax with his steel bubble )to savantism.

I have to check, but wasn't Ym also out of stormlight by the time Nale chased and killed him? The spren was saying to get to the light, but he didn't make it in time. If I have a chance later today, I will check to confirm, but if he was out of stormlight, he ain't healing anyone, including himself. edit: I was slightly wrong. Ym did still have a sphere on him, with stormlight in it, and his spren called him to use it by saying "No, light!". But Nale shoulder slammed Ym knocking the sphere away. Considering Nale went through all the trouble of removing spheres from around Lift so she couldn't use it for stormlight and employed a larkin to empty her of it, I could not see him leaving stormlight nearby for Ym to draw in to heal. Also from what we have seen of stormlight healing for Kaladin and I do not think Ym would need progression to heal from such a wound. So I could not see Nale just leaving the means of salvation for even a base radiant within reach. Then again Nale didn't know Lift could metabolize stormlight so there could be some missing points of information for him. I still think however unfortunately that Ym is very much dead.

True, but you are assuming the Shin scholar was in Shinovar when he studied the gravity spren. It has come up in the books that shin scholars have traveled through the rest of Roshar and not only Shinovar. So he could have traveled to one of the other lands, and observed gravity spren there. Not saying Rysn is right, but just because of the scholar does not make her wrong.

Last I heard there is a bit of a debate on that. Some feel like how with other ferrings, there are certain innate boons you have to deal with the ability (such as when you increase your weight, your body becomes personally denser so as not to crush your own bones and organs). So that camp feels you would be mostly immune to your own body heat. But they admit it would not count for setting your clothing on fire, melting the metal minds, and causing the air to be so hot as to suffocate you. The other camp feels as you do.

First let me qualify this post with the fact that there is no evidence to back what I am about to state, and it is purely an intuitive leap on my part. I feel that if the spren was able to withhold the use of the power when gaining the ability through hemalurgy, then the spike would be mostly useless. Any individual willing to rip someone else's soul out of them in order to attain a bond rather than the old fashioned way of living the ideals, I feel would break the bond just from the act of plunging the spike into their body. Which I feel would result in either gaining nothing from the experience, or prompty a dead shardblade popping up. But that is only my own interpretation.