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I have to check but if I recall correctly, even though all the artworks of the heralds will be done by "in world" artists, they won't all necessarily be Alethi, or even Vorin overall. Other cultures do revere the heralds in varying degrees. edit: so all the WoB I found do not specify what culture did the artworks. Just that artists on Roshar did. So for all we know, Taln's is from an Azish artist. Questioner I was wondering about the pictures in the cover of this [Oathbringer]. Are they specific characters in the book, or just art? Brandon Sanderson They are the Heralds. I went to some artists and said, "Do me your rendition of something that would be on the Sistine Chapel in-world for the Heralds," so that's four of the ten. So that is what we ended up with. Idaho Falls signing (Dec. 29, 2018) Toaster Retribution Hi Isaac! This might not be a question you can answer, but will there be any Herald art in SA4 similar to those in OB? Isaac Stewart Wonderful question. The answer is a definite yes. Isaac Stewart r/Stormlight_Archive AMA (Oct. 1, 2019) Blightsong Who drew [the Oathbringer endpapers]? Are they in-world art? Brandon Sanderson These are in world paintings done by the Oilsworn, one of the people Shallan studied when practicing her art. The actual paintings were done by the Oilsworn's real-world counterpart, Dan Dos Santos, who did the cover of Warbreaker. There are two more pieces in the back, done by someone else, which are also in-world art pieces. They're all part of a larger theme, and are equally gorgeous. Phantine I assume these are paintings of heralds, then? Brandon Sanderson These two [in the front of the book] are Ishar and Ash. The back two are Jezrien and Vedel. ConvolutedBoy Ash is so much more...shiny than I expected, but I guess that's Lightweaving for you. I love the space background too. Brandon Sanderson Remember, these are in-world artifacts. So this is how someone painted her from their imagination, based on lore. These are Rosharan versions of the paintings of the prophets along the top of the Sistine Chapel. General Reddit 2017 (Oct. 20, 2017) Gamerati Do you have a "look bible" [for collaborating artists]? Or do you literally give them the stuff that you've already produced? Do you say, "This is my map of X," or "This is the way the Lord Ruler works," or do you kind of go, "Hey, here's what Vin has been for the last ten years, but these are the things you can't change"? Do you have guidance like that that you give people? Isaac Stewart Usually the guidance we give them is the words in the book. We sometimes give pictures and things, reference. We did that for the cover for Oathbringer, where we provided reference of, "Here are some pictures of people who look kind of like Jasnah that might work." We're doing that more and more, but at this point... I know that Magic: The Gathering has these big look bibles that they share with their artists, and those are really cool. And then they wind up turning them into these gorgeous art books that they've been putting out, using a lot of the same stuff from there. And we haven't gotten quite to that point where it's like, "You know what? This person has to look this particular way." We're moving that direction, slowly, but that's because we're based on books. We want people to be able to imagine the characters as they would. We hesitate sometimes, when it's like, "Okay, here's the look of what this person is." Even with the Heralds, that we were putting at the endpapers of the Stormlight books, we are careful to say that those paintings are somebody's interpretation. We like ot think of these as in-world interpretations, and each of the artists who are painting them for us are maybe artists actually on Roshar, and they've painted these paintings that are hanging somewhere in some prince's palace or queen's palace, and they've got all of these pictures of the Heralds. So we treat these as in-world artifacts. However, they were not painted from the real people that the Heralds are, so it's more of the tradition of what this Herald looks like. Gamerati It's very interesting you say that, because you even said that, when you showed us your early sketches of Vin, looked very much like what [fan artists] made. So, the words are descriptive enough that they're fairly clear. Isaac Stewart I mean, there are some thing that we have to canonize later, like, "Which ear is Vin's earring in?" Well, it's not mentioned. It's not mentioned until we got to the leatherbound books, and we said, "We have to figure this out!" And then we made a few notes in the leatherbound books, "This is her left ear." But there are things we run into like that. And the more secondary the character is, usually the less words that are written about them, so there's more wiggle room on how to define them. Crafty Games Mistborn Dice Livestream with Isaac Stewart (Nov. 21, 2019)

Cadmium isn't foretelling. Its just hitting the fast forward button on the movie. Jezerien also is wearing armor, and it is hard to tell if he has light eyes in his artwork as well. Actually same for all of the heralds so far. Regarding the eyes at least.

The hard limits indicated here are referring to the body surviving the experience. So for steel there is friction. For pewter, you can tap so much muscle that you can't move. But there isn't a functional limit on how much you can tap. Store? Totally. But not tap. Still looking for the WoB I mentioned, but I found this interesting one in the meantime: Chaos (paraphrased) I continued to ask about the Lord Ruler and his Allomantic strength. Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) There's an upper bound to the amount of power you can get from being a savant. Brandon said that, obviously, the Lord Ruler wasn't using duralumin and Elend could only get that powerful in Soothing using duralumin. He implied that there was a way to Compound to enhance Allomancy. Alloy of Law 17th Shard Q&A (Nov. 5, 2011)

Duralumin burns the metal all at once in a sudden burst, but although very fast, it still takes time, and it is still limited to how much metal you have as well as how powerful of an allomancer you are. I will need time to pull up the corresponding WoBs for those. Theoretically so long as you have the stores, you can increase the effect. So even duralumin is limited in comparison.

So, if the idea doesn't work for you, totally respect that. Only responding because you said you don't understand what I am getting at. So burning an allomantic metal gets you only so much right? Flaring still will only get you so far in power. When you compound where you fuel feruchemy with allomancy, you are getting the power right from the hose as it were, but you still gotta store that excess or it is wasted. So you fill up metal minds in amounts you would never have been able to have before. You can then tap those amounts to get a huge effect up front, or variable effects for variable amounts and variable amounts of time. The idea of reverse compounding, is you can exceed that plateau. So using arbitrary numbers below: Steel Push with normal allomancy: Strength of 10 Steel Push with normal allomancy and duralumin: Strength of 20 Steel Push using feruchemy: Strength however big the amount of storage you have. So could be 30, 40, 50, 100, 200. Powering feruchemy with allomancy is getting rid of the middle man of having to reduce yourself to store an attribute. Reverse compounding from what I understand it, is removing the top limitation of how powerful of an effect you can get out of your allomancy. So you could tap a "steel push" all at once, and get a steel push far more powerful than you would ever be capable of even with duralumin. Maybe this illustration will help Allomancy: Single hose. Valve can only be opened to a set point. You have to drink from the hose Feruchemy: Set number of bottles of water. You can drink them all now, and have no more water. Or you can sip them over a long time Feruchemy powered by Allomancy: Single hose. Valve can only be opened to a set point. You can drink from hose or from a set number of bottles of water. You can drink them all now, and just refill them. Or you can sip them over a long time, and still refill them. Allomancy powered by Feruchemy: Single hose, Valve can only be opened to a set point. Fill up number of bottles of water. Shoot out all the water in one go, with higher pressure than the original single hose.

I believe the wording is due to Brandon being paraphrased and the entire WoB is in the past tense. The person "asked" Brandon, and is retelling what was "said" in past tense. I think that is where Brandon said it could be similar to what the Southerners are doing Well I would look at it like this, in order to compound in either direction you need access to both sides of the metal right? So you power feruchemy to get huge stores of a trait. Now you use those huge stores of that trait to power your allomancy. So for instance, instead of a steel push that plateaus at a certain level of flare, you can "tap" as whole storage of a "steel push" to levels you could never have been capable of before. Personally I feel the WoB is pretty explicit, but I guess to each their own. I will see if I can find more to be more definitive for everyone.

It has been theorized for awhile, and (I think, I could be wrong) confirmed via WoB that it is possible to power allomancy with feruchemy, like how you can power feruchemy with allomancy. Just we have no idea how that would work. So in the example the OP gave, tapping copper, and creating a copper cloud as result. And since you can tap as much as you want with ferchemy, theoretically you could create much more powerful allomantic effects, whereas before they would only plateau (there is only so far you can flare, or so great a duralumin enhanced burn can take you) edit: found it! knew I wasn't crazy Kaymyth (paraphrased) I asked him about what the board refers to as "reverse" compounding - i.e., using Feruchemy to enhance Allomancy, rather than the other way around. I wanted to make sure that it was really a thing that exists. Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) He said that it was. Kaymyth (paraphrased) Is this what the Southern Scadrians have been doing? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) It's similar, but not exactly the same. JordanCon 2016 (April 23, 2016)

So I will be the first and foremost to say I am woefully uninformed about the glyphs, and how they function. I will give some of the impressions or things I thought were the case, with questions included. I understand what you are saying regarding the separate glyph pairs looking like the thing (for lack of a better word at this time). That the glyph is literally put in almost a cut out of that symbol, like you said Tower and Crown for instance. But I thought with the highprince glyph, it had some freedom to be formed so long as it keeps the same basics for the name? For instance with kholin you could kind of see a tower and crown in that glyph, and when I look at the original sadeas glyph, it looks like a tower in some portions, and like a hammer in others (the top curves pointing outwards). I thought that Amaram would have the same main highprince glyph since he was the new sadeas, so he would keep the highprince glyph, but since his is the tower and the ax, they highprince glyph would have been altered slightly to reflect that. Didn't Nazh's explanation say there was a degree of artistic license? Then there would be the glyph pairs that make it more obvious. The writing on the banner does seem to be white to me, and forest green would come out as black in a black and white drawing. I guess I took the scene as more representative than literal. One spear above the rest. Tied to Amaram/his banner. The other spears at their center of their shaft, or near their base seem to be shattering.

Was rereading a scene, oathbringer page 1089 when i saw this: Navani strode along the wall walk toward Fen. Below, Amaram’s troops flew the new Sadeas banner: the axe and the tower, white on forest green. It looks like kholin, so there is the tower (kholin includes a tower), and doesn't sadeas include a hammer? Hammer and ax might have similar shaping. Could the spears also be foreshadowing to the convo kaladin has with amaram about forging the spear that didn't break?

No problem. here is the WoB regarding that: R'Shara Would Stormlight healing, Progression, or Feruchemical gold healing count as some of the ways that a transgender person could change their body to match their identity? Brandon Sanderson Yes. Those would work. In fact, that's kind of the main way that you would make that happen. Injections of Investiture making the body match the Spiritual and Cognitive. Legion Release Party (Sept. 19, 2018) No problemo. Never hurts to ask the guy himself. Good luck!

So the whole ideal of the spiritual is going like a computer program. The spiritual ideal is the template that as the body heals, it tries to match. That way you don't end up with extra arms, or legs, etc. But it is also filtered through the cognitive, how you see yourself. Which is why someone who was born male, transitions to female, and then is healed, is healed as female. Now as to regrowing fingers, I theorize that a-pewter could regrow fingers and the like, just it would require constant pewter burning for an extended period of time. A subsequent WoB regarding aluminum and cosmere healing has it as "being inert and blocking investiture". I have it posted below: Argent On Nalthis, can aluminum prevent somebody from Returning? So if you kill somebody with aluminum and leave the weapon in them? Brandon Sanderson I don't think that's going to be enough. I think that… Argent Different way then? Brandon Sanderson Yeah there are totally ways. I don’t think that that’s going to be enough. There's a difference between being inert and blocking Investiture, and actually sucking out Investiture. If you stuck Nightblood inside of a corpse; there are certain things… if you had a larkin or whatever sitting there that ingests the Investiture as it was coming in, that would prevent [Returning]. I think with aluminum you would just have somebody that comes alive with a wound, so maybe... But I think it would just heal around [the aluminum] and you'd just have a spike in you, kind of like Hemalurgy—but not like Hemalurgy. It's inert, but you know what I mean. Argent Which suggests you can't actually Awaken aluminum. Brandon Sanderson No. It's not going to hold a charge. Kurkistan I assume you can't Forge it, either. Brandon Sanderson No. In fact the unForgable metal- Argent Ralkalest? Brandon Sanderson There's an unForgeable metal mentioned. Kurkistan Could we call it aluminum if we wanted to? Brandon Sanderson Let's just say that aluminum through most cultures was considered a mythological metal, and when people could actually find some, they considered it more valuable than gold, in our culture. So just sayin'... Shadows of Self Chicago signing (Oct. 12, 2015) I guess this is where we will just have to agree to disagree, because biologically regrowing limbs can be explained without magic having to create it out of no where, versus pewter strengthening the natural body. At the end of the day I think pewter and gold are analogous, just as with all the other metals, allomancy plateaus at a certain flare level, while feruchemy can increase so long as you have the supply. edit: to put it this way. if it prevents the magical strengthening in a localized area, then shouldn't it still be healed? If the body's immune and natural systems are augmented, then the rest of the body is still producing the extra cells, and functions that would travel to the location to heal it. So the increased production would still exist, and should still function despite the localized area lacking. So I would think if that was the case, the wound would still heal regardless, yet according to Brandon, it would not. At least that is how I reason it. Sounds good. Good luck!

So I think I understand a bit better what you are saying, and it is an interesting way to look at the process. I think in some ways I agree we are looking at it similarly though with different wording. However I think there is one thing in the books that can shed a little more light on this. (side note, not mentioning this to say you are wrong or anything. Just recalling a scene that i think is pertinent) I think we both know and understand the whole thing about how cosmeric healing is returning the body to the spiritual ideal filtered through the cognitive self. As to the actual physical process, I think A-pewter and F-gold function the same exact way. just one has more "power" than the other. As in pewter plateaus while gold healing does not so long as you have enough to tap. The reason I say this in regards to your post, is because of Wayne when they get bombed by the butler. Using your statement: "the magic being the thing that actually knit wounds, replaced blood, or repaired damage by magically creating the required matter" Then I believe Wayne's healing as it is described in that scene should not work as it did. His wounds should have just closed. But what actually happens is: "The man's back was crusted with blood and burned skin, but it had been lifted and raised as scabs, new skin forming underneath" "So he grabbed the burned layer at Wayne's shoulder and - with a jerk - ripped the skin off his back. it came free in almost a single complete sheet. Wayne grunted. New skin had formed underneath, pink and fresh, but it couldn't finish healing properly until the old stiff, burned layer had been removed. So Wayne's body was healing as the human body normally does. Blood clots. Scab is formed. New skin grows underneath, and the old skin sloughs off. Just it was extra accelerated. Now further to this, if pewter was only increasing the body's immune system to assist in the speed of recovery, then when Brandon was asked regarding healing from an aluminum bullet, then for myself, A-pewter should still be able to heal while f-gold should not. As the body itself is just doing its natural job better. But the WoB indicated both A-pewter and F-gold would cease to heal where the aluminum bullet is present. Now Brandon does comment that a-pewter would not be too affected by the aluminum bullet, but I take that to mean because of their increased durability to allow them to shrug off the damage temporarily till the bullet is removed. But they are still unable to heal it, which he confirms later in the WoB, just like a bloodmaker. Kurkistan What would happen if you shot a thug with an aluminum bullet or stabbed him with an aluminum knife? Brandon Sanderson Ah, that's a good question. The wound would not be able to heal around the aluminum, but once the aluminum came out and was gone from the system, they would be okay. Kurkistan Wait, is that a Bloodmaker, not a Thug? Brandon Sanderson Oh, you're talking about Thugs? It would work similarly, but it really wouldn't have a huge effect on them. Kurkistan Alright, because Peter was implying that there was some weird aluminum interaction with Thugs. Brandon Sanderson What was he thinking of...? There is some weird interaction but... Kurkistan In the wedding scene, Wax thinks they would have aluminum bullets to deal with Thugs, and I was like, "Oh, that's a typo." And Peter was like, "Oh no it's not..." Brandon Sanderson No, no. That would just be-- it's like I said: healing it until the bullet is gone, it's just the same as Bloodmakers. Footnote: Referring to AoL sample chapter commentary. Words of Radiance Philadelphia signing (March 21, 2014)

i think there might be some confusion, though if I misunderstood, I apologize in advance. Pewter very much provides healing, just you are not going to heal in seconds, or regrow a limb. I liken it to captain america versus wolverine. Cap (as well as Spider-man, and etc) all have healing factors. They get stabbed and grievously wounded and they will be down for a time, but they heal far faster than us puny mortals. Characters like wolverine, or the hulk on the other hand, get run through or limbs chopped off and they are regenerated in seconds. Both Trilogies (Era 1 and 2) mention specifically accelerated healing, as well as WoB that I will post below. Now having said that, I think where the confusion comes in is the mention of compounding. I agree, someone with A-pewter and F-gold will not be able to compound and they would get far more out of A-gold and F-gold. However, burning pewter should counter the effects of storing F-gold not only because of "resilience" but also because of the increased healing capabilities of pewter. This should allow someone to burn pewter and store without any ill effects. Another WoB I will post below references Brandon confirming that you could burn pewter, and store the increased strength into a pewter mind, just that compouding instead would get you far more, far faster. So you should be able to burn pewter, and store the extra strength, speed, and healing in a pewter mind, a steel mind, and a gold mind without any problems to your day to day life. Just you will not get anywhere near what you would get from compounding. Brandon Sanderson Burning metals by instinct, by the way, is something I had to add to the book for scenes like this. I had to be able to have characters be able to heal quickly–in a relative sort of way–so that I could keep the pacing where I wanted it. That meant long term, quick healing, if that makes any sense. I made it possible for an Allomancer's body to use metals–particularly pewter and tin–when they needed them. Mistborn: The Final Empire Annotations (Nov. 29, 2006) Sandastron I’m very curious about pewter. How much Feruchemical pewter, steel, and gold would you have to take in in order to be equal to burning pewter and flaring. Brandon Sanderson Oh…um, okay. So you wanna...ok, let’s back this up. So you wanna know feruchemically what would it take to match burning? Sandastron Yes. Brandon Sanderson Okay. So burning pewter, I kind of imagine...roughly doubling. Roughly. Sandastron Double your strength? Brandon Sanderson Yeah. But without the muscle mass change, it’s a magical boost. So because of that it has some pretty dramatic effects, like when Vin jumps and things like that. Sandastron So it’s only a double, so would flaring it bring it any higher? Brandon Sanderson Yeah. Flaring would go higher. Sandastron Would it be like triple? Brandon Sanderson Maybe like triple. Sandastron Maybe like tripling...that’s fascinating. So I always thought normal burning would triple it and flaring would quadruple. Brandon Sanderson Yeah I always felt kind of double. You won’t see people burning pewter and lifting a car. Sandastron Right, exactly. Brandon Sanderson You see people burning pewter and delivering a really solid punch. Sandastron Gotcha, thank you. That is fascinating…and would it be about doubling speed and healing ability? Brandon Sanderson I haven’t worked out the numbers on that exactly. I have an instinct that says thatburning pewter, healing goes a bit faster but I have to look in the books and see what we’ve done in the past and then kind of canonize it. Calamity Philadelphia signing (Feb. 20, 2016) Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) Allomantic pewter strength can be stored in a metalmind, but it's probably easier to just Compound. Alloy of Law 17th Shard Q&A (Nov. 5, 2011)

My one critique is for Elsecaller it says they seek one Absolute Truth. That is incorrect. Jasnah says so herself. There is not one absolute truth. One should always question and seek the truth, but that does not mean there is one absolute truth. Shallan wishes there to be, and Jasnah comments that the young assume there is, but the mature learn to question, and Jasnah hates those that seek to end such questions.

So this comment is not trying to prove a point or anything. Just to clarify the scene. 1. Preservation was shocked and said "what have you done?" confirming Kelsier's plan. Preservation then further confirms it when he refers to Rashek as perfect. Then Rashek appears. Personally I do not think one needs to be a genius in that case to figure out who died. edit: do you mean knowing who Rashek is? Preservation called the Lord Ruler by the name Rashek. Which is a Terris name. There is also how Rashek was named in Alendi's journal, and was stated in it to be a feruchemist. 2. The scene was when Yomen had the siege engines pepper the koloss with stones while Vin and Elend were distracted. The woman, skaa, nobility and obligator that Kelsier spoke to were people that had already been transformed into koloss however long ago. The koloss were killed by the stones. The "souls" of the koloss people were confused by where they were and what happened. So the people were not killed by koloss to make more koloss. They were already made into koloss. They had no memory of the time they were koloss. So any confusion or surprise they had were them suddenly being in the cognitive realm after their last memories being of being turned into a koloss. Unless I misunderstood what you were saying.

No problem, was probably more me than you. So I do not think it would work given the spike is in-organic. Also since the spike was invested, I believe it would be like trying to convert the investiture in your metal minds, to an invested spike via healing. So I do not think it is possible. The below WoB kind of coincides, but otherwise I do not know of something that explicitly says it does not work. Just my gut says it would not. I wish you luck with your theory Djarskublar So, say you have a gold/gold Twinborn and they worldhop to Roshar and they study the magic and do the whole Khriss and Nazh thing for a while so they know a lot about the magic, but they've also left themselves a lot of options with what they can do. So then they manage to pull up a gold shadow of them having actually become a Surgebinder and then kind of meld themselves with that shadow a bunch, could they change their Cognitive Identity enough so that they could, like, tap a lot of gold and grow the spren and actually be a Surgebinder? Brandon Sanderson Unfortunately, no. It's a good question, but no. That won't work for a couple of reasons. One of which is, simply creating Investiture is not something that can happen, right? Djarskublar They are a gold Twinborn, so they can tap a lot of gold... Brandon Sanderson They can tap a whole bunch, that's true, they can do that, but simply having it is not gonna create a spren because the spren is from a different god, right, a different Shard. Djarskublar So if they had Regrowth cast on them, would that do it? Brandon Sanderson *hems and haws for a second* Djarskublar A really, really big Regrowth, like in the middle of a Highstorm. Brandon Sanderson Hmmm, this, you are getting to the realm of plausibility at that point. I still don't think gold is the way to do it. I think you just get all that Investiture. It would become sapient by you sticking a whole bunch of Investiture in, and then you can bond to that. But it's not like people gain what you would have done. Does that make sense? That's just what's going to happen, is you're gonna, you can create a, potentially create a spren that way, but you are more likely to end up with something like Nightblood. But you could potentially create a spren, but I mean you're just gonna end up... Djarskublar So there are other, more optimal ways to do that? Brandon Sanderson Yes, go bond a spren. (evil grin of course) Djarskublar But you can't easily bond multiple, and if you did this you could maybe get multiple. Brandon Sanderson Nyeaaahhh... The spren still has to choose. If you want to be a Surgebinder, the choice is being made. You can't fake your way into it. Decision and Honor are too much a part of Surgebinding for you to be able to fake your way into that. Other magics you might be able to do that. Other magics that don't require, like... Surgebinding works because a piece of Honor or Cultivation or a mix has chosen you specifically. There is will from the actual Investiture involved in it in Roshar. So it's not something you can cheat your way into, right. But cheating your way into Breath might be easier. Arcanum Unbounded release party (Nov. 22, 2016)

Before I comment, I just want to make sure I understand what you are proposing. 1. person was spiked with whatever ability, but naturally had feruchemical gold and had tons of full metal minds 2. that person considers the spike as part of themselves 3. someone removes the spike from that person. 4. the person then taps all their gold healing, resulting in the spike regrowing. I get that right?

Among the people mentioned were "Many were skaa, but there were soldiers, merchants, and even nobility among them. Both male and female." So the nobles would potentially have been as invested as an obligator as obligators were nobles. The book says the obligator was less surprised, and more resigned. The woman Kelsier spoke to was confused and didn't know where she was. So I took that to mean the obligator knew what was done to him, and what was happening now, just he was upset that the koloss did it to him. But don't really see the benefit of continuing this line of conversation. Feel free to continue with honorless. To each their own. Kelsier heard spikes form the obligator and his very next thought was "Spikes. Like Inquisitor spikes?". At the time of this revelation for Kelsier he has no knowledge of hemalurgy whatsoever. No idea what is possible or not possible, but he was able to link the koloss spikes to the inquisitor spikes. But again, this was not intended to start up the discussion regarding Kelsier again. If you disagree. I respect your opinion, and will leave it be. To each their own.

For myself, the scene shows everyone else being surprised, while the obligator is the only one that was not. That says to me he knew. For myself if you know using spikes creates koloss, it is not too far of a hop and a skip to inquisitors with spikes in their eyes and putting two and two together. But that is just my own reading of it. To each their own.

Not intending to start up our disagreement on Kelsier again, totally respect your view on it. Just commenting that Honorless did make a good point. The obligator was the kolosses keeper. He was turned into a koloss by them. He seemed more upset that they did it to him, than a revelation on how. At least that is how it read to me. That he knew the process, and was upset that they did it to him. An obligator. This man seemed less surprised by events, and more resigned. By the time Kelsier arrived, the lanky obligator was already starting to stretch away. "How?" Kelsier demanded, counting on the obligator to understand more about the koloss "How did this happen to you?" "I don't know" the man said (this I believe is referring to why the koloss turned on him, turning him into a koloss) Kelsier felt his heart sink "The beasts" the man continued "should have known better than to take an obligator! I was their keeper, and they did this to me? This world is ruined" Should have known better? Kelsier clutched the obligator's shoulder as the man stretched toward nothingness "How? Please, how is it done? Men become koloss?" The obligator looked to him and vanishing, said one word. "Spikes"

So first to clarify, I am not saying it is unreasonable to think Renarin's oaths were affected. Basically there is so little we know, I believe it could be any of the three. Either Renarin could swear oaths normally but his wording is different, or Renarin swears oaths but in a different manner, or Renarin doesn't swear oaths at all. I did not intend for you to think I was disagreeing with you on that matter. Totally agree it is reasonable. What I was more commenting on, was in my opinion, the giving of pain was more of a quirk of Glys's speech than actual function. Totally respect your theory, and I wish you luck with it, just for myself I don't think it is the case. "She will hurt us! She will hurt us!" "He will not be resisted" Glys said "My sorrow, Renarin. I will give you my sorrow" "It will be....great....vast.....wonderful!" Glys said from within Renarin's heart "It will be beautiful, Renarin! Look! "It will fear you!" Glys said from within Renarin "It will go. Make it so that it will go" "Light. You will make it go with light" "It will go!" Glys promised, excitable as ever. "Ah.... what will come now?" Glys said, voice thrumming through Renarin "What emerges?" So I take that all together as just the way Glys talks. Though what I do find very interesting is Glys seems to have a degree of foresight on all the time. In every instance Glys knows what is about to come. He was wrong twice, with Jasnah and Dalinar, but it seems he continually comments on things just prior to them actually occurring. Good catch regarding Glys not experiencing time the same as others. Lining up all the quotes he says really makes this apparent.

Actually conversely that would sound super likely to me. Using connections and abilities to become a close guard to Ialai, and then arrange to be assigned for that day that Adolin is coming to speak to Ialai. Mraize can get messages onto Shallan without her noticing and she is a radiant. They were able to track her movements in an occupied city that had two Unmade present, and was taken by the enemy force. They were able to track her movements enough to know she made contact with Sja-anat and that she is amendable to change sides. So I do not think it would be very difficult for Mraize to arrange someone watching Ialai, and when he knew Adolin and Shallan would be confronting her, he take that spot. For all we know the ghostbloods have a limited access to future sight as well.

I always took that as just a quirk of how Glys talks. To me it was his way of saying he was sorry for Renarin.

Short answer, I believe we have no clue. Semi longish answer, Renarin could theoretically have sworn the first oath in Way of Kings. You do not have to speak the oaths out loud, just believe/think them to yourself. Renarin could have then said the second at the beginning of Words of Radiance, and said the third at the end of Words of Radiance, and still be able to summon a shardblade at the beginning of Oathbringer. But got nothing to back that up. Just like there is nothing saying that because his spren is corrupted, he could or could not go about advancing in a completely different way.

So I do not know enough about light's interactions with the atmosphere to know if this would be applicable or not, but when you wear blue lenses over your eyes for instance long enough, your brain adjusts, and you end up seeing things in normal color. When you remove the glasses, then everything gets this tint till your eyes adjust again.