The One Who Connects

As Calderis said, we've done some hunting. And some things just become second-nature after a while. That, and my shortcut to everywhere bookmark.

Battar was found back in 2013(and we should all feel bad for missing this). Chana is the only unknown in Book 1.

Which was my entire point. Ati's departure was the result of a conscious choice, whereas a Vessel's lack of passing on does not automatically imply a conscious choice. Tanavast's merging with the Stormfather does, but his reasons for that are still unknown. Ah... I don't see it. Literally and figuratively. Literally: I didn't really see you implying that. All you implied is that Harmony could rebuild Honor. Figuratively: I don't see Harmony getting involved with Stormlight. At all

However, Moral (as a noun) can be defined as: "a person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do." By that definition, Szeth would be considered Moral. What was not acceptable for him to do was suicide and giving up his Honorblade. He only did what was acceptable for him to do under a person's standards/beliefs. The fact that those standards were his own is irrelevant, as you would willingly accept a "good guy" who lived by a self-imposed code as being moral. Honor and Morals are words brimming with gray areas.

Up for debate.

Oh it's earlier in the story. That's on me then

They can heal from Shardblade wounds. It's the first post in the Thread that I linked on page one. The answer by Kurkistan. As for constantly healing wounds, The Fullborn only has to outlast their Stormlight reserves, which is not that difficult.

@Calderis I wasn't aware there were two separate WoB's on the matter. How curious

As did the Lord Ruler. You forget that choosing to leave often requires just as much or more willpower than choosing to stay. For the same reasons that Kelsier could not fully hold Preservation, I don't think Tanavast's Shadow could reclaim Honor. Not to mention that it would require the current holder who reassembled Honor to step down or be killed.

Been a while since we've had a triple on the same WoB

It's just Szeth's Cognitive Perception

As stated, he merged with the Stormfather for unknown reasons. Beyond that, he held a Shard for millennia. I think he's been sufficiently invested in life so as to resist the call of the Beyond indefinitely if he so chose. We don't actually know that she is the "best" at Shardic Future-Sight, but that's not the point. She certainly could have seen it, but I doubt that she did. Her gaze should have been focused on the future of the conflict with Odium, not at the other worlds. If you are talking about when Vin took out Ruin, then no. Not even remotely before Honor died. If you are talking about when Leras betrayed Ruin and trapped him in the Well.. that may have been before Honor's death, but I do not equate the two events in any way.

Finally, I can use something more concrete than the "You're assuming it would be Allomantically Viable" WoB. Have an upvote

It wont. As you say, it's a sidebar to the discussion. He didn't really canonize much placement, technical or otherwise. He ran the spike types by Brandon, and we went from there. With exception to the comment about gold/atium placement, what he says was more or less canon already. 12 in the ribs comes entirely from us. We knew Steel/Bronze Spikes can go between the ribs, and Marsh got an extra 4 of each. The logical assumption was to put them there because there's so much room.

I assumed so, but it's been a point of contention before, so it's better for me not to state assumptions about WoB's until afterwards.

I'll leave the meat of your theory for those who are better suited to discussing it(as it is not my area of expertise) Do you think they'd have a spike at the top and the bottom of the sternum? I just feel a belly button spike would be too.. flimsy since there aren't bones to rest on/go through. Come to think of it, why is this in spoiler tags? I know it isn't absolutely relevant, but it's not spoiler territory.... Oh, spoilered for length.(I guess reading comprehension really wasn't my strong suit.

Have this as a bit of info for the future.

They have Gravitation, so they can at least do basic lashings like Kaladin. Perhaps Nightblood sensed her and told Szeth? It's either that or his honed instincts as "The Assassin" tipped him off. Considering that he senses her again in the following chapter, it's gotta be something he has that the others don't. He also responds to Lift mentioning that he didn't attack her with "The sword likes you." Must've missed this. I only saw the part where Wyndle doesn't think the Skybreaker Spren can see him. When does this bit happen?

Brandon has been... inconsistent on the subject. Szeth is an interesting case, as he has let his disappear when dropped. (WoK I-9 Death Wears White)

They did. It's a chapter summary, so it's in spoiler tags

The trick is to never search for "Honor." The only WoBs of any merit always have a secondary term that's easier. Heralds, Recreance, Oathpact, etc.. Possibly. I won't say that it did, but that abandonment might have affected how Honor operated from then on. I won't call it that similar, but they did have a connection to Honor for their Stormlight usage back in the day.

Pagerunner's Database is very helpful.

Honor was alive when the Oathpact happened. Honor lived to see the Recreance. Edit: also this Highstorms, and Stormlight in Gemstones predate Honor's arrival.

@Dragon314, bear with me on the deep almost philosophical way of thinking(and speculating a bit). The Spiritual Realm is not a physical place so much as a web of connections.(lower case) You are like a hub, that things connect to. Every person, every place, every event.. They are all hubs of a wheel, with spokes connecting them to other hubs(other events, other people, the Shards, you) Memory: Your memories are your connections to past events and past people, so your memories are a specific set of connections. Storing a memory is singling out a specific connection, and preserving that string in your Coppermind. The important distinction is that it still exists in the SR. Just because you stored away bad memories doesn't mean that they didn't happen. It doesn't stop you from being connected to them, from them having an effect on you. Storing memories in a Coppermind is like hiding the tip of an iceberg, you can no longer see it, but it's not gone. You've stored the surface level connection that you can see(or remember) Identity: Your identity is all of the connections to things that make you who you are. The things you experience, people you know, places you've been, how old you are, etc... Storing these connections is gonna store a lot more than the tip of the iceberg, which is why you are so susceptible to interference from things that affect Identity. Forgery and Soulcasting are much easier to do when Identity is being stored, because there is less of your Identity fighting the change. Connection: Regarding Connection(upper case), I'd need a detail that we don't have. If you retain your memories when storing Connection, then it essentially stores everything except the tip of the iceberg. If you lose your memories when storing Connection, then you store the whole thing. Fortune: We have no idea how it works. I can't explain it. End of story. I can explain a few of the others though, which was a fun(albeit annoying) thought experiment.

I think this is it. Brandon has said that Fabrials are one of the 3 big systems (along with Surgebinding and Voidbinding), but Khriss likely doesn't count them as magic, but as magitech(like Medallions).