The One Who Connects

This would, in essence, mean that everyone on Nalthis is bonded with a dormant Splinter of Endowment(as Endowment can likely give the choice to anyone she wants). I highly doubt that this is the case, as that would spread Endowment's Investiture even thinner than it already is. The fact that Endowment appears before them and gives them the choice of whether or not to Return feels like further evidence against this, as she could easily give them the Divine Breath when they choose to Return. Snapping is universal to the Cosmere, and applies to magic systems. Breath seems to be like Hemalurgy, where it carries the breaking with it(somehow), as everyone who is given breath can awaken. The Spren are looking for the snap, so they have to come after. Edit: Scratch most of that, I found a WoB. The superpowered breath comes down after they die.

@Ari @Calderis Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe I remember there being an in-book mention that he needed another day of intelligence to actually interpret/understand what he wrote on the Day of Brilliance(Diagram Day, if you will) If I am remembering correctly, then his disposition on Diagram Day may not really be the deciding factor anymore. His intelligence on the Day of Interpretation helped shape how he acted on his works from the Day of Brilliance. Diagram Day could've been a day on unrivaled compassion, but if Cultivation interfered with what he saw, his disposition isn't really in charge anyway. Now, if someone were to interfere on the Day of Interpretation...

You should look at the mini family tree I did for the Kholins a few posts up. There is definitely some manner of hereditary-ness to it when viewed like that. Also, who has yellow eyes? Per the Coppermind: Gavilar and Elhokar are both pale green, Jasnah has violet and Adolin has blue. Dalinar's aren't stated in the wiki, but fanart has his as blue. I don't actually remember any yellow in their family line(or at all, but I haven't read through the books in a while)

You may be on to something here anyway, regarding lineage of family blades perhaps. Do we know if Lighteye's eyes change color when they get a blade?(Sadeas when he got Dalinar's blade would be a good example) Shallan is the only one of her family that the wiki gives an eye color, which is blue. This means that we only have one family tree to use as evidence for/against this theory. Edit: There may actually be some precedence for eye color being passed down in paternal/maternal genes, which would be.. very strange

If it got damaged, you'd probably lose some of the breath the same way you lose some of the stored attribute in a broken Metalmind, but being able to quickly don another suit of normal, mass-producable armor and repeat the process is a massive advantage over Shardplate, as you have to spend time regrowing that. This could potentially help negate the disadvantages this has over Shardplate. You are both correct that the biggest advantage Awakening has over everything lies in its versatility. It's one of the reasons why AonDor seems so overpowered to us, and Awakening is no different.

Added to the Ultimate List, as well as my own lists(crediting you of course) In actual response, It would be very intriguing if it didn't limit the other person too. It'd make for an interesting story, as Jim's innocuous tastemind is actually also Sally's hearingmind, very useful for a spy infiltration or somesuch.

A few F-Tin Questions, courtesy of @Calderis According to the AoL Ars Arcanum, separate senses have to be stored in separate Tinminds, assuming that the Ars Arcanum is correct... Two Feruchemists can both store in the same Metalmind and have it be partitioned, but would the second be limited to storing the same sense as the first? If not, why is the first Feruchemist limited to that sense and the second one isn't? Is the AA right that separate senses(in Bendalloy's case, nutrients and liquids) have to be stored in separate Metalminds?

I'm both pleasantly surprised and very annoyed now. Both Tin and Bendalloy have their "separate minds are necessary" info sourced to the AoL Ars Arcanum, rather than a proper WoB. Annoyed at myself for never realizing this, but pleasantly surprised that this might be possible. It never occurred to me that it wasn't an irrefutable quality of Feruchemy

Vasher has never been to Scadrial. Ryan is correct about his age, Vasher returned around the same time as the other 4 Scholars(IIRC), and before returning, he lived a normal human life, which includes a normal human lifespan. Given that he died, he probably didn't have the longevity granted by the 5th Heightening. That said, it's definitely a connection I haven't made before, so props to you for that Tars.

Personally, I thought that in Vasher's case, the clothing became stiff and acted like a brace, "enhancing" his strength in the sense of being an extra arm or two, rather than physically boosting his muscles. I'd have to reread the scene(s), but if I'm right, then armor could probably work just as well since it's more protective that clothing would be when not in enhance-mode. I don't know if you could reach Shardplate level(the tactile boost, the strength boost, the etc...) without either multiple commands or really, really skilled mental skills, but I don't think that it becoming a Type IV like Nightblood is guaranteed. Quite possible, but not a certainty.

Investiture helps resist, but someone else can always have more, so the advantage is semi-null in the long run. Because it's in the cognitive realm, it's a battle of wits, so to speak. Shallan failed to convince the stick to change, but Jasnah's forceful personality combined with her use of "you will change" implies that her advantage is exactly what you think it is. Storing that Identity makes you susceptible to all kinds of things, after all.

While you are more than likely right, unless the wild combination theory(store in iron, smelt the iron into steel, store in that, then compound, get "momentum" or some such) is true, you would still have to store those compounded senses in 5 separate Tinminds. In short, I feel like it's safer to compound them one after the other rather than risk wasting some of the attributes or having to suffer from the nausea of having a bunch of(insert sense here) disorienting you as you mentally store them until you get more skilled in Feruchemy to do the multi-storing in multiple minds of the same metal. Takes more mental capacity to distinguish between tin1, tin2, and tin3 than it does to distinguish between tin, copper, and bronze. At least logically it should, right?

If there is, I can't find it(I've apparently been looking for about 25 minutes) on either Theoryland or Pagerunner's Reddit WoB collection. I searched for the following terms via Theoryland's keyword search and via "ctrl+f": Rashek, Lord Ruler, TLR, resonance, effect(s), additional, & extra. It could be a twitter WoB, or one from events and signings on here, so there's that possibility

I'm online, you mention something that I remember/know about, I find it. Nothing to feel guilty about. You mention something that I've got no clue about, odds are somebody else does and does the same thing anyway

Doesn't completely contradict your line of reasoning, but we have this entry (bold added)

From the Q&A section on here, this thread to be precise.

That was why I mentioned the possibility that it was a multi-national effort against the Aimians. The winning side would have a lot of survivors to tell stories of conquest, which, as Calderis says, appear to exist(romanticized as stuff like King Arthur may be, somebody had to see the real event to make the legends.) The more devastated Aimia was, the more believable the warriors from myth story gets, unless Aimia has a history of natural disasters. If Aimia became the charred forest, then I'd believe it was a forest fire. If everything in a 7 mile radius crumbled to ash(no skeletal trees or anything, just stacks of ash), I'd think something was up. And since fire was attributed to Dustbringers, normal Division(splitting molecular bonds) should look different/more distinct than fire damage, especially if it was used offensively against Sleepless Cremlings. Pockmarked ground where it was fired at cremlings would be very hard to pass off as "natural."

Not sure about Nalan's reasoning, but Amaram's logic seemed quite simple. We know that a Desolation comes when the Heralds break under torture, and to the people of Roshar, the Heralds arrival means that a Desolation is coming too. Is it too much to assume that that can lead to a misinterpretation that Honor/Almighty sends the Heralds in response to a Desolation starting, rather than the opposite? A la "Midnight Essence are a sign that one is coming," the Almighty interprets those signs and sends warning in the form of Heralds. Under this assumption, they tried to start a Desolation by bringing back the enemy, which would be a clear sign to the Almighty that he should bring back the Heralds.

I know it's not much in the way of an actual answer, but I'm still backing my "2,200-2,500 years before the books" Recreance time-frame idea. It gives a sense of how long they had without a Desolation, so I absolutely agree that those would've become legends by then. A lot can happen in 2 millennia.. 2000 years of relative peace combined with Jezrien's "We'll tell them we won. Maybe it will turn out to be true." comment could erode the sense of cooperation between nations struggling to survive Desolations and set up something more like fuedal Alethkar, but on a world-wide scale. Somebody will step out of line, KR will impose order, rinse-repeat, etc.. until the KR get jaded about mankind being good people, thus leading to some of the "corruption" that Jasnah reads about in her studies

This was my point. Mankind has legends of the event, and mankind hates radiant-kind. If Skybreakers were as involved as you want to assume, there would have to be some mention of radiant-kind being involved if it was a multi-national effort like Calderis says. Even if the Scouring happened a few centuries pre-Hierocracy, that's still at least 1000 years after the Recreance. The sudden reappearance of Surgebinders would be just as big a deal then as it is now in Everstorm times. I feel like Jasnah and her studies would have found some reference to them, but all that gets mentioned is the Lanceryn.

I don't think we can hear a rattle from a long-dead person because of how it has been described: "Moelach offering people a glimpse as they pass on" or something close to that. So each person sees something different(probably) and says what they see(as cryptically/succinctly as it may be) The Spiritual Realm is not the Beyond. I don't see what you mean by "same thing that trapped them" Who is them? I don't think they did, if only because Radiant-kind being involved in any large capacity should have some part in the legends of the Scouring. If the Scouring was known about in other areas of Roshar, I think somebody would've mentioned mystical beings raining destruction and made some connection. The reason I think that other parts of the world know about it has to do with the fact that a race of long-lived beings, one of whom remembers times pre-Recreance, should have memory of the Scouring and not need legends, but that's my personal opinion.

The both of you are correct. From the Mistborn Annotations:

I interpreted the line as implying the withering effect of Shades could kill them, so they are being overly cautious for personal safety, rather than implying any deeper meaning about the realms themselves

"You couldn't do it in your head" isn't a completely accurate phrase. Any math can be done in your head given time to think, which is what Zinc seems to give you. (technically more thoughts in less time, b/c thinking faster, but you should get my point anyway.) For example: Some math involves numbers that aren't very conducive to "in your head calc" (welcome to physics ) so you just use the calculator, but that doesn't mean that you can't do that math in your head given enough time. Know the equation, be able to gauge the variables(your mass, distance, speed velocity, etc..), know a couple simplification tricks, and you're good. Almost all math boils down to a mix of + , - , * , or / in the end, and those aren't too bad to do in your head. Even Square Root can be made a bit easier(though I recommend using a calculator instead) as long as you understand the value of (sqrt10) and (10). I blame Taravangian for this misconception, honestly. He was thinking very fast, making those mental connections, etc... and we all ran with it.

Kolo? If more is necessary, the reference in question is: