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It can be found on my transcription on the Oddesey Con thread, first page, in the events forum. When asking him about currupted investiture he said it was usually a mixing of shard's investiture, and people just perceived it as a corruption (kind of like how Voidbringers spren are seen as corrupted). When I asked if Nightblood or Gavilar's sphere was a mixture of investiture he seemed like he wanted to say something but RAFOed me. It overall makes sense, as a mix of colors often comes out as black, or at least a dark color. This makes even more sense in regaurds to Gavilar's sphere when you take up into consideration that Nightblood is called 'corrupted' in Warbreaker.

My guess has always been that atium, when alloyed with other metals, instantly makes someone a Savant by opening up their spirit web directly to a metal. I guess it's time for me to get back to theorizing...

I can't find the WoB right now, as I'm on mobile, but he told someone that the Trellb in White Sand was connected somehow to Trell in the Mistborn books. That's why I suspect that Trell is either a mastermind Cosmere aware person or force seen or from Taldain, or is Bavadin himself.

I would agree with you, but there is not very much evidence that that 'broke' him. He seems relatively fine after Gavilar's assassination. Maybe a little depressed, but not broken. Not until Taravangian. Not until the screams. Just look at the other Radiants. Kaladin was suicidally depressed, Shallan has memory repression, and most likely PTSD. Dalinar lost his wife, best friend, and brother and was an alcoholic. They had actual mental issues induced by damage to their spirit web. Szeth was relatively in anew ok mental state, until he had to brutally murder and slaughter possibly hundreds. This causedoes the screams, and as confirmed by Brandon, damaged his spirit web causing a now suitable break. After the murders he is visually shaking, bulging his eyes and generally being a maniac, and we didn't see that before. That's why I think until recently, he hasn't been realmatically able to form a Nahel bond. There may be other other reasons, but this makes the most sense to me.

Im on mobile so I can't link an exact WoB right now, but he had confirmed that Shard's can create planets, and has either heavily hinted at our confirmed outright that Scadrial was created by those two shards

That's what I'm saying, he didn't have a chance to form a Nahel bond until recently because he hasn't really been a murderer until recently (besides Gavilar). In the books when Szeth is emotionally distraught it is almost always because of the killings he's done, not being kicked out of Shinovar.

I don't think Gavilar's sphere only has to do with Odium. Based on a WoB I received, black investiture indicates a mixing of shard's investiture.

@frozndevl Aimians have shadows going the wrong way because of their ties to the cognitive realm, so it seems that other races probably go to the beyond as well.

I'm not agreeing with Ari, bit probably because Hoid can store both identity and connection. We know he is a feruchemist of some sort.

Agreed.

I like the theory, but this makes more sense. Investiture does disrupt investiture. Maybe they can both be true?

Since they can take human form then we don't know for sure if they change back upon death. Don't assume.

THIS is what Cosmere Connection is. Its not the entirety of the spirit web, but it's definitly part of it.

Frost is a dragon

Im not sure it's even 'usually, just sometimes. In Secret History it specifically says Shallan is basicly making a career out of lying, the only honorable thing she had to adhere to is her oaths, but they ate an outgrowth of the magic which comes from the planets interaction with the Shard's investiture, not the Shard itself directly. Returned are specifically chosen by Endowment, so of course they are people who she thinks personalities like her shard. Same with Vin (and Wax) having drawn in the mists, she had been groomed to do so. In Wax's case he isn't even tied to Preservation exactly, . Secondly, what part about my second statement was debatable? I'm genuinely curious if we are thinking different fundamental things here. Your theory is cool in concept, I just think you are stretching the definition of Connection into something it isn't, which is easy to do because 'Connection' is an extremely broad term, and that some of the examples you used have done holess in them. Edit: I also just want to point out that if your theory was correct, that the breaking I mentioned that KR and allomancers must go through to gain powers would mean that that breaking is somehow tired to loss of these 'Connections' which doesn't seem to be true.

One thing I have to contest here is the portion about connection to a shard. 1. Bring connected to a shard does not necessarily lens you their magic system. Hoid tried to become an Elantrian by artificially creating a connection to the Shards there and it didn't work. 2. Snapping doesn't happen when someone is in a life threatening situation specifically, but in a situation where their spirit web is damaged by stressful or dangerous situations or events, but it had nothing to do with preservation. It actual happens to Knights Radiants as well, and it changes how their spinitial website are connected compared to normal humans. I think you are lending too much importance to the idea of Connection. Things being 'connected' is such a broad statement it can be applied to any situation where anything interacts, but I think Connection as a force in the Cosmere is seperate.

Odium is a dude, so I would asume Cultivation.

Say something if you want to contribute... You might know more about Szeth than the rest of us.

Yea, Nohadon did not create the first oath or anything, he merely adopted it to his philosophy. Brandon told me that the oaths are a natural outgrowth of the spren, so there is no way that a random human somehow dictated the laws of nature.

Szeth wasn't really "broken" before killing all those people during book one. His spirit web didn't have enough space for a spren

It was a long process for Leras to be killed

I heard him talking about this but forgot about it. Brandon basicly used span reads as an example of FTL being possible in the Cosmere. It's not the only example, but it was the one he used.

Yup, we know tgat it is because they are based on Honorblades, so they revert back to blade form. This has been confirmed, nice guess though.

Yup, those were my questions, I think I had better ones this time around. A lot of my questions in my notes from back then were 100% RAFO bait.

I was at Minicon, I remeber you! Pm'ed