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Are things like Elantrian's or Returned still considered human? I want to say Singer, but it would really depend on the historic era (ditto Kandra). Lacking other compelling choices, Id go Spren. Probably Honorspren of the kinds we've met.

Those basically cover it, he said repeatedly they were "magically enhanced" and the result of "external influences", not to mention confirming that un Unmade was invovled. II suspect this is being held back to be part of the Reveal of another UnMade's abilities and influence.

We have an otherwise unexplained WOB that her's brothers' mental issues were supernatural in origin rather than natural issues or trauma-induced or anything. I dont know that things will go well for them, certainly not that they'll become Radiants, though it would follow the current pattern where those emotionally close to Radiants seem to get noticed by the spren easier. But I do think they will become significant beyond their emotional impact on Shallan.

Im entirely on board with the Everstorm having a spren, and even with lesser weather patterns having Spren like like the Highstorm does, perhaps Syl's Aunt and Uncles and whatnot? Cusicesh's ultra-regular timing makes me think they're a Spren of Tides, fwiw. That being said, I dont think I like the idea of the Everstorm being a pre-existing thing, mostly because Im a big fan of the Everstorm being our example of the Birth of a new Unmade, in the Everstorm's case it was made from the sacrificial remnants of the Singers that died to create it, a sort of Super-Fused. The Everstorm is new, or at least new to Roshar to the OP's point, but I got the impression that the Fused getting back was still more about Odium "riding the storm" the way Honor used to, rather than a property of the Everstorm itself. Devil's Advocate on this though: the Highstorm is one of the very few things we know that for certain predates the Shattering itself, and we also know the continent and even Planetary system as a whole was built for a specific purpose, so there is every possibility that the Highstorm having a spren, or at least a powerful and Sentient spren, could be a supernatural exception rather than a natural occurrence.

My current mental image is something along the lines of a frequency based Turing Machine computer made entirely out of Investiture harp-strings (ie Connections). Also that the Spiritual Realm seems to be a description of the inside of a Singularity. Dont know if that's helpful to you. For what it's worth, that appears to only be the case when it's getting manifest in a pure form in the Physical realm, but given the trans-temporal nature of the Spiritual realm I strongly doubt that those sorts of states are going to be present in the Spiritual Realm itself.

I agree that Nightform is probably more or less the same thing that Renarin gets, so I wouldnt be surprised if there were Forms of Power for most if not all of them. It might fall out differently, just because it would be odd for the hierarchy if Regals got the real voidbinding but not the Fused. On the topic of Envoyform, that's not a Bondsmith Resonance, just the Spiritual application of the Adhesion Surge. There's debate on whether it's purely a Bondsmith form of the Surge or if Windrunners can learn it too.

There is a WOB that comes dangerously close to confirming that Lerasium's true function is to Connect you to the Shard/Magic of whatever godmetal it is alloyed to, thus being a Mistborn is a side effect of Conencting you to Preservation when no other Shard's investiture is provided as a Target.

In at least one case they are able to use themselves for color (not sure if it's form blood or skin or the color of their kidneys): Fun Fact I just ran across: Awakening will drain colors outside the visible spectrum

Thus we mere mortals should not actually discuss the Words of Brandon, but simply parrot them at each other and mediate on their possible meanings?

Im in the camp that thinks the "Sun" in Shadesmar is the Spiritual Realm, especially given that the more I learn about how the Spiritual Realm works, the more it sounds like the inside of a Singularity to me.

There is another relevant WOB that came just after the "Dusty Quartz" one at that particular event: So, the Smokestones used as Gems are clear smokestones, but using the color for awakening would cloud it up, making it useless for stormlight. As to Draining Color from grey things, that's a known ability granted by the 10th Heightening, part of "Perfect Invocation". That being said, there's some amount of wonkiness involved. Specifically, he's said that an object whihc has been drained to White by Perfect Invocation cannot then be drained down to Grey by another awakener the way a normal White object could be, however he's said the reasons get into why color is important whihc h'll get into in a coming story (Im guessing the Warbreaker sequel) and so he's RAFO'd it for now.

Fair point. I was thinking of it as "charged Sand", but that's still the container more than a physical Investiture like Stormlight or Breath. Fun Fact, if you know what you are doing and where to look, it's technically possible to charge sand from other planets since one of those points of starlight is Taladin's larger Sun.

That sounds reasonable to me. The only examples of "someone else's power" I can think of are Nicrosil and Hemalurgy, and we know that Hemalurgy alters your Identity into a muddled amalgamation of yourself and the spike, so that might still be too much "you own" for Savantism. Now, if you figured out how to Fuel your Feruchemy with some other magic system (Breaths, Stormlight, Dor, Sand, etc) that should also do it, and we know of several circumstances to get us there, given that there is a Kandra on Roshar, and that Era 4 will feature lots of shardworld crossover in general. Not to mention all the Trell shenanigans.

I think it makes sense in some ways. Prior to the Everstorm all of Odiums forces seems to be keeping relatively low profiles. I dont think settling on her Perpendicularity would be as easy as it had been in other places; at the very least it would have attracted her direct attention before Odium was ready for war, and it might have require the active Siege that the Voidspren are holding there as of OB. Now they are much bolder because they have things like the Everstorm, Voidlight, The Fused, and at least two generations of Voidspren, not to mention Odium himself manifesting and directly the forces.

Havent tried this sort of thing in a long while, but it could be fun: Shallan: Maisie Williams Kaladin: Chai Hansen Adolin: Nick Jonas (Only seen him act in Jumanji, but I think he could bring the right mix of charming and dim) Renarin: Tom Holland (Best awkward teenager I can think of at the moment) Szeth: Lliam Devaughn Stumpf (Never heard of this guy until the OP, but he has the perfect look. If he can pull off the emotional tension vibrating off Szeth, he'd be perfect). Rock: Jai Courtney (I know, I know. But if he went 120% on his Suicide Squad humor, I think it could work) Dalinar: Dwayne Johnson (I figure we should Cast for the Blackthorn rather than Dalinar, so even the audience defaults to him being a bloodthristy warlord at first glance. Also Keanu would need to do a lot of steroids to get the right bulk, and I dont want to put him through that at his age) Jashan: Adria Arjona (Go watch Good Omens, thank me later) The Lopen: J.B. Smoove Lift: An Unknown. Anyone I cast now would be too old by the time production began.

Turns out that one has been answered directly, as has the question of a Kandra with Dakhor bones. I should have checked the Wiki first:

A Kandra can use anything as it's "skeleton" and many prefer manufactured ones of metal or crystal. However, they do need to actually Digest the original body, as they actually harvest and individually place things like hair, which they cannot recreate from themselves. So any source of Bones that are not still semi-fresh bodies would have that downside. The real question would be whether having any sort of Invested skeleton would cause any additional effects, and I dont know that answer for certain. We've been told in a WOB (below) that any Invested metal object would be close enough to a Hemalurgic Spike to function as a Blessing for a Kandra. We've also been told that Kandra could theoretically use a metal skeleton made entirely of Hemalurgic Spikes, and it would actually work better for them because they have more control over their own bind points, though too many can be dangerous tot he psyche even without a Shard futzing with you. So on that note Awakened Bones might offer the same, and grant Sentience to a Kandra in the same way a Blessing might. They might even offer some of the Heightening benefits the same way Blessing Spikes can offer additional abilities. You'd probably have to scrape off that pesky stone first though, so Invested Bones themselves were in direct contact. The Dakhor Skeleton would probably not work for several reasons (though anything can be overcome with world-hopping hoodoo): There's currently no (natural) way to be a Kandra that is also Native Born to Sel and so able to access those magics. If you manage to overcome that, there's still the issue of the Dakhor skeleton not actually being part of the Kandra, and just being contained inside them might not be enough to integrate it into their Spiritweb. That being said, both those issues might be surmountable by Hemalurgy, with a Spike to grant Sel Connection and another to anchor the Skeleton into the Kandra's Spiriweb.

Autonomy said themself in the Letters that different Avatars would have a wildly different reaction to Hoid, and while the author of the letter is not a fan, and they'd taken steps to ensure an emerging avatar would not, there did exist some that would have been more receptive. That indicates that the various Autonomy Avatarts not at all monolithic in that regard.

Im going with "Knives of Will" or maybe "Knives of Withering", with it being a reference to Shardblades in general, some surge we've not seen, or the Odiumblade(s). Of course, those dont really fit the part where these are all In-World written works. Agreed on the "w" not being War for a second time, I dont think any of them will repeat. If these are to be In-World Works, and Book 5 is going to be the Big Middle event of the Stormlight Archive as a whole, I could see "The Killing of Wit" or something similarly dramatic from a Cosmere standpoint. Additional K Words: Knives, Killing/Killer, Knoll/Knell, Key, Kin/Kindred, Knot Additional W Words: Withering, Wager, Wander/Wanderer, Warden, Warrior, Waters, Whisper

Im not exactly sure what you define as a "Single Dual Intent" since that sounds innately contradictory to me, but I think we're just looking at a semantic disagreement here. Per WOB they have begun to mingle, but they are not fully combined, and he specifically says there are still 16 shards that happen to be held by 15 vessels.

To my mind Kriss is a very promising up-and-coming scholar, whereas Hoid wrote the textbook, and was present when many of the major discoveries were first made. Put another way, Kriss is like a very bright and promising modern scientist, but Hoid is what would happen if Nikola Tesla were immortal and had remained involved in technological development for the last 100 years.

That's my thought as well. He's the closest thing to a full-on Investiture expert, yet we've still seen him doing it from the Cognitive. The only counter I can think of is that perhaps he knows how but chooses not to because traveling via the Spiritual Realm directly would be something he could not hide from the Shards as easily as the rest of his activities.

Right, that's the "More or Less" I mentioned. He hasnt decided how the Ashyn migration went down, but he repeatedly and strongly implies that the Oathgates use the Spiritual Realm, saying that for the actual Migration he may have to default to a Cognitive Realm explanation once he sits down to work through the details. Either way they are using the same Perpendicularity-style Realmic travel mechanism that is how everything from Shardpools to Elsecalling works.

Theoretically yes, and this is more or less how we think the Oathgates work. I say theoretically because they can definitely be used to transfer between the three Realms, however the experience of the Spiritual Realm is so much more alien to normal Space-Time that actually navigating it to some practical purpose is extremely difficult, as compared to the more familiar Cognitive Realm.

This is my question as well. Arguably he already does in the way his two shards permeate the whole planet and all it's inhabitants, and also how the mists (described as the body of Preservation at one point) cover an awful lot of it. In Harmony's case, I think it would be far more dramatic if he were to try to fully Manifest on some other planet, as it would represent both the Arrival of new Shards and also the (most likely violent) removal of those shards from Scadrial. And in Scadrial's unique case, Im honesty not sure it if can even maintain existence without those two shards in residence; other planets predate their Shards, but on Scadrial they Created it whole, and there's a reasonable possibility that their Power is actively maintaining it.