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Agreed. Im guessing a Wisdom Shard would access it via some sort of Cognitive construct, as opposed to the spiritual Bonds of Roshar or the physical Metals of Scadrial. Im not coming up with any ideas that seem unique for the Cosmere, sadly. We've seen Magic Symbols in various forms thanks to Sel, everything from Magic Runes and Symbol systems to Magic Martial Arts to Magic Bone Branding. We's seen Art-based illusion magic with Lightweaving, and Color Magic with Awakening. Your idea about possessing specific Knowledge to access the magic seems like a cool idea to me. Im picturing nugget's of Secret Knowledge that can be passed from person to person like it was a memory in an UnSealed Coppermind, that give you access to the magics so long as you possess them (kinda like the Ashyn Sickness magic), basically Intellectual Skills that can be passed rather than an infection. For the sake of limitations and realmic continuity, Id guess that there is degradation when you hold and/or pass it, so there would be loss if it's not used, but maybe you can increase it's power through practice and pass that like a communicable specialization. Ok, that was a tangent, but fun.

That's an interesting possibility, and I agree that would probably make it worse, possibly in a classic Repressed Memories soap opera thing. If Copper could store the whole memory, something close tot he level of Dalinar's pruning, then I could see it helping him. But if it leaves the damage (and/or the voices) but takes away the context for them, I could easily see that driving to a worse place.

Yup, that's what happens. Vin was precisely this, it's why she could pierce copperclouds.

Which is likely what changed over time for it: once it was focused on Personal survival, but seems to have found reason to rearrange its priorities.

The modifications seem to be significantly less than Lift, and she had no issues forming the bond. Ditto Dalinar. I suspect his biggest issue with forming the Bonds would be the personality variance between his two extremes: he'd need to fit an order where both versions of himself were willing and able to maintain the Ideals. Some would be easier than others, with Lightweaver still being the most individual and theoretically easy to adapt. Skybreaker might also work, with him swearing Fealty to the Diagram and the Past Self he worships.

You arent wrong but I think it's key that the Terris are not a random population mixed into the rest the way allomancers are, they are an isolationist sect with a very concentrated population.

Hot damnation! We have confirmation that the "Wisdom" Hoid was referring to is indeed a Shard. We also have a hint that Prudence" could be one (possibly the elusive "wants to survive" shard").

Which I figure fits with the fact that it took them hundreds of years to figure out what little they currently know about those traits.

Admittedly that is exactly what I was imagining. A slow, scientific study where they conceive of possible traits, attempt to store it, fail repeatedly, and keep detailed records of what they intended. Either that or praying really hard until Harmony just gave in and told them

Kaladin or anyone else could do that, but it would be like riding a (leaky) hot air balloon in a thunderstorm, they'd be entirely at the mercy of winds, which would be just as likely to slam them into the ground as keep them aloft. It's honestly hard to say, there are memories that are causing pain, but arguably that same PTSD might have caused literal spiritual damage that might be suppressed but not removed by the copper. In Dalinar's case, the memory Pruning that Cultivation gave him did indeed stop the screams, but we cannot be 100% sure that all she did was remove memories the way Copper would, and not also some other spiritual tweaking.

Im pretty sure that is very much not the case, or else Sazed's experimentation with Malatium would have yielded something

This is entirely a boredom topic, but it could be fun. If you could give an Unsealed Medallion of one feruchemical trait to each of the main characters of the Stormlight Archive, which would be the best fit for each? For what it's worth Im excluding the Spiritual Metals because a) they would be equally useful to anybody, and b.) how they actually work is all still RAFO. My top two are: Lift gets Bendalloy, clearly. It's the most OP that particular Ferchemical trait could ever get. Kaladin gets Electrum for determination. It's described as basically a slider bar between Depression and a Manic State, so for a guy like Kaladin it would give him very direct control of his depressive episodes. Beyond that, I have some idea's but nothing 100%: Jasnah would probably be happiest with either Copper or Zinc, for the scholarship. Ditto Navani. Jasnah might lean toward Copper since she hated losing her book collection, and it seems in theme with Inkspren. I kind of want to give Renarin Pewter. He's always been seen as being so physically frail that I would love to see him with a Hulk Mode. Adolin probably fits with something physical best, and any of them would serve him well in a fight. Another part of me wants to give him Zinc for the Intuitive Leaps, just because everyone assumes he's a meathead so I'd love for him to start jumping in with insightful answers to scholarly topics that he is otherwise ignorant of. Rhysn gets Gold, because I think it would still heal her even if Renarin's Progression did not. Szeth gets Copper, so he can store all his most haunting memories in a metalmind and then throw it in the ocean. Rock gets Brass, because I think it fits him and would be useful going to and from the Peaks. Shallan gets Tin, so she can get higher detail in her Memories. Or, if we want to open up the Spiritual Metals, Im curious if being able to tap Identity and Store would help her untangle her dissociative personalities. That's enough of my rambling, anyone have any fun combinations?

To pull that off you'd still have to be at least a Misting of the relevant Metal. From there I'd say it's possible that you could burn an keyed Metalmind and get the Compounding effect, but equally possible that it would still require you to be the correct Ferring type to access the feruchemical Investiture or else it would behave as if burn any other randomly Invested metal but not accomplish the compounding hack. You cant just blindly "Store" into a metal without knowing what you'd be storing first, you need the correct Intent just like you need it before you can access an Unsealed Metalmind. Sazed was experimenting with these newer metals as mucha s he could but was unable to figure out their full uses. It simply takes time and experimentation, which Sazed and Vin didnt have. It's also the whole reason that Brandon made the Investiiture Inert metal Aluminunm rather than Silver like he'd originally indended: he specifically wanted it to be all but unheard of in a pre-industrial society but become much more common in Era2 and beyond.

When you take a volume of gas, in this case Stormlight, and condense it to a solid form, it takes up substantially less volume than it did in it's gaseous form. This causes a vacuum effect on the surroundings, reducing the pressure of the air which in turn is forced to draw heat from it's surroundings to expand back out to fill that evacuated volume.

Agreed. And it makes sense given the in-world misunderstandings and preconceptions Jasnah faces. Jasnah's public face is generally perceived as riding the line between extreme competence and outright arrogance, so it would not surprise me that folks would read a message of Equality from her and see that vague disdain as misandry rather than something I think is more rooted in general disgust for the whole system.

I dont think so, we know the Heralds were still human when the migration occurred, and only became the sorts of Cognitive Shadows you describe after they arrived on Roshar. Aslo, for what it's worth, we've been told specifically that the Heralds process is not related to that of the Fused, though in rough drafts it was.

WOB confirms that this is not an effect of stormlight itself, it's a byproduct of a shardblade condensing through a vapor phase to solid:

I dont really tthink so, neither my comment nor the one I was replying to had anything to do with who may or may not have access to Voidbinding, bother were talking about a Bondsmith analogy. But no harm done

In the case of Stormlight, we've been told specifically that it is a Gas. Pure Investiture manifests in the Physical Realm as one of the three primary phases of matter (or you can have normal Objects or people be Invested, which is different). Both Stormlight and the Mists of Scadrial are examples of gaseous Investiture, the Godmetals are Solids, and the magic waters of the shardpools are the liquid form (which is the most densely powerful). FOr what it's worth he's also said that all the solids are metals as a general rule of the cosmere. Phase changes between them are possible, but not by normal mechanical means (Looking for that WOB, Ill get back with the reference). This WOB seems relevant to the topic at hand:

I never said UnMade didn't voidbind, just that it was the UnMade that lacked a bondsmith equivalent, rather than Voidbinding. The Voidbinding chart shows ten orders too, so I do think there are/will be a Voidbinding bondsmith eventually

Pretty sure that WOB was about the UnMade, not Voidbinding. You're thinking of this one, yes?

The question that raises is why then is he not able to use the normal Illumination Surge via his Bond with Glys. Is that because of interference, the way Fullborn and Mistborn cant naturally coexist? Or is it some limitation of a Bond with a Corrupted Spren like Glys, meaning Glys is the one cannot provide both radiant Surges? Not sure how to test it short of handing him an Honorblade and see if he gets Illumination access.

I dont think we have any specific data, so Im going to say that logically the line between Growth and Regrowth will likely fall at the same point where a life-form goes from Bead to Flame representation in the Cognitive Realm. That seems to represent the separating line of Sapience. On the other hand, we dont have anything that actually proves that Growth cannot be used on anyone, humans & Singers included. Maybe Growth could indeed be used to rapidly age a person (from childhood to adulthood or to geriatricity), and it simply able to maniplation both the Health and Age regions of the Spiritweb (ie both F-Gold and F-Atium traits)

So then in the case of REnarin, would that mean that he's utilizing Progression via the normal Bond means (a Nahel Bond with Glys) but in the case of his altered Illumination he's doing it via this Emotional-Fuel method?

I thought it was confirmed in OB that she could see the future more clearly than Odium (who "can see the Future, though only cloudily"), but I dont know that we've gotten any datapoints comparing her to Preservation. Closest I could find was this, which confirms that it's a matter of differing Intents. Personally, I expect that both Preservation and Cultivation are better at seeing the Future than Odium because there is an Innate Temporal Element to both their Intents , both of them relate to Change (or lack of it) Over Time, and cannot be conceptually separated from it as opposed to others like Automony or Endowment that are more time-independent concepts. Between the two, I figure Preservation is going to be more focused on the Past than the Future, meanwhile Cultivation is 100% all about guiding things toward a specific Future. On that logic Im guessing Cultivation is a solid candidate for the Strongest Future sight among the 16.