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It is not in my ebook, cant be 100% sure that matches the printed version.

Venli definately was a Sytherin, not sure about where she'd be at the end of OB. Eshonai would have been Ravenclaw pre-war, Gryffindor after.

That being said, Id strongly suspect that the 7th heightening could do it, since it can detect the Breaths stored in objects.

Pretty sure not, they can hear Investiture that is actively being used, but I dont think they can detect inert/solid Investiture like that.

Awesome, thanks! I was definitely picturing them bigger than both of those, something more quarter-sized (~1" or 25mm). Where is that quote from, for my own reference?

Does anyone know how big the object soul-spheres on shadesmar actually are? Does that size vary? Ive been looking for references but I havent found anything great yet, and I plan to try making an Art (not something Im terribly good at most days).

Well, he may be "perma-dead" but he also left a Cognitive Shadow behind, with orders bond to a new Bondsmith. That might have been enough for it to seem to Rayse, in a moment of surprise/panic, that Tanavast was still around somehow. Rayse is still figuring out how the whole Killing a Shard thing works, so it wouldnt be the first time he was blindsighted by unexpected results.

Assuming my theory that Dragons eat Investiture directly the way Dragon-Bugs (aka Larkin) do, then I'd give Frost decent Odds against Hoid, with a lot of the advantage of Nightblood but not the danger. Otherwise I'd spike Mental Capacity into a Larkin and toss them into the Dor, the resulting Kaiju would be a pretty good challenge as it would be able to suck out most of whatever Hoid could bring to the table. Just for fun I'd give her a pair of Medallions that allow for Compounding Fortune.

Oh absolutely a pressure-based gun would get you there much easier, that's what I meant about soulcasting a fuel-based projectile, guns are converting stored chemical energy into an extreme pressure that is looking for release (our military likes the idea of railguns mostly just because there's no explosive fuel required, and the battleships they mount them on already have huge electric generators, often nuclear so electricity is basically unlimited). Soulcasting would bypass that entirely, and they could use all kinds of crazy explosives and chemical reactions that we'd never use because we still have to store and transport them, where they could create them at need. Seriously, a soulcaster with a proper grounding in modern chemistry would be terrifying... In the case of gravity-based lashings, there isnt any advantage to "concentrating" it down, all objects fall at the same rate, and whether they are attaching the lashing to the whole object or just a piece of it the acceleration will be the same. The concentration effect you are thinking of (if Im reading you correctly, apologies if I misunderstand) is all about manipulating the pressure (Force Per Area) part of the equations, where you take the same force but squeeze it out of a smaller area, like in pistons, hydraulic systems, etc. But gravity doesnt give you much opportunity for that sort of thing, at least not without some other much more complex mechanism to store the energy in another form (spring catapult, gas compression, etc), and those are all about manipulating the Time part of the equation, storing energy up more slowly and then releasing it all at once (which at its most basic is what a bow is doing). This conversation is making miss the Punkin Chunkin' competitions they used to have

The Blackthorn has Come Is Forgiveness Possible? The Blackthorn is Gone My husband is Dead The Enemy Seeks My Life Is My End Coming?

I see the Future Am I Cursed to bring the Void? My Spren is tainted

The repeating patterns we are talking about are only a couple atoms wide. That's pretty darn homogeneous compared to the much more macro size of the flakes they are ingesting. Sure, it's not going to be chemically prefect, and Id guess that if you could get 100% perfect metal metal samples it would work noticeably better (much the way chemically Perfect gems on Roshar can be cut into Perfect Gems that do not leak Stormlight) but Allomancy is far more forgiving, to the point where the alloys can vary a decent bit with a somewhat proportional loss of efficiency.

Indeed. Meanwhile, Asmodean was killed by Graendal, who as it happens also killed Aran'gar and Mesaana.

My best guesses for the "lesser" equivalent for the Skybreaker's Highspren would be Concentrationspren, Gravitationspren, or Bindspren

That's ignoring the chemcial/crystaline processes happening to create steel, the iron actually dissolves the carbon (rather than melting it) and then individual carbon atoms are being trapped at the molecular level in specific patterns depending on both the alloy ratio and the cooling process.

That's what the "lynchpin spike" is for, without it his spiritweb would start to unravel from all the splicing, but it serves to hold things together.

Nale has sworn the 5th, and Ki said "it has been centuries since anyone mastered the 5th Ideal"; I have to think it didnt take Nale 4000-ish years to pull it off, so there'd have to have been others since the Recreance. Nale is likely the only current one, however.

For what it's worth, the spren could have both been meaning use "light" as a more generic "use Stormlight" rather than specifically meaning use the Surge of Illumination. That being said, I really think there is more to Illumination than we've seen so far. We've seen Shallan do some odd things with her drawings, being able to Draw True people and events that she had no way of knowing (Shalash destroying a statue at one point, a few others), which would fit both with the Truthwatcher's supposed ability to See, and with the Lightweaver's historic role as providing "spiritual sustenance" to the Radaints. I think it allows for a Physical manifestation in controlling waveforms, but also a Spiritual one, similar to how Dalinar can use Adhesion for both physical bonding (stickness) and Spiritual Connection.

Im pretty sure the Nahel Bond is the key with that, and the only Voidspren we've seen form one is the Glys, who does turn into a blade. The Regals and Fused that get a single surge only are, by best guess, actually being used as living Fabrials, rather than full Surgebinding and/or Voidbinding, with the spren residing in the singer's gemheart rather than accomplishing it via a Nahel Bond.

Iron and Steel are indeed liquefied, otherwise Cast Iron and Crucible Steel wouldnt have been a thing, in fact "Puddling" is one of the most critical steps. It's not always perfectly distributed, and a lot of useful metallurgy takes advantage of the various imperfections (they can be great for preventing crack propagation if done correctly) but mostly it's uniform at flake sizes. It's true that in antiquity iron was made in Bloomeries that used other chemistry to reduce/control the Carbon and other impurities and weere then hand-worked into more useful shapes, but did still require the metal is melted during the alloying process. Blast Furnaces, which produce Cast Iron and were a much later development in europe (way too expensive for the most part) but were in use in china as early as 5th century BC. It's not easy or cheap as far as such things go, and there were a lot of ways to mess it up, but by the time western societies reached the Industrial level that era1 had, they'd figured it out fairly well. And Scadrial would have been far more motivated to do it even for small quantities, whereas we were limited by the fact that it was only economic for larger quantities (or because of other military concerns). There's a good chance they figured out something akin to the Bessemer Process which was a real turning point in our ability to produce large quantities cheaply.

If all the metalminds in question are yours (or Unkeyed), Yes I believe so. In the case of Twinborn Compounding it certainly appears that you can burn the charged metalmind and funnel the resulting Investiture directly into another metalmind, and this seems basically the same process (without the hack of free energy). Likely it would take practice to pull off without any manifest effect (Im thinking Pewter as the most visibly obvious).

Depends. On-screen Deaths would be either Tien or Elhokar, since I would really have liked to see them become Radiant. In terms of overall Impact to the Cosmere, Adonalsium themself, or else whomever Hoid is trying to avenge. Past that, probably Shashara. Id say Lightsong, but I dont think I would want to Undo the circumstances of that Death, so only if I could literally resurrect him at the current point and leave the timeline intact.

To use that analogy, the puppy died something like 15 years ago, the new puppy could very realistically save her life in the coming weeks, and she was perfectly composed when he got back. And yes, this hypothetical person started to cry on their own because something in the outside world reminded them of a very old, very painful memory, which is not the fault of the dog or dog owners that did the reminding. I submit that he'd have to be a mid-reader to pick up on the brief flash of anxiety she had as being more than than hesitance over the cultural taboo they were discussing. And I also think he would have still been right to make the suggestion even if he did know...as Pattern was doing. Because it could save her life, and because he was trying his very best to be supportive in light of what he thought was the reason for her hesitance. That isnt to say that he's not a somewhat bumbling 20-something dude-bro with a lot to learn about women (and social interaction), but you cant expect somebody to be aware of all your past baggage if you dont share it with them, and he has no way to fathom the depths of hers.

Nope, he was already out of the room before she broke down, and was already composed in her new persona by the time he got back. Yes he was overly enthusiastic and darted off before she finished her "So, you're right, but--" statement, but she never let him see how much it bothered her, before or after.

Found myself starting a lot of posts that way, so I figured Id embrace it