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Probably. At some point consent might matter too, since perception of pleasure vs pain can be pretty subjective. But now we're on the road to asking what kinks are available to him, which is going to be weird ground...

Corollary Questions: As Cognitive Entities, can he harm a Spren? Via Shardblade Attack? Via Betraying his Ideals/Trruths? Was this allowed because happened to a CS it qualified as a Cognitive Attack, equivalent to Emotional Allomancy? Can he Snap somebody with extreme emotional allomancy? Did it only work because they were in the Cognitive Realm, or can he punch any CS? Can he Punch a Lifeless?

None of these touch on the distinction we are trying to articulate to you, which is that the Shard itself (the big ball of Investiture that mortals can take up and which exists primarily in the Spiritual Realm) is Infinite according to WOB and every aspect fo the stories that touces on the power itself. The mind holding it is still Finite, and cant actually tap/hold/use the entire thing all at once. The amount of Investiture that has made it to the Cognitive and Physical realms (both the pure stuff and what's tied up creating the actual reality) is also Finite. But in the Spiritual Realm where all Space, all Time, and all possible alternate realities all exist simultaneously, there can be found actual Infinity.

Not that I can think of. Do you have an example?

Vessels are Finite, the Shards they Hold are Infinite.

Shards are 1/16th of actual Infinity, and technically it's far more (and larger) than what even the Vessels can tap into. The shattering of Adonalsium seems to have been far more fundamental than the sort of finite Splintering that can happen (or be consciously done) by Shards, since it split Infinity into 16 "smaller" Infinities. TL;DR Shards are lesser Infinites that still stretch fovever into the depths of the Spiritual Realm, while Splinters are still finite and theoretically quantifiable in terms of Units of Investiture (which is something the RL Dragonsteel team is working on but has not yet released).

I dont think so...

Oh, I wouldnt go so far as to say it's the Aether Homeworld any more than Lumar presumably is, but the presence of a Prime Aether could (potentially) accomplish a lot of the same characteristics. Separately, there's a possible prescedent for Autonomy sending an avatar to claim an Aetherworld, if the theories prove true that the White Sands are actually the rumored Bone Aether.

Marsh, no. Kel, Probably. You'd need to be a disembodied Cognitive Shadow and then "copy" the spren the same way they "copied" the Honorblades. Marsh is still a normal living being (hemalurgic wraping notwithstanding), putting him realmically closer to a Kandra than a Spren, Seon, Fused, or Cognitive Shadow which are beings of pure Investiture that lack a Connection to the Physical world.

Devil's advocate statement: the "shardworld" could still probably be an Aether world without a resident Shard. Especially if they provide some equivalent to a Perpendicularity for Reamic Travel.

Medical scalpel? Honestly the syringe seems the most direct delivery method: suck in Investiture from a source (probably non-specific sources like night blood) then push it all back into the healing target like a pointy gold metalmind. Hard to say if it would actually need to pierce the skin to reach the spiritual aspect, like hemalurgy or shardblades.

Shards have the same "general" capabilities because they all have so much power that they can god-wave most all of the rules. There are actually very few things we know of sure limit them, and the main thing is the active intervention of another Shard. Past that, they will differ based on the Intent of the Shard itself, the Vessels interpretation of that shard, and various effects/interactions of the planet(s) they Invest in. Preservation and Ruin made both the planet and it's population, which gave them more than average control and...presence(?) there. There's indication that Endowment made the population of Nalthis which is why her Investiture in in them from birth; others found and settled on pre-existing worlds with pre-exisiting populations. D&D were Shattered and shoved into the Cognitive realm, with lots of implications on the planet and it's magic (and I assume new difficulties compared to other Shattered Shards). Atonomy is spread out more than most but we really dont know what that changes. Past that, there are a few things that predate and/or transcend the shards. Metal being special is one, and that's cosmere wide (as seen with aluminum, godmetals, and fabrial metals). Investiture in Gems is another. Commands and Investiture implications on Color seem to be another. And apparently a shard cannot break their given word without being made vulnerable to a peer's attack.

I think they are way more fundamentally different than just that, at a Realmic level. One exists entirely in your body and only occasionally dips into the spiritual realm during actual (kinetic use), while the other is primarily infused onto their soul and is then sticking it back. Even hemalurgy is going to treat them differently, because they exist in different realms and states. For a basic Awakening/Command, sure. I have to think "Heal Others" would be just as viable as "Destroy Evil" for a Type 5 like Nightblood. You might get a Shardblade like the old Fred Saberhagen "Woundhealer", that passes through solid flesh and heals as it does; the Anti-Shardblade, with some level of Regrowth effect instead of a cutting one. I assume it would still need a Investiture present for fuel (unlike say Gold Compounding), so it probably wouldnt be free (or even safe).

As a purely physical option: Ligthweaving is the manipulation of wavelength, not Light creation, and Veil-form takes more work to maintain. Perhaps the colors are literally muted while in that form, because light is being diverted into the illusions of her Veil (and presumably Radiant) persona's and less reaches her eyes (along the lines of the trope that invisible people dont see normally).

That is not true, the only attribute that you can store while sleeping is Wakefulness specifically and uniquely. All others require conscious Intent. I dont think we are clear yet on how you Wake Up from a wakefulness storing session. And you have to know what the medallion is doing and consciously trigger either the Tapping or Storing, so you cant force the effect on somebody else, at least not without Ettmetal or some specific Duralumin/compounding situations.

It is unknown what the initial charge was, but it has spent so much time outside of a person or Blood storage that it has stabilized out at the minimum charge with no noticeable effect. Spikes never fully loose their charge, but also can loose efficacy really quick, and per WOB it doesnt have enough charge to grant Wax anything beyond the communication with Harmony.

I dont think that follows, Allomancy and Feruchemy both work with the Investiture Power supply sources (things that can be used up), while Hemalurgy takes the static/constant machinery of the spiritweb itself. You can store the allomantic strength increase of Pewter into a Metalmind (in a sort of reverse Compounding) but those will still run out. I dont think you can use Hemalurgy to transform either brand of Temporary Investiture-augmented Strength into a permanent effect, because the realmics require an additional power source/conduit (either the natural One-Person strength of Feruchemy, or the Plugged-into-the-power-grid source of Allomancy that requires burning metals to hold open.

Eh, at most he had single Divine visitation that gave him an overarching directive, but he then formulated the plan, found and gathered people for allies (and assets), and performed actions at his own choice and under his own Power. Moses never had control of the plagues, or any real say in how it all played out, and in later stories he was punished when he deviated even slightly from his divine instructions.

Ark was extremely fun for us on a private server, where we were alone and free to build bases and tame dinosaurs (both regular and robotic). But the main fanbase the game is built and maintained for is a really toxic online area sort of thing, it takes multiple people lots of time investment to make any progress, and every server has "alpha tribes" of players that usually take over completely and kidnap new players for blood generators (actually a thing). So if you get into it, I highly recommend you find a private modded server that fixes the drop rates and adds the QoL changes that the main dev's never really bothered with (and then they moved on to their pirate game).

Traditionally, Moses didnt inflict anything, he simply delivered messages.

My wife and I have been on a similar search. PC or Console or both? Are you looking for a living-room shared and/or split screen sort of thing, or separate PC's interacting over the network? It Takes Two is the most overt Coop recently, other than a few Shooters or Survival games. The problem these days is Coop modes have been mostly replaced by general Online Multiplayer (with varying degrees of quality). We played ARK for a few years on a private server, but it's like Skyrim in that it takes a ton of Mods just to make it even a little playable. No Man's Sky was a cursed launch but has evolved into a surprisingly fun game now, it it has functional Multiplayer/Coop now.

The larger frame is going to have basic leverage advantage, especially if the Kandra can increase muscle density to animal levels, so they could get physical strength comparable to primates, I think. There are some Connection shenanigans at play with the Bones, but they seem to be more vague cognitive things than overt abilities being transmitted, especially magical ones. And in the case of Koloss, a lot of it reverts when they die and/or get their spikes removed, so I dont think they'll get any of the benefits that come from supernatural sources. A larger frame would also mean the person can tap more F-Pewter before the bulk becomes problematic, so a Kandra with feruchemy could probably approximate a Koloss pretty close (minus the skin problems). And I assume a Kandra cannot just add Koloss Spikes to their Blessings and hope they become a hybrid.

Probably depends on the Shard (and presumably the Prime Aether as well). It'll be a matter of personality compatibility more than anything predictable. Hoid can hide from shards somehow, but that's the only real example we have of Hiding your presence from a Shard entirely. And he kinda breaks all the rules. Not necessarily a mundane spike since they are fundamentally (and paradoxically) additive, and there are no known powers to steal that could accomplish it. A godmetal spike can do it given very specific circumstances and sources and charges, but we have the one example and no real realmic background info. Probably, since he's the single most powerful being in the cosmere, and WOB confirms the aethers arent as powerful as shards. If Hoid can hide from Shards it's within the reach of mortal power levels, though it might take some unique mix of abilities that are hard or even impossible to replicate. And anything a mortal could do a Shard should be able to, unless fundamentally counter to their Intent or something shardically Binding.

Same. He has lots descendants. Some of them statistically are likely to be in one or more of the various secret societies, and Era 2 is a society that loves to trace lineage back to major era1 figures, so there are probably some of them who put a lot of stock in the blood Connection. But there are probably just as many or more that are just random people and dont know or care if they are related to some old historical figure. For every person who loves knowing they are related to Abraham Lincoln or the guy who invented the razor blade, there are plenty who both dont know and dont care.

Progression is, more or less, an infusion of Life Investiture that promotes health and growth and resistance to biologicalsickness, etc. (like general Investiture does in the population overall, to a much lesser degree. So I think you'd have to cycle Progression and Division for a Growth and a Decay side, since "Decay" is the primary ability of the Division Surge. Or else specifically target the microbes responsible for the rot so they are just eating and reproducing a whole bunch, treating the compost pile as a simple growth medium and not the target of the Surge.