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Agreed. I was adding additional detail to the OP, I wasnt trying to contradict your statement.

The "Original" Hoid would have been kicking around Pre-Shattering, but should be long gone by now.

Yup. WOB says Atium is an example of it, but for most people I think it's more or less this:

Apparently there have been Publisher Shenanigans in Italy: https://www.cercatoridiatlantide.it/en/fanucci-and-brandon-sanderson-the-editorial-situation-in-italy/

The Bands are multiple metals layered onto each other and functions like an advanced Medallion that grants the powers of all those metals. But it doesnt do anything new, it just can store all the powers. No matter the conposition, Hemalurgic spikes can only steal one thing (or rather can only be Charged by a single act of Charging. So best case might be that it can steal anything the same way Atium can, but more likely it would just behave as an incorrect Alloy and not do anything.

They'd make a Hybrid Tone/Rhythm, just like the hybrid Rhythms on Roshar. That's a matter of the Shard being Invested in that world, so I dont think it would have needed Preservation and Ruin to be held by the same vessel.

Ive been sprinkling it in conversations for a long while and Im probably not the only one, but as far as I know there's no actual evidence of any Larkin/Dragon connection (other than the Dragon Bug name), or any evidence that Dragons have any connection to the Gemheart ecosystem (which could well be a Roshar only thing, and is a pre-shattering thing).

Im pretty sure Larkin have a Gemheart, since they require a Luckspren as part of their lifecycle like so many gemheart crustaceans (we should really get a term for the Gemheart Phylum). They also resemble both Chulls and Axehounds in appearance. That being said, my pet Tinfoil on this is that the gemheart ecosystem is the Dragon ecosystem, and Larkin (which Brando refers to as Dragon Bugs) are anything from distant dragon cousins to actual larval dragons themselves. Which might explain why they were trusted as the "Ancient Guardians" of a Dawnshard.

For what its worth, I dont think we are supposed to fully understand. Renarin is to be a POV character with a Flashback arc later on (after a 10-ish year timeskip). I suspect those flashbacks will cover background events of the first 5 books (like all the various stuff that was only hinted during RoW).

I think you are onto something there. It almost certainly needed the Aon present for it to happen (I dont think he was capable just for being injured), and it's likely that the nature of the Healing Aon specifically was causing some trans-realmic Connections. But a lot of the realmics of the Cosmere werent even worked out at the time of writing Elantris, so it wouldnt have been spelled out as clearly as we get in more recent stories.

If they are not in your body whey you die, you can get indeed get them back. But I do wonder if they keep their own. WOB confirms they keep their same soul (despite Vasher's depressive outlook), so the Window to be returned is the Window to Beyond, (which is open longer if you are more invested). So a person with various numbers of Breaths would stick around for a while (Returning can be hours later but will vary. There are other nations that dont trade Breath or feed Returned so they die after one week. which implies they dont keep their own or the minimum should be two weeks.

This is a limitation of Regrowth specifically. In Radiant Healing (Radiant, Squire, and Honorblades) as well as Gold feruchemy, the only perception involved is the person's own Self, nice and direct and Internal. But in Regrowth, it's weaker and also the target is External so both the Radiant and their Spren's Perceptions are likely to get in the mix.

Agreed, Assuming you manage to Invest the Flame in the right way, I think it would expand out to the person (just like manifesting beads) and from the targets POV would be the astral projection "Peaking In" version like what Shallan did.

That can be done training, so they wouldnt need Identity. And I think F-Zinc might be a better shortcut since it allows for "Intuitive leaps" Also, there are indications that Aluminum still doesnt itself get invested when used for Feruchemy and Hemalurgy. In the case of Feruchemcy, WOB confirms that Compounding Aluminum (specifically) doesnt do anything, which implies that Tapping it wouldnt either. The most logical explanation is that Aluminum dampens Identity (and Powers in Hemalurgy) because of its Cosmere-wide Investiture-Sinking effect, and that Matallic Arts still dont overcome that effect.

It's possible, I think, but RAFO'd. If growing colder would help you sink thermal energy and survive a fire, and Feruchemy makes you immune to the heat, then I think you should be able to hoard or Compound heat and tap it all at once for a pretty big flash of outward heat. You'd probably need something else, (magic or mechanical) to actually direct the heat, but at minimum you should be able to turn into a lowkey fire elemental and melt things with a touch, on par with Wax storing enough weigh to crush buildings.

In the cosmere everything is Sentient. Sapient is what he calls the Human-like intelligence level that I think you mean. Nightblood-type that have been awakened to full Sentience, Yes absolutely, he's equivalent to a Spren at this point, and WOB says hypothetical computer AI would just create a Spren-style intelligence in the Cosmere. Any lesser awakened object that lets you recover the Breath is not sentient in any rational way. Those that gain their own Identity and lock the Breath, like Lifeless, are in a grey area where they are barely sentient on their own (might not have enough to be a target of Hemalurgy, for example) but if they get overInvested from otehr means they could become more of a Cogntive Shadow. But really it becomes a sematic argument because the Investiture doenst need anything additional (beyond Time) to become Sapient all on it's own, everything else is arguably justr trappings.

She thought they were after her over he Radiant Oaths. And that's reasonable, they would have likely preferred the population to remain mostly ignorant of Shadesmar and the wider Cosmere, and taking out the only Elsecaller in Millenia would be be in line with that. Even if they werent aware of Ivory, she was uncovering secrets they likely would have preferred to Control themselves.

I dont personally think so because Im, confinced the outline is Plate and I dont think they'll be able to get it off-world yet. But I could be wrong. Also, despite Reddit having already decided it's the only possible answer, I very much do Not think that Zellion = El, because it makes no sense for both Doylist and Watsonian reasons. That would make sense, at least from the upcoming arc and the prominent Z in the name which doesnt fit most other Rosharan cultures that I can think of offhand. Id love for it to be the real name of <Dolt>Son<Dolt>

The outline looks like Plate, which barely narrows it down. So, in order of my own personal Hopes: Unrevealed Singer Dustbringer Unrevealed Listener Radiant Unrevealed Radiant, other. Unrevealed dead-plate Shardbearer (Fused or otherwise). EDIT: Idea I saw on reddit: "The most terrifying would be Dalinar's Fused Name/Form"

I dont think Allomancy and Ferucehmy would work that way regardless of Lerasium being involved. We still dont know what Lerasium might do feruchemcially, and only vague ideas of it's real function in Allomancy. The only thing we know is that burning Lerasium alloyed with another Godmetal would Connect you to that Shard and maybe grant you it's magic. In light of that, what you describe (alloying a Feruchemically charged metal) might be what it takes to make a Ferring.

The same is probably evident with Cultivation, who per Hoid probably loves the idea of "Cultivation as Mother Nature" and who's form was shown blending into the undergrowth. But coming from a Shapeshifting race she might have a whole different relationship with her physicals form, unlike the Human vessels.

Those and the Stormfather since he's now also Tanavast's cognitive shadow.

Sliver's are by definition the defalted person left behind after they give up whatever huge Power they had previously held that stretched them out (could be a full shard or just a huge amount of Investiture like the Well). They can almost certainly predict the future in some ways, since over-use of Atium (or any number of things that let you peak into the Spiritual Realm will do that. But even while holding the Power I doubt they can match a Shard unless they are actually Ascending to become one, and they wouldnt retain the ability when they gave it up. If its a Well scenario they might be able to Learn how if they hold onto the power long enough without immediately Using it up (like most did with the Well), and they could make tweaks to allow them to retain prescience. But I believe the sort of Sight that the Shards get requires both the View of the Spiritual Realm and also the ongoing augmentation of actually being a Shard (with all the Shard's Investiture augmenting your cognition and perception).

Molly, Short for Mollallon (the Destroyer) EDIT: In all seriousness, I dont think it's a placeholder just because it looks like he was using the <Dolt> bracket notation for placeholder names.

Rosharans might define a year differently but yes, time itself should be one to one. But on Sel that may not be the case, and it might essentially be stuck in a planetary size time bubble.