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    I dont really think there is one now, other than maybe the Jaddeth/Dakhor forces that show the most classically intolerant form of imperial zealots so far. Also maybe Vorinism, which I could easily see going off the rails by the space age. The Ire are possible but I dont feel like we know enough to characterize them. The ghostbloods could probably get there if they dont keep a strong guiding hand on all the far-flung operations (local leaders seem to have too much control and not a lot of oversight).
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    Haha! Let whatever becomes the cosmere nazi-equivalent get their hand on him only to Ark of the Covenant themselves with the attempt!
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    I think so. Even if something was so big (investiture-wise) that he couldnt absorb it all, I think what he could do would shred and shatter whatever Cognitive self was holding the spren or unmade together. The trick would be to stab their "true" form, whatever that may be, and do the damage before they could cut it off like a poisoned limb. Stabbing the Highstorm might be hard, for example, and some of the Unmade seem to only manifest in Shadesmar.
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    So you're saying they are no longer being locked to Braize, same as the Fused, but that they have a separate mechanism for Returning and will not need/use the Everstorm for it? I could buy that, especially since I still cant figure out what happens to their bodies throughout their transitions.
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    Does general weirdness cover it, or would this level indicate past trauma(s)?
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    Intent is probably a big part of it, but maybe there's going to be an investitute and Connection requirement to attune it, the way Singers need a voidspren to hear odium's variation Rhythms.
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    I took it the same way and that's might point exactly. He cannot stop a rebel Fused from going around him and returning to Roshar with the Everstorm, and it would be counter to his Shardic Intent* to enforce a 100% kill policy for defying his Edict, thus he has no way to Promise Dalinar that no Fused would ever return as part of any Bargain they might make. *The "acting like Honor is not something Odium would necessarily want to do." part of that WOB makes me think this is tied up that "greater than just the oathpact" stuff we've long wondered about, and that him acting too much like Honor might somehow strengthen the bonds holding him in greater Roshar.
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    Arguably that is the part he was Lying about, in light of @Hazekiller16's WOB. Odium might not actually Like that they rebel, and he might Threaten to kill them, but to actually follow through and start Offing those that turn against him is not Of Odium enough for him to do it (and Rayse is very far gone with the Intent of his shard). Beside, the context was that they were bargaining for Odium to trap all the Fused and Voidspren on Braize, which he objectively cannot do now that the everstorm is there. But Dalinar was not asking for him to Kill all his forces, which would be a Much bigger ask at the bargaining table. He can still do overly dramatic and damaging things like Kill anyone that's given him sufficient permission (like the fused certainly) or probably even still revoke his Investiture from Roshar and cause major disaster in the process.
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    In prior times both the heralds and the Fused got one chance per Desolation, but if they died in the war they remained on Braize until the next time a Desolation began; both were restrained together by the Oathpact. Now, the Fused are free to return after the next passing of the Everstorm. Can the Heralds get on that same train and come back every few days? Per this WOB it is still undecided until the narrative needs play out, so this is mostly to discuss what we expect to happen and/or think the lore would imply.
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    No, he wasn't lying. He followed that by saying it was the Everstorm that changes everything, and the fused are certainly reborn differently than before. My theory is he used to do it himself because he was hesitant to Invest in Roshar any more than absolutely necessary (as it would only Bind him to the system more). The Everstorm and the emergence of Odium's 3rd Pure Tone of Roshar represent him Investing enough that he created a Storm and/or Godspren which can naturally offer the Connection bridge needed by the Fused, rather than it only happening once per Desolation by the same rules that held the Heralds.
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    That's interesting. Id assumed it was just an issue of feruchemy being so low power that it would be too "quiet" to detect (similar to Lightweaving that time). But there's got to be more to it if there's a specific tweak needed...perhaps you have to have some basic Connection to the location or Investiture to hear it. So you wouldn't hear the Rhythms on Roshar until you had an appropriate Connection to the planet or its people, etc.
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    I cant find where this is confirmed anywhere, and it's not how feruchemical nicrosil works in all the instances we know of so far. Feruchemical Nicrosil can stores the ability to use a given Investiture and (at least in medallions, unconfirmed with a ferrings) it does so as a discrete thing that gets put back like a coppermind. It can store the ability to use a given allomantic or feruchemical ability, as well as the ability to use a surge or a Divine Breath. There is a WOB that confirms Nicrosil can Steal Biochromatic Breaths with Hemalurgy, if that's what you are thinking of.
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    Corollary to the Identity one is that Tapping the Identity of the target person from a Metalmind (ideally an overfilled Compounded one) might get you close enough to their Identity (similar to how Spiking Identity works). But the more I think about it the more I question whether you can actually Tap Identity from an unKeyed Metalmind. I strongly suspect the 8th Heightening would help, if we equate this to Command Breaking on awakened objects/Lifeless.
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    You can learn the rhythms in a "normal" musical practice way, and that would let you speak with the correct tempo and sounds more native to a Singer. But without the connection to the Spiritual Realm (that a Gemheart usually provides), you wouldnt be able to actually do it "in time" with the other singers and use it for time-keeping or tactical coordination as they do. In other words you can learn to mimic them as a normal song, but you cant actually perceive the Rhythms themselves. As far as I can tell, Navani was either just learning them in the mundane way, or else she was getting some early Surge/bleed-through effects from her developing Bond with the Sibling, similar to how Kaladin started using powers before Speaking the Words formally.
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    I think Lifeless and Shades have the same issue of too little Investiture, so I think you need to enhance the Shade back up to functional sapience before it would be able to support and control a physical body.
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    As far as we know, the only way to make a whole new feruchemical storage effect is to Alloy one of the 16 mundane metals with a Godmetal. And that is really only since the retcon that all era1 Atium is actually an atium-electrum alloy, and since that granted Age as the feruchemical storage it's likely that other . Bendalloy and Cadmium tend to pop at the boundary more than make a force-field, so I dont think that's the way to go. The closest we have for that would be Wax's steel-push bubble trick, and it could probably affect non-metals too if the allomancer is charged up to levels like we saw from the Bands of Mourning.
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    Since a Shard's power can gain sentience all on it's own, kinda sorta sure but maybe No depending on your definition of Vessel. As far as I can tell below, he's saying he see's a difference between a Person that has become the Vessel of a Shard's power and a Super-spren that is the Power itself gaining sentience. But the people in-world that dont believe in The Beyond and/or see Spren and Souls and Cognitive Shadows as all the same basic thing might argue that there is no meaningful difference.
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    You're on. I really hope we get a chance to see in the next book, and both are likely to show up in Szeth's storyline, but you can never really tell where Hoid's going to be.
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    That was Taln and Ash specifically (our heroic POV book heralds) not the group as a whole. Ten bucks says Ishar and Nale do not get the same deference. But he does seem to empathize with how the weight of Immortality is wearing on them, much like Kelek's for the UnMade trapped in a gem.
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    Empathizes with their plight more than "respects" them directly, I think, but yes. Also at the time he was still keeping a low profile from the Shards and touching an actual Honorblade (being a direct splinter of Honor) might have threatened whatever steps he'd been taking to hide from them. Pre speculation that, but possible.
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    That's correct: A drab has less than a normal person on any other world, who has less than a 1-breath Nalthian. The breath essentially sticks to and takes with it some of the innate Investiture of the person born with it. Zahel has a way to feed his divine breath with Stormlight without actually converting them to Breaths. Per WOB he doesnt know how to do that yet (and neither does Hoid) but it sounds like that is a primary goal of the Ghostbloods since they are some of the most power and easiest forms to transport off-world.
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    If by "Sing out the Singers" you mean Sing to the Rhythms, no that requires a more specific Connection to the Spiritual realm (typically via a gemheart). But they would be able to do all the Light manipulation we saw in RoW that was being done with normal sound (vocals, tuning fork, resonant plates, etc) far easier with their pitch senses. Now if you have Heightenings AND happen to be a Lightweaver like somebody we know, you should be able to do a whole lot more direct Light and Waveform manipulation, which suddenly seems a lot more powerful than just the Lasers we'd been theorizing...
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    It didn't do that because it's Magic gas that was being moved by Intent and doesnt necessarily follow all the same laws of fluid and/or thermodynamics as a mundane gas would. And because it was in the process of converting from a Manifest matter state to an Invested matter state. In the physical Realm Investiture can exists in one of 4 states: it can be Invested in an existing Object/person and per OWB occupies the wibbly-wobbly quantum space between particles, or it can fully manifest itself as one of the three forms of Physical Matter.
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    It's both. Breath, Stormlight, and the Mist are all examples of manifest Investiture in Gaseous Form, as compared to the Solid Godmetals or Shardpool juice. Per WOB if an object invested with Breaths is completely destroyed (eaten for example) the Breath is destroyed and returns to Endowment in the Spiritual Realm.
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    Personally I have strong doubts that Dalinar could have survived Sadeas without Hoid lurking around as Wit.
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