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The forms are determined by the type of spren more than any characteristic of the gemheart we know of (and the Singer gemhearts seem to be more universal than others). As far as we know only time two spren have "shared" a single gem or gemheart is when Timbre trapped the regal voidspren, and they were using separate Bonds to Venli to make it all happen in more of a two-system hack. A "Double" gemheart might be possible with Hemalurgy but if we look at sensory stealing it just makes what they have better rather than growing additional organs so I think a bigger gemheart is more likely. That might allow an entirely new spren that previously wouldn't fit and so a previously unseen Form, but I dont think it would let two spren share a single gem. A hemalurgic double Gemheart would be "unnatural" enough that could have all kinds of unforeseen circumstances, from Koloss-like superforms to something even more horrific and a lot less functional. The saving grace is that the spren involved would have to be willing (though not sapient) so a Form-based change wouldnt have to be permanent.

The ability to make cell phones that are traveling at speed to become intangible for exactly the amount of time it takes to slip through an idiot driver's fingers and car and still become tangible in time to smash on the road.

Common Vorin People know nothing, and conflate the Heralds with the Stormfather and others. The "common" studied scholar or Ardent knows that they existed but probably not details of the their abilities (surges, etc) which is rarer knowledge. IIRC there were Rosharan scholars that thought they the Honorblades and Dawnshards were the same thing, for example. The distinction between shardblade and Honorblade was lost somewhere along the way when they forgot what shardblades themselves were. For the purposes of a painting, even a real world one, I think you'd be fine to include them. The Vorin populace would likely have assumed they were Shardblades without knowing there was anything abnormal or unique about them.

I completely missed that this was for Roleplaying purposes, sorry. Depending on how the system handled them, I think Id make their resistance to Poisons be equivalent to their resistance to Physical Damage (probably something short of total immunity), and then disable both if they are hit with a Paralysis effect (including a fast enough Poison that causes it) or rendered unconscious.

Nope, they are long lived but they do age and die, per WOB. The drug that inhibited their shapeshifting would have killed a normal human, but it doesnt follow that one difference of effect makes them immune to all poisons. Chocolate doesnt kill me the way it can a canine, but that doesnt make me immune to All Poisons. Similarly Horses are immune to the bite of a Black Widow spider, but that's just because they are physically Huge and can reliably resist it by making enough antibodies (that's actually how they manufacture the black widow anti-venom, btw). Kandra can consciously leverage their Shapeshifting to Resist and/or safely metabolize poisons, but that also isnt the same thing as being Immune. The Poison we have seen them be effected by is one that specifically attacked their shapeshifting abilities, making them sag, so it makes sense that this Specific poison works because it blocks their Shapeshifting defence, which all makes sense as an exception for the specific case. I strongly suspect that any poison that attacks the nervous system that way would stop a Kandra, and that any poison strong enough would probably just stop the heart of a regular human.

They know of several ways to kill each other. One that was favored as a means of execution in the Final Empire was Acid, but that's not the only way by any means. They can fight and be eaten/digested by each other, they can starve, they can be killed by physical damage if they are prevented from shapeshifting for healing, etc. The only real thing in the way is that their shapeshifting abilities let them consciously repair damage, which is why they used that drug that inhibited their shapeshifting in SoS.

I would have said the exact opposite, that the presence of a Kandra-specific Poison in SoS proves that they are still vulnerable to Poisons in general, even though they have different biology than normal humans. When they heal physical damage it's through a conscious application of their Shapeshifting abilities, so I suspect for most poisons they use a similar methods (perhaps growing a triple sized liver or extra kidneys, etc). Also, I feel like we've seen MeLaan get drunk, but I couldnt say when.

Honestly if you make it through the main line stuff and are still interested I would say decide for yourself. I honestly done remember enough to say what was present or how overt it was. There were certainly random scenes showing hyper-decadence in some of the empire ruling houses but those were relatively rare, and I dont recall if any were sexual vs violent. I think there might have been a drug-orgy scene at some point but I think it focused on the drug-visions more than the sex.

It is some of the more dense Scifi out there, but it's also the basis for a lot of our generation's works, so the concepts are most likely more familiar than they once were. Dune the novel is definitely worth it. After that the common consensus that Ive seen is that they get progressively worse, but I couldnt really lock down in what ways. This guy has a lot of great content on Dune, so here's his Spoiler free 4 reasons to Read Dune. He doesnt seem to be a fan of the later works by Herberts family because it takes some wildly different thematic directions.

It takes the Ninth Heightening to Awaken metal in any form, and it would make sense to me that you could retrieve them too so long as the Awakening didnt complicate it with Identity (as with Lifeless or Nightblood). But per this WOB you would not need the 9th just to store it in metal, only to make it do something useful while in there.

It could be as simple as a passive effect of Cultivation making genetic Diversity and/or Divergence more expressive. Granted this might be an outdated idea, it was my first impression on the Rosharan human subspecies, back before we knew the actual history of the peoples on Roshar. I figured Cultivation was causing the evolutionary diversity on the planet to increase and Diverge and that was why there were folks with metallic gold hair, "Samson Eyebrows", blue skin, stone fingernails, etc. We now know there are unique, specific explanations for some of those, so it's probably not as simple as that.

The Damage remains; the difference is that Hemalurgy is permanent change while feruchemy is an "external" energy storage that is being tapped until it runs out. But Gold can heal spiritual Damage, so depending on how the person viewed that damage it could heal back, but Marsh in particular has been this way for a really long time so it might have merged into his self-image too much. But For Marsh it would be bad to lose his Atium spikes at least, even if he tried to give up the rest. Inquisitors in particular have frayed spiritwebs that cant survive without a spike dedicated to holding it together, which is another complication. For a Koloss as in that WOB, We know they look different/damaged in the Cognitive realm, and all that. But once they Die the turn into a pile of meat that doesnt really have a functional spiritweb anymore, so I dont think the Meat would react to a piece of Spiritweb being removed. Pull a Koloss's spikes while they are still alive and (if healing was provided) they probably would deflate to their pre-spiked form.

He took the time and effort to "fix" the Koloss so they would be a self-sustaining race, I dont think he'd entirely abandon the Kandra wholesale, and the Mistwraiths are critical to their future. Other random options are that they could be on other continents, or even a settlement in the Cognitive Realm. I suspect the Kandra have "domesticated" the bulk of them, preserving them in some sort of ranches.

Kelsier is the sort that would need to be sentenced to such classes by the courts, but I doubt he'd go willingly. I could be making assumptions about his current mental state, though. Add Leshwi, and any Fused that are willing. Nightblood should at least listen in, I suspect he will face similar issues eventually.

Im more hoping he starts taking Kaladin's "classes". Dude is seriously depressed, questioning whether he's even a real person anymore. Id love to see him and a herald or two in a support group. Im pretty sure Yesteel made that, since him discovering the secret is supposed to be topic of the Nightblood sequel. At most I could see her making it with Yesteel's help a lot more than Vasher's, and we know things didnt exactly end with them on good terms if the current state of things is any indication.

Gain and trade characters to what end? Are you imagining like a Fantasy football sort of "team-building" thing?

Common belief is Yes, this should be a viable (if unique) hack between the metallic arts and Lifelight. Exact interaction is being RAFO'd for the most part. The calories dont have to be in her belly as in fresh, they can be normal fat stores (Wyndle even comments that she needs to carry more body fat for her health). As we've seen they can be tapped pretty quickly after eating, so her digestion may not be 100% natural chemistry. As far as the sequence of it, my understanding is that she'd be able to move Nutrition into and out of the UnSealed metalmind, which would restore her caloric stores as blood sugar & fat, etc. however it normally would (some with more medical and/or Organic Chem knowledge may be able to elaborate on this stage). I assume but couldnt prove that you can store years worth in metalminds, and tapping would increase body mass as needed just like tapping F-pewter does. In that case she could then convert those stores to her Lifelight Awesome in a one-way direction. Getting the Lifelight energy Back into metal would require some other route, probably nicrosil or a Gold feruchemist, for example, because she cannot convert Light back into calories.

I would agree with everything you say for all the other surges, but since Lightweaving has been shown to specifically resist similar detection I suspect it's going to be significantly harder to invalidate with Bronze (probably to preserve some semblance of usefulness in Era4).

Ah, ok you sold me, that is a pretty solid defence and attack. A Lightweaver could probably match it if they were already in the Cognitive but the elsecaller just has to survive long enough to transition and then the Fullborn both cannot Reach them and cannot run away*. Unless the fullborn is clever or precognitive enough to immediately compound the crap out of something to maintain their Investments (ideally flaring their Identity) the Elsecaller might even be able to Soulcast them directly by accessing their flame. *Wait. So on Roshar everything manifest as flames and beads, and they dont have to be Co-Located. But in Scadrial it's a misty ghost world and people appear where they are in the Physical realm, does that complicate the Targeting methods of Soulcasters? A flame couldnt outrun a soulcaster, but could a soulcaster target a misty ghost presence with Superspeed as easily?

Elsecaller over Lightweaver, you think? Unless Elsecalling allows some quick point-to-point teleportation or an AOE realm-shift that can catch the Fullborn and shunt them entirely out of the Realm/situation, I think the deception capabilities of a Lightweaver (not to mention the potential for a semi-solid army summon, if they have the Light) would be more advantageous in the inevitably short duration fight with a speedster. Bronze can hear Surges so it may not be as powerful as it could be, but Im curious whether Lightweaving is "quiet" enough to avoid it the way it did those alarm spren. Or alternatively if there was a ton of it around the fullborn, could they differentiate the "sound" enough to know which of the things they see are illusions? Like if there were 100 aluminum arrow's flying but only one was real, could they find and dodge it? Tangent: Can a lightweaving "fake" the sensory input of allomantic Bronze?

Agreed. The presence or lack of Atium also makes a pretty significant difference. Does the Radiant know enough of Hemalurgy to weaponize aluminum? Is it possible to soulcast a Block of aluminum around a fullborn fast enough to trap them, and does it's field effect interfere with internal effects like Compounding even if you do?

Boogie is to get funky Bogey is to be british with nasal issues Boogy is...maybe a halloween pun?

That is certainly the leading theory presented by the characters so far, but it still involves a lot of assumptions and unknowns. I'm holding out for the real story from Maya or the Sibling or somebody actually involved.

I overcapitalize everywhere, so Im probably worse than most. But yes, there are a lot of "normal" words that have cosmere significance that gets them capitalized, like Identity, Returned, Connection, Light, Breath, Mist, Shard, Surge, etc etc

Because of this WOB I dont really subscribe to direct pairings beyond what it implied in the Outward/Inward and Increase/Decrease that is part of the quadrant fault lines. The shards will each have several that could pair well depending on the perspective, and honestly I think pair compatibility will be more influenced by the Vessel's Filtered Interpretation of the shardic Intent more than most circumstances. Honor as interpreted as a Singular Bond/Oath thing is a lot more compatible with say Autonomy (as I picture it) than the more communal "Unity" variation.