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I strongly suspect you could accomplish the same realmic purpose as the Blessings with a properly conceived Awakening Command, assuming you could directly affect the Mistwraith. From there, I dont actually see any reason you couldnt take a Dead Mistwraith and make a functional Kandra Lifeless, but I assume it would require a non-standard Lifeless Command, and they might not retain all their shapeshifting skills even if they retain the ability.

I suspect it's more that he's a cognitive shadow being sustained by the Divine Breathe, which is a little more fragile way to exist. There's a wok that if a person managed to steal the divine breath they could get all it's benefits without needing to feed it a breath a week.

I think at minimum I would make separate pages for Internal Temporal/Precognition Visions like Renarin or some of the metals, and the External Prepared and Interactive Visions that Honor made or the Place Between Moments effect that the Stormfather can more freely use. The latter ones seems to fit the pocket dimension effect you mentioned, but Renarin's visions (along with Electrum, Gold, and Atium) are a more classic one-way Visions.

Based on the underlying theory of Forgery, Everything that Has, Will, or Could exist does Exist in the Spiritual realm. So far we dont have any examples of a being that exists in Just the Spiritual. But the Spiritual is a realm that ignores little things like time or distance, so it might be hard to visualize what a purely spiritual existence might look like.

We've seen a Larkin drain the stormlight from a Fabrial without destroying the Spren inside, so I think while they can eat a broad spectrum of Investiture, they cannot overcome a significant Identity lock, or maybe just cant eat something that has a functional Spiritweb like a spren (or maybe a Spike). Otherwise a Larkin would be an absolute nightmare for Nalthis, a creature that can forcefully turn anyone into a Drab. I suspect it's along a similar line and function as why an Awakener can recover Breaths from most uses but not one that was used to make a Lifeless (and I believe there's a WOB somewhere saying that is an Identity effect).

I believe it varies from metal to metal as it does with normal allomancy, burning at similar rates and allowing all the same control (flaring, etc.).

Fun! Harmonium should be able to help make feruchemy effect the mecha itself (same as the airships). From there you could probably scale a basic Steel/Iron Piston Actuator as far as you wanted, so long as you can coordinate all the complexity in a control system. I would probably go with resin-reinforced wood, Greatshell chiton, etc. Anything that is technically organic, so you dont need such a huge heightening just to make the Breaths stick. You'd need a Connection Tether on it like we saw the Ire use. Otherwise, this would probably be the most complex at every level (compared to the cool steam-punky-ness of the Metallic Arts) since you'd be custom designing a lot of different Aons to accomplish all the functionality. On the up side, you could probably incorporate a lot more esoteric functionality (Fireballs, realm shifting, etc) than are readily available to the metallic arts. The biggest catch here is that Dakhor may require a living person as the focus, something with a living spritweb, etc, since it seems like Hemalurgy that works inside a living being. If so, a Dakhor "Mecha" would be a little closer to a massive Frankenstein monster with a Rider more than a pilot. Wont have the living focus issue of Dakhor, but the common form requires "complete" skeletons, implying that it will not work with customized bone patterns. On the other hand, that might just be a development issue, since all the Dor magics are supposed to be programming languages, so there may be some way to expand it. Agreed, this is probably the most "natural" aside from Awakening. The insectoid legs of greatshells are easier to make work from a mechanical and balance control standpoint. And they have the Thundercasts to inspire the Pacific Rim response. The two routes that I see are to either build a Mechanical Fabrial with lots of gem-devices, or else work it from the Spren direction and make a Manifest Spren device more along the lines of the Oathgates, Soulcasters, or (sorta) like the Sibling/Tower. Very Stone-age, I like it! Lines of sand for movement, possibly a Sand-Shroud skin for defence. You'd want to go full Voltron on it with multiple pilots to share the control burden.

Interesting! Thematically it would be a very cool and consistent development, especially after Vasher's speech in RoW about the different Cognitive Shadow types and including Szeth as the low end of the scale. It would likely mean that she is Connected to something that is sustaining her the way the Oathpact is what is sustaining the Heralds. It's possible that it's more purely Cultivation's act and so wouldn't be as Innately Connected as Honor seems to be or Endowment demonstrably is not, and it might be as simple as using the metabolized Lifelight to do it. Thematic Counterargument: Can a Zombie Ghost be a channel for Lifelight, or does that require a "real" living being?

Hmm good point. I still think you'd need a Perfect Gem to play the role of resilient Pressure Vessel to cram additional Investiture into the space, and Im not sure an aluminum bottle would offer the same sort of "leak-proof" containment. But it would be worth the experiment.

Easiest way is to Ask Nicely Seriously though, fun idea. The Liquid is the most dense form of manifest investiture, so that will be the hardest. It's likely going to be easier to find a way to draw it directly from teh Storm or a Bondsmith perpendicularity; rather than compressing it yourself you'd just need to find a way to keep it contained and at "pressure". To accomplish the phase change itself, you will have to compress it to an insane degree, something Im expecting to be more akin to making full cryogenic liquid gasses than the more simple "pressure" transfer that the Tones accomplish on their own. Using Raysium to compress it into your target container might help (it seems to be a stronger effect by far than the tones alone), as might some equivalent to actual detonation-compression using the anit-light explosion. Light doesnt natively like to just exist on it's own, it needs a person or gem to hold it, so I think you'd need a Perfect Gem to hold up to the compression without it's flaws letting it explode (like a flawed pressure vessel), possibly encased in Aluminum as a secondary containment.

The Cryptics are very pragmatic, I honestly would not be surprised to find they've bonded a few obscure Lightweavers just for the varied experience (even if they thought it would end badly, as with Shallan and Pattern). The Skybreakers could very easily start getting some Singer members, given Nale's logic for joining the Void. Several of the other Spren cultures seem more against Bonding at all than specifically lingering anger towards the Singers. Now that those tides are turning and the battle lines this time around are not quite as racially defined, I entirely expect to see more racial mixing among the orders. I am also waiting to see one of the orders split more evenly, with their associated spren race having a civil war over the sides they're choosing.

I think she already Bonded a spren to become a Willshaper at the end of RoW. I dont see her double bonding or switching to a Godspren, unless something tragic happens to her new spren first.

I assume that if you Spiked the Stormlight out of one person and into another, it would default to providing the typical benefits of Stormlight (healing, energy, no need to Breath) rather than the effects of Breaths. With any example I think it would preserve the "tuning" of the stolen Investiture and take additional steps to convert it into some form that actually acts like Breath, be it stormlight or Dor or Allomancy. On the other hand, if you spike a bunch of raw Stormlight or breath out of a Person, I could see there being a whole system of strange effects it might be capable of, depending on the Bind Point used and thus the location in the Spiritweb that the Investiture is being injected into.

Not "only" certainly, since various Powers access the Spiritual Realm to function. But there are some Unique effects that happen with the Bond gets Strengthened by a new Ideal being sworn. All I can assume is that those events touch on a different part/aspect/frequency of the Spiritual than say Dalinar's Perpendicularity trick that didnt have the same effect.

Technically she Can, or else they wouldn't have banned it. I believe the danger they fear is that attempting a Nahel bond would combine Spren and Dawnshard in powerful and entirely unexpected ways, especially with a Godspren.

This, and the answer to the OP is Entirely a big deal. It cannot work without Intent and Intent is the 3rd thing that defines What the spike does, behind the Metal and the Bind Points. The metal will always restrict you and the wrong Bind Points can cause unexpected results (which is where a lot of the experimentation happens). And if you used Atium that can steal anything, Intent would have to do the duty of the metal in deciding what you stole.

Ah, you're right, he said both: "I can see clearly. I do not know why. Has a Bondsmith been sworn? We have a Connection, all of us.... Nevertheless, I feel my sanity slipping. my mind is broken and I do not know if it can be healed. Perhaps you can restore me for a short time after an Ideal is spoken near me. Everyone sees a little more clearly when a Radiant touches the Spiritual Realm."

Entirely possible, but Ishar said Bondsmith Oaths specifically, not because of proximity (it was Navani way off in the Tower) but because he shares a Connection with the other Bondsmiths.

Standard I think it only transmits Thoughts and Emotions. As far as I can recall only the Godspren have managed to transmit any sensory information and only of themselves, ie. Sight from the Storm's perspective, or merging senses with the Tower itself to feel and control its systems. But then (if I recall correctly) for the rest it started with basic emotions and the actual Thought telepathy came later with higher Oaths and a stronger Bond . If that is indeed the case, then it's possible more capabilities will emerge as the work up the Ideals.

Honestly we just need more singers in the cast overall, for options and perspective. Venli's direction should give us that opportunity though

(now that Rlain is out of the running...) Rock. Fits the character nicely I think, and the Horneaters as the Guardians of Cultivation's Shardpool gives him a relatively direct connection to her side of things. I dont think it will happen until the back 5 though, because Bondsmiths swearing Ideals will be the only time that Ishar will be sane enough to explain his plan, and I expect resetting the Oathpact to be something that we wont delve into until during the Herald Flashback books.

Per WOB It will will drain the stormlight from a person and will prevent them from summoning their blade. But it would not just destroy the spren any more than they can could touch and destroy Atium. I think they'd only be able to do that if they could actually "burn" the shardblade's Godmetal, and there are somewhat contradictory WOB's on what it takes to make that work.

Technically, but also very generally speaking, Adhesives as we are used to work on a principle of microscopic Suction. So like Glue will fill in all the space between a surface, but unlike say Welding it doesn't actually change either surface, instead it fills in all the tiny ridges and contours of the surface and prevents air from getting in and filling out the space between. Windrunner Adhesion seems to make a glue-like Field between the objects that similarly prevents air from getting in between the treated surfaces and makes the suction-style Bond between the two. Similar and opposite (in my mind) to Friction that makes a field that fills in those contours but prevents anything from reaching the treated surface at all and thus mimics a super-lubricant surface akin to mag-lev technology.

Yup, it seems to be held, leaked, and used normally, and gem storage works the same.

We do not know, short answer. The Oathpact was a big part of it, but not the whole thing. It's a plot point that's being revealed slowly, and I suspect we wont get full details until we start seeing Herald POV Flashbacks in the back half. Personally, I think the Oathpact was a way to force Odium to Invest in the planet by trapping the Fused (and anything else he had Invested in) in the Rosharan system, not actually trapping him so much as giving him consequences of Leaving forcefully. He didnt want to be forced to leave a whole bunch of his own Power behind, so he stuck around and started maneuvering to win the war and be released more fully.