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Kind of a Warbreaker Plot spoiler, but: Spoiler filled WOB:

Vasher refers to it as "Awakened Steel" at one point in Warbreaker. By the local/in-world classification of the Magic System: Type I are defined as "Spontaneous Sentient BioChromatic Manifestations in a Deceased Host" (IE "Returned", made by Divine Intervention only) Type II are defined as "Mindless Manifestations in a Deceased Host" (ie "Lifeless", awakened Zombies) Type III are "BioChromatic manifestation in an organic host far removed from being alive". They are Mindless. Examples include Awakened ropes, cloth, or skeletal remains. Type IV are "sentient objects made by Awakening inorganic materials like metal and stone". Nightblood was the first such, and the secret of his creation has both caused and ended wars. He is kind of the cosmere equivalent of artificial intelligence, having been described as a "Robot Spren". Those who made him were Worldhoppers who had seen Rosharan Shardblades and were attempting to replicated them using Awakening (having no idea how they were actually "made"). Most of this comes from various WOBs.

To the OP, what Raboniel said was that their Surge Suppression technology is something she stole and/or reverse engineered from a function of the Tower way in the past. Currently the Tower prevents them from attacking because it suppresses "their" abilities (implied to mean Voidlight-based abilities). Raboniel says that, since the Sibling is not present to give them full access to the Tower's abilities, she believes she can sneak in and Invert this specific Tower Function, so it Suppresses Radiant/Stormlight Surges and not Voidlight Surges as it does presently. In other words, the small fabrial was a proof of concept, and now she is proposing making the same modification from the Original (ie the Urithiru Tower Systems). Once htey do that, the Void forces can attack at full stregth, while any Radiant below the 4th ideal will lose their powers. Depends how the suppression works, but I doubt it. Her thing is described as metabolizing blood sugar into Stormlight rather than being able to inhale it from Gems the way the rest do. But once she has it and is holding the Stormlight it starts to work in all the normal ways as any other Edgedancer (healing, etc). If she's going to get around the suppression, I'd bet on it coming from her weird realmic part-spren status that uniquely lets her touch Wyndle, rather than the stromlight metabolism.

Warbreaker serves as something of his origin story, or at least contains what we know of his origins. Short answer is that he's a rare/unique type of Awakened Item (Type IV), of the magic from the planet Nalthis, where Endowment lives. The sheath is Aluminum, and the blade was originally Steel before it was Awakened.

Ah, I see. Im still not convinced the latter category exists at all, personally. We know Sja-Anat's ability to corrupt sapient spren is relatively new, but as far as I know it may have started relatively recently but still long enough ago to account for those like Yixli and Ulim

What difference do you see between Glys and "one of Odium's sapient spren"?

I like this idea. Maybe logicspren are needed to Anchor the chosen behavior/Intent into the fabrial spren, along the lines of how measuring a spren locks down it's size/shape; exposure to a Logicspren might have that sort of quantifying effect on a spren. Perhaps that's how they do the sort of fine tune selection like how she somehow tuned a Blood essence Attractor to only effect water as a 'Sub-essence'.

We have an official Start Chart that is drawn from some specific but as yet unraveled location: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Physical_Realm#/media/File:Cosmere_constellation_map.jpg EDIT: We also have a Roshar-centric Cognitive Realm Map, that lists borders to known regions: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Shadesmar#/media/File:Shadesmar_(TWoK).jpg Expanse of the Vapors: This area is confirmed to be Scadrial.[11] Expanse of the Densities: This area is confirmed to be Sel.[12] Expanse of Vibrance: This expanse's name was hidden behind the map's title.[13] Expanse of the Broken Sky Nexus of Imagination Nexus of Truth Nexus of Transition Sea of Regret Sea of Souls Sea of Lost Lights

The short version is that we dont know details, and he hasn't actually worked them all out (as of a 2015 WOB). The only time we've seen Nicrosil in play is with the Medallions, which are their own kind of weird. Beyond that, apparently a Nicrosil Ferring is going to be a main character in Era3, so Branderson's been RAFOing all questions regarding Nicrosil. Closest we know is that in the case of medallions/metalminds, Nicrosil takes/stores something discrete (like memories in a coppermind) not a bulk quantity like most others. Medallions also store the Ability to USE a type of Investiture, not the Investiture energy itself. In the case of Spikes as distinct from Metalminds, we know that by the nature of Hemalurgy they only effect Investiture that is in the Spiritweb in the Spiritual Realm. There's a good chance that it will be able to steal Kinetic Investiture, which opens up more options (potentially stealing Stormlight's augmentation/healing abilities, maybe squirehood, etc). There are also some things that we vaguely know Hemalurgy is capable of by WOB, but dont know which specific Metal is involved. For example, we know that you can steal "the Investiture" of a Soulstamp, which sounds like Nicrosil personally. But we also know that there is overlap between metals, with instances where several different metals could be used to get the same end effect. I suspect Nicrosil would also be the Metal of Choice to steal a Boon/Curse as well, though it might depend on the individual Curse effects. Turns out No, though a Divine Breath might be more of an option: Per WOB, you cant Spike Nightblood, nor can you use him as a spike, simply because he is already waaaay too Invested to be Charged with/by something else.

Im guessing it's in the same physical Solar System of the Aether planet, just isnt the primary Shardworld. Since Aethers are the last "major" magic system, Im assuming it's from a major Shardworld, meaning a resident Shard. Best guess is that it's something nearby and relevant, like Ashyn & Braize in the Rosharan System, or the various named worlds in the Drominid, Threnodite, or (less likely) the Taldain system.

All the Forms come from bonding specific spren, and all the known Forms are non-sapient "animal" spren, both for normal forms and Regal Forms of Power. Fused seem to use the Form mechanisms to use their bodied but they boot the original out, so I couldnt say if a Sapient spren might need to do the same thing to inhabit their Gemheart. A big part of the issue is that there are things that are indeed possible but that the spren simply never tried before. For example, the Spren have never tried to make a Nahel Bond with a singer prior to this Desolation, apparently entirely because the battle lines fell firmly down racial line before, and the Singers were the Enemy.

Adhesion is defined as "The Surge of Pressure and Vacuum", so the implication is that this was a previously unseen application of that Power. My far less supported (but more fun) Tinfoil hat theory is that Kaladin is part of a bloodline lineage that leads directly back to Tanavast himself, giving him a separate and relatively unique Connection to the Highstorm:

True, though since this came from the Fused themselves, which were alive in the original generation, I suspect it's a phrase they used back then. It sounds less like their name for a nation or land and more like a military theater region more along the lines of "The Western Front". This is more or less my thought, that from the Singer's POV it represented the region they settled after Shinovar, or more likely second Land-grab they made beyond the original Shin land-grant.

Avendla = Fused name for Alethkar = "The Land of the Second Advance" Any theories as to why it might be called this? Best guess for me is something to do with the original war timeline (original generation that created the Heralds and Fused).

I dont have any experience on the Social groups side of the site, I tend to mostly haunt the cosmere theory side of things. Im open to either though.

I see your point and it's entirely fair. So even though Im about to nitpick most pieces of of it, I do see what you are saying and acknowledge your point. Szeth, though, I would argue loathed what the Rules made him Do, not the Concept of Rules or Law itself. To be honest that part seems so ingrained into his perspective and outloook that I still dont think he's really questioned it directly, Oathstone epiphany notwithstanding. I dont think he hates Rules themselves, rather he's still looking for a good set of Rules to follow (and is currently seeing if Dalinar can help him with that quest). But to get back to the original topic, my real point was us that in Vorin Roshar there are a huge variety of personalities and social pressures that might drive somebody to join the Ardentia, and only some of them would align with a Skybreaker's outlook. Just considering a known example: a former soldier that quit when he became disenfranchised with the actions and choices of his Commanding Officer is arguably the exact opposite of a Skybreaker; another is a fugitive worldhopper just looking for a good meal (and he's considered highly successful in his ardent field) . Beyond that, joining the Ardentia is the only way for a man to learn to read and one of the very few ways for a man to gain any sort of education; the known alternative is being a baker by day and pretending to be a woman on spanreeds, or else learning glyph-codes for an relatively educated trade like surgeon or Stormwarden. And then some go to it because it's a cushier version of slavery where you just have to do what you're told and your basic needs are met. That's not to say there wont be Skybreakers coming from the Ardentia ranks, but I dont think they will lean heavily toward Skybreaker specifically over any of the other Orders. I mean, the Soldier Lifestyle is theoretically just as rules-oriented as the Ardentia, but a) we've seen how universal that actually is among it's members in practice, and b.) how diverse the roles and personalities truly are within the Rosharan militaries.

Sign me up! I dub us the Stannumites, dedicates of Stannumony (lit. "The Law of Tin") and members of the Stannumorium! ["Stannum" = Tin (latin)]. Know ye our works, for we are the Masters of the 50 Senses! [Tin=Atomic Number 50]. (I probably need more coffee. Or less, hard to say) Seriously though, while I cant rule out some of the Spiritual metals being stupid cool in application, Tin is otherwise the Ascendant Compounding Combination. In nearly every other case, having both sides of the same metal means infinite Feruchemy, and you may or may not ever bother to use the Allomantic version. The two distinct versions of Tin patch each other's limitations nicely, and Feruchemy's ability to fill all but a targeted sense would let you Flair far more safely. And since it's long established that F-Tin works in a scaled/quantitative manner (rather than discrete storage like F-Copper or Nicrosil Medallions) there's no reason you shouldnt be able to fill Tin with Life Sense and then Compound/Flair/Super-Tap it for some sort of ridiculous overcharged effect. You might even be able to similarly compress/augment the Perfect Color and Perfect Pitch senses into something weird and/or Spiritual, if you Tap enough of it.

Tin Twinborn of the 5th Heightening. I perceive ALL THE THINGS!!!

The current plan is Eventually, but 2022 or later. As of the 2019 State of Sanderson:

Yes, Ridiculously so. Anything that is Invested will resist being affected by other investiture, which is the root of why metalminds and spikes are hard to Push/Pull. Nightblood is the currently one of the most invested non-shardic object in the Cosmere.

I absolutely loved it! It's the very best Philosophy and Ethic for Dummies ever created

I think Gavilar and the SoH's experiments is what allowed the sentient Voidspren to cross back to Roshar. This in turn is what gave said Voidspren the opportunity manipulate Venli into arranging the Everstorm. I suspect that Taln Never "Broke" on Braize, but rahter he witnessed the Braise side of the Everstorm and/or the exodux of Fused and Voidspren, and chose to voluntarily Return to Rosahr to continue the Good Fight.

This is the closest thing to a datapoint I could find, which states that in the case of sleep specifically, it's needed for biological Memory Management. Beyond that we know that in general the physical body/forms of the Returned are way more affected by their cognitive state than say, your average Spiritual Healing. We know are capable of reproduction but that it takes some "trick" that most dont figure out. I suspect that it's another cultural thing like the super-height, that they mostly assume Gods just dont do messy natural childbirth. All that to say there is a line somewhere with Returned where bodily function takes over from the cognitive-skewed magic, but I strongly suspect the line will vary slightly between Returned. That's not necessarily true. In other examples where Investiture is interacting with food and/or air function (SA , Mistborn [ ), it's doing so with a metabolic-level conversion; the magic will oxygenate your blood and/or add sugars, but that blood is still needed to carry and distribute all that goodness to your various organs.

Szeth cannot take Squires yet. The Skybreakers, specifically, are very regimented in their power and organization progression. They dont get the ability to take Squires until their 4th Ideal. Szeth has to complete his Crusade to "Cleanse the Shin of their false leaders" before he'll be able to take any. As far as possible candidates, there may well be some among the ardents that would accept it, but dont fall into the trap of thinking Ardents are like RL priests. Becoming an ardent doesnt necessarily equate to being particularly pious, let alone enjoying Rules. Some do it for that, some because of more specific charitable endeavors, but many (Id even say Most, at least among the males) do it because it's the only way possible way to get a formal education without being a Lighteyed woman.

I dont think so, personally. For one thing there is apparently something unique about the 5th ideal in that the Spren said they could forcibly break Syl's Bond before that point, with the implication that the bond becomes "Complete" at that point. The other thing that makes me doubt this interpretation is that as I understand it, the Nahel Bond itself is what the Spren copied to create the Radiants and grant Surges, not just the physical form and/or function of Shardblades.