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My point is just that I'm hoping to figure out how she was able to "set" it at all. She seemed concerned that it would default to the base Essence (Blood) rather than adjusting to specifically Water, but so far there hasnt been any indication of they make those changes, other than the implication that it's part of the mechanical farbrial design and not a fundamentally different spren. I never said Copper had only one application and it's one power was to mimic Copperclouds, just that Im now confident it will be able to accomplish that function, and in general will be a spren perception modifier that somehow acts opposite of Bronze. It makes sense that they would have applications similar to their Allomantic metal expression, but by that logic there should be equal chance of getting something similar to feruchemy. As far as Copper for Communication on OB, youre talking about the copper inlays in the Shadesmar boat that Kaladin guessed was letting the spren communicate somehow, yes? That was a wildly different scenario in all regards. Fabrials in Shademar may or may not use the same principles at all (with all sorts of ethical implications if they are the same). The Condensation "fabrial" for example was all steel and used stormlight with a Shadesmar Bead to manifest cold, not any sort of Spren-gem. And Shallan suspected that the copper was being used for communication because of patterns in the copper's vibrations, which doesnt sound like any direct cognitive effect at all, more of a morse-code intercomm.

It did not, otherwise it would have pulled everyone's blood out of their bodies as Navani feared.

And the pattern holds. Im calling it now, Copper would help hide you from a Warning Fabrial. So far our examples are all Cognitive Metals, and Spren are fundamentally Cognitive Entities, so it makes sense that they'd be affected along similar lines. Now Im curious to see if if the pattern changes for physical or spiritual metals. Eventually I want to be able to figure out Navani's Dehumidifier fabrial, the one that looked to be using Gravitation to selectively Pull moisture. She made an offhand mention of how she feared it might pull everyone's blood out, so Im guessing the Gravitation effect comes from the spren type (Mandra most likely), and the Gem determined which Essence it would target (Blood), but that leaves it to the metal cage to refine "All Blood Essence" to "Water Only".

And with Chapter 8, we get to see another aspect of Renarin's Illumination at play. In OB, we saw it manifest as Visions described as a stained glass window only he could see, which predicted the Future. In Chapter 8 we see him emit a Light that manifests what is basically a visible Gold-Shadow of another person, a vision of what that person could have been. It cant be coincidence that Gold is both the Auger metal and the bloodmaker metal, both in-line with Renarin's trademark powers.

Every variation of that question has received an RAFO, so we just dont know yet. We do know that he could suck in and Destroy the City of Elantris, but he cannot actually Empty the Dor. Key difference and limitation being that he requires Kinetic Investiture to do his thing. So to compare the Highstorm to Elantris, I suspect the Stormfather would be in danger but once Nightboold ate him the Connection to the perpendicularity would be gone and there would no longer be a conduit to the SR and no more sustained stormlight for him to eat (even if a weather pattern remained).

Hoid at the end of OB was 100% an after-credit's scene, by all rational criteria

Per the Coppermind the Herdazians only ever had the one Blade that was passed down in the Royal Line, but it's hard to say where it is now. The Listeners were down to a single blade as of WOR just before the storm, though with the return of the Forms of Power they would have alternative tactical options too.

As far as I recall it was part of the Vengeance pact they all made, that all military might be committed to their retribution so leaving a shard behind would dishonor Gavilar. . In fact, if Im not mistaken part of Amaram's motivation for stealing a Shard was that it would get him out to the Shattered Plains where the "Real" governance was happening. They have not hit the city of Vedenar yet (capital of Jah Keved), the coalition though they were headed there but went to Thaylen instead. Jah Keved was destroyed in civil war by the Diagram. That is correct, Jah Keved is (is-world) believed to have the second-most Shards, including about 20 shardblades and some number of plate.

I cannot think of a reason that a Fused would not be able to used a deadeye Shardblade; at worst they would not be able to gem-bond it and so would not be able to summon and dismiss it. But that just puts them back to the first few centuries after the Recreance, where anyone could pick one up and Nobody could Bond one. A Fused should still be able to pick one up and swing it, which is still a huge tactical advantage against Radiants. Perhaps they alsohear the Screaming of the blades, making them too distracting for a Fused to use? I disagree, the old Shards are no less valuable, they are simply not the absolute best anymore. But having one is the difference between having a chance against a Radiant and needing to throw piles of bodies at one to take it down. A Shardblade is not an insta-kill against a Squire or Radiant, but they are some of the only wounds bad enough to significantly tax Stormlight supplies, and it's still one of a very few known things that can Block a Shardblade. Meanwhile, Plate makes you immune to Surges, so those 2nd Ideal Squires would have far less advantage against one. They would have their own healing augmentation and whatever mobility their Order grants, but they wont be able to directly effect their target with anything.

Precisely. The tower-side pulley system is always on and supporting the vertical weight of the Forth Bridge, that is never the chull's job. The whole point of the isolation breakthrough was that it let them have two separate latices that both effect different planes of motion at the same time: the tower pulley supports the full weight of the bridge, refugees, and supplies while the chull system is just there to provide lateral motion in the the way they would pulling a wagon. Though I think the whole point is that the chulls will never see any of the vertical motion, so being lifted is not an issue. From what I can tell they only ever disconnect the chulls to reset their walking laps, and never disable the vertical support at all.

100% joke, the wording was just too fun to pass up

Were you not paying attention? "It is additive, not just an overwrite."

Granting Allomancy is a side-effect of whatever Lerasium is actually supposed to do. Best theory Ive seen is that its "purpose" is to hack you into the system of whatever godmetal it is alloyed with, and it simply defaults to Connection you back to Preservation if no such "target" godmetal is provided.

With confirmation that they align to the board on activation, I think the explanation can be pretty mundane: we know there is a standard socket on the board for the spanreed to sit in and be returned to when control is passed, and this is how they align the inkwells and things. All we have to assume is that the standard socket is not a symmetrical shape, then each time it is placed in the socket it would align the reed to the relative rotation as well as the vertical axis, letting it always find the inkwell and things like that. Going from there, the sequence of the subsequent breakthough's makes some logical sense. They first discovered how to reverse a single plane of motion, but still had to deal with an all or nothing Connection. Then they learned how to suppress individual axis entirely, which taken to the logical next step lets them isolate motion to a single axis. Then once they started playing with single-vector fabrial's they learned how to actually redirect that vector. These are the sorts of incremental advances that you see in early exploratory development, not unlike the sorts of early electrical devices academics played with in the 18th and 19th centuries. And WOB says he introduced the term fabrials specifically to become a generic Cosmere term for Mechanical Investiture Device, which by Era4 where the cultures are mixing will likely operate on some mix of the 4 main magics (Gem Fabrials, Medallion/Ettmetal Tech, Aon's Etc, Awakened Devices). By then the level of complexity will almost certainly be comparable to the gap between those early Layden Jar and static generator systems and modern electronics. Which is to say barely recognizable and basically Magic compared to the early "technology".

Stumbled across a relevant WOB, not sure if this has been mentioned yet. Turns out spansreeds have always auto-corrected for planetary curvature and the positioning of the writing board.

It had been drawn to the Physical Realm to bond Elokhar. When Elokhar died it was stuck in the PR without a Bond, mentally blocked the way most spren are before their Bond restores their minds.

I dont know, Wyndle mentioned in Edgedancer that they "must be metal" when they take a physical form because "there is a connection between our power, when condensed, and metal." That jives with the commonality of God-metals as the recurring form of Solid Investiture, instead of also seeing crystals, gems, wood, or some other non-metallic solid. It's always been RAFO'd as a later Dragonsteel thing, but I do strongly suspect there is something significant about Metal, likely some connection to either Adonalsium directly or the means they used to Shatter them.

Logistical question: The Fused that we saw in Shadesmar in OB, were they Fused possessing a Singer and then Transported to Shadesmar physically (the way the Radiants involved were) or were they in their pure spren-form and manifesting a body the way Syl, Pattern, and Maya were? If it's the latter, they would either have to arrange a Singer Army to be waiting, or would have to transport an entire Singer army to the Shadesmar and move them with the Fuse to be waiting Hosts. And that assumes they could possess new hosts with any Perpendicularity instead of needing the Everstorm specifically for their reincarnation.

Oh sure, several Surges have multiple distinct "powers" or applications and I didnt expect that to change with the Fused equivalents. Given that they do all have a single Surge though, I strongly doubt we will get any direct duplication of powers in the Fused, I expect them to remain very distinct. Which is why I cannot figure out what the Sykbreaker equivalent will be, since both Gravitation and Division are the very obvious signature moves of other Orders to be duplicated. .

Technically he did drop dead, as soon as he stopped actively tapping his Youth stores. The answer is pretty simple: He hadnt yet reached that breaking point. We know from WOB that there are diminishing returns and that eventually it becomes nonviable, but we have no idea how long that might actually take. By Cosmere standards LTR was still relatively young at 1000 years or so. Personally I suspect Aitum is intended to carry Marsh all the way to Mistborn Era 4 at the very least, though I doubt that's going to be another full 1000 year

In Chapter 2, we learned there are e probably Nine varieties of Fused, and Kaladin mentions he has fought Seven of them. There is a strong implication that each Order will have a corresponding Fused-type. With that in mind, I am trying to correlate what we have seen to that framework. The biggest question I have is whether Thunderclasts are close enough to Fused that they count as one of the Nine, or if they will be counted separately. One the one hand, they were created by ancient Singer Souls just like the rest of the Fised, so by origin they could be the same. On the other hand they are animating the stone directly (per WOB) rather than a corpse they way all the other ancient Singer Soul's do. I could see the Thunderclast cast as the Stonewards analog (big durable shock troop), following a similar theme of some others where they fiddle with their own body more directly than their Radiant counterpart. Windrunners ("Heavenly Ones") - Gravitation Surge Lightweavers - Illumination Surge Edgedancers - Abrasion Surge Elsecallers - Teleportation Surge [Willshapers??] - Carapice Manipulators [Stonewards??] - Thunderclast [Dustbringers] - Unknown (assume Division?) [Skybrealers] - No Clue [Truthwatchers] - No Clue [Bondsmith] - No Analog?

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I had the same thought at one point, but I dont think it fits what we know. He was human, and it pretty close still by most definitions. Also, in another WOJ he called Frost (a confirmed dragon) out for not being Human, but conspicuously not Hoid.

We know they will form between different abilities, but the more abilities you have the less likely you are to develop a resonance. This is why twinborn get resonances but fully Mistborn/Feruchemists do not. Similar with Surges, if you manage to get a bunch of them (by swallowing the wrong gem, for example) you would not get Surges the way Orders do. We know that Winderunners get more squires, which is theorized to be a sort of Spiritual expression of Gravitation and Adhesion, they attract and form Bonds with people better/more. We have it confirmed that Lightweavers have three (the most Resonances Im aware of): Solid Illusions as a straightforward combo of Soulcasting and Lightweaving, their supernatural Memory abilities, and their supernatural mood-affecting abilities. The only Resonance we know about is the Steel Bubble that Wax uses in Era2. It was originally said to be a Resonance due to him developing Savantism, but the explanation behind that has evolved and been (or rather might be) retconned. Brandon said the original idea of Savantism was to always have a downside to it, and he felt he was falling in the trap of using it just to introduce new abilties. At this point I dont think we know for sure if the Steel Bubble is still Savantism, a Resonance, skill-based, or some combination of all three.

Transformation/Soulcasting lets you sort of co-exist in both, but you actually leave the physical realm whole the way you do with Transformation. We dont know if Soulcasting alone can get you there in full physical, capable-of-worldhopping form, but we dont know you cant (WOB below). There is a Deleted Scene from WOR that covers when Jasnah accidentally did one instead of the other, with some discussion of practical differences.