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That still makes no sense. Why spike powers out of a Mistborn when you can burn the Lerasium to become a Mistborn that's more powerful than you'd become if you stole the powers? Remember, Hemalurgy always results in a net loss of power and there are very few Mistborn that would be worth spiking the powers out of as opposed to burning the Lerasium. Not to mention, the stronger the Mistborn, the less likely you'll be able to take them alive to manage it(considering the fact that you are not a Mistborn because for some reason you didn't burn your Lerasium). But if you don't bag a strong one, you're wasting your Lerasium. Maybe that is how it works and that's why Brandon equates using Lerasium as a spike to using a nuclear bomb as a paperweight. But, there honestly isn't much he could have made a Lerasium spike do that makes it at all smart to use it except to burn it or make an alloy of it and burn it.

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I'm going to have to disagree there. Lerasium spikes would mostly be useful to Kandra, which there are relatively few of at the moment. But a Kandra would still be better off burning the Lerasium and becoming a Mistborn than using it as a spike. Even Brandon has stated that there isn't really a use case for a Lerasium spike, its primary function is still much more enticing than using it for Hemalurgy. Atium on the other hand can steal any power from any magic system(though with some complications with some like the Nahel bond). The only way Lerasium is at all more useful than Atium is that you can use it on any person while Atium is only useful for stealing from someone with a power. But considering stealing powers is what Hemalurgy is mostly about, Atium is the superior tool.

I think Haylo has it right here. If you look up the Hemalurgic Table of Metals, it shows the two god metals and what they do. Atium says "steals any power" while Lerasium says "steal all abilities." It seems unlikely that ability and power are referring to the same thing, otherwise I don't see why there would be a distinction. Also, it seems unlikely that the God metal of Preservation has a greater utility in Hemalurgy than the God metal of Ruin.

Actually, from what we've seen, Radiant Stormlight healing seems to do more than Regrowth. I don't think Lopen's arm could have been healed with Regrowth but it was able to be done with infused Stormlight.

Ok I re-read Emperor's Soul and figured out the answer. Yes, Resealing can require you apply a stamp to yourself every day. Shai mentions this as part of her final Essence Mark, the one that makes her forget Soul Forgery and would turn her into an ordinary person. She specifically says that part of the Forgery is the belief that she had a terrible accident and had to use a Resealer to fix her body. She would believe the stamp that makes her forget her previous life is the one that keeps her body whole. As for the part where they were all on a metal plate, that is only referring to the stamp Shai makes. Kinda similar to how an anthology is a book that contains a bunch of individual stories, an Essence Mark(a Soul Stamp which rewrites a persons soul in a significant way) is a collection of individual stamps collected onto a metal plate that is tied to the Soul Stamp. The story never mentions or even implies that Shai combined her stamp with the Resealing one, so the logical assumption is that the stamp that maintains the Emperor's body is separate from the one Shai made for his mind. Now, another Forger could likely combine the two so it doesn't need to be that way. However, it's unlikely we'll be revisiting the Emperor any time soon if at all, so we're probably not going to get an answer to something as miniscule as that.

Didn't the Emperor need multiple Soul Stamps? One for the Resealing(repair of his physical body) and one for his mind(Shai's stamp)? If that's the case, that's the use case for multiple stamps. Shai was extremely adept at Soul Forgery but even she didn't have knowledge in every area. Someone/something might need multiple stamps from various experts to achieve the desired effects. It wouldn't be necessary for mundane things but something like restoring a gravely injured, brain dead individual to his former self took two experts. The one thing I'm not sure of is how long the Resealing stamp needed to be applied before the effects were permanent like Shai suggested might happen with the Emperor's mind.

I have a feeling Odium can directly control them similar to how (spoilers for Mistborn)

I don't have access to a digital copy, but if I recall correctly it's when he starts really learning how to use Lashings to change his direction of gravity and he seems to find the objects he's lashing himself to in Shadesmar. He mentions seeing the weird sun with light stretching towards it. It's a real blink and you miss it moment, I only caught it on re-reads. Dalinar also had a slight ability to see the Cognitive realm, when he heard the pieces of the statue wanting to be whole again. I suspect most if not all the Radiants have some varying ability to perceive the Cognitive realm as it relates to their Surges. It's likely due to the fact that their powers come from their Spren which are Cognitive entities and therefore certain aspects of their powers work through the Cognitive realm.

Actually, what he was referring to was when Kaladin was first really learning to use his powers he was able to see into Shadesmar, though it wasn't quite the same as Shallan's.

Well, if Odium figured out what Taravangian did, that Renarin's future sight is going to interfere with Odium's future sight, that might warrant a dangerous operation to take him out.

Actually, that was more in line with the principles of Fabrial science than Hemalurgy. If you re-read that scene, when Moash kills Jezrien, the gemstone on the pommel of the knife starts glowing, much like when you capture a spren in a gemstone. If they used Hemalurgy, whatever they took from Jezrien would reside in the metal and would be losing power if they don't store it blood or a living host. As for the Fused, whoever is doing the Hemalurgy would need to do some serious experimentation to figure out how to steal the specific things they would want to steal(assuming they have a goal beyond killing the Fused). There are a lot of different bindpoints and metals that can only be used for specific purposes that one would need to know of to even begin figuring out how to steal a Fused's ability. Though access to Atium would obviously make this much easier to accomplish.

For me, this is between The Final Empire and The Way of Kings. I've reread both recently so they're rather fresh. If you had caught me after I had read both but before I re read both, I'd probably go The Way of Kings. But I don't particularly care for the flashback chapters of both The Way of Kings or Words of Radiance on re reads. I don't mind Dalinar's in Oathbringer, but there are other parts of that book I don't really care for either. It's not that they're poorly written, it's just that there are parts of each book that genuinely depress me, which kinda affects my opinion. The Final Empire on the other hand, just works for me. The pacing is just right, the dialogue is superbly written, and the plot never felt predictable at all. I'm not saying The Way of Kings isn't any of those things, but The Final Empire did better in those areas in my opinion. So yea, The Final Empire for me.

Spoilers for Stormlight: But I'd definitely bet the spike in his eye is a part of it.

Hmmm tricky question. For the earlier books like Elantris and Warbreaker, Brandon had less input on how the narrator did their job. And in big books like in The Stormlight Archive there are so many characters that Brandon probably can't supply detailed notes on how they would all sound and the narrators probably make something up based on context. If you asked Brandon, he might have something different in his head than what's in the audiobook but would also probably say you can consider the audiobook as close to canon as that. I'd definitly say that Michael Kramer 100% nailed the voices of everyone in the various Mistborn books. Stormlight archive is a little trickier because there are two narrators, Michael Kramer and Kate Reading. Although they're both very good, there are some accents that they do differently because they're both obviously better at doing voices for characters of their respective genders. And then there's also the Graphic Audio versions of books(these are basically audiobooks with a full voice cast, sound effects, and a musical score in some areas). Because they can use a large variety of people as opposed to a single(or in the Stormlight Archive's case, one male and one female narrator), I'd like to think these are more accurate than the traditional audiobooks. There were accents that the traditional narrators tried to do that are preformed better in these. Though there are some where I think the traditional narrator did a far better job than the full voice cast member. For example, in the traditional audiobook Lopen has a kinda rural Australian accent(I think, someone correct me if I'm wrong here) and the Graphic Audio version sounds more like a surfer from California. I much prefer the traditional audiobook version so that's the canon in my head. Actually I think my recollection of Nightblood's voice that was in the spoiler tag earlier was from the Graphic Audio version of I cannot recall how the traditional audiobook version sounded. I'd say yes they are technically canon, but they aren't always precisely what Brandon imagined when he wrote the respective books. And even if it is how Brandon wished it to be, you're free to imagine it as you wish, that's the benefit of this part of a book being entirely in your imagination. I personally am not at all good at imagining voices, so it actually makes it a lot easier to read books if I've heard the audiobook first(or if there's a decent film version out there as well).

In the Warbreaker audiobook, it was extremely mild mannered and even toned. Actually, Invocation's answer matches up with that pretty well. We're not in the Cosmere section, so spoilers below.

I'm betting the God Beyond part came from the Heralds. They're the only Cosmere aware characters he's likely to have interacted with that would know of that unless Hoid has been around.

If I had a guess, Azure(though also likely Brandon) didn't want an entire conversation explaining pretty much everything we learn about the Returned over the course of Warbreaker. Without that explanation, I have no clue how she would have conveyed what she meant without confusing the Shadesmar party. The "Cognitive Shadows that were infused with a Divine Breath and stapled back onto their bodies to fulfill some as of now unknown purpose" just seems like a mouthful that begs further explanation, one they probably wouldn't completely believe. She probably could have gotten away with just saying spren instead of gods, but I have no clue how long Azure has been on Roshar, she might not be knowledgeable enough to make that connection in that moment.

I still say what Syl is referring to is Ishar bonded to Honor, though I suppose it is possible his pre-Oathpact powers came from a Dawnshard. However, we know Ishar was bonded to Honor in some way before the Oathpact and the forming of the Heralds. We also know Ishar was the Herald who helped create the Oathpact and organized Surgebinders into Radiant orders when the Heralds discovered them, so I doubt she is referring to someone else there. I do consider the bond part of the definition, it's important. The Bondsmiths are said to have unique powers depending on the Spren they bond. And as Syl says, the powers of a Bondsmith existed before Bondsmiths. So, there's definitely a difference between modern Bondsmiths and what we call proto-Bondsmiths. They are an order of Knights Radiant, not just a broad term for a person with access to those specific Surges. Szeth had the powers of a Windrunner but he was not a Windrunner, Syl made a special point of that. Likewise, someone with Ishar's Blade has the Surges of a Bondsmith, but is not one. And even then, I feel the Godspren have offer unique abilities beyond those surges, like Dalinar's ability to open a perpendicularity to the spiritual realm. But even going with the broad definition of Bondsmith = someone with Adhesion + Tension, the maximum is not fixed at 5. The Bondsmiths can have squires just like some of the other orders, so there could be dozens, if not more, people that can access those powers, though probably limited access. Yes, I'm splitting hairs here. No, this stuff isn't clearly defined. But I personally would hesitate to call anyone with with the same Surges as an order by the title of that order.

I think this is kind of right and kind of wrong. It's been a bit since I read the Syl interlude, but I recall her saying "A Bondsmith," no mention of Dawnshards. As we know, Bondsmiths are unique in that they require much larger spren than a typical Nahel Bond. Ishar was not a Bondsmith because he was given that Honorblade. He was bonded to Honor himself and was the Bondsmith that Syl was referring to when she said a Bondsmith created the Oathpact. I get the feeling the Dawnshards are fabrials that mimic part of what a Bondsmith can do just like a Soulcaster fabrial imitates what Lightweavers and Elsecallers can do. But wielding one does not make that person a Radiant as there is no bond involved. However, at one point there technically could have been 5 Bondsmiths. Three bonded to the Stormfather, Nightwatcher and Sibling respectively. One - specifically Ishar - bonded to Honor. And then possibly another bonded to Cultivation. Now, I've never heard anything about someone bonding Cultivation, but I believe it's technically possible, if improbable. Unless new information comes out, it doesn't seem like it ever happened and I doubt it will happen considering Culivation's general outlook these days. Assuming Cultivation isn't in the mix, the hard limit used to be 4 Bondsmiths but now that limit has been reduced to 3. As Honor has been Shattered, his remnants reside in the Stormfather, the amount of Bondsmiths seems to be set at 3.

Gaz knew, he saw Kaladin went down there and he indicated he would kill himself.

I got the sense that the person communicating with Navani was a Sleepless, possibly the one from the Akinah interlude in OB. Wouldn't be hard to get some cremlings to bring in the ruby and then get out. It very well could have been put there during the battle when everyone was distracted.

Ah that explains it.

That is kinda odd how we've had no Venli chapters or any flashbacks. I'm pretty sure there were flashback chapters in the part ones of the other books.

I wonder how emotional Allomancy plays into this. Do spren still get attracted by suppressed emotions or does that keep them away? Do even more spren get attracted when emotions are inflamed by Allomancy?