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True, it sends the light away from a gem containing the light. It might not effect a Radiant or Fused that have already been infused by the Light. If it does, then battles are going to drastically changed. And that would be OP.

8 hours ago, Leuthie said:

I've been knocking around in my head that Mishram was the third Bondsmith spren and Nightwatcher is a red herring.

• Nightwatcher has been described in WoB as a parallel to Stormfather, but the only detail given in that parallel deals with her being a splinter of Cultivation as Stormfather is a splinter of Honor. That doesn't mean Nightwatcher has ever been a bondsmith spren.
• There were only 2 Bondsmiths described in the gem archives and other sources. We know Stormfather has been a bondsmith spren before. We know the Sibling has been a bondsmith spren before. We have never seen the 3rd anywhere.
• Midnight Mother was captured in a gem at some point. This was most likely prior to BAM being captured, seeing as the capture of BAM led precipitously toward the Recreance.
• The gem archive discussions involving the capture of BAM made it sound like a radical idea. If Ra-Shepnir had been captured before, why would capturing another Unmade be considered a radical idea?
• And the bolded statement above: Connection powers are the domain of Honor to the point where the Fused don't believe such surges exist. If BAM was manipulating Connections, they had to have been connected (little c) to Honor in some way.
• Raboniel was very confident about what she was doing to the Sibling. The Sibling was also very confident about what was happening to her. This implies previous experience.

So I contend that the Sibling wasn't the first bondsmith spren upon which an attempt to unmake was attempted. Ba-Ado-Mishram was once Mishram, the bondsmith spren, who was Unmade or otherwise corrupted to create Connections to Odium.

I love this.

I don't think that Nightwatcher is a red herring because Dalinar said this in RoW chapter 116:

"... Apparently, his Bondsmith and the Nightwather's Bondsmith sometimes had relationships..."

So it seems the Nightwatcher is locked in, but the WoB only says there was three Bondsmiths at a time, historically. That does not mean there wasn't a fourth able to bond. Perhaps this was because Mishram wouldn't bond with the humans.

Oh yeah, there's got to be a lot more that Kel has done. It seems to me he created, or told someone else how to create, the 'Bands of Mourning'. 

Goodness this changes everything about what I thought Kel was up to and could do. I though he was only working 'through' Marsh, now we know he was probably the one that convinced Spook to write the book. I wonder where he is during Era 2.