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The problem with gold feruchemy being that as far as physical bodies work, conscious thought is logically connected to the head, so the body being able to tap at all with no head would be bizarre compared to making the head grow a body. Reconnecting a severed head should be simple though, but you'll probably have to do it mid-severing before your head comes clean off.

Well, they were untouched the first time and somehow didn't burn to death or die from breathing ash or anything. Harmony could've figured they'd be fine as a population for all we know. Sure, civilization would likely crumble and most of them dead. But hey, nothing new for them after the first orbital shift.

Doesn't ettmetal actually deplete somewhat though? I was under the impression that it did. Also, using metallic arts as the basis of technology, while allowing for many otherwise difficult or impossible feats, would make you more reliant on metal production and supply than industry based on natural sciences (which still uses absurd amounts of course, but your vehicles won't stop running because the local iron mine went dry while electricity and gas would carry on fine). Actually, past a certain point of development, wouldn't their metal industry need more metal itself to use even more metallic arts to mine metal fast enough to keep up? They probably use more than the north by a significant margin. Where ettmetal comes from notwithstanding.

Splinters aren't the easiest thing to clean up, especially with Sel where they've apparently gone sapient. Two differently aligned groups no less. On that note, investiture masses resists each other's influence unless there is just so much of it in one place (e.g. Preservation and Ruin) that you can forcefully fuse them with brute force. And even then the original aspects that made up the new whole seem to persist; Harmony is driven to both destroy and preserve, his name is more philosophical than anything. It might not actually be possible to get Dominion back in its original state.

Should he have? He's been handholding the north too much as is, plus their adaptations were natural and not due to shardic meddling. Sure, it kind of sucks to be them, but look at where that desperation for progress brought them afterwards? With some meddling from a certain guy, but nothing on the scale of population-wide genetic engineering.

As far as we know (which admitted may not be accurate to Mistborn Era 2 timeframe as Elantris is really far back) should Dominion not still be splintered into pieces?

Well everything seems to be 10 or multiples of 10 around these parts, and I highly doubt you can fit 20 gas giants in here . . .

The temporary connection is somewhat of a given (it does have to be bonded after all) but where is the stormlight to go with no gaps? Allomancy's required connection to Preservation are something one is born with, but until the damage has been sustained it is largely useless. The spren probably sits there in the gap for surgebinders, but without the space I'm not sure anything can pass through the spiritweb to reach it at all . . . brokenness and these sorts of external investiture influxes seem to go hand in hand.

Well, I was under the impression that the intents were only what they were because of the vessels that shattered Adonalsium being who they were . . . there are many ways to break an object into equally sized pieces after all. But on the point, I'm sure once you somehow "contaminate" investiture with a shard's intent it would basically be theirs. The Rider of Storms seems to predate the settlement of humans on Roshar, which if religion is at all correct on the matter is caused by shardic intervention.

Is it also possible that this was ages ago and Wyndle only remembers him because Lift has told this story at some point?

Well, Nightblood does seem suspect. It slightly makes sense a shardblade constructed using magic associated with color (truthfully even the cognitive realm there seems to just look like a storm of color) would cause weird image artifacts in the cognitive. Especially when he's apparently not functioning properly as a blade.

Well, I've always wondered really. Nahel bonds require a broken spiritweb in part due to needing a gap to feed the investiture through. But apparently an honorblade can grant surgebinding to anyone. Would that not necessitate the blade breaking its owner's spirit itself by force? One of the suspected heralds at the party said that they "were not supposed to get worse" so it would seem that there is definitely something in their job description that would normally pose a problem but didn't for them (but it now does).

The actual term is Age actually if memory serves. Which is the exact opposite of what it stores (it functionally stores youthfulness as has been observed) . . . funny thing, atium.

Well he wouldn't have gone for a plan necessitating the assassination of Dalinar if the alternative wasn't infinitely worse . . .

Does anyone have an image of the actual orbits? I keep wanting to check back on it but I can't carry a hardcover out of the house too easily . . .

Well, not if your spiritual aging has stopped. We should probably ask if temporal age (how long you have been alive) and "extent of aging" are the same quantity in the spiritweb.

I had assumed so as well. Syl seemed to pinpoint the honorblade as the source of Szeth's surges fine, but not quite what the blade was and why it could do so, at least not at first. Perhaps being an honorspren, and closer to the Stormfather than Wyndle likely was, she may have been more knowledgeable about honorblades than cultivationspren would be. Plus she seems to have prior experience under other surgebinders.

So . . . TLR would have aged post-mortem if he died normally, but dead vessels don't have this problem . . . couple that with heightenings and "shades of deity". So by my current interpretations, biological aging is a thing specific to the souls of living beings (the ones that we know can age, anyway. Some things honestly don't . . .), and investiture directly attached to the person/creature in certain ways (like a Shard or breaths would be) can somehow make you less "human", thereby stopping the process of aging without changing the fact that you are [X amount of time] old just by obvious reference to your birth date that is almost certainly in your soul too. So if there was some way to change your soul to the point that you're not really a normal life form anymore, would it be possible to lose the aging problem outright? I vaguely recall Hoid having been described as not quite being human anymore, though he definitely used to be.

Aside from starlight itself (the more obvious light source), indirect sunlight scattering can also illuminate to some extent just after twilight, and ignoring all of that you still have airglow (though not too much).

Would certainly suggest some surprisingly diverse morphology for Cultivationspren if that were the case, but the likelihood is also rather high now . . . perhaps they mirror what they cultivated in Shadesmar? They can't all be gardeners right?

(wow, haven't posted in months. Real life is busy this year . . .) If it turns out that way, it's somehow poetic that there is a giant light source facing Dayside and a black hole on the other . . .

The Rosharan "species" of human does not seem to be native (the Listeners definitely act like humans just showed up and the spren went to them instead) and the world of origin for the Ten Heralds has never been confirmed nor denied. Plus the very legend behind their presence on Roshar was that they were kicked out of somewhere else. Aluminum could very definitely have been a known material even without any natural supply.

If people can find issue with each other in real life based solely on darker skin, then I think Roshar being less than pleased by the presence of blue non-human people who can change the color pattern of their skin at will and have shadows pointing in the wrong direction.

Plus they take her word for it despite how much of a flimsy connection is behind her theory (and no decisive evidence), so perhaps she does this sort of thing often and is usually right? Definitely strange.

Then everything we know has been a lie? The spren population has been acknowledged to have increased noticeably since the old days. And other than the appearance of seons and skaze nobody on Sel even remotely expressed any historical knowledge of the death of two shards whatsoever. The spren don't even gain physical like seons do outside of nahel bonds, so I'm not sure how Roshar would even know.