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so my current impression is this: If the Dakhor bones are providing some passive benefit, like enhanced healing or strength, then the spiking that attribute from them should include the enhanced version as well - without twisting your won bones. it is stealing the strength/healing/speed/etc and it doesn't care how much is there or why it is higher than normal. that is based on this WoB about what happens if you spike someone who stamped themselves: now for spiking a power out, that is a bit trickier. because I THINK the way that Dakhor powers work is that the twisted bone acts similarly to an Aon. so it doesn't give you the power to teleport or whatever, it just gives you a built in rune that you can activate with existing Dakhor powers. so to get that you would need to spike out the ability to use Dakhor powers, and spike out connection to the right location if you didnt already have it, and the twist your own bones. but I could be mistaken about that, its a bit more speculative; I am pretty confident about the first part

possibly you are right. I always read it as being able to steal anything at all, but the WoB you list does seem to imply that it is specific to powers. on the other hand this WoB, https://wob.coppermind.net/events/202-barnes-and-noble-book-club-qa/#e5971 says "Think of it as a wild card. With the right knowledge, you could use it to mimic any other spike. It works far better than other spikes as well." which is more in line with my original interpretation.

I had considered all this, but even if the vessel's body isn't destroyed, per se, I think we can agree that something weird is happening there. because the body definitely disappears from the physical realm in all 3 cases we have seen of a living person picking up a shard. and since part of the point of the bond was allowing the spren sapience/power/form in the physical realm it seems like that could (but doesn't necessarily have to) complicate things. this is along the lines of what I was envisioning. this and/or imbuing the spren with more raw power, so potentially powering up a regular radiant spren to the level of something like the Stormfather. but also, do the enlightened truthwatcher spren have the same oaths as regular truthwatcher spren? it doesn't seem like they would have to - if they are now fundamentally different from what they used to be, there is no reason that they would have to have the same oaths, but tat the same time, the only other case we have of multiple different spren for the same order, the Bondsmiths, do seem to have the same oaths so maybe they would

yep, also things like: 1. if picking up the shard destroys the vessels physical body, would that have an affect on the spren bond? would it behave like when the KR dies, or would it be different? 2. the nahel bond isn't one way. if a KR picked up a shard, would some of that power flow across it to the spren? what would that do to the spren? would influx of investiture from a different shard be enough to alter the nature of the KR oaths?

spren are not generally cognitive shadows. the Stormfather is, but most are not. as to your questions: 1. just like matter and energy can be transformed into one another IRL, investiture can be converted to matter and/or energy. godmetals, such as Atium, Lerasium, Trellium, Harmonium/Sazdium and yes Shardblades and, presumably, shardplate are basically just investiture that has been converted into solid matter. 2. probably something, but we don't know precisely what. there would likely be some kin of allomantic effect, and also it would probably not be pleasant for the spren to have part of itself burned that way. but without having seen this happen we don't know what the result would be.

By "Fragment" do you mean Shard? if so I doubt an individual would be able to trap one like that, and even if they somehow could, or perhaps came across one, like Ruin, already trapped I doubt their "body" would be physical enough for Hemalurgy to affect it.

I doubt that would quite work. it may be possible for the collective imaginations of the various sapient species on Roshar to create a Nightwatcher or Stormfather level being - maybe even something on the level of a shard, if they can all sort of focus on one thing long enough to pull most of Honor's investiture back together - but there is just not enough investiture in the system for them to create something at Adonalsium's level.

1. probably: Hemalurgy is pretty versatile, an Atium spike in particular, so transferring investiture or connection or both should be doable. 2. hard to say. investiture resists investiture so it may nt be possible for a spren to bond to a Shard. moreover it isn't like there would be any benefit to the shard for doing that, they are almost infinitely more powerful than a spren alrady 3. no reason they wouldnt be able to in theory, as long as they were compatible with the shard in question, but as to what happens to the spren, it is hard to guess. depending on the mechanics of the bond it could go any number of ways, some of which could be benign, others of which could be potentially harmful.

i've replayed A Link Between Worlds a few times, even though I consider it a middling title.

depends on the game. i've played Link's Awakening like a dozen times and it never gets old, but on my 2nd playthrough of BotW right now and the exploration/discovery aspect is drastically scaled back because I have seen it all before, which is making it more of a drag than it was the first time through.

fair enough. that would have to go back to Brandon. Star clusters definitely can have thousands of stars, but he hasn't described the Cosmere that way, so he'd either have to revise his descriptions or else those stars would have to exist outside the cluster, at which point, as you say, there are further questions

A couple of things: 1. storing/tapping is additive, not multiplicative. this is easiest to demonstrate with Iron/Mass since the units make more sense: if you have a mass of 60 Kg and you store 1/2 your mass for 1 hour, then for that hour you have an effective mass of 30 Kg. if you then tapped that you would not have double mass for an hour, you would have 1.5x mass for an hour (regular mass + the 1/2 mass you stored) so 90 Kg. 2. moving from that, then, the most you can store of an attribute would be 100%; and storing 100% for a second would let you tap 100% and double whichever attribute for 1 second. there is no such thing as storing an infinite or near infinite amount as you approach 100%. 3. however even that theoretical limit of 100% isn't truly achievable for most attributes. in a lot of cases storing 100% of an attribute for any length of time would result in death. 4. and finally - there are diminishing returns on over-tapping (Brandon originally has Sazed call it compounding in era 1, but that term has since come to mean something else, so i'm going to call the act of tapping a lot of an attribute in a short burst over-tapping since I don't see an existing term for it). to go back to that mass example if you stored 30 Kg for 1 hr you could tap 30 Kg for 1 hour or you could tap 60 Kg for maybe 25 minutes - strictly less than the 1/2 hour you would expect. so while there is an actual multiplicative aspect here, the more you try to tap at once, the more of it gets wasted on the extra expenditure to do that over-tapping and the shorter the burs of extra attribute gets.

so doing a quick bit of astronomy research (read: scanning wikipedia), it looks like star clusters can/usually are part of galaxies. for example the Pleiades is a star cluster inside the Milky Way galaxy. notably, the Pleiades is visible from Earth, though we are not part of it, all of which is to say that the rest of the stars and such outside of the Cosmere cluster should be visible much the way other stars in our galaxy are visible to us.

potentially, yes, it could. if you somehow had someone with access to nicrosil ferruchemy and surgebinding, they could store their ability to use surgebinding - though the exact details of what that would look like aren't 100% clear. also whoever tried to use it later would still need access to stormlight or some other form of investiture in order to fuel the surgebinding.

Maybe we will see a bit more in the next Mistborn book. the previous ones have introduced both Et-metal (pretty sure this has been confirmed as Harmonium/Sazedium, but not double checking right now) and Trellium (demonstrated to have some Hemalurgic property). so it's entirely plausible that someone will burn one or both

Returned mostly covered it, but a couple additional bits: 2. there are dogs in Mistborn, including a very notable case in book 2. 3. the metal that repels the shades in Shadows for Silence is silver, not gold 5. i'd guess it would be easier for a fused in a singer body to leave the roshar/ashyn/braise system than for a herald to do so. 7. it's not clear. shards are capable of leaving, but the process of doing so involves taking all or most of their investiture with them. this would almost certainly change/reduce the magic systems on a given world

yea, it's been a while since I read it but I hated the ending.

piggybacking on the recent discussion: I like Vin, in general, but her relationship with Elend never made any sense. or more particularly, the beginning of it didn't. its just too sudden. unrelated to tht: I'm not sure how many people have actually read the unpublished Aether of Night draft, but it is BAD. granted it hasn't gone through all the editing processes and so forth, so somewhat to be expected, but I think the only way to improve it would be a total rewrite. I don't think the draft, as written, is salvageable.

To be clear on what oath they learn things at: Skybreakers specifically do learn Gravitation before Division. Nalan explains that to Szeth during his testing - I want to say that get Division after the second oath, but I would need to double check that. for the rest - Kaladin was doing both his surges on the first oath, so at the very least there is no oath-based barrier for that. We see the same or Lift, doing both progression and friction on oath 1. We mostly have Shallan as an example for Lightweavers, but she is very much a special case.

It mostly seems like it should work. the biggest issue I see is that you would leave a bunch of knights without their blades and/or have a suit of armor that could disappear at a moment's notice if the spren felt their knight was in particular trouble. I also doubt it would provide the strength benefits of shardplate, though you could probably wear it as a layer over top of regular shardplate for that

Earthsea is excellent, especially the first 3 books, and should all be well within PG 13. His Dark Materials is good as well, and probably remains within PG 13, though it has been a little bit since I last read it. I highly recommend both.

why do you think they wouldn't be able to burn it? they can burn erasium and atium, and those are both very invested see WOB: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/402/#e13315

the damaged master sword and floating islands are both super reminiscent of Skyward Sword, so I think there is definitely a connection. and like I said, this is only even a slight concern to me because Skyward Sword is one of my least favorite zelda games - for a variety of reasons many of which could not be repeated fr BotW2 anyway. overall I don't think there is really any worry that that influence will pervasive enough be a problem for me, but I can't shake a tiny worm of doubt.

maybe, but it might also be bringing back Fi. I'm not really too worried - one of my bigger issues with Skyward Sword had to do with design choices (I hated the design for the 3 dragons, for instance). BotW 1 was already wildly better about that, so as long as they don't go backwards I think it should be OK.

A lot of it looks good, but the broken sword actually worries me. Skyward Sword was one of my least favorite entries, and that clip with the sword reminds me heavily of Skyward Sword. Still probably worth getting Switch for (well this and other things - this just pushes it over the edge).