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It sounds most like Taln to me, which makes sense considering he's one of the main characters for the back five.

Maybe after they realized the first few didn't work they kept doing it because they hated the idea of humans carrying dead spren around.

IIRC we haven't, but we did see Nalan use a regrowth fabrial on Szeth. Besides, we know that Kaladin can use stormlight to heal from shardblade wounds, it wouldn't make sense if the more powerful version of such couldn't.

THE PAIN

When you respond to people calling you a nerd with "And proud of it". Gotcha.

And the lightweaving hung around constantly for years making shady deals, beating up maids and ultimately killing Shallan's stepmom all on it's lonesome? Unlikely.

When you immediately recognize that the guy sitting next to you in class is wearing a SA shirt, and start a conversation with him about the cosmere. Edit: That depends. How much of a sanderfan are you?

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Except in order for something to be investiture like how it was as part of Adonlasium, it would have to contain intent from all of the shards. The energy analogy fails because it doesn't have any consideration for intent.

Also, this WoB seems to imply that the surges themselves are part of Roshar magic in general. If this is the case, then surgebinding Dalinar did wouldn't drive out Cultivation's influence. (Source)

Surgebinding seems to be a very 'mixed' system. I don't think it's correct to think of Honor's surgebinding in opposition to Cultivation's surgebinding. It's a cooperative system not a competitive one.

When she soulcast the goblet in WoK pattern asked what she was and she replied "I'm terrified"

WoB tells us that Shallan is one level ahead of Kaladin at the end of WoR. Not all orders get shardblades at the same level. (Source)

In the cosmere, would Einstein's relativity equations have to account for investiture as part of energy density?

Syl told us that it can't happen, but WoB says it just wasn't traditionally what happened. And as we know, tradition for it's own sake is unhelpful. I'll edit in a link to the WoB when I find it. Edit: (Source)

We don't know what it's guiding them to. My guess is that Odium hasn't taken control of the freeparsh because he wants to make use of all the potential hatred they've got, and he's using spren like the one we saw to organize them into something nefarious.

Well, light-yellow spren confirmed voidspren, Dalinar remembers his wife (related to becoming a KR?), Squires can capture, we feel some sympathy for the freeparsh, the queen of Iri hates Dalinar, and all our theories about the copycat go down the toilet. Good chapters.

When you only let people borrow you're Sanderson novels after making them promise that they won't let a single other soul touch them. Edit: And when you only allow that much because of your near-uncontrollable impulse to share such great books with others. Edit 2: And when you're on the shard late at night despite the fencing tournament you've got early tomorrow morning.

I wasn't attempting to imply that those orders were majority Machiavellian, or even significantly so. I was responding specifically to what I quoted you as saying. I really do not see the other oaths as being an artificial construct. If they were simply a formulated method of embracing the truespren, than why does the stormfather care so much about oaths? Why do the words just naturally pop into a Radiant's head? Why does Nale refer to "the greater power of oaths"? It seems pretty clear to me that the oaths are the result of Honor's influence. The diversity of the oaths form from order to order IMO reflects, to a certain degree, how cultivation/honor composed those spren are. The first Ideal appears different though. It's based off of the in-world WoK, instead of coming from the spren. The Radiants have to be told what it is instead of it instinctively coming to them. The other oaths are phrased as an "I will" statement,while the first Ideal is far more vague and philosophical. They just don't line up. I don't remember if any significant gains are made by Kaladin after thinking about the first Ideal, but even if that did happen we can't be sure that the first Ideal caused it. Kaladin had just became aware of what he was, and any progress can easily be contributed to that fact.

This certainly appears to be the case from the interpretations of those words that we've seen, but we have confirmation that a "Machiavellian" - the embodiment of an ends justifies means mentality - could join both the Skybreakers and the Elsecallers. My personal suspicion is that the first Ideal is just that - an ideal. Not an oath or something with any realmatic significance. (Source)

When 'Shalladin' is included in your computer's dictionary, as well as any number of other cosmere words and names.

I think this is definitely the right way to think of it. The listeners weren't originally of Odium. There is nothing inherently evil or antagonistic about them (even if you want to call Odium evil, which I don't). Things become void-something once they get co-opted by Odium. The stone isn't voidish before some spren animates it into a thunderclast, same thing applies to parshendi and whatever else can be bonded by voidspren.

Here's the question then. For those of you who think that Shallan and Adolin aren't sharing a real connection, do you think Shalladin is a possibility? Edit: I'm actually against it, I'm just wondering what people think.

You see, we take the limit of (f(x+h)-f(x))/h as h approaches zero . . .