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The thing that kind of scares me is we don't hear about any shard in any of these factions really. Some other 'factions' you might have missed. 17th Shard, Worldsingers, Ghostbloods, Ire, and the Iri.

I don't think it has to do with the Dawnshards. I think having a Dawnshard may make the process easier, but it isn't something unique to Dawnshards.

Ambition is my choice, I think it is easy for them to hop to one Ambition world to the next, and would make the shades easily convert the investiture.

Well it's possible he changed it but...

I do need to note that Nalthians contain more than the average human investiture. So you can't really equate a Nalthians to say a Scadrien.

Like how for radiant healing works(if you accepted an injury it can't be healed), I feel like Hoid has accepted his 'torment' and from what we have seen doesn't generally want to hurt people except in a few circumstances? So I don't think he could actually heal it unlike Sig did.

I have always personally headcannoned that he has a wierd divine breath that sucks out investiture out of people, and it is much more... Aggressive than normal Returned.

I honestly thought it was Ambition's. These people are from Threnodites, so it seems easy, if people escaped from Threndoy it probably is easier to get to another Ambition connected world, and the shades to be able to use the investiture of the world would make it a lot more simpler if it was just Ambition. If not you would have the Ambition shades converting a different type of investiture other than their own... Which isn't unheard of but I would bet against it I think.

I mean... Didn't the machine just consume people's souls?

I am not sure if it is the same planet, but I think Brandon Said Sunlight was the furthest that we have seen before or something?

I believe there was one about Devotion?

From what I understood, Ruin/Preservation only put so much power into the their power systems, so as more people are being born, more people are developing powers than before but weaker, more diluted.

I don't think Rayse had a huge plan, he seemed like he wanted to just somehow win in the duel. But Taravangian? He's going to have a plan. I think what he is going to do is make it a tie, the rules don't stipulate what happens in a tie. We had a whole Hoid chapter about how he won an unwinnable game by making it a tie, I think that is some foreshadowing. I would like Dalinar to not be his own champion, idk, it would just feel wierd if he chose himself. I would like him to pick Adolin, it would show that he thinks Adolin is good, and better than him. We have seen through this whole series how good of a duelist Adolin is. It would be good for it to come full circle and have him duel.

I don't see Odium about severing connections, that is thinking too black and white. I see Odium more about retaliation, but with internal emotion built into it. Odium didn't like that Elantris spoils , Honor and Cultivation broke a supposed pact(which I believe was they agreed that they would not put the shards back together, which being on the same world isn't really doing that, but it is why some could see it as so). But this gives reason/strength for Odium to go after them, it allows the shard and Rayse to try to splinter them. I believe this is why he could easily splinter D&D and Honor and why splintering Ambition was much harder, Odium's intent didn't match to splinter Ambition like it did the others. It was something that Rayse wanted, not the shard. On the Honor part, even Honor(I am guessing Tanavast in this case) didn't even teach the spren to do so. So you are somewhat right on that count.

I actually agree with you, Voidspren do exist. I think people are forgetting about this. Some people could argue that they are not spren and Rosharan's are bad at names, I disagree.