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Put them in a slow time bubble and wait. Within the bubble Nightblood consumes investiture at regular pace but outside its over in seconds.

True, but the waves are heard in the Cognitive which means that r=/0 for all r except at the Knell

I think that the Lightweaving itself is an Investiture construct. The Investiture in that construct emits light much like an electrical spark does. It is possible as well that the Investiture absorbs incoming light and radiates it on a different wavelength.

Don't sell Lift short here. A lot of the reasoning is based on speed/strength amplification. This does little good if you are anchored to the planet like Ishar did to the Windrunners. Bondsmith powers on general seem very powerful. Ishar tried to take Dalinar's connection to the Stormfather. Could Lift do something similar with Rashek's metal minds? In addition she could summon a perpendicularity to provide additional Light (maybe Lifelight).

Let's see...we know Preservation grants Allomancy, Virtuosity's Splinters respond to artistic skill and intent, Endowment grants Breaths for Awakening, Odium grants Voidlight, Cultivation grants Lifelight through a Nahel bond, the Dor is location-based and has like a hundred systems, and who knows what Autonomy does. Whatever she wants, I guess. We know a minimal amount about Invention from IoE, and nothing at all of Mercy, Valor (unless she is involved in Adolin's WaT story), Whimsy, or Reason. Ambition is a bizarre case that seems from what we have seen to lack a proper MoI.

Odium can 100% grant Adhesion. We see this with Yelig-nar, where Amaram can use Adhesion after bonding with the Unmade. Since Yelig-nar is a Splinter of Odium, by extension Odium can grant it as well.

Another alternative explanation is that the "two giants" are two large societies, where one chased him into the other's territory and he escaped when the second attacked the first.

It was interesting to me that the Dakwara was Anti-Investiture from Ambition. We saw this in another case involving Odium fighting with a Shard. Interestingly, Ambition was shattered early on, while Honor was assumedly the last shard Odium fought with. This is not an innate response to mixing Investiture, since Towerlight does not cause an anti-Light reaction. Nor did we see this with the formation of Harmony. Is this something specific to Odium? Doubtful since other anti-Lights were made by a Bondsmith drawing on Honor and Cultivation. Is this Odium's way of Shattering other shards? What does this mean for the Dor? Is the Dor equivalent to the power of Dominion and Devotion? Or is there some lessening of power due to Light/Anti-light reactions? Why were the Splinters of Ambition left all Anti-Light? On another note, it was also interesting that the Evil on Threnody was the result of mixing hatred and ambition.

I think the difference is best explained by a car analogy. Tolkien is like the 1965 Mustang, where Sanderson is like a 2025 Porsche Carrera. Is the Porsche better in mechanical aspects? Mostly yes. Is it better engineered? Yes. But there would be none of these advances without the originator. Some people appreciate the classics, some prefer a newer car. Just a matter of taste.

Pretty sure this was tongue in cheek.

I had an epiphany today going through the Death Rattles. Many have a very clear interpretation, and these are pretty obvious in hindsight. But there is one that still does not quite fit: "Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns." This really does not fit Todium without a lot of mental gymnastics. The clue, I think, is in the bit about the fourth moon. Tanavast describes it as "in splinters", or broken. Also, remember the prophecy from the lighthouse keeper: They’ll come with Light in their pockets. They’ll come to destroy, but you should watch for them anyway. Because they’ll come from the Origin. The sailors lost on an infinite sea. This all aligns with the fourth shard at the Origin theory, where at the end of Era 2 the fourth shard, from the broken moon, will reign over Roshar.

There is the "dissident group" mentioned in WaT. But how are they powering their abilities?

What is everyone looking forward to in the second arc? I am very much looking forward to Odium unleashing his wannabe Blackthorn on Roshar, thinking it is the mightiest warrior. Then he meets Taln.

I thought this was Szeth. My thought was that he became a Herald rather than Kaladin; I did not expect Kaladin to live.

121 is 11^2 or KK. Now I'm picturing Nale bonding the spren version of Kim Kardashian.

I LOVED the last Kaladin chapter. Sets up so much for the second arc, and fit his character so well. Taravangian has no idea what is going to be coming his way!

Stories I would like to see: -first trapper visits Patji -Vasher and Shashara research and create Nightblood -The founding of the Iriali -Khriss leaving Taldain for Silverlight -Ceration and activation of the Father Machine

Bondsmith. Imagine being able to tell an Awakened weapon, "kill your target" and then using Connection to define the target. Or an Awakened computer that used Connection to be readable to anyone in the Cosmere.

I think it was a vial of metals. My question is, if so, how did he open Honor's path? That was made specifically clear. I wonder if Cusicech is a construct designed to absorb a tiny amount of Investiture from everyone who sees him every day. Once he has enough Investiture from the local system, he then opens a portal to move the Iriali using that Investiture.

A nice, modern kitchen and the chance to prepare a plate of Taravangian Tartare for Ashe.

New relevant WoB: Seems that yellow was never part of the picture.

Look up the Lake Toba event. Humanity was reduced to 70,000 individuals. Is that apocalyptic enough for you?

I think that the Shroud and Nightmares shed some light on what may have happened on Threnody. In both places, Shadows (shades/nightmares) appear black and inky. They also tend to attack one victim initially. On both planets they are formed when someone dies in a particular way. On Threnody it was by ritual (per Nazh), while on Yumis world it was by getting your Spiritual aspect sucked out by a machine. On both planets a Shard suffered a mortal wound. On both planets there were a small group of survivors. What does this suggest about Threnody?

Yumi was a Splinter of Virtuosity. I suspect she was able to access a large chunk of Virtuosity's Investiture to help Painter reincarnate herself. Also, being a Splinter of Virtuosity, the machine could not strip her Investiture away. I would argue that the others she perceived in her reality were Cognitive Shadows, aligned with the Shades from Threnody.

From the WoBs cited there seems to be an argument that Nightblood's steel was converted into a God metal-like element. Harmonium is like super cesium. Could it be that the secret to Nightblood's sentience comes from Investiture being stuffed into its atoms to make a super steel?