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Others already covered Miles' case but Praxton was always strong like that...Simply in that case he didn't follow the Sandmasers' failsafe because he was about to die anyway

I really doubt Autonomy left Taldain. For the Arcanists the presence of a Shard is somehow quite easy to detect so Khriss would know this....She would not say something like "isolation policy" if the Shard is simply gone.

The two main theories about the Cognitive's Sun are the Beyond and the Spiritual Realm for now. I think it's the Spiritual Realm for some reasons related mainly to Secret History but we have no actual proofs. Some of the "clues" for the Sun=Beyond could be really meaningless as we don't know how the Realms' transictions actually work.

People on Nalthis has usually at least a single Breath, so they have an advantage on notice the Biocromatic Aura. So in a world of "drab" it's harder to spot a Biocromatic Aura. Add to this the not really colorful envirorment of the Shattered Plains and the cloth both Vasher and Wit use on Roshar. For someone without a specific knowledge it's hard as hell to spot something wrong.

As other said Vasher could suppress his Divine Breath. You may notice how in the prologue he mentioned that he could reach the fifth heightening in every moment if he want, also Denth too is a Returned and He manage to suppress his Divine Breath in the same way Vasher does.

We don't even know when TLR started to produce Inquisitors or if he managed to equip them with decayed spikes in the early days or how strong a "double Lerasium" Inquisitor would be in comparison with TLR. The Durallumin isn't real an indication of something

Maybe I remember wrong but I as far as I remember Inquisitors had usually one spike for power. The Legends about Inquisitors's superior power were born by the Mistborn-born ones and their roughtly double power (a little below the Lerasium Mistborn) We saw noone (except Rashek) with a Allomantic Power beyond a Lerasium Mistborn. If the Inquisitor's Spikes set was made of double Spikes there would be Inquisitor stronger than a Lerasium Mistborn in TFE

We know there are multiple Elantrians Worldhopper after the Elantris' restoration... Galladon could be not the only Elantrian in the 17th Shard. Sel was the most Realmatic aware before the Reod, if the current Elantrian recovered that informations, it's easy to understand how they could have multiple contact with Cosmere wide organizations like the Shard. There could be a exchange policy between organizations both with knowledge and agents

A Shard could indeed cut off part of his own power (but I hardly could imagine a scenario where he want to do it). Cutting part of the intent is not possible under normal cases. Every bit of Investiture is bounded to the Intent so unless you drop the Shard you could not cut off the Intent. Sure special beings, like Harmony could do this, but only because he is exposed to multiple intents. So he could cut off a part of Ruin/Preservation to regulate his Intent. This is not a praticable way for a normal Shard as his monolithic Intent will be not altered....Remove a glass of Intent from an Ocean does quite nothing. This is the reason Ruin didn't become less Ruinos with part of his power stolen

Yeah often my english is a bit weird. Indeed you may have right about the Vessels' physical body. We know too little to try to understand this with a good precision. My interpretation works with the multiple descriptions of the stress the Investiture places upon the physical body, but other explainations are indeed valid

I could not find the exact wording but it's a @Ironeyes 's WoB ( I hope he could link the right post with the proper wording) for now: Regard your last post, with the exception of something cut off from the Shard (for example Ruin's stolen power) if a Shard manifest some part of himself (the Lerasium, the Mist, the Well,ecc...) those thing are still part of himself, he lose no power to making them. Sure upon use they will not be avaliable for a while but they will return to the Shard. You may find a WoB about the Spren and how they were still part of Honor while he was alive, his power was not reduced from them.

The Pits still have all the Ruin's Investiture also if they was not producing Atium. Kelsier only destroyes the release valve for a while, but the Ruin's stolen Investiture was still stack in the Pits. while I think the Harmonium is also unbalanced toward Ruin, this is not the reason it's is unstable. Brandon stated the Harmonium is unstable because it's a single substance with the association with both Ruin and Preservation (rather for example to an alloy Lerasium-Atium where everypart is just associate with a single Shard) and this conflictual natura gives to the Harmonium his unstable proprierties. The Harmonium explode when it lose the association with the Shards (one or with both...we don't know) and this lost is released in the physical as energy. (There is a WoB on this matter).

@Steelheart indeed you understimate the impact a single Twinborn could have in The Final Empire. For now I will ignore the fact that at that time Lerasium Mistborn and Full Feruchemist were a thing and their interbreed could give birth to something more powerful than the Twinborns we know...It's a factor but not so relevant. A single Twinborn among TFE will mean that a guy could have both Feruchemy and Allomancy, a single Compounder in TFE will mean that a guy could access almost infinite power "simply" with magic interactions (notice it is meaningless if this Compounder has a quite useless attribute, it's the concept that matters). The whole TLR's Goodhood will fall apart in a short amount of time. He could be the stronger and mightier being on Scadrial...But it's a man not a god, the people will know, his influence strongly reduced...and plans to research and put in places ways to kill him, will spawn like fungi. The interbreed of Feruchemy and Allomancy wasn't a treat to his empire because a super human would actually challenge him, but because a twinborn will mine the fondation of his power and influence. PS: Notice also that without removing the old Feruchemists, it would be impossible to hide the other metals....The Mistborn's supremacy would be mined too with Nicrobuster, Leecher, sliders and pulser around (and of course with Alluminium weapon)

I always saw the "body destruction" someone experience when someone Ascend more like if the Shard's investiture infused it with so much power to go beyond the natural Investiture limit in an object (and it's not really hard to imagine with that Magnitude of Investiture) and the body is simply still there...spread among the Shard's Investiture. If this interpretation is right, a Vessel would need to Invest so much of his power to make his body "re-spawn" but we don't even know if this is even possible without give up the Shard itself (it was one of my Question for brandon if I have the chance to ask it to him)

Actually I don't understand. As far as we know be a Sliver doesn't give anything to the Sliver himself (at least while the Sliver is alive)

Maybe Frost is simply not in a situation where nobody could harm him...so he is really 100% immortal. Maybe his policy made him lock himself away in some remote place

Yeah that is an istance where the human strenght can't be enough (well maybe with Hysterical strenght but I find unlikely). Probably Nightblood needs a decent Bond with the Holder to boost him/her. So it could boost Vasher regardless of be drawn or not as He could boost the "possessed guys" but a random holder of a covered Nightblood will not get the boost.

@hwiles I agree with almost everything you wrote. But I had the impression that Nightblood gives a boost to his holder while He holds It (Also with his cover in) as the damage Nightblood could produce is incredibile High of an edgeless weapon (also with the increased Weight).

Maybe they Will Simply overload the Lifeless with more Breath before the Battle. Sure this will destroy a theory of mine, but I could afford this :S

They are two names for the same concept/being: If I don't remember wrong there is a WoB (or in the Annotations) somewhere about what the people refer when they say "God Beyond". It's more a philosophical thing, like referring to an actual natural god and not to a mortal with divine powers (like the Shards are).

Honestly I don't know, but a single Elantrian could provide Almost everything to every kind of agenda. If the Skaze were planning to craft an Ally Elantrian, the try to destroy all' he oher actual and potential Elantrians could be a try to gain the supremancy over the AonDor. Of course the idea has some great problem

The Soul is perfectly sticky to the Humans too but Nightblood could feed of It. I was a fan of this idea months ago but as change Intent to the Investiture is something extremely hard for Shard-level being. I think It's unlikely. The problem here is that as far as we know maybe Nightblood never (directly) killed Someone. So the Soul's theory could be possible but high speculative.

I don't think this would be an issue. If (very likely but unsure) a Trueself could tap from another Trueself's Metalminds. You will be able to allow Investiture Interference blanking your Identity. Sure yet I don't think you Will be able to burn Nightblood easly for the amount of Investiture It has

Well becoming an Elantrian would gift Hoid with an Infinite High plasmabile amount of Investiture. Both if Hoid Simply Need some DnD's Investiture or He Need tons of Energy for something specific...Becoming an Elantrian would solve both. He also managed to gather something that would grant him more flexibility over Selish magics

@FiveLate Indeed to me your quotes don't mean a lot. The Nightblood's cutting ability could or not be related to draining the victim's soul. For now I see the holder's Investiture be used to performe Nightblood's cuts (but could be wrong). The fact Vasher doesn't recive a less draining effect while a lot of enemier are slain. This to me is a clue aganist the victim's drain....but the enemies are destroyed so the Nightblood's ability was working.