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It may add this strenght into the spiritweb the conseguences may be many. Probably there would be a couple of Bindspot to made a "better koloss" but usually you will make a mess...The conseguences of Human Attribute in a spirit web may be really go further, it's possible also that the Koloss would die for too many Hemalurgic Innests (we know the Inquisitors need a specific structure to avoid that)

I don't see any reason to this to not works....We actually see it the whole time with the Lifeless, probably you have to spend a lot more of Breath to awaken a single chopped part, but it would probably work. I honestly doubt it, I can't exactly explain why...but a Lifeless is something without Soul, the Hemalurgy work adding and removing piece of soul to an existent one. Therefore it's probably impossible. Remember also that an hypotetical Allomancer Lifeless, would probably be uncapable of understanding how to use his power. I really doubt it is possible, but here I have no idea. Much more I don't see an actual gain in a Lifeless with a Shardblade. It would be a lesser Shardbearer than a living one with the risk of losing your Shards but if you want you may borrow a Shardblade to a lifeless and send him in the fight. It would be the same things. No idea at all

I think you may potentially awaken whatever you want...but probably it's a matter of Cognitive Aspect of the blood. You may end to have your breath to awaken a single drop of blood or maybe the whole pool. I think something with a not fixed form have a too variable Cognitive Aspect to be a realiable subject to awakening...but as far as I remember there is not any WoB aganist your Idea EDIT: I am just remembering a WoB about awakening mercury to build a T-1000 lifeless, but I can't remember the answer...I will try to find it

I want just to add something to the already great answer of @Spoolofwhool. First of all, F-gold may heal the Soul and the Hemalurgy damage (But honestly I think you will need a hellish tons of Feruchemical Charge). But we don't know if this may actually help to survive to the Hemalurgy is first place. Then we have the problem that when you are Spiked your remain soul is probably too different from the initial one to access your previous made Metalminds (this may be overcomed with some tricks...but that tricks are not avaliable in TFE). There are another problem, if you give to someone a F-gold power to Spike out from him multiple things. You give him also the tool to suicide in a fast way....it may be a risk. Lastly but it's about the Multiple Spiking without Healing, I am honestly unsure a victim may survive to a couple of Spiking.

I am strongly aganist the idea of Elantrian as Cognitive Shadows First of all a Cognitive Shadow is (as others said before) a being with his Soul be replaced (or mimic) by Investiture...This mean that their actual Souls are probably gone (remember Brandon itself refer to the cognitive shadow ghost). The case of a Returned may be strange with this definition, but we know that a Drab can't return this mean that we could speculate that a person's Breath (investute we see that may easly carry the Cognitive and be used to create a Sentience being) keeps a strong imprinting of the last owner when He dies and may became a Cognitive Shadow.Then Endowment comes and offer to the newly Cognitive Shadow the chance to actual Return with a Divine Breath (a Splinter) that actually works as ties to the physical realm for the dead body. Notice also that a Cognitive Shadow isn't naturally a physical being, it took a quite amount of power to keep a Returned sticky to his body and I think that when we will discover how Kelsier come back to the physical, He also would need a costant stack of Investiture to mantain (but with the metallic arts isn't really a problem). Instead we see Elantrian in two istances and a couple of WoB as quite indipendent from the Dor, they simply lose the benefit of their Elantrian-Status no problems. Lastly we see (a couple of istances) of Elantrian who may quite easly reproduce without problem, this is something we never see with other Cognitive Shadows (but here we have only the Returneds as comparative). I would call the Elantrian simply a Investiture-powered User not dissimilar from a Dahkor monk or an Allomancer always burning.

Those are indeed risks, but probably you may overcome that with Emotional Allomancy to point them in the right path of action. I admit that the main candidates remain Scadrial's people but I am not yet sure of it.

I don't think that the Divine Breath "merged" with the Shadow (as "they are a unique being now") but more that the Divine Breath is simply bonded with the Cognitive Shadow and works as tie to the physical realm. We see the Returned may give it away quite easily. I don't think Stormfather may be divided without some serious effort. In the end I see the Returned as "anti-radiant". If a RK the Human works as anchor to the Splinter in the Physical Realm, in a Returned the Splinter works as anchor to the Human-like being in the physical realm

Notice that in that case Shallan project herself into the Cognitive, but not fully. She didn't actual travel across the realms

The only thing aganist Kandra as "dead man" is about Harmony's politics...but centuries as passed (maybe thousand of years) it's possible the Scadrial's politics is changed

I will be honest, I like it a lot BUT Brandon didn't planned the novella and in book 3, Nale is already on the "Desolation is here" so I find unlikely. In the original Brandon's plan we don't see on screen Nale's realization of the Voidbringers' return and this is the reason he exploited the Novella to show us

As far as I know, the covers are among to the last things to work on, so probably we will see it, just some months before the release

We recently discovered that D&D's murder is almost soon after the Shattering (relative speaking), so probably neither of the Shards were really skilled with their own powers...Rayse may have found a way to prevent an Ascension and the self-awareness of a Shard (locking D&D's power in the Cognitive) but maybe it was not a perfect plan. I really doubt He would really predict his sealing for at least 5000 years in the Roshar's System, maybe He originally wanted to return periodically on Sel (or other place) to prevent the Splintered power from do something aganist his own agenda.

I am with @Bugsy6912 here. Be broken or magic user alone is usually a pretty stable condition and the offspring will not have any kind of problem (He cited the Hemalurgist, but I actually think that unless you are twisted to be no more human, your child woul be fine). The problem arise when someone is so twisted to be leterally "not human" (or to be more precise, "too far from the original race") and probably the Interbreed may have everykind of oddity with them (but He has not to be, as we see on Roshar with Listener-Human hybrids)

As you may read the first draft of Oathbringer is done

Wow...It seems that my idea was quite right after all, good to know

So I becomed a Cryptic...Destroyer of truth

this is interesting, of course it's a completely different scale...but it's interesting as possibility with relative small Investiture. This may tell us more about Worldhopping's options with other magic Systems

Yes we read it quite in opposite ways...Anyway I will point you to the fact that whatever a Gemheart is gathered, nobody ask what kind of polestone is (and in every explicit mention of the Chasmfield's gemhearts they are always emeralds)

I read it, and I honestly I can't add more than what I already said in that post. There I said that probably it's some kind of part of the Oathpath to allow the Voidbringer to start a Desolation and the Desolation was a real problem already before the KR's birth. The only thing I could say...it's that maybe a tons of KR "are equals" to the Oathpath to at least one fully operational Herald...and we know that if the Heralds didn't return to the Damnation, a new Desolations would start (for "fully operational Heralds" I refer to Heralds with their Honorblade and that obey to whatever their duty was)...but it's just a speculations of mine

Also the girl in White Sand ? I think he was only about SA's Charts

Actually was my idea too, but I don't remember the reasons I discharged (probably some other Sharder with a good explaination)

It's possible but they may also have built Silverlight in a place relative close to many Perpendicularities without having one on their zone. Silverlight is already in the Cognitive Realm, therefore they only need to walk (or use better method) to reach almost all the rest of the Cosmere's CR

I have an answer to this, I asked this months ago to Brandon (here the relevant topic): So a GemHeart may be every kind of Polestones, certain species of GreatShell may have a variable Polestone as Gemheart, other (as Chasmfields) have a fixed one (Emeralds)

It's the Listener's name for the Stormfather (it comes from one of Eshonai's PoV)...it seems his ancient name. Many (me included) prefer to use that name to refer to the Stormfather before He merged with Tanavast's Shadow, to avoid confusion to write everytime "stormfather before the merging with Tanavast's Cognitive Shadow".

@Argent you probably destroyed my idea of Highstorm