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I dunno, it seems likely just a coincidence of names. Kliss was more than she looked like but still didn't seem incredibly competent. She figured out House Renoux was up to something but was completely off-base about what.

By the end of WoR, there's evidence suggesting otherwise.

I don't believe we have specific confirmation. However, I think it's pretty well-founded from that epigraph. The Death Rattles are the only detectable effect of Moelach, who is particularly associated with precongition. Precognition is also the central ability of Voidbinding. So I think it's pretty likely that all of them are prophetic. We don't have any that verifiably refer to prior events, to my knowledge, while we've got several that have been matched up to subsequent events with a fair degree of confidence.

142 seconds is the longest by a good bit, and that's from the "I will not speak of the truths I see" one, which might not have been a Death Rattle but instead someone telling the Ardents they weren't getting one from him. We've also got one which may be connected to this one: Unfortunately, that isn't exactly very helpful.

I gather from some of the annotations and Sazed's message to Spook that she theoretically could have hung around, but instead she and Elend opted to head off into whatever the afterlife proper is in the Cosmere. Kelsier is too stubborn to die just because he's dead, so he's sitting around hassling people.

The Thrill seemed to cut out rather suddenly for Adolin. I think they were dormant and projecting an aura related to their primary power, but the Everstorm woke them up and they drew their power back in under their active control. Eshonai still felt the Thrill, but that could be from Nergaoul projecting it over the Parshendi mental link instead of in an aura. Moelach was projecting a far more helpful effect, but it did require the death of humans to use, so it's definitely not entirely a good thing even if the messages are helpful.

My theory is that Returned consume one Breath per week and die if they have no Breath. So they die if they don't get a new Breath every week because they consume their Divine Breath, which is 2000 times more powerful than a regular one but cannot be broken into smaller portions. Then again, apparently all the ones we see still have their Divine Breath, even if they've hidden it so they don't get the Fifth Heightening, so it might be necessary to keep it.

The "Final Desolation" was the one in the prologue. So it can only be a lie if, in fact, there is a Desolation in the future, presumably the one containing the Everstorm.

There are two, not necessarily mutually exclusive, possibilities for that. First, our only known actual technological reproduction of an Epic's powers is the gun from the weapons dealer. It appears to be a coilgun that energizes a projectile, and there is no specific reason aside from power requirements and materials that we couldn't make a similar device today. The explosion is apparently a bit strange, but mostly it's just a very large energy release. So it might be that the weapon is simply inspired by the Epic but works on different principles. Second, apparently the black market runs off genetic samples from Epics. Now, if they're making mechanical reproductions of Epic powers, that doesn't make much sense. They'd want the physical structures associated with the powers, assuming there is such a thing. However, if the powers don't have a specific physical manifestation but are instead linked to the life of the individual, that would imply that any of their living cells could use their powers. Including ones separated from their bodies, placed in cryogenic storage, and eventually integrated into a machine.

Well, it's the thing which gives Epics their powers. It is also mysterious and red. I'm personally convinced it's spatially anomalous in some form. It's visible even through the shroud above Newcago and maintains an apparently fixed position. However, Epics appear to show up everywhere, which would require it to either send its effects through the entire planet or follow an orbit, and under our current understanding of physics anything that can pass through the planet would have an exceedingly low probability of interacting with humans. Plus, wavelengths not included in sunlight are exceedingly rare, so it is highly unlikely it just happens to glow on a wavelength not blocked by a shroud that completely obscures the visible and UV portions of sunlight. My theory is that it doesn't really have a position in three-dimensional space, and appears to be directly overhead from anywhere on Earth. Nightwielder's shroud can't block it because it's not actually above the shroud. However, it apparently manifests high enough that buildings can block it, since we see no evidence it lights interiors. I also thought about it maybe being a mental effect that causes people to perceive it as being present when outdoors, but no one ever comments that it doesn't show up on cameras. Although it theoretically could be complex enough to alter people's perception of photographs, that's a pretty big stretch.

I think option 1 is probably the most reliable. As I understand how death applies to spren, they're dead because the Oaths are broken and will come back to life if the oaths are restored.

There's a difference between going onto the plains and deliberately walking into what is quite possibly a trap set for Dalinar specifically. I'm not sure if any of the characters would have noticed anything; she kept her visor down and acted quite differently from prior occasions.

In pre-industrial cultures, everyone drank alcohol; while it's not generally concentrated enough to properly disinfect the drink, making it generally involves high heat. We've never seen her actually get drunk, so I wouldn't say it's a sign of any underlying problem and is entirely normal for the culture. Jasnah might exclusively drink stormwater or teas, but Shallan doesn't imitate her atheism either.

All the Shards were originally part of the same entity. I think their base-level power is essentially interchangable, and it's Preservation's system that is providing the future sight.

I always get twitchy at infinity loops. Even Compounding requires metal, and lots of it. Plus, there's a reason it's an antagonist power to date. I expect that for Lift, enough of the plant she spends stormlight growing will be inedible that she doesn't come out ahead.

I think Feruchemical gold would only work for full-on body dismorphia, where on a fundamental level the person doesn't recognize their body as being theirs. Like people who feel pain in amputated limbs, or who feel like one of their limbs shouldn't be there and cut it off. I'm pretty sure that a gender-related variation on that isn't terribly common, but I guess it might happen. Returned transform into their idealized self-image instead of how they actually perceived themselves in life,so it would be a lot easier for them

I'm not altogether convinced it was the first time she's ever done it, but I would say it serves as an excellent case study of why she doesn't do it more often. Jasnah can use stormlight to be a very slow teleporter, or she can take a boat like anyone else. I suspect that as she gets more practice and possibly advances up the Ideals, it won't be quite so terrible in the future.

Remember that Roshar keeps the insane in low-light conditions. He probably hadn't been near any source of stormlight for weeks. Kaladin could probably do it with enough stormlight, but completely uninfused? Not a chance.

The monotheistic religions on Sel seem to be homegrown, given that they match up with the native Shards. Jeskar could potentially be an import, though, since it seems like a religion liable to spring up on Roshar. There have been some instances of religions that seem to have been imported to Roshar, however. The Purelake religion has a dualistic system with a benevolent god and a jealous god that resembles Trellism from Scadrial, and the benevolent god must only be discussed in sacred caves, which reminds me of anti-Ruin countermeasures. The Envisioners appear to believe in something like Allomantic Snapping, as well.

I've been assuming that the drawing is the default guard position for each stance. Combatants would transition into other positions while actually fighting, but the stances depicted are how people stood when Shallan said, "Get into Windstance for a sketch". So each stance would correspond to the sketch that resembles the description given when entering the stance and is suited for what the stance is best at. Incidentally, #9 doesn't really look like a thrusting stance to me. I mean, the sword is pointed forwards, but it looks pretty awkward to get much forward movement from the arms and the feet don't seem well-positioned for a lunge. Then again, I can't imagine any other possible reason to be in that position. Could be that I'm misjudging the arm position.

WoB says Khryss is the most Cosmere-aware, but Nazh is up there with Hoid.

Book Of Endless Pages made jokes about it being literally the longest book that could possibly be printed entirely too easy.

The Book Of Endless Pages is a metaphor. It's intentionally left blank as a symbol that there's always new knowledge to discover. The physical book isn't important.

Yelig-nar: two mentions in TWoK, once in the notebook ("Yelig-nar, called Blightwind, was one who could speak like a man, though his voice was often accompanied by the wails of those he consumed") and once with Nohandon saying Yelig-nar had slaughtered all his wordsmen. Moelach: mentioned in Taravangian's Interlude and in the Diagram, responsible for the Death Rattles and the Unmade with the greatest significance for precognition Cusicesh: the Axies Interlude in TWoK, called the Protector and appears in the harbor of a city looking east for a fixed duration at a certain time of day.

I would remind everyone that Nalan, regardless of his identity, is nuts and his words should not be taken as absolute truth. I prefer Jasnah's theory that Desolations cause Radiants; according to her and Pattern the spren are coming to the physical because the upcoming Desolation threatens them too, so they're bonding with humans to help them fight against Voidbringers.