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The common cold is a disease though. But yeah, the thing is that when a Bloodmaker is storing health, everything to do with the body's ability to repair itself is reduced and that means a compromised immune system as well as healing from injuries at a slower rate. Since he's already gotten sick, just stopping the storing process won't heal anything he's caught and he'd have to actually use stored health to recover from it, which would kind of defeat the purpose of the storing.

Hoid most certainly can heal, to the point that the only things he seems genuinely worried about are Nightblood and the Shards, specifically Odium. Brandon even pegged him as the person likely to survive to the end of a melee between all his characters, though his inability to harm people would kind of make determining a winner at the end futile since he wouldn't be able to do anything to the last combatant left standing. Anyhow, since we don't know what Hoid's ultimate goal is it's difficult to say why he wants one given power over another, though with the caveat above it's safe to assume that he's going to be less interested in powers that can primarily/only be used to harm someone. But Lightweaving is known to be one of if not the first systems of magic he learned to use (non-canon though it is, Liar of Partinel suggests it was the first) and he's been unable to make full use of it for a time, so he wanted to get back to what he used to be able to do with it for whatever reason. Kon-Tiki also gave another good reason why Hoid might avoid powers that seem incredibly handy, like Gravitation: Doing it would require him to make sacrifices he may not want to, or even be able to. For example, both ways of gaining access to that Surge would place behavioral checks on him that don't seem like the sort of thing he'd like. Bonding an Honorspren would require him to protect people and given his awareness of the big picture and how any given spren feels about that oath, it might just conflict with his statement to Dalinar that he would (albeit tearfully) allow Roshar to burn if it got him what he wanted. Likewise, being compelled to follow the law when you bond a Highspren? Nope, not a chance.

We've seen what happens when Yelig-nar is bonded and it grants access to all.the Surges (possibly only nine and possibly the slightly different ones the Fused use) and both people who tried it ended up dead. The Unmade are probably individually weaker than the Stormfather/Nightwatcher, especially the former since he's more powerful now than he was before the Recreance and merging with Tanavast's Cognitive Shadow.

The Unmade are splinters of Odium. As for Nergaoul being red, given what it does it's entirely fair to assume its appearance simply reflects the Thrill's effect on people.

1. Because the Investiture to power Surgebinding has to come from somewhere, and on Roshar that somewhere is the Stormlight that's ubiquitous. Other power sources are possible with hacking but Stormlight has it built-in because it's already associated with Honor, so the difference between using it to power Surgebinding and drawing from Honor directly is just a matter of the former being a degree removed. There's precedent for this sort of thing in the Cosmere already. 2. They form a shallow and somewhat limited bond with the person holding it that the Nahel Bond mimics, but on a deeper level. See above for how using Stormlight and drawing power straight from Honor are largely the same thing, as far as the magic is concerned. 3. It's the other way around, Honorblades were built do grant Surgebinding while the spren who bond with people figured out they could imitate it. Radiants can do more with their bonds precisely because the deeper connection they form with the spren (to the point that their souls are actually merging) lets them get more out of the bond than the shallower Honorblade bond. Relevant:

Honor's Perpendicularity literally moves, it has no fixed location. This is why Dalinar is able to open it up in Thaylen City. Earlier in the book during the 'so, how do we get out of Shadesmar' discussion Azure mentions that the spren know of Honor's Perpendicularity but its location is unpredictable and it's dangerous to go looking for. If it was even semi-fixed in Shinovar (which would contradict everything that's been said about it in and out of universe) the spren would know that; Just because they rarely appear there doesn't mean they're non-existant. As for how the Shin get stormlight to train with, the same way everybody else does. The fact that the highstorms are considerably weaker doesn't mean they don't infuse gemstones.

Another WoB that Shards can have children: Though it was a paraphrase, the emphasis on the Vessel is suggestive since it implies we're talking about having children as if the Vessel were still an un-Ascended individual, and it's something Sazed could do even though he's not physically equipped for it. Given the amount of control a Shard can have over the spiritweb (to the point that Sazed could reverse Savantism and mass-heal genetic and physical ailments) one imagines that a child created by a Shard could end up anything from more or less 'normal' (if more Connected to the parent Shard(s) than someone else) to something like Rashek or even more extreme than that. Sazed's ability to affect Scadrians is not typical, since everyone on Scadrial is basically made of Preservation and Ruin, but the same principles that give him that degree of control would probably apply to any child created directly by a Shard. As for the effect on the power of the Shard(s), it would probably be utterly negligible unless they deliberately tried creating a Sliver out of the child by splitting off a significant chunk of their Investiture.

Did you actually read the entire WoB before flippantly dismissing it? The odds of him changing his mind on something this big are about the same as the odds that I'll wake up tomorrow and find a gift-wrapped copy of Dragonsteel Prime on my doorstep, signed by Brandon and personalized with the names of all the currently unknown Shards.

Yes. I've emphasized the most important bit but this entire WoB makes the answer crystal-clear and is worth reading in full.

Shallan bonded with Pattern as a child and progressed far enough that she could summon him as a blade before getting to the point of experiencing life and death situations. Unreliable narrator that she is, it's likely that her childhood wasn't quite as ideal as she's remembering it but not to the point that she was regularly in fear of her life before that night, or someone else would have at least implied something was up with the entire Davar family before the incident. The reason she progressed the way she did throughout Way of Kings is that her bond had regressed due to spending years lying to herself about what really happened. Likewise Ym (proto-Truthwatcher) doesn't seem to have been in any sort of dangerous environment that would spur him to attract a spren for that reason. Whatever it is that attracts the Truthwatcher-associated spren to people, he was doing it in his daily life. We know from Words of Brandon that two things that help attract radiantspren are being in an area where there used to be a lot of Radiants, and being near someone who has already attracted one. In both cases, there are naturally going to be more spren in the area so you're more likely to attract one than if you're somewhere else. If you have a Connection to someone who's forming a Nahel Bond your chances are even higher. While what you're doing is relevant, it's not the only factor. Obviously Bridge Four has Kaladin as an example to emulate which makes them more likely to attract honorspren, but it's possible to be a squire to a Windrunner (or any other order that has them) and wind up bonding a spren of an entirely different Order, so the increased odds of attracting a spren due to sheer numbers in a given location and Connection to existing Surgebinders are obviously every bit as important if not moreso.

Welcome to the Shard! Also, welcome to the endless rabbit hole that is the Cosmere. Alice in Wonderland has nothing on the madness here. xD As mentioned those worlds (and others) are part of a shared setting and we have a good amount of knoweldge about topics like how people get from one world to the other and why some people might choose to do that. Lots of what we know comes from what we call Words of Brandon (or WoBs) which are things he's told us at events, or mentioned online, or signed in our books. Basically, things outside of the actual stories. You can find a link to the archive of these on Arcanum at the top of the page. The same warning Invocation gave you applies there too, there be spoilers aplenty for everything Brandon has written so you probably want to read some more of his books before diving into that particular deep end. We could actually answer some of your questions directly but... we just might break your brain by accident given just how deep that rabbit hole goes and we don't want to throw too much madness at you right away.

The Ideals beyond the first don't have a specific wording, they're more general principles that the proto-Radiant has to internalize before they can progress. This is why the generic version of the Skybreakers' Second Ideal given by Brandon 'I will put the law before all else' isn't exactly the same as what Szeth swears, though it shares he same basic concept, likewise Kaladin and Teft's differing takes on the Third Ideal of the Windrunners. As the end of Oathbringer shows, just knowing the general idea of the Ideal isn't enough, you have to be living it and your spren has to approve. Also bear in mind that the spren don't bond people at random but are looking for people who fit the Order they're associated with. So, if you were in a situation where a house servant was seen as a potential Windrunner by an honorspren, they'd have to already be doing something that the spren percieved as particularly 'Windrunner-ish' and would be in a position to advance at least part of the way beyond the First Ideal. As Lopen shows, it doesn't have to be direct exposure to life-and-death situations for Windrunners, he hit the point of being ready to swear the Second Ideal when he was helping 'protect' injured people by keeping their spirits up. Your hypothetical house servant could end up doing something similar. That said, stagnation can happen and the words don't come automatically with time, you have to be doing something to work towards them. For example it's at least theoretically possible (albeit unlikely) that Kaladin never quite figures out the Fourth/Fifth Ideal and stays where he is, same as any other Surgebinder. We know this is extremely common among the Skybreakers, where stopping at the Third Ideal is treated as normal, reaching the Fourth is exceptional and the Fifth is effectively unheard of. So depending on the circumstances your house servant might or might not advance and there's no real guarantee either way, with what we know now.

I didn't either; That's what the Coppermind is for. Amusingly, the way Jorgen got his callsign is more true to life than the rest of Skyward Flight (and by implication the DDF as a whole) who all pick their own. Callsigns in real life usually come from your fellow pilots or senior officers and can indeed be intentionally insulting. One wonders what names the rest of Skyward Flight would have wound up with if everyone's callsigns were assigned in that manner, but I'm guessing the Doylist reason it didn't happen (like why the names are almost universally connected to their real names) is because it would have required more page space and a longer span of time before it could reasonably happen. But if that had happened, Kimmalyn would definitely have ended up with Saint.

While the exact way that Ashyn's magic worked then and works now is not the same as Surgebinding on Roshar the fundamentals of all magic in the greater Rosharan System share the same principles, due to the natural 'pathways' magic there follows because that's how Adonalsium set things up either by intentional design or by natural consequence of everything else that was done to create the system... if those aren't two sides of the same coin. So yes, while it wasn't Surgebinding as we understand it now, it was still manipulating the same forces that Surgebinding does. Most obviously, they have some equivalent to the Surge of Gravitation which is what keeps their cities aloft.

Brandon has said that we're getting actual honest-to-God-Beyond FTL in the series so the fact that you don't like the idea is kind of moot. As for how it's going to be accomplished, you can't just think in terms of the magic that we've seen so far as Brandon has confirmed that we're looking at a three-step process over the course of the Cosmere's history and we're only just starting to get to stage two: However Allomantic FTL (and any other form of Cosmere FTL) works is pretty much going to require us to be at Step 3, meaning that while we can guess at how it might work we simply don't have enough of the big picture to hit on the ultimate solution except by complete accident. By the time we get to that step, we'll have some rules in place that will limit (but not eliminate) the causality-breaking aspects of FTL.

We know that for normal purposes you can adjust the size and rate of a speed bubble to some extent while it's going up, but once it's established it's fixed in both size and how much it's slowing/speeding up time. A savant could have much greater control over the process including anchoring the bubble to themselves and allowing it to move with them, as mentioned in the above WoB. Since there's some control over size possible already, a savant could probably shrink the bubble to something closer to just their body but I doubt they could get it completely there. It might not be a violation of Sanderson's Second Law to do it (being a savant would be its own limitation) but my guess is that the spherical shape of the bubble would still be a limiting factor on the size.

The thing is, if you have a living Blade then that means you get Surgebinding and healing powers (and, y'know, a cool spren companion) which kind of destroys the balance inherent in the choice. And if you have a living Blade that means you can theoretically progress to the point you get Plate, making it a pretty obvious choice. Anyhow, I'd go for the Plate over a dead Blade any day. As mentioned it gives you super-strength without being nearly as exhausting to wear as you'd expect a full-body suit of armor to be, it also gives you excellent traction and enhanced jumping powers and you're immune to lightning so no need to worry about getting zapped by lightning. You're also more or less invulnerable to conventional Rosharan weapons (barring a lucky hit through the eyeslit) and can carry weapons that are almost as deadly to unaugmented opponents as a Shardblade would be. Needing to keep gemstones supplied with Stormlight isn't a huge burden since the latter is a renewing resource and the former won't be too hard to come by since simply having a set of Plate makes you important enough to be counted among the upper echelons of society in most places we've seen so far. A Deadeye Shardblade is much easier to hide if you're trying to do that and it's horrifyingly good at killing people (and rocks) but it's not really very useful for anything else, while Plate offers all sorts of advantages... and also looks storming awesome.

Brandon says quite directly that Honorblade-granted Stormlight healing isn't powerful enough to heal a Shardblade wound, so no amount of belief on Szeth's part can make it work. Now, intent does matter with Honorblades in the same way that it applies to unsealed metalminds (if you don't know or at least suspect what it is, you won't get access to its powers) but healing isn't a part of it.

Probably some behind-the-scenes tinkering by the God Beyond whose name is Brandon to make it easier for readers to remember the names. Though as a tiny nitpick, the first syllable of Kimmalyn's callsign isn't identical to her name, just kinda close. And poor poor Jerkface, he really wanted a cooler callsign but unfortunately his first pick (Jaeger) was taken, then Spensa nominated him for the callsign we all know and love. Cobb's callsign actually does share the initial letter of his first name, which is Matthew.

Yeah, I'm going to echo the consensus here and suggest that you read something else Brandon has written (plus Timothy Zahn, like Brandon I've never seen a work of his I haven't liked) between MB1 and MB2. The big plan Brandon has for Scadrial is to show a world develop over the course of centuries (if not millennia) so while the fundamental magic system stays the same and there are very much points of continuity, the setting and the cast is going to change with each arc. I've loved both Mistborn series so far (and The Lost Metal is one of my most anticipated books) but there's a very different feel to each one and to their characters and taking some time to read something else in between will help you with the transition. You really can't go wrong with any of Brandon's other Cosmere works, or for that matter his non-Cosmere works. Just grab whatever looks most interesting to you and enjoy. xD That said, if you want a single book to read rather than a new series, @robardin gave you the best ones to look at. I'd also suggest reading Warbreaker before the Stormlight Archive books, but it's not required.

Trell is a Shard, we've known this for a while. All things in the Cosmere that are on the level of gods or demigods are related to the Shards in some way. We know that 'Trellium' is from a Shard that we know and that the Shard associated with that metal is the same entity calling themself Trell, meaning that Brandon isn't trying to trick us with an unknown Shard using someone else's metal. The list of possible candidates for Trell is a very short one since most of the known Shards aren't viable candidates and Brandon conclusively dismissed Endowment who was one of the vaguely possible options. The most likely candidate is Autonomy, who likes meddling with other worlds and creates Avatars as part of her plans.

Even the really big Splinters left behind (like the Stormfather) are still 'Honor-flavored' despite the Shard they're associated with has been Shattered. Splinters can (and often do) have an Intent that's their own in addition to what they get from the Shard but they're still part of that Shard's collective power. Also, Odium has not ensured that the power can't be merged again, though he wants to keep anyone from picking them up again..Brandon has said that Splintering is not permanent so whatever he does can be reversed, just not easily. What Odium has basically done is made it very very hard for someone to pick up the power and Ascend which is the best he can do. Devotion and Dominion's powers are merging and we know that what's happened on Sel is something Odium didn't anticipate or want, but he didn't know enough at the time to avoid it. Honor could be reformed (and there's a popular theory that Dalinar will do it) which Odium acknowledges since he's realized he didn't do a thorough enough job the first time. Ambition is the only question mark since that Shard left large chunks of its power in the Threnodite System but was actually killed somewhere else, so there's multiple concentrations of power and any attempt to reform it might result in a weaker Shard or a lot of work to try and consolidate those multiple chunks of power across several systems.

@Radiant_runner Could you please look at the dates of topics before you post in them? You've necro'd multiple topics dead for a year or more, like this one.

Honor and Odium could potentially be a good combination with the right Vessel. On that note we know that any Shards can combine but the Vessel can be a huge factor (Sazed is largely responsible for how well Preservation and Ruin work together to make Harmony) and some combinations would be inherently weird and put a lot of pressure on the Vessel.

You do realize that you bumped a thread that was three years old, right? Quoting from the forum rules: