IndigoAjah

II'd agree that it is fundamentally different to revive a dead shard blade because, unless one of the new radiants kills their new blade form spren, the reviver will not yet have a Nahel bond with the (dead) spren through which any interaction can act. It may be that the temporary bond shardbearers have suffices but it seems very different to a true Nahel bond, in which the spren is bound to the human by holding together cracks in their soul. I'd have thought at the very least it would need some powerful external investiture, like a defibrillator of sorts

Surely Shallan has leant much of her skills but suppressed them, so it's easier for her to relearn?

Why has this become Kaladin vs Shallan?

I would pay at least a pound for a Sanderson written chapter that is just the Adolin and Kaladin vs 4 shards fight from the crowd's perspective

Kaladin giving Rlain a spear. So little, so simple, but so perfect.

Many others as well, though I loved the symbolism of Dalinar giving up his blade in an exact opposite of what Amaram did to Kaladin. Was possibly the only thing to allow Kaladin any faith at all in any Lighteyes

The one thing that shard plate really puts me in mind of is the carapace armour that Parshendi grow themselves in war form. I think it is something similar, and Parshendi are more similar to spren than humans are- they can see them and the likes of Rock, part Parshendi, can see them. Thus I think that shard plate is not a separate spren or a form of the Nahel bond spren as per such, but rather something that can be grown from such a spren