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Welcome to the Shard. Please consider an Intro Post to let us know what you have or have-not read (whichever list is shorter). Also, please consider checking out the Sharder FAQ for some useful forum info and tips. The timeline is correct - AoL: Hope that helps

This states clearly that the thing preventing Odium from using his powers on most individuals is a restriction placed by Honor - and explicitly ties it to the scene where they agree to stay in the system. Okay, I see what you are asking - two things: Unreliable narrator applies - Rayse is not being completely honest. Not lies, but not the whole truth either The part he is referencing here is in WaT Ch 113 (we don't get to see the terms) It's a tightening of the common restictions to all Shards. Hope that helps

The agreement was not on-screen in WaT - and it is larger than just Honor and Odium. Coppermind: There are a lot of sources here, so I left the links - and included the link to the relevant section of the coppermind, but there does not seem to be a single WoB that summarizes all of this information. Mistborn/Warbreaker Spoilers: Shards need a Connection to an individual to act directly on the person - Hoid's case was different and based on the agreements mentioned above. Hope that helps

That was why I linked the Sharder FAQ: It has that info and a whole lot more to make it easy for new Sharders to adjust (conveniently located in the Introduce Yourself section).

Welcome to the Shard. Please consider an Intro Post to let us know what you have or have-not read (whichever list is shorter). Also, please consider checking out the Sharder FAQ for some useful forum info and tips. Please keep in mind this is SA discussion, not Cosmere Discussion. Please spoiler tag all information from series other than SA.

Please keep in mind this is SA discussion, not Cosmere Discussion. Please spoiler tag all information from series other than SA. Fixed - thank you

WoBs: Hope that helps

It is implied (not yet confirmed) that Dalinar over-drew on what his bond should be able to provide. He was only a Second Oath Radiant at the time - so, much like Kaladin in WoR when he injured Syl by overdrawing their weakened bond while falling into the crevasse, Dalinar caused harm to Stormfather by trying to force his essence into working the Oathgate by direct Connection (likely Spiritual Adhesion) rather than with a third-oath blade (which he would not have had anyway).

This was discussed in RoW Ch 19. They didn't have enough Windrinners for the War campaign as it was; which is why they needed to send an envoy to convince the Honorspren to allow bonds again and stop treating those Honorspren that did seek a bond as outlaws. They couldn't afford to lose a Radiant and their squires just to ferry the envoy party - even if it was only to Nameless. RoW Ch 19:

Millennium/Millennia = Thousand Years/Plural Eon (see below) is a geologic timescale: Hope that helps

Welcome to the Shard. Please consider an Intro Post to let us know what you have or have-not read (whichever list is shorter). Also, please consider checking out the Sharder FAQ for some useful forum info and tips. RoW Ch 113: The entire process of feeling brave, beginning to transition into the Spiritual Realm Demense and Drawing Nightblood is all simultaneous - and since it is formed using aspects of all three realms, Taravangian's thinking "Odium is here, Nightblood is here" is enough to Connect all three Cognitively. Nightblood is invested enough that he would appear in all three realms regardless, but Taravangian Connected to both Odium and Nightblood as the vision formed, and drew the sword. Hope that helps.

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I made a thread to explain this back during the spoiler period - extracted: Hope that helps

Welcome to the Shard. Please consider an Intro Post to let us know what you have or have-not read (whichever list is shorter). Also, please consider checking out the Sharder FAQ for some useful forum info and tips. One thing to keep in mind is that the terminology in-world is not necessarily standardized yet, and unreliable narrator applies. Starling can just be wrong (or using the wrong term(s)). Also, we do not yet have enough information on Negative Investiture to truly understand the difference (and that term may change/evolve, just as E1Atium was called Atium but was not really Atium - they just did not know that during the Final Empire). Are the Eidoliths really just Anti-Ambition? Unconfirmed (more than one shard was involved, in the event) Are there realmatics at play beyond what Navani discovered and used? Unknown Is the developing Sapience a firm trait or a recent one? Unknown Somebody who gets to attend events should ask if a Type 1-6 was self-aware when created or only after time etc. In the end, as far as IED is concerned, what they discuss is based on what they know (or think they know) at the time when the story takes place. TWhat the true realmatic difference(s) are remain to be seen/clarified. Hope that helps

For me, least favorite of the Cosmere Secret Projects (but still better than Frugal Wizard). Not bad, per se (on the scope of books in general), but the ending ruined it for me. Granted, I have not yet done a re-read. My Reactions Post This post explains better than I could, why the ending did not work for me. Excerpt:

It wasn't bad, some good lore and reveals. I just wish I had read it after WaT. . . (spoilers for both)

Please see WoB:

The thing to keep in mind is that, based on current data, what Iron is really manipulating is the Higgs Field. Density is the ratio of mass and volume and changes to density (Wikipedia): Higgs fields naturally interact with energy density, but not physical density - though my physics education falls far short of really understanding the interactions at play. Possibly @DrPhysics will find time to weigh in (pun totally intended) WoBs:

Those two seem the most obvious, based on current data. And just because the cause is at-least partially magical does not mean the effect cannot mirror real disorders.

Was there more to this thought? It seems unfinished. . .

Correct - but my point was that the centerbeat is a perception thing for one person being partly pulled across Realms. Bridge Four did not experience it. In WoR Shallan did not experience it, despite being in the same cave and laying right next to him.

The "centerbeat" is a not 100% physical realm phenomon and not something you can enter repeatedly (e. g. WoK - Kal tied in the highstorm; WoR - in the cave with Shallan, etc. ) WoB: Stormfather did not say "centerbeat" - RoW Ch 71: The center of the storm is when Spheres typically recharge, a Windrunner flying the Stormwall is able to gain some Stormlight from leakage that far forward. It is possible (but not confirmed) that Windrunners have an edge in this due to their Order's affility with Wind Spren and the Storms. Afterall, we see Szeth do it, but only with the Windrunner Honorblade, and we have not yet seen a Skybreaker do it at all (that I can recall - i'll search in case I have forgotten). Either way, in the heart of the blockage in the Tower, it's unlikely Kaladin could have picked up leakage from the Stormwall. Hope that helps

@CoderDrag0n8 - just bringing this to your attention. Goodreads Synopsis

Keep in mind that part of this answer is, specifically, left unanswered by Brandon for readers to decide for themselves. WoBs: So, objectively, we know there is a Spiritweb in the Spiritual Realm. We know that it is consumed by Nightblood and Father Machine. We know that Sazed and Kelsier believe that Vin and Elend went to the Beyond after the events of HoA. Furthermore, we know that some people call what is consumed by Nightblood "the soul" - while some people call what goes Beyond "the soul." Who is right? Brandon wants readers to decide for themeselves. He will never answer that question. Hope that helps

Welcome to the Shard. Thank you for the Intro Post to let us know what you have read; don;t forget to update the list as you continue in the Cosmere. Also please consider checking out the Sharder FAQ for some (hopefully) useful forum tips and information. As far as I know, the only two surgebinding resonances that are confirmed are Windrunners and Lightweavers (clarified in the RPG as affecting perception or memory ref Stargyle). We don't really have enough information to know the others yet. But, it all gets more complicated with characters like Shallan and Lift who also have other factors affecting their Spiritweb. WoB: Hope that helps