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Unlikely, because Hemalurgy must pierce a Bind point, and do so with Intent and blood. Digested trace metals fit none of those requirements. Hope that helps

Since D.G. could have pushed their emotional state over the edge. I'm noticing on the OB reread that Ashertmarn has an aspect of taking emotions as well. OB:

In reverse order: We don't know the whole story yet. From what we do know: Examples please? Because Brandon already says Books trump WoBs, and he points out especially when an answer is on thin ice because it has not been codified - or he simply refuses to answer because it's not decided until it shows up in a book. When a WoB changes a WoB, he is up front about the old answer being changed - and the Arcanum will link the two questions so people know "this has been changed." As for actual RetCons - he has surprisingly few of those for the volume of stories he has written. But he is up-front about them when they do happen (like the Change to WoR climax between the original Hardcover and the Mass Market release). I'm guessing you mean the Adolin-Shallan-Kaladin thing (that I do not even think of a love triangle, because it really wasn't - but that is a different discussion), but I don't know how that would imply to you that there were other Cosmere stories. Edit: Thank you for reaching out with that story in PM. I'm sorry. There are hundreds (or more) of 1-5 post accounts on this forum of regular readers, like you describe, who only come here once to ask a question or find clarification if something confuses them. They do not ignore the author's own answers just because they are normal readers with no desire to explore deeper on their own. If you do not want to read annotations or WoBs or Coppermind articles, that's fine. Wonderful even. I just cannot understand the dichotomy of wanting to interact about a story you obviously like enough to have joined this forum over, but also refusing to believe the Author himself when he tries to answer questions or clarify those things that cannot fit in the published work. I can accept your stance, but I don't understand it. Just please do not berate us when we say "here is your answer" and you happen to not like that answer or the method in which it was answered.

I'm sorry you don't accept the word of the author. They exist , not to supplant story, but to address things that cannot fit in the stories (we only have so many characters and pages) - if a topic deals with a planned story, it gets a RAFO (even if it's just a possible story that is not planned yet) instead of an answer because Brandon also prefers to answer things in the context of the story, as written. Your opinion to not like them is valid. Pretending that opinion is invioable fact is not. I'm sorry. To me, the difference is - instead of saying: "only one party can break [the bond]." you say "only one party has been shown to break a bond" - there is a world of difference between those two sentiments. Mostly in recognizing that you do not know it to be impossible, you can only say "I have not seen this to be possible yet." The previously known "hack" of using a gemstone to create a fake bond with a deadeye blade is what no longer works (please see below) - but it was never a form of bond natural to Roshar - it was always "applying fabrial science to hack Shards post-Recreance." WoR Ch 67: The natural Nahel bond process still works (and is shown on-screen with the Unoathed) - it's the same type of bond used by most native Rosharan life (and some imports, like Rhyshadium who have learned to develop a Nahel Bond with music spren). Hope that helps

This is actually not correct. Spren have always been able to break the bond on their own, with the only consequence that they lose their Connection to the Physical Realm. It's not necessarily easy, but it can be done safely. WoBs: For Adolin, a bond was required. Just not a Radiant bond (which is the only one that requires Oaths), normal Nahel Bonds are just a natural part of Roshar (Singers, Greatshells, Rhyshadium, Skyeels, etc.). This was noted in RoW: RoW Ch 94: Hope that helps

Yes. Ish. We know metals (well, specific metals) have Realmatic Properties that are expressed similarly over multiple magic systems (e. g. Iron and Steel push and pull - in Allomancy and Aether Spores and Rosharan Fabrials (attractors, repulsors)). Aluminum (a.k.a. Ralkalest) Blocks investiture (cosmere wide). Silver Destroys Investiture (Tress, Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell), etc. We know that this is tied, somehow, to the fact that investiture expressed as solid matter in the Physical Realm automatically becomes Metallic (a. k. a. GodMetals - Lerasium, Atium, Shardblades and Plate, etc.) What we do not know is why, for example, Bronze (seeking, Detection Fabrials) has that specific realmatic property - just as we do not know why, for example, "Blue" (Zephyr Spores, Sapphires for soulcasting) is tied to the essence of Air. WoBs: Hope that helps

My apologies then

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My understanding is similar: Braize PR is barren with sharp rocks and windswept/stormy; and attracts investiture The nature of Braize (all realms) attracts investiture Braize CR is just obsidian Possibly something else, there is enough thought about "Damnation" that it may not be entirely obsidian Heralds, Fused etc. are bound to Braize and get teleported there (to the CR?) when their physical form on Roshar (Heralds: physical body formed from investiture; Fused: inhabited Singer body; Thunderclasts: body formed from rock; etc.) dies Not sure if teleported is the correct word - when a being dies, their Cognitive Identity enters Shadesmar (before going Beyond for normal people) - Fused and Heralds are Bound to Braize, so that is where their Cognitive Identity forms after leaving the PR - possibly just semantics, but it might matter During a desolation the herald/fused/etc. then gets teleported (not instantaneously, but with the speed depending on the amount of investiture they're made up of as I understand?) back to Roshar to form/inhabit a new physical body Heralds form on Roshar, in a Construct of Honor's Investiture. Fused appear on Roshar as Spren (as seen in Venli's interlude - OB I-6) and search out a Singer Host, occupy the Gemheart and eject the soul there to take the body. Repeat until the desolation ends when the heralds... decide that it's been enough fighting? (I'm also not entirely clear how it's decided when a herald's death means it's "permanent" until the next desolation and when it's "instant" rebirth) When the firt Herald Dies, the Fused stopped being reborn, When the war is over, the remaining Heralds that survived volunarily returned to Braize to end the Desolation - otherwise, the return would just start anew. WoB:

Sazed chose the name Harmony because of his Intent when he took up the Shards, and because it felt right.

I can see that interpretation, but I took it as "yes, of course - but why is that obvious to people." Edit - maybe it is a continuity error:

Wasn't just Wyndle. WaT Ch 33: Edit: Funny - the profanity monitor also changed the book quote. . .

In RoW, Kaladin was in a Vision replicating the Physical Realm of Braize. Much like Dalinar's Visions in WoK, his body remains behind and trys to mimic his actions, but his mind is in the vision in the Spiritual Realm. RoW Ch 85: Braize's Shadesmar is probably mostly comprised of the same obsidian-like substance as water masses on Roshar and the space between worlds, because areas with a lack of sapient life are why those sections of Shadesmar congeal into black stone. WoB:

Yes. WoB: Hope that helps

The Physical Realm of Braize cannot support life. Fused and Heralds both are only there in the Cognitive Realm (Mistborn: SH Spoilers) RoW Ch 89: Hope that helps

Agree to disagree. I believe there is a huge difference between 1) My physical arm is missing , but the spiritweb is intact (Lopen); 2) My physical arm is present, my spiritweb is intact, but the connection was severed (Shardblade); -and- 3) Nightblood consumed my storming arm in all three realms and that portion of the Spiritweb is gone. Yes, Compounded Gold was WoBed to be able to heal a Hemalurgic wound to the Spiritweb. However - 1) We do not know that applies to Stormlight Healing and Regrowth (which are both said to match the physical to the Spiritweb - not heal the Spiritweb); and 2) That such a wound would behave the same as that portion of the spirtweb consumed and destroyed on all three realms. Based on current information, and pending further data or WoBs - there is nothing I have found that definitively says this is possible or impossible. I find it very unlikely, however, because that is essentially negating everything we know about how Nightblood functions and all of the danger represented by wielding Nightblood.

Warbreaker Ch 56: Nightblood consumes the investiture of the wielder at an exponentially increasing rate - he would be eating what was "fixed" far faster than it could be fixed. I expect that it would be a very unlikely set of circumstances that would allow Nightblood to provide Regrowth, and heal the wielder without consuming the light doing the healing before it can heal - maybe if Dalinar was still around and it was done close enough to the Bondsmith Perpendicularity? But then you still have the likely Spiritweb damage that would have to be fixed before you can even heal the arm, and Regrowth has not been shown to heal a spiritweb - only healing the body to match the spiritweb. So if Szeth's missing arm is also missing from his spiritweb (unlike a Shardblade cut, where the part is still there, but the Connection to that limb has been severed) then Regrowth from any source, including Nightblood, would not fix Szeth's arm.

Chana was captured and tortured by Fused who had not returned yet - but the implication was that with the return of the Focused Ones all of the Brands have now Returned. No Argument there I did not say or imply that the position of Herald no longer carried weight. I am just questioning the assumption that the torture would continue since the reason for the torture should no longer apply. I have not yet drawn conclusions, I am trying to open avenues for discussion - because something about that ending does not make sense unless part of the discussion was skipped (for the reader) or it is based on assumptions derived from past experience that may no longer hold true.

Neither, they were in Shadesmar and Spren cannot take Physical Blade form there - it was an illusion of a Shardblade and cut like a normal sword (hence the blood). WaT Ch 9: Hope that helps.

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They do have Distillation on Roshar. In fact, most "wines" are actually distilled grain spirits. WoB: They also know what alcohol is - the use of "Wine" is meant to imply a linguistic holdover from Ashyn (much like Chicken is used for all birds) meaning they say terms like "Saph" the same way ew would say "whiskey." One could really say "wine" is the Alethi word for "alcohol" similar to places IRL where all tissues are called "Kleenex," or all pop is called "coke." Hope that helps

Isles of the Emberdark and the eventual (hopeful) Silverlight novella should both add a lot of Shadesmar information. Hope that helps.

They do have Distillation on Roshar. In fact, most "wines" are actually distilled grain spirits. WoB: Hope that helps

Well, it may also apply based on the size of the Shardbearer. We see in WoR that Eshonai's shardplate expanded to fit her Warform. So a large individual like Rock, might be able to expand their Shardplate for a small Rhyshadium (depending on surface area difference). I agree it is unlikely. Though, for a Radiant of the fifth ideal, there may be more leeway because the plate is "living" and being a higher ideal might attract a greater qty of Plate Spren. . . However, I feel if this was really possible, we would have seen or heard about it before now. Also, consider that using Plate correctly takes significant training, which may be hard to accomplish with/for an animal companion.

You will get this information in Mistborn: Secret History. (Slight Spoilers): So, because there is a lower density of people in the area, or thinking about that area, it "congeals" becoming the obsidian "landmass" that you see in the stories. Which is why one can travel from one world to another through the Cognitive Realm - all of that empty space between planets has condensed allowing travellers and caravans to travel from one planet to another in weeks or months - despite lightyears of distance in the Physical Realm. Hope that helps