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Thanks for the update and forewarning. Does this indicate you will also be moving toward 2FA? If yes, can you verify if email will be an option for 2FA?

BLUF: It returns to the investiture cycle. Decay and power loss are an integral part of Ruin's intent. Hemalurgy actually loses power at every step in the process. Even Spiking through the victim directly into the recipient will result in the spike being slightly weaker than the "donor." Power lost eventually returns to the Spiritual Realm. There are a lot of reference WoBs:

Right, but that is because this specific stamp is nearly a version of Resealing. The Ashravan stamp is restoring what-was-lost, not changing what was into what-could-have-been. It called back to her theorizing on Day 30 as well: Repeated stamping could be related to Savantism, based on currently nkown mechanics. Savantism is a warping of the spiritweb though excessive, consistent use of investiture. Soulstamps warp the soul in their normal function, but the amount of investiture is much lower (Spook was Flaring Tin all-day, every day for months before his effects began to manifest). Possibly a related mechanic (possibly also dependent on the amount/degree of changes).

That is not what Shai said in TES (Day 30): Technically, it didn't give them more humanity - the decayed spikes simply failed to strip all of their humanity. Result is similar, but the Realmatics are different. I only mention this one in case the differences are important for the discussion. But keep in mind that a spike split into four (done correctly) will have the same result as just a single Iron spike on its own - the charge is the same (what came from the "donor") you are just making smaller pieces and grafting multiple times. WoB: Hope that helps

In the interest of dating myself, here's my first-thoughts recollection per-genre. Luckily, I can still play many of these (thanks to GoG). Platformer: Gauntlet (Arcade) / Contra (Console) Puzzle: Puddle Rogue-Like: FTL: Advanced Edition Fighting Game: Street Fighter II Turbo Multi-Player: X-Men (1992 6-Player Arcade Double-Cabinet) RPG: VtM: Bloodlines / The Witcher (2008 Enhanced Edition) RTS: Dungeon Keeper / Impossible Creatures Note:

I do not know of any official information, but Tor's current trends for Boxed Sets indicate at least a year or more before one would be released. For example - RoW released in HC Nov 2020, Trade and Mass Market Oct 21, and HC Boxed set for Books 1-4 did not release until Oct 22 (one year after the Trade release). I would doubt that a boxed set could be expected before 2026. Hope that helps

Pancakes, probably silver-dollar size tasting pancakes. 10 Kinds Well, 9, the tenth is honorary. While not a "release" party, this thread likely has some ideas you can steal pilfer borrow. Why not just find an appropriate cat's eye marble? Hope that helps

@Trusk'our found the WoB, I just want to remind you that this thread is in Stormlight Archive section, and you must spoiler tag all non-SA references. You need to make the thread in Cosmere Discussion (See Below) if you want spoilers for non-new-releases to be allowed without spoiler tags: Please see the Sharder FAQ (link in sig) for more detail. Hope that helps.

Possibly because Mistwriths reproduce by an asexual method, like budding? Having a Blessing holding your Cognitive and Physical together may prevent whatever budding process allows a portion of one being to separate and gain a separate identity. Note: This is not a Canon menthod of Mistwraith reproduction. We have no canon method mentioned in books or WoB - I'm mearly speculating on what process would fit the question's requisites.

"Reverse Bond" is a fan term. It does not really exist. Adolin/Maya is a Nahel Bond, but not necessarily a Radiant Bond (which is just a version of the Nahel Bond with a Sapient Spren - though it may be, we just do not know yet). WoB: Sure they do, the gain the ability to grow, change, learn. It's not just being able to inhabit and experience the Physical Realm. Just look at Stormfather progressing from "I am endless and always the Storm" to being able to understand "Why" the Heralds made their choice and allow Dalinar to direct the Storm. Spren do not become the Light used by Radiants (excepting Aux's non-standard case, which we do not have enough information about - Aux was already touched and changed by the Dawnshard too) - the Oaths form Connection and allow access to Light. Adolin is also forming Connection to Maya, and that Connection seems to be giving her access to something. Maybe it was Adolin sharing parts of his Spiritweb, Maybe it was Adolin's Intent allowing and helping Maya to access her own (where it would notmally be blocked). We just do not yet have enough information. All discoveries seem obvious in Hindsight. As @Njvodin said, Deadeyes did not exist before teh Recreance and BAM's imprisonment. DO we know this hasn;t happened before? No. 4500 years is a long time - so we only know there are no known records of somebody else personifying their Shardblade, speaking to it, forming Connection. We do know that Adolin/Maya's demonstration was the first recorded such in Shadesmar, and that's why it took them all by surprise. It directly oppossed thousands of years of supposition and assumption. Syl has a Nahel bond. See above. See above. Nahel Bond is a Nahel Bond. Different bonds grant different things - Forms for the Singers, Sapience for the Ryshadium, Flight for Skyeels, Size for Greatshells, etc. Adolin and Maya are exploring a potentionally new Nahel Bond, but still rooted in the basis of that Bond (Spren to Physical Realm Being). Hope that helps

That was Leras' plan, yes. But it is important not to confuse the Vessel and the Shard. They do not always agree. However, Vessels can take action that alignes with the Shard's Intent without friction. Rashek had Connection to Kwaan and his fellow Packmen, but not to every living Feruchemist. Stormlight Archive Spoilers: No. Mistwraiths are a created race with their own lifecycle. Lifespan is about 50 years, unless they receive Blessings. WoB: And their lifecycle is tied to the Kandra. No. Preservation's power can only receive thoughts. It requires Connection for Preservation's Vessel to send thoughts (Like Kelsier to Spook, while Kelsier was the Vessel). SoS Ch 7: Note Sazed's white lie here - he implies both require the earring, but only sending thoughts requires the earring spike. M:SH WoB: 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) so that we can avoid spoilers, should that be necessary. Please also consider checking out the Sharder FAQ for some tips, tricks and resources. It's Preservation, partially because he "preserved" their lives (but could not destroy with the power of the Well, which he attempted to do with Kwaan), and partially because he used the mechanic of a "bargain" to facilitate the change. It is unlikely that Rashek could have done what was done without their "permission" (in the form of the bargain). He did "sneak" around it a bit by making the representatives accept the bargain on behalf of all then-living Feruchemists (which is what implies the bargain was required, since Kwaan specifically rejected the bargain and was therefore unaffected). Stormlight Archive Spoilers: WoBs: Hope that helps.

Who said it was a spoiler? Oh, I'm not saying I disagree (I proposed something like this back when BoM first released) - I'm just saying that when you do not preface with something like "I Think, My Theory, My Analysis, etc." then it reads like this theory is somehow Canon Fact and that will confuse new readers. I have no problem with most theories (agree or disagree) but I have a strong dislike for opinion-presented-as-fact. I'm Sorry.

One could argue that AI Art does significant harm to one's soul. I do agree that Intent is not well understood by the end of Era 2, though I would argue Rashek had a better basic understanding of it after the Well, but only as it applied to the three races he concieved while holding the power (which, combined with a shepherd's "knowledge" of science, is why his H-experiments later did not yeild significant results) - the combination bind points, correct intent for which attribute/MoI to gather from that point, and the correct placement in the recipient need to mesh for a functional final product. However, I would argue that stealing attributes is always going to warp the recipient more: An MoI is like this extra bit added to the whole (beings without it are not incomplete) and lopping that off or adding it on is something Realmatics already accounts for - bits of MoI added to the base. However, an attribute is part of the normal whole (if that attribute were missing in a being, they would be incomplete - like the Parshmen missing Connection/Identity/Both) which also means that when you add that to a being, they now have two of the same bit, from different sources - and while they may reinforce each other for a more strongly expressed attribute, they will also likely cause interference because they simply don't-quite-match. Even if you are not pulling "extra stuff" you are still using an innate part of the spiritweb, which WoB has said will always cause more significant changes. (but I agree your theory may minimize how that is expressed, or possibly use intent to influence how that is expressed) Good post, thank you. WoB: I think you need to source a statement like this, because that sounds like a lot of supposition. We still do not really know what excisors are or how they work, much less the cultural impact and implications of that process, as far as I know.

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@Amira is amazing, but I would caution that a chapter-by-chapter appraoch is a huge investment. It's your choice (and maybe that works better for climaxes), but I would suggest maybe posts by-Part (Part 1, Interludes 1-3, Part 2, interludes 4-6, etc.) and, as always, if you ask questions we will spoiler tag the relevant stuff and warn if the answer is a spoiler (so you can decide if you want to read, or come back and open th espoiler tag after you have reached the relevant section). I will point out one thing that may have helped Amira if she had known before starting (it was a few chapters before the question came up and clarified things). I'll copy it here in case you don't want to read spoilers at that link: Looking forward to your journey. Hope that helps and hope you enjoy exploring Roshar.

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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) so that we can avoid spoilers, should that be necessary. Please also consider checking out the Sharder FAQ for some tips, tricks and resources. We have no direct WoB on this specifically, but we do have one about a Human using the Storm to become a Singer - which implies that it is not just a large amount of investiture that is required, but Connection to the SR (and/or Spiritweb) which also comes with the Storms (hence Dalinar's and Kaladin's Visions during Highstorms). Not so much each Planet (though possibly) but the Shards that are invested in that Planet (Hence - Roshar has Honor's Cultivation's and Odium's Pure Tones) so we do not know if, for example, Threnody (with not current shard) would have Ambition's Pure Tone, the Pure Tone of the Evil, Something else, or nothing. Singers can hear Pure Tones for other sources, but we do not know if something else (Connection, Breath, etc.) would be required. Again, I didn't find any direct WoBs, but we do know that the Radiant Bond is more invested than a normal Rosharan Nahel Bond (such as Singers, Ryshadium, Great Shells) but he RAFOed the idea of Singers worldhopping to settle on Nalthis. The way that Timbre traps Venli's Envoy-form Spren in the Gemheart implies that the Gemheart Symbiosis is different from the Radiant Bond symbiosis, so I would guess that Singers may be able to worldhop, but if that would or would not require Slaveform (no Spren bond) is unclear. This seems very likely, as Brandon has said that a new form of spren appearing could be bonded and discover a new form - the forms seem to be a function of the Realmatic Relationship between the Singer and the non-sapient Spren. That said, the Komashi Spirits (or, at least, some of them) appear to be Sapient, so they may not provide forms the same way non-Sapient Spren do. Dragons have been worshipped and considered as gods before. Being heavily invested implies they would share similar resistances to anything that is so heavily invested, but we do not have a specific WoB answering that question. Hope that helps. WoBs:

That is also entirely possible. Like I said, we simply do not have enough information - but at the same time, there is likely a reason why Brandon specifically used the phrase "channel the tones." I'd guess it is also possible that it isn't a specific Command, but may be a subcouncious Intent (much like Kal drawing in Stormlight while unconcious or Vin burning Pewter the same way).

The Lost Metal (Mistborn - Era 2, Book 4). Please see the Sharder FAQ (in this case section 2 - What are all those acronyms?)

It comes up often in SA, because it is a Shin stereotype (even when not describing a Shin, it's the cultural perception of rounded eyes). Congrats. I hadn't gotten to RoW yet, but for everybody else, here's the rest of the reference - RoW Ch 12:

@Returned Had some great thoughts. I'll just chime in that, as far as I know, the SA RPG does not require player character to be Radiants. It has other classes and paths to be explored as well (such as Artefabrian). That player may find an experience closer to their preferences following one of the other availble paths.

You're likely right here, after all there has to be a way for that unnamed artist to "channel the Tones" when making the artwork. I just think that because Biochromatic Breath is primarily a PR investiture, my personal canon (pending evidence for-or-against) is that they invest themselves (similar to the Memory Command) in some way to create the Connection to the Tones (and therefore Fortune, as employed by Endowment).

References: I won't say you are wrong, because we do not have cofirmation or definitive evidence either way. I will say that it is far more likely that the orb is filled with Liquid Dor (considering it is manned by an Ire) and that the iridescence is the Dor reacting to the Highstorm (as referenced previously) allowing Light to move between realms (including back to the Spiritual Realm). You are right that it was not a dream or anything like riding the storm that Kaladin experienced a few times (though that is the only comparison he can draw), it was a direct connection to Fortune in the Spiritual Realm and closer to Kelsier's experiences in M:SH (both peeking at Ruin in the Well, and from Leras Fuzz). Hope that helps

Rather than re-hash, I'll just note that the nature of Dor in an Elantrian (Reod or not) and various Heightening-like effects were discussed at length: Plot Hole in Elantris 7th Heightening As for the Oracle, the shimmering has nothing to do with Bio-Chroma (or, at least, there is no evidence that it does) it has to do with the Nature of Investiture, as seen in the Shadesmar Sky when a Highstorm Passes, or in White Sand during Khriss' Experiments (and likely has clues to the nature of Lights). Hope that helps