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For that we would need a Zahel book that happens after Stormlight (the Nightblood book is also before Stormlight). Big Sacrifice in a series that isn't about him - crappy idea.

Considering that Stormlight is converted into energy for the movement, I don't think oscillation would be efficient use of Stormlight, since you would have to provide power to both accelerate and stop the gem. It's like trying to cause oscillation using electric energy - a gigantic power hog. Using hears and springs would be probably more cost effective. More effective use of the power would be mirroring Railguns since they are the best IRL examples of transforming raw power source into projectiles. If projectiles are small half the energy would go into stopping the Gem, but it the projectiles are big, most energy would go into the projectile, and residual energy would be enough to stop the gem because of comparatively small size.

While I would personally hide the spoilers, the chapter that we got is more of a WoB than a chapter honestly. It was released during RoW release, and I think it's purpose was mostly to recontextualise the Harmony epigraphs from RoW, and make them a bit more scary.

This all happens during SA book 10 Cultivation wanted Vargo as Odium, because he is so prideful that he could be guided into making an error that would allow Cultivation to kill him. Probably she would make him break a promise he made to a mortal. THe big victory would be Radiants worcing this breaking of promise Cultivation kills him, but Odium's power rages out searching for a vessel, and Cultivation isn't strong enough to properly splinter it Dalinar is fused at the time, Odiums favourite, the power obviously chooses him Cultivation contacted Navani before everything happend, told her the probabl;e future, and told heer what to do Navani gets to Dalinar who starts ascending, starts Bondsmithing on him, and sings Rhythm of Honor to initiate Rythm of War Dalinar realises what she is doing, Sings Rhythm of Odium and they join the Rhythms into Rhythm of War As the former Quasi-Honor, and brand new Odium, he is capable to command the entire power to start fusion Powers of Odium and Honor diffuse into each other, basically half the power of Odim replaces the Splintered half the power of Honor that was Splintered, creating Shard of War, who has half of his Investiture invested and the other half free. As Composite Shards, War and Harmony are in internal conflict, and have limited control over their people, and with Cultivation just ghosting everybody again war between Roshar and Scadrial starts. Mistborn Era 4

I think that this is too deep to be probable, considering that we don't even know if gems are indeed weaker. If we knew for a fact that gems are weaker, and Sanderson needed them to be weaker for some reason, I could accept this theory as probable, but with our current state of knowledge, I think it uses too many levels of depth to be accurate.

There were 3 people who met Cultivation personally that we know of, Dalinar (of Honor) Taravangian (of Odium) and Lift, who got really close to her. Also Wyndle can die now that there is anti Stormlight, and she is supposed to be one of the future main characters of Stormlight.

That might be also why soulcasters break gems. When you pull Stormlight too fast it might also pull a bit of material like a fast water stream.

I assumed that was what you meant, I was listing of two theories, that it might be brittle because of organic growth, and that Szeth used subconcious division. That would make sense considering that perfect gems are so rare, and most gems are gemhearts. Also a relevant wob, that bight be connected to how easily the break: Overlord Jebus So you've previously described gemhearts as Investiture leaking into the Physical Realm in a similar kind of process to atium. Now atium had a way of-- the Investiture used in the creation of it-- of returning back to the kind of background pool of Investiture on Scadrial. Is there a way of the Investiture used in the creation of gemhearts to return to the Roshar Investiture pool? Brandon Sanderson Yes. Overlord Jebus There is? Have we had any hints of it at all? Brandon Sanderson Yes. Oathbringer London signing (Nov. 28, 2017)

You can not create gemstones with Soulcasting. You can create Aluminium with Soulcasting, but you can not Soulcast it into something else. Their situation is very much different. I'm pretty sure that Shallan used gems as focus points for illusions to make them hold longer.

They are grown organically, Most of Rosharian gems are gemhearts from diferent crabs. Chasmfiends gemhearts are so desired for just because they are big, and their gemhearts are big. He is a Skybreaker with surge of division, I don't think he needs Nightblood to crack some gems. He might have used the power unintentionally like Kalladin attracting arrows.

...Does the prose version count? It was a below average Sanderson novel, which means that it was a very good novel. And I can't afford to buy Graphic Novels, they are a real money sink comparing price to content ratio... Also prose was free... There is a reason for why I've read so many webnovels, and so few ebooks lately.

It also happened in Moash's talks with Odium. Odium has to appear as Singer because of his whole human genocide plan. To Dalinar he (presumably) showed his real self, to gain sympathy and a bit more trust. Anyway: The fact that Cultivation is taking weird inhuman shapes, while Tanavast takes a consistent human shape, in my opinion is a further proof that Tanavast isn't a Dragon. As a former shapeshifter, she probably wouldn't be content with a single locked form, while a human would consider a locked form as something natural. Tanavast is a shard of Honor. Having a human shape while not being human is a kind of deception, and would not mesh well with his shard. Tanavast didn't have to be a Dragon to be immortal and have relationship with Cultivation. Hoid is immortal, and they had access to the same magic system at the time.

~Cultivation's plan. ~Cultivation's plan ~Sidequest proposed by a mortal subordinate. ~Sidequest proposed by a mortal subordinate. ~Honestly exterminating humanity wouldn't be that much better for him. Cultivation wrecked his entire plan based on having Dalinar, and he decided to cut the losses, since at that time he was bacisally wasting soldiers that could be used against other Shards. In other words: His plans were defeated by Cultivation, (who was pretending to be inactive, and in fact made power move after power move) and only plans of his mortal subordinates were actually stopped by the Radiants. Cultivation is probably the best futuresight user. Ruin only lost because Preservation made a plan that encompassed everything. In other words when Shards fail it's because of another Shard that is better at planing decides to storm them over.

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The biggest problem for me is the difference between one entity and two entities. But BAM is old, probably older than Oaths, therefore as unbounded Bondsmith, and a Singer - a being that has a Gemheart, the Mishram(?) might have done something crazy, like increasing their Connection far beyond what is reasonable, and to become in a way Fused with her Spren Ba(?) to become Ba Ado Mishram...

While not disagreeing or agreeing with main theory to this: I think this is mainly connected to how Venli said that "Those Rocks remember song that shaped them". The Dawncities were probably all made by the songs of ancient Singers, with use of ancient Surges.

Marsh taking of glasses to show his Iron Eyes to someone is the ultimate aesthetic.

I would try alloying harmonium with Uranium, and then putting it into fission reactor. A loot of flying neutrons would probably enter Harmonium eventually, and start radioactive decay. Even if pure investiture particles wouldn't want to leave the atom, like Preservation protons wouldn't want to leave the rest of preservation protons and neutrons, the new neutron could beta decay, creating proton and pushing two metals from inside away. Anyway with enough neutrons flying around any atom would eventually split. Everything Scadrians need to do is put enough of the Uranium and Harmonium in one place, (and make sure it won't explode, which is kind of the hardest part, since there should be no risks).

When powers are in pairs Interference(Shallan's memory, Kalladin's squires, Waxilium's anti-bullet shield) is the strongest, so mabye that was what they were going for. A lot of things in Roshar are divided in pairs of fives, with one half to Honor, and the other to Cultivation, but I think it has more to do with 10 as 2*5 beeing focus chosen be a pair of gods than there beeing two main numbers. So I think that five is importand but as a patr of 10

Hemalurgy causes more damage that Shardblade-cutting. While severed arm after healing could be a bit numb/stiff/unresponsive, hemalurgy causes increased agression, sadism (as Sanderson said you don't want to many spikes in your body), beeing more open to outside influences, and general soul twisting (at least while beeing granted, but it would be reasonable if it worked also while stealing since it causes more raw damage to the soul). So after Shardblade scars your body might feel weird. After Hemalurgy scars you might become deformed monster. It would be interesting if it worked like muscles, regrowing stronger after beeing damaged during training. Could create an interesting character. A Nightblood-type missstake.

He was just as suprized when a tree was thrown at him. He is aware of Rock's enormous strength, but he is not used to it.

The most rational answer for how Adonalsium was shattered is some kind of weakness within Adonalsium that could be exploited. Adonalsium seems to have been something closer to force than a person, just like Dor and Mists. But even if it was aware like a Splinter, it still was a force of creation, and might have created something capable of destroying it (mabye Dawnshards? who knows?). But even in that case we can assume that Shards wouldnt be that stupid, and wouldn't be defeated unless you have got anti-shard weapon from other shard or leftover from Adonalsium. Nightblood might be effective against Dor, because it is now a blind cognitive storm without rational thoughts, but any alive shard would push back, and push back hard.

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We have seen Honor's Perpendicularity when Dalinar did his thing. Moreover it was said that Honor's Perpendicularity can be used as the gateway to Shadesmar - and I really doubt that you could do that with Highstorm, othervise with the knowledge of their Spren, the Kalladin and his friends in Oathbringer would try to catch up to the Sphere of Highstorm that Kalladin touched and use it to transport themselves back to Phisical Realm. Yes Investiture causes Perpendicularity, but that only enforces idea that the places where Perpendicularity are, are resting places for Investiture. Especially considering how Shardpools in Mistborn were collectng used Investiture in diffrent forms (I know that cicrumstances were diffrent, but both of the Shardpools were collecting Investiture in diffrent ways and for diffrent reasons, what seems to imply that they are good places to collect investiture).

Every Shard we know of carries a prependicularity, and some ot them carry multiple ones - like Autonomy and Honor. While Highstorm is a perpendicularity, there is always another one (that is moving). Shardpool-Prependicularities seem to be gateways AND resting place for Investiture that automatically form during Investing on a planet or system. I don't thing that Unmade, even if they all were as strong as Stormfarthe could replace a Shardpool, especially that they could be probably destroyed. Moreover Odium is invested mainly in Braize, and all Unmade are currently on Roshar, and if all Odiums perpendicularities were on Roshar he should also be mainly invested in Roshar. I could dig theory of secoundary Perpendicularity (like the one Autonomy made in one of short stories in Arcanum) and his main one on Braize beeing intact.