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For one, it feels kind of weird that there would be exactly nine sapient spren varieties plus the three higher order ones. What makes it so fundamental that only nine varieties could achieve sapience? Secondly, as I said, it doesn't feel like the mistspren are the Truthwatcher spren. They don't reassemble either form of the spren that we see in the PR at all. Ym's spren looks like the light reflected through a crystal, while Glys looks like a reddish crystal snowflake. Therefore, I think it's likely that the CR version if them should look like a living crystal being, and the mistspren are just another sapient spren variety.

Yeah, because what's happening is that elsecalling creates a perpendicularity which allows you to convert your body to investiture and shift your awareness into the cognitive realm. Trying to move just one part would probably just turn your hand into investiture, or physical matter, but leave your awareness still in the other realm so you wouldn't be able to do anything with the part there.

Elsecalling doesn't work like that. It's an all or nothing transfer between realms.

His finding of Szeth isn't that altogether impressive. He could've just been following them with lashings, following Szeth as well, waiting for the perfect opportunity. As for tracking people, that is a bit funny. It has appeared to be that he has some sort of ability to detect stormlight in people, as he could tell the moment when Lift became awesome again. The tracking though, may be perhaps explained through the use of spren spies, highspren, and others affiliated with them, following other spren. Alternatively, maybe he has a fabrial with something of that function. I'd have to reread the prologue to see Eshonai's exact wording, but from what you described, I don't think he would be able to speak to the rhythms. Nor would he condone the assassination of Gavilar, as that would be illegal by Alethi law.

Correct. Nale, we know for certain because of his appearance. Kalak, we suspect because he talks about " a creature holding his lord's blade." As Szeth was there with Jezerien's honorblade, that fits. He also talks about getting worse, which could somewhat fit what we know about what is happening to the Heralds.

The rock structure the pits occupied still exist, but the WoB seems to be implying that the crystals and pits which grew atium no longer exist.

How does your definition of a canon term work for the WoB that Identity can be used to make it harder for somewhere to work SoulForgery on you? Actually, OB told us that Surges destroyed the previous world, not necessarily surgebinding. A WoB later confirmed that it's a different magic. [Source]

Yes, I think it's more likely that the Interlude was pointed more about informing us about Cusicesh. Either way, it's not entirely true that they're written for story purposes. There's a strong worldbuilding aspect in them as well.

An interesting thought, but I think it is unlikely. We were in Axies' viewpoint, and nothing in his thoughts indicated that he thought there was anything true about that idea. Also, he didn't initiate the joke, just carried it after the beggar brought up Heralds and Voidbringers.

You can theoretically use any type of investiture to fuel the usage of a manifestation of investiture. However, doing so requires a "hacking" of the magic, so that it can use a source of investiture that it's not designed to use.

Any magic system can theoretically use any version of investiture to power itself. However, each magic system seems to default to a particular type of investiture to use, and using a different type would require a type of hack. Mistborn

Maybe. My interpretation though was that it was spiritual adhesion, binding the structure back into what it wanted to be. I don't think we've seen tension yet, in any shape.

It's speculation that she will join them as she's one of the back five flashback characters and all the other orders are fairly accounted for.

I knew I remembered it glowing. Just didn't have time to check. Good job. Regarding tension, I thought Dalinar was using adhesion at that point.

As far as I'm aware, neither chromium nor nicrosil were known or in use pre-Catacendre. This doesn't make it impossible for Vasher to have obtained it though as he could've gotten it from another source, but it is fairly unlikely that he could've learned about its feruchemical properties. We don't really know enough about nicrosil feruchemy to say that it's actually storing investiture in that manner. Additionally, based on what we've seen so far of its use, it's more storing the ability to use a manifestation of investiture, not just investiture by itself.

I mean, it could deviate from its path. It would keep the same direction, but any buffet could knock it sideways or up/down. But yeah, against stationary targets it could be very powerful, as long as they have enough stormlight.

The Midnight Essence's in the vision were likely also imitating whitespines instead of people.

Kaladin can heal the shardblade cut while Szeth could not because the nahel bond is more connected with the soul, and the stormlight infuses his soul more.

Maybe. But out of the ten types of spren, four of them have massive similarities between cognitive and physical realm appearance. The only deviation we know so far is for lightspren, but we don't even have a very good description of Timbre, as far as I'm aware, other than being comet-shaped.

I don't think lurchers can burn metabolized iron, which is ionic, only elemental iron.

Yes, but he doesn't seem to disagree on the part which was trying to be fixed, was that the investiture would be from a different shard. So the implication is strong that the investiture in stormlight is the same kind of investiture which constitutes nahel bond spren, which we know to be of Honor and Cultivation.

An issue I have with this WoB is that it appears that the question itself is flawed. The Cognitive Realm is not the realm of intelligence, or intellectual strength, it's the realm of perception. Additionally, the questioner is also operating under the assumption that a realmatic fluctuation in his awareness is occurring, which hasn't been confirmed at all anywhere, and for all we know, it could just be that he's somehow more aware of the spiritual than the cognitive on a normal basis, with the Day of the Diagram being no different in that regard. Ultimately, I don't think there's any real stock in this question, as too many unanswered assumptions are being made by the questioner, which Brandon does not address.

Inference of text. Ico's father is a deadspren. His daughter has disappear to chase silly dreams of the past. Timbre said her father was killed by humans which is why she's looking to the singers. Venli and Eshonia both make sense to be Willshapers.

I think Division causes fire somehow, as a standard part of its usage.