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Lightspren, the Reachers, are more likely to be Willshaper spren.

As the Ars Arcanum says, they store calories and nutrients, not the food directly. It probably pulls the nutrients being stored from the bloodstream directly.

When you say Final Desolation, are you referring to the Aharehtiam, the Last Desolation when the Heralds abandoned their duties, or the True Desolation, which is happening right now?

You like diagrams don't you? Everything should have a spiritual and cognitive. The beads on Roshar are the cognitive representation of spiritual. Dead sprenblades exist in the cognitive.

Nice picture. If we also take it as stormlight being able to enumerate different roughness of surfaces, then that gives different degrees of friction reduction, as well as increasing friction.

I consider the Oathpact to have been formed during the first Desolation, and what was before was just a large-scale war between two groups. Either way, that could work. I don't support this theory though. I think the Unmade were just made directly from Odium's power, at the start.

My counter point isn't adhesion. Forget what I said about adhesion, Master_Moridin gave a better explanation for how it would increase friction.

Personally I don't think the mistspren are a nahel bond spren, just another type of sapient spren. I think the Truthwatcher spren should look very crystalline.

The first real Desolation, according to the Stormfather, was when Odium created the Fused. The Oathpact in response was to bind them.

That's exactly my point though.

Personally I think it's more likely that a thin layer of stormlight is forming between both objects, producing a similar effect whereby the two surfaces aren't touching. Similar to when you oil something and it becomes slippery. I admit that this doesn't explain how it would increase friction. Perhaps though it's doing small full lashings, instead of fully sticking, just catching on the surface instead. Probably the best example in the book against the EM theory for abrasion is OB Spoiler

Pewter doesn't heal you though, it just improves your physical body, including natural healing. I don't quite understand the parallel you're drawing between pewter and stormlight.

No, allomantic pewter just seems to improve the physical body. Strength, stability, stamina, self-repair. It doesn't seem to extend to the spiritual in any way. Maybe. But I don't think conventional healing in the Cosmere, like gold feruchemy, can undo changes due to savantism, because those are fundamentally changing your spiritual aspect, not exactly damaging it.

Because in a physical body, they would are somewhat alive again. His restriction likely doesn't work against cognitive shadows when they are in the cognitive realm due to them not being physically alive.

From Peter above. Nonplussed in this case was to mean unperturbed. She wasn't confused by it.

Finish the book then ask questions.

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No you wouldn't. The investiture that composes those entities are still part of the shard that created them. All that would be needed would be to connect the shards back together into one entity, instead of the divided entities that exist now. Reclaiming the investiture would only be needed if you wanted to make use of it in some way.

Maybe. Jasnah's speculation that it was just large amounts of stormlight seems likely though, after she rejected the idea of soulcasting being involved.

The spren in the city had devices to transfer stormlight from their spheres into the perfect gems. I think it's possible that artifabrians have similar devices as well.

They would be glowing the same because they would still be containing Odium's investiture. That makes up voidlight, and gives shape to the Unmade. I would think that gems containing Unmade would have to be of the same size as the perfect ruby. Personally I think that BAM is trapped somewhere in Kholinar, and that Gavilar used it to fill up gems with voidlight, as BAM was noted to have been a source of voidlight in the past.

True, except that Telrii was killed near the end of the book.

It probably is coincidental. I doubt there's a true pattern to the shards. Brandon himself has even said it that people have a tendency to look for patterns in things, regardless of whether there is a true pattern or not.

OB Spoiler At least, more likely than atium which as the Ventures still didn't have access to. Obligators dealt with the opening of the geodes and the removal of atium, with House Venture transporting empty geodes to Luthadel. The Ventures, like all other nobles, only had access to the few beads of the yield which TLR sold to them.