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Not entirely. His spiritweb could've been completely detached and his soul gone to the Beyond. However, the soulstamp could've still changed the soul of the body that they had, which was "alive" as it would've still had connection to the spiritweb within the spiritual realm. Personally, I think his soul had gone on, which is why the Resealing didn't heal him properly, as they could only restore the physical to a living state, but his other realmatic parts had gone one, and the soul stamp did create an imitation of the cognitive and spiritual which had been lost.

There is a magic on Darkside for sure, but we don't know anything about it. Personally, I don't think Khriss can use any manifestations of investiture.

It's possible that Odium caused the creation of Svrakiss. However, as none of his power was left on Sel, that means that he somehow set up another process to do so, which has continued to work without his power to guide it. Personally, I don't think this is something he would care too much about, so I don't think he created them. WoB on Odium leaving none of his power behind on Sel. Spoilered for size. Regarding shades, I think that Odium is in part responsible for their existence, but once again, not because of his power being present. My opinion is that the development of cognitive shadows of some form is a phenomenon present on Threnody somewhat naturally, and that Ambition's investiture, strewn during their fight, acted upon this phenomenon and caused the formation of shades specifically.

Someone else's? No, that would probably require chrominum. Any you're holding though could, and probably would, be destroyed.

According Vorin theology, the Voidbringers they face are from Braize, which they know as Damnation. This is likely formed from the altered perception where the Singers became the Voidbringers, with the Fused coming from Braize after the Heralds release them. In the actual original usage where the humans were called Voidbringers by the Dawnsingers, their world was Ashyn.

It's highly probable that the original vessels knew what they were taking. I imagine that the shards first dropped similar to how they dropped when Leras and Vin died in HoA, and Sazed could sense a general feeling of what concept they represented before taking them.

Windrunners are able to bind the surges of Pressure and Gravitation. Skybreakers are able to bind the surges of Gravitation and Division. Now, the three lashings, as they're generally known, are as follows: Basic Lashing. which changes the gravitational vectors acting on an entity; Full Lashing, which holds objects together; Reverse Lashing, which converts an object into a gravitational center only able to act on airborne objects. So in all, Basic and Reverse Lashings use the surge of gravitation, while Full Lashing use the surge of pressure. As such, Windrunners are able to use all three lashings which cover the two surges they are able to bind, while Skybreakers can only use Basic and Reverse, while additionally being able to bind the surge of division

1.1 Earth years. 10 months of 50 days each.

Keep in mind that the current plan is for there to be a one year gap in-world between OB and the next Stormlight Archive book. Therefore, by the time we get back, the wedding will have already been a done deal.

My impression is that he was saying that it was foreshadowing for being able to gain glimpses or hints of the future in general, not just Fortune. Basically, the idea that prediction abilities can exist.

@Ookla, the Incalculable What I described is what I think Fortune is in its entirety, not just chromium feruchemy. I do not think Atium allomancy or any sort of actual sight through the spiritual realm fall under what is considered to be Fortune.

That's what I think yes. Storing it though would probably either suppress natural instinct of this nature, as well as potentially give you an instinct towards bad choices.

To quote myself from another topic: So yes, I think Fortune is more instinctive, or passive, whereas true future sight like atium is more active, where you are given an actual awareness of what is to come.

Yes, I'm well aware of this. However, as I still pointed out in my post, I don't think he was surgebinder at all, and the semantics surrounding him don't matter. Also, I don't think the establishment of the Knights Radiant had much impact on the progression on the Nahel Bond. I think the different tiers were always though.

I find it highly doubtful that Nahadon was a Bondsmith, or rather, a surgebinder of the surges of Adhesion and Tension, as he was around before the Knights Radiant as an organization was formed. Consider this exchange from Dalinar's first vision of him. - Way of Kings, Chapter 60 From these two passages at least, my impression from Nohadon is that he's casting a line between him as the king, and the surgebinders, a pattern which seems to repeat itself in his speech. Therefore, I find it unlikely that he was one. An interesting idea however, to be sure.

Preservation created the prophecies using future sight so they would know how to continue Ruin's imprisonment and eventually defeat him. Ruin then changed the wording of the prophecies so that they would tell the people to free him instead.

Just going to weigh in, I don't think chromium feruchemy actually affects what is generally referred to as luck, as in the probabilities of certain events to occur. It cannot make beneficial events which are unlikely to occur more likely simply by virtue of tapping. I think what Fortune does is that it's more about instinct, a little voice in your head that makes you think one decision is better than another. However, it uses the spiritual realm and slight emanations from the future, to make that voice suggest actions would be more beneficial to you. In other words, it can only affect events which you can operate on, by you performing actions which will make the event more beneficial for you. To make an example of a coinspinner at a casino: If they sat down at a slot machine and played 1000 times while tapping, the odds of them winning would be the exact same every time, and the odds would be the same as if they had played without tapping. However, if they had gone to a roulette wheel and tapped, they could've felt a stronger instinct for which number would be chosen, and bet accordingly. As a final example, in Harry Potter 6, when Harry drinks the Felix Felicis, from his voice he's getting an inner suggesting actions to do, as well as instinct on them being good choices. That is basically how I see tapping chromium to be. Back to the main thread, yes, I think it would be hard to kill or capture a chromium compounder if they were tapping all the time, depending on how hard they were tapping. The trick would be to attempt actions which work independently of which actions they take. A steelrunner for example, could probably handily kill them.

Ignore, I can't add correctly.

Actually, we pretty strongly do. Although the person isn't directly identified, it seems fairly likely that it's talking about Shashara.

Stormlight healing heals an Honorblade holder far more slowly and more inefficiently than stormlight healing for a radiant. However, it is still likely that he also used Regrowth to heal himself more quickly, and I would imagine, more effectively, than Shallan or Kaladin could manage.

Zahel is Vasher.

We don't, but it's highly likely that it is a Type IV Awakened Entity. As Andy92 pointed out, it's clearly not a normal shardblade, additionally with how it killed people. Also, at a later point on the Honorspren ship, Azure says that she (the sword) did not like strangers, in a way which seemed a bit extreme for object personification.

I mean, it could've been Vivienna, but since that would've required someone telling her about how to make it, I feel like it's more likely that someone who already knew how to make Type IVs made it. As to how she got it if Yesteel made it, considering the ending of Warbreaker seems to be hinting towards Vasher and Vivienna going to confront Yesteel, they could've taken it from him at that point. (My feeling is that as of SA, Vasher might be the only Scholar left, having killed the others.)

They can tax the merchants and people living in Urithru. Hmm...

Unfortunately that's not how shards work. A shard is a mass of investiture, with certain unique quirks to it. Sixteen were formed when Adonalsium was shattered. For new ones to appear, it would either requiring breaking a shard apart, which would result in underpowered entities, or merging two shards together. In any case, the Nightwatcher is a spren, a sapient mass of investiture, so it is definitely not some biological offspring of the vessel's of Honor and Cultivation. It could be that it was formed from the mixing of their investiture, but at the same time, it's possible that just Cultivation played a role in the creation of the Nightwatcher, using her investiture. I think that the latter is more likely.