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Atium being a burnable metal in allomancy is more a product of Ruin having invested in Scadrial, in my opinion. Preservation didn't change things to make that possible, but once the possibility existed, took advantage of it and manipulated the spiritual genetics to produce seer mistings, something which we know is possible.

Unkeyed metalminds does not make one a feruchemist as you still would require some other method of gaining the ability to access those stores.

As The One Who Connects said, but to add on to that:

We know the Stormfather was around before Honor's splintering as it nahel bonded in the past.

Odium's goal appears to be along the lines of destroying that which could rival him in power, currently the other shards. Standard humans, even those able to use manifestations of investiture, are likely insignificant in power for him to feel threatened by him. My opinion is that the Desolations occurred because the destruction of humanity on Roshar, in some part, would somehow result in his release from the Greater Roshar System, giving him free reign to pursue and destroy other shards.

There's a WoB that Bondsmiths never had shardblades.

Rlain wasn't in the Warcamp when they left. They found him on the Plateaus when they were nearly at the Oathgate plateau, and he was there when the Everstorm was called.

Actually, Brandon said that he would've talked about the Cosmere awareness of scholars there, not specifically the Five Scholars.

Worlds invested by shards will form a perpendicularity over time, a point where investiture has pooled. This is usually enough to make it easier to cross between realms, so I presume the Scholars used Endowment's perpendicularity.

Yeah, I've been suspicious of that myself. In any case, according to Taravangian, Moelach can move and this does affect where Death Rattles occur, so it's possible that previously, it was in a location more removed where the death rattles weren't noticed. I think this is more likely. We can't take Taravangian's word on when they started since he doesn't have full knowledge of every death occurring on Roshar.

Not necessarily. Using the adverb theoretically usually implies that within the spectrum of possibility, the event could occur, if it's not very likely. For example, it is theoretically possible for a lightweaver to create laser beams, however, practically it takes to much investiture. In this case, I think Brandon is just saying that practically, it's a possible scenario, there wouldn't need to be some super crazy set of events to make it happen.

Those are not different hemalurgic attributes. Those are a components of the same hemalurgic attribute for physical allomancy.

While The One Who Connects does make a good point there, I'll also point out another significant difference. The Mists are investiture converted into matter and are probably still very close to being investiture. It's basically the gaseous form of lerasium or the Well of Ascension. On the other hand, infused spheres are pieces of matter which have become invested, saturated with investiture. With the first, I think Nightblood would simply be releasing the matter back into investiture, matter which is would be touching, and a process which appears to be very easily achieved by the Mists normally, then consuming them. With the second, Nightblood would have to be drawing out the investiture saturating the spheres, objects which it is not even connected to or physically touching. Even if you touched the spheres to Nightblood individually, it still would not be connected to them, I don't think. Overall, I think that that WoB has too much of a gulf of difference to be that applicable. While I agree that an unwielded Nightblood wouldn't be able to do anything, a wielded Nightblood should be able consume to if you touched it to a source of investiture. After all, that's what it does whenever you strike something, converting it to investiture and consuming it... (I think.) At the very least, there's a WoB that it would consume a sprenblade it hit.

It pulls investiture from the wielder, not their peripherals. The holder would need to be infused with stormlight. While this hasn't been explicitly stated, if Nightblood can feed from spheres, it would make this answer rather pointless.

My opinion is that it's fairly clearly not a metal. Since as far as we've seen, the pure investiture of a shard usually manifests as a metal, I don't think soulstone is really anything special realmatically, just stone good for SoulForgery.

Sounds like he was talking about the connection between the Honorblade and Szeth's spiritual and physical, and its undoing.

I think there's a WoB that Nightblood would just consume a sprenblade it hits. I'll have to check.

Do you have a source that states this? As far as I know, nothing has confirmed the relationship between the Nightwatcher and Cultivation. In any case, we have plenty of WoBs that say that the Stormfather has merged with Tanavast's Cognitive Shadow, including the word of the Stormfather.

He's probably saying ship aluminum to Scadrial. It's a possibility, but aluminum isn't valuable for it's properties in the Final Empire as it isn't really known about. No one seems to know about it allomancy-immune properties at that time.

How is the leecher burning aluminum? Do you mean chromium? The ten heartbeats is a mechanistic part of summoning dead sprenblades, at least in some part, not a complete perception-induced requirement.

It's stated that they ignored the first child of a God King who was a girl in favor for the second child which was a boy. Seems like they want male heirs specifically. My theory is that either it's cultural patriarchy, or the priests don't know how to make female Returned have offspring (Another reason why they have don't have the wife be another Returned). Edit: I'll note though that we don't actually know that the actual children of previous God Kings who became the next God King weren't children of female Returned, as far as I know.

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The downvote was probably because it was originally in the wrong subforum.

Syl directly told him though that the Honorblade would grant the holder Windrunner powers though. We don't actually see him surgebind with it though, so hard to say if his powers were actually affected.

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