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Please don't make stupid comments like this regarding adjective inclusion. I said what I believed to be correct based on the WoBs I had found. I didn't see those ones because I was looking for Odium, not Rayse. Regardless, I still don't think Odium would change his mindset. Like I said, the mindset of not changing who he is, and the mindset of being uncontested appear to be fundamental parts of him. If something were enough to change either of them, and we're talking a complete mental shift of his own volition to one that he finds distasteful, I would figure that it would actually change a lot of other parts of him as well. He might not even want to go after other shards anymore, especially once other intents start to change him, weakening the odium which has caused him to lash out at the other shards.

That's not what Brandon has said. He said that Odium was afraid that Harmony would form, two shards merged, requiring effort to split apart. This does not mean that Odium is actually afraid of Harmony, but maybe more the extra effort required to beat him. The only other source I could find for Odium being afraid of something involving Harmony is one that indicates that Odium is wary of Harmony, which is still not the same thing as fear, and doesn't seem to contradict my opinion. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9hpuvd/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/508cw8/favorite_god/d72352a/

Unlikely honestly. The selfishness of not wanting to change appears to be as much a part of his personality as the selfishness which is driving him to be the strongest in the Cosmere. People don't just concede on fundamental aspects of themselves, they keep pushing with what they currently have, not accepting change. Odium would hate to lose to anything else and for a supremely selfish person, relying on someone else's strength would the same as losing. In any case, he's proven that he's capable of fighting two shards at once. While Harmony may possess greater raw power, I would argue that fighting two shards working together would be easier. They would be more versatile in what they can do, unlike Harmony still trapped between opposing intents, one of which doesn't want to hurt people. Additionally, Odium has millennia of experience in fighting shards over Harmony.

More accurately, my opinion is that a connection is formed to the Honorblade granting surgebinding powers and the ability to dismiss it when it's being held. This connection is maintained when dismissed, as you dismissed it. I think you could form multiple connections to multiple Honorblades at the same time, therefore allowing for ability to use all ten variations of surgebinding with ten Honorblades.

You're basically bonding it if you're holding it, I don't think there's any different.

You don't need to have an Honorblade materialized to surgebind. I think that as long as you dismissed it, you have its power, as Szeth performed lashing with his Honorblade dismissed during the assassination of the king of Jah Keved.

You mean, gain the ability to use all ten variations of surgebinding? Sure, you would just need a few of the Honorblades. Via what I consider to be the natural method, by bonding spren, I don't think so. At least five ideals would likely contain too many contradictions to maintain.

@StarkA thing to keep in mind though is that Odium's current agenda of destroying the other shards is largely due to Rayse's selfish nature combined with his interpretation of Odium. Another person could take Odium and not have the same desire to murder the other shards. Therefore, it's not a definite fear that the cycle will continue if someone else takes Odium.

I'll point out that another interpretation of the quote is not that the method is the same, but rather that the resulting events are analogous.

No, because the reason people sink is because of the force of gravity pulling them downwards is less than the buoyancy pushing them upwards. Lowering mass lowers the force of gravity.

So the thing is, there are two aspects to consider: properties of the investiture and connection to a shard. You could, in all likelihood, create a form of investiture with the same properties as stormlight. It wouldn't stick to objects well because it would want to cycle through the system, it would cause a glow from the spiritual realm, etc. However, that's not all there is to stormlight, I think. In my opinion, stormlight is also connected somewhat with Honor and Cultivation, as a bit of their investiture infuses the stormlight now. That connection could not be replicated within the stormlight-analogue, so you could not create true Rosharan stormlight.

I feel like if there were a shard with a more dangerous potential then Odium would've put it higher on his list. Since Ambition is the highest, and Devotion and Dominion second highest, then this theoretical shard wouldn't be that altogether dangerous in Odium's opinion since it didn't figure that high on his list.

It's dying, not dieing. Good work.

Shards cannot be irrevocably destroyed, and the ones on Sel have not been. No matter how spread they are, I believe the fragments will maintain a connection to each other, or a memory of being connected. Mistborn Spoilers

I am so storming mad right now, it's not even funny. All that has happened is 720 people will learn that they're not the same blade.

The quote above says that most aren't sapient. They are likely all sentient. The thunderclast appears to be clearly sentient by its ability to react against the KR and its squires. Just to clarify, as quick ways to identify the two: Sentience: The ability to have perceive subjectively. Sapience: The ability to reason and apply judgement based on past experience.

I believe it's allomantic potential and strength, but not specific powers. I'll have to check for anything concrete on it.

It hasn't. He's asking if it is a thing, not asserting that it is.

@Pagerunner You do not appear to have the WoBs from this topic. https://www.reddit.com/r/brandonsanderson/comments/3wtis8/new_wob_finite_amount_of_investiture/ Edit: Sorry, not the one in the OP, but the ones by /u/Mistborn in the comments below. Here are direct links. https://www.reddit.com/r/brandonsanderson/comments/3wtis8/new_wob_finite_amount_of_investiture/cxz8yjc/ https://www.reddit.com/r/brandonsanderson/comments/3wtis8/new_wob_finite_amount_of_investiture/cxzxwfp/

Not really. You could say a lion had broken into your library and killed all your bondsmen. The action alone isn't indicative of sapience. Here's a WoB on the matter though, as Extesian posted above:

Vallano is his grandfather. He abandoned his father's name because he didn't want his father's name to be stained by his actions. Originally he was Szeth-son-Neturo. We don't know much about the Truthless, only that it seems to be a title given to those who have acted against the Shin society.

True, but it also capitalizes misting and allomancer and those should really not be capitalized in my opinion. They're not titles, they're designations. Eh, I guess whatever works them. My evening is now ruined as I'm going to brood over that.

The timelines I've found is Brandon saying that Alloy of Law takes place after Stormlight Archive 5, but that he hasn't decided when after that it will be, whether in the gap between both arcs or in the middle of the second arc.

I don't think you should be because it's not a proper noun. Mistborn isn't a title any more than misting, fullborn, or surgebinder is. It's just a designation for people possessing a certain set of powers.

I see. The fact that you capitalized it when it's not a proper noun probably threw people off.