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Unfortunately, surgebinding does seem to be biased towards representing the lighteyed people as being superior.

This is Dragonsteel information that we'll probably learn in fifteen years.

Words of Radiance spoilers

There are a number of factors which make this possible outside of pure strength against strength. You'll have to analyze the situation a bit more thoroughly before you can just use it an argument for a pewterarm being stronger. In any case, don't forget that Elend is a far stronger allomancer than anyone else at the time, so the strength he manifests says little about whether a general pewter burn could match a koloss strength.

@teknopathetic TLR was a sliver, not a splinter. Slivers are people who have held and released a large portion of power, splinters are sentient pieces of investiture.

The pictures are not appearing for me unfortunately.

@Khyrindor Odium intentionally fused both shards into the Dor. Also, this topic is edging into full Cosmere Theory territory.

Sazedium does sound worse than harmonium.

Harmonium has a slight imbalance towards Ruin's power. That's probably where the extra power went.

I think there's a WoB that says that only people with a connection to Endowment can return, and who are holding breath. I'll have to check.

Windspren and honorspren are fairly close. We don't know what the other type of nahel bond spren are. There are maximum three bondsmiths and they each bond a different spren the Stormfather being one of them, or presumably the Rider of the Storm from before the Recreance. All spren are small bits of power. No reason why they cannot bind surges to a small degree on their own. The surges are not a concept linked only to the nahel bond spren; rather, the nahel bond spren are the only ones who bond with humans in order to give them the power to surgebind. The surges are just specific underlying mechanisms of the Cosmere, which have received special attention on Roshar, likely due to the fact that they are manipulated by surgebinding. If surgebinding didn't exist, then the surges wouldn't be anything special, as gravity wouldn't be anything special over tension, for example.

Really, I don't see why you're so obsessed with the military strength of Nightblood. Obviously using Nightblood in large scale combat is useless. The investiture requirements would be too preventative. However, I'm sure that Shashara could've gotten around that particular flaw. Then you would have the means to producing shardblades as you see fit. One person, armed with a slightly weaker Nightblood, but no longer requires constant investiture, could take down a large number of people, if properly trained and armored. At that point you're looking at a huge return in value, as you have paid a thousand breaths, not even a thousand people, they can still do things, and you're getting in return a weapon with the potential to kill well over a thousand people in its lifetime, which may not have a limit. Moving forward, the argument that the wielder could fall to mundane weapons is fairly moot. First of all, by that time they've probably already killed a large number of people, as the shardbearer in your example did. Additionally, it doesn't solve the problem of the fact that the weapon is still in existence and capable of killing a lot more people. Looking at shardblades as an example, someone holding them is able to be killed by mundane means, yet they're still used despite that, because you can kill a lot of people effectively in the process. You tried to make this a "super weapon beaten by a regular weapon" argument, except it isn't one. It's a "quality vs. quantity" one, and while quantity will eventually win, the Cosmere's still stuck with the weapon. Vasher wasn't concerned with making an unbeatable warrior as far as I can tell, he was concerned with creating weapons which would be used to kill a lot of people over the course of their potentially unlimited lifetime. More so, the knowledge that those kinds of weapons can be created would cause a gigantic arms race, which could potentially result in a lot of people being hurt in order to obtain their breath, because you can "convince" someone to give you their breath using torture. There would definitely be ambitious people out there who would try to make a lot of shardblades using awakening. Additionally, once you have a number of these weapons that can be made, unlike shardblades, you would start to see a quality race, where people would try to create weapons which can trump the ones already in existence, research which would once again consume a lot of breaths. None of this even addresses how dangerous or powerful Type IV Awakened Entities could be once you move past direct combat applications. So overall, there was a definite cause for Vasher's concern. Edit: tl;dr: Vasher's issue was not that you could create an invincible warrior, but rather that inevitably, every shardblade like Nightblood which was made would result in a lot of people dying over the course of its lifetime.

The medallions which allowed the Southerners to talk in the Basin language used connection to the land. I think it's a WoB. It was a simile. There's a WoB that the Well and the Pits are no more.

3. Compounding replaces the allomantic effect. 7. You don't need to move while storing. You still possess a quantity of that attribute even if you aren't using it and that's what you're storing, not the actual action. Wakefulness is the only attribute which can be stored while sleeping. 9. I believe it can only destroy burnable metals. 13. The sense stored on the tinmind extremely amplified, nothing else. 14. Odium isn't evil/anti anything. Shards cannot hold those classification as they are essentially tools, although with a desire to be used in certain way. Just like how the shape of a broadsword makes one more prone to cutting things with it then using it as a fence post, so too does the shard influence its holder to use it in a certain way. (Not exactly.) Odium influences the holder to hate others and act accordingly. This is not necessarily evil (Rayse just is a very bad match). In any case, aluminum nullifying investiture is likely due to its nature, not some creation by a shard. 15. That would require there to be atium around, which I don't think is currently the case since Harmony removed the pits where it formed.

Shardblades... possibly. It hasn't exactly been qualified regarding the Investiture spren are composed of, but another WoB does suggest you can make spren out of stormlight. Therefore, I'm willing to say that it is theoretically possible, but probably not practically due to the amount of Investiture that would be needed. I don't know what shardplate is made out of, so I can't say for certain either, but since it does repair itself using stormlight, the answer is probably "theoretically yes."

Have you checked the Coppermind page for each character?

Emperor's Soul spoilers

They probably just had feruchemical medallions because feruchemy is more utilitarian than allomancy. No reason why they can't create allomantic medallions. Also, was it stated that they didn't have any coinshots? Even so, they probably had a medallion for steel allomancy for someone to use to power the ship.

No. The primer cube doesn't continue Wax's push against the plate. That was just to launch them from the greater ship. The cube activated the propellers on the craft to keep them up and move them. I'll be honest, I'm not sure what you're quite saying, but it sounds like one of us is misremembering what exactly happened.

When did it say he pushed on an ettmetal plate? I thought it was just a regular plate to get them airborne, then the ettmetal core cube used Wax's allomantic power to move the fans and keep them airborne.

That's the one I was referring to. The others don't have a timer because she's still aware of herself as a forger under their effects.

Well, Renarin named himself as a Truthwatcher, which is the main source. Unless you have some reason to doubt him, I don't see why we shouldn't take it as fact for now.

How was it not?

Death of personality? Which one was that?