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    So... a Type-IV Awakened Entity by definition. I'm not sure what the rest of your comment to me is correcting me on because I never said they were the same.
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    A general thought is that aluminum in the Cosmere has stronger mechanical properties than real world aluminum, as it seems to withstand stresses which aluminum normally cannot do, even with alloying.
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    Preservation just made it autonomous, so he, Leras, wouldn't have to make a conscious decision to act that way every time. He ripped out a part of his mind and molded it into an autonomous mind with a bit of power bound to it such that it was able to act to counter most of Ruin's actions. This left Leras free to do whatever he wanted, which wasn't much since he had lost most of his mind. It was probably just an efficiency thing, since Leras probably didn't want to spend all his time watching Ruin and countering his actions as they happened, and wanted to be able to act in other ways.
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    Like what Cal said. The power that Nightblood exhibits is not present by default in other Type IV Awakened Entities. Like all awakening, the results are due to the command and visualization of the awakener at the time of awakening. Shashara visualized something weird to make it work, and as a result Nightblood is really weird. Whoever made Azure's sword probably did something similar, while still achieving a significant ability on the weapon.
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    All the shards are mindless without a vessel. Wasn't my intention to allude to that. I still think he's just hatred, but the enforcement of hatred upon others consumes the other emotions.
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    Except that's not necessarily what the shard of Odium is. It's just how it's being interpreted as by its current vessel. To say that it's irrational is also fairly incorrect. A large part of Odium's actions is playing off of Rayse's fears and selfishness, which means that someone with different outlooks could use the shard in a more benign way. While it's true that Odium does seem leave a lot less room for positive actions than Cultivation or even Ruin, to say that it would be absolutely bad is very limiting in my opinion. On Rayse and Odium
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    True, but I think that at the end, Era 4 won't be tied that much to Scadrial and the Metallic Arts, and there will still be significant influences from other series, so it won't just feel like a Mistborn story. Brandon has talked about this, and has said that approaching the end, there may be books which require significant background reading from multiple series to understand.
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    This is pretty relevant and kind of explains why MBE4 will be significant towards the end of the Cosmere.
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    Rithmatist was originally planned to be part of the Cosmere as the token Earth story. As both Rithmatist and Steelheart came out in the same year, I suspect that at that point, it was well decided that Reckoners would not be part of the Cosmere, and that Brandon had decided that Earth in its entirety would not be a part of the Cosmere. Brandon has talked about Rithmatist bearing an example of an entity demonstrating a realmatic property that he wanted to go into more detail later on, but won't using that entity since Rithmatist isn't Cosmere. As far as I'm aware, I haven't seen any WoBs where he talked about pulling Reckoners out of the Cosmere. The general feel has always been that Reckoners would stand in its own continuum. Relevant WoBs in spoiler
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    Relevant: Personally, I don't think using hemalurgy to grant someone powers has the same effect as just introducing allomantic or feruchemical potential to their inheritance.
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    I think it's just referencing ten different types, like the the different variations of surgebinding.
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    A human soul would likely interfere with standard awakening. At this point you're deviating from standard awakening which is imbuing life and some semblance of awareness into an unaware object with the enhancement of a human soul into a different vessel. Of course, this all assumes that a Bondsmith is capable of what you're suggesting, which I don't think is possible.
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    I agree with what @Weltall said. I think that the Radiants wouldn't have wanted Urithiru to be permanently abandoned, so they left one gate open, but in the most inconvenient place possible to prevent people from accidentally using it to get to the city. Also, the thick layer of crem sealing the chamber makes it extremely likely that no one has actually used the Oathgate in awhile. Either way, in an earlier interlude, Szeth talks about using lashings to leave Urithiru.
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    The highstorms probably are giant siphons when on the other side, sucking up water.
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    This WoB has been held to debate regarding how accurate it is and my opinion on it is that he does not have the ability to naturally perform feruchemy, and that that paraphrased WoB was due to a misinterpretation of Brandon. Most damning is this later WoB, which while still paraphrased, more specifically has Brandon saying that he uses the same underlying principles, not necessarily feruchemy itself. A fair number have taken that to mean that he might not have natural ability. That doesn't mean that he can't perform feruchemy though, as Brandon has said that he does have unkeyed metalminds, but he could've obtained it in an artificial manner, such as with medallions.
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    True, but as long as there are not contradictions or inconsistencies, what the author says is truth, at that point in time. That's fair, but in the absence of any other information, Brandon can't be wrong on this subject. At most, he hasn't explained more on the matter that he has conceived.
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    How can Brandon be wrong about a made-up system that he made-up? There can be aspects of the Cosmere that you don't agree with because you think there better-fitting explanations. There are some parts that I don't agree with at all, but his explanations are ultimately absolutely right unless he corrects a prior statement.
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    Per Vorinism, Nohadon is perfectly symmetrical since 'h' can be used as a wild character to balance out others while having a different sound. Like Dalinar said though, it isn't his real name, and he shouldn't have responded to it at the time, so whatever that vision was, it was a a lot less real than the ones Honor made.
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    The scene during the battle where Adolin finds her with fading geometric shapes has been thought by some to be indicative of her dismissing her shardplate. Maybe she didn't want to stand out more than she already was.
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    Seems unlikely to be something natural since it involves such an extreme deviation in realmatic nature.
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    Essence of Spark. It's been described as turning the object into actual fire, and if you made it into a highly flammable object then it would still need an ignition source somehow, universally over the whole volume that burns quickly while releasing hardly far less energy than a substance of that nature would normally release.
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    Yeah, that's what Wyndle proposed in the interlude. Touching Wyndle might be more than that though, also a product of being bonded to him, since she hasn't made any note, that I recall, of her touching other spren.
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    An interesting thought, but I think voidbinding is Roshar, and since magic systems are the result of a shard's power interacting with the world, this means that for voidbinding to have been used on Ashyn, it would've had to have been brought there from Roshar and used.
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    In the real world they also wouldn't expect us to memorize a massive amount of information on a normal basis. Exams are usually poorly written in that regard.
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    No, voidbinding would still make use of the same Surges, just in different ways.
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