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Chances are fairly strong that Kelsier has not gone off-Scadrial yet. As a cognitive shadow, he is in fact tied to it, so leaving Scadrial would be fairly difficult. Not impossible, there are workarounds as we know of other cognitive shadows which have managed to, but I'm not sure he has been able to achieve that level of understanding of realmatics, nor would he want to. There's too much still to be done on Scadrial.

Yata is not suggesting that the Oathpact creation involved Odium in the agreement. He's saying that what the Oathpact does is affecting Odium and indirectly keeping him bound there.

It's a good book. The only problem is as people have said, the third book has been taking forever because Rothfuss wrote himself into a hole, so after Name of the Wind you'll probably read and finish Wise Man's Fear then get really disappointed.

It does confirm that the person is male, therefore meaning that the recipient is not Cultivation.

Never heard of those. I mainly read the ones that come after the 6th movie, surrounding the main cast: Han, Luke, and Leia, and their resulting families. If you are looking for an interesting set of Star Wars books, I would suggest reading the Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn.

Hmm. I could be wrong actually. I felt pretty sure that I had seen it in a WoB, but I wasn't certain and I can't find it now. I'll remove that line, but if I find the WoB I'll post it.

You mean old canon before they relaunched with Force Unleashed or new canon, based off of the universe around Force Unleashed?

We have WoB that Odium has left no power behind on Sel. An analysis of his motivations would indicate that as well; Odium, or rather Rayse influenced by Odium, wants to become the most powerful being in the Cosmere. Leaving behind his power on another world would be counter-active. My opinion is that the Desolations occurred and continue to occur because Odium is trying to leave the Roshar system by breaking that which binds him there. While the Knight Radiants and other human forces wouldn't directly cause Odium to lose, by defeating the voidbringers, the force he has arrayed to break his bonds, he would still effectively lose personally. This is because he desires to be uncontested in the Cosmere, the most powerful being. Trapped in the Greater Rosharan System, unable to do anything else while Harmony gains his power and other shards of equal strength are free to move as they will is loss for him. So yes, it is possible for them to convince him he can lose without a new holder of Honor appearing, by doing what they have done in the past, survive a Desolation and defeat the voidbringers. Once again, as I said above, Honor's champion is in no way going to face Odium directly, only his champion. The power of the shard will not be necessary. Personally, I don't think the story is going to end with someone else drawing upon Honor's power and ascending to save the day, because Brandon has already done that in Mistborn. Also, it is unlikely he's going to end it with a major element from another story because I believe I have read somewhere that he wishes SA to be largely self-contained; you don't need to read other books to understand the major and minor story elements.

He's going to write it after SA 3.

Secret History is better after BoM

Very true. My point was mainly that the gold wouldn't heal stuff which occurs as a result of aging like cellular degeneration and the build-up of substances in the body. You wouldn't die to non-age related things, but you would still weaken and could die before 100 anyways.

There isn't an Odium problem on Sel. Nothing of Odium is currently on Sel. Anyhow, what you're missing is that Honor's champion would not beat Odium, they would beat Odium's champion. The champion is not stronger than Odium, they would be stronger than Odium's champion. You probably need to reread that passage. The long and short of it is that Honor is telling them that if they can make Odium think that he may lose in this Desolation, as he had many times before in the previous Desolations, he may choose to appoint a champion instead. In that case, someone would become Honor's champion and the two would fight, the winner dictating the winner of the fight between the shards. Honor is saying that they're doomed unless they make this happen, since there's no other way to defeat Odium. I imagine that there is some sort of system in place, created by Honor's power which would enforce the meaning of the fight between champions. Probably because his power is constrained by the same force which is keeping him bound to the system.

The Dor might be more combined investiture than just Dominion, but its usage is most certainly not more powerful than Dominion. In addition, the Dor has been noted to be constrained, so that its full power cannot be used against Odium. This follows Odium's goals to prevent anything with the power to contest him from rising up.

Yeah, that's probably the best usage for it.

Ruin could change the memories in copperminds too because feruchemy was created from his power as well as Preservation's power, so nothing would actually be prevented. This was noted by the metal tablet written by Rashek's uncle, which is why overall the only way to stop Ruin from changing your words is by writing it in metal.

No, Wyndle said that they were considering bonding him, not that they had already started the process. Also, a person can be bonded to two people at once, so maybe he was bonded to Wyndle and the Truthwatcher spren but then accepted the Truthwatcher path over the Edgedancer one.

Actually, I've had a similar thought. Also, if you break up the songs, you'll notice three categories essentially: forms of power, forms of gods, and forms umattributed. My theory in the matter is that the unattributed forms are those which existed before C&H arrived. Then they gave the Listeners the forms of gods by creating new spren for them to bond to. Finally the forms of power are those created when bonded to a voidspren, as a result of the Unmade.

Fair enough. But it would negate the advantages proposed.

It has been confirmed that the boundary of time bubbles interfere with nearly all forms of investiture. In other words, you can't steelpush on something or riot someone outside a bubble when you're inside.

Based on what we saw in a vision, they appear to be formed when a spren animates stone. There is no doubt more to the process, but it seems likely that they are just animated constructs, not true creatures.

In Cosmere, death due to advanced age has dependencies on your spiritual age, which gold feruchemy cannot affect. It seems to be that a specie is templated for a certain age, and when they reach it spiritually they die. In other words, the spiritual age causes the physical death inevitably, and gold feruchemy cannot stop that because how you change/heal yourself using it stems from your spiritual aspect. Atium feruchemy gets around that by using compounding to lessen your spiritual age. As such, physical age isn't exhibited, and related deficiencies, are not exhibited. Warbreaker spoilers

It's probably just drawing the innate investiture, like what Nightblood can feed on.

The entity could've meant three things: 1) Actual servitude as a cognitive shadow. Possible, but that means that there would've had to have been a source of investiture on hand to anchor Edwarn Ladrian. Strikes me as unlikely as generally speaking cognitive shadows can't do much. Although, since they are using hemalurgy he could act as a spy, free to move around then whisper to the minds of those with spikes and strong connections to him. 2) Actual afterlife, which I'm assuming you mean to be the Beyond. Practically no chance. Brandon has made it fairly clear that he's never dipping into the Beyond nor bringing characters back from it. 3) Metaphorically speaking, it could've been talking about how the religion of Trell did have a conceptual afterlife he could serve in. I don't know enough about Trellism to say for certain.

I believe that Lift does understand that she needs stormlight in order to surgebind; Wyndle has certainly explained it enough times to her. However, she chooses to think about it as awesomeness to her personally because it fits how she views the world more easily. In general though, I think it has been said that for Lift, converting to stormlight is easier than drawing it from spheres because she's not practiced at drawing it from spheres, nor does she ever try.

I believe Nale was referring to voidspren and other Odium-aligned splinters which travel between the worlds in order to cause the Desolations.