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Yeah, that's where I drew my interpretation of at least one millennia after the Last Desolation, though 2 - 2.5 seems more correct.

It is hard to say. I've seen that WoB. Regardless, I don't think it actually matters too much were he is invested, since he can influence all three planets in the Greater Roshar System anyways. My interpretation is that he is invested into Roshar because we know voidbinding is a thing. Since it's a result of a shard's investiture into a planet, it would require a shard to have invested into it. Also, we don't actually know about whether Odium has a perpendicularity (which may or may not be a shardpool, I think not all perpendicularities are shardpools), and if so, where it is, nor do we know the number on Roshar, as far as I can tell.

I think it's more likely that he's invested into Roshar since voidbinding is a thing on Roshar. Invested into Roshar still allows him to influence the Greater Roshar System which is how he can focus on Braize more, relatively speaking.

Brandon might do that just to screw with us. Though honestly he won't, because those who actually are aware wouldn't be fooled because they know his stance on the Beyond.

Regarding the highprinces reading, it is of course possible that they could. However, you have to bear in mind it could actually be dangerous. If you accidentally let it show, such as gazing at an important text because you need to read it, or something of the like, then people would suspect and you could be politically ruined. As @The One Who Connects pointed out, it is possible as Taravangian can read woman's script (see edit), but also bear in mind that most people consider him to be a slightly dim but kindly man, so little political harm could be done. (Also reminds me that I should try to pick it up, for kicks) Edit: I'm 99.9% there's a point where he is reading, so it is confirmed he can. Besides, he made up a language for the Diagram. Chances are that he could read before he did that, so that that could be possible. In addition, I don't see how he could've acquired the information required to formulate the Diagram unless he could read, since personally, I find that reading to yourself is way faster than reading aloud.

I'd say there is a limit. Every object seems to have a limit as to how much investiture it can hold, and I doubt stormlight is any exception. In addition, it also appears that stormlight leaves a body more quickly as the amount of stormlight they're holding increases, so I imagine a soft limit would be reached where the stormlight would leave as quickly as it entered.

At the very least it has been confirmed that Honor's shattering occurred after the Last Desolation, and there were definitely Knight Radiants around at that time.

Sorry about that, my bad. You were so involved I thought you had initiated it.

Eh, not really. The way I see it is that she's not creating the stormlight from the food, because that honestly makes no sense. The food is not made from stormlight, so you shouldn't be able to make stormlight from food unless you're really good at crossing investiture pathways. When he's saying that she metabolizes it into investiture, what I think he's saying is that instead of metabolizing it into sugar, she's shifting it into a state where it is then used to create a gate so that she can access the spiritual realm where the investiture which forms stormlight is, like how metals are burned in order to access the spiritual realm where Preservation's power is stored. I was going to say that there was no evidence to support that you can't feed the body with stormlight, before I realized there actually could be, so I'm going to have to defeat my own argument. As you say, hunger is felt when the body needs nutrients. Stormlight can be used to regenerate the body. Therefore, it could be argued that while stormlight is internalized, it could be passively used to regenerate nutrient-starved cells instead of actually giving them the nutrients. Therefore you could be correct. It would also explain why she suddenly becomes hungry when she runs out of stormlight, like after surgebinding or when the larkin ate her investiture. Nonetheless, I still disagree with the theory that she is creating a lot of stormlight at a point in the day. That she is collectively calling her nutrients and stormlight awesomeness makes more sense to me, along with the fact that she is drawing in stormlight as she needs to. There is also the fact that using stormlight to stave off hunger would be probably less efficient than just having the nutrients since the stormlight would be both leaking from the body as normal and would be used to regenerate cells, which I also think would require more stormlight than the same amount of nutrients would give. Two more points. Please don't double post and please edit the topic title to indicate that it contains Mistborn spoilers. I would hate for someone to accidentally get spoilered somehow, even if no plot info is present. Discovering how allomancy works is part of the thrill of Mistborn.

As far as I understand it, people were aware on some level consciously of the enhanced feelings that a breath offers them. It's possible that someone who was dying suddenly had the idea of giving their breath away to help their friends/families, and managed to approximately say the right thing and with the right intent.

They can bind the surges of tension and cohesion. Controlling cohesion would probably allow them to bind objects together similar to a full lashing, though through molecular interactions instead of pressure. Not sure what how controlling tension would play out.

Are you referring to the Knight Radiants? Because current understanding generally puts Honor's shattering at after the Recreance.

To be fair, if I created a character who gained god-like powers then went around using them to pretend to be deities of other religion, that would probably be my favorite character. Just the flexibility and the giant con game they were running would be so amusing to conceive and write about.

Here's Brandon saying it's similar. That still doesn't explain her being hungry the moment her perceived awesomeness runs out, unless it is tied to the food in her body. I'm fairly certain that stormlight doesn't prevent hunger.

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I just realized an easier and more practical way to kill him. Warbreaker Spoilers

Someone asked Brandon if Lift would ever get a shardfork.

There is also the fact that Honor directly said in the visions that Odium had killed him. I suppose he could've lied to direct attention towards Odium, but then that wouldn't have been that honorable, and therefore pretty impossible for him to do.

This is correct. Calories for Lift are like metals for an allomancer; they act as a key so that she can draw upon investiture.

Essentially, you are correct in that regard then. Pre-Final Empire, as far as I'm aware, the genetics of allomancy were too weak for snapping to occur unless through the mists. At the start of the Final Empire though, the addition of the lerasium mistborns into the gene pool caused a significant shift towards Preservation in the following generation, allowing for the gain in allomancy without snapping by the mists.

The shard has to be unheld, but yeah, that usually entails killing the current vessel.

Correct. By all accounts it's a new element.

Nothing happens to the source of the blood is my guess. First of all, hemalurgy requires bindpoints in order to grant powers, which I don't think blood has. Also, the spiritual aspect of the blood would no longer be your spiritual aspect, so there would no connection for the hemalurgic spike to use. Remember, hemalurgy is designed to be a messy system which breaks and changes people.

If I had to guess, his goals on Roshar involve the eventually killing of Rayse. He needs the Desolation to occur perhaps so that it is easier to strike at Odium, while at the same time he has surreptitiously helping people in preparation for it.

My current thoughts on the matter are that the Heralds, as cognitive shadows, abandon their physical bodies at the end of the Desolation and go to Braize in order to forestall Odium, perhaps interfering with his power. The "torture" is just a cognitive feedback as a result of them conflicting against Odium's power, divine hatred, directed towards them. When a Herald breaks is when they are unable to withstand Odium, so they flee, returning to Roshar, taking new physical bodies so that they can guide the people of Roshar once more in preparation for the Desolation. This is thought mainly as a result of the fact from Kalak's thoughts in the prelude to WoK where he laments that surviving the Desolation means that he has a choice in whether to go to the torture and a WoB that the Heralds have to leave Roshar else another Desolation is imminent, suggesting to me that they're leaving in order to forestall the Desolation.