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Spren didn't like the honorblade because it was powerful and dangerous. People do bond shardblades. Live sprenblades for instance (the most common on Roshar), as you say, have the wielder bonded to the spren of the blade, which is literally what the shardblade is. Dead sprenblades, it is a bit more unclear whether you're still bonding to the spren with the gem as a catalyst or not. In any case, there is still some relation to the spren which forms the blade as you are synchronizing your heartbeat to summon it. In any case, the gem is treated as being part of the shardblade, just like any other ornamentation you put on something else, so you are bonding the shardblade. Honorblades are a bit different as they are not formed from spren, but likely more directly from Honor's power. Their bond is a bit less direct, as the Honorblades do not disappeared when released, and I believe it has been implied that the Honorblade only gives powers if you are physically holding it or have made it dematerialize, though I can't remember where that was said.

This is 17th Shard. We have nothing better to do than kick open cans of worms and see what messes develop.

It has been confirmed by the ending of the 10th Anniversary Edition of Elantris that Hoid was trying to become an Elantrian, which was why he was there. I'm not sure what you mean by limiting himself. How would becoming an Elantrian be limiting?

Counter-argument about Nale is good, but it seems still that he stands within the law, though on the edge, and doesn't tolerate anything outside. Nothing he has done seems to actually be illegal, just extreme with regards to the law. On the other hand, the Ghostbloods do clearly act outside of laws and cause disorder, from assassinations, and the use of soulcasters outside of the Ardentia. Nale has stated that he respects order, not just direct laws but honor ones as well. He doesn't excuse actions which lead to his end goal, as is exemplified when he reproaches his minion. I'm not sure what you're referring to when you talk about someone training Shallan. Nale was under the belief that the KR would bring about the Final Desolation. I see no reason why he would make exception for people in his group if it meant bringing about the Final Desolation. Found a relevant quote about Helaran and the Skybreakers. Mraize did say that Helaran was seeking the Skybreakers, though it doesn't say either way about whether he found them and/or joined them. Seems most likely that he was seeking them to join them. We don't know though whether Helaran was still a Ghostblood when he attacked Amaram, though Amaram thought he was. Just remembered though that it is confirmed that he isn't a Proto-Radiant as he was wielding a dead sprenblade when he died.

The problem though is that if the Shin Stone Shamans and Nale were in alignment, then why did Nale instruct Szeth to bring justice to the Stone Shamans (with Nightblood)? Also, the beliefs of the groups not aligned somewhat. The Stone Shamans believed that the Final Desolation and the rebirth of the KR was not coming, while the Skybreakers knew the KR were returning and that the possibility of the Final Desolation was close. While it's possible that Szeth was named Truthless far in advance of the Nale learning about the Proto-Radiants, the fact that he has begun hunting them, but the Stone Shamans still haven't approached Szeth to have him return, indicates that both groups are not acting in concert to any degree. While it's possible that they may not want to admit they were wrong, it still seems extremely illogical to not retrieve a skilled fighter like Szeth with an Honorblade to prepare him for the Desolation.

I really doubt he was a Ghostblood, Skybreaker and a Proto-Radiant since the first two and the last two are slightly mutually exclusive. Ghostbloods seem to be fairly involved in subterfuge and other less-than-lawful-and-orderly activities, something I don't think Nale would tolerate. At the same time, if he were a Proto-Radiant and a Skybreaker, that means he would've been around Nale, which means that chances are good that Nale would've killed him, using some appropriate excuse for execution. While it's possible that he might've been able to hide it, Nale seems to be fairly proficient at finding and identifying Proto-Radiants, so I'm not too sure.

Nale did say at the end that he found Szeth's devotion to keeping order and following his oath to be admirable. That implies that he was more bound by personal honor than by another force and could've stopped if he wanted to, an opinion he mirrored when talking to Kaladin. Assuming both Szeth and Nale are knowledgeable enough on the subject of Oathstones.

Cultivation and Odium are still alive so they don't have cognitive shadows, just cognitive aspects to complement their spiritual and physical aspects. These all act together. I'm more of the opinion that the Stormfather was powerful enough to bond to more than one person at the time, so was the spren for all three of the Bondsmiths.

The Q&A took place before Bands of Mourning, so it was before it was revealed Nicrosil being used. It's probable that it was a reference to nicrosil feruchemy, however it still doesn't answer whether the end result is nicrosil giving off stormlight or feruchemically charged nicrosil which gives stormlight when tapped.

He might be a surgebinding. I personally thought he might've been more of a squire of Kaladin and gained basic stormlight enhancement abilities as a result. Since he don't know much about Lopen from his view, we can't accurately say whether he's bonded to a spren, and we don't know about the capabilities of the squires of Windunners. So we can't say either way.

I believe the idea is to use the investiture in the nicrosilmind to power the awakening. This would do away with the issue of affecting an invested object, since you wouldn't be adding more investiture, just using whatever is already there. You would probably need to add a bit more as a result of the awakening process though, so there would be a touch of interference.

Possibly, but I think allomancy is a lot more of a lesser investiture magic than surgebinding so the kinetic investiture gained from burning metals might still allow for some room toinfuse them. It would definitely be harder, but I don't think it would be as hard as another Radiant with stormlight.

I was under the impression Nicrosil stored innate investiture, not kinetic investiture. So the ability to use a manifestation of investiture for example, instead of the actual investiture gained when that manifestation is used. It's possible that there may be a way of storing kinetic investiture which hasn't been revealed yet, since kinetic investiture is a lot less common on Scandrial. If that is the case, then if you use it to store stormlight, there may be some weird interactions between stormlight's natural attribute of being released and the influence of Preservation which is to preserve whatever is stored. I've also thought though that storing into a metalmind does change what you're storing into feruchemical investiture, even if it is already innate investiture like when you're storing spiritual attributes. (Though are physical and mental attributes that are stored also a part of your innate investiture?) Continuing on from that, when you store an attribute in a metalmind, you're not just directly storing the innate investiture or whatever related to it, but you're changing it into a feruchemical investiture charge which then goes into the metalmind, a charge which is just generally designed to change a specific attribute when tapped. So for example, if you store strength, you're not directly storing a modifier to your physical. You're storing a feruchemical charge which will just find the part of the tapper related to physical strength and amplify it, which can be anyone, providing there is a way around the natural encryption. So relating this back to stormlight. I think that if you could and do store stormlight feruchemically into a nicromind, then you wouldn't actually be storing stormlight, but rather a feruchemical charge which is set to turn into stormlight when tapped. So, you wouldn't actually get a nicromind full of stormlight, just one full of a feruchemical charge. You would get a far larger feruchemical charge than normal though. so it might be possible to awaken that. Hopefully this made sense, at least the first part. The second part turned into a slight ramble which doesn't seem all too clear so if there are any questions I would be happy to answer.

Well yes, I didn't say he immediately bonded to it. I was just saying the possibility existed, in theory. I was under the impression that Helaran was a Ghostblood, not a Skybreaker, working in parallel to his father. I never really thought about the possibility of Nale's group being non-KR Skybreakers, though it does make a bit of sense based on what he was saying to Szeth. It does seem like a weird thing to do though, since if they came across a KR Skybreaker there would be conflict, and since most people have negative connotations of KRs.

So far, hard to say. Seems unlikely that Nale would specifically state that he is reforming the Skybreakers and then use them for something other that defending against the True Desolation. If he did, then he would probably have trouble recruiting other Skybreakers since their spren would guide them towards defending against the True Desolation instead of helping it destroy Roshar. We do know that Nale and Szeth immediate plans are to attack the Shin Stone Shama, which I presume is so that they can claim the remaining honorblades they possess. It's been strongly theorized that Nightblood's bond to a person will act as a Nahel Bond on Roshar and give surgebinding abilities. This is due to Nightblood basically containing a splinter, and knowledge that a splinter bonded to a person on Roshar will form into something similar to a Nahel Bond. In any case, he probably doesn't need to even draw Nightblood to fight effectively. The passive physical augmentations it grants combined with Szeth's advanced combat skills would probably be enough, since he can probably block shardblades with the sheathed Nightblood.

WoB has stated that we have seen them before, but nothing else has been confirmed. However, the tentative timeline puts Sixth of the Dusk at around the same place as Era 4 Mistborn, which supports the opinion that it they are Scandrians. Regarding how the machines work, it does make sense that it is somehow mechanically applying bronze allomancy and duralumin feruchemy. While it is true that in BoM that Connection could only translate to the spiritual identity of the region the medallion was used in, it's possible that in the far future variations have been made, perhaps where the connection is used to connect to a specific spiritual identity, so translating to the same language all the time instead of whatever is local.

Nale isn't hating though. He's just trying to do what he original agreed to do: protect Roshar. He believed that the return of the KR would bring about the True Desolation, which is why he was going after potentials. After the True Desolation began, after the Everstorm began its path, he flipped goals and began reforming the Skybreakers. As far as I can tell, this indicates that he is still working to protect Roshar and fight Odium.

Yes. Isn't the current discussion regarding when he did though? Unless I missed something, there nobody has said anything which indicated otherwise. Sorry if I'm being critical, but I'm just confused about why you're bringing it up.

Interesting. Now I'm wondering whether it's a RAFO because he's going to explain it in the future and doesn't want to directly reveal things about Forgery, like it can create Returned-like entities minus the extra investiture, or because essence marks are going to be significant in the future in general. In any case, the answer to your follow-up question is probably going to be RAFO as well, I imagine.

Mhm, true enough. Still, the efficiency of the process is really low. If you have the resources to steal a shardblade and then completely conceal any strangeness about how the people it was used against dies, then you probably could apply the resources towards a more conventional method of defending yourself or killing people, which would require a lot less cleanup. Unless you're planning to fight an army by yourself, or invade the Palace of Gods by going through the lifeless army, there isn't a task which would absolutely require a shardblade, and which could be accomplished using something less flashy, and cleanup-requiring. On the other hand, a worldhopper may have a shardblade but isn't using it, and is instead hanging it on his wall or something. With a plaque "Rosharan Shardblade. Obtained under the guise of Highlord NoOneCares."

Era 4 of Mistborn will be a space opera with FTL drive. This is confirmed and the reason why he is RAFOing all questions about FTL because it is going to be written about. Regarding the main theory. I don't think that a sealed empty volume by aluminium inside a speed bubble causes holes in it to form. Honestly, I don't even see how the supposed secondary question of it forming a dead pocket came about since it seems to be that the main question stated that having aluminum where the border would fall would just terminate the bubble. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the information about the dead space didn't actually come from a question, but some interpretation of the question the questioner had in mind that they thought Brandon got as well?

Eh... I mean, you are changing how the object is viewing itself as a result of changing its history. The main thing is that it isn't a voluntary change, and the target may not realize it occurs. But at the same time, the object has to, on some level, accept the change for it to stick for some period. At least, that's how I understand it. If someone rewrote my past so I got in a tragic, but non-lethal accident involving a car, and as a result I decided I would no longer want to be in a car, then my new self would be changed to think about itself as not liking cars. In general, I do agree it is a rewrite that is bound by constraints on how varied the changed can be. I was just helping it match how the person I was answering understood it. If you have an issue with the outlook of it changing how an object sees itself, please don't correct me as I don't really ascribe to that opinion.

Someone did ask Brandon whether Vasher visited before or after the Recreance. This was the response. (Same as the quote) As usual, Brandon was vague and gave an answer that could mean anything, though it does give us idea that he probably didn't see a live shardblade.

Forgery does change the way something thinks about itself. However, without a soul, and with the present physical and cognitive wanting to have a spiritual to compliment, the essence mark could apply to replace it, I imagine. In no way was the essence mark being used on the emperor permanent though, or was going to be. He would have to reapply it every day until he dies, or he'll revert to his soulless self.

The investiture of the shardplate might interfere with the metal a KR is holding within. Also, I doubt there would be much metal they would be carry, other than a few trinkets. Money is probably the largest source of metal someone might carry, though not so much in some areas now, and Roshar doesn't use metal money.