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I have to agree with @dragonshadowbob. Forging on Sel was a re-writing of an object's (or in this case a person's) history. So for instance: her Essence Marks changed her history so that she trained with the super ninjas or grew up on the street. Why does her stamp change the Emperor's mind? She re-wrote his history to be almost exactly the same as it was, but then ignored the arrow wound? What does it matter if his history is the same if the arrow wound still cleared his mind? How does re-writing the history help this?

Hoid is a Cosmere character. He would not appear in the Reckoners, because they are on Earth.

I believe that this is the forum you are talking about.

That is exactly what I was talking about. The basic lashing is not really effecting just gravity... I always thought of this as combination of the two surges. (I'm not saying that all Orders of the KR have three abilities, but a basic lashing can't just be an effect of gravity, I think.)

Kaladin only has one spren, and he already has both surges (like @Sand Master said, Adhesion and gravitation) he can bind things together (adhesion) draw things to an item he is touching (adhesion and gravitation) and change the direction gravity effects him (gravitation). So a second spren would give him more surges, I think, but he already has two surges with just one spren.

The "hit" that you guys are talking about is when Kaladin pierced his skin, but not deep enough to sever the soul, and so it did not affect the arm at all, and thus did not require healing

It is because Kaladin was bonded to Syl. Szeth does not have a bond (He uses an honorblade, and does not have a bond with a spren). You should read through this conversation:

So I think that the bigger an item is, the more likely it is to pop the bubble. Like, a bullet will not pop a speed bubble, but a tree (in the case that they were on a train and the speed bubble, moving with the train, hits the tree) would. I doubt that a spear would actually be large enough to. Sanderson specifically put the limit on this power, to stop it from being too powerful (since physics limits the other powers), but that gun thing is way too much a part of Wayne's character. I doubt that he will ever develop out of this particular character trait.

It took me about a week and a half per book. (I finished The Emperor's Soul in about 2 days, since it is about a tenth of the other two). I don't know that I have a lot of reading time. It's more like, I couldn't put the books down to go to sleep, so I gave up a lot of sleep time in order to finish them. I was just so intrigued!!! Those books are awesome, except... you know... that there are 8 more that are unwritten (well 7.27 unwritten, as Sanderson's website says that he has finished 73% of the third book). I can't wait until the next books come out!!!

And it would make even more sense, because the men couldn't read! I also just kind of assume that Alethi = English, else Sanderson could never use puns. "What did the one-armed Hardasian do to the man that stuck him to the wall? Nothing, because he was 'armless.'" This pun would not make sense in any other language because the words for "harm" and "arm" only sound the same in English. I just assumed that the languages that we read are the same as the ones spoken. However, with the men not being able to read it, they might assume that it was a very similar word.

Just to update: I have now read both The Emperor's Soul and both stormlight archive books! They are all amazing! At first I was very confused by my status as a "Spearman" (as I had only read the Mistborn and Elatris). However, after reading the Stormlight Archive (or at least what has been released of it), I was elated that I have been "promoted" to Bridgeman!!!! I feel so honored... but also terrified... I just hope I get put in Bridge 4!

@Thunder_93 I think that the shardplate interferes here. Szeth does this at the end of his battle Gavilar, but has to remove the plate first. He takes the plate off of the dying Galivar and uses the Gemstone then. restoring his reserves.

I think that this is Brandon's way on introducing a new "power" to the world. I think that the reason that we don't see that anywhere else, because none of the others have discovered that they have that ability and they haven't needed to. I think that @goody153 is right that they don't "heal" but they do gain a higher form of sentience. (I thought it was neat that Pattern started with an ability to understand complex things and needed to "remember" how to interact with simpler things and Syl needed to learn complex things like death and lying).

But Elantris didn't work because it was the wrong Aon (the Aon without the chasm line).

But then Szeth is appeased and returns to kill Dalinar when Taravangian tells him that one of the honorblades have been taken. Why would that matter if the honorblades don't give the power? and I'm pretty sure that Szeth flees when he sees Kaladin use a lashing, not heal.