Wandering Investor

Very little unfortunately.. We know he is trying to collect types of magic from all over, although we don't know if this is a side hobby, a step towards a goal, or the goal itself. He might be trying to reform Adonalisum some how, although that seems a little cliche to me. The other possible mission we know about is the one RShara pointed out. Hoid may be trying to reform/revive someone from his past. But its really just a big mystery at this point.

It doesn't even need the shards. Roshar naturally has a massive amount of investiture moving through its system, even before the shards arrived as you pointed out. The highstorm has been in place since old Adon built the place. There is a question of how much the shards meddles. Obviously Honor claimed the highstorm as his own, but we don't know if he amped it up or not. I think its less the realms as a whole are closer, and more that the large amounts of investiture piece the borders, making it easier to view and move between them when large amounts of investiture are present (see the highstorms, Honor perp, probably Culti's as well) @ShardShaper Investiture pierces the three realms, so it makes sense that large amounts will make viewing shadesmar, and spren by extension, easier. And good point about Shinovar. Although that might be because spren don't live over there since they feed on the highstorm. Also, please avoid double posting, just edit the previous post. And in the editior, on the top bar, there is a symbol with an eye, use that for spoilers, like so;

There's also a possibility that one or more of the shards was a dragon at first. There were three races on Yolen, and we know at least one of the shards is non human(Ambition was a Sho Del, with a possibility of there being more. Also, as Calderis pointed out, Dragons can take a human form, so we could have seen a whole bunch by now and not realized it. That, or they're on just chilling on Yolen.

I would guess no. But there are far larger amounts of investiture moving through Roshar's system than the other cosmere planets, possibly making it much easier to transition across the realms. That, or the spren are unique in their greater ability to transition between the realms. We'd have to put them on other planets to find out though. Also, I'm not sure if its truly confirmed that Honor's perpendicularity is inside the highstorm or not.

I think there are two possible solutions to this issue. The first is that Kaladin had recently been there, and Lopen's squire powers hadn't quite faded. I can't recall if the powers are lost instantly or if there's a time of decline off the top of my head though. Perhaps Kaladin's recent Ideal created some temporary power boost beyond the normal effects, allowing the squires to last longer and farther then expected. The second is that Lopen may have already attracted the attentions of an honorspren by that point, gaining some minor powers independent of Kaladin, although I don't think there's evidence to support this later when he's separated again. Unless he assumed he needed Kaladin and never bothered to try when he was gone, doubtful for the Lopen. And of course, the third option, it was a mistake..

Easy to misunderstand, cause that part is a little confusing. He says "Apparently you already being dead means I can hurt you." which is what surprised him (I think anyways). But after that, he does explain that the pain from the simple beating was caused by Kelsier's mind and not real. Hoid follows that up with "I don't have the inclination to actually injure your soul", so it can be done, even to a CR, just takes a different approach, whatever that is.

Where did you get that from? Cognitive shadows can definitely feel pain. Are you talking about when Hoid was hurting Kelsier? Hoid experiences extreme nausea when trying to hurt others, he was just surprised when he didn't feel that while beating Kelsier.

I'd say there are tree approaches to taking down a radiant with firepower. The aluminium shatter bullet, the highstorm (will the auto language change thing catch that? Edit: no it does not, I'll fix that..) of machine-gun fire, and explosives method. The aluminium shatter bullet would involve single fire rifle shots of aluminium bullets. The bullet would be designed to shatter upon impact, causing as much damage as possible and covering as much area as possible. The aluminium fragments would seriously disrupt the radiant's ability to heal, potentially fatal depending on where it hit. The second method and third method are more mundane, and just involving outpacing the radiant's stormlight healing, either via completely overloading the healing factor, or via massive draining of stormlight reserves. Of note, this method will likely be less effective against the tension and progression surges(depending on stormlight usage rates). The machinegun fire in particular may also be countered by the abrasion surge(I'm not sure what the abrasion surge would do against an explosion, may still work). Although I do not think it is possible, perhaps absolutely god-tier use of the gravitation, division, and transportation surges may also counter the bulletstorm. All three methods can potentially be somewhat countered by any order with the cohesion surge or transformation surge, as they may be capable of creating barriers. Sneak/ambush attacks recommended, and fast retreat options be on standby in case of failure/angry radiant. Quote on healing and aluminium. Bonus: Ranette's general lack of concern for anything but her work makes me think she'd be a willshaper, or maybe a elsecaller, although I don't think she'd be chosen in the first place.

I think little Shallan only got to the second, maybe third oath. She had at least one oath, and maybe two by acknowledging that she killed her father and mother.

I believe the gemstone pillar is at highstorm level, but there is no apparent activation of the pillar and several effects of the tower remain in place (like pressure and temperature, possibly its ability to hold its own weight). So I'm not sure what the gemstone pillar actually does at this point. None of the characters make any comment to indicate there is stormlight in the gems. Renarin even attempts to push stormlight in and nothing happens.

More likely the surge of tension was used to modify the structure of the rocks, a one time change, enabling them to withstand the forces they're subjected to. Otherwise it would require a constant surge of fuel, which while I think it less likely, is possible and would represent a threat to the tower.

It might be possible. I think it would depend on the type of savantism you're getting, but hard to be sure. The closest case I'm aware of was Spook cracking his soul, but whether that was from Tin savantism, or just from the stress/hemalurgy he had been going through, isn't clear.

Almost makes me wonder if he misspoke and didn't catch it to fix it. Maybe he meant it was easy for a long time and is no longer? That, or it just unlocked around Mistborn Era 2.

Allomantic ability is genetic, but the type isn't as far as I know. Since its just as easy to be one or the other, this could very well be possible. I'm imagining using forgery to gain access to a couple different metals, both allomantic and feruchemic, and then creating metalminds with all the allomantic and feruchemic powers. Then you can freely tap them, and just have to be sure to compound every once in awhile to keep them full. I'm sure there's something that stops that from being possible, but still a neat idea.

I wouldn't describe Jasnah as blood thirsty, just ruthless. She'd run an internal calculation and decide that the best long term choice requires the extermination of all singers. The only reason I do back this is the confrontation between Kaladin and Jasnah in the tower. My first reaction was to expect Jasnah to consider the possibility of converting the Parshmen to allied forces, but she seems to serve as an opposition to Kaladin instead. So while I don't have a firm expectation that she'll serve as a ruthless[pragmatic] opposition in the future, I also wouldn't be surprised if she does.

I feel like artistic license is the most likely. The two parallel lines cross over a bunch of crossing lines set at different angles, so they might be there to add a better sense of order/balance. Or they may signify the spren/orders that stand out for something. Spren are suppose to be a mix of both Culti and Honor, but Honorspren and Cultivationspren seem like the most likely to have a bias towards one. And maybe Lightweavers and Stonewards represent the extremes on the elemental side, one being unyielding stone and the other being free flowing light? Feel like I'm reaching with that one though.

This would not work, as the pull/push is applied to both user and the object. The push and pull would just cancel each other out, unless they're different in which case the coin will either move towards or away from you, so still no flight. Easy experiment actually. Put your hands in front of you, overlapping. With the farthest hand pull towards you, with the closest push away. That's what the coins would do.

I always hear a cheerful and slightly higher pitched, but a somewhat neutral and oddly faint voice. Like how when I imagine a character's mental voice as being slightly fainter than their regular voice. Failsafe is actually a really good comparison, although I imagine Nightblood being slightly more smooth and less computer like. @Lunamor Nightblood doesn't have a gender. Vasher just addresses him as male, so it stuck. Cosmere spoiler:

Without Ruin's corrupting influence, is there any reason to fix him? Marsh has some awesome powers due to his spikes. Or do you just mean the cracked skull? Dunno, might be a badge honor, like "my niece, the ascendant warrior did this, be jealous".

@Strozu Kandra* And good catch, there are a couple places copper/bronze and zinc/brass get mixed up.

While they're both retrained to their respective areas, the method is quite different. The spren are actually tethered to their location, and will eventually hit a point where they physically can't go farther. Selish magic on the other hand receives instructions from its local area. So its not that the magic is physically tethered, but will instead stop working if it leaves its local area, since the new area will have a different set of rules to follow.

Cosmere healing, at least this and some other methods, are based on unconscious perception, not on conscious desire. So Sazed perceives himself, at an instinctual level, as being an eunuch. Even if he's not happy about it, that's his true perception of himself. Some more Stormlight Archive spoilers:

@Weltall Actually, I was using the definition from a dictionary, I think Merriam Webster ( I checked, it was that one). Didn't know there was a WoB backing it up, that's good to know, helps with some of my theories. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/odium

Odium is an intense form of hatred, or inspiring hatred in others.

Depends on how Odium is doing it, if he is at all. The first method involves his name. Odium can mean to hate things, but it can also mean to invoke hatred in others. As far as I know, this is the only shard with a possibly bi directional name. Most of the others want to do their namesake, for example to preserve, to ruin, to be devoted. But to be odius means to not only hate others, but invoke hatred from them. So it might be a unique skill to this particular shard. The second method, and the more likely one in my opinion, is that other shards can use this ability, but either are not as good at it as Odium is (see Ruin and future sight), OR they don't know how to. If this is the case, then Devotion may also have the ability but can't use it as a weapon, or didn't' know how to.