Hoids Imaginary Friend

Let's not forget when facing off with the Edgedancer in the CR, Szeth was out of stormlight and Nightblood held the beads together.

It's been a while so I may be miss remembering but... I was thinking how in Sunlit man we found out Sig was briefly a Dawnshard (WaT; Exist), previously held by Hoid and presumably still is. In Sunlit we learn the Dawnshard passed on several gifts or abilities to Sig even though he no longer holds it.. Like being able to consume any investiture and hold it or convert it to a stable way similar to breaths, with an incredible upper limit - I'm thinking the upper limit is ascension. It's a safe guess to assume Hoid has these gifts and more considering he's most likely still a Dawnshard. Theoretically; Hoid could tap into his Elantrian powers, such up as much Dor as he wants and convert it to this stable investiture. So as of Tress, Hoid could be metaphorically sitting on a tonne of investiture, more than enough to Exist-Dawnshard teleport, and he could easily top up as needed... Right?

When I first read this i thought of Shallan, with the twins being Adolins And the more I thought about it.. Regarding the memory wipe, I'm sure Hoid could do it in a several ways, heck he's an Elantrian at this point. But it wouldn't surprise me if Shallan could be capable of a kind of self forgery, at least in a "cognitive" manner.

Yeah, some of the 16 natural metals are alloys. Like brass, which is a zinc and copper, which is interesting.. Now I feel i should look up the rest

In universe they dont know it was an Atium alloy, so a seer is still an "Atium" misting as far as they / we are concerned in that respect. IIRC, they were actually electrum mistings. Which opens up the possibility of mistings being capable of burning their God metal alloy counterparts, which as far as im aware can't be burned by everyone like pure god metals - e.g. end of HoA.

Due to the Atium retcon we don't really know what it does other than Allomantically, which apparently is shown at the end of HoA. The retcon was due to Mr S wanting God metals to be burned by anyone (like Lerasium) and the Atium we saw is now an Atium / electrum alloy. There's an older WoB where he says that we haven't seen what Lerasium actually does allomanticically, making you a mistborn was a side affect. Which kinda contradicts the above retcon.. Still, I'm curious to know what happened to those Honorblade chips Nightblood made. Do they reform when the honorblade is dismissed or are there little bits of Tanavastium lying about? That can be burned by anyone..!

At the end of WoK Talns Honorblade is described as a giant spike, there was even theories of it being possibly related to hemalurgy. And in WaT it's described as a giant wedge. I'm curious at the discrepancy.. Thoughts?

I too have this on my Valor conspiracy board, with lines connection to Nohadon, the warm light (that only appeared after large battles Dalinar was directly involved in) and the letters. Regarding the letters, something that's not really talked about is how both Harmony and Endowment were able to locate and communicate with Valor, presumably recently. And Honor and Todium are unable to find her over 1000s of years, it's as if she's hiding from Roshar.. Also, Valor asks Endowment for help. I wonder what she needed from a Shard that makes little gods out of dead people..?

Yeah, I was thinking that's because she was outside of the Roshars cognitive perimeter. But now.. maybe Roshars CR has been as drastically changed as the PR? Interesting how your quote says that it's not how it's supposed to be don't you think? I also think it's interesting that Harmony sent her a letter when he can directly speak to a Kandra. Also, they're not just in the CR. Based on the lights like alive cold fires implies there's people on the other side. P.s. my ebook won't let me copy text for this book

I was thinking about the timelines since Retribution and realised if Melaan did go to Roshar it could match with Shallan being in the peeks at the end. Rereading both sections (lost Metal and WaT).. Melaan: she's their to save some lost people, notes they have strange clothes and most of the "people" have Red hair. We theorised back when it came out this was the hornet's peeks and I'm now all in Shallan: she barely comments on anyone and the only notable thing is the local currency being tiny bits of metal.. Bit of a coincidence we have an immortal shapeshifting spy and Shallan in close proximity, eh.? Soooo, what's the chances we get a Shallan and Melaan buddy cop, spy thriller / drama? Yeah we're still waiting on the Horneater novella but still, could be a fun novella between arcs (books 5 and 6).

Chapter 77, Dalinar thinks the command "unite them" wasn't from the Stormfather or Honer but a God that once existed and might yet, if not in a form people recognised. Feels like this Uniting business is yet to be concluded..

But we're the Chasmfiends attracted to the pool or the remnents of the 4th moon with its mysterious metal? The Chasmfiends don't appear very odius to me.. It could also be why that location is important, for the pool and other reasons. Maybe the metal helps hide the pool or vice versa or both..? It does beg the questions of what's up with this metal with interesting implications and who "owns" it

Just reread the Shadsmer fight and it sounds like Nightblood got pulled into the CR with Szeth, whilst still existing in the PR. Nightblood says he sunk into beads and landed on something hard by a wall.. I'm thinking he doesn't always exist in both realms but can be projected into both similar to Spren. So technically we haven't seen him physically go into the CR, though I'm inclined to think it's the same. Also, we're glossing over Nightblood helping Szeth manipulate the beads when he was out of Stormlight. Though I'm unclear if Nightblood does it or just helps.? Either way, the energy to manipulate beads is coming from Nightblood.

Haven't heard that, which is cool. But! Though it's suggestive, he doesn't say anything about unique powers a Shard may have, which we see with Honors power Binding the Shards as I've pointed out in the OP. I was hoping to open a discussion theorising what the other Shards "unique" power could be, and I don't think your rebuttal dismisses this idea. El's interlude shows Odium talking to him in his mind, I think this is what @Trusk'our's comment is talking about.

When the 3 Roshar Shards initially make an agreement, we see Honors power rush out and bind the Shards. All 3 Shards are surprised by this and Cultivation comments that after thousands of years they don't really understand their powers. So it appears that Honor has a unique power to bind oaths (obviously). But what if all Shards also have a unique ability? What do you think they'd be?