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I don't even know where to start, but I think we know enough and have enough evidence to say that's not true. The best is to read Hoid's Coppermind page, as it compresses most of what we know - but it includes spoilers from all published books. Looking at the quote, he gained freedoms relative to other Vessels who can't have those freedoms again. He had them before, but wasn't aware of them. By refusing to take up a Shard, he realized he has freedoms others don't anymore. He's an artist, a storyteller - playing with words is his job and hobby. He always tells things that mean something else. From WoBs we know Hoid aged before the Shattering and that he was born naturally - this excludes him being a Vessel and a Splinter. If he were a Splinter, his investiture would have been assigned to one of 16 new Shards, thus he would have been bound once more and restricted, just like spren are. Have you read any of the Secret Projects? Tress spoilers: TSM spoilers:

Theoretically yes, but it's different. You don't store investiture by Awakening, you're making the object a little alive. And I think that's where the problem lies - burning metals that are alive, like Shardblades, is impossible because they are alive. Awakened metals might not always be like Nightblood, or Shardblades, but there is one step beyond metalminds in being alive. They would work differently and Breaths in those metals act like the soul - it's not like investiture that metalminds are filled with. If you were to store Breaths via nicrosilmind, not Awaken, just store them, then you might be able to compound them with Allomancy and Preservation's power. This might do something new, we don't know, but that's a possible way to compound Breaths - if you can even store Breaths in a nicrosilmind. Those Breaths won't be alive, won't be activated, or Commanded, they would act as raw investiture. But that would still draw from Preservation and we don't know what Nicrosil compounding does at all. Would that compounding increase the strength of those Breaths, or would it multiply those Breaths? Maybe it would do something else entirely? We don't know if storing normal Breaths in a nicrosilmind is even possible. No flaws here, that should work like you said, but per WoBs it doesn't. So it's either that you need to do more to power Feruchemy with powers of other Shards that aren't native on Scadrial (Feruchemy is still Preservation's magic system), or it's something with how Breaths work specifically that prevents them from being compounded like that.

I don't know if it was said directly that Odium killed Ambition, but most evidence points to that conclusion. I think this WoB also strongly suggests it was Odium. The "But then he got trapped" refers to his hit list and inability to kill more Shards. And we know that Odium would have gone after Autonomy later, and since Splintering of Devotion and Dominion, he learned to do it better - how did he learn if not by Splintering Ambition? Endowment also implies in her letter to Hoid that it was Odium that killed Ambition. He mortally wounded Ambition during their clash at Threnody AU: I find it possible that it was Mercy who mercy killed mortally wounded Ambition, but I think this new WoB also implies it was Odium, as he didn't expect it to be that hard. In the end I still think it was Odium who did something to Ambition that was also similar to what happened to Devotion and Dominion (which we know was done directly by Odium, so if it’s similar Odium had to do it, as no other Shard would know how to repeat that).

The power of Bondsmithing exists without the Order of Bondsmiths and Rosharan Surges. Any type of illusion based magic is called Lightweaving, any type of Connection manipulation magic can be called Bondsmithing. He was a Bondsmith, but not Rosharan Bondsmith. Yes, it seems fitting that Ishar was the Dawnshard that binds, but here is an important note - being a Dawnshard alone isn't enough. Dawnshard is just a Command, a powerful Command but that's it. You need a power, you need Surgebinding to be able to use a Dawnshard to its fullest potential. Ishar had to have another power to use his Dawnshard to destroy Ashyn - Bondsmithing. Anti-light wasn't discovered until Navani made it. The easiest way to destroy a planet, to burn it as it happened with Ashyn, is to Connect its surface to the sun's surface. Easy. Of course there are many other ways to burn an entire planet, like atmospheric ignition (while impossible to happen naturally, wielding the power of gods you might be able to set it on fire). He was surprised. Kalak is knowledgeable and Cosmere aware. He knows a lot of things about investiture, Connection and Identity. Scientists of Cosmere long theorized that anti-Investiture existed, I see no reason why Kalak, who had far more time than any other Scientist in Cosmere to explore this concept, couldn't have expected that anti-Investiture is possible to make. But he still was surprised by the success. KoWT Prologue: She didn't say that. She speculated Honor was killed because Odium's investiture was Honor's opposite. And she lied about wanting to kill Odium to trick Navani into cooperating. RoW ch 76: RoW ch 97: Another god.

No, the Sibling clearly isn't a deadeye, she pretended. Even Raboniel knew the Sibling was slumbering, but wasn't dead - later Rabonile revealed that she knew the Sibling was alive and well. RoW ch 72: We know that the Sibling broke her bond before because of many clues from OB and RoW. In the gem archive from OB epigraphs, Radiants are talking about being forced to abandon the tower, the Sibling withdrawing, Urithiru's defenses failing and about the planned mission to capture BAM - all of those messages were recorded before the imprisonment of BAM. From RoW we know that Melishi created the additional defense around the Sibling's core, the soulcasted glass barrier, before Radiants left the Tower, that the Sibling hated Melishi and from Adolin's trial we know that the Sibling and Melishi broke her bond before Recreance and therefore before the imprisonment of BAM, as it was one of the reason for Recreance. Lastly the imprisonment of BAM had to happen after Melishi and the Sibling broke their bonds, otherwise the Sibling would have been a deadeye, which she isn't. RoW ch 87: Personally I don't think the return of BAM would immediately fix everything. That's too easy. It might help deadeye spren, but I doubt it would fix them - something else needs to be done as well, the thing that Adolin is doing with Maya. While I believe the Stormfather will be killed and turned deadeye in SA5, I believe this will happen early on and by the end of SA5 this will be mostly fixed and releasing BAM will help, but that alone won't be enough to fix everything.

Work how? What kind of effect do you expect? Would that allow you to use those Breaths Feruchemically to gain a new effect, or use those Breaths to power your Feruchemy externally, like compounding does? Highly doubtful. Could you use Awakened metals as normal metalminds and for example, just store your speed in an Awakened steelmind? Possible, but that might be hard - investiture resist investiture. Something that's already is invested would be harder to get invested more. The same would apply in the opposite direction - a metalmind that is already invested with some attribute would be hard to Awaken because it's invested. So I expect it to work like a normal metalmind would work, giving you the same power as the metal normally gives you, but it might be hard to store in it, or it might store less attributes because it's invested, it's Awakened, but I highly doubt you would get anything new in Feruchemy from that - no new power. TSM spoilers: It's weird, but on the other hand it's expected. Metallic Arts are hard to off-source.

There are two WoBs on that. If Breaths are yours, you would get them back and get the normal Allomantic power from the metal you're burning. If they aren't yours, we don't know, probably they would dissipate with no effect.

Dalinar is NOT the king of Alethkar, he's not a ruler of Alethkar, he is the leader of Knights Radiant, the King of Urithiru, a separate state fully independent from Alethkar. As the King of Urithiru he represents the coalition, which doesn't rest on Alethkar's rulership at all. He represents the coalition, not humanity. Not every human nation on Roshar is a part of the coalition and this doesn't matter for Dalinar and Odium. She's 100% a legitimate ruler of Alethkar. She isn't a regent, she isn't ruling while Gavinor is growing up, she was in the line of succession, she is the queen and nothing else matters. Gavinor is the first in succession after Jasnah's death, he's her heir. He's a 5 year old kid. He doesn't even understand what a monarch is. He has no interest in being a king. You're just stretching the child champion theory very thin. He's not a king, he's not even a future king - Jasnah is the queen and will be even when Gavinor grows up. He has no right to do anything you propose. It's too late for that. The deal was made, the terms were accepted. While it would undermine Dalinar's position, the duel would be won by him, the terms would be enforced, Odium would have to withdraw. The contest wouldn't be void. People wouldn't say Dalinar is trying to seize the throne from Gavinor as he isn't sitting on any throne. He would be "just" a child murderer. But Dalinar would never kill a child, especially of his own blood. The only way I see Gavinor agreeing to becoming Odium's champion is by Taravangian giving him Moash to avenge his father. Gavinor wants to kill Moash and that's the only thing that he cares deeply enough to be deceived by Odium. But this would not threaten Jasnah's position as the Queen, nor Alethkar's membership in the coalition, as Gavinor is not the ruler of the country, isn't on the throne and Jasnah isn't a regent. It would only force Dalinar to surrender the fight, as he would never kill his nephew. RoW ch 16: But even this is a huge stretch. Odium has no way of communicating with Gavinor - he lacks any Connection to him, nor is there anyone near Gavinor who serves Odium. Gavinor probably knows that Odium is the enemy, Dalinar was explaining to him a lot that both of his parents were killed by the enemy and most importantly, he's a kid. He has no reason to fight for Odium, even if Moash were to be offered to him, he needs to be a willing champion, he needs to understand what he is getting himself into. In my opinion, if it were to happen, the child champion would be a big disappointment. This is the only loophole Taravangian has found? Really? I expect more than that. This simply is a weak solution that needs to be stretched thin to even work. Gavinor has barely been on pages, there is no set up for this whatsoever. There is only one Death Rattle that speaks about “the suckling child,” which Gavinor clearly isn’t.

We don't know the answers to those questions. Brandon has said that "anyone" should be able to burn god metals, but he also said that you need to have a proper Connection to burn some of them. So we don't really know for sure, even the WoBs on this matter are confusing. I see several possibilities: Everyone in Cosmere can burn god metals. You need to have a Connection to Shards to burn their god metal. You need to be an Allomancer of any kind to burn any god metal. The Connection is needed specifically to burn pure alloys of god metals, while pure god metals are burnable by anyone/any Allomancer. Personally I subscribe to the third option - with the exception of Lerasium, which should be burnable by anyone in Cosmere, no matter their Connections or origin planet (at least to become an Allomancer, which is a side effect). We know Lerasium alloyed with base metals makes you a Misting of those metals and those alloys are also burnable by "anyone" (whatever anyone means here), while Atium alloyed with base metals are not - Atium-electrum alloy from Era 1 was burnable only by Mistborn and electrum Mistings. But we also know that Lerasium making you into a Misting/Mistborn is just a side effect and an Allomancer burning it would get something else from it, which is in line with the 3rd option here. So overall Lerasium is just different, it can be burned by anyone to become an Allomancer, but to reach its full potential you need to already be an Allomancer. The WoB that said "you need Connection to burn god metals" was about burning Shardblades, but Shardblades are alloys of Tanavastium and Koravellium. Recently we got another WoB explaining why Shardblades can't be burned at all - it's because they are alive and therefore aren't treated as metals in your body. This might mean that Connection is only revelat with alloys of god metals, or not at all because of the new WoB. As I said, we don't know for sure. In my opinion it makes the most sense that only Allomancers can burn god metals, with only Lerasium and possibly Edglium (Endowment's god metal) that are different because of the nature of those Shards (Allomancy is a gift that gives you strength, Breaths are a gift with no strings attached - both Shards gift people magic, so it makes sense that their god metals can be burned by anyone in Cosmere to at least get the side effect, which in the case of Lerasium makes you into a Mistborn). Lots of WoBs: Edit: We don't know how Malwish create Unsealed Metalminds. We know they use a device called Excisor and it somehow involves Connection and that Malwish Medallions have identity and life-force on their own but not that much. VenDell in BoM speculated that medallions do involve the Preservation's fragment (Innate investiture of Preservation) that anybody on Scadrial have. Is that true, we don't know. That it's highly unlikely that Lerasium is involved in that process - the last bead of Lerasium was used by Elend in WoA and no more was made. Harmonium might be involved but in more of a mechanical way, as you can't even touch it without making it explode. BoM ch 3:

So my guess, given this passage, is that the words are: "Give it to me. Now. THEY need it." Thoughts? It's not only the specific words that Gavilar got wrong, it's the intent as well. This was the only time Gavilar said words with intent behind them, actually meaning them with his own heart. But this time he got the words very wrong. That's why he was so close and yet so far. Intent was there this one and only time, but the words weren't the correct ones. That's my explanation, the Stormfather even said this later: But there is another thing to consider. Was this even about joining Knights Radiant? Gavilar is led to believe by the Stormfather that he was chosen to become a "... Herald," not a Radiant. So is the Stormfather lying to him about becoming a Herald, or was he telling the truth? Was this even the real Stormfather as some suggest it was an imposter? If that was not a lie and it was the Stormfather, then the proper words to become a Herald are somewhere in the Way of Kings.

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My personal theory is that Odium will get free, he will kill the Stormfather in one way or another, by doing so he will cause an endless weeping, which will flood Roshar and specifically Kharbranth, destroying it, which will break the deal Odium and Taravangian made. That will expose Odium and force him to retreat and hide, or maybe ever some will use this opportunity to inflict another wound on him and prevent him from escaping Roshar (if he even can escape now, he's too invested in Roshar to leave it just like that, it would be very difficult for Odium to leave and he wants to use Roshar as his training ground for the great invasion on Cosmere). Odium will win but it will be a pyrrhic victory, setting up the stage for SA 6-10.

Yes, he fought, we don't know if he commanded some regiments directly, it's possible but it would function in the way appropriate to his rank - highmarshal. The Ashelem is mentioned, but the title is not. Note the quote said "the archer company" - one company, so his rank would most likely be a companylord.

Amaram was also a highmarshal, specifically absendiar highmarshal. Form Coppermind: I would position them in between general and Highprice, with the difference being that Highmarshal commands their own army in the name of their Highprince and has a bigger autonomy and authority than a general. Highmarshal might not even be a military rank, but a distinction, just like the French marshal. I couldn't find any mention of the word highofficer in any book. There is no such rank, in Coppermind it probably is meant to say that he has a high position, but we don't know what rank. That's my guess too. Depending on the size of the rearguard. If 100 men then companylord, if 1000 then companylord etc. That's a duty, not a rank. The only mention of the infantrylord was Perethom in WoK ch 26: There is also a bridgelord here. I'm guessing that's another duty thing, not a military rank. By this quote alone I'm guessing Perethom is responsible for organizing and scheduling the entire infantry divisions of Dalinar's army, in Coppermind it's said that during the burning of Rathalas he was a highmarshal - so I would guess that's his rank, if highmarshal is a military rank. He has a special task of commanding all of Dalinar's infantrymen. But not in the battle type commanding, but the day-to-day type commanding, giving them duties, tasks, guard hours etc. The same goes for the title of a brigdelord, who's responsible for all bridge crews, or the archerlord who's responsible for archers alone (if there is one, as there is no mention of that word in all 4 books). That's supported by the Coppermind, Alethkar#Militarism:

Ooooo, that makes so much sense!

Yeah, around 16h, I've got a similar estimate in the thread I linked in my earlier post. Elend had to arrive at the Pits during the same night and he also fought for many hours before the sun rose once more. No, I think the reason why TenSoon took so long to travel that distance was ash - he had to move in very deep ash. Elend just flew above it, without being slowed down by its deepness. HoA ch 71:

Something like that. At least to hide that people will have to burn the entire Atium stock. Disagree. Kelsier had days with barely any Ruin's interest focused on him, while Vin had just hours. Vin Ascended when the sun was rising, she rotated Scadrial back to the middle of the night and during the same night Elend arrived at Luthadel, then at the Pits and the last battle took place where he, Vin and Ati all died during the sunrise. It all happened within a single night. Vin held Preservation for less than a day, while being under constant pressure from Ruin. We've discussed it with you here. Could you provide a quote for those two days? I've been reading the chapter when Elend arrived and there was no mention how long it took him. It seems to happen during the same day. He leaves when Vin Ascends in the morning, he travels during the day and during the same day Vin rotates the planet back to the nighttime and during the new sunrise they all die. We don't know how much time has passed before they left caves. Spook fell asleep during Catacendre so I would expect hours had passed if not more. Mostly ignored Kelsier. Ruin was focused on Vin all the time and paid little attention to Kelsier, as he knew he posed no threat to him. That's the difference between them. Kelsier was able to find a place where Ruin's attention wasn't focused - Spook - Vin couldn't as Ruin was focused on what she was doing all the time. SH ch 6-6: That's far more than Vin had. And he did try to find out if Ruin's was weakened - that's when Ruin started to question Vin where Atium was, shortly before she Ascended, that's when Kelsier realized what it all was about. Once Shards know what to search for, the knowledge just comes to them in the blink of an eye - if it is within them, or available somewhere in the world. That's exactly what the WoB I've posted earlier said. Time matters and the right questions matter as well. SH ch 6-7: There are - time and right questions. She didn't know there was a plan, she didn't know there was a hope. Kelsier knew and had more time for his mind to expand and comprehend. WoBs agree with this. And HoA as well - both Spook and Vin spoke of being overwhelmed with knowledge and needing more time to comprehend all of this that came to them. Vin started as Preservation by being disoriented and not knowing what happened to her. HoA ch 76: She didn't spend that much time exploring her power, she "woke up", slowly realized she's a Shard now and immediately tried to fix things, clean ash out of the sky, rotate the planet and tried to stop the tsunami which was stopped by Ruin. Ever since Ruin was stopping every action of her.

There are rivers starting west from the Shattered Plains and the ocean on the east isn't that far away from Plains - that's where the water is heading. If not with rivers marked on maps, in an environment like this (rocky ground, no soil for the water to soak into) I expect seasonal rivers would appear after Highstorm - just water flowing in whatever depression it can find towards some major river, lake or ocean. The Frostlands is the region almost completely devoid of people, empty and with barely any settlements - a lot of space for some wild Chulls to live there or for Chamsfiends to cross towards Shattered Plains. But there is an even bigger, emptier region right next to the Plains - north and east of the Plains there are Unclaimed Hills, a huge part of Roshar almost fully devoid of humans, left alone for wildlife to thrive. That's the region I expect Chasmfieds to cross when migrating towards the Shattered Plains, that’s most likely their feeding ground. Nobody goes there, the first expedition that went in that area was Gavilar and Dalinar who discovered Parshendi that day. Then he died, the war came and nobody really cared since then what’s out there anymore. That’s why nobody saw anything you've mentioned. Someone in books even said that Chasmfiends are far more numerous on the eastern side of the Plains - towards Unclaimed Hills. Nah. No sharks on Roshar I think. There are already bigger things living on the land than megs. Blue Whales are bigger than megs, they are the biggest animals that ever lived on earth. There already are Tai-na on Roshar - gigantic, living tortoise-isles aren't big and scary enough for you?

Well, we've seen Nalthis from the PoV of Siri (who stayed the entire duration of the book in the palace), Vivenna (who notices that Jewels is a drab only several chapters after they've met for the first time) and Lightsong, who stays in the palace, just like Siri. Plus some chapters of Vasher who doesn't really care. It simply isn't that noticeable with your eyes alone, you need to have lots of Breaths to feel it with your Life Sense, like when Vivenna didn't feel Jewels, which made her realize she's a drab. I bet Vivenna met many drab people when she was drab herself, but she simply couldn't have felt that and seen any difference with her eyes alone. That's why I would expect most drabs would be - among poor people, who were forced to sell their Breaths to live. God King's wealth is the Peacegiver's treasure, 50,000 Breaths accumulated by Vasher during the Manywar, passed down between God Kings. There are a bit more Breaths there then what Vasher had, as every God King gets 2 or 3 Breaths per week. But the vast majority of those Breaths are from people that have been dead for 300 years. Vasher's 2000 Breaths came from Vahr, who collected them from many Pahn-Kahl people who worked on plantations with him, outside of the city. T'Telir is just one city among others, the biggest but still small compared to the entire population of a country - Siri passed through several cities on her way to the capital. People can just go to T'Telir, sell their Breaths and go back to their hometown, or Awakeners with Breaths can move into T'Telir, like Vahr did (kind of, he lost the rebellion and was moved there by force). Not to mention that some Breaths can be passed down just like the the Peacegiver's treasure, or just like Vivenna got her Breaths - fathers can give their Breaths to their sons, who later give them to their sons, priests can give their Breaths to their successor etc. Many of those Breaths might have been hundreds of years old - we don't really know, we can only speculate. Overall it's either because our PoV characters weren't in places where they could have been able to meet any drabs, weren't observant enough to spot many drabs around them, didn't pay enough attention so those drabs weren't mentioned, lastly there is entire world outside of T’Telir. But you're right, drabs don't appear very often in the book, there are 14 mentions of the word "drab" in Warbreaker and the economy of Breaths isn't explored that much. We can only speculate what's going on, those are my speculations.

I have no idea. I doubt you could extract Mishram she used to be before Unmaking - it's a process that kills a spren, probably severs all Connections and destroys its identity. There is no going back from it and I doubt even Shards would be able to restore that. There is no backwards time travel in Cosmere, you can't bring back what's gone, even in SR. Time in SR still flows forward, it's just... weird. Shallan's ability seems to be something like Soulcasting people into better versions of themselves, versions they can be if they give themselves a chance, versions from possible future/past. I was going to say it might be limited by how invested her target is, per "investiture resist investiture" law, but in this preview chapter Shallan's proved that's not the case by drawing Kalak. But that's just a drawing, Kalak didn't change after she drew him like that, but a drawing can inspire someone to change and be better - and that's what I think Shallan is doing. She draws Fortune to draw a better version of her "model" and this is such a good painting that it really inspires people to be like that, but that's not a magical inspiration, just emotional. I don't really think Shallan can just return with a better version of BAM, she can certainly draw her, maybe even understand her deeply and talk to her inspiring her to change, but that's the most I would expect to happen. I really never even considered Mishram being imprisoned in SR, I have no idea what to expect from this plotline, particularly that Shallan and all her weirdness is involved, we can expect the unexpected. It's going to get really weird! He (Storms, I've always thought it's she, it sounds like a woman's name for me...) was the only one sufficiently Connected to Mishram who understood her deeply, which was something necessary for imprisonment in a gemstone - you need to attract a spren with something they want, open yourself to it, give it something it loves. That's how Dalinar trapped Nergaoul, that's how Re-Shephir was trapped by some unnamed Lightweaver (who like the name suggests, wasn't a Bondsmith ) . OB ch 30: OB ch 120: I doubt it was anything about the creation of Mishram - it was said that Mishram was Odium's general in previous Desolations so unless Melishi lived for thousands of years, he couldn't have been associated with her unmaking. That being said - any chances that Melishi was Nohadon, if he was a Dawnshard, thus gained immortality?

That's a very good, new WoB. It's really strong evidence for what you're saying, I agree with you. Lights aren't Shards. They are just investiture combined together, but under the prism they still show separate bands of light, corresponding to their individual Shards. Lights aren't fully merged into one thing, Towerlight is made out of Stormlight and Lifelight, they are simply in harmony - the very chapter in which Warlight is created is called Harmony for a reason, and Harmony is two things working together in harmony. RoW ch 65: We have no proof of that. Pure Tones seem to be a mirror reflection of Shardic intents, they aren't defined by the Vessel directly.

Sure it's possible, it sounds like a drug addict's dream tbf. You would have to run around with syringes piercing your body, pumping metals into you at a constant rate. But that constant rate is a problem - it has to be significant to get any reasonable amount of power burst when burning duralumin. You have too small a rate, you'll get something like a flaring-level of power, no more. But that's just soooo impractical, having all of those syringes in you would be painful, uncomfortable, limiting your movement etc. One wrong move and they are ripped out of your body mid-combat - Coinshots can even push/pull on them, even though they are partially in your body, metal flakes aren't, they are outside and even Wax's metalminds were sometimes being pushed by some Coinshots. It's basically a very fragile and vulnerable idea, cool but impractical. But that’s the simplest design, encase everything in aluminum, a little storage tank under your coat, with a tube running to the needle, some way to decide which metals you want to pump and you have a little more safer design. A little more, as those tubes can get easily ripped out when you are fighting, swinging, turning and moving violently. It’s still too impractical to use.

We don't have any WoB on that, but that's a popular theory. It all boils down to the way Sazed Ascended, when he was able to merge those Shards but keep them separate. And I believe that separation is what causes him all those problems. HoA ch 82: I believe that if Sazed were to properly merge those Shards, he would not be Harmony anymore (as it requires two separate entities), but something like Creation - one power, one Intnet. That would 100% be a RAFO.

Could you please tell me what books have you read? I don't want to spoil you anything. It depends on your definition of a spren. If you mean literally then no, they are separate. A spren is raw investiture that gained sentience and became alive - they don't have a physical body nor a flesh, they are just investiture, raw power. A person is nothing like a spren. But by some loose definition of a spren, you could argue that Cognitive Shadows like Heralds or Returned are some kind of spren. A Cognitive Shadow is made when a person dies and their soul is heavily invested in the moment of their death. It's like a fossilization, their soul is replaced with raw power. And because of that some in Cosmere argue that Cognitive Shadows are more similar to spren than to people - they're like raw power masquerading as humans. Just like spren they are very invested, perception affects them over time, they can change their appearance (at least some of them can do that) and just like spren they are generally unable to leave their planet, because they are Connected to it through their heavily invested soul. It's even theoretically possible for a Cognitive Shadow to form a Nahel Bond in which they would act like a spren. So while they definitely don't look or behave like spren, by their nature they are the closest to spren, even though they have a fleshy body and all this stuff (not every Cognitive Shadow has a physical body). That's the closest you can get to becoming a spren as a person. Some WoBs:

Yes, that's Wit's flute. SA 5 preview chapters: