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True, my bad. I think it might help, but a Kandra would have to practice with those kinds of corpses to get used to their unique characteristics. Someone like TenSoon would be able to create a general human form while adding details preserved from the mummy, making a good copy of that mummified person.

Yeah, Starspren are unlikely to be Tai-na spren. It seems that their spren are somewhat sapient. I don't think they are Radiant spren, but some other type of near-sapient great spren. Also Rysn knows Luckspren, from her fall from Tai-na. It's possible they are bonded to some other special species of Luckspren. Dawnshard ch 16: Or maybe they are the same type of Luckspren. There are many corpses of greatshells scattered around the coast of Aimia, it might be a part of Tai-na lifecycle to visit Akinah and bond with a special Luckspren, just like other, smaller greatshell come there to die. Tai-na, just like Larkins, are sapient, just like them they require a special amount of assistance because of their enormous size - it would make sense for them both to bond the same spren. Plus it was Tai-na who took care of Larkins after the Scouring of Aima and they can even command them, as evident with Chiri-Chiri. Larkins are also called cousins of Tai-na. There is a connection between Aimia, Larkins and Tai-na. Dawnshard ch 1:

Unfortunately that's not how it works. Firstly, it's not really infinite. Secondly, Feruchemical speed doesn't affect Allomantic pushes and pulls, because Feruchemy stores physical speed - the speed of your muscle movement - not how fast you fly, which is what Allomancy does. You don't move a muscle while using Allomancy. But tapping speed increases your metabolism and that increases the rate of your burning, giving you more power - so your Steelpushes would be stronger.

It is not just about DNA. Many details of your appearance aren't from your DNA, like scars for example. Kandra will mimic them perfectly because Kandra has to eat the body while it's fresh to learn all those features. Kandra can't grow hair for example, they need to use the original hair. They will eat the body with fingerprints and that means they will perfectly copy them. In this case DAN replication doesn't matter, it's the matter of the freshness of the flesh. TenSoon can use Kelsier's bare bones because he ate his flesh before, he knows his body, he remembers it - he remembers his fingerprints as well. But if he gets bones unknown to him, he won't know how this person looked, he will create a general human body with non-specific features (well TenSoon is op, but that's the rule). HoA ch 7:

Chiri-Chiri needs a Mandra, that's confirmed by Nikli. Luckspren was guiding Rysn to Akinah, to the cave under the city and there are hundreds of them around the island. Moreover Luckspren are seen around greatshells, they are bonded with them to help with their mass. Larkin are greatshells too, they need Luckspren to grow to those enormous sizes. But they need a special kind of Luckspren, found only on Akinah. Dawnshard ch 9: ch 12: ch 19:

He didn't. He tried to learn this in WoA. It is unconfirmed if he has access to Feruchemy, but he has access to Allomancy (he took the Lerasium bead from the Well, he used Allomancy on Roshar). He uses Fortune via a mechanism similar to Feruchemy.

Disagree. They show signs of insanity even during prelude. Fused are insane and are getting more insane with each death. The main reason is that they lived far too long while being tortured: That role was literally removed from Roshar. Just as your examples show, if Yelig-Nar had a role like you proposed, it would cease to work once he became an Unmade. Unmaking kills the original entity. I'm not saying they would disappear but they would be killed, their souls would be twisted and changed, their Connection to Shards broken. Yelig-Nar would not work to restrict Surges anymore as he isn't that spren anymore.

Yeah, an amplifier is the right term. Not really true, took me a while to find this quote - WoK ch 28:

You said it yourself, those are very vague and broad ideas. Multiple ideas. Windspren is just about wind. Fearspren is about fear. The Sibling, the Stormfather and the Nightwatcher aren't like that, they represent more. Very much untrue. Cultivation specifically made her to be independent from people's perception and to grow on her own. We know next to nothing about the Nightwatcher. It's hard to say what she represents as a spren. Poisoning of Honor? Not really, Honor was just Splintered in the direct clash with Odium. It just took him some time to die afterwards. Splinters are separate from Honor, they are independent. Corrupting Splinters won't affect Honor. Unmade combined are less invested than the Stormfather. They are big Splinters, but individually much smaller than the Stormfather. They are still Odium's Splinters. They are made of his power. It's not that crystal clear. I don't think there is anything like that. There is no such a thing like an idea of table, there is no such a thing like an idea of spren, they just are. Then those restrictions would have disappeared when Yelig-Nar was unmade. Yelig-Nar has existed at least since Nohadon's times, that' before the 6th Epoch, very early in Rosharan history - before Radiants were even created. Edit: Easy fix, the Stormfather would be the 10th.

She is lacking it. She isn't fully sentient, she isn't as intelligent as humans are. She is more like an animal, driven by her instincts. OB ch 30:

Thanks. I find it possible, I would not dismiss this statement. One theory about Re-Shephir is that she used to be a Midnight Aetherbound. But we don't need that specific connection to Midnight Aether - when investiture is corrupted in a specific way, it manifests as Midnight Essence. How can a human become a Splinter? No idea. But as you said, Shallan isn't an expert. It's possible that Re-Shephir isn't looking specifically for her lost humanity, but rather for her lost cognition, as for example she used to be a sentient Splinter for example. A person, but not a human.

Hello, welcome to the Shard! Yes, Szeth is clearly insane (just read how he behaves), he was grasping at straws trying to justify to himself that he was still Truthless. He knew Nale's Shardblade wasn't in Shin's hands. If he were to admit that Kaladin is a Radiant, that would mean he was never a Truthless and that would mean that he was responsible for every single person he killed, not his masters. Szeth clinged to the explanation given to him by Taravangian earlier in the book. He was desperate and broken, he was in denial, but in the end he accepted the truth and gave up his bond with the Honorblade, falling to his death.WoR I-14: WoR ch 86: OB ch 107:

I believe it's additive but a Shardplate grants such massive enhancements that even a Thug flaring pewter wouldn't be that much stronger than another Shardbearer. A Shardplate levels the fighting field. No, it will help hold your increased mass, but the plate has limits of how much it can lift - the more mass you have the harder it is for your plate to move you, the weaker it gets. And if you tap too much weight, you can even crash your Shardplate. Dalinar's plate was cracking when he was holding the Chasmfiend's claw, Dalinar's plate was crushed when he was buried under rocks in OB - there are limits on how much weight a plate can support. A dead plate stops all kinds of investiture use. It will block emotional Allomancy, it might block steelsight. But Atium shadows? Hard to say. They are effects of peering into the Spiritual Realm. A Shardblade will still leave an Atium shadow, so I find it possible that a dead Shardplate won't stop you from using Atium because all of this is happening in SR.

Painrial is both an Augmenter and Diminisher and it's confirmed to use at least brass. The difference might be with the type of Spren used and effect gained from an Fabrial - Painrial affects emotions and probably an emotion Spren (I guess it's a Painspren), while something like a heating fabrial affects nature Spren (Flamespren) and natural phenomena like fire/heat.

I think it just makes the Fabiral's effect stronger/weaker. Painrial uses brass to diminish pain, zinc likely amplifies pain. Coppermind: Basically zinc works with augmenters, brass with diminishers.

Hello, welcome to the forum! The way the Surge of Gravitation changes the gravitational acceleration and the direction of it isn't by changing masses or Affecting spacetime, it's by changing the spiritual Connection to gravity of affected objects. In Cosmere the Physical Realm is only one "dimension" of reality, there is also the Cognitive Realm (realm of the mind) and the Spiritual Realm where investiture and souls exist. The Surge of Gravitation affects your Connection to gravity, Connecting you to a virtual supermassive object in the Lashed direction, that doesn't actually exist. It doesn't change mass or warp spacetime, all work is done in the Spiritual Realm, not Physical. WoBs: No, that's not how time dilation works. Planets with double the mass of Earth don't have half as slow time passage. The difference in time dilation caused on such a low mass scale is miniscule. For example the Sun is around one million times more massive than the Earth and on the surface of the Sun time passes slower only by a minute or so per year. That's nothing. Because the Surge of Gravity doesn't affect masses or warp spacetime, no gravitational time dilation would happen - I guess, depending on how the Spiritual Connection would play with it. Would it fool the soul so much that it would behave like it was in the gravitational field dictated by a Lashing or not? If yes then gravitational time dilation would happen, but you would need massive amounts of Lashing - you probably can't even have that much Stormlight in the first place to generate such visible effects. The time dilation that would be important is due to speeds involved - a Surgebinder can Lash himself to eventually reach near light speed velocities and that would make him experience a considerable time dilation. That's not something that is happening in books. The world around them doesn't suddenly slow down when they use the Surge of Gravitation. You really went wild by the end here. All of this doesn't work like that. Reverse Lashing doesn't work like that, it's a combination of the Surges of Gravitation and Adhesion. And backwards time travel is definitely and canonically impossible in Cosmere:

Please do not necro-post - this topic is almost 3 years old, it's against the site's polity to revive threads that old. The WoB you're referring to: Honorblades are self-aware but that's not the same as having the ability to talk - which they don't have. They aren't sapient. I think it was a spren bonding with Szeth and talking to him. Szeth had to somehow know that a new Desolation is coming and who would know it better than a spren feeling it coming? The question then is what happened to that spren and their bond. I think the spren was either captured in a gemstone, or the bond was broken by Szeth's father, who had Ishar's Honorblade and Bondsmith's power. But if the bond was broken and spren wasn't imprisoned, where would they be now? They should bond someone else.

Oh, Moash did everything wrong, the question in the poll should be if he deserves redemption. Maybe, but right now I don't want him to get redemption - he never felt sorry for what he did. Dalinar did worse, but he at least felt remorse. But Moash is not there yet and I'm not sure if feeling remorse is enough for me. RoW ch 111: In my opinion that wasn't the worst thing Moash did. A much worse crime he committed was telling depressed Kaladin to kill himself. Even killing Teft was done to break Kaladin. That's pure malice.

Which brings you no closer to explaining why Honorspren and Highspren are spren of emotions. Binding things together is a natural phenomena, it's one of the fundamental forces of Cosmere that Honorspren represent - that's fully on the nature side of spren classification. All True Spren represent fundamental forces - Surges. Edit: This is your definition of emotional spren, with which I disagree. Emotional spren respond to emotions. No, they aren't liespren, they are called liespren, they don't like that name. They like lies because they don’t understand them. Cryptics represent numbers (their names are literally numbers), the mathematics that govern the universe. 100% spren of nature. OB ch 97:

I think the early TFE Vin would be best fit for Lightweavers - there is a lot of truths she had to realized in that period: she can't trust, she can't have friends, she wasn't loved by her brother, she can't love and be with Elend and things like that - for some of those things it took Vin almost to the end of WoA to acknowledge. Not to mention that a Lightweaver would fit well for her role as a Mistborn/assassin.

No, WoB:

Yes, definitely. She is a prime candidate for a Windrunner. After all, she was the ideal Vessel of Preservation, who is all about preserving people, she died to protect all of Scadrial, she fits Windrunners very well.

I agree, that's why they only seem to. Nergaoul and Ashertmarn are the easiest to find some connection to concepts like battle rage and lust. But others? The more intelligent they get the harder it is to connect them to some ideas (the same can be said about the Sibling and Nightwatcher). But we still haven't seen half of them. However, they aren't attracted by lust or blood frenzy, they cause it, which is unlike other Spren. Maybe Unmades and Greatspren are just too big to represent ideas, too sentient to be attracted, were made by their Shards in a way that just makes them greater than a single idea? The Stormfather is the father of Highstorms, that's an easy connection. His "divinity" came from his status as Honor's Cognitive Shadow. He's not any Spren of divinity, he's just a Cognitive Shadow of the dead god.

What emotion does Honorspren represent? Disagree. They are spren of the idea of Honor, spren of binding things together, of promises, oaths and nobility - not emotions. WoK ch 67: True Spren are Spren of ideas, Spren of fundamental forces of Cosmere. Spren of nature. The quote doesn't support this statement. First, it's about Skybreakers not Highspren, secondly those aren't emotions, those are abstract concepts.

Dominant and recessive genes. It's been a while since I've learnt this, but this seems to be fully possible. Two Feruchemist have greater chances of having a child that is also a Feruchemist (or have strong Feruchemical genes that can be pass down another generation), than a Feruchmist parent with a non-Feruchemist parent - we've already seen Set doing this to Allomancers successfully with their prisoners under Bilming. Inbreeding won't be a problem. There are thousands of Feruchemist, potentially millions of Terris people out there. To prevent negative effects of inbreeding for future generations you need like 100-300 different people as your starting group. Then can easily mix together and avoid inbreeding. Brandon said that there are 3 different sets of DNA: physical, cognitive and spiritual - I think for now we can assume that they all work more or less in the same way.