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Yes. All invested arts that are given via connection are lost after death. Even Awakener who Awakened when alive and didn't retrieve his Breaths before death, then if he was made into a Lifeless, that Lifeless would be unable to retrieve those Breaths as he has a different identity than Awakener. But Returned would be able to do it. The same goes with Feruchemist who was made into a Lifeless, that Lifeless can't access his metalminds at all (even if given medallions to gain ability), because he has a different identity than when he was alive.

Possible, but Sazed could just give him rest Allomantic powers without tin, so his tin strength wouldn't change. But it can be like you said. He is a reduced power Mistborn so even if he had double tin strength, he would still be weaker in that than Lerasium Mistborn.

That was very important discovery. Likely all Radiant sprens can become a fabrial. Nale has a Progression fabrial (he resurrected Szeth with it), that heals, so it likely is a Truthwatcher's spren or Cultivationspren. Oathgates are using Surge of Transportation, but they don't look like Willshaper's spren or Inksprens (one is black so maybe weird manifestation of Inkspren) - this might mean that you can replace Radiant spren with some new, different, sapient spren. No idea, we only know it's Enlightened, we don't know if it's even Radiant spren or some lesser spren. No Radiant Surge has the ability to suppress other Surges. All Surges, and everything they do. No idea. They likely asked unbound spren to manifest as a Fabrial and they agreed. Not likely. Radiant's would be left without a weapon, spren and a bond.

Yes. Kolossblooded's strength comes from their body, they don't have any spikes, so Kandra can replicate that. And it will stack with Blessings.

Center of their mass, but skilled Allomancer can push from a point of their body they want to. Kelsier during his fight with the inquisitor pulled and pushed on different parts of metal, not on the center of that metal's mass. You can do the same, changing the point from which steel lines come from your body. If they don't have enough skill to change it, then they could just build or shift their muscles and bones in some direction to shift their center of mass to a different point. But that's time consuming and not practical during an active combat situation. They can just learn how to do this with enough practise without changing their body. TLM spoilers:

They can't become a Chasmfiend Metal bones can also be damaged by bullets, but that's a good strategy for a Kandra.

Allomacy and Feruchemy comes from Connection, which is a part of a person's spiritual web. This is lost when that person dies, his spirit is separated from his body. So making a Lifless out of his body won't make him an Allomancer or Feruchemist again, as those are lost. Lifeless don't even have the same identity as the person that lived before.

I don't think being invested affects its physical characteristics like melting point. You can melt or alloy metalminds, which would change their magical properties. However invested metalminds would resist Soulcasting or Forgery to some degree

Because Teft couldn't fight against Moash with Honorblade without having his own Shardblade, and Moash needed to test anti-light on Teft's spren and Teft had to die to break Kaladin and bring him to Odium. Odium wanted to have Kaladin as his champion, and during the whole RoW he tried to do that. All Moash's actions, nightmares and invasion on the Tower, Moash had to make Kaladin suffer failure again, kill those who Kaladin cares about and wants to protect. And it so happened that Teft was awake. If it wasn't Teft it could likely be Kaladin's family, or even Syl.

Kaladin also said that in his fight with Leshwi in early chapters of RoW. Right, I forgot about this one. You said, quoting me, that the opposite is true, opposite of what I said was travel from Braize to Roshar: As other people have said I believe the opposite is true. They specifically mention trying and failing. This could easily be explained by: 1. Heavenly ones tend not to perform more than 1 lashing, limiting their speed 2. Healing is weaker, and without adhesion you are taking constant damage due to pressure 3. They aren't inventive. I believe they say that they took a bag of gemstones and attempted to travel to braize, thinking it could be a possibility for escaping between desolations. They likely didn't bring enough voidlight, and died on the way. They then assumed it was impossible, and never tried again. I think it's very possible for them to travel to Braize. Simply use transformation to make a sealed metal ball around the heavenly one, and give them a bunch of voidlight. Much more than usual. Apply a few lashings to the ball, possibly 3, then use voidlight to breath. The pressurized ball will prevent your blood from boiling, and you should absolutely have enough voidlight to make the trip. The main issue is would be bad aim, so maybe install a window or something. So weren't you trying to dispute my claim that they traveled from Roshar to Braize and support that they traveled from Braize to Roshar? There isn't any support to this theory, and Raboniel actions in previous Desolations and in True Desolations proves Fused invent and change their strategy as well. I don't think so, the meeting with the Nine proves it, but I have to reread it to be sure of this. They might argue and disagree, but they will listen to the Nine (Pursuer was "tamed" for a little while), or they will listen to Odium. But you're right, they are very spren like, with single intent driving their actions. So with passage of time they would be less inventive, as most don't have that drive to change like Raboniel did. Oh right, yes, they died. I didn't want to suggest they succeeded. We later discussed why they died. Well, I'm not doing math now (somebody did it on the forum), but with a quick google search, constant acceleration of 1g will make you reach the speed of light in around 1 year, so based on that you won't have any relativistic effects when traveling to Mars. And another google search tells me that 1 g would make you reach Mars within 1 day and 7 hours. So Fused dying within hours is correct. I don't think temperature is an issue, as it's the property of the matter, and in the vacuum of space there are no particles (like whole 5 atoms per 1 cm3), so there is no temperature transmission to your body. However you get heated up by the Sun's radiation, but that's not much greater than what's on Earth's surface. Your body however will have troubles with cooling down, as it can only do it by radiation, which is a slow process, and can't do it via heat convection or conduction, so you might get overheated because of that. Radiation is a long term problem. You won't die from radiation while crossing space between planets. You might develop cancer from this, or radiation poisoning, or nothing if it was fast enough. I think the most radiation intense regions of space between Earth and Mars are van Allen belts, caused by the Earth's magnetosphere. From Wiki: And another quick google search, we collected data about radiation dose received by Mars rovers during interplanetary travel, and they received 1.75 to 3.0 mSv/day. Which is basically nothing to human (lowest yearly radiation dose linked to increased cancer risk is 100mSv), and Radiant/Fused even more, which both can get on Mars/Braize within a few short days. So radiation is not an issue at all, even its long term effects are non existing. Lack of pressure is the biggest problem they would face, as it would case their body fluids to constantly boil, and their body gasses to expand and rupture soft tissue, so this will drain a lot of Stormlight for healing, more than lack of oxygen (Windrunners already go without breathing sometimes). Shardplate eliminates the pressure problem, so it's much easier for Radiants to travel interplanetary than for others.

Not necessarily. Invested arts aren't given by Shards, they are the natural manifestations of Shard's influence. On Sel, despite Splintering of Devotion and Dominion, magic is still active. On Roshar, Honor got Splintered, but Radiants are almost the same as before that. This might change if a Shard got splinter to such small fragments, that nobody can Ascend, but those Splinters will become sentient - that's sprens for you, they are Splinters, they grant powers. Invested arts will change, likely they will get weaker and more restrictive, but they will prevail, as investiture is part of the natural world, just like matter and energy is part of our Universe. You can't separate energy or matter from our Universe, in the same way you can't separate Investiture from Cosmere.

We don't even know what Voidbinding even is yet, so it's really hard to say. It's likely something that Renarin is doing, so it does involve enlightened spren. So a Bondsmith of Sja-anat wouldn't be a Voidbinder, as he isn't bonded with enlightened spren (unless he bonds with it as his second spren). We need more information about Voidbinding.

If they tried this from Braize to Roshar, then how? They don't have a physical form there, Braize is settled fully by splinters. So how can no oxygen, no pressure or radiation kill basically what is a spren? Raboniel inventing suppression fabrial or a disease that wiped out 10% of Roshar? Not inventive? RoW ch 89 We sent Heavenly Ones to try traveling to Braize in PR. No life, only souls. So why would a soul require healing from no pressure in space? Heavenly ones can only apply 1 lashing, no more. Fused soulcasting seems to be limited, not as free as Radiant's one, Raboniel only turned something to smoke at one point, and I don't think we saw more.

Bone is not a part of their true body. So they can just replace it, bind with muscles, and regrow a body around the cut part. And is it cut in half? Shardblade cuts soul first, then physical, so the bone won't be cut by a Shardblade in one cut.

Deadeyes are dead spren - dead Shardblades. Like Adolin's blade. This is something very different. Those aren't deadeyes, those are corpses of spren dragged fully into Physical Realm, where they shouldn't be. Read RoW to know more about it. Those corpses can be Awakened, as they are no longer invested. But they won't form a Shardblade, as Shardblade is a physical form of Cognitive spren, and those already have a physical form - a corpse you're Awakening. You have partially your answer there, in the quoted Coppermind, with the link to this WoB,

No, they are already considered Awakened by the magic system. They're already invested.

I don't know how you can constantly downplay the importance of F-zinc. From Coppermind, based on Ars Arcanum and Sazed: Which is exactly what I'm talking about. F-zinc changes the speed of processing information of your brain. While you don't "plan" in your mind your next step, your mind does it, it processes information about the ground you're going to put your foot on, how steep it is, how slippery it is, how soft, hot to balance your body, and many other parameters so you can properly place your foot on that ground - all of that in a fraction of a second, without you even knowing what's happening. That's what F-zinc will speed up or slow down. Processing time. That's why it will change your reaction time, as a big factor of it is your brain processing time. The faster your processing time, the earlier your muscles will start to move in response. But your muscles still move normally and slowly, but they started moving a bit earlier, because your brain didn't need that much time to process information. In combat, you have been training for years to instinctively respond to outside stimuli in a certain way, you did it to shorten your reaction time by both developing your muscle strength, and importantly, shortening your brain processing time.Your brain still processes those stimuli, but was trained to respond in a certain way, so it will react faster. Even muscle memory still works by information being processed in your brain.

The very end? I personally am a big supporter of the Heat Death hypothesis. But yeah, Adonalsium will be restored, before that Sazed gonna figure out his troubles, on Roshar Honor and Odium will be combined into War Shard, and Roshar will be in conflict with Scadrial, Shards will likely be gathering more Shards to "overpower" themselfs, until someone else will restore Adonalsium. Or people will realize that Shards only cause pain and suffering, and they Splinter them into very small pieces and prevent them from ever combining again, so nobody would ever Ascend.

In OB ch 208 Honorspren told Lazure that Nightblood just passed through their city in CR. So it must have a cognitive aspect. And likely it looks the same as it looked when Nightblood was pulled into Odium's "vision" in RoW ch 113:

I don't remember this from books, but Coppermind states, that Dullform can hear Rhythms, but it's harder for them - "It is also mentally limiting; those in dullform find thinking difficult, as if they were half-asleep, and have a harder time hearing the rhythms.[10][20]". Slaveform doesn't hear Rhythms and have no spren bond, so Lifeless Singer would be like them - so yes, maybe if you gather Singers in a circle, they could attract spren to bond with Lifeless Singer in this weird, necromantic ritual But those sprens might end up bonding with the lifting Singers as well, it was common to attract the wrong type of spren and become the wrong form, before they started to use spren captured in gems.

Yup, the other person whom I consider that might take up the Shard of Honor is Kaladin. He is called the Son of Tanavest by Stormfather, while others are called Child of Honor. And there is a reason for it.

Yes, that's right, it's the same thing. They are first Awaken with a single Breath Command with a security phrase, and later you can give them almost any command you want, and because they have a brain, they will understand more complex commands than type 3 Awaken objects. Warbreaker ch 21: Oh, that's a very good question. Because that spren bond prevents Larkin from collapsing under his own weight, it's a very physical aspect of Larkin that goes away after his death. So likely a single Breath Lifeless Larkin would have trouble moving under his greater weight, the big ones would be fully unable to do so. However, you can likely Awaken it with more Breath, which would substitute for that spren bond, and absorb much of the weight. If you can repair Lifeless damaged to the point of non-functionality by giving them more Breaths, and Khalad Phantoms were described by Brandon as in need of more Breaths, which would work as joints, you can for sure give more Breath to a Larkin Lifeless that would take some weight out of his cute, little legs. Wow, that's another great question I've never considered. Spren leaves the gemheart after death, so you would need to bond Lifeless again with that spren. Which would likely be impossible to do naturally. You could give Lifeless A-bronze (spike or medallion), which would allow him to hear and hum Rhythms, and therefore attract a spren during Highstorm, but the transformation requires Stormlight (or Voidlight) to complete, but Lifeless is now infused with Breaths, so investiture would resist investiture, and it would likely prevent transformation from taking place at all. Or you could once again provide more Breaths to that Lifeless, which would be used to fuel that transformation to proper Parshendi form. But intent is also very important part of transformation, and it's questionable if Lifeless would be able to provide that intent. It's likely, they are self-aware, Parsh-Lifeless would understand what is needed and what should he do, and if they can access medallions and use Allomancy, I guess they can provide necessary intent for transformation. You could trap the spren in the gemheart like in fabrial, but you need to infuse the gem with Stormlight, make it vibrate in proper Rhythm, and suck the light out of it, which would suck the spren into it, trapping him. So you would need to make a hole to access the gemheart (which would damage your Lifeless). I guess it could act like a fabrial? Especially if you add metal wires to his body? So in some way you could replicate what that spren bond would do in a living Parsh.

They are Lifeless, they are far more capable of understanding complex Commands than a simple Awakened object. They have brains. So whatever Command would be the best suited for this, they would execute it as you wanted. And you can program them with multiple Commands and responses. Lightsong commanded a squirrel to go to the palace, find the Returned who lived there, jump around her, make noise and bite everything - and it worked. You can command them to follow your prey, but keep separation between each other of at least 1 meter, and spread more to the sides of your prey. Then when they would feel a force pushing on them from above, they have to brace strongly against the ground, so you can have a stable anchor. Or something like that. Intent and visualization also play a big role, so with proper intent and visualization, you can give them just a simple command "chase my pray" and they will do what I've just described. You can Awaken Larkin. But it depends where his ability to feed on investiture comes from. If it's some sort of connection, then it's lost when Larkin dies. If it's something they can do solely because of their body, then you can do it. And it would eat when commanded, if you want to. You decide, you command. Larking seems to be even more intelligent than Whitespine, so it can execute even more complicated Commands.

Poor Sazed. What godhood does to a man...

Invested art. I don't think Fused are strictly Odium's invested art. They are the same to Radiant's Surgebinding, and Fused themself Surgebind as well (after all they call it Surges). Radiant's Surgebinding comes from Honor and Cultivation. Voidbinding might be the true invested art of Odium, but we don't know much about it yet. There isn't any true answer to the question "how many magic systems are on Roshar". It all depends on how you categorize them. And that's what Brandon says as well. If Sja-anat gets Remade, she will stop being one of the Unmade so it won't be a problem with the number 9 and with Odium not having any Bondsmiths.