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Sounds possible but you would probably need an unsealed metalmind (Malwish medallion) to do that. You probably don't even need Raysium if you tweak the medallion in the right way. Unsealed metalminds are like little machines that give you power with their own identity, you should be able to program them in such a way that they would just start drawing in an attribute as soon as they are put on a person, without the need of intent from that person. TSM spoilers:

Yes, you would have to burn through the outer metal first before you'll be able to burn Harmonium. It's a possible solution to the problem, but still very, very dangerous. We have no idea. We only know it's like super-cesium.

Well, I'm on board with the theory that Nightblood was accidentally used as a Hemalurgic spike to kill Shashara, that could have happened, but I doubt Vasher would have the correct intent - he just wanted to kill her to prevent the knowledge of creating Nightblood from getting into public. However, even if he had Shashara's Divine Breath in him, he would not need to feed it investiture because Divine Breaths only need investiture when they keep a body alive - Nightblood is a cold piece of metal, he doesn't have a living body. A Divine Breath isn't the soul itself, it's the nail that stamples the soul back to its body. I'm also not sure if Nightblood could access that Hemalurgic charge because he can't really spike himself with himself, can't he? And you need that to make the spike functional. I highly doubt that Nightblood was like Vivenna's sword after creation. In fact, Brandon said that it might be impossible now to create another Nightblood and Vivenna's sword was specifically created via a different method not to become another Nightblood. If using it as a spike was all it took to make it into Nightblood, then this wouldn't make any sense. No, I believe Nightblood was like this since the moment of his creation. He might not be leaking the black smoke before his first use, but he wasn't changed by anything. We also don't know when his sheathe was added - it could have been made before Nightblood was made in anticipation. Warbreaker ch 51: He does, but from his wielder. OB ch 119: He is. You can't transfer Divine Breaths, they always become kinetic and are used up when you do this.

Maybe they have a perpendicularity in their singularity? Sounds possible. But black holes still exist in Cosmere and they still behave like regular black holes. If there is a perpendicularity formed in a singularity, you can't reach it, you can't use it. Black holes would not only kill you and rip you to atoms, but also prevent you from ever using a perpendicularity in the very center of it because black holes also bend spacetime in the Cognitive Realm - you just can't get out of a black hole once you cross the event horizon. Black holes also aren't that common. The closest black hole to Earth is around 1,600 light years away, Cosmere is a small star cluster made out of around 100 stars, which is comparable to an open cluster which spans max 30 light years in diameter. It's very unlikely that you would have so many black holes in Cosmere that they could be used as a reasonable way to move between star systems. And that might also be a casual breaking of causality. From the outside frame of reference a person falling into a black hole takes an infinite amount of time to reach singularity. So if you went into a black hole, somehow survived and use the perpendicularity in its singularity and then somehow come out on Roshar for example, others would be able to theoretically witness two versions of you - the one that's still falling towards the singularity and will never reach it and the one that's just came out of that singularity. They would see an effect without a cause - sounds like a causality violation to me. But on the other hand every FTL, Shadesmar included, violates causality in the same way so...

And I'll throw a few more WoBs too:

There are Azish Viziers among the ranks of Ghostbloods and many other rich and influential individuals from all across Roshar as well. They would have no problem with acquiring necessary tools to produce anti-light in relatively large quantities, like the vacuum tube. They are however limited by the access to Raysium - which they probably got from Fused directly. In RoW Mraize traded Lift and some other valuable relics (a silver chain from Threnody) for the access to the Oathgates, it is reasonable to assume that their trade relations didn't simply stop there and they continued and might have even traded anti-light technology. Or it was simply stolen from Navani using the same method they used to spy on Dalinar's secret conversations - using Sja-Anat and her spren. If they had means of hearing Dalinar's talk about Ascending to Honor, they had means to spy on Navani when she explained to her scientists how to create anti-light. From there it isn't just a matter of a few tries till they get anti-light. I’m not surprised at all that Ghostbloods have anti-light already and not just one gemstone of it. The only thing you need to have is a vacuum tube and a metal plate to create vast quantities of anti-light. It's not that hard to do. Also, since the new prologue we know that Vasher worked with Gavilar and it was him that discovered anti-light for the first time. In RoW, during the invasion of the Tower, he mysteriously disappeared, it's possible that Ghostbloods got to him and managed to either convince him to work for them, or forcefully get this information out of him even before Navani rediscovered it. We still had no Vasher PoV so we don't know what's been up to in those last weeks.

I will reread all released chapters. I haven't decided yet if I'll do it a few days before the premiere, rereading the sample chapters, or if I just wait for the full book and start the book from the first page. But I'm not skipping anything, I'm reading it all again to find out what I missed in those earlier chapters!

This investiture in a person's soul came from the Shard and the Spiritual Realm and that's where the leaked investiture goes back. It simply returns to the Spiritual Realm and later continues in the cycle of investiture returning back to the Physical Realm in one way or another.

Personally, I love what he did today.

Where was it said? I don't remember it. Shardblades are an alloy, Harmonium is not, it's one element, one god metal. Because Trellium repulses investiture while Shardblades just cut things. Axi are made out of mass, energy and investiture. Axion of Harmonium is made out of investiture of both Ruin and Preservation and they push on each other, which makes Harmonium unstable. Add Trellium which provides an additional pushing force and now the pushing force is strong enough to overcome the force that binds Axion together and Axion is broken in half - a fission reaction. Shardblades can't do that. I don't think it's about Connection at all, it's about the nature of fundamental particles and atoms in Cosmere that are made out of matter, energy and investiture, not just matter and energy like in our universe.

Oh snap! Dalinar and Navani are now trapped in SR. I didn’t expect that at all. We know what happens when a perpendicularity collapses, we saw it happening when Szeth thrusted Nightblood into Dalinar's perpendicularity in RoW ch 111. Nobody was sucked into it, nobody was pulled into SR. I don't think this situation is any different. And Shallan was not pulled into it because she saw the room being shattered by the blast. This makes me more worried about Dalinar and Navani's bodies on the other side. The blast could be transferred via perpendicularity to the PR before it collapsed and it might have killed their bodies.They were both standing right in the middle of the perpendicularity, just where the energy would be released.

Congrats on your 500th post! This was an excellent essay to read. Some did it for power, some like Hoid did it believing it's "for Adonalsium's own good." SH ch 3-2: Tress ch 57: Clearly Iyatil should question Mraize’s loyalty. But I put her statement together with the disappearance of Mraize’s Aviar. These two events suggest a kandra first ate and became the Aviar, then ate and became Mraize. This Mraize IS a duplicate. And Harmony now knows an awful lot about Roshar. We’ll see... Good idea. Mraize can be a Kandra, but if Kandra ate his Aviar then Mraize would have known about it as Kandra can't replicate powers of Aviars. But Mraize could have been a Kandra this entire time - and that Kandra can't work for Harmony because MeLaan was the first Kandra sent by Harmony into Cosmere in TLM. We also know from a WoB that there is a Kandra on Roshar who doesn't work for Harmony - Mraize would fit well. This phrase underlies my evolving Rosharan “old gods” theory. I think Dalinar becomes the living planet Roshar’s Bondsmith like Kaladin becomes Wind’s Bondsmith and Rock and Venli become Stone’s Bondsmiths. IOW, Dalinar will be able to wield all 16 of Roshar’s Investitures without regard to Intent. Here’s my question: What else could the bolded phrase mean? I don’t think it refers to the “really, sincerely dead” Adonalsium, nor to the God Beyond. Cultivation and Odium are Roshar’s only other Shards, and they’re both taken. What is “beyond Honor” on Roshar if not the entity Roshar itself? I’m open to suggestions. It is the God Beyond. Dalinar now believes in him. RoW ch 10: RoW ch 15: RoW ch 111:

The difference is that Syl doesn't have a real, physical body. She was pulled into the Physical Realm by her bond with Kaladin, but she still doesn't have her own body, except for when she forms a Shardblade. Hoid made a body (not a real one) for Design so she can interact with the Physical Realm. This is not something 5th Ideal grants, this is a complex Lightweaving with the use of Connection to attach Design Cognitive aspect to it.

But magic and spikes are a part of Kandra agelessness. This can't be done with Mistwraiths. While you can somewhat train them, this is simply beyond their capabilities because they lack the magic and they lack sapience. To learn that Intent might be needed and without sapience Mistwraiths won't have it. Some birds can't fly

That sounds like a very good idea. I like it. While I cannot ignore foreshadowing for the child champion theory, I'm not a fan of it, I don't think this will happen and you actually took the same signs and put them in a different perspective. Dustbringers would be a very fitting order for Gavinor and help him with his emotions. Truthfully, he can start developing a bond very soon - spren do bond with kids, Lift and Shallan are prime examples of this. Age doesn't really matter for them.

Atium-electrum alloy uses Fortune to see glimpses of the Future through the Spiritual Realm. But there are interferences in between you and the Spiritual Realm. Burning a lot of that alloy with duralumin allows you to overcome those interferences and peer directly into the Spiritual Realm - basically step into it. Pure Atium is powerful enough to push through those interferences on its own. It always allows you to look directly into the Spiritual Realm. Eland kind of hacked the system because pure Atium, Atium-electrum alloy and electrum itself all work in the same way. You could do the same thing with electrum and duralumin. So Elend didn't suddenly gain access to Atium, but because all those abilities work based on the same mechanism, he just got the same effect. Unlikely. Atium is the pure essence of the god - it's the power that you gain when you burn it, unlike what's happening when you burn regular metals, which are only a filter for the power coming from the Spiritual Realm. Atium itself is the power. You gain nothing from the future self, because you have no need for that. As for the pure Atium Feruchemy, we don't know what it does, but Feruchemy doesn't work in reverse - you can't tap investiture you don't have, you have to first store that investiture, use your body's attributes to gain investiture. You can't do it in reverse. That would be time travel and time travel in Cosmere isn't a thing. Also, your future isn't set in metal, it's not deterministic, it's probabilistic. You don't even know if in the future you would be alive to transfer that power into the past (which is impossible). This kind of power doesn't really work in Cosmere in my opinion (but I must say, it's a cool power).

Mistwraiths aren't sapient, they don't have big enough control over their bodies to use their abilities to such an extent. Sapience and magic is also a partial reason for why Kandra are nearly ageless (look at WoB provided earlier). He changed them. He didn't take away their humanity or sentience, he blocked it. It's still there, but they have to first overcome that blockade, which can be done with Blessings. But this was an exchange - this and Feruchemy for immortality. Not all Mistwraiths get to become immortal, but all can. Are Koloss capable of reproduction in Era 1? No, because they aren't human anymore. Kandra aren't Mistwraiths anymore. Spikes always change you. Sometimes it's a big change, sometimes it's a smaller change - but spikes always change you. Kandra can shapeshift to a human form and in that form they can potentially reproduce (which would have an effect on their child). Can they recreate Mistwraith's reproductive organs? Possibly and in that way they could possibly have Mistwraith-like kids, but Kandra can't create Kandra kids and Kandra aren't Mistwraiths anymore because Hemalurgy changed them. Their ability to crossbreed is dependent on Brandon's decision if Kandra can replicate DNA. If they can then they can reproduce with other species, if they can't then all forms of reproduction are off the table. You have Inquisitors, you have Koloss - they are different because of spikes. Kandra also are different from Mistwraiths mainly because they regain their sapience, but also their body and spirit changes so they are no longer Mistwraiths - just like Inquisitors are no longer humans. HoA ch 41 epigraphs:

Spren do get more than that, the bond increases their mental capacity even beyond that what they had in CR. I don't think the sickness analogy is correct. The bond braces their soul and it works both ways. Adolin isn't really that hurt compared to Shallan or Kaladin (who both have seriously cracked souls), so he doesn't need "healing" as much as others, but his bond with Maya will invest him, it will brace his soul and it will bring them closer together. WoR Synopsis: In the case of the Radiant bond, a human soul is strengthened by a True Spren's soul, who's a literal manifestation of powers of creation. Adolin isn't anything close to it, but he's a human, he has his soul, he has the ability to fill cracks in Maya's soul and give her strength she now needs. That's why it's a reversal. TSM spoilers are not allowed in the SA forum. Please edit your post and put it in a spoiler box. And yes, everyone has investiture in their soul, Rosharans have innate Investiture in their spirit web, and their spirit web itself is made partially out of investiture and Connections. Because nobody tried this before. Deadeyes didn't exist before Recreance, they didn't exist when people were bonding with spren. Nobody could have even tried this. Moreover, everyone treats Deadeyes as dead and incapable of thinking - Adolin is different. He treats Maya as a person. Their bond is also different. It's not a traditional Nahel Bond, it's not a Radiant bond, it's a different kind of bond alltogehter. Their circumstances are vastly different. Syl isn't a Deadeye, Syl doesn't have a cracked soul and they already have a Nahel Bond. They are probably restricted by the framework placed by Ishar that created Radiant Orders. Because it's just a different kind of bond. There are many different kinds of bonds. Bonds do go both ways, but they don't give the same things to both parties and they don't give the same things as the Radiant bond does. Adolin will get something out of this, but he isn't a Radiant, this isn't a Radiant bond. He most likely won't get powers with just this reverse bond, but his soul will be Connected to Maya, his soul will get invested and this will have an effect on him. The fact that in Adolin and Maya's case their roles are reversed matters.

Kandra and Misthwraiths were Rashek's back up plan. He created a race capable of surviving underground if the planet were to be suffocated by Mists, baked by the sun or buried under the ash. This was his way of Preserving some form of humanity in case of his failure. He didn't take away their soul, he didn't take away their spark of life, or thier Identity, he changed them so that they lost only their Feruchemical abilities (In the same way Sazed directly gave Spook Mistborn powers). Because Hemalurgic spikes always change your spirit web and that changes the body. Look at Inquisitors or Koloss, their spirit web was so messed up by spikes that their bodies changed and no longer resemble or work like a human body. Kandra are also changed by their Blessings. Mistwraiths are people with a blockade between the Physical Realm and the Cognitive Realm, Blessings allow them to overcome that blockade and make them sapient. And apparently they cannot reproduce anymore like Mistwraiths can, unless they try to replicate human reproductive organs (although Brandon is still on edge if they can do even that). Kandra aren't truly immortal, they age very slowly. This comes not just from their Blessings, but also from their shapeshifting abilities - they have control over a lot of processes happening in their body so aging doesn't affect them this much. HoA ch 41 epigraphs:

Oh boy, you're in for a ride! I'll be watching your journey with great interest!

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Not possible. Shardic power is basically infinite, it would require an astronomically large gemstone to trap that inside.

Yumi spoilers:

Oh, I completely forgot that this was said in FanX 2024 reading of Baxil's interlude, not yet revealed as a pre-released chapter. My bad. Here's the quote:

That would be a very good idea, to have confrontation between two Heralds on opposing sides. However it's unlikely that would happen in Urithiru now - Taln is in Azimir, abandoned and forgotten by the Coalition. The Azish gate might soon stop working because its spren became Enlightened and who knows what they decide to do next. This confrontation would need to happen in Azimir, which still makes it quite likely.