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Hello, welcome to the Shard. Check out Sharder FAQ for some useful tips and hits. No, the Sibling still was using the Towerlight to power her fabrials when sleeping. The only fabrial working on Stormlight connected to the Sibling was the soulcasting one, creating a glass sphere around the crystal column. This is because it was added by Melishi specifically to work on Stormlight from Highstorms. RoW ch 69: Judging from Venli using both Stormlight and Voidlight to power her abilities, there is no difference between them. Lift is using Lifelight she creates herself and the Surges look the same as any other Edgedancer has. While we haven't seen anyone using mixed lights, I doubt they would allow for anything new. It's just energy, it's just fuel. Powers and Surges remain the same no matter what fuel you use. The Lost Metal spoilers:

Oh, that's oxygen, not the air. Yes, oxygen would be a problem and if I were to guess, it probably comes from the seethe and decomposition of spores. It's also possible that there may be some phytoplankton-like microbes floating in the atmosphere itself and producing oxygen up there.

I think it's just about Szeth. But truth is not some ancient spren or some other living entity, but rather Szeth who is on his way to regain and rediscover the truth and show it to other Shins. He was named Truthless when he was speaking truth after all.

There are lakes on some islands that produce fishes. ch 2: There was no mention of whales in the book and butterflies live on the land, not on water. Tress' island is just one among many and it's one of the smallest. Generally islands are tens of miles across. Moreover the Rock is unique in its salt deposits (that's why nobody can leave the island), other islands aren't salty - thus they are fully capable of sustaining a balanced ecosystem full of plants and animals. Tress ch 40: Xisis is working on this. Both the water cycle and the seethe is caused by the decomposition of Aethers deep below the surface of the Aether oceans. Because it's in the ground, shielded from spores by rocks? Magical world I guess. Not the only world in Cosmere with constant, regular and predictable storm patterns. Magic. It's really impossible without magic. Because Moons don't really orbit the planet - at least by my calculation. They are magically hanging only around 400 km above the same point on the surface and don't move away from that point - this isn't orbiting, it's magic. So the relative speed difference between moons/spores and the air isn't that big, and it's the speed that causes stuff to burn in Earth's atmosphere. On Earth, the ISS is moving with the speed of 7.6 km/s just to stay in its orbit 400 km above the ground, completing 16 orbits within 1 day. That's really, really fast. And that's why when something falls down on Earth, it burns in the atmosphere. The reentry speed is so big that the air compresses in front of that object, heating up to the point of becoming a plasma, which heats up the object itself. If the speed of reentry is small enough, the air can't be compressed, thus there is no plasma, thus there is no burning. Spores simply gently fall down on Lumer so they can't burn. Where did the air on Earth come from? What's so special or impossible about the air on Lumar? Why can't there be air on Lumar?? Truthfully, everything can be explained with investiture. It's Brandon's world and if he wants to make it work, he can always explain it by some Spiritual phenomena, investiture keeping the moons at their place, fueling the water cycle and stuff like this. It's a fantasy world, not everything has to be scientifically realistic, otherwise there would be no magic at all and everything would be just like Earth - boring. We have to suspend our disbelief and just immerse ourselves into this magical world. It's not the first or the last of Brandon's world, which science can't explain.

Like a Primer Cube charged with A-aluminum? It's not about the tone itself, it's about the effect, which is just a part of the magic. I mean by this that singing Honor's tone won't suppress anything of Odium. Potentially. What matters is the fuel the fabrial is using and something else too - the Sibling fabrial fueled by the Towerlight was suppressing Odium forces and Voidlight, while by the Voidlight it was suppressing Radiants and Stormlight - but not Lift who was using Lifelight, nor Venli who was using Voidlight. So it might be that the fabrial is suppressing only one type of investiture by default and some tweaking needs to be done to make it work on others. RoW ch 49:

The Sibling was turning herself off before the Recreance. Since then she pretended to be dead and was sleeping, but was hurt due to BAM imprisonment, unable to hear the tone of Honor and produce her light to power her systems. But their defenses were already failing when the Tower was being abandoned - when people were still thinking about them quite passionately. OB epigraphs ch 69-70, 73:

No, I don't think so. Rashek would be unable to Ascend with a Hemalurgic spike in him and he would need it to Ascend at all if that was the case. Vin wasn't even capable of drawing on Mists with a spike. No "prime the pump" would work. Not to mention that the art of Hemalurgy was unknown to all at that time. Rashek tried to save the world, while Kelsier was always an agent of Ruin - that's why Kelsier lacked a sufficient Connection to Preservation. Even when Kelsier Ascended his first instinct was to kill Ruin - compare it to Vin when she immediately tried to save the world by fixing everything. This was hammered further down when Kelsier was shown the future and could compare his Connection to Preservation and Ruin. And if grooming was needed, Preservation just needed to make him breathe in some Mists - just like Vin did in early childhood. Leras could do it. SH ch 2-3: SH ch 3-3:

Maybe not entirely, but I suspect something in the near future will happen that will make Radiants reconsider if what they are doing is honorable, if Honor is honorable at all. Sigzil broke his bond with his Honorspren, he abandoned Windrunners hating Honor. This might be caused by some revelation about Honor, the arrival of Odium and the first Desolation, or something else. I wouldn't be surprised if others were to follow him. If this is going to happen, I expect it in WaT. TSM ch 40:

Yes, they can feel each other to some extent. RoW ch 79 epigraphs: Not necessarily - they can hide in CR and look like a normal soul. RoW ch 47: Yeah, but Shallan's bond with Testament is broken. Does it say something about how to revive a deadeye? Brandon previously stated that a knight needs to first reswear all Oaths to revive their Deadeye.

I'm not sure it's confirmed. The bonded spren is located in the gemheart of a greatshell, just like with Singers and their spren. Those flying around a greatshell often disappear - they don't seem to be bonded with it, rather attracted to it.

It seems she had nothing to do with Odium's binding, at least directly. She and Honor did agree to allow Odium to settle on Roshar, but that was separate from his binding - Honor did it alone. Rayse even keeps naming them "Honor's restrictions." But she was involved in the fight against Odium, just like Honor was. So the Contest and the Terms have nothing to do with Cultivation, because this matter is between Honor and Odium alone. RoW ch 112:

I'm not talking about Fabrial Soulcasters, I'm talking about Soulcasting - the Surge of Transformation. Soulcasting is everything but simple. It can create complex organic structures like jam or bread, it can create steel which requires precise microscopic structure, it can create anything as long as the Soulcaster understands it. The essence of Vev can even create quartz and crystal but Soulcasting is STILL incapable of creating polestones. This alone suggests that there is something special to gemstones that prevents investiture from creating it. Mistborn spoiler: Stoneshaping was probably used to create the Tower, but the metal and crystal veins in its wall are the Sibling's body. They are like a Shardblade, they weren't created, they were manifested in the Physical Realm from a spren. The entire Tower is one giant fabrial encased in stone. RoW ch 83: Overall, I agree. If it's possible to create/change gemstones, a Stoneward would be capable of interesting feats for reasons you brilliantly explained - but this all hinges on that one big if. There is something special about gemstones that distinguishes them from other crystals and simple quartzes and this property alone seem to prevent investiture from manipulating them.

We don't. I suspect he's the same type as Raboniel, with access to Transformation because every Return he replaces parts of his body with metal. That wasn't a Shardblade nor a Honorblade because of the blood. Shardblades cut spiritually first, not physically - there would be no blood. Not to mention that the creation of Shardblade out of raw investiture would require a huge amount of investiture - so large that it's impossible for Shallan to make one. It would be like trying to Soulcast a god metal and not even Dalinar's perpendicularity can provide enough investiture for this. It was just a normal blade looking like a Shardblade.

I believe they did, but this only started to happen in OB, after some Honorspren led by Phendorana decided to bond and join Kaladin. Godeke, WoT ch 5: Well, her "Shardblade" was buried under beads - she can't just make a new Shardblade without a god metal level of investiture. Nah, sounds totally sane to me. You've never wanted to bath in the blood of your enemies? They've learned it? Most Fused were said not to be bothered by it, but some like Leshwi, Lezien and this guy clearly did. Coppermind, Regal: Agreed. I wish Adolin actually fought for real with Fused and won there. He's the best duelist and non-Radiant Shardbearer Roshar has to offer, he should be able to do it if a barely trained new Radiant can. His fight was more comical than serious.

Yeah, "just." It only takes a rare and devastating mental disorder. She's working on getting rid of it, but for now she still has it. But that's what it has to be. The only way for Shallan to suck in Drehy's light was to have his Identity. I wouldn't be surprised if the change of Identity wouldn't require some familiarity with the target person, some deeper Connection for Shallan to put herself in their mindset, so maybe she can't just do it to anyone. There probably is more to unpack here, we have to see what will happen in the next chapters. But that's why it's a big thing - she might be one of the only people able to do it so "effortlessly."

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Wait, those words sounds familiar!! WoK ch 45: WaT ch 9: Those are the Words! Not the childhood words, but the words spoken to Testament She started the summoning process of her Shardblade, this allowed her to Soulcast for the first time. This was Testament she was speaking to. Now she resay those Words. She reinforced her Truth spoken to Testament, she started to knowingly reswearing her Oaths with Testament. No, because she doesn't have Feruchemical powers, but with a proper medallion she probably would be able to do that. Probably not, because she lacked the needed Connection to draw in Stormlight in the first place. Edit: I do like it and it makes a lot of sense, but how is this working with "be Drehy" now? She certainly couldn't have been Drehy in any possible reality.

Probably. Now I wonder how detailed this Lightweaving is - can it behave autonomously? Can it speak? Can Shallan basically create a physical Radiant to take over her knightly duties, while Shallan would spend an entire day in a hot bath making drawings without anybody noticing? That would be handy but probably bad for her DID.

That's a good idea. I don't think Stone would try to communicate to Kal, but maybe to Szeth? He heard a voice in the past, he's a Shin who all treat stones as sacred - originally SA 5 was meant to be named Stones Unhallowed. So maybe this rock will somehow help Szeth to communicate with the Stone. Of course, assuming that the ancient spren of Stone wasn't turned into something else - like the mountain of Ur, Urithiru itself, old stones that spoke to Venli or something like that. A spanreed is a much easier way of having that Connection. A garnet gem taken from the Sibling as well - I doubt it would work after being disconnected from the main body of Urithiru but the Sibling is in gemstones and crystal veins, not rocks itself.

No, This is probably mostly because of Shallan's DID. Vasher remains Vasher whenever he changes his perception - he looks different, but recognisably the same. Returned can't change their appearance to look like someone else, rather a different version of themselves - they still have the same Identity and Spiritual Ideal. Warbreaker ch 58: Probably not. That would be too Forgery-like. I think she is just shifting her Identity but nothing else - all her Connections and this stuff remained unaffected. She certainly didn't get Drehy's spren bond when she became him.

This could be because of Connection. They've started to use the same pronunciation the stronger their Connection to Arelon became. Aons are a part of the magic system itself, they were discovered. As you discover them and understand them, you feel the right way to pronounce them. Not a lot of evidence but we can't discard that Connection played some role in this.

Ooooh yes. That's definitely possible! Yes, but that's not enough to gain Surgebinding powers, it only gives them more intelligence but not enough to use powers. Full sentience is needed. They need another bond - with a Windspren or better, with a True Spren.

I do agree, the stone is significant. Not exactly. The last time Szeth was driven to panic and went to confront Taravangian personally, telling him that he won't listen to his lies, then he left. Only after Szeth learnt that Ishar killed his father, just as Taravangian told him and after Taravangian tried to manipulate him once more, did he murder him. It wasn't about the oathstone directly, it was about deception and manipulation. That's why I don't think Szeth needs to confront his oathstone in any way - his over it. His whole progression as a Skybreaker is to find a better ideal to follow. He knows that oathstone doesn't hold any power over him and never did. I do agree Kaladin will probably use it in some way to "treat" Szeth, but not in relation to his oathstone. Rather than he will use Tien's way - to show Szeth that the beauty of this world lies in the most boring, simple things, and this is worth a moment of contemplation. That is because that Honorspren was surrounded by other bonded Honorspren, Radiants and squires, so they had anchors provided by everyone around them. However his memories were still slowly fading and he had to find a new bond to stay with his mind intact in PR. Tien's spren was alone, with nobody around him, no Lightweaver, no Cryptic, nobody to whom he could be anchored. After that many years his memories of this event would be gone - even Syl had a hard time remembering Kaladin in the army for a long time as he was progressing in his Oaths. I highly doubt that that spren would encourage his new Radiant to leave a random rock in Kaladin's pocket (especially that probably nobody knows he's leaving) even if that spren still remembered it. And I doubt that Lightweaver would do it anyway. That's just Fortune. Not a big meaning, not a hidden person working from behind the scenes to bring Kaladin and the horse figurine together, just a coincidence driven by Fortune. Things like this happen when Fortune is involved and it doesn't have to have a greater meaning behind it.

It's not the first time when Kaladin picks up a random rock from the ground, watered it to see hidden patterns - just like Tien did. So yeah, he's used to it by now (probably not that random rocks appear out of nowhere, but rather to remembering Tien's love for them). But Szeth already KNOWS that he isn't owned by anyone - he proved it when killing Taravangian. He doesn't need any rock, he isn't bound to an Oathstone anymore. He is in control, he decides. He understands that it was always just a rock, that he was never Truthless.

Tien's rock Fortune thingy probably. I think it's just a stone that accidentally landed in the pocket - due to Fortune. I doubt it's Szeth's oathstone. The last time Szeth heard about someone having an oathstone drew him to insanity so it's definitely not a good idea to remind him of what he used to be via a stone. I doubt it. It has been years and a spren wihtout a person loses their mind. Tien's former spren probably moved on to a new Lightweaver, if not they got stuck unable to think. It has some quartz, but it's just any stone with quartz - WoK I-3: RoW I-7: