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I don't think this is true. Szeth is already required to step above the 3rd Ideal and make judgments of his own during his crusade. RoW I-7: But Dalinar can always order him to ignore any of his commands, if he were to lose the contest. I think Szeth would rather break his bond than join Odium held by Taravangian. He became Truthless because he said a Desolation is coming, he was a monster under Taravngian's rule and he already chose to disobey Dalinar and kill Taravangian instead of risking being manipulated by him again. Szeth will do anything not to fall in this man's hands ever again.

There is way too many WoBs to keep track of them all. I thought there was a WoB about "fixing Dor by Ascending," which is one of your question, but I couldn't find it. I think it's a different type of bridge, Nales talked about it. That was his reason to hunt Radiants, to prevent a bridge from forming, which would cause another Desolation. RoW ch 77:

Yes We don't know, Hemalurgy makes it much easier, but it's not needed. Personally I believe it's about Eshonai becoming a Radiant. She is the missing piece (missing Radiant Order). If Eshonai wasn't pressed by Alethi to desperation, she would most likely refuse to test the Stormform with any Parshendi. That means she would have enough time to develop her own bond with Timbre and show the Five a different way of obtaining powers - a way without Odium, a Radiant way. Without Stormforms, they can't summon an Everstorm, there is no bridge. But that's just speculation. The painter was not meant to be someone specific/important (and not Hoid): Possible: The seed is in their genes, because they all have Preservation's fragment in them and they are pre-Lerasium strength. Very, very weak, hard to be awakened without Mists intervention (Alendi was Snapped by Mists).

It's a very special case. Vin technically reacted to her own shadow, which she "saw" through Zane's actions. WoA ch 47: It doesn't matter for an Atium user how far away he is, the only thing that matters is if his target can see the future, because this splits shadows.

I agree. There were theories like this before (here for example - with some supportive evidence - do not discuss SA 5 spoilers in that topic), but now knowing what effects a double bond has on Shallan, it seems even more likely.

Yes, it's possible but that would happen over some time - he would have to stay as Preservation's Vessel for some time for those properties to shift (if they would ever shift): Because Kel is very strongly fixated on saving and protecting Skaa, I don't think "Kelsium" properties would be any different than Lerasium, as those are kind of the best way of protecting people - it gives them power. I can't really think of anything else better fitting to Kelsier.

I do agree, I expressed my reasoning for this in my first post here. I was just speculating what would happen if Discordium were to appear.

Those sources are regarding "the events surrounding the cleansing of Shinovar," it's not about who the Wind was talking to. Szeth is therefore the most obvious source as he will do the cleansing. Kaladin's chances of survival just skyrocketed, he's just became an heir to Dalinar, the king of Urithiru. I thus think he's quite likely the second witness of the cleansing. And that sounds very grim - if Kaladin and Szeth are the ONLY two sources this writer has, then it seems casualties of Szeth's crusade will be massive. Kaladin will have a very hard time living by his Oaths.

The Wind and Heralds disappeared? It sounds like Oathpact will be remade but I don't trust this at all. But why would the Wind disappear with Heralds? The moment Dalinar started to think about the Kholin glyph: I started to think about this death rattle, which I long suspected talks about Kaladin taking up the crown of Urithiru: And to my excitement we got this later: I think that death rattle definitely talks about this and Kaladin's Stormblessed glyph will be stylized as the tower with the spear in the middle and the crown above. Syl breathing and then mentioning Ishar's experiments look like suspicious hints. I don't like where it goes. I was expecting a longer interaction between Kaladin and Szeth, some planning or something, but what we got was too short. But there is a whole book ahead of us, I just want to read about those two together so badly And Shallan has some weird creationspren around her that change shapes, when they shouldn't be able to do that in CR. Her Platespren I presume. But are they of Pattern or Testament? Radiant had a Shardplate during the battle of Thaylen Field in OB - it seems very likely that Shallan reached the 4th Ideal with Testament. Now that she's started to repair her bond, those platespren might have returned to her. Or "I killed my spren" counts as Pattern's 4th Ideal.

Yeah, I think it would be one of Veristitilians. Jochi is a renowned philosopher but also Jasnah regards him as an equal to her historian. I suspect the "two sources" mentioned are Kaladin and Szeth.

That's a no. It's either Harmonium or Discordium, not and. Atium and Lerasium came from two separate Shards, Harmonium comes from one Shard - Harmony - and Discordium will come from the same Shard. That's why Atium and Lerasium can coexist, while Harmonium and Discordium can't. Moreover it's not something Sazed has control over, god metals properties are natural manifestations of their Shards. Sazed didn't choose Harmonium to be like that, it's naturally manifested this way (see the 3rd WoB in my previous post). Discordium would naturally manifest as well. However, if Harmony were to change into Discord and create Discordium, any Harmonium that already exists on Scadrial would likely remain unchanged. Only newly created god metal would become Discordium. Any process of making Harmonium would be turned to make Discordium. You won't have Harmonium and Discodrium being made at the same time, you will have Discodrium and leftovers of Harmonium (just like Marsh had leftovers of Atium and has been using it for over 350 years).

No, it's part of your body, so it may not work for reasons presented above. No. To Soulcast a gemstone, you would most likely have to change the charge of the spike, because that's where the gemheart's soul is located. Soulcasting changes the soul directly, so there would be nothing wrong with your body once you Soulcast a gemstone into gold. But that would most likely break the spike and prevent it from working. And it might kill you. Yes.

Only if a part of your body turns into a Feruchemically viable metal - which I don't believe would happen at all. But then if your hand turns into gold and is still a spiritual part of your body, I don't think you could use it in Allomancy/Feruchemy. This is because it would be very similar to a Shardblade, which is a living metal and living metals aren't treated as metals anymore.

Windrunners picked up Shanay-Im tactics and are fighting one-on-one, so numbers are irrelevant. The assumption is a one-on-one fight anyway. A Radiant that retreats loses the fight, so personally for me it doesn't matter if it's to the death or to first blood, a Skybreaker will win.

The future sight doesn't choose anything - you are choosing. The shadow splits because you are seeing the future and thus you can react to the future and change it, which creates a new shadow to which you can now react and create a new shadow etc. Even if you can't comprehend all of those shadows, even if you don't see all of them, the fact that you can do it splits the shadow, creating hundreds of equally likely possibilities. The future in Cosmere isn't deterministic, it's probabilistic and all forms of future sight will show you those possibilities. In a very short timeframe and targeted against an individual with no future sight, the future is mostly certain, but it can still become probabilistic (Vin vs Zane). I agree. However, it would be really hard to utilize electrum shadows for opening a safe. All of those shadows would overlap with each other in this small space and you would basically see a mess of infinite fingers tapping at the keyboard. That's impossible to comprehend in any way, without using something like F-zinc to boost your mental capacities. However it's possible. Electrum shows a second or two into the future and if you can enter the password in that timeframe, there will be one shadow that opens a safe and you would see the doors opening before you even start typing. But it is impossible to filter out that possibility out of basically infinite possibilities that will be overlapping with one correct one. For the future, please avoid double posting - it's against Shard's policy. You can edit your previous post by clicking the three dot menu in the top right corner of your post, choosing the "edit" option. For more tips check out Sharder FAQ.

What are Koloss if not Soulcasted humans? I don't think so. Soulcasting replaces parts of the spirit web, while Hemalurgy is adding something new to it. In Soulcasting you tell the part of the spirit web of a body that's saying "I'm flesh" that now "it's a crystal" and that body turns into crystal. In Hemalurgy you don't change that flesh part, you add a new thing to it, which together approximates the body into "my skin is blue now and it doesn't grow." Good luck spiking a piece of metal But if you were able to do this and steal a part of it's spirit web that tells it "my body is metal," then implant it into a human, I suspect that human body would mutate into some weird combination of flesh and metal - and I don't even mean it would have metal arms, rather it would have some properties of this metal, like becoming harder, bulletproof, brittle etc. You won't get metals out of this.

There is no official name. We just call it either Atium-electrum alloy, or just Atium, while referring to the pure god metal as pure Atium. TLM spoiler WoB: There was a person who called it Nalatium, but nobody is using that name in the community and it's also not canon:

Nothing much would change. You would still see all those different shadows. You have choice and free will which stays with you through every single point in time. At any moment you can choose to follow a different shadow, stop following shadows at all or do something else. But it would be quite hard to choose one shadow and follow it. There are dozens or hundreds of electrum shadows swarming around you, each showing you a different future. They overlap and cross each other's way, so you would need to focus hard on keeping up with that one shadow and not get distracted by all others. It's difficult but still possible if you train enough. Electrum, unlike Atium, gives you no mental enhancements, so it's really hard to comprehend what's happening with those shadows - it's also really hard to understand them all at once - truthfully it's impossible. But electrum still have some uses.

Lacquer is a sap (liquid) and it's contained in a perfume sprayer - which isn't much different from soap dispenser you might use every day. With the access to Soulcasting, which can soulcast any shape into any material you want, it's not so hard to create such a small device. No pressurization needed, no plastic needed, just some ingenuity. WoK ch 7:

That's why I don't believe there is such a thing as "infinite Identity." If identity is meant to work like an encryption key, then by tapping your own aluminummind, you would change your identity and that would prevent you from tapping your own metalmind! There would be a mismatch of identities. What does it even mean to have a stronger Identity? This doesn't make a lot of sense. You even have it or not. I believe F-aluminum simply blanks your identity and you can't store anything in aluminum - there is no aluminummind. It's aluminum after all, it can't be invested.

That's a very big IF. Odium isn't bound to Roshar by his imprisonment, he's now bound to it with his very essence because he invested so much into this system. This means that even if Dalinar were to free him, Odium would have a very big problem with leaving Roshar - he can't just leave without Splintering a huge chunk of his power and leaving it behind (which would weaken him), or trying to rip it off the world, which would be very hard. Moreover Odium wouldn't target Scadrail - he expected Ruin to implode - he would go to kill Autonomy. It was said before, but yes. Ruin and Odium fit each other quite well, or rather Ruin is a safe choice (WoB posted by Treamayne). However I wonder if Devotion wouldn't be a better pick for Rayse. At first it seems like Devotion would be Odium's opposite Shard and that's true. However, because Rayse claims he's Passion, not Odium, it seems to me that he might have a much easier time combining Odium with Devotion than Sazed combining Ruin with Preservation. Rayse claims he's all emotions, yet emotions like love or care seem to be missing (Vanli's words) - if he were to combine with Devotion, I believe he would finally become true Passion - and might even be better at it than Sazed.

Possible, but hard to say. It does depend on a Vessel, but it doesn't have to change. Personally I don't think so.. Harmonium is so unstable because its Spiritual nature, which is made of Ruin and Preservation's investiture, is in conflict with itself and those two parts don't merge well together. This won't change with Discord. Moreover I highly doubt Brandon would just introduce us to Harmonium and switch to something new without exploring Harmonium at all.

Ok, when did Kelsier receive the Survive Dawnshard? Because if it was when he snapped, he wouldn't have been killed - Dawnshard ALWAYS self-protects and heals. Kelsier would quite literally snap Rashek out of existence. I'm not a fan of Survive Dawnshard. It doesn't fit. It doesn't have the same feeling as when Rysn became Change. There was nothing suggesting that Kel was a Dawnshard, no change, no healing, no immortality, no weird abilities - everything was normal. Preservation just told Kelsier to survive and Snapped him, making him into a Mistborn - that's it. Surviving is Preservation's thing after all. No Dawnshard is needed. If Ruin had a Dawnshard, Scadrial would be just gone with no warning. Dawnshards are incredible weapons, which amplify the power you use. A Shard with a Dawnshard would be almost unstoppable. Ruin wouldn't have needed to find his Atium, he would have just burned the entire Scadrial to ashes in a matter of seconds. And if Ruin had a Dawnshard, he would have never given it up to Endowment or Vasher - why would he? Nightblood also isn't unique - there was a Father Machine Awakened on Komashi (Yumi book), which was ever more powerful and destructive than Nightblood. No Dawnshard was used, just some bad Awakening practices and imprecise Commands. No. Hoid, like Noman, can't hurt a fly. He can't fight, he can't kill, he can't even eat meat. He did participate in the Shattering of Adonalsium and kill him, but that's different. And he could fight with Kelsier in SH, because Kelsier was dead - he wasn't hurting him. We don't know if Rysn's Dawnshard has the same effects. Yes, that's a good point. WoK happens a few generations after Warbreaker, but also around 350 years after Catacendre. Manywar happened 300 years before Warbreaker. So it's true that Nightblood was created when Ruin was still imprisoned in the Well.

Spren, Aethers and even Shards all have spirit webs of their own and those bonds are all connecting them together. Connections are bonds between spirit webs and they all exist in the Spiritual Realm. The Nahel Bond exists also between Aviars and their owners - and Aviars are very much not from the Cognitive Realm. We suspect Luhel Bond is the way Sand Mastery works as you exchange water for the ability to manipulate White Sand - which is exactly what Luhel Bond with Aethers does. But with Sand Mastery you don't Connect to any Aether. Yes, there are different kinds of bonds. But why did you choose the number 3? Why do there have to be 3 special bonds? Why not 16? Why not any other number? Actually, it's the opposite. Most examples of Cognitive Shadow we know of were people who weren't heavily invested and became invested when they die - Fused included. Yes, the only special thing about Returned is that they have a Divine Breath. But I tried to explain that it actually makes them weaker, not stronger - their Connection to Endowment is weaker than Fused Connection to Odium. Fused can feed directly on Odium because of how strong is their Connection but Returned requires Breaths. Fused can't leave but Returned can with no problems. This clearly demonstrates that Returned Connection to Endowment is not that strong compared to other Cognitive Shadows. There is something to it. But Vasher is trying to imply with his name Zahel that he's connected to divinity, that he's a Returned, because that's what Nahel means:

Theoretically that's possible, but very, very unlikely. You can't just leave Ghostbloods, you know too much. Not all Ghostbloods are even from Scadrial - most we've seen aren't. And Allomantic genes would get diluted and be much weaker if they were combined with a non-Scadrian. So chances of someone with mixed heritage becoming a Metalborn would be much lower. Still. Shallan would have to ingest copper and burn it - that would be felt by her. Vin described her abilities as "luck" before knowing who she was. Shallan would feel her metal reserves but nothing ever in books suggested she had it. She also had no source of copper to burn in the first place. Trace metals last just for a short moment ONLY if you can get them from somewhere like cutlery or contaminated water. That wouldn't hide Stormlight visually, it would just be undetectable for entities who can detect it - like Seekers on those Odium's seeker spren form OB. Don't remember this. She could just exhale it. Or maybe she was already hidden by an illusion.