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Yes, but only from a dead plate, which is fueled by gems with Stormlight. A living plate isn't powered by Stormlight, it only draws it to repair itself. A Leecher holding a Shardbearer would prevent them from summoning (and probably dismissing) their Shardblade - it would probably work with a living plate too. It would take quite a bit of time and Chromium. Scadrial deals with little investiture compared to Roshar, Stormlight is quite a lot compared to what Metalborn are using.

SA spoilers:

Rashek's Ascension was around 1373 years ago (1025+348, when Wayne died). The First Desolation was 7000 years ago, but that's in Rosharan years. 1 Rosharan year is 1.1 Earth/Scadrial year, so the First Desolation was 7700 years before SA. However we know that between the Shattering and Aharietiam, there was around 6000 years, between Aharietiam and WoK there was 4500 years - so since the Shattering there has been around 11000 years. But the timeline might have changed since then. RoW ch 80: More like ~9000. I think that would be very unlikely because of the timeline. Ambition was a second Shard to be Splintered, right after Devotion and Dominion. It happened AT LEAST 7700 years before WoK - before the First Desolation, when Odium was already trapped on Roshar. That means that Ambition's last window to "visit" Scadrial was at least ~6400 years before Rashek's Ascension. That's a very, very far in the past. Moreover that "culture of death" on Threnody is a direct result of Splintering of Ambition and the battle between Ambition, Mercy and Odium that raged there. Ambition was mortally wounded there, which sent chunks of her Investiture raining down on the entire system and Threnody itself. It affected Threnodites which resulted in them having a "seed of Shade" in their soul. Shades are heavily implied to be a result of Splintering of Ambition. That means that before Ambition was Splintered, there would be no prominent "culture of death" on Threnody. All of this is because Ambition was Splintered. Even more - that culture would be even less developed before the smaller continent with Shades was even discovered. It's hard to put a date on that in relation to Cosmere, but we know the story of Silence in the Forests of Hell happened a few generations after the continent was just discovered - Silence's grandmother was one of the first Forescouts who set their foot on this land. At most that's around 60, maybe 70 years before Silence's story takes place (assuming her grandmother was in her 20s when she landed in the Forests). We also know that Shadows for Silence happened after Mistborn Era 1 and also after Warbreaker, which takes place only a few generations before WoK - let's say around 100 years before WoK. That means that the Forests of Hell were discovered more or less in the same time when Warbreaker is happening, which is around 200 years AFTER Catacendre, ~1100 after Rashek's Ascension. And only after the Forests of Hell were discovered, this "culture of death" would become so prominent on Threnody - sure it might have been there before it in some lesser way, after all Ambition was wounded there, but only when they first contacted Shades it would have become so grand. For me that timeline simply doesn't work. Additionally, not every death related rite is associated with Ambition - Listeners sing songs when they are dying and they have no Connection to Ambition, Marsh became the incarnation of Death itself, which is spreading across Cosmere. Death is a part of EVERY Shard, even Preservation - he accompanied deceased souls into the Beyond. I don't think we have anything to say about Whimsy. It's not a stretch to claim that once you become Cosmere aware, it's easy to learn names of all Shards and their general characteristics - that's why Set knew about Whimsy. And that's the only thing we know about Whimsy on Scadrial. TLM ch 35: That's specifically because of a nature of realms and emotions. The power to control Hemalurgic constructs is emotional Allomancy, it's a pressure put on emotions that allows others to control spiked. But this control grows weaker when a person is experiencing extreme emotions - like Koloss blood frenzy. Emotions are also a reason for Snapping - only someone who experienced extreme emotions could have been Snapped and Mists were doing just that, making those emotions. Emotions are heavily connected to the soul. It's not because of Odium. Thrill is just using the same mechanism we saw on Scadrial, but this is just the nature of Cosmere. Regarding Odium, it's interesting to point out that Odium was keeping an eye on Scadrial. He was expecting Ruin to implode, thus he would not bother with attacking those Shards if he weren't imprisoned on Roshar. His influence on Scadrial might have been seeded there in preparation for his attack in far future, but once he was imprisoned he might have abandoned whatever he was doing there. Now that Harmony successfully merged two Shards, he might be dusting off his past plans. She was interested in other planets, she visited Ashyn (it's in the same system but still it's something): Well, Nalthis was created relatively recently, so recently that it doesn't have fossils yet. It was implied that Nalthis, or at least humanity on Nalthis was created directly by Endowment when she settled in the system: Overall this was a very interesting read and I think you're onto something, drawing proper Connections between religions and Shards. It's worth looking more into it. Good job.

I may not fully comprehend the Richter scale, but doing quick google search and using this for reference, a magnitude 11 earthquake (and no, magnitude 11 earthquake is not enough to destroy the entire planet) releases 7.9e+20 J of energy, the Fat Man bomb released 8.8e+13 J of energy, so you actually need 9 million fat mans for that. That's 54 million kilograms of plutonium. For comparison, the Chicxulub impact event generated around 3e+23 J of energy, yet the planet and life on Earth survived. But there is another thing to consider - the majority of energy released during fission goes into the air, not ground, as opposed to an earthquake, where the majority of energy is released into the ground. You would need even more plutonium than that. Those are still impossible numbers. Radiants don't juggle such amounts of investiture. Strongly disagree. A city that committed a crime? Every single citizen of that city committed the same crime that is punishable by death and destruction of property? No. Radiant orders don't work like that. You can't lie to Truthwatchers, or twist the truth - their entire order is focused on finding the Truth. You don't marginalize one order because you don't like it. Not to mention that every Radiant no matter the order can make their own decision and oppose your type of the government, for various reasons. In the recent #SaytheWords video about Willshapers it is said: "If a king is treating their people cruelly, forcing them to act or live in a certain way, well sometimes Willshapers destroy things too." You won't marginalize them, you'll become a target of Willshapers. Edgedancers don't just cry over harmed, they ACT! They help them, they work for them, they try to make their living better. Lift does that herself. If you're causing misery to people, Edgedancers won't turn a blind eye to that. What did Lift do when Nale was hunting Radiants in Tashikk? Did she ignore that? Walk past that? No, she tried to stop Nale and his acolytes, she faced him and fought him for Stamp's sake. Windrunners protect those who cannot protect themselves - which means the citizens of your authoritarian government who exploits and harms its population because they can't protect themselves from that. A question worth considering - can you make antimatter with investiture or do you need anti-investiture for that? Really? They started experimenting with fluorine and they made TONS of it just to start a day? Yeah, I don't see it at all. And not, that wouldn't happen - intent matters. You won't Soulcast something by accident into a thing you don't even know exists. I don't know chemistry that much, nor do I know properties of fluorine. But it's not flamable, it's highly reactive elemet that may cause fire or explosion when reacting. On its own it is not flammable: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0289.html I am very aware of it, not on fire but into a self-sustainable nitrogen fusion, which was deemed impossible even considering the most extreme assumptions.

No no no, you've missed my point. If Ishar really wants to become Honor/Adonalsium, he doesn't need to physically get out of the system, he just needs to Ascend to Honor. That's it. Once he is Honor he isn't bound like a Cognitive Shadow is (but is bound by Shard's investiture). It makes no sense for him to try to find a way to leave Roshar if he wants to Ascend to Honor. So yes, I agree with your statement that Ishar isn't believable - his actions don't match with his words. So either this is just a "hobby," or he has other goals than becoming Honor.

While it wasn't explicitly stated, there is enough to be quite certain that this is the case. BoM ch 3: Investiture you're using is keyed to your identity. If you blank your identity, your investiture is also blanked. Storing it in a metalmind makes an unkeyed metalmind, because that investiture is blank, not keyed to anyone. That's a general rule. Malwish needed just one aluminum Ferring to create one F-aluminum medallion and kickstart their entire process. Just one. You can create medallions with Mistings and Ferrings alone. Hemalurgy just makes it easier. Per WoB above, a blanked Ferring can still access a metalmind that is keyed, but it's just harder.

Well, judging by Ishar's own words, he wants to become Adonalsium reborn, I don't think he needs to be free of Roshar, he "just" needs to fix Honor, RoW ch 111: That doesn't explain why he wants to make spren with a physical body.

We're nerds! We read WoBs for fun in spare time. Long time of practice, we had lots of discussions and we were digging up all kinds of WoBs and quotes. And it's good to start with verifying information, searching for WoBs and quotes on that topic and then jumping to writing a post. Sure, if you can get 60 zettatons of energy, that's 3e+18 Fat Man bombs, each with 6 kg of plutonium - that's 1.8e+19 kg of plutonium. The mass of Mount Everest is 8.1e+14 kg. You would need 100,000 Mount Everests fully made out of plutonium to do that. Good luck with that. I really don't understand what you mean here. Sure, if you know what you're doing, have a lot of Stormlight, and have a Soulcaster that can create everything, you might be able to create a big boom. Would it be as big as you propose? Probably not. Setting the atmosphere is really, really, really hard in real life and requires a huge amount of energy concentrated in a very small place - even with today's nuclear stockpile we aren't able to achieve that. Highly disagree. You can do pretty destructive things with Surgebinding alone, but without any Dawnshard you can't get enough to do what you propose. I think you severely overestimate the amounts of energy Radiants can use. That's 43.4 tons of tnt. That's really, really not much. It's a tiny amount compared to modern nukes, which can release nearly 1,000,000 times more energy with much less mass. How is 43.4 tons of tnt gonna ignite the atmosphere? Not true. She said Fused sent to Braize didn't survive for long because their Voidlight ran out. Radiants and Fused can definitely make something like a rod from god, but that requires knowledge, a very detailed one about orbital mechanics and energy. Windrunners would never accept risks that came with such a weapon - their morality and Oaths would prevent them from doing things like that, Honorspren would also not agree for such actions. That's what @heliovox is missing - Radiants are bound by Oaths and if their spren decides that it's not right to do such a thing, they simply can't. RoW ch 89: Yes, but you don't need to reapply normal gravity for that to become kinetic. It's just like dropping a ball from 1m up. 1 kg ball has Ep=mgh=1*10*1=10 joules of potential energy and Ek=mv^2/2 = 0 of kinetic energy. When you drop it this potential energy is converted to kinetic energy as it falls down, it reaches maximum just before touching the ground - all of that potential energy is transferred into kinetic energy because of conservation of energy. The speed at which the ball hits the ground is calculated by converting the equation for Ek to get v - in this case it's between 4-5 m/s (judging by an eye). So lashings work just the same. It's not that you lash something and it has a potential energy. It starts falling. When it falls it gains more speed, that means potential energy is transferred into kinetic energy. The longer it falls the more kinetic energy it has. What lashings are changing is the direction of gravitational attraction and gravitational acceleration g. So Windrunners can create devastating kinetic projectiles with little to no effort. When Kaladin lashes himself and changes the direction of his lashings, his speed doesn't change, he doesn't stop, he keeps going, unless he lashes himself in the opposite direction to decelerate. Once a Windrunner lashes some object from space towards the planet with 100g, it starts very quickly gaining speed. Even if ha have enough Stormlight for a few seconds of this, this gained speed doesn't disappear, it doesn't stop - it stops accelerating but speed remains the same until it hits the atmosphere. All Windrunners are doing is making things fall. So it would reach the escape velocity of Roshar and either find a stable orbit around the planet, or escape the Rosharan gravity entirely and orbit its sun. You need to know what you're doing to actually achieve what you want, you need to do math - Kaladin doesn't do math, he does spears. That sort of government won't go well with Willshapers or Truthwatchers. Willshapers are about freedom, Truthwatchers, quoting Coppermind: "are greatly concerned with the actions of the powerful and might be likened to investigative reporters.[2] The order will make their opinions known loudly and forcefully, particularly if they think someone in power is abusing that power or lying about fundamental truths." Windrunners and Edgedancers also won't be on board because that kind of government creates abuse and isn't morally right. Actually their Oaths provide a lot of stoppage, because laws of countries are limiting them and their spren will judge the truth when they are performing their 4th Ideal crusade - their spren won't accept and allow for a crusade that isn't just. Skybreakers are the least likely to destroy Roshar (that's why they didn't participate in Recreance). RoW I-7: That one? I don't know what do you mean by "future Oaths," but just to be sure, the Oaths are predetermined, there is a fixed progression path that each Order follows:

It's probably efficiency. It may be that you get perfect return of stored attributes, or maybe you're much more efficient with diminishing returns. it's less flashy than what you can do with Allomancy. In this quote I've made a mistake - you don't store 100% of your attribute (as per previous quote, only memory and now I add also Identity as well can probably be stored 100%). So if you are a Feruchemist storing 90% F-steel in a Nicrosilmind, you would basically get only 10% of stored speed when tapping, rest would be lost - instead of being 190% of your speed, you would be 110%. Probably that's how it works. You've seen less powerful Feruchemists in Era 1 - Inquisitors. Because of Hemalurgic decay, their Feruchemy was less efficient than what a normal Feruchemist had. They had to store for longer to get as much as a normal Feruchemist could get. Even natural Feruchemist suffer some slight decay over generations - they don't get a perfect 100% return of stored attributes, some of it is lost. You've also seen Feruchemical Savants, who have their efficiency boosted up as well - Miles and Rashek. While for normal Feruchemist storing Feruchemical power isn't that obvious as with Allomancy, I bet those factors would be weakened/improved when combined with F-nicrosil. To add more confusion, Feruchemy actually slightly draws investiture from Shards - this investiture is used up by magic to facilitate conversion of attributes into investiture stored in metalminds and back. It can be that storing/tapping Feruchemical abilities in nicrosil affects how much of this investiture you're drawing from Shards, thus how efficient your Feruchemy is. The more you draw, the more perfectly you convert your attributes, the less loss there is. This power drawn from Shards is used ONLY to change attributes into investiture and back. The efficiency of that change matters then. Lastly it can affect diminishing returns - you store 80% of your speed for 1h, you can tap 80% for 1h back, or tap 160% for 20 min, or 240% for 5 min etc. The more power you want, the more you need to compress the attribute, the more of the attribute is used up to compress it, the less time you have. It may be that storing and tapping Feruchemy in nicrosil increases efficiency of diminishing returns, so you would not lose that much attribute to compression. Those are my guesses on how it might look if you store/tap your Feruchemical abilities in typical Nicrosilmind, not medallion. It would be far less obvious than with Allomancy, you can never get more attributes than you stored, you can only get closer to the perfect 100% return, which is a small boost, not really that powerful as how I think Allomancy stored in F-nicrosil would be. It's just a small efficiency boost, unless you're a Hemalurgist, then it's a big efficiency boost.

I don't think so. That's Kalak's goal. The only time his "goal" was revealed to us was in OB ch 64, Stormfather said: It's hard to say if that's true or not. Stormfather is biased, he doesn't like him and he can only see Ishar in a very limited way. He might not know Ishar's true intentions or he might have misinterpreted them.

He's a Bondsmith because he has his Honorblade. He can open his own perpendicularity, refill his Stormlight etc. Those are Bondsmith powers. Whatever Dalinar can do, he can do as well. Ishar taps directly into Honor's investiture in SR. He can absorb Stormlight from spheres like a Radiant, he has a Honorblade. Just like Szeth could breathe in Stormlight while having Jez's blade, Ishar can as well. Agree. It sure is possible to force a bond onto spren - that's what Ishar tried to do with the Stormfather (by manipulating an existing bond).

No. Most of them partially exist in PR already (the Sibling). And they are too invested to be messed by him like that. Investiture resists investiture. He would need probably a huge amount of investiture to overcome that. RoW ch I-2: @Quantus it would be really hard for Tukari to capture bonded spren because they already exist in PR, not in CR.

Truthfully matter is also incredibly energy dense. He isn't flying, he is just falling. That's what the Surge of Gravitation does. In principle the Surge of Gravitation is actually changing his Spiritual Connection with gravity. So you don't need that much energy to mess with gravity, to accelerate or anything, because you don't do that at all, you only change your Connection: At this point you're already wrong. Soulcasting is in general mass-preserving. So technically, by your way of calculating, you don't need any energy to Soulcast, because mass is the same. Of course you do need some energy because you're changing an object's Spiritual characteristic and providing energy for its physical change. TSM spoilers: A Richter scale doesn't have an upper end. It just keeps going. Cough cough Ashyn cough cough Anti-matter is not replaced in Cosmere, it's still there. But there is also Anti-investiture. What's a "standard" atom bomb? Define please. What's the yield, what's the type?

Spren kind of have bodies - in the Cognitive Realm. Ishar is in some way Connecting them to the Physical Realm and transporting them over from the Cognitive Realm, just like humans travel between realms. But for Spren this should be impossible because of their nature. He's a Bondsmith, he can manipulate Connection. He probably Connects them to PR and he likely uses Perpendicularity as well. I think he's replacing their Cognitive body's Connection to CR with a Connection to PR, thus making spren fully physical. But because their Cognitive body can't exist in PR as it breaks the laws of PR, they just die. No, as far as we know. He can do that because he is a Bondsmith Unbound - without being limited by Oaths and with no restrictions put on Surges by Honor, since he's dead. It was probably not possible before Honor's death. We don't know this. We know only what's in the book. Apparently permanent. Like a human death. Their body is left behind but their soul goes into the Beyond.

I don't think so. Sazed calls it Bavadinium and that's the best confirmation we have right now. He would know if that was an alloy. TLM epilogue 4: Odium at its core is a purple hatred (seen by Dalinar in OB ch Passion). Voidlight is black-purple. Odium is able to directly supply his Regals and Fused with Voidlight. Voidlight is resonating with the pure tone of Odium and that's the biggest evidence there is. I don't really see reasons to believe that Voidlight is not pure investiture of Odium, considering how it is used and described in books.

We don't know. Shallan recognized Kalak in RoW and she could have done that by either seeing those drawings or by comparing him to religious art pieces if he hadn't changed that much. Some Heralds changed in their appearance like Jezrien, others not so much like Nale. Moreover Shallan is an unreliable narration, actively suppressing her past, lying to herself. Even is she saw Hoid's drawing of Chana and recognized her mother in her, she might have immediately suppress that and push it into back of her mind.

We know how to make unkeyed metalminds - just blank your identity while storing. That's it. Investiture is keyed to your identity and if you don't have it, it isn't keyed, thus you're storing unkeyed investiture in metalmind - you've just made an unkeyed metalmind. Unsealed metalminds - medallions - are different, we don't know how they are made yet. In this case unkeyed metalminds matter.

It depends on the strength of an Allomancer. Full steelsight like in inquisitors would show lines to those metals - and this can be learnt by any Coinshot/Lurcher. But just because they see those lines, doesn't mean they can push on them - that's strength depended. WoA WoB: They can. You see Ruin showing himself and talking to VIn in Fadrex cave, him talking to and taking control over Kandra in the Homeland, then Vin as Preservation seeing Sazed and guiding Elend to him, then Ruin pushing Human the Koloss to the Atium pit, then Sazed protecting the caverns when he was reshaping the world and lastly he healed Spook. It's just very hard for them to see through all that metal, but they still can talk, hear and influence people in those places. Metal just blinds them. Yes. Yes they do. Why not? He held the power of the Well, he moved the planet around and reshaped its surface - he could have just made those metals for himself when he held the power. Aluminum was already gathered from Ashmounts and used by Inquisitors. That's just food for thoughts. It's really fun to read. I'm waiting for more! I suggest reading Secret History after you finish BoM.

It's just a name. She isn't Sazed's Tindwyl, he has no emotional attachment to that kid. Sazed already is out of balance.

That's also a possible explanation. It makes sense.

In my opinion, for normal Feruchemical nicrosil it would work like any other compounding - give you more attributes so you can tap it for longer or be stronger. For medallion nicrosil we don't know if that's even possible, because medallions have their own identity and like modern Hemalurgists can't compound because of conflicting identities, this can also prevent medallions from compounding. But there is this Malwish device, called Excisor, used to make medallions - I think it may duplicate powers like you propose - but for mechanical purposes, not to give two souls powers. Allomantic power, just like Feruchemical power (tapping metals) are not binary. Feruchemical abilities, just like Allomantic abilities are binary - either it's in your soul or not. You either are a Feruchemist/Allomancer or not. Yes, but just like you can't store 100% of your mass, you can't store 100% of your Allomantic strength. By compounding you will get more attributes, thus more time to tap or tap more with diminishing returns to make you stronger in Allomancy. And that's what the Bands did - someone stored there their normal Allomantic powers at like 90% strength, compound it and got 900% strength, storing it back - thus Wax/Marasi tapping it had the strength of Rashek. That's my opinion to be clear. No, because it's time limited. You can only tap as much as there is the metalmind is full, it's not permanently given to your soul, nor it's like a Feruchemical medallion which is more like an off/on switch. You don't give anything to someone else. In my opinion, in normal Feruchemy, you store Invested abilities like you store all other attributes (except for memory) - you store for 1h, you can tap for 100%. Once you stop storing/tapping your attribute goes back to its normal value. Just like Wax is storing his mass. Let's say a Coinshot stored 90% of his A-steel for an 1h in that kind of metalmind and gave it to someone who is not an Allomancer. That person would be able to become a Coinshot for just an 1h, with just 90% of strength - or tap with diminishing returns to get more strength in a shorter time. Once the attribute runs out that's it, they no longer have A-steel powers. While the original Coinshot had his powers the entire time, he only had to become 90% weaker when he was storing. Sure, that sounds kind of useful, until you remember they had primer cubes that do exactly the same thing with no additional steps, with no need for metalminds at all. It's much easier to use Allomantic granates. Give that kinetic investiture? Ok, but what is the target? What that investiture would be pushing at? What with emotional allomancy? If you have someone soothing fear in one person, would storing that kinetic investiture and tapping it by someone else make this investiture also be able to soothe only fear in that original target? Intent was already kind of used to program that investiture when someone burnt metals, its kinetic form was already established but the person who stored it. How much control would you have over steelpushing with just kinetic investiture - it should be just like in primer cubes because they are charged with kinetic investiture, they affect everything in its range and you have no control over it. Primer cubes are the thing you're describing, it would make no sense to make Nicrosilminds work in the exact same way. Yes. Make sense. True, but because spren's soul and Radiant's soul are merging together via that bond, you may be simply storing spren's ability to Surgebind (it's spren that has that power in his soul). Look at this that way - Allomancy is given to you by Connection to Preservation and yet you can store it in Nicrosilmind despite it being Connection. Because neither would happen. Just like storing speed in a steelmind, for the time you're storing the powers of Honorblade would get weak while the metalmind would be filled with attributes. Once you stop storing the Honorblade is back at 100%. You can tap those metalminds for as long as you were storing, getting as much as you stored until you empty it. It's not duplicating powers. BoM ch 28:

Because many theories assume that the entire Shard, which is almost infinite in investiture, was put into a finite group of people, which would result in them being ridiculously invested, much more than Returned are - and that's what I was talking about. Even here I disagree from using the terminology that are Iriali Splinters, they are not, they are not invested enough and they don't fit the definition, but they can still originate from a Shard - maybe just like Preservation sacrificed his mind to imprison Ruin, a Shard did the same to create Iriali, or at least invest them bit more. Sure you can make an argument that not every Splinter is equally invested (True Spren vs Lesser Spren), but they are still very invested. Just don't put the entire (or considerable) investiture of a Shard into a finite amount of people, because that would be visible like a God-King. Having innate investiture doesn't make you into a Splinter, it brings them more to being a Sliver, but they are all far below the threshold to be considered as it. Splinters are not people, it's a power that became self-aware but has never been a human. Divine Breath isn't Returned - it just holds and invests Returned soul to its body, but it's not the soul of Returned. Divine Breath is unique because it isn't self-aware and it's innate investiture (that's why Brandon calls it in another WoB as kind of Splinter). That doesn't work like this. Scadrians have only a close relationship with Ruin and Preservation, they don't form Connections to other Shards unless they act in a specific way. Or another explanation - Iriali are Autonomous. They represent everything that Autonomy is a patron of. They are independent, always choosing their own path, being visibly different from other people and working to achieve their own goals, different from goals of other races. That is forming this slight Connection to Autonomy, but doesn't mean they are significantly Connected to another Shard. Shards represent concepts that are present in every corner of Cosmere. You could form Connection to them if you act in a specific way - like Kelsier was always destructive thus he had much greater Connection to Ruin than to Preservation and Kelsier also have "irrational" hatred for nobles - which can be indicative of Odium. But that Connection is just too weak to be meaningful. That's my explanation for Iriali's slight Connection to Autonomy. Fair point - those effects can be either unnoticeable for an untrained eye or suppressed. However she won't die, she can age if she perceives herself that way, but not to the point of death - she's too invested for that as you observed. So why did Iriali die or not have an unnaturally long lifespan? Elantrians glow, Iriali don't. That's a good question. I think yes but they still need Dor to function - the Ire on Scadrial had to ingest liquid Dor to sustain themselves. They would probably still live but not be able to function well. It's hard to say. In my opinion, yes. They are "copies" so yes, they would look the same, have the same DNA and all that stuff. It's not the ship of Theseus, it's just genetics. Environment they live in would affect their personality and health, but they would look the same, like identical twins. It's more similar to what Autonomy is doing with Avatars - she's roleplaying - but taken to the extreme )of course Iriali are not Avatars). Every single Iriali is unique - after all that's the core thesis of the One, to experience everything, which can't be done if they are all copies. Their clothing doesn't really matter or provide any context in my opinion. The next statement is self-explanatory and works on its own. Not Virtuosity being the One, I haven't seen that one, but that finally makes enough sense to me to make it plausible. Still, I'm not a fan of it but I'll be watching out for more evidence.

Not every time. Nightblood leaks corrupted investiture and it's black, Midnight essence is something corrupted and it's black, Enlighten spren can be not red (Firespren are blue for example, they just look wrong) etc. But generally it's common for corrupted investiture to manifest with something red in it. Voidlight is not corrupted, it's pure raw investiture of Odium. Odium's true color is gold, you see red a lot when he is corrupting something: No need for a spoiler box for TLM anymore. We don't know, but that's just a way Shards influence other systems that aren't theirs. Corruption means mixing investiture of different Shards together in a specific way which changes things. Autonomy is bound to the Taldain system, but her essence permeates the entire Cosmere. She can use it and tweak it and that's how she creates her Avatars - that's how Trell was made, that's how Patji was made. With Trellium it's unknown how she got it to Scadrial - it might have been from her investiture that was present there, it might have been carried to Scadrial from Taldain. Metal itself is made out of pure Bavadinium, pure investiture of Autonomy. The Trellium spike was noted to have red, rusty veins - that might be indication of corruption, or that might be simply the natural coloration of Trellium god metal. It might be that because they are using Trellium spikes to steal Scadrian's souls (made out of Ruin and Preservation) and it corrupts those stolen pieces with Autonomy investiture - and that's where the red is coming from. So the redness in Trellium spikes would indicate that their charge was corrupted. Not every red you see means corruption. It can just be red. Red can be just the natural color of Autonomy, just like blue is the color of Honor, or gold is of Odium. There are some people across Cosmere wearing gold and red colors, just like Autonomy’s army is - not every time it has to have some connection to Autonomy but it can in some cases. Personally I think that spikes have this rusty color because it's an indication of the corrupted Scadrian souls being held inside them, but I'm not sure about the spectrum of the metal itself, with its big red spike. It can be either because it holds corrupted investiture (so an empty spike would emit a different color), or because Bavadinium naturally emits in red wavelength, as that may be Autonomy's color. Big WoB, look at the bolded parts:

Have you read TSM? Spoilers: Disagree. That's a speculation, not a conclusion. WoB 2 didn't say that. It said that Iriali are only slightly connected to Autonomy, but not in a meaningful way. There is no mention of their connection to another Shard. Partially disagree, I have a problem with the way it's phrased. Their religion is influenced by the Shattering in some way, but there were more recent events that were more influential. Splinters can be made by a Shard without killing it. Spren are Splinters, made by Adonalsium, Honor, Cultivation and Odium - all without killing them. The Shraud was made because of the Father Machine and that was allowed because Virtuosity was Splintered. I always had a problem with this theory, that Iriali are somehow a Shard. This doesn't fit because Iriali aren't invested enough to be considered Splinters. We've seen people who are Splinters - Returned hold a Splinter of Endowment, the Divine Breath. This is such an amount of investiture that it grants them the 5th Heightening alone, with functional immortality and big, visible color aura around them. Iriali have none of that. They age, they die, they have no color aura around them. They can't be Splinters of a Shard, pieces of a Shard, because they are not invested enough. If they were all copies of the Vessel's soul, they all would be exactly the same. Every single Iriali would be the same. Why does this matter? Is the language on Komashi also written top to bottom? And I was going to point out earlier that Selish languages were heavily inspired by Korean (to show that not everything Asian-inspired has to be connected to Virtuosity) but you've surprised me by including Selish people in your theory as well. Overall, I think you did much better in argumenting for this theory than others before and it really sounds reasonable. I still don't like this idea and I'm not convinced by it, but you made a good job showing up different connections, tying it up together. I'm impressed. Edit: You also didn't go overboard suggesting that all of the infinite Shard is Splintered into Iriali, only part of it, which makes much more sense and it is possible without making everyone a walking God-King.

Yes, that was Hoid but that was in HoA, not in WoA.