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I found this unlikely. His tattoos were small enough to be fully covered by glasses. He's behaving too much like a normal human to be a Sleepless in my opinion. But it's an interesting observation, I wonder if there were Sleepless on Scadrial during the Final Empire.

The EFFECT of 2 Koloss spikes is SIMILAR to Kandra's Blessing, but they are not Blessings. 2 Koloss spikes grant more or less equal strength to 1 Blessing of Potency and that's because each Koloss spike contains the strength of one human. "Grants" and “what the Kandra would call” in this quote are the key words. Koloss spikes are just strength stolen from people, Kandra Blessings are something different, prepared by Rashek, keyed to their identity. Koloss spikes are not Blessings. In this epigraph Sazed describes the effects of spikes in all known Hemalurgic Constructs, not the differences between Koloss and Kandra.

Just highlight a section of a post and an option to "quote selection" will appear, click it and it will paste that section as a quote. Time dilation would not prevent any travel in and out of the planet and we see this on Sel, where despite time dilation affecting the world there there is still a lot of trade happening in and out of the system. We see pure Dor appearing on Scadrial, characters from Sel leaving the planet, Aonic devices present in Rosharan subastral etc. The star isn't just invested, it seems to be an Avatar of Autonomy - she has a thing for creating Avatars all around Cosmere. Another reason to invest into a star is to make life on Taldain's day side possible - the investiture feeds microorganisms responsible for making the sand white and also provide fuel for Sand Mastery. Just like on Roshar there is a giant, deadly storm that rejuvenates the land and provides needed Stormlight for every organism, Taldain's sun does the same for the desert life. That's very fast. That's 628 times the escape velocity from the Milky Way. Those stars would be far, far, far away, out of the galaxy by now, no longer visible as a compact, unusually bright constellation. The Scar is bright enough to faintly illuminate the night on Threnody, is seen on Roshar before the sun set and also illuminates the night enough to walk in its light and is sometimes seen through the Mists on Scadrial. If those stars were moving that fast they wouldn't be the brightest stars in the night sky on all those planets, they would be too far away.

Who said I would trust them?

Untrue. Koloss spikes are NOT Blessings. Each Koloss spike is a separate spike, unpaired. Also note that the Hemalurgic table added to HoA is only concerned with creation of Steel Inquisitors, not any other Hemalurgic Constructs. Thus it's possible that different constructs would need a linchpin spike at different numbers of spikes, because their nature is different allowing them to take more/less spikes without any linchpin.

Emperor of ancient Rome you say? Well in that case I just need to have a loyal army that will overthrow the current emperor as per "tradition" started by Julius Caesar. So I just need someone that will make me an army, lead it into a battle and defeat my enemies. For that I would choose Susebron who would make me an army of 50000 Lifeless (but Rashek and his Koloss army are out only because Koloss are too hard to control), Dalinar the Blackthorn (not Dalinar the Bondsmith) who would command them in battles and Vin who would assassinate them both, so they won't try to steal my throne or get any power-hungry ideas. Vin would also protect me from getting assassinated or overthrown during my not-that-brutal reign. And then we would march to conquer the world... I mean bring civilization to the world - Roma Aeterna!

We saw Shard induced time dilation in RoW, during Kaladin's fall. Yes, something is happening on Sel because of the Dor: Taldain is hard to get to because Autonomy actively sealed the planet off from the rest of Cosmere, preventing Worldhopping in and out of Taldain. I think this has to do more to do with her Perpendicularity because it is widely known that she possesses control over her perpendicularities far greater than any other Shard - one example of this was seen in TLM. But it wasn't like that in the past. Time dilation isn't a good way to stop all travel out of the system, it seems Taldain lost its ability to access CR entirely. Arcanum Unbounded: Traveling to Sel isn't dangerous because of time dilation, but because there is a whole bunch of plasma-like investiture in CR that will simply kill you. Taldain has no investiture in CR like that. That's interesting, but I doubt it. The Cosmere is a relatively small star cluster of around 100 stars. For objects that close to be redshifted into red they would have to travel very, very fast - probably close to the speed of light - against the gravitational force binding the star cluster together. I found this unlikely. By the time of RoW those stars would no longer be part of the star cluster and they could be already out of the galaxy.

Because the quote said "The eye beneath was completely red." Skybreakers famously didn't get along with Windrunners too. Dustbringers are known for breaking things apart because they want to know what's inside and how they work, that could make them "on the edge" in the eyes of certain Radiants - certain, not all. OB ch 27: I've searched through WoK (1), WoR (1), OB (6) and RoW (4) mentions of Dustbringers - the WoR epigraph quoted earlier and this one from OB are the only sources of our information about how people in the past perceived Dustbringers. I refute your claim that Dustbringers were the most dangerous and reckless of Radiant Orders, or were perceived as such. Instead I argue people feared their destructive powers (and their powers were one of the most destructive), they mistook them for Voidbringers because of their similar sounding names, lastly their personality and urge to break things apart didn't help at all. The difference is small but in my mind important to point out. There is no proof that they were considered to be the most reckless of all orders. In reality Dustbringers were the very opposite - they worked to achieve full control over themselves and their powers. After the Recreance every Radiant Order was named as traitors and all of them were associated with Voidbringers. The idea that red Lighteyes were persecuted because Dustbringers before the Recreance were somewhat misjudged for Voidbringers doesn't work for me. This would apply to every Order and every eye color after the Recreance. That can't be the reason for absence of red eyes - if such absence even is a thing. I also don't know if people of the past would have made this connection between red and Dustbringers as the knowledge about Radiants in general faded really fast after the Recreance, so it's possible this would have been forgotten as well.

Yes, WoR ch 73:

The more accurate term instead of "a crystalized spren" would be a physical manifestation of a spren, or a physical body of a spren. Most spren manifest as a god metal - Shardblades or Shardplates - not crystals. Even gemstones in Shardblades aren't a part of a spren body, they were added later by humans. The entire tower is the Sibling. it's the Sibling's body manifested in the Physical Realm - every gemstone, every crystal vein, every metal is the Sibling's essence. That's why it glows in the Cognitive Realm, because it is the body of the Sibling. RoW ch 111: RoW ch 22: The only non-Sibling fabrials we know of are the nodes forming the soulcasted bubble around the crystal pillar (made by Melishi, when the Tower was abandoned - edit: thinking of it more it seems like those nodes were incorporated into the Sibling as Raboniel felt Strolmight in the system when corrupting the pillar - this means that just like Shardblades, the Sibling can change its "shape" and create new fabrials) and all fabrials that Navani replaced to make them work, like elevators, attractors etc. However, the stone itself in which Sibling's veins reside aren't part of the Sibling, it is a natural stone from the mountain of Ur that used to stand there, where the Tower is now - I wouldn't be surprised if the entire mountain was Stoneshaped into the Tower, boosted by a Bondsmith, when the Sibling begun to manifest their physical body. RoW ch 83: As said in the quote above, the Sibling manifested themselves as metals and crystals, and metals have to be normal, not god metals because Navani and her engineers replaced some gemstones with their gemstones to make them work - like in elevators. If one spren can manifest themselves as different metals and gemstones, why can't others do the same? However, as I was searching through WoBs, I found this one. It seems that both Soulcasters and fabrials in Urithiru were manifested as "weird" metals, which suggest those were made out of god metals, or at least god metals alloyed with base metals: Spren are investiture, investiture in the Physical Realm manifest as gaseous (like Stormlight) , liquid (not shown in SA yet) or solid (Shardblades/Shardplates). When you summon a Shardblade, it emerges from a mist - gaseous investiture - and condenses into the blade - solid investiture - but that metal isn't like any known metal to us, it's a made up metal, a magical metal - a god metal. Investiture of different Shards manifests as different god metals. In the case of Shardblades it's an alloy of two god metals - Tanavastium and Koravellium, god metals of Honor and Cultivation. Honorblades are made out of pure Tanavastium. This is the nature of investiture, in Physical Realm it manifests itself in those states, in the solid form it becomes a god metal - always a metal.

No, look at the WoB again. Healing is filtered through your perception and if they both consider this body to be shared and theirs together, then healing should affect the entire body. If they have different identities then it might limit it.

Except it's not the act of creation that gives parents the authority over their children, it's their children that accept the authority of their parents - or not. This totally is a matter of opinion. A kid abused by their biological parents and adopted by a lovely and caring family, won't give any authority to their "creators," instead he will accept the authority of their new family. Authority is given to you by the mass, you can't force the mass to accept your authority. What makes you think that Adonalsium created Aethers? After the Shattering all investiture in Cosmere was assigned to one of sixteen Shards - except for Dawnshard and Aethers. The fact that spren (who also were created before the Shattering) got assigned and Aethers didn't is a strong point for Aethers being independent from Adonalsium. Aethers' origin is disputed, you can't dismiss that they are right. He didn't create Shards, it was the 17 that created Shards, not Adonalsium, the 17 would be Scadrians god by your logic, yet only 2 of them are their gods and several non-shardic entities. You know what gives a dictator his authority? An army. You know why the army gives him this authority? Money or ideology. When a dictator loses support of the army, he loses his authority.

No because their spirit webs are still separate and will remain separate no matter their perception. Those abilities are tied to their spirit webs. If a spren bonds one of the twins, then it means spren bonds the spirit web of one of the twins and only that twin can Surgebind.

Good point, but I don't think holding investiture is the problem. You can Soulcast people into flame, do you think a tiny drop of investiture in gems would prevent Soulcasting? No, especially that there are periods when gems are empty. It's probably something to do with the nature of gemstones and their similarity to the Pits of Hathsin and Atium - it seems that gemstones may be partially made out of investiture, which prevents Surgebinding from changing them - just like Shardblades can't be Soulcasted because they are investiture. However gemstones still can be Awakened, even if it requires the 9th Heightening, so whatever resistance there is, it can be overcome with enough investiture. There are also mines that extract naturally formed gemstones and those might be easier to influence, if they form differently than those in living bodies. Yes, that's part of the Stoneshaping Connections. It allows the stone to reach into Stoneshaper's Connections to display past events and persona. This is also done via Rhythm. RoW ch 67: Ars Arcanum: Hmm, maybe? But not by talking, but by taking a perfect gemstone's rhythm and transmitting it to imperfect gemstones.

I think this can be possible (based on RoW Ars Arcanum), but trying to gather a bunch of minerals from a pile of clay/stone might be a bit too hard to do. It's easier if you have a normal gemstone and use Cohesion to transform it into a perfect one. In my opinion this should work, however you would need to have a very detailed, nearly microscopic knowledge of what makes a perfect gemstone really perfect - which isn't on Roshar yet. Intent and Command can't get you that far if you don't know what you're doing. RoW Ars Arcanum:

Welcome to the Shard The title of the Era 3 is Ghostbloods, Kelsier will be for sure very important to the story. I think it might be about conflict between Kelsier and Sazed as Harmony/Discord, probably about how to deal with Autonomy, who will be messing with Scadrial again. Maybe even Roshar will show up at the very end, foreshadowing the conflict of Era 4. Why Kelsier vs Sazed? Well, it was foreshadowed in TLM epilogue, Sazed will turn into Discord and that may or may not be desirable. Autonomy will for sure return and Roshar has to be introduced for Era 4 (they might not play an antagonistic role yet), which will also tie up Ghostbloods thread from SA.

I didn't know what Aetherbound meant so this remark was made "just in case." As you said, energy in your examples comes from the SR, so they aren't PMM, just like a lightbulb powered by an electric grid isn't PMM. "Free" energy and PMM are two different things. And because laws of thermodynamics are applied in Cosmere, that means that in Cosmere entropy increases or remains constant as well - this includes SR and investiture as well. A little. You can combine them both and have something like Fort's tablet, which has an Awakened circuit and is solar powered. I think that this would be the same for all kinds of devices and AI in Cosmere - Awakened computers, powered by electricity. Or like the device in SotD is also probably some form of device using A-bronze, partially powered by electricity. One stupid way is to have a brass Ferring sitting next to an electric heater But that would be probably equally as hard as converting energy into matter.

Making a whole spear out of Raysium is too expensive to be even a consideration. That spear would resist a Shardblade cut - god metals resist being cut by a Shardblade. But Leshwi's spear is clearly lined with aluminum on the outside (lined not made of), so there Raysium is either running along one side of the spear as a thin wire (Kaladin might have noticed that at some point), under the aluminum layer, or in the very core of the probably wooden spear. Edit: The biggest problem Fused had with Raysium was that it was very rare, so they had to sparingly use it to create as many weapons as possible. Navani's notebook, entry Dagger describes Raysium in the dagger as "a vein running down the middle of it," so the amount of Raysium used for each weapon would be relatively small and unnoticeable - too small to protect the entire spear from being cut by a Shardblade.

Most Fused don't have weapons like Leshwi does, but her spear is still made out of aluminum. RoW ch 5: And this is how aluminum is often described by people who don't know what it is, for example Dawnshard ch 5: Here is a description of Raysium, OB ch 121: and form Navani's PoV, RoW ch 84: Those are clearly two different metals, Raysium has to run inside the spear, or at least under aluminum in Leshwi's spear.

It was most likely the opposite. The Ruin's perpendicularity manifested under the Pits because Pits contained so much Ruin's investiture that investiture simply seeped out there. Once the Pits were destroyed by Kelsier, the perpendicularity ceased to work as well. Possibly but we don't know how the Oathpact would interpret this and something weird might have happened. Jezrien was trapped when Oathpact was already broken. Or it means because Odium was using more and more investiture on Roshar with each Desolation , he was getting more and more tied to the system which resulted in his essence leaking into PR as Raysium. He didn't have to create it directly. I think it's just a wire inside the spear lined with aluminum. Just like the dagger had only its core made out of Raysium. Sure you can make a few daggers out of it but that's still not a lot of weapons considering how rare Raysium is. I disagree with your assumption that "Heralds can be killed by some random soldier with Raysium." Sure you can arm them with Raysium, but the chances of them killing a Herald with it are very, very low, because the actual number of soldiers with Raysium would be really, really low - inconsiderably small compared to the entire army. What would matter is their placement and timing of deploying them against Heralds - which would be an impossible task because Heralds fight so well not only with Shardblades, but with Surges. You have no means to actually plan a situation like this with any degree of success. Deploy them too early, they will be slain, too late Herald already moved on, get reinforcements or are dead and this doesn't even consider the fact that none of those Odium soldiers can compete in a fight against a Herald. There was none on Odium's side that could compete in 1 on 1 fight against a Herald - we've seen none so far, Fused are getting slain by modern, untrained and inexperienced Radiants, a Herald is vastly above anyone on Roshar in terms of skill. Taln is the best fighter in Cosmere, period. All of them are just insane at killing. With a very, very limited amount of Raysium at Odium's disposal, he would be literally throwing cannon fodder onto them in hopes that one of them would succeed and strike a Herald - realistically all of such attempts would just fail, Heralds weren't fighting alone. The only thing Odium would achieve by doing that is giving all Raysium on Roshar to Heralds and Radiants - which is a waste and possible disaster preventing Odium from getting more Raysium unless he invests in the system more - which he didn't want to do. For Fused one Return is one Desolation. So several Desolations in the past. I take it as he had to split and move the Everstorm to go around Taln. But it's also possible that he was there for so long that it just happened over time. Yes, they had to return willingly. WoK Prelude: This is not as intuitive as you think. By your argumentation Honor should have known that spren are capable of forming Nahel Bond, granting Surges to humans and manifesting as Shardblades because they are his essence, his Invested Art, his Splinters - and yet he was totally surprised when they first started to do that. Shards aren't omniscient. The same applies to Rayse with his knowledge about Raysium and trapping people's souls in a gemstone. He might have never realized this is possible because he had never searched for such a solution - he might have wanted to brute force his way through Roshar instead and he was focusing on how to beat Honor and Splinter him. Odium's entire plan was to beat Roshar into a pulp, until humans can't fight anymore - he wasn't thinking in terms of "how can I end this now," but in terms of "I will win eventually" and every single Desolation was probably just the same in terms of his involvement. You underestimate the influence that the selfish, prideful Vessel can have over the Shard's behavior. Rayse was bad at controlling Odium, he was in conflict with the power. Instead of thinking he could have just rage and push his forces to be more destructive in retaliation - in his mind he would win eventually, wearing Heralds down with each new cycle. Still disagree. Knowing that Stormlight can be held in gemstones doesn't equal to souls being taken out of their bodies and trapped in it as well. Please do not double post. In the future include your response in your previous post by editing it. You can still quote as usual, but those quotes will be placed in a new reply, however they can be simply copy and pasted into the post you're editing. It was aluminum. RoW ch 19:

Vin being blank while accessing a blanked metalminds would be better, but she can do it still even if she isn't blank. We see this working in BoM, every medallion is unkeyed and people who are keyed to their identities can still access them. An unkeyed metalmind can be access by any Feruchemist - Wayne used unkeyed Goldmind in BoM. Generally things and people with no identity are very susceptible to all kinds of interactions. An Allomancer should be able to burn an unkeyed metalmind and compound, even if they're themselves aren't blanked.

Yes: But what an Allomancer gets from burning unkeyed metalminds can't be stored because they're not a Feruchemist. It would be just a burst of attribute.

Shallan is not surprised by "red eyes," she recognised Voidbringer's red eyes, which are completely red. Not just irises but the entire eye is red. That's a big difference between common Ligtheyes with red irises. No. Their powers were the most destructive but they weren't considered to be reckless. The core idea of Dustbringers is about self-mastery and responsibility. Dustbringers were associated with Voidbringers because their names sounded similar. That's why they wanted to be called Releasers. WoR ch 36 epigraphs: Good to know but it doesn't really fit the glyph's color. And shouldn't violet be Willshaper's color? Their glyph is violet and their polestone is amethyst, or would they be more purple than violet? Still, very similar colors.

Yes, they had a form of Surgebinding on Ashyn, the origin planet of humanity, but that Surgebinding was not like Rosharan Surgebinding. Rosharans tend to use the term Surgebinding or Surges for any kind of invested art/magic. Any illusion type magic would be called by them as Lightweaving, any teleportation is Elsecalling for them, any Connection manipulation is Bondsmithing etc. The term "Surge" is translated as "powers of creation," Surgebinding means binding powers of creation. Ashynites had access to invested arts. It's likely that it was similar to present Ashynite magic, which is a disease based magic - you get ill, you get powers. We know also this is related to the Old Magic and it's considered to be a Cultivation-based magic, because Cultivation visited Ashyn once. However, since the destruction of Ashyn it changed in some way, resulting in what we have now on Ashyn. I think the most likely scenario is that there was no Odium-based magic on Ashyn (because Odium wanted to avoid getting tied to the planet, he wanted to Splinter Shards and move to another place, investing in Ashyn to manifest his Invested Art would bind him to the system) and people just used Cultivation-based magic to destroy their world - and those were the Surges said in the quote. This is also suggested a bit by the Stormfather, who said Odium encourage Ishar to experiment with Surges - the magic was there, unknown to people, Odium just told them to play with it, RoW ch 111:

It was the same dagger with the same gemstone, but it was filled with anti-Voidlight, so they weren't meant to hold a soul. The anti-light was injected into Fused, so in this case the gemstone doesn't matter. I also add that it's very likely that Heralds souls trapped before Aharietriam would not fade into the Beyond. Kalak specified two main reasons for why this happened to Jezrien - breaking of the Oathpact and Honor's death. If Oathpact was still strong and binding and Honor was still alive, then Heralds might have been able to be trapped in a gemstone indefinitely, which is something Fused thought would happen to Jez when they trapped him. It's somewhat possible that capturing all Heralds in gemstones would actually make Fused situation much worse because they might have been forced to remain on Braize with no Herald for them to torture. RoW ch 93: