Themasterhunter

An unkeyed metalmind doesnt have any properties that would stop someone from burning it, and with a little spirit boost you could get the freuchemal boost, but o dont know about just any misting being able to get a boost like youre thinking

There's been a lot of questions about this specifically, like for example, if you used an aon rune to constantly feed night blood would it destroy that investiture system and the usual resounding answer is no, but for an already weakened shard or an already weakened splinter it could be potentially catastrophic

There is also the question of mixing investiture which we have seen be either extremely painful and/or have issues manifesting correctly. There is some question to if other birds from certain shard worlds could, but there hasn't been a definitive answer. In my own personal opinion is similar to RShara. Symbiotic bonds and biochemistry are very specialized and I dare say fragile so it's extremely highly unlikely that we get a bond like that.

I got the deluxe edition, but there wasn't much info on when they're shipping... Does anyone know?

Shadesmar beads are made out of a Physicalized form of investiture. In my opinion, its an envelope of sorts that let the bead manifest as a bead and not as the object it represents.

RShara, (and somebody correct me if I'm wrong,) everything has a spren that manifests into shadesmar as a sphere. Because of the cognitive and spiritual links between any object, wyndle can have a (chair?) collection in shadesmar. Everything that has a physical aspect has a spren, even if it is extremely weak. You see this in soulcasting, like when shallan talks to the stick

Do they have dedicated spren that appear as a person, or as a small bead perhaps when manifested in shaedsmar, or do they simply not appear because it is pure investiture.

If you had a shield made of aluminum, it could block a shardblade, yes?

If you can draw Aons midair with investiture I think that the Shape is what allows it to be used, not what the shape is made of

Yes, we need more info, but the basis of my point still stands

Aluminum very well could be a "shattered godmetal" But certainly not Adonalsium's I personally am of the opinion that like most things in The Cosmere, Everything has a Push and a Pull. I think that Aluminum is the godmetal of who or whatever shattered Adonalsium, because of its interactions with most types of very shardic investiture. We really need more information on "dark investiture" or Investiture that happens as a result of a non shardic Deity. Trell Is certainly a candidate for non shardic Investiure. Just a few thoughts I've had.

I don't think that the Aons need to have a Conduit or Investiture charge to enter the physical realm any more than Aons drawn go around or follow the very physical shape of Sel. An argument can be made that using an aluminum plate would interfere with the "feeding" of the Aon on investiture. This point, however, functions on a concept of aluminum absorbing, or "black holeing" investiture, which isn't how aluminum works. Aluminum simply isn't detectable, not because of a hole in the investiture necessarily, but because it can't have investiture actively pushed through it in any way. Because of the very Physical nature of the Aonic magic system, namely through a series of symbolic interpretations of the layout of the land, and simply channeling investiture through symbols, an Aon would work better because it cannot be interfered with in any way. Soulstamps, very similarly to Aons, use a symbol with cognitive, rather than physical connotations. A soulstamp inflicts an investiture charge onto an object, changing a cognitive portion of the spiritweb, and therefore changing other Physical and Spiritual aspects of the object. Aons don't function through anything except form.

This is an interesting question. I think that with the Dor, and the nature of its runic and very pattern based magic, would work the same if inscribed into aluminum. I think the only benefit to using an aluminum base for a rune would be that the Fullborn Simply wouldn't be able to manipulate it with Allomancy.

My personal opinion is that, because of the nature of the Dor and the way It has to follow a land/terrain to be able to fully unleash its own power, traversing the Cognitive Dor would be similar to traversing the land, but with the added danger of not being on a completely material plane.

What Exactly is she? Is this just a rare form or cremling? are there any theories on what she is or what she will become?

Does Adolin have the potential to become a full Edgedancer? I feel like Maya, having been already bonded is going to maybe have adverse effects to initiating another nahel bond, or wont be able to bond fully. What do yall think

I think a good thing to remember is that when a shardblade is manifested, it is literally brought into the physical realm. the fact that a blade is dead doesn't matter, because it still manifests the same way.

so basically What im hearing is that youd have to have taravangian-like leves of intelligence to be able to use soulcasting to effectively heal /repair a person.

I think the spiritweb function works regardless, because of the spiritual nature of the flesh and bone essences... Right?

A soulcasting savant using the Gem for the blood essence, similarly to the way kaza uses smoke

Hey could a blood savant be like the best medic ever, or would they just die. Thank

Could Cusicesh be the sibling, or at least a shadow of what the sibling was? I think there is a WoB on my boi Cusi about how it was at a high spren level (like stormfather/nightwatcher), but I've also seen things about Cusi being The Black Fisher, which is one of the unmade... Is there a possibility that Cusicesh was bonded (as the sibling), and through its host dying or a seperation of the Nahel bond it became fallen and either fell to the state that its in now, where it is arguably broken, and watches the origin, the only place it can remember and is drawn to? Cusicesh is gendered neutral, similarly to what we know about the sibling, and has a very "broken spren" behavior (Extremely exact timing, looking towards the origin, face shifting) but also shares similarities of the unmade. Could Cusicesh be a shadow of the sibling, and also an unmade?

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I think that a theme for a lot of the shardic investiture in the cosmere has to do with a form of Light or light blindness, but I'm pretty sure that the Scadrian Shards are unique in that they can't see their metals, and by extension shardpools. It is interesting that they can then use that metal to then communicate. I think that its less a thing of blindness and more that there is an actual "hole" to the cognitive realm that is more visible to more highly invested beings that they can then use to give certain traits or communicate. In Aether of Night; I know that AoN isnt nessicarily canon, but Its interesting that a lot of the shards do have a way to create a link that maybe even they don't understand fully, and use almost instinctually. Not really an answer, But some things to think about.

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