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Then we get the problem of what that entity does with that power. Rashek held half of the Harmony shard for a few minutes and he remade the entire solar system, changed the DNA of several species and created 3 new species. That's a lot of trust to put in someone when it's impossible to know what they'd do with it.

It's probably going to take awhile but we need to see full Oaths from all the Orders. That way we can determine which Orders are compatible enough for one being to become a full Oath KR in multiple orders. Also, Shallan is an interesting case study. If Elsecallers get squires she could potentially become one. That plus her own Lightweaver bond could set up the condition set out by the OP. That calls into question, do you lose your squireship in one Order if you ascend to a different one?

Pai's Rosharan recreation of Martin Luther's 95 Thesis is a refutation of how Vorinism is practiced at the time. What's going on in Kholinar is an extreme example of how it's practiced elsewhere. Your tense is wrong. It's not what Vorinism is becoming, it's what Vorinism became. And what it is now is a religion that encourages one to heap all responsibility unto the Ardents. Odium seems to have co-opted Vorinism generations and generations ago. In retrospect it seems logical that Amaram went to Odium's side. The way he operates is familiar to what he's practiced his entire life.

I am currently re-reading Wheel of Time and something interesting occurred to me in regards to the Forsaken. There are 3 assumptions baked in to this thought exercise. One, that the Forsaken could actually get to Roshar, that they became good guys and that they could actually form a Nahel bond. The second assumption isn't quite as important as we know Voidbinding forms twisted versions of the Orders although we don't know if names have been established for them. Btw, I know this is impossible; I'm basing this on the personalities of the Forsaken and how they match with the characteristics of the Orders. With that out of the way, lets start this thing: Ishmael/Bondsmith. The leader of the Forsaken, seems to understand the DO best. Demandred/Windrunner. None of the Forsaken try to protect anything but of all the Forsaken he's the best leader. Also has more honor than any of them. Semirhage/Edgedancer. Healing, plus into small details. Edgedancers according to Hessia Mythica, ignore large scale considerations in favor of the minutia (Remember the Forgotten) Mesanna/Elsecaller. About the spread of knowledge, a teacher and an organizer. Lanfear/Lightweaver. Rarely lies yet can use both lies and truth like a scalpel. Master of Tel'aran'riod because she knows herself very well. Samael/Skybreaker. A lawful dude despite his allegiance to the Shadow. Aginor/Dustbringer. As a researcher and a mad scientist, he likes taking things apart to see how they work. Graendal/Willshaper. Consummate Puppetmaster. Moghedien/Truthwatcher. Hides in the shadows and gathers secrets like no other. ???/Stoneward. Cannot think of any of them embodying the virtues resolute/builder. Maybe Rahvin or Be'lal? Of the last 2 Forsaken, Asmodean was an artist during AoL and thus could fit with Lightweavers potentially. As for Bathamel/Aran'gar/Halima, I have no idea. Feel free to comment.

The ardentia says to live, let them take care of all the messy work of maintaining faith. Dalinar gets to rampage all across Alethkar but it's fine until he starts to question things. Both Odium and the Ardents seem to be about passing off responsibility.

The Odium/Autonomy/Dominion tri-Shard combo platter has pros and cons. The good news as a couple posters mentioned is that the holder probably won't have an interest in leaving the planet. The bad news is that it would suck for the vast majority of the sapient inhabitants since only the most Tyrannical people get access to the native Investiture. I cannot see such a planet surviving if it make it past an industrial revolution. Replace Autonomy with Ambition and you get Conquistadors. Add space flight to that group and that's a bad deal for the rest of the Cosmere.

As I thought about this, is it possible for multiple combinations of Shards coming up with the same intent? I know we don't yet know all the Shards yet but there must be other Shards with completely opposing intents like Preservation/Ruin. If a different set of Shards that diametrically opposed each other were to combine could they end up being the same intent?. Say if Odium (hate) and Devotion (love) combined, would they be Harmony or Discord as well?

My mistake. I read somewhere that Scandium was used somewhere in Allomancy in Era 2.

Scandium is bendalloy. You are right about the others. Thing is, silver is traditionally special in fantasy novels but not so much in the Cosmere. That's the significance.

We've seen silver in one other place besides Threnody. That was the metal in Vin's cell in the very 1st Mistborn. We know the metal is allomantically inert, at least so far. It's significance in the future of the Cosmere is up for debate.

The girl who looked up.

The death of King Elkohar hit me the hardest. A bum for most of the series actually starting to take responsibility for his decisions, finally acting in accordance with his station, holding his son in one hand and Shallan's image of nobility in the other, straining for the Oaths that would be his salvation, suddenly and ruthlessly cut down while Kaladin watches in a stupor. Then Moash looks dead at him and mockingly throws up a Bridge 4 salute. Just knowing that scene is coming up gives me heartburn on re-reads.

Proto knuckle-dusters that sever souls? That just made me smile. Sounds good until you go up against a conventional Radient. Any weapons you use gets severed by your opponent's blade. No offensive capability.

I'm eager to learn what else honorblades can do. I wasn't aware that they were broken in the first place. My thought was that the Heralds as Cognitive Shadows of Honor were the Investiture conduit and the blade provided the surges. The honorblades don't function the same because Stormlight filtered through regular humans are inefficient as a fuel delivery system. But if it's all they can do then it's slightly disappointing.

I would have said Edwarn, just because I don't ever remember Wayne smoking a pipe; it looks like the sort of prop common for a villian. But I suppose the hat is a dead giveaway for Wayne.

So Shardblades in general are devices that in addition to killing people, actually sever a spiritual connection in accordance with the Shard it's made from. Rosharan Shardblades sever bonds, Nalthian Shardblades sever the spark of life and should therefore not work on inanimate objects like boulders except as a regular sword. What would a seon-based Shardblade sever? Love? And what the hell would that look like?

We've seen in OB the results of killing strokes from type IV Biocrhomatic entities Nightblood and whatever Vivienda's sword is named. Instead of shriveled up limbs the limbs cut by these entities lose all color. We know regular Shardblades sever spiritual connection. What exactly are these Shardblades severing to cause the effect. We know that they are not excising Breath; that's an Endowment thing. Could they be severing the connection to whatever Shard their victims are associated with, thus the loss of all color? Are they severing whatever latent Endowment resides in that victim from their spiritweb? And a tangential question. Could a Shardblade be fashioned from other Cosmere magic systems other than the two we've seen and if so what in the world would a wound taken from such a weapon look like? Would a Scadrian Shardblade turn one into mist or snatch attributes? Would a blade from Taldain draw all moisture from it's target? Would a blade from Threnody turn its weilder or it's victim into a shade?

I don't know. He looked pretty gluttonous at Thaylen City, showing no signs of stopping until the scabbard was found.

But he'd be happy. No longer hungry. The equivalent of after Thanksgiving Dinner tryptophan topor.

Things change when unlike beings merge and achieve symbiosis. The Kaladin who swore the 1st Oath isn't the same person as the on on the verge of the 4th. The Syl who accepted that 1st Oath is certainly not the same spren that comforts Kaladin in Shadesmar. We know that not everyone who swore Oaths makes the full progression. We also know some people can go their whole life as squires without ever attracting a spren of their own. It's possible that one if the reasons for non progression is unresolved conflict between what a person is inside and what they want to be.

As a sort of Cognitive Realm clean-up project, how about dropping an unsheethed Nightblood into the plasma nightmare that is Sel's CR? One of 2 things happen. Either Nightblood gets super saturated with Investiture and is destroyed or he eats everything and the Aon Dor no longer works. The bright side to scenario 2 is that safe passage is once again available to Sel. The bright side to scenario 1 is the most dangerous weapon in the Cosmere is no longer a threat to worlds.

Elantrian martial arts probably looks something like Naruto with their hand signs.

It could also be that the number of ferrings and mistings are equally proportional across a given population but because some abilities are more useful than others it's more difficult to determine some of the more obscure or less powerful metals. Aluminum does nothing allomantically so one could be an aluminum misting and go their entire life without knowing. A gold misting could have been born poor and thus never discovered their power. But steelpushers are quite valuable regardless of era. There's a good chance that if you can burn steel you'll figure it out.

A personal quirk of mine. I cannot visualize women's heights no matter how often they are described. Every woman in every story looks about 5'7" in my mind for some strange reason.

Roshar. The Cosmere's retirement community. Beware of storms and hatred. Must love honor.