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  1. Scion of the Mists
    You're missing Aether of Night (available on this site) and the prose version of White Sand (available by signing up for Brandon's newsletter). Also, it looks like you have Edgedancer twice, once in Miscellaneous and once in Stormlight.
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    I agree, but I’m not quite sure what your point is. I was disagreeing with your stance that Honorblades and shardblades are the most similar (although I misread and thought you were saying that Nightblood and Honorblades were most similar). Either way, my position is that the most similar blades are shardblades and Nightblood. Their shared sentience/sapience, in my opinion, outweighs any similarities they may share with Honorblades (physical manifestation, method of creation, etc.).
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    He did:
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    I think that the difference between a living creature and a machine is fundamentally more different that between a mammal and a bird.
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    Ah, I see. "Powerful" in terms of the largest change possible, not most powerful/useful applications of the change. I would put them between the monks and the Kandra. P.s. Welcome to the Shard! Double posting is discouraged on this site (see the Welcome/Rules post). You can always edit your previous post to add a new idea.
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    It is reasonable to consider Nightblood a spren because he is sapient, even if he's not Rosharan in origin. Shardblades are obviously spren; they too are sapient. The Honorblades, by contrast, are neither sapient nor sentient. They're just a hunk of Honor's Investiture. All four of those are very similar in that they're all flying, sentient, living animals. By contrast, something like an airplane still flies, but is not sentient, and in fact has never been alive. This is basically the difference between Nightblood/shardblads and Honorblades.
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    Wit is using his Yolish version of Lightweaving (seen previously when he tells stories to Kaladin/Shallan).
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    I'd place this pretty high on the list - a Forger can grant themselves tons of useful abilities (martial arts, languages, etc.). They can also drastically alter their physical body and even their thought processes.
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    We can narrow down when he bonded Glys by his visions, eyesight healing, and refusal to touch shardblades. It's been a while, so I don't remember off the top of my head when those occurred in relation to Ch 12.
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    Now that Honor is dead, the Heralds no longer have direct access to Honor's Investiture. They have to suck in the Stormlight like the rest of the Radiants.
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    I don't think that Renarin had bonded Glys at that point in time, so he couldn't have been voidbinding.
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    That seems reasonable, but Brandon has specifically talked about his vision of savantism, which includes having significant drawbacks to offset the additional abilities.
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    Metals are generally not considered nutrition, so I don't think that'd work.
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    A large hunk of aluminum would be enough to stop a standard sword. There was a thread a while back (that I can't find right now) that talks about this. I'm not sure how Investing the aluminum would help. Invested objects gain resistance to Cosmere magics - but aluminum already has that resistance.
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    The Coppermind (basically our version of Wikipedia) is a great resource for these types of questions: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Thunderclast Thunderclasts are created when voidspren animate stone to form bodies. The spren is generally not killed when the thunderclast is defeated; this can be seen in Oathbringer toward the end of the Battle of Thaylen Field when Renarin convinces the spren to leave the stone body. (Sidenote, spren generally cannot be killed the way we understand death) However, the other thunderclast is permanently killed by Nightblood.
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    Obviously you're joking, but Hoid actually specifically wanted full access to Lightweaving, not Soulcasting (which I'm sure he's happy to have to).
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    Nightblood definitely has a spiritweb. Everything has a spiritweb. This is the WoB that's being referenced.
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    Savantism is when someone uses an investure ability to the point it changes their physiology. Savantism isnt based on skill, its over-use. Yes, I know. However, high skill level and savantism are correlated (because they both have the same cause: high usage levels). See this WoB that Kal-Eldin posted above:
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    When she sees her shadow pointing the wrong way she thinks "not again." Do we know what that's referirng to (I'd guess her childhood "insanity" )?
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    The "wicked armor they wore" could refer to exoskeletons that the Varvax (from Defending Elysium) use. Also, something's up with the Lifebuster bombs - how do the humans know what they are/what they're capable of? Ironsides is super sketchy.
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    FYI, Ivory is an inkspren, not a logicspren.
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    We don't have confirmation about whether or not he's a full Mistborn or just an Allomancer. We only know that he can use Zinc and/or Brass. That said, I really like this idea. It would provide a reasonable explanation for only ingesting part of the bead (which I don't think we had before).
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    In addition to the worldhopper-cluing that's going on, Brandon's conceit is that someone is translating the fantasy language into a real world language, attempting to preserve the puns, etc.
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    As already pointed out, there's Vyre's knife which is similar, but possibly distinct. Additionally, we know that there are Kandra on Roshar, so that's probably what Brandon's referring to. I doubt we'll see full-blown Hemalurgy as an active part of the storyline, as Brandon is trying to minimize crossovers in Stormlight (saving them for Mistborn Era 4 and Dragonsteel).
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    Hoid's (and other worldhoppers) slip-ups are added intentionally by Brandon as a clue that they're using magical means of translations. It's one of the main ways we can pick up on who the worldhoppers are.
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