Invocation

"How would I go about getting in contact with one of those? You're literally the first person I've interacted with here. And also, what is that dust-creature over there?"

"Are you trying to tell me there are other Earths? Are there more other planets?"

I forgot about that!

"Interesting armor... fine, you got me. My name's Volatile. Where exactly are we? I don't recognize it and got sent here at random."

"What makes you think you are worthy of my name, exactly?"

There are, to the best of my knowledge, no insects on Roshar anywhere but perhaps Shinovar because they simply wouldn't survive the highstorms. The cremlings fulfill those functions of the ecosystem instead. If there are some in Shinovar, I'd imagine them to be larger than they would be here due to higher oxygen in the atmosphere like Earth had a long time ago and subsequently everything got massive.

"If you're sure. I'll contact you with names once I've heard back, or they'll just contact you directly."

"Not many people are willing to work on a job that has details as vague as that, particularly with the chance of death and the high payout. That generally means it's too good to be true. I'll post it if you're absolutely sure that those are all the details you want to give, or you can change it."

"Well, first you're going to need to post a listing. Your name, a way to contact you, and the details of the job relevant to the mercenaries are all that's needed. From there, I'll ask around based on those details."

Solely because Brandon knows how much they mean to us and likes to rip our hearts to shreds.

The way that spren are made is some spren takes a journey to a massive source of Investiture in Shadesmar and forms a spren out of it. That is what Syl is referring to when she's talking about being raised: the Stormfather made her and she ended up being raised by aunt after what happened to her first bond and subsequent retrieval by the Stormfather as the last of her generation of Honorspren. Spren are made entirely of Investiture and to the best of our knowledge, only Sja-anat can even slightly change that, much less raise a mindless subspren to a sentient being. Deadeyes have a massive chunk of that Investiture ripped out, which is why they aren't conscious anymore and also why they need the 10 heartbeat thing as a Blade: the Blade's wielder's Investiture has to sync with the spren's Investiture to revive it enough to pull it into the Physical Realm.

Welcome to the Shard! I see you're a Lord of the Rings fan, always nice to see some of those. Crazy theories are what some of us (me included) live for theories. Many apologies about the thorough hole-poking I'm about to do to your subspren-truespren theory, though. What's your favorite world in the cosmere?

Yeah, Preservation's future-sight was probably just wrong. That's a thing that's very possible, even likely, since the future-sight of the Shards is a complex thing.

"Did I hear fight?" A tall-ish man seemingly made of flame and hovering a few inches above the ground rounds the corner of the building.

That's fair, I love the Scadrian systems.

Welcome! What's your favorite magic system Branderson has made?

"Well what? You're the one who walked off. Bringing yourself back is not covered. After all, no one brought you. You walked."

"Never mind, I guess."

"Hey! Come back here! Whoever gets that guy that just left and brings him back here gets a free meal and free personal drinks for a day."

A normal sized room will not affect him, but a closed-in pantry will begin to dampen his powers. If he's touching the walls/ceiling just by being there his powers will be cut significantly.

"Fair, fair. Here's a nearly century old Alethi sapphire." Malu puts a cup of said drink in front of you.

I mean you'd have some serious issues trying to use Selish magics off world, due to their connection with the lands they develop in, but that's a special case related to the current state of those two Shards, but for all the rest of them, there's no different process that we've seen because the Shards (mostly) transcend time and space so you can access their powers anywhere you want in the cosmere.

"One sapphire wine coming up. Got any preferences for where it comes from?"

"Excuse you! I need more detail than that! Who or what did you just plop down in here and why do you need me to take care of them?"

Kidpen said what I was thinking. Seems to fit with a Smedry Talent nicely.