Invocation

I'm pretty sure they have, at some point in the Kholinar debacle. When they got back with Gavinor, Drehy said "We protect those who cannot protect themselves." That seems to imply that they either swore it at some point in that time frame, or are very close to doing so. Sigzil might become a Radiant, but I kind of doubt he'd be a Windrunner, honestly. He seems more like an Edgedancer or a Truthwatcher to me. Past that, who knows? Just about anyone could hit the point.

That's the thing, though, isn't it. Was it actually breeding in the normal sense, or was there some alterations from a certain Shard in there to make it possible? That would make the main difference. I can't find a WOB about it, but it's possible I'm missing it.

It doesn't mean they chose by political power, it means the ones in a position to be noticed by spren happened to coincide with those in political power, which makes sense due to the strain some of those very same royals felt on their morals in the course of their ruling term. It even makes sense that it started with the Alethi, since the Alethi culture is pretty much "fight fight fight" all the time, and nothing boils down a person than kill or be killed, especially for what certain spren (honorspren and highspren, mostly) were looking for. Plus, spren attract spren. More spren paying attention in a certain location, to a certain family, means more spren showing up to hang around them, and that chains to the Spiritual ripples of the bonds (notably Dalinar's bond to the Stormfather and the resulting Spiritual Adhesion ripples from that) to attract more spren, as the taboo is slowly (and probably unofficially) lifted from most spren groups. It also only seems like they started choosing by political power because of our perspective as readers. Nale and his Skybreakers were travelling the breadth of Roshar stamping them out as they emerged, no matter where they emerged, so it wasn't solely political power that attracted them, most notably Lift and Ym. I'll admit to it seeming like there's a lot of Kholins, but that's just what happens when the main stage of these books takes place in deep-Kholin power areas, with several Kholins integral to what's been happening so far, between Jasnah, Renarin, Dalinar, and kind of Kaladin (he's pretty much a Kholin in all but name for the time being). We don't truly have the perspective to say that those Kholins are anything other than an unlikely lineup, and, contrary to what you initially said, is currently a statistical certainty, due to the fact that it has already happened, and stranger things have happened in real life than something like this.

Ah, right, my bad.

The Fused panicked from the Unity thing. That's probably when it got dropped.

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Palmettos, probably. Mesquite trees, which also can be good for shade in those situations. Several fruit trees, including jujubes, pomegranates, kei apple trees, natal plums (though that's more of a bush, I think), persimmons, guava trees, and figs. Hawthorn trees might be able to withstand it. That's the extent of my knowledge, sorry.

I think your second option is closer than the others. Vasher knows how to partition Investiture, as shown with him suppressing his Divine Breath and his partial-bestowing of Breath, and it's not a stretch to think that he could sacrifice a portion of his Investiture, partition that off, then when Nightblood is almost done consuming it, chuck the blade before it starts looking for more to eat. I think part of it also is Vasher's experience with Nightblood and his superior willpower compared to Szeth. Vasher's been there since the beginning, has carried the thing for who knows how long, and has enough willpower to put any Green Lantern to shame. Szeth is used to taking orders, not all there upstairs (which means Nightblood probably could dig its hooks in further), and still conflicted about just about everything.

The singers probably wouldn't have had any supply lines either. I doubt they would have reacted the way they did upon the invasion if they were as wrathful as humans can be. Why bother with the pretence? Because they had pseudo-deities looking over their shoulders.

I would honestly have to agree. It would take enough finageling to where it's probably not ever gonna happen. Hmmm, I wonder though. If someone bonded multiple spren like is theoretically possible, would that help or hurt the chances? Purely hypothetically, I don't think we'll see a multi-bond for a very long time, if ever.

They could maybe form a gun, but I don't think the bullet is an option because I don't think the spren would like to explode. Plus, bullets that are too light do funky things. It would be more direct, with less drop, but also less range. Honestly by that point the spren weapons are pretty redundant. Plate would be fairly redundant too, since a bullet could shatter bits of it much quicker than most current Rosharan weapons could. Modern use for Plate would probably be electrical work, since Plate keeps you safe from electrical discharges per this WOB. But that's off topic.

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Sandman has said he's fine with using his stuff as long as you're not trying to make money off of it while claiming it as your own.

Are you talking about for copyright and stuff?

That's just Harmony taking direct control, the way Ruin would do with the Inquisitors. Harmony can talk and interact with people with only a single spike (see Wax's conversations with him through the earring), but there's a threshold where Harmony can bodyjack people. For kandra, that's two spikes. For humans, it's any more than three spikes. Adding too many spikes without enough willpower could leave you open to influence from anyone with enough Soothing ability, like it did the koloss, too. Even if that last bit probably isn't going to happen any time soon in E2.

He's talked about the potential for other Arcanum Unbounded things, kind of turning that into a series in its own right, but I don't know if that counts towards this.

Shenanigans. There's something about Honor that makes 10 significant for that particular Shard like 16 is.

I mean the entirety of Mistborn E4 might as well be an epilogue, just one for the entire series. But it will be a space opera, reportedly, so you'll get your Cosmere-nauts.

The Heralds have some interesting stuff going on with regards to age. It's pretty wacky in general, honestly, and I don't think we'll get a solid answer until the books that have Ash and Taln flashbacks, which are years off yet.

Technically both (and also technically for the same reason), but in this case, I was referring to Dalinar.

That's not Kaladin turning down a dark path, that's just something you would notice if you'd been hanging out in an area pretty much free of cremlings and suddenly you see one. Plus, read Edgedancer if you haven't, like Karger said.

It doesn't heal to the same extent F-Gold does. Gold restores to a Spiritual ideal self everyone has, while pewter just helps the body along. That's why the key is to hit them and keep them down for long enough that their brain realizes they're supposed to be dead instead of beating you to pieces.

I think he's mostly trying to get the people out above anything else.

I actually think that's part of it. Connection works fourth-dimensionally, and spren seem to be able to work off of a similar principal, given Syl's "I knew that one day you would call for me" thing about why she crossed to the Physical Realm. If the giant spren of Moelach can access the future, why couldn't a bunch of flamespren do the same based on someone with a massive Spiritual presence?