Invocation

I think, knowing what little we know of him, he'd be the kind to go rogue and do whatever he wants, siding with neither Odium nor Dalinar, only joining other groups when they benefit him.

You'd still have to at least finish the Aon to get it to work. Yes. What's your point?

What do you have against Five Kingdoms? It wasn't bad.

Two Elantrians can work on the same Aon if they intend to. Pretty sure that's why anyone can dim or brighten the lightplates. Probably means you need to allow for that to happen in the initial Aonic construction, likely meaning whoever made Elantris allowed for a potential situation just like this. Doubtful that it would be able to activate if someone not connected to the Dor were to try, since there'd be nothing to keep the Aon powered in the first place to allow for activation. Or literally anything else, but that's beside the point. You have to draw the Aon with intent even if you're not an Elantrian, it just won't do anything if you're not. The Aons are complex and precise enough to where you have to really be trying to draw them in any capacity, Elantrian or not. An Elantrian would have to trace over it, probably. "Do magic" in this case meaning to draw a functioning Aon, yes. Also, yes the effect is determined by the shape, but that's due to the filtering the shape provides.

Both of those are fair points!

You're good at that breakdown. Have you considered joining the Anti-Moash gang?

True.

Fair. Won't stop me, though!

And I'll make him have a harder one.

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Yes. I barely read anything other than BSandy anymore because his books are better than 99% of the other stuff I have. Reading Sanderson is like eating a hearty soup, while everything else is just broth that's a step away from water. Weak in comparison.

Oh you want a character to score? I'll give you a character to score.

Not at the level the Nightwatcher would be working at. Forgery is an overlaying of new traits onto another soul, requiring fuel for the sustainment of the bonds that keep the overlaying in place, but the Nightwatcher would be working at a deeper level, bonding the new boon and bane deeply and permanently in one go, with no constant source required.

I changed my mind, you should name him Okameahelemakeakaheuhanei'ike'oleikameanānaeho'opa'i.

It's possible that's how they were able to destroy it. The Surges, unconstrained by bonds to another sentient being, ran out of control in the hands of anyone who knew how to access them, and they messed everything up. Or it's possible that there were spren on Ashyn and they did bond, it was just different. Like for now, the Silence Divine magic on what remains of Ashyn is forming that bond through illness-inducing bacteria. Could have been something like that. Potentially they were bonding via molecules or something and the availability of a magic fuel like that allowed cataclysms. Fair enough. Same concept, same underlying principle, different name.

Not as much of a show as a dude's head exploding.

As would a nice chunk of francium. Because with Francium, you get a show, too.

I'm all for naming him Spook.

Fish sticks are good when done right. Otherwise they can be really bad. Just ask my old middle school about bad fish sticks, they're experts.

No argument with that here, that's perfectly accurate. With Surgebinding, specifically, you need the spren bond. True, because only in the Surgebinding system are the Surges actually cut-and-dried, probably due to Honor's influence of keeping things in their bounds in the same way the Oaths are instituted. It's not pure Regrowth, due to a mixing of the Surges that are everywhere except Roshar because, well, Honor's system keeps them isolated. In all the other systems, while they are also interacting with the Surges that are background to the whole universe, they're doing so through the muddling and filtering of the interaction of the surges with the Shards that supply the magic system. It's not a 1:1 thing, I believe. F-gold might be a way of using Regrowth, it's probably also mixed with Transformation to supply the new material or some other Surges that exist floating in the background.

Oh, I'm aware. Just wanted to note Taln because I love the idea of learning more about Taln.

Taln.

Like Striker said, that's probably one of the RAFOs that was more "you'll get this answer soon and I'm keeping the secret" as opposed to the other uses.

The Surges in that form are not present through the rest of the cosmere, but, per your very own quoted WOB, the Surges are "fundamental forces of creation and laws of the universe." People are just accessing them with them filtered through the Honor and Cultivation system, but they're there through the whole cosmere. They aren't accessible in the same way (if at all, in most systems), but they're there, much like aluminum doing roughly the same thing across the cosmere. This is nothing different, only longer, than what I said initially. Tl;dr: the spren bond is the vehicle for accessing the Surges, not changing the Surges, and is only that way because of the filter through H&C.

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