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If Edgli is erratic, then she might be prone to brinksmanship, which fits with my theory on why she let Nightblood go off-world.

Is it possible that Adonalsium saw that he/she/it was going to be shattered and created Roshar to help facilitate it's recreation?

Most likely. Why else would a shard let such a powerful weapon leave their planet. I think it is more than just a warning to Odium, I think it is letting all the other shards know that Edgli is not to be messed with. Nightblood is the cosmere equivalent of a nuke, and letting it off world is Edgli's display of power. Sort of a MAD doctrine statement.

Each of the Unmade serve a purpose in Odium's army, Yelig-Nar seems like an easy way to cause alot of damage really quickly. He is a tactical nuke, not a multimegaton monster designed to wipe out cities. I think that Yelig-Nar is meant to deal with people like Kaladin and Adolin, as in bullet sponge kind of deal with. Yelig-Nar is meant to absorb massive amount of damage from a surgebinder and still be able to function long enough to take out said surgebinder and deal a morale blow to the humans.

I think that Edgli's ace in the hole is the creation of type IV biochromatic entities. Sure, Azure's sword turned out ok, but we know that Nightblood can damage a shard a little bit. I do not think it would be a stretch to create more type IVs like Nightblood to weaken Odium enough for her or another shard under her instruction (Harmony) to splinter Odium. The Returned (armed with awakened weapons) can take care of what ever baddies Odium throws at Nalthis while Edgli takes out Odium.

I recently made a post that proposed that Aluminum is a gateway into the Spiritual Realm. What if Silver is a gate way out of the Spiritual Realm? That Might be why it hurts shades and turns black when it is exposed to a shade. Silver is the focus and gets used up when the investure crosses over from the Spiritual and into the Cognitive/Physical. The amount of power that is released is so intense that it destroys the metal. The only other times that we have seen a glimpse of the Spiritual Realm are when massive amounts of investure are in use, such as the Battle of Thaylen Field. I think that is because the Spiritual Realm needs a massive amount of investure to be accessed. Silver may act as a catalyst and lower the breaching energy needed to pull investure out and into the Physical Realm.

I think this got tanked the second Nightblood showed up. And the other bits that play a rather significant role in Oathbringer.

This post made me crack up. I think Jasnah and Kaladin have potential, and only potential right now. If anything, Jasnah will marry for political reasons, possibly to reduce the fall out from a future decision. Who better to marry than a minor brightlord who has a good history with her family and is not a heretic or an atheist. That being said, if Kaladin follows Dalinars lead, learns to read, and starts challenging Jasnah more, I can totally see the smile going from a "You are a naive idiot" smile to a "You intrigue me, let's grab Chouta and bottle of blue wine and discuss your moral framework" smile.

I kind of doubt the stealing of Singer gem hearts. The reasons for this is that the gem hearts have no value, they do not hold stormlight and cannot be used for Soulcasting. If they did have value, why are the humans not tracking down the bodies of their dead Parshmen and taking their gem hearts. The description seems to place their size at several broam sized stones, roughly the size of a thumb joint. Even in clearchips, that would be worth several days labor for your average darkeyes.

I like this idea, it would be a very brandersonian twist and might fit with the sort of order that we have seen in the Set. Also, it would fit with in all of the various Shards we have seen so far. Maybe Trell was a sort of hard-drive back up for Honor that got corrupted and sought out Scadrial when Ruin and Preservation died and Harmony ascended.

The destruction of the metal is just an after effect of how investure works on Scadrial and the metallic arts in general. And it is not a blackhole, it is a gate. I suspect that it could be used to pull investure from the Spiritual realm, but that likely would require a hack that is not possible at the current time in the Cosmere. It is the internal pulling enhancement metal, and Duraluminum is the internal pushing enhancement metal so it is conceivable that Duraluminum pushes Investure into the Physical Realm at a quicker rate than an invested ability would normally. That is why it creates such a massive surge in Allomancy and burns away the metal being enhanced. It burns through the focus(metal) like the Dor burns through the Aon and a Surgebinder uses Stormlight.

Thank you, I mixed the two up in my head. The Feruchemical part of my theory does not work as well then, but the hemalurgic portion works even better because the investure attached to the spirit web would be pulled out by the aluminum. Same principle applies as in my earlier post.

The hemalugic chart that was recently released says that aluminum steals Identity.

I almost spoiled Words of Radiance for a friend of mine.

The godmetal theory of aluminum might work given that the investure has nothing to resist. It pulls in investure because it is directly connected to the source of all investure. That is why Aluminum drains metals on Scadrain and negates other magics. It is the ultimate gate back to the Spiritual Realm. When investure is used on aluminum, the aluminum pulls it back into the Spiritual Realm and negates the effects of the investure. I present as evidence that Identity is tied directly to the Spiritual Realm, and that is why aluminum stores and steals Identity. The metal mind acts as a pocket of the Spiritual Realm and stores the Identity there. When a soul stamp or shardblade hits aluminum, the investure effects are negated or pulled back into the spiritual realm.

Hemalurgy could be used to steal replicate a human mind and form an AI for use in computing.

The stuff taken by the knife is likely similar to the power Preservation poured into Kelsier in Secret History. It keeps the soul bound to the cognitive realm and allows Heralds/insane mistborn stick around get passed out drunk for 4000 years. I think the only difference is the Heralds can jump into the Physical Realm easier than the Survivor of Hathsin.

Given what we know of the Surge of Division, I think it would less lightning strike and more pillar of fire.

I would place one in Rathalas, it is protected and no one can be stupid enough to build it out of wood again.

Given that we have only seen Elantrians starting at basically zero power level and then only for a few pages dealing with everyones favorite Scadrian psychopath, I do not think we have a full grasp of their powers. Every Elantrian likely has a series of Aon programs running all around them at all times, forming shields, power boosters, senses. and potentially weapons. Think shardplate, only more versatile and better at adaptation.

A-Bronze is a type of remote sensing and could be used for dousing. Future sight is used on First of the Sun by some of the Aviars. Human hybrids are seen in Shadows of Sense when Bleeder makes animal/human hemalurgic creations with a spike in the head. And Spook talking with Kelsier is talking with the mostly dead temporarily lacking a physical body. Soulstamping is similar to alchemy. Renarian's future sight could be a type of Augury. And the Diagram is an advanced form of numerology. I would argue that hemalurgy could be use for Voodoo doll like scenarios like what we see with Wax and Bleeder talking through the spikes. Voodoo Zombies could be Lifeless or a drab. Nightblood is classed as an artifact of doom courtesy of TV Tropes.

I like this idea. The Horneaters manifest a different digestive tract than a baseline human such as an Azish or North Scadrian, so I would not rule out some ability to use latent Singer DNA.

I know, but it would the Rosharian equivalent, I was thinking more along the lines of the Little Doctor weapon from Ender's Game, I should have specified that.

What about a soulcasting mine that either soulcasts the person stepping on it into fire, or soulcasts a bunch of metal spikes into the area around the mine? A division powered bomb, effectively the Rosharian equivalent of a nuke. Or bullets with a small division powered fabrial on the tip to punch through armor.

I think it has to do with the massive amount of power Hoid has access to. We know he was at the shattering and he has more abilities than the set we have currently seen. Which probably means he could wipe the floor with any of characters, short of a shard or Nightblood, that we have seen so far. Hoid has set some sort of limit that he cannot break to prevent him from killing people like Kelsier. That limit is why Hoid cannot hurt people.