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How can you possibly call Adolin’s arc with Maya just a change in perception though? He spent the better portion of the shadesmar section actually interacting with her, and in a way forming a bond. This case is way more complex than what you are implying with the idea of perception. If everything really did come down to force of will and intent, there would be no need for genuine interactions between people, and this mentality leads to certain philosophies such as Social Darwinism that I’d rather not see play out on the Cosmere wide scale.

I wonder how the creation of AIs could tie into spiritweb altering shenanigans?

Right, but that WOB had to do with an Honorblade (which is not a deadblade) held by an outlaw who wants to be killed giving himself a handicap, and a living sprenblade held by someone who did not think herself a radiant (also not a deadblade) extrapolating Brandon’s answer here to all shardblades is logically flawed. What matters with dead shardblades is not as simple as a change in perception.

Autonomy can hardly be called a shard of non-intervention. He/she/it/they probably interferes the most out of all the shards with the day to day lives of the humans whose worlds are affected by Autonomy’s investiture (with the exception of maybe endowment, although sheer number of planets affected should be taken into account). Just because they don’t like meddling in other Shards’ affairs (which very well might change if certain theories about the most recent events in Mistborn turn out to be true) does not mean Autonomy does not intervene.

Which kinda led to my last question, would this be a fuel hack? Would connection to both magic systems (surgebinding and awakening) allow for a fuel hack to power awakening with stormlight?

But doesn’t Dalinar’s ability work a little differently? Instead of trying to rewrite his past to change himself, isn’t he more copying and pasting someone else’s spiritual/cognitive attributes and splicing them into his own? Also, Bondsmiths tend to be pretty investiture rich don’t they? For clarity’s sake, I concede huge ignorance, and these are genuine questions written out of a desire to learn more about Connection and abilities.

First off, shoutout to @RShara for the Cosmere history Doc, it led to this crackpot theory. Gist of it is this, could someone like Dalinar create connection of a different type than we’ve seen already, and in so doing hack into other magic systems that require it? We’ve seen him forge connection to speak another language by touching a person while they are speaking, could he do the same by touching someone using a different system? If it were Awakening, would this allow a stormlight fuel hack? thanks all, and thanks again to @RShara

Yeah you aren’t really doing any magic, using any investiture, when you summon a blade, which is required for any kind of Savantism. The only change happening is a dead body of a spren “remembering” a mechanic hardwired into their nature by their gruesome death by radiant, and transferring from the cognitive to the physical.

There was once a being known as Adonalsium, who had a nearly God-like status, all powerful, all knowing, infinite and stuff. Who as far as we can tell was splintered into 16 equal shards of power that we, the creative beings that we are, called Shards. The Shards, because they are parts of a whole, can be thought of as parts of a personality or emotions, although we call them Intents. Each Shard has a different Intent, and they vary widely. For examples of Shard/Intents you have Honor, Cultivation, Odium. The sixteen -if you want to try explaining Hoid go ahead- people who shattered Adonalsium picked up these Shards and became the first vessels. At the shattering, the vessels decided on a couple rules, among which included the rule not to settle on the same planet, which many vessels promptly ignored. One of the Shards, Odium, with vessel Rayse decided that he wanted to be the only shard in existence and devised a plan to do so. He prepared his Shardic hitlist and went to town. We do not know the exact number of shards Odium has splintered, or how he does so. Among those killed were two Shards of Sel, Honor of Roshar, and a Shard of Threnody. He killed the Shard who died on Threnody because he saw it as his biggest threat, and attacked the two Shards on Sel based on the idea that they broke the pact made at the shattering of Adonalsium. When he attacked Honor however, Honor managed to bind Odium to the Roshar system somehow, Stormlight Archive ensues. When he splintered the two Shards from earlier, , he was still figuring things out and stuffed their investiture (magic energy power matter?) into the cognitive realm (shadesmar) a couple millennia pass and Elantris ensues. While doing all this Odium had the help of a Shard , and Odium refused to pick up the shards he killed, because he did not want his Intent to be tainted/changed. In another corner of this tiny universe? System? Thing? we call the Cosmere, an intense battle is being waged between two other Shards , and Mistborn ensues. Does that help any? Even explained it sounds like a fever dream.

Then what exactly is the point in having shardplate? The greatest aspect of the thing you are theorizing is that it blocks shardblades. If blades are a “non-issue” then what’s left is just increased strength and agility, which you just get from pewter.

I’m pretty sure the events are mutually exclusive, bonding an ancient singer and bonding a radiant spren that is, but that’s just a guess. Pretty sure the ancient singer and a radiant spren would be diametrically opposed to sharing a vessel/bondmate, but am not aware enough of the investiture mechanics behind bonding to give a positive answer either way as to the possibility.

What Id be more interested in would be the alignments of the characters.

Couldn’t Ash be the new dustbringer? It is heavily implied she’ll become one at some point.

I don’t remember anything specifically, but could be wrong. The only plate instances I remember are the geometric shapes around Jasnah, and the Dalinar instances of plate in the visions.

I’d think to encourage organization, the oaths gradually constrict in the ability to change them, but open in interpretation. I will follow Dalinar, a pretty straightforward oath with strict personal interpretation, becomes I am the law, a vaguer one with more open interpretation, but all members would have to say those four words with clear intent in mind.

I apologize if I were not clear, it was not meant to contradict, but to supplement with a comparison to similar events seen elsewhere.

Could also be that Honor just couldn’t talk to every radiant. There are some Mistborn tie ins here so spoilered

And he could if he were a lightweaver!

Not necessarily, so long as they and Rock agree that some lies are necessary to protect others, or a variation similar.

In terms of electricity, I’m sure investiture engines could be created using fabrials, and given they have near infinite amounts of investiture, they would grow in that regard rather quickly and without pollutants.

Full list Id guess Dalinar, Shallan, Nale, Renariin, Hesina, and Lirin Adolin goes depresso Kal learns to cope

Don’t give the Bandersnatch any more of these terrible ideas! I would break seeing that rust.

I think we can agree however that predictions do not always come to pass, as evidenced by a certain metal in another storyline, and this effect seems to occur more often when multiple people are trying to look at the future. Right now there are three powers at play, Odium Renariin and Cultivation. Two of these did not want that future to occur, and may have intervened accordingly. Granted Renariin has just come into his powers and so acts more as a neutral party, he does seem to obstruct Odium more than Culti. I do agree that taking the Heralds out of the picture is a plus for Odium, something I hadn’t considered at the time I thought up the theory, but the fact that the gem glows I feel does indicate more than just stolen investiture that will not be used again. That seems to be an interesting new Macguffin for the plot to come.

OB spoiler Theory Time We saw Moash kill Jezrien and steal something from the herald while doing so. Odium would not kill the herald in this way if he did not have a way of utilizing what he stole. In Dalinar’s vision from the Almighty he sees a figure with nine shadows. What if this is not in reference to the unmade as the Stormfather says, and instead foreshadowing of the deaths of nine heralds for use by the enemy’s champion? What if by shadow, Honor was implying a Cognitive Shadow?

Btw that was an excellent necro @Cephandrias, next time look at the date on the last post my guy