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Also shardpool liquids and sort of Nightblood.

No problem. I personally would not have started on Arcanum Unbound. It kind of ties everything else together. I would recommend staring with Mistborn The Final Empire.

@Truthwatcher_17.5 this one is for you. For those of you who don't know I believe that Radiant Oaths (with the exception of Lightweavers) follow a pattern. The first ideal is constant, the second is about service, the third is about fairness, the fourth is about trust and the fifth is about the ultimate goal. This belief fuels all of my oath theories. Keep in mind that despite Renarin and in part because of him are an order we know little about. We know that they tend to be service oriented, that they tend to be intelligent, many of them are taciturn for various reasons, and that more Truthwatchers have walked Roshar in recent years then almost any other order. The first ideal for Truthwatchers is of course the same "Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination." This is always the first ideal. After this however we have to speculate. The second ideal for Truthwatchers will almost certainly involve what the Truthwatcher order is supposed to do for others. At the very end of WoR Renarin claims that what he does is see. The question then is obviously what does a Truthwatcher see and how does that help anyone? Whatever Renarrin sees and however untypical his power here is the important thing is not what he sees but how he uses his knowledge. Consistently Renarin tries to help people. Despite his continued difficulty in his own life he is surprisingly selfless in his love and devotion to others. What he looks for is not information or personal opportunities but solutions to other people's problems. As such I think the first oath is "I will look for the solution(s) to their problems not mine." The third ideal is about fairness. I think this is going to be critically important to a Truthwatcher. Even if they do not normally see the future any kind of ability to see beyond what other people are normally capable of creates enormous ethical conundrums as well as a lot of temptation for someone who despite their capabilities is only human. It is heavily implied that Renarin knew about Adolin's guilt before anyone else and decided not to say anything. In the future especially as he gains more experience with his abilities he will likely be confronted with more. Of course part of his decision was because he loved his brother but he seemed conflicted about it for some time. It is a small wonder then that Truthwatchers were known for an "abundance of tact." People with exceptional abilities in seeing what we cannot to often are unable to see their own failings. The third oath should prevent this. I think it will be along the lines of. "I will speak only for the common good not for personal gain or notoriety." The fourth ideal is about trust. Trust is difficult for everyone but imagine if you had supernatural means to know what people really thought of you or to help you cheat in social engagements or politics. Eventually you will be incentivize to stop trusting people and instead become paranoid damaging your ability to work with others. There are advantages to this school of thought but also many problems with it. As those of us who read Mistborn know trust even if foolish might be worth it. Truthwatchers have to shoulder the burden of not being able to tell everyone everything. They have to sensor their own speech even in causal conversation. This will probably not make them liked. If they take after their Herald many of them will also be scholastically inclined. This means that they may have to work with people who they do not like or have not personally met or examined before. They will also have to trust these people. As such I think the forth ideal for Truthwatchers is "I will not look to attempt to understand everyone but will instead proceed with the assumption that people are good.and deserving." The goal of the Truthwatcher seems to be about see problems for what they are. In their name I can't help but detect a certain cynicism. The problems that a Truthwatcher faces are feel in a way that the problems faced by other orders are not. Orphans, tired parents, street urchins who can't go to school. This is what a Truthwatcher can't help but see. Suffering is something that they cannot avoid. A Truthwatcher must also look to something else. A world where problems are less where there is less suffering. They have to be able to hope for it. I think the last ideal of the Truthwatchers is "I will maintain hope for our future." My pattern of radiant oath theory can be found here if you are interested.

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Venli did have a once mate but neither of them had started a family.

Some people here have thought of using both simultaneously as a way to improve your soulstamping. I took it one step further and thought of using malatium to bypass some of the knowing the other person you want to soulstamp problem.

I am not sure that Odium's word would be broken if a Kharbranthian is killed by a fused acting under their own initiative while engaging a separate matter far from the city. Remember Odium keeps what he sees as the spirit of the contract. As to what would happen. Probably nothing. Odium can't consciously break his word but that does not mean he if something else happens that he is not responsible for that he will bear any consequences.

On the nicer side he was saving that cryptic's life too at great personal risk.

As far as we know all godmetals can be used by all three. Remember the metallic arts can be considered one magic system not three separate ones depending on how you view them. However a shard can do basically whatever they want depending on the circumstances. In their "natural state" I would say that they automatically work in all three.

If you could use gold healing to target only one organ of the body it could be vastly more effective. I think that healing was suppose to effect some kind of genetic failing. They were trying to correct something her body and soul did not see as wrong. It was more of a corrective surgery then a gold healing in that case.

Brandon has a history of trolling or even just answering in very broad terms.

I do enjoy sniping but I really love to have a large number of options. As such a Lago with more guns and heavier shielding would be more my style.

Since there is no limit to how much breath a person can have at any given time you can ascend to the shard endowment by breath compounding.

It is now latter. We have seen Venli swear her fist oath already. In Oathbringer filled with hope that Odium could be defeated she swore the first oath and because the first Parshe in recorded history to gain the spren bond. Now we move on to speculation. I think Venli will swear the second oath after a great deal of soul searching and recognizing that in all of Rosharan history only the singers had the guts to try something different. She will need to come to terms with the fact that her actions in trying to undo all of her people's achievements actually made things worse not better. She will then resolve to help these new singers back on track. Venli will begin to take the new singers into her confidences. Eventually she will make the choice to tell at least a group of them the full truth about their past and allow them to spread that to others. This will end with a triumphant 2nd ideal swearing. Actions such as these however are not without consequences. People are going to notice or overhear and the result will be the death of the new singers as well as Venli's identification as the culprit(this will be kind of obvious). What follows will be a period of either hiding or imprisonment where Venli debates the worth of giving the singers information that can easily get them killed and has no imitate practical use to them. In the end she will decided that it is worthw hile but she will have to be more careful in her distribution methods. She will swear the third oath and begin an information war as she desperately tries to spread the true history of the singers counter to Odium's propaganda machine. I think this is around the time she will begin to contact team Radiant and potentially exchange information with them. I think one of two things will happen here. She will swear the 4th oath as she changes sides or she will not change sides formally but swear it as she agrees to cooperate with other singers as equals(somthing she has had trouble with in the past). If Venli ever does swear the final oath I think it will be after she has had the arrogance kicked out of her. She will admit that her actions so far have been self serving and resolve to do better swearing the final ideal. Feel free to tear down my understanding of character development but keep in mind I defiantly can't write as well as Brandon can even at the outline level.

Actually a general healing is quite easy. We see Raoden do it in the book. The aon len does this even without modification.

It was. The rest of the line makes it clear when they say that no spren or surge grants them that ability.

YKYASWY somehow misread the word read as RAFO When you look for some brass when tired When looking at an online class advertisement for object oriented programing you think of Elantris.

On the oathgate page it says that they Urithiru got invaded through Kholinar's oathgate. I know that it was latter locked but do we actually know it was that specific oathgate? After all Odium has several different ones that he could use.

No problem.

Oh well. I still do not think that Ash and Liss are the same person.

Check WoR Lift's interlude. She mentions that one of the Heralds had missing eyes specifically if I remember correctly.

That was in Emul.

Didn't she scratch out the eyes of one of those paintings in Azir?

The actual teaching is not on screen from what I can tell.

She has been known to destroy eyes(eyes are on of her divine symbols culturally in Vorin lands). Szeth does not know who Ash is. He has to the best of our knowledge never met her. @Govir If Liss is a Herald at all Jasnah knows as she has seen pictures of all of them.