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You can give spren breath. Is I think the easiest way. Spren corruption is odd. We are not entirely sure how it works. That is kind of like making a zombie spren. Haza?

Yep. "Kings pay fortunes for a corpse of one." One of the Cosmere's great constants.

It is manifested or brought through the perpendicularity before it is put in the market. I am pretty sure that is not fire. It does not seem to require any kind of fuel for example. I believe there is a WoB on it. When? Sure he had stuff while in the CR but that was all manifested by other people.

Bo-Katan! NOOOO!

Because it is super valuable? Shallan would never do that. However rich people do stupid things.

I would say that he is a new person who looks and a acts a lot like the original. Lets use a sci-fi example. If someone got a traumatic brain injury and we created an AI based on the records of how they acted would they be the original?

A few things The King of the Horneaters being permitted to lead people into battle and being responsible for wining a shardblade reminds me of Arthurian kings who are always responsible for personally fixing problems. This says to me that if Rock does show up with a shardblade people will not just declare him king out of a sense of him earning it but also because they want to have someone who they can make solve their problems. Shallan mentions that red hair is classically a Vorin hair color but that they do know that this is because of horneater blood. This implies a date of intermixing that is after the final desolation. During his chapter Rock and Kaladin talk about fighting a war and Rock states pretty flatly that people are going to die regardless or the power that bridge four wields. This is a lesson that Kaladin can't except yet. No matter how good you are you can loose. It seems like Rock learned this one the hard way.

Everything known anyway.

The Parshe people could almost certainly change forms prior to the shattering. Those are "controlled" by spren. All investiture is flavored to one shard or another. Even prior to the shattering something resembling the Stormfather existed. At the shattering the Stormfather was assigned to Honor. I do not know if this effected his choice to come to Roshar.

I don't think they have much of a charge left. They are old and spent a considerable amount of time not touching blood. All they really have to do is provide a small break in the soul for Harmony to communicate through.

It is in chapter three. I just added it to the coppermind page because it was not there before.

It is a weird side effect but it is mentioned in BoM.

Giant bugs? To each their own of course but I just don't see it. Because a larkin died and they wanted to preserve the body and had a soulcaster? Potentially. I am sure Elend would think so.

Anytime

Jasnah does it in her WoR deleated scene. She turns ropes to smoke.

I could see that. My reasoning was that I wanted our crazy tinkerers to think of consequences before joining large groups of their fellows and becoming even more effective as apposed to after. Around the third oath is where I see the greatest number of mistakes being made as well. Also could those of you who have followed all four of my radiant oath theories give me some feedback? I want to know what is working and what is not. Also which order should I cover next?

Perhaps.

My favorite Dawnshard theory is that they are superfabrails that do surges(like soulcasters) but on a huge scale. So they got An earth environment to Roshar by Transporting it From Ashyn and then used Cohesion and Tension to make it stay that way with mountains.

On Scathis I think you might be able to create metalminds that you yourself cannot use but other people can.

Thank you. That actually means a lot. Yes! That is exactly the kind of thing I was thinking about. It reminded me of Kaladin's early atempts to help people under Syl's guidance. I am aware but some confusion remains. Regardless thank you for posting the WoB. Odium corrupting reasonable or good intentions is kind of his MO. Care to explain why?

Or that they attract the people who will be most restrained in the use of destructive power. You could argue either way. That is why I decided not to get hung up on the powers in the first place.

A while back I told @Honorless that I was going to make another of my trademark Radiant Oath Theories about Willshaper Oaths. Additionally the next SA book is going to be about Willshapers so I think doing this is a good idea. 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 Willshapers are the order we know least about. We have never even seen an active Willshaper in action unless you count Venli and to this day there remains some confusion about what surges they have so this is probably going to have much more speculation then any other similar theory. The first ideal for Willshapers 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 Willshapers will almost certainly involve what the Willshaper order is supposed to do for others. Thanks to the as yet unknown author of Words of Radiance we know that Willshapers varied greatly in terms of personality but they were know for a "love of adventure, novelty, or oddity." This reminds me of the tinker that our hero meets on the road, a wacky old man who loves the strangest things but at the same time(key point) always has exactly what our adventurer needs to succeed on there quest. As such I think that the second ideal of the Willshapers is "I will bring newness to those who need it." EDIT AS OF BRANDON QUIZ AND RADIANT INFO DUMP. I think I want to revise this one and make it "I will help people find what they need." This is both more general and incorporates @Schadnathan's theory and work. To take things one step further in our old crazy tinker metaphor the items that the adventurer is given inform "his" approach. A weapon might give added courage, invisibility might make our overconfident friend more sneaky. A pretty gift might encourage the adventurer to try a social solution first. A willshaper's job is to inform and aid the decision making of the people around them. They are not known as odd just because they are carried away, like to travel, and know really obscure bits of trivia. They also are constantly trying new things and getting others to do the same. I think this covers service fairly well. When a you need a new way of doing things or a device that can help you reach your goal you call your Willshaper. This is great but it may lead to a problem. What happens if your Willshaper gets carried away? What happens when they invent the atomic bomb or biological warfare? The history of science is rife with humans using new technologies to hurt kill or torture each other. Venli herself ended her people because she did not care about the actual results of her new form of power. As such I think that the third ideal of Willshapers is "I will think of the results of my creations before creating them." Once we have finished the third ideal the Willshaper can aid their community and we can all sleep a little easier knowing that they are not working on a way to devolve humans back into chimpanzees. However genius does not happen in a vacuum. To be truly effective an inventor has to rely on their fellows work. This is something Brandon clearly knows(imagine if he tried to check continuity and do research on all topics himself). A Willshaper has to be able to work with others. They have to rely on ideas that they don't fully understand and except it when someone points out a potential flaw in their new theory. As such I think that the fourth ideal for a Willshaper is "I will trust the work and concerns of others." This gives us four nice ideals to play with. Our Willshaper makes good stuff that won't kill us or turn our food into weird tasteless pastes. They can cooperate and think and work in teams. However they don't yet grasp the point of invention. More or newer is not the same as better. Invention should fix problems and make life easier. As such I think the final ideal of a Willshaper is a simple "I will work for them not for me." PS I have a bonus in the works where I point out where in SA 4 I think Venli will swear each oath. I will post it below latter. Also my pattern of radiant oaths theory can be found below.

I could but that guy is seriously overworked as is.