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We have no idea how good the Everstorm is. Also without the Oathpact the fused will return instantly not in 9 days.

I also assume 17th shard is a bit of a joke or at least a metaphor. The 8th wonder or the black swan.

Decay = Ruin, sorry. We have confirmation.

Exactly. If we assume that these deadblades react like live blades we are creating a fallacy of analogy.

True. Remember Kaladin's lessons? Spren appear when things change. Can you remember things becoming awkward? Initially that probably manifested as either shame fear or embarrassment which are all things that happen whereas awkwardness just exists and is something to avoid.

Granted but humans destroy the planet anyway. I wish for the blessings of grit and intelligence.

@Elegy So what why were you wrong? Or rather was it just wishful thinking or did you have real evidence.

Outline at 85%!

That is possible but we have no confirmation. However Roshar works by 10s for some reason Kriss thinks it is odd too. We know they are not Radiant spren and they do seem to be sapient. We also know that they exist and that they serve Honorspren. I think that it it. Sorry.

I wrote off a conventional manhunt or something similar being done in either the cognitive or physical realm. Are their other possibilities that we can consider?

So lets keep going. What other possibilities remain?

Considering the type of people the Ghostbloods interact with on a regular basis. If they jumped to "magic" as an explanation too often they would routinely come up with an extraordinary number of false positives considering how many people rely on various types of mundane "lightweaving" like slight of hand, misdirection, and disguise. They also did eventually figure out who Shallan was and what she was capable of and they did so fairly quickly all things considered.

Perhaps Ambition or a new shard called Action might come closer.

Their portfolio might be covered by the shock and irritation spren.

They don't even have to break oaths or swear them without meening to. Taravangain has a surgebinder for example. I don't think some cryptics would be oposed to bonding the correct ghostblood member. The same can be said for Inkspren, Ashpren, and potentially "Truthspren."

Lift would be a great teacher! (Her communication skills are actually off the charts under the right circumstances.)

Luther herd the yells and understood what they meant. He drew in Stormlight and tried to access the cognitive realm the way that it sometimes happened when he practiced with the lashings.

As much as the concept amuses me(Lift and Adolin in the same room might be the most hilarious thing I have heard all day) I don't think that Adolin becoming Radiant would be good for his arc.

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So my perfect self acording to this theory is what I see my perfect self as being? I thought that was my cognetive self.

Don't we also have a WoB that says that healing via investiture pulls your body toward some spiritual ideal of health?

Not what I was expecting.

Here is a thought: We know that spren have been bonding individuals on Roshar for at least 6 years. Considering the ghoustblood's information network I would not put it past them to be aware of this. We also know that these people like to collect magical swag. We don't know why but that is not important as we don't realy know enough about them to speculate. I would not put it past these guys to already have at least one Radaint member in their organization(not including Shallan). We know that they are aware of how Radiance works and that a certain younger brother with a cryptic died under mysterious circumstances and his spren is still unaccounted for. We also know that spren may have to adopt less then optimal candidates for survival as per Hoid. If they manage to draw out the war the ghostbloods can harvest spren for dead radiants gaining surgebinding for themselves. They might already be doing this. Another thought: To control voidbinding they will need either corrupted spren or a source of voidlight. It just so happens that we know they are in the market for a certain unmade with the ability to corrupt spren. If they gain access to this they will be the only individuals with the ability to use voidbinding who do not directly align with Odium(other then Renarain). This seems like an excellent plan. As is they gain large numbers of Radiant who have useful abilities. In the future they could control a resource that will always be valuable due to its scarcity(Odium does not seem like the type to allow his fused to engage in freelance work). I think this might be the best theory I have come up with in a realy long time. Also out of curiosity. Can anyone come up with an orginization that would not want Reinarain's voidbinding powers(not counting ideologies against voidbinding I mean practical reasons)?