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I don't recall if we know what the case is for the Fused's suppressor, but the Sibling explicitly manifested as crystal and metal for their fabrials.

Additionally, it's fully possible for both to be true, that some of the Surges may be more aligned with one Shard or another, and that Odium lied and used this fact as a pretense to withhold a power he worried about from the Fused. The best lies are those with a partial truth behind them.

Fair point. I do still disagree with the theory, but as I think on it, it would, I suppose, be "simpler" under that definition (though I suppose it could depend on how exactly the suppressor even works, but I guess that would count as part of the theory? idk am tired).

I do think that Adhesion and Progression lining up with the Intents of Honor and Cultivation play into this (though it's difficult to be sure, since how the suppressor even works is sort of confusing and most theories I've seen have large holes). It's possible that the suppressor being designed to limit the Fused, who do not have Adhesion, might help with that Surge being allowed, and Lift's Lifelight usage could combine with Progression in some way to allow that one to work, but I have no sure answer. I am not arguing that Odium set up the powers, though. I am arguing that, when he created the Fused, he granted access to the preexisting magic system, choosing which powers to give them. Same reason saying "Preservation did not invent the effects of the metals" does not contradict saying "Rashek chose which Allomantic powers the Inquisitors had". They're completely different topics, in my mind. The thing is, I do see this as the simpler answer, compared to all the questions raised by him not being capable of granting Adhesion.

I misunderstood you, then. The way it was phrased to me sounded like you were saying it was intentionally done. My bad. Hmm, I'm getting déjà vu, but scrolling up, I don't actually see this being asked earlier. Weird. That aside, I did actually mention my theory on it above. I'll put it here again for convenience:

Seriously, lol. Wish he'd give us a term besides "alloy", to try and avoid the misconception that it's actually physically an alloy. But then that raises questions over what it is if not, and how they can simultaneously be the same elements and not the same elements and my head hurts.

The answer is apparently a big "it's complicated". The ratios are different enough you could reasonably call them ten different metals (and he thinks this is the terminology we would prefer to use in the fandom), but similar enough they could still be considered the same metal reasonably (and this seems to be the terminology he prefers to use himself). And each of these metals is considered its own thing (whichever way you choose to define how many of these metals there are), rather than directly a blend of existing god metals.

You're the first person that I've seen bring it up in response to that scene, so I think "he's aware of its existence but did not think most readers would seriously associate it with this character" is also an option.

And what did she do? Nothing more than keep an eye on her. And guess what? She was right. Aesudan was working to bring back the Desolations. Thieves that were murdering people, bribing the city guard to ignore the king's own orders to deal with them, and now attempting to kill her. I agree this was not the correct reaction. Considering they were believed to be demons trying to exterminate the entire human species (which isn't quite correct but not 100% incorrect either), I'm willing to cut her some slack, even if I do think it's a very morally wrong stance (though lessened due to the lack of essentially any knowledge available). Hoid, an incredibly suspicious individual, shows up exactly where she is Elsecalling to, which would require tracking her through Shadesmar. Yes, she pulls out a weapon just in case. He's also telling the future, has a glowing red Odious spren, has been keeping important secrets, and is (obviously) very close to the entire ruling family. And when she sees he's no threat, she doesn't do it, and comforts him instead. It's a stupid plan with what we know, but seemed with her knowledge to be an essential step in stopping the Desolation. That was intentionally an understatement, yes. You're entitled to your opinion, I guess, but I very strongly disagree.

Villain? I certainly wouldn't call her a paragon of moral virtue all the time (though I have less issues with her than a lot of people), but didn't realize people considered her a villain.

He's referred to it as an alloy on occasion, but it's not quite correct.

I mean, there's a lot more than that, since Shardblades and Plate are their own/ten different godmetals in presumably a similar vein to ettmetal.

Ah, I may have misinterpreted the conversation. Yeah, a Radiant could probably figure out a way to power their abilities with Lifelight. However, I do not think an ordinary Radiant is going to be able to take it in. If they worked around that, it's probably relatively simple, though, like Venli using VL. I do expect the situation with Breaths would be more complicated, however, since the various Lights behave more similarly to one another than to Breath, so it makes sense that using Lights in place of one another would be simpler. But theoretically possible, sure.

Could be, though I'd note Leras still considers himself bound by and in compliance with the deal (SH 3.1):

Well, Mraize certainly seems to think they can't, and the Fused don't laugh him out of the room for saying it makes Lift special.

Might also just have been in denial that the time had actually arrived. See: kandra Second Generation in HoA.

I'd note that Nightblood's creation seems to be... weird. Its creation was bizarre and would be really hard to recreate: Nightblood's creation was "playing with some real dangerous stuff" and it didn't go as planned: Vasher thinks about how not even Shashara understood the process fully, and that they didn't think it should have produced something alive like Nightblood (WB 51): Summary of the WoBs: Nightblood's creation was a bizarre and hard-to-replicate process that neither Vasher nor Shashara completely understood, involving very dangerous things, that they did not expect to result in sentience, and yet it did.

Thanks! Big thing there is: a divine Breath is definitely a different situation from a normal Breath for this topic, and an answer for one doesn't automatically answer for the other. For example, a spike can probably steal a divine Breath, but probably not a normal one. So I don't feel we can actually say from that that a Breath is storeable.

One of the RoW preview chapter annotations:

Do you have a source? The only question I can find on storing Breath in nicrosil was RAFO'd.

I'm guessing a large part of this is due to her being a background character whom most of the cast looks up to. Brandon plans on her being a or perhaps the main character of the back half, so I imagine we'll see much more there. I'm so sad we'll be missing a lot of fun scenes like the library scene because they just won't work in the current canon. Taln was fun.

Considering that we have exactly one order's Fifth Ideal, and even then it isn't a direct "become the main idea" but rather "embody a concept that is related to the main idea" (in addition to the order having only one Fifth Ideal in centuries, and being led by a madman), I don't think we can say this with any certainty.

Sounds like they don't see an issue with it and have probably made it worse than it would otherwise be.

Maybe joining with another Shard would have in his mind put him in violation of the Oath, while "enforcing" the Oath didn't. Maybe he worried the other Shard could metaphorically stab him in the back, while if he attacked alone, nobody besides his targets would be able to "arrive" (for lack of a better word, considering we're talking Spiritual entities) quickly enough. Maybe he was just cocky (and perhaps deservedly so, considering how many Splinterings he got). He'd already taken out three Shards by the time he arrived on Roshar, possibly all singlehandedly in 2v1s (depends on exactly how Sel went down and which side Mercy was on in the Ambition fight, but I'd guess they were not his ally, since we have Sel and Roshar as presumably 2v1s as well).

He also spoke to Taravangian that night (WoR I-14), but that may have been the same as the meeting from Eshonai's prologue, I'm not sure. (If this was the same meeting that Eshonai walked in on, then Amaram knows all this too. Did we see any indication of this? I can't recall.)