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Potentially. I'm not particularly sure of the idea, but I think it's at least a possibility. I personally don't think he can't grant it. I think he's scared of the potential of a Fused with power over Connection (for example, what if they find a way to use their power and break free from his hold?), and so pretends he can't, and the Fused fell for it. We've been told before that powers are not exclusive to Shards, and I can't see why Odium wouldn't be able to grant this.

Something perhaps interesting on this as well:

Lol, welcome to the club

Relevant WoB: "related in some way" is pretty vague wording, however.

From Sja-anat's interlude:

Yes, they are: Not quite, actually. When a god metal is burned, rather than drawing from Preservation, the metal itself, which is made of Investiture, is used to fuel the effect:

I am in this case using "assume" to refer more to speculation than actual assumption as fact. (Hmm, what term describes this? I keep thinking "hyperbole", but I don't think this is really that.) From the sound of it, Sja-anat at least requires Odium to be active on Roshar to stay "awake" in the Physical, and I would guess this applies to some of the other few remaining "intelligent" Unmade (are there even any other sapient ones, besides Sja-anat and Ba-Ado-Mishram?). And there's definitely not all 9 of them sapient in the Physical.

I don't really feel it does. In fact, I was intending me bringing it up to be in support of what you were saying, by suggesting part of the way she might be keeping an eye out, lol.

The way killing with the dagger works is it flows out of the gem, going through the metal. I mean, that applies to anti-Light and random rocks as well. Personally, I think it would exactly like normal Voidlight when interacting with other Lights, but I have no evidence to back this up, just a gut feeling.

Raysium can carry anti-Voidlight just fine, which makes me think anti-Light is much more specific in what it destroys than that.

I imagine it's more similar to what happens to seons when their bondmate gets taken by the broken Shaod. Specifically, they go mindless and wander around.

There's still no reason to assume they'd be Bondsmith spren.

Except his body still disappeared on his Ascension. Due to this, I'd assume his different aspects hadn't separated yet, even if Physical death was beginning. Edit: I'm dumb, I missed your footnote where you note this exact same thing. My bad, ignore this.

The fact his body still disappears on his Ascension to me indicates he was still tied to the body, though dying.

Nalthis apparently has customs set up that you have to go through in the Cognitive Realm, so that's probably part of it.

They find out the people they're fighting are the native people of the land They find out that their powers destroyed a planet before Their god is ranting and raving and promising that they'll do it again His limits on their powers are failing Their home starts to break down and they have to leave They seem to have injured its spren in some way The organization built to keep things in check starts to fall apart God is being killed by an evil god They accidentally essentially lobotomize a whole species Their spren may also have felt some bad effects, based on what the Sibling says I feel like all of that combined is more than enough to cause this, and especially for orders like the Windrunners. It wasn't just a single event that caused it, it was a series of "oh crem" moments and doubts, the slow collapse and corruption of the orders, and their god raving while dying, culminating in the unintentional genocide of an entire race of I imagine hundreds of thousands to millions. I would imagine it was more organized among smaller groups than the order as a whole, but that them all being caused by the same event meant they were extremely close in time to one another. They had no reason to expect anything special would happen, as far as I know.

So, there has been a lot of debate about the Recreance recently. I feel there are a few specific things we can say are very likely, however, and I'm making this post to sum those up. TL;DR: The Recreance likely occurred on a single day — or at least during a very small time period — shortly after the imprisonment of Ba-Ado-Mishram, and during or soon after the abandonment of Urithiru, which had already begun to fail before said imprisonment. The Feverstone Keep vision is accurate: Mishram's capture happened immediately before the Recreance: Moat of the Knights abandoned their oaths on the same day: Urithiru was likely "failing" before Mishram's capture (though this is not certain): Tanavast's death was post-Recreance, but was a protracted event Confirmed by WoB[17] Either the enslavement of the broken singers didn't happen for decades, or the Recreance was decades apart from BAM's capture References:

Hmm, that's an interesting thought.

Probably not, because that sounds like probably an unpleasant experience for all of eternity.

You're assuming the numbers come from the Shards, which I would disagree with. I find it more likely they arise from the perception of people on the planet, which can sometimes lead to association with the Shards of that world. For example, Rosharans believe in ten fundamental forces, therefore the magic focuses on that (we've been told were SA on Earth, it would likely result in four powers based on our four fundamental forces).

When Dawnshard released, Brandon posted a few annotations on Reddit, which is where that bit comes from. (He also ended up doing an impromptu Q&A in the comments.)

I interpreted "only one line of it is completely broken" as meaning the line was completely severed and gone, which would be Jezrien's nonexistent line.

Ah, okay, I agree on that point, yeah. (I'm not fully convinced that Midius was truly his original name in Liar either, honestly. But idk if we want a bunch of Liar discussion here lol.)

I mean, the name "Hoid" likely predates the Shattering as well. We know it's something he took from his dead master, who presumably was a pre-Shattering person. Based on the below WoB, I'd say it's likely the name he used with the Vessels and stuff, but not his "real" name. If you've read Dawnshard, I have a bit more of specific theory on it:

I disagree that you could convert Light to different Shards that way. Even in the vacuum tube, the Light is still described as Voidlight, and it's only changed to the "opposing" tone that is actually the exact same sound. We have seen no evidence Intent can be changed. I personally find it more likely that there's a sort of positive/negative charge that gets flipped instead, but idk.