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I don't think it necessarily says that, just seems more like the big Dustbringer PoV is gonna be weird *cough* Ash *cough* and he's tiptoeing around the topic of Dustbringer PoVs as a whole to avoid spoiling anything. (I don't think Navani will be a Dustbringer, though I could see it and honestly not sure which order she'll be, I just don't think that WoB disproves it.)

I mean, personally I think Jasnah probably knows about Shallan and the Ghostbloods, or at least suspects something.

Fair enough lol

Yep, Brandon's confirmed it. That one is... debatable. Radiant was the real person, but like, Radiant's appearance was still a Lightweaving over Shallan's body.

Wasn't that when Sja-Anat appeared? Personally, the Shinovar theory seems more likely to me. Probably because we know Cryptics don't really mind death, and they had already selected her, so they decided to just stick with her, I guess. I mean, that's probably because originally Brandon didn't intend it to be DID, just a normal coping mechanism exacerbated by having illusion magic. He's since changed it to real DID, including getting a beta reader with DID and digging through medical definitions. Her sometimes matching, sometimes not matching the attribute doesn't really feel like evidence for it to me? Why would she work with Nale's people, then? I mean, probably partly recognizing she has a spren, partly perhaps having gone through some of what she has and wanting to help. Is there? Once she regressed after killing her mother, there would have been no sign of it. And her mother's death is rather easily explained by the cover story of her father's. a. Neither of those were actually from the Nightwatcher, both were Cultivation; b. Lift was never not growing older, she just plain didn't actually get what she asked for. And Cultivation told Dalinar it's been centuries since she visited a human, so unless she's lying (which she has no reason to do in this case), Vedel would not have been able to have visited her in time to become Shallan, and the Nightwatcher's boons have not been wearing off. Is that even a thing that happens in the Cosmere? And would the NW even have the power to put her in a person not right there (Shallan's [still unnamed] mother)?

Eh, there's some really big differences there. Most obvious one being that Honorblades still provide Surges just fine. Splintering also is most likely very different from deadeyeing, so I'm not sure how comparable I think the situations are. I mean, what I'm saying is I don't know that I agree lol (beyond the general "makes it harder to Ascend to the full power"). Maybe some things would be affected, but personally, I don't think very much will.

Small possible mistake I noticed: the question on who Hoid will tell the story to says they'll only appear once in the book. The only WoB I can find only says that it's that character's only appearance in Part Four, not necessarily the whole book. (Though maybe I just missed a different WoB.)

I mean, that's my point. There's some potentially big differences. To attempt to prevent someone from Ascending to the full Shard. (Which seems to possibly be failing, considering what Dalinar seems to be up to.) Just because it doesn't break Honorblades doesn't mean it does nothing. .....okay yeah fair enough on that point.

It's probably similar, but there's probably some important differences (for example, I doubt Honor had to constantly follow the Heralds around, because that sounds like an easy way to get distracted and become vulnerable). Why would it be diminished? To quote Brandon (first part may be about R&P, not Honor, not sure because he kind of swapped midway through the full WoB), Also, other things Honor did or presumably did (Oathpact, binding Odium, the storm providing Stormlight) seem to work just fine as they are. Why even have that line if the answer is just "SF is wrong, there's nothing special useful", then?

There's no reason Type 2 has to still include Lifeless and Type 3 has to include Awakened objects. He specifically says he threw the whole scale out.

I mean, he says it is "a little" like that, which is pretty vague. There's also this line from the Stormfather (OB 16): Unless an Honorblade makes you a Cognitive Shadow (which feels extremely unlikely to me), this most likely (in my opinion) refers to the direct Stormlight conduit.

I mean, that's not what that WoB says at all. Nowhere does it say that that power can't be used now.

Tbh, I feel like this should probably just be removed. At least without some big changes (like making them only able to raise from the pool itself or something, and maybe make using them tiring), to remove some of the holes from the original version ("we hoped you'd give in" just didn't feel convincing to me). But I agree that yeah, it should end around then and go on to a sequel. The marriage could be moved to a celebration of what they assumed was victory, to keep it in the same book.

I can see the argument for that. I'm not sure on the exact details, but currently I expect the imprinting of the Intent to also grant sapience to the Investiture, such as by creating a basic mind around the Intent, and then attaching this mind to the Breaths or to the Invested Object. Under that definition, I think it would fit more under Type II (though the real answer is just "these are somewhat arbitrary, so we can call it a Type IV and be done" lol).

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I mean, we know for a fact that it's more than just that. It's a whole proper city.

I think the common guess for this one is flamespren, because ash and ruby, but afaik I think that's just a guess based on those things? So I could maybe see decayspren instead.

Sure, but light years? I mean, a Shard could be light years away from a planet, but probably not if it was Invested there.

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I mean, they probably can't. They're generally limited to the solar system they're in.

Aethers currently a. are very similar to in Aether of Night, and b. are still likely to be pre-Shattering and non-Shardic, according to this WoB (putting only the relevant part): Based on the novel, the Aethers probably draw directly from the Spiritual, I would guess? They seem to tire themselves out doing so, however. (I expect Brandon might add a more direct cost, based on how he does magic now, but I don't know what he would choose, so we only have the unpublished novel for now, I guess). The fact they work as a non-Shardic magic surprises me, tbh. They seem pretty powerful.

We also know, however, that he has two conflicting Intents close to essentially ripping him apart, so the Shards themselves appear to not be merged, just sort of tied together.

My purely speculative classification with no evidence besides my guess (there being 4 like the old system is a coincidence, not a requirement I used.): Type I: Investiture that has gained its own sentience. Type II: Investiture that has gained an existing sentience. Type III: Investiture that has gained no sentience. Type IV: Investiture that has gained an artificial sentience. (This is ordered by how "artificial" each type of object is, just like I believe the original classification system was.) Do note that this classification system is merely what I think Vasher would come up with, not the system I believe would be most accurate. I would, for example, likely categorize Type II and Type IV Entities as subcategories of the same thing, rather than their own category. (Well, really, I'd say they're all subcategories of one thing, but I'm assuming we're splitting it somewhere). I don't think the new system will distinguish between sentience and sapience, though perhaps all types besides Type III may have subclassifications by sentience/sapience level. Where I think some beings would fall that have been discussed above: Vessels: Type II Entity. It's another mind coming in and taking over Investiture. The Dor: Type I Entity. It's not sapient, but is "proto-aware", and no longer has a Vessel, meaning it is likely its own sentience. Nightblood: Type IV. Seems pretty clear. New Ashravan: Debatable between Type IV and living being (which you could call Type V, though I'm not certain whether Invested Entities is counting them or not). I would say the latter, just heavily modified. As far as I know, he was merely brain-dead, not dead-dead, but I am uncertain. Deadeyes: Type I. They're wounded Spiritually, but are still the same type of beings.

Also, there's several things it didn't wrap up that were mentioned in earlier books as things he'd get to, like the Worldspire and him Breaking gravity.