Honorless

You should read the Warbreaker annotations, they are available on Brandon's website. Denth lied when he told Vivenna that you can only give all of your Breath when you use the "my life to yours, my breath become yours" Command. You can give away a few of your Breaths rather than all of them. The Returned can learn to suppress their Divine Breath. The appearance of a Returned is Cognitive in nature, as we see with Allmother & Hopefinder, who look the way they do because of how they are perceived, same goes for all the other Returned including Lightsong & Blushweaver; they can fiddle with how they view themselves and change their appearances.

Is that Lift speaking? I think she was talking about the old people that gathered near the orphanage.

telepathic conversations? Yes, in the Stormlight Archive

It's more commonly known as Wood's metal or cerrobend.

Kelsier did receive an education and he does wisecrack. He's perfectly capable and willing to come up with a line like that.

yes

*incoherent screaming*

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WoB: Mistborn era 1 & Stormlight Archive spoilers

No. Silver is silver, and might have some inherent property in the Cosmere (Stormlight OB spoilers) (Cosmere spoilers: from WoBs) Aluminum resists Investiture, and so could be used to stave off harmful Investiture effects, like the Shades. Here's the WoB that aluminum would work against Shades:

I'm thinking double Nicrosil, it would be awesome if certain theories are accurate

No, he just noted Sazed's hesitation and realized that he was lying to him, that there was a way to regain his body.

Probably iron, it's useful while tapping and while storing

No, but it is the world that Nazh is originally from. It gives a us a few clues about his attitude. He's harsh because he's from a harsh land. He knows of Cognitive Shadows because of the Shades.

Presumably, he did not want himself to be twisted by their Intent

You've done your research His treatment of Jasnah (mentioned in this prologue & by Jasnah) & Dalinar (what Gavilar says of him, giving the impression he just used his own brother) were also pretty appalling

The biggest change after Honor's death are the Bondsmiths, The Stormfather in particular, as he himself notes. Beyond that, I think Honor commanded spren to choose their Nahel Bonds more wisely, regulating it. Now, all people have to do is convince a spren, and though spren are attracted to certain qualities that are commonly accepted to be good, they are sapient beings, free to choose whom to bestow the power of the Surges upon. We see that the Oathgate spren are still bound by their word to him. Shardblade and Shardplate seem to be based on the level of Ideals sworn, we simply haven't seen the main cast progress that far onscreen. As for Soulcasting, it very well may have been safer in the Cognitive Realm when Honor was alive, but I don't think that the system of Soulcasting itself was affected by the Splintering.

Good work! Someone on Discord pointed out that running out of Voidlight did cause the Fused to fall.

Yes, but this is in the context of Vorinism and their belief in the Almighty.

I think Dalinar's knowledge of 9 kinds of Fused was more instinctive, connected to the Spiritual Realm and him being a Bondsmith. That might be why he's been unable to share how he knows this. We've seen Dalinar just know things in this manner before, opening a Perpendicularity, trapping an Unmade, knowing there would be ten important people.