Honorless

#TeamNotEveryoneNeedsSuperpowers! #AwesomeUnpowered

So, what was your first foray into Sanderson? And which books (if any) are you yet to read?

Well, not all, since Adonalsium created Roshar and Honor & Cultivation arrived afterwards @HawkFan, welcome to the Shard!

Hi!

jingle bells, jiggle bells, agree with Argent on Kingkiller, jingle bells, jingle bells And congrats Eric! That proposal was on point!

What emotion does Preservation inspire? A sense of empowerment?

Elantris?

I think the Mists are under conscious control of Harmony. They don't behave like a mindless natural phenomenon, they aren't a natural phenomenon. They were sent by Preservation before and now they're sent by Harmony. The Mist Spirit is gone and there don't seem to be any Splinter entity on Scadrial (barring possibly Trell)

Patji? Edit: attempt #2 Urithiru? Edit: attempt #3 Aimia?

Periodic

Progress

It's marketed as "what if the Dark Lord won?", it kind of fits. It's a good marketing strategy, that phrase is a great hook

not really, no

The Truths would always be different to each individual. Do you mean if there's a pattern to the kind of Truth one speaks within the sequence? We don't know. Perhaps there is a pattern there, with certain kinds of Truth or how powerful the Truths were. In simpler terms, whether admitting to a certain kind of falsehood per stage or how powerful the lie was in the speaker's life, etc. Perhaps we'll know when Shallan's Squires Gaz, Vathah, Red or Ishnah swear their own Truths Your idea isn't wholly off the mark either. Lightweavers don't bind themselves to any moral codes except to their own conscience. They're about self-awareness, self-actualization and self acceptance, admitting the lies one tells themselves, accepting harsh truths about oneself, being honest to oneself. Not necessarily easier than following Oaths but certainly... free-er, in a sense. So some people can certainly wonder if Lightweavers are one of the more potentially easier to go bad, the more corruptible among the Orders. But I don't believe so, since the process of becoming a Lightweaver would make one more honest to themselves, they'd admit their faults. The other Orders on the other hand could go "for the greater good" or put their own conscience and sense of morality above what might need to be done.

I'm confused

It seems there are always exceptions. Remember the Skybreaker Squires can swear up to the Second Ideal which gives them access to Stormlight and the ability to utilize the Surge of Gravitation, whereas the First Ideal doesn't grant any power, the Surge of Division comes from swearing the Third Ideal for which they need to bond their own spren We'll probably continue to see some deviation in the Ideals of the remaining Orders of the Knights Radiant as well

Mat?

One shouldn't consider the Lightweavers' Ideals easier due to them not being sworn oaths. The first and so far only examples we've gotten of failed and regressed Knights Radiant both belonged to this Order I'm talking about this guy: and Shallan

In the Physical Realm, Glys looks like a red crystalline snowflake structure, which drips light upwards. This is not the form of normal Truthwatcher spren, who appear as light reflected through crystal on a surface but Glys still somewhat resembles his old form, much like other corrupted (or as Sja-Anat calls it: Enlightened) spren we see in Kholinar in OB We don't know what kind of spren he is(-ish... was?) without knowing the Ideals of the Truthwatchers but perhaps the Order's Divine Attributes could help fuel speculation: Learned and Giving

Bose-Einstein Condensate Investiture analogue, where are you hiding?

T'Telir?

Chthonic

Rand?

Maybe they were closer to the canonical Spiritual aspects of Identity, Connection, Fortune, Investiture?

Yeah, I noticed that. So the Threnodites have found a fabrial/medallion equivalent, more or less All that's left are... Shadeblades! From the fact that you tagged the Evil and mentioned the Mist Spirit in a somewhat similar context, are you a proponent of the theory that the Evil is a Splinter? There's another cool theory regarding the same... thing, that I rather liked and thought you might like as well: I would also like to add that Uli Da, the holder of the Shard of Ambition was a Sho Del, who were Fainlife sapient beings