Honorless

Shards are called gods in the Cosmere for a reason. As Wit himself notes, he has to hide from Odium. And he is doing things to try and stop Odium. He did petition the Shards to help against Odium by the letters in Oathbringer.

That actually was my first thoughts regarding it. But like I said, tinfoil. It'd be cool if that happened, nothing more. A few questions appear with this though: why would the Spiritual Realm have a representation in the Cognitive? Why would it be described as cold and not particularly bright? One thing that is for the theory is the metaphor of the Three Realms where: the light source is the Spiritual, the light is the Cognitive, and where the light falls is the Physical.

Well, we only have Inquisitors' Hemalurgic bindpoints chart, so we don't know whether center of forehead, specifically on a horse, even is a bindpoint. But if it is, then yup, you can get a unicorn. It probably won't be a Full Mistborn though, only Lerasium spikes can do that, and with those you could probably have multiple Lerasium beads instead, which could each give multiple people (or other organisms) Full Mistborn powers.

So what if it isn't? it's still beautiful, @Coda I have one too: Pieces broken, joined together, stronger together, joined broken pieces

And you went and made it worse Edit: oh thank god, thanks for that @ChickenLiberty

We don't know if the Evil has limbs, it might turn out to be something like the Deepness Also, Nightblood was presumably handled by The Nightwatcher and it could only affect small Perpendicularities according to WoBs and OB. I don't think Nightblood is that dangerous... yet

It could be. Like I said, tinfoil.

They are/It is noted to be different: dimmer, colder and unmoving

It also manifests on Scadrial's subastral, yes

Breath? Granted! Nightwatcher strangles you to death Then gives you a Divine Breath, making you a Returned. I wish that someone would make a drawing of Ambition or Dominion

Maybe, I have an even wilder tinfoil speculation: what if the small sun visible on the Cognitive is actually Yolen?

I didn't think he was a detective or any other directly investigation related jobs simply because that was the first answer that popped into Lightsong's head. Despite the Returned and "my life to yours" thing, I thought that finding out who he was before dying and Returning, was going to be Lightsong's story arc. I suppose it was, in a way...

Hmm, if they manage to burn all of the metal (unlikely since Allomancy seems to take an hour to burn a few flakes) then it would just be a stab wound. Most likely, the moment they are stabbed, their Spiritweb would be torn by Hemalurgy and their ability to burn metal would be lost. This is just stealing attributes, it should be a much faster process than bestowing them without killing them by altering the recipient's body (like the spikes that go through the Inquisitors' eyes) Number 1) is a possibility but number 2) is more more likely to happen.

Honor's Perpendicularity moves, we don't have any such WoBs on Cultivation's. Let me propose an even simpler one: the lakes are all connected (for those of you who haven't seen too many mountains, a mountain can have multiple peaks, given that the Unkalaki are apparently capable of warring with one another, this seems likely) Basically, maybe it's just one underground lake, surfacing at different points due to the terrain? I'm still on The traveller's side though, they are always talked of as 'Oceans'. We won't have to wonder for long though, given that Brandon's promised we'll get to see the peaks, and with Moelach settling there, it seems we might see them in Book 4 itself.

Huh, that is true There is this WoB though, that still supports my original point:

Multiple peaks have these water bodies actually. Yeah, the pool does seem more contained, the stream may be diluted The Great Lakes aren't what I had in mind when I was imagining this hypothetical river, I just thought it would be fun if such a thing existed. The Great Lakes are connected to multiple rivers and the Atlantic, check out St Lawrence river or the debate on the source of the Nile or the length of the Amazon A 'river' is an idea of human construction referring to a moving body of water, while a still body of water would be called a lake. Some water bodies are obviously rivers, some are not so cleanly defined. A looping river wouldn't really be called as such in the real world, since it would become stagnant, with Investiture though... It was just a fun idea alongside the other idea of a spiritual river, bearing parallels to multiple real-world cultures' myths

Even if it flows for many, many kilometres? This would depend on personal interpretation, the world isn't as clear-cut as human terminologies, after all

Old people Hahahaha! Nope, oxbow lakes are crescent shaped lakes that are formed when a river bend gets cut off from the main flow

Ah yes, an Investiture sink of an Awakened sword with the Command to "Destroy Evil" hears about The Evil on Threnody... Poor Threnody ...or maybe Happy Threnody?

Hmm, that is true, rivers carry tons of freshwater, even small ones, though the amount of water that they hold is often less apparent than a lake because people often forget to consider that a river is constantly flowing A Shard could design the river to loop back into itself, that would be fun: a river with no source or end. They could also maybe design it to not empty into the ocean, just disappear back into the Spiritual (paralleling the Styx and Acheron) Hmm, while Devotion's pool was small and later Preservation's Well was also relatively small, both him and Ruin originally had a good-sized underground lake of liquid Investiture. Devotion was Shattered and is now mixed with Dominion in the Dor while Preservation was sort of a Cognitive Shadow at that point. Cultivation has multiple lakes. Shards can move planets, I don't think they'll have much trouble fueling a stream or even a river. And we do see something close to what I described: the pool on Patji, maintained by an Avatar of a Shard, is a source of a small stream

Adonalsium probably could do that. Who knows? Maybe Yolen had/would have a Shardocean before his Shattering/when Dragonsteel is written I don't think that's Yolish influence. Yolen is hidden somehow. No idea how the Ghostbloods got there or Taldain (which is supposed to be isolated by Autonomy around this time, but maybe they went before) or First of the Sun (through Patji! which 17th Shard expeditions wouldn't manage for a long time) or Threnody (which is supposed to have unstable Perpendicularities which form on and off, are difficult to predict and have a morbid origin)

To list them as we know: Ashynites: almost all modern day Rosharan humans from Alethi to Shin, Veden to Makabaki, though Veden also have some Horneater blood, Thaylen may have something as well Iriali - from somewhere else, Rirans also have some Iriali ancestry Unkalaki & Herdazian have Singer ancestry Natan and Babatharnam have Siah Aimian ancestry There are no Dysian Aimian hybrids so far as we know To add to my topic: We know that other forms of Perpendicularities exist that are not pools of liquid Investiture. Some magic systems like the Transportation Surge have it built-in, but it's apparently very difficult to transition through the Realms without either access to a Perpendicularity or a magic system that specifically allows this. Even Hoid still uses Shardpools by submerging himself so that means simply contact with liquid Investiture and Realmatic knowledge may not be all that is involved. Otherwise he and Khriss would just carry around an Aluminum flask containing liquid Investiture and... drink it? dunk themselves?

Maybe, but this is part of their biology itself. The mixed races were probably cultivated to some degree by her and the Horneaters do live by her Perpendicularity They can also see more of spren. Remember humans can only see part of the spren's body that manifests in the Physical. Rock is able to see more

Could be, but since both Singers and Horneaters can perceive spren, there is a clearer correlation there