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I also thought the lesser spren theory might not have been completely correct, turned out the complications in that theory were handled by the subtypes of lesser spren, oh well I thought Taravangian would become a Bondsmith, but can you blame me for not seeing that coming? I thought the Dawnshards were Ashynite Surge fabrials, I didn't really write my theory anywhere but anyhoo that's what I thought they were I was thinking about Rlain bonding a Corrupted / Enlightened spren but I got distracted by the Bondsmith Rlain tangent handily so that did end blindsiding me despite me initially expecting it

Hmm... sort of, Teod is separated by a sea. Neither the Teoish nor the Dula are all that similar in culture to the Arelenes either and they look ethnically distinct too. Maybe some distant shared ancestry? But the MaiPonese also have shared ancestry with the JinDo and they both have their own magic. Maybe the Dula in particular might have had their own magic, with their religion having knowledge of the Dor. Do these lands not have magic of their own? Why are their people chosen by the Shaod? Don't bother trying to answer these questions, these topics were not really handled by the book. We'll have to wait for the sequels. (Also, what's to the west of Arelon? Ugh)

Yes, Arelon & Teod, but it also Duladel (that's where Galladon is from)

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Yes, they start in in Part 3, so you're quite close.

There is definitely something about the golden light that we see leaking from Odium, it doesn't appear to look like Voidlight, maybe... it's another form of his Investiture? It's not just a vanity project from Rayse. The golden light (capitalized L?) leaks from him when he's at his most uncontrolled enraged mode not just when he's in control and trying to impress, though of course one can argue otherwise too with those situations, given they were all during Visions while he was trying to intimidate the other party.

Yup, that is the popular consensus in the fandom

I thought that too! And in Mistborn: Secret History, Ruin told Kelsier that due to not having a Physical body, Kelsier was unable to properly use Preservation's power. I wondered if that might've been part of Cultivation's plan. But let's go back to who killed him: Szeth. He's also someone who was killed. Not just near-dead but dead-dead. His Cognitive self was reattached, albeit imperfectly, to his body via the Regrowth fabrial that Nale used (and that's why Lift sees him having a glowing after-image). However much Investiture was necessary to resurrect Szeth, an entire Shard definitely has more of it. Unlike Szeth, in whose case Nale was almost too late to reattach his soul to his body, Taravangian Ascended almost immediately after dying. I think the Shard reattached his soul to his body when he took it up. He was obviously Connected enough to his body for that to have been possible. And his body disappeared, poofed into pure power, just like a normal Vessel's.

For highly Invested people it'd be more difficult to leave their system but I think what makes it really difficult for Knights Radiant to go very far from their system is their spren bond and it is the spren who cannot leave the system easily. We do have WoBs confirming this and the fact is that the spren live in the Cognitive Realm, which is what Worldhoppers use to hop around, with an existential threat on the horizon, why haven't they left? They can't, they're too Connected. Another thing that might be holding back the Knights Radiant is Stormlight: as a form of Investiture, it is very Rosharan, it is tightly Connected to the planet and a crucial part of its ecology. Maybe that Connection holds them back too. Compare this to Allomancy, they are fine to move around, the Investiture they use is still in the Spiritual Realm, the metal is just the key to access it. I think the same goes for Feruchemy, the metalminds themselves are Invested but what's stored there is actually still stored in the Spiritual Realm, I think. As for the Heralds and Thaidakar / Kelsier, things are even more difficult for them maybe because of their nature as Cognitive Shadows, the Returned are also Cognitive Shadows but the Five Scholars are considered early Cosmere scholars, maybe they devised a way to get off-world, it's also possible that Endowment's nature allows them to travel more easily, kinda like how Breaths are transferable.

This question has kind of already been answered from the Mistborn saga

Side Note: Brandon has canonized that Rashek used the power of the Well of Ascension to turn himself into a Mistborn rather than using a Lerasium bead

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https://coppermind.net/wiki/Seasilk And Rosharans very well might make thread out of plant fibres (not all of them are rocky) as well as leather.

The ten heartbeats thing might be because they thought it should take ten heartbeats and so it actually took ten heartbeats

Yup

Yup, Brandon had already confirmed that. The Nightwatcher was actually created by Cultivation herself (see Lift's interlude for more on that). Keep in mind that the three people Sja-Anat mentioned and moreover, why she is mentioning them is because they did not get their Boon/Bane from the Nightwatcher but Cultivation herself.

You... took this in a direction neither nazis nor minorities & immigrants are going to be very comfortable with irl, lol Yes, changing ethnicities, though those would also require Connection changes. I'm not sure about the Elantrian bit though, you could make yourself Arelish, sure... the answer should lie in Identity overwrite and Connection hack but apparently things didn't work out for Hoid (then again, he doesn't know everything, and knew less back then than he does now, and we don't know what exactly he tried: I'm guessing Connection and something to try to fool the Dor regarding his Identity but he didn't actively change his Cognitive perception of self or alter his Spiritweb) That last one, you think Yolish Dragons' shapeshifting works via this... frame-shifting of perception?

She is referring to Dalinar here. Dalinar visited the Nightwatcher to ask for a Boon after killing Evi, Cultivation came and gave him his Boon, we see this in the Oathbringer flashbacks.

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