Honorless

Huh, the blue lines never really stood out to me, I just saw them as a function of the power... are the Connection lines that Dalinar sees also blue? I don't think their colour was ever mentioned. Edit: Dalinar describes them as "line(s) of light" or "white cord(s)" I never really thought back to Atium's appearance as anything but simply metallic either, and we didn't get a description for Lerasium. Shardblades are also just described as looking metallic, at least the sharp part. Raysium being golden is interesting, also I can't really imagine a violet metal, mineral yes, metal nope... I did kind of associate blue with Preservation and red with Ruin though... I remember associating the Scadrian System's gas giants with the Shards Hmm... Trellium is definitely Corrupted and/or an alloyed Godmetal with those red spots. So Trell could just as well turn out to be Odium. Then of course Lezian ignores that, and the result is the moment with the yellow-red eyes. Could Honor + Odium = Vengeance: acting in justified righteous anger? That would fit with what Kaladin does to Lezian and also is a nice thematic fit with how Kaladin flipped the script on Lezian, taking his mantle of the Pursuer, and how Lezian's whole shtick has been vengeance (when i did a search on the book most of the instances of that word were his lines). And this Vyre line could be really on the nose when we come back later if there ends up being a Vengeance shard. I like this possibility, I don't know how plausible it is but yeah very thematically appropriate

Granted, you will always be well-rested irrespective of how little sleep you get. Your Bane is that you'll never feel that contented, warm, drowsy feeling again and will in fact feel a compulsion to attack anyone who appears sleepy or is asleep in front of you. I wish for the ability to summon food from any food shows I see on YouTube or TV

@Golstar, good point on Odium possibly co-opting something natural on Roshar into Voidlight. Stormlight, in some form, predated Honor's arrival on Roshar so it could parallel that. But A) Odium was called an interloper on Roshar, who apparently only recently integrated into the Shardworld, and B ) Odium originally arrived on Ashyn and granted them Surgebinding, and finally, C) Voidlight doesn't seem to play any ecological role on Roshar like Stormlight does @Brgst13 I thought the golden colour was Rayse's vanity at first too: the clothing, ornaments, field of gold but Odium also leaked golden light while Rayse was at his most not-in-control, including leaking from his eyes, so the gold colour is integral too, in some way. @Golstar, @MyrmidonOfAchilles, I think the violet colour is just as integral to Odium as the gold, his pure note and anti-note both produced violet Lights. Good point on violet being blue (Honor) + red (Corrupted Investiture) and yes, blue+red is how rainbows get their violet band but it's not just Voidlight but his pure Rhythm's Light (and both are one and the same, as far as Raboniel, Navani and the Sibling could tell) that was violet. The prism experiment supports it and then there are Roshar's moons, each glowing the colour of one of the resident Shards, no idea what's up with that but that seems to support violet as Odium's colour too. That WoB you had posted does not talk about violet and gold, only gold and red, so I don't think it supported gold being Odium's real colour more than violet. The final proposal of Odium having two colours seems likelier but also odd.

We do know that you can Soulcast things into aluminium, confirmed in-book multiple times.

Wouldn't Odium want him asleep and vulnerable to his Visions? In-book there were two reasons given: As a Windrunner, he had a pure Surge of Honor: Adhesion He was close to the Fourth Ideal, this is why Odium wanted to lure away Dalinar and Jasnah, because he believed they were had achieved the Fourth Ideal (Jasnah had but Dalinar hadn't). The Stormfather thought that Dalinar's powers wouldn't have worked in the tower, so he was probably not close to the Fourth Ideal.

Welcome to the Shard! Is that name an Avatar reference?

Wax?

Oh no, you may have just reignited the Roshar vs Scadrial debate...

Wait what? Towerlight was only produced by the Sibling, Raboniel theorized on its nature as a combination of two Lights. Warlight was only recently discovered by Navani and Raboniel. Towerlight was Corrupted by Voidlight but was flushed out of the system by Navani's Anti-Odium Rhythm device.

Yeah, I agree with @Master Silver, that did seem like the road he was heading towards, I'm less sure after reading RoW but he wasn't just killed off so it's still possible. He's still Connected with Kaladin as we see with Kal's Visions and Moash's thoughts regarding Kal and the Bridge 4 salute. It's Kal's 4th Ideal that makes me doubt Moash's redemption arc the most, even more so than his killing of Teft & Phendorana. I was surprised by his blindness and wondering what exactly caused it, those are interesting possibilities regarding that.

Hmm... then what about Navani's experiments? Odium's Light produced a large band of violet when passing through a prism, and his Light rings with his own pure tone

Hello and Welcome, @cbcook!

When we are told that Soulcasters are spren manifesting themselves as fabrials rather than Shardblades, Raboniel notes that Voidspren aren't as self-sacrifing as Honor and Cultivation's.

Solid choices Welcome to the Shard! Which book's your favourite so far?

Haha, completely understandable! Welcome & have a nice day!

Given that Roshar and Sel are Cognitive neighbours and Roshar itself appears to be a nexus between major Shardworlds via Shadesmar, I assumed the term came over from Sel.

I think the comics artist just defaulted to male while drawing

Probably, yeah. Not quite the same thing as they said though. There were a few newer WoBs recently so I tried to find something like this on the Arcanum and Reddit but didn't find anything. Odium is a part of Roshar, Voidlight is still violet, not gold

Source?

yeah, I copied these points over from elsewhere, I originally wrote them before RoW. So, at the time I didn't consider there could've been another Shard present during the Ambition Odium showdown (and why would anyone? Ambition was alone unlike D & D or H & C). So yeah, add Mercy to the suspicion list There were multiple WoBs, kinda difficult to find because I don't remember any keywords for better search results. One WoB saying multiple Shards had visited Scadrial after its creation, before the events of Mistborn; another about Odium coming and deciding Preservation and Ruin were already at cross-purposes so they were no threat, iirc