Honorless

Welcome to the Shard!

Hehehe, try again

Ding ding! No, I'm kidding, it's not Straff either, haha

Isn't that a Sharder? Did you mean Elhokar's wife? No, it's not Aesudan either

Haha, it's not Amaram either

No to all 1) This character is/was politically influential 2) This character's corrupt 3) This character threatens a main character 4) This character is not Invested but known to employ and/or lead Invested people

Sure, I'll name mine Jijivisha

We don't see the Alethi naming their Shardplate, only their Blades but we do see that the Thaylen did name their Shardplate. Highguard Hrdalm named his Shardplate "Cvaderln".

I can lift my arm without touching it

@Yvainnie what the hell, go talk to the HR!

nope!

Nope!

technically not corrupt, he was loyal to the Steel Ministry

Oh wow, that's another solid guess but also nope! Next clue! 3) This character threatens a main character

Another good guess, but nope!

Hahaha, welcome to the Shard! Who's your least favorite character, can we ask that?

nope!

Good guess but nope!

Probably Second, Third or Fourth of the Sun (depending on which other two have human life as per AU). From our current knowledge, and we haven't seen all the planets in the now, Elantris and White Sand took place way in the past. We saw very little of Nalthis too. Scadrial has made a lot of progress post Catacendre, trains, canals, ships, guns. Roshar has too, after Aharietiam but not nearly as much. Threnody has been stuck since the Evil struck, and we saw very little of that world, but it still had gunpowder. Nalthis and Sel, we saw too little of. Taldain is presumably ahead since last we saw, Darkside was already where Scadrial is in era 2 (and was before the Final Empire), so it's probably got the other planets beat. Ashyn seemed technologically ahead from the Silence Divine. Who knows where Yolen is. Technically speaking Roshar is the furthest behind if we think of it in terms of conventional technological development but they do have fabrials! Southern Scadrial also has good magitech. Hmm... we simply can't really answer this question at this point of time.

People's souls don't manifest in Shadesmar as beads but as flames. When you physically enter the Cognitive Realm of Roshar, your body appears where your "flame" was. You can't change a bead into anything else, you can use a bead to change the object it corresponds to in the Physical Realm. If something is manifested from the Physical into the Cognitive then depending on the method used, they are either only a Cognitive remnant of the Physical thing, or apparently the thing itself, both Physically and Cognitively.

nope!

That wouldn't be counted in the statistics though

What? No, not air, water, earth, fire Electromagnetic Force, Weak & Strong Nuclear Forces, Gravity Granted! It's like you have one invisible, selectively intangible not-really-an-arm thing that does the trick for you. It can carry only what you could yourself carry, for as long as you yourself could carry it, if you yourself could balance the object(s) well enough to carry it (like say a very long pole would be difficult to pick up and carry). Your bane is that you're expected to fight supervillains with this power. For minimum wage. And be under government watch because of having a superpower. And handle nosy reporters and people who spend way too much time on the internet speculating about superheroes. And you are expected to do PR campaigns like visiting schools, say "don't do drugs", give autographs, have your brand owned by the govt to sell your merch, which goes to the superhero program not you, you get minimum age, like I already mentioned. You have to be a model citizen & selfless because superheroes are paragons, if you're not then you're an individual with a potentially dangerous power who might use said power for selfish purposes. Enjoy your new superpower and your new life! I wish for the ability to materialize platinum from nothing