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I think that it's more likely the case that the statement "I am Unity" is more in reference to the fact that Honor is all about Bonds and bringing things together. So rather than the statement meaning that Dalinar is somehow related to another, different shard; It's more likely that he is laying claim to Honor by claiming to be "Unity".

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As a Vorrin Man "reader" of the Kosmere, I pride myself on my spelling. Hoyd is my favorite character and how dare you suggest that I might misspell Yasnah or Cann Dra. See? I know what I'm talking about. I'm practically Shah-Lon with how much attention to detail I give to my proper Kosmere spelling etiquette. Say Zed would be pleased with me, I know that much.

Except for the fact that in this context... copper/bronze seem pretty external, eh? You bring up some super interesting ideas here! Thanks for sharing.

That was the quickest RAFO I've ever had the pleasure of reading and finding out! Welcome to the Shard!! I think you'll enjoy it here.

I think Ruin AND Preservation had good futuresight, and essentially cancelled each others out in most ways. There are plenty of hints in this direction in Mistborn Era 1 and Secret History.

Keilith is laughing with Vex or Bo, maybe?

I'd assume the gemheart could be absorbed along with the carapace and other necessary "materials"...

Sounds like Fascism. Honestly, I feel like it would only truly be megalomania once passion was added into the mix. To be obsessed with power I feel like one would need to be passionate about said power.

I had another thought on this subject... Brandon enjoys political intrigue and the flawed machinations of rulers as jumping off points for storytelling... That's very hard to do in a system which lacks any sort of hierarchy and is, fundamentally... well... fair. Fairness doesn't often make a good story. I'm not saying there's no chance of this happening in the cosmere... but if it does I think it would be in the form of the conclusion of a story, or as an ancient past in a worlds history.

Hoid is enough of a blank slate that it's hard to tell... the problem with Hoid is we know nothing of his goals for the Cosmere itself, while knowing a lot about his more personal goals and viewpoints. Extrapolating from how free a person wants to be for themselves is a little bit of a stretch from understanding how they would want to world to be governed. Because of our lack of knowledge about his goals for the universe he becomes a very easy person to ascribe any number of radical viewpoints to (because all we really know is that he'll let planets burn to reach whatever his goal might be) Many Non-revolutionary anarchists believe that Anarchism can only be achieved through progressive change that deconstructs unjust hierarchical power structures over time. Most people who subscribe to that philosophy tend to have a harm-reduction approach when it comes to most governments and leaders. It's obviously arguable based on some of his other viewpoints but I'd say Hoid is a good candidate for a more "Left-Libertarian" approach to Anarchism... that probably goes back to the fact that he's sort of a blank slate for this stuff though.

Kaladin could put stormlight into Syl, it just wouldn't do anything to her in the physical realm. It would be like trying to lash another radiant I imagine.

I don't know how I didn't see it before this makes a lot of sense... We're also waiting on the division fused... might they be the last to leave Braise, being the closest to Odium?

I agree, both of these concepts could imply a type of freedom and it works nicely with how Venli discovered the "Rhythm of Freedom" It's also interesting to note that Honor might be the shard that allows for the least "freedom" of the three shards, being about bonds and laws, etc. So the absence of honors influence in this context is appropriate in an interesting way.

For the same reason a generator can only power a house, but a nuclear power plant can power an entire city.

This is a very interesting idea. It lines up quite nicely with Deadeyes as well, which we know to be under a condition similar to the Reod.

We have not seen the Fused' version of dustbringers yet and the surge of division is heavily associated with fire. If I had to put my money on those flaming people being off-worlders or fused... it would be on the fused. That's not to discount this theory by any means... because I think there are a lot of things that point toward more shards coming to/interfering with Roshar eventually, as you've suggested. There just might be more threads to tug at and I like where you're going with the "dying light" business.

Why not Demoux and Felt? I feel like the 17th might allow them to buy breaths or something...

The arrow from Guardians of the Galaxy, right? He seems to use his mind to control it... I doubt that's possible with fabriels... but there are fabriels that can increase distance traveled by requiring more force to be exerted on their paired gem... so hypothetically you could make a short range "Yandu's Arrow" that you could fly around by just moving a gem in your hand... It would be very difficult to control though. Idk, fabriels are complicated and I'm not sure I understand them as well as I could.

It's important to remember that the final empire was not as structured and perfected in the early years. The Pits may have been much more open or the Lord Ruler's Palace may have been under construction. There's a huge number of ways someone could have accessed a perpendicularity over a 1000 year period, especially a full feruchemist. Worldhoppers were doing it too. There are WOBs saying The Lord Ruler was aware of worlhoppers' existence on Scadrial.

I could reasonably imagine someone referring to Rysn as "bearer of the shattering mural" or something. My only point is that it's entirely possible the gem is a reference to a dawnshard's physical vessel.

Well, he's definitely not just that... but those two could be one in the same since "the first gem" could be a reference to the dawnshard he held.

Now that's an interesting idea

For every day use... certainly. For a single bullet in an assassins' gun? It might be a valid strategy... Yeah, I think you'd only need the metal placed in your body in a way which it couldn't easily be torn out. It wouldn't need to fully encase your bones.

Any words are good words!! Keep it up. It took me 2 years of doing NaNo and a pandemic to hit the 50k goal!