Nitpicking

Catch him in the right mood, and pitch it as his duty. He takes that very seriously, and he has a Lift-like habit of caring about other people when you don't expect it (as when he cured that little girl's PTSD in Warbreaker). Of course, Autonomy is the one manipulating him, along with Cultivation. What, you didn't know they were allies all along? Note that Vasher's personality is also highly aligned with Autonomy--he's ambitious, he hates Endowment/Edgli for being controlling and manipulative .... By the Space Age, Retribution combines with Autonomy to produce the Shard of Democracy. [removes tongue from cheek]

The refreshing thing about Lift is that she's amazingly heroic. As you say, the risks herself constantly to save strangers, just because otherwise they won't have any help. And unlike, say, Kaladin (who would also do that), she doesn't get recognition or admiration 99% of the time. She just can't do otherwise.

Also translated into English as "I am I am". Or by Popeye the Sailor-Man as "I yam what I yam."

Hear me out. Vasher is one of the Five Scholars. He probably knows as much as Ishar about Shards and Investiture, and it's probably different stuff. He is also on record as saying, "I hate gods." He will extra-hate Retribution, who is trying to kill him by cutting off his supply of Stormlight. And he has a real anger problem. He's definitely aligned with Odium. Yet he devotes centuries to selflessly trying to fix the Manywar that he started ... which is honorable. So Vasher decides to remove Taravangian as Vessel. And he succeeds. And the di-Shard jumps to him. Now, he's a self-hating god of divine retribution. He decides that all other Shards (who he has said, even before taking up Retribution, he hates) must be destroyed, after which he'll Splinter himself as Virtuosity did. I think it works. For me, personally, it has the huge advantage that I find Taravangian a boring and annoying character. Vasher is fun, and we haven't really seen a heel turn from Brandon that I can think of.

Yes. Yes I did. (I don't think the title of the book needs to be spoilered, BTW. That's public knowledge.) Thanks.

SPOILER FOR THE BURNING MAN:

Ba-Ado-Mishram could charge gems with Voidlight ...

Why not just grab mandras to pull it?

To visualize, 33 cm^3 is a stick 1 cm x 1cm x 33 cm. 1 cubic foot is a cube 1 foot by 1 foot by one foot. Visualize that and you'll see how much bigger the latter is.

@Through the Living Mist, both The Wind and Dalinar accepted oaths from Kaladin.

You are correct, but notice that neither book actually exists. Note further that neither is a "core Cosmere" book, and neither is one of the ones Brandon came up with himself and now will never actually write (if things go as I expect--Brandon often surprises me). I like the Isaac material in Mistborn and Dan Wells is a very good writer. Neither will be devoting anything like full time to writing Cosmere stuff.

Also, Rayse stuffed the raw power of Dominion and Devotion into the Cognitive Realm, cutting it off from the Spiritual (while somehow still leaving it connected enough to supply limitless Investiture).

Dalinar's Third Oath was enough to open a perpendicularity, of course. Then as a Bondsmith, he kept that ability, but it was never as dramatic as that first time. Navani's First oath left her so infused with Light that she could heal a fatal-otherwise wound and blind Odium's Sword.

It's clear that Brandon adds new projects to his schedule faster than he writes books. I don't see that changing. I think the Elantris and White Sand sequels are dead, and that he'll stall out (by which I mean, get too old and sick to write) before Dragonsteel. We'll get a dozen more low-effort things like Emberdark, though. It won't happen, but the only way to actually get all those other Cosmere books (the above, the Aether book/series, the origin of the Night Brigade on Threnody, the sidestory showing what Hoid was doing during Mistborn, the other Secret Histories -- all the stories Brandon has refused to let go of, but has no time to write -- is by this method, which I am sure will not be used: Brandon learns the lesson of Harriett MacDougall, and goes looking for two or three up-and-coming young fantasy writers, and engages each of them to write different parts of the stuff he, Brandon, will never get to. If he does it now, while he's at the peak of his powers, he can do for them what Robert Jordan couldn't do for Brandon, and help them write the stories in real time, instead of just leaving notes. I doubt very much that this will happen. But it's the one thing that would actually work.

That's it, 100%. I don't care about and won't watch a show. For me, it's purely a way for Brandon to not write stories.

The Splintering of Devotion and Dominion didn't destroy Sel, either. I think @Trusk'our is right, Devotion would certainly want to preserve the planet, and I believe so would Dominion (as its owner).

We've seen Hoid in various books with Breath, becoming an Elantrian, becoming a Radiant, and becoming an Allomancer. WOB spoilers below. Sure seems as if he collects magic systems. We don't know what, if anything, Ambition's magic system was, and there are no signs that Hoid is a Sand Master or Starcarved (that I know of). Interestingly, he appears to use only powers from Yolen or Shards of Adonalsium. SPOILERS for Dragonsteel Prime and various WOBs. However, we've never seen him (that I know of) using the Aethers or trying to become Aetherbound.

He presumably means Ruin and Preservation. Potentially, they could have other Shard allies, but I took it as R&P.

We don't even have a hint that I know of, bu Ba-Ado-Mishram was originally not a Splinter of Odium. She was some other kind of spren before being Unmade.

This Hideous Strength takes place entirely on Earth?

You mean like September (seventh )?

Brandon being a good writer, we then see Taravangian fail the same test, saving his own homeland and family by moving Kharbranth to the Spiritual Realm. Will it be Jasnah who reveals his hypocrisy?

I mean, I think Kaladin actually does have a bond to the Wind, but it isn't a Radiant-type Nahel bond. He constantly talks about how the air is his, winds do what he wants, she follows him around and aids him somewhat the way Syl does (and Syl is a Splinter of Honor mixed with the Stormfather who is a corrupted fragment of the Wind, so Syl has Wind Investiture herself) .... The Wind is an Adonalsium spren and is older than the Shards. She probably doesn't work exactly like any of the post-Adonalsium Splinters.

As I understand it, the LDS Church teaches things that look a lot like animism. One can't help but be influenced by one's upbringing.

Is it worth reminding people that Jasnah is canonically someone who was confined because of a mental illness of some sort when she was young?