Nitpicking

Actually, Lightweaving would seem to be a Virtuosity thing that other Shards copied, now that you mention it. I wonder which Shard first started sending souls back to the Physical (like Endowment sends the Returned) and having other Shards (e. g. Honor, maybe Autonomy) copy that.

Wouldn't mind seeing it, but it certainly shouldn't be part of SP4.

Yeah, manifesting a Shardpaintbrush while in the Cognitive Realm isn't using Investiture at all. /s Painter spends the entire book being terribly, terribly underestimated. Including by himself. (That's one of the main themes of the book.) This is the planet of Virtuosity! That is, the Shard of artistic excellence. Being a great painter there would inevitably mean being highly invested. (This, after all, is why Yumi is so highly invested--she's the greatest rock-stacker ever.)

Notice that Painter-as-temporary-Cognitive-Shadow made a shardpaintbrush without even bonding a spren. Unfortunately, only Hoid in the entire Cosmere knows that this happened.

That's one of my major complaints about this (and other recent Brandon): slow start. This (and RoW) could have stood another draft, removing 20-30% of the current word count, mostly from the beginning (but also at least two of the incredibly hard-to-read "Yumi is miserable and a fish out of water in Painter's world" scenes. We didn't need or want entire chapters of Hoid explaining things that could have been better included in the actual story (or just left out).

I propose that this book could be called Jessie and the Math Teacher. I am in no way trying to intrude, but Jessie and Eric were pretty open about how they met virtually while living in different worlds (North America and Australia), and communicated a lot over electronic media (Connection) while being physically unable to be together due to the Shroud (global pandemic), but have had a happy (courtship storyline) ending. I have to think that, consciously or unconsciously, Brandon was inspired by their long-distance relationship when writing Yumi. IIRC he did attend their wedding celebration. (I'm really not prying, Eric talked about it on the podcast.) I am in no way saying that Jessie is anything like Yumi, or Eric like Painter, but the situation has similarities, yes?

Please do not apologize for someone else's actions, sir! I didn't even want an apology from Reinhart, just a reason. I was sincerely confused and unsure what to do, so I figured I'd ask. I've done much more Wikipedia editing than Coppermind, and I didn't want to presume that the culture here is the same (and of course, it isn't). I'll un-revert after work today, then. Thank you (and your fellow Keepers) for taking the time.

I figured out (I think) what happened after posting. I thought the article was about Bondsmiths. It isn't. It's about "The Order of the Bondsmiths". There is no article about people who are Bondsmiths, that is, have the Surgebinding abilities associated with Bondsmiths. I actually don't disagree with reverting my change, now that I figured that out. I do wish @Reinhartmax had just said that as a reason for the reversion, so I wasn't confused. I am also still curious about why the talk page was deleted. Would it have been a problem to recreate it?

So ... I added Ishar to the list of canonical [[Bondsmiths]]. My edit was reverted with no explanation. Rather than edit war, I figured I'd ask why on the talk page ... which is deleted. And the page says, "The deletion and move log for this page are provided here for convenience:" Then there's nothing after the colon. Can anyone perhaps tell me why my edit was reverted by @Reinhartmax? And why the talk page was deleted? And why the deletion log is invisible to the wiki's own code? Thanks.

Hey, is the Overlady going to read Tress? Because I'm very interested in her reaction. Big fan.

Vacation? Who told you that you were allowed to take vacations? Entertain me! Now excuse me while I pack for my trip to Las Vegas.

What happened, here? I hope both Marvin and Danielle are OK!

Just dropping by to say ... I just read the Secret Project 3 sample chapters. I can actually hear Eric saying "Spicy!" in my head now. Wow. Just wow. You might want to book two 90 minute episodes for this one. Not a joke.

Nightblood killed a horribly wounded Vessel, of course. Some of those injuries seemingly go back to Rayse's fight with Dominion/Skai.

So ... how about an Invested being who is bound to a Dawnshard?

My fault. Someone elsewhere said "He" and I just accepted it, then replicated it here.

So ... Nightblood has to go. He's already the most Invested object in the Cosmere, capable of killing a (weakened) Vessel, far stronger than the mere Bands of Mourning per Brandon. How can it be removed from the story? Well, who's really good at disposing of surplus Investiture? How about Rysn's great friend and protector, the Ancient Guardian, Chiri-Chiri? He eats Investiture, and presumably will need more and more as he grows and develops--he, like Nightblood, has already absorbed enough Investiture to become sapient. (That's my explanation, anyway--we know that enough Investiture gathered in one place becomes sapient by WoB.) In fact, Larkins are rather like non-murderous Nightbloods, aren't they? I predict [looks around to be sure no Vorin people are present] that Chiri-Chiri will end up draining a huge amount of Investiture from Nightblood. Might not kill him, but will most certainly weaken him. And like Nightblood, Chiri-Chiri never seems to be full. Another prediction: Chiri-Chiri will form a romantic, or at least child-producing, relationship with Nale's larkin (who drained Lift back in Edgedancer). Yet another: the Sleepless were worried that Rysn might become capable of actually exerting the Dawnshard power by becoming a Radiant. She agreed not to. But she does have a Connection to Chiri-Chiri. And if my first prediction is right, Chiri-Chiri will drain an enormous amount of Investiture from Nightblood and become, effectively, a demigod-dragon-flying-crab thing. Could the bonded pair of Rysn and Chiri-Chiri use the Dawnshard power?

First time posting here. Hi, everyone. So I just happened to randomly notice today ...in the Gathas, there are seven Amesha Spenta, that is "emanations" of the creator, Ahura Mazda. Two of them are Vairya and Armaiti--that is, Devotion and Dominion. That same article on Zoroastrianism also mentioned that theYasna is a ceremony to strengthen Creation against the forces working to destroy it. Coincidence? Well, maybe. I thought it was interesting, though.

"... I think I like it quite a bit better than the White Sand graphic novels." Not to be too snarky, but that's a pretty low standard. I liked the first-draft text version of White Sand quite a bit better than the graphic novel.

I just watched Shardcast on YouTube, and followed the link to this article. I was all ready to correct the biology (I'm a biology teacher by training), but ... well, LadyLameness is actually an expert and there was nothing to correct. Nice job. I do feel obligated to point out that since transfused leukocytes are not only useless to the recipient, but actively damaging in some cases (as our esteemed author says), they're generally removed in a process called "leukodepletion." I used to work for the company that invented leukocyte depleting filters for transfused blood. Also, consider that Shallan was actually a Radiant when she cut herself open and started to bleed out. She didn't remember it consciously, but she had manifested her Blade years before. Even if the Soulcast blood harmed her, she might have been able to heal herself with Stormlight without realizing it, just as Kaladin and Dalinar both did.