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    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?
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    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.
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    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.
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    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?
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    This is irrelevant to the actual discussion. Not to nitpick your Latin, but I'm going to nitpick your Latin. I'm the nitpicking biology guy. The logical fallacy is ad hominem, against the person. Ad hominin would be "against the lineage of Great Apes which branched off from the bonobo/chimp lineage, and which includes Homo sapiens." Important? No. It just struck me funny,
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    Rysn is not Vorin. She canonically wears a glove, not the big sleeve. I suspect the artist simply didn't draw/color the glove correctly. For me, Dawnshard was better for its lore drops than Rysn's story. Others may well disagree.
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    The Deepest Ones (SPOILER for the Stormlight Archive)
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    Well, I mean, you're literally in Emberdark, @Chaos. Sort of. You might be ever so slightly biased? (I love Brandon including private jokes like that.)
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    A bond makes shapechanging easier. See Painter in Yumi and the Singers and their forms.
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    I'd say it's Awakening, not pseudo at all. We know that Cosmere magics can often be performed using different magic systems, like Radiant and Yolen Lightweaving.
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    Thanks, Eric.
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    So not a Nahel Bond? You mean, like pre-Vessel Vin being able to burn the mists for Preservation's power? Like Dalinar inexplicably summoning Honor's Perpendicularity?
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    I pretty much agree with the last paragraph. IMO, not as good as Tress or Sunlit Man, better than Yumi and much better than WaT.
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    "Any child with a coin" can buy a ticket on a flying machine, is how I was reading it.
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    We see Radiant healing fix a crossbow bolt to the brain.
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    Note that the "Mistborn Era 2" mentioned above is NOT the Wax and Wayne books. Brandon hadn't started those when the timeline above was created.
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    The three Realms affect each other. If you use copper or aluminum to fix your Spiritual aspect, that will affect your physical aspect (and vice versa).
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    For the record: you do realize that's also the first Vessel of Honor's name? Tanavast = Tanner Avast. Presumably his married name.
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    That sounds like the way the spirits of Komashi are treated, until their enslavement (for real) by the Father Machine. Perhaps consider that the Tower is the Sibling's physical form. And, as Navani eventually realizes, it is also a fabrial. So the Sibling is a pre-Recreance fabrial, a spren who volunteered to become a tool. Just a really cool, complicated, powerful tool.
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    Xisis reminds me a bit of the Lord Ruler.
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    I believe there's a WoB that Aona and Skai were a couple.
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    Orthogonally, how about "Fate" and "Free Will"? The Cosmere does seem to have a real tension between future prediction and unpredictability.
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    Consider: I am an atheist. I do not deny that the Roman Emperors and Egyptian Pharaohs existed, yet they were worshiped as gods.
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    I'm not sure if this is what @alder24 meant, but you could just put the physical Survivor, spike and all, in a sealed aluminum box. The body would die, the Shadow couldn't get out. Wait long enough and he'd go mad. Long enough is probably centuries, of course. Anti-[whatever Ruin's Investiture's gaseous form is called, the mists are Preservation] would negate the effect of the hemalurgic spike, but I have no idea if anyone on Scadrial knows how to do that.
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    Sleepless can impersonate a Plastic Man type, to a limited extent.
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