Nitpicking

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,

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.

The Deepest Ones (SPOILER for the Stormlight Archive)

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.)

A bond makes shapechanging easier. See Painter in Yumi and the Singers and their forms.

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.

Thanks, Eric.

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?

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.

"Any child with a coin" can buy a ticket on a flying machine, is how I was reading it.

We see Radiant healing fix a crossbow bolt to the brain.

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.

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).

For the record: you do realize that's also the first Vessel of Honor's name? Tanavast = Tanner Avast. Presumably his married name.

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.

Xisis reminds me a bit of the Lord Ruler.

I believe there's a WoB that Aona and Skai were a couple.

Orthogonally, how about "Fate" and "Free Will"? The Cosmere does seem to have a real tension between future prediction and unpredictability.

Consider: I am an atheist. I do not deny that the Roman Emperors and Egyptian Pharaohs existed, yet they were worshiped as gods.

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.

Sleepless can impersonate a Plastic Man type, to a limited extent.

I get the feeling that certain people are expected to be instantly perfect, e. g. Navani. That is the opposite of the message of the Stormlight Archive, which is (First Ideal) about the journey. The story isn't that Dalinar or Kaladin or Jasnah has become an ideal person. It's that they're sincerely trying to do better. Heck, the Sibling and Tanavast's Shadow are shown trying to be better than they were. The villains are people like Moash and Taravangian, who cling to their flaws.

Hemalurgy works everywhere in the Cosmere, and on anyone. Stab Nightblood with an aluminum spike, which removes all its powers. Poof! I mean, why do you think Brandon named it "blood", anyway? Heme=Greek word for blood. He even gave us a hint! (Note: this would actually work, assuming you could get the aluminum to penetrate whatever Nightblood is made of. I can think of ways.)

This isn't based on anything Brandon has said, either in a story or a WoB. Just based on my own training in biology and statistics, I think any Scadrian or part-Scadrian has a chance, ranging from tiny to small, to be an allomancer. See, they all have a stronger connection to Preservation than, say, a Nalthian. We know that Preservation was weakened because it divided itself and gave a bit of its power to each Scadrian, in a way not totally different from how Endowment gave a piece of itself (Breath) to every Nalthian. (Side crackpot theory: this did NOT weaken Endowment. Endowment's power and role is literally giving gifts. Giving some of itself to other people to use as they will is so congruent with its Intent that it actually strengthened Endowment.) Since every Scadrian has extra Preservation within them, any mating between them could randomly result in sDNA giving the offspring higher-than-average Connection to the Shard, and thus an allomancer. Note that this reasoning doesn't really apply to feruchemy, because that also requires being born with a strong connection to Ruin, and Ruin didn't gift itself to the humans of Scadrial. (Could Sazed balance himself by doing that, by giving every Scadrian a dose of Ruin equal to their already-existing extra Preservation? Would that cause an explosion of feruchemy? Would it buy the favor of Endowment, goddess of generosity?) I realize this is more speculation than an answer to the original question. Moderator, feel free to move it to the Cosmere Discussions forum.

@Wahrheitswächter, any idea why the admins don't follow normal practice and close old forum topics after some set period, say six months? It's just a setting in your forum software (says the former professional sysop).