LordTheodore

He's not talking about the forms of power. He's talking about the standard singer forms.

I believe that shortly before the attempt to imprison BAM, a lightweaver successfully imprisoned re-shepir and in doing so confirmed the theory that the unmade could be trapped in gemstones.

My understanding is that a Shard is all investiture with specific intent. I also understand that Honor has been splintered and its vessel killed, but I fail to see how this harms the shard itself, Honor is infinite and investiture with Honor's intent persists throughout the cosmere. Moreover, if pieces of Honor still exist then by definition that shard itself still exists; since all investiture is associated with one of the sixteen Shards.

Splintering a shard doesn't hurt it. It just splinters it. Investiture cannot be harmed; it can only change forms.

My understanding is that the Shards themselves cannot be harmed as they are essentially infinite investiture. So when the books state that Odium was hurt in its past battles; I believe it is referring to Odium's vessel Rayse and not the shard itself. Since Vessels are commonly referred to by the name of the Shard they hold.

Odium was not hurt in its past battles; Rayse was hurt. Since Taravangian has not fought battles with other shards, it stands to reason he would not be damaged in the same way Rayse was.

Honor died after the Recreance.

This has been discussed extensively here.

I thought that he was with Dalinar and Jasnah in Emul.

I don't see how the return of the surgebinders in any way caused another desolation. Prior to the recreance, there were thousands of surgebinders and that didn't cause a desolation. I think that Taln breaking is what caused the desolation. I also think that Rayse foresaw Taln breaking and prepared accordingly hence why the Everstorm shows up when it does. Moreover, the Parshendi summoning the Everstorm cannot be what caused the desolation because Taln returned long before they summoned it.

Unless Honorspren are 100% Honor and 0% Cultivation in which case anti-stormlight would work and wouldn't necessarily mean that anti-stormlight would work on other spren.

There is also this one

The Sibling explicitly states that it lost the rhythm of its light when Ba-Ado-Mishram was captured and that her capture wounded all spren.

We did see Windrunner squires when there were no more Honorspren willing to bond. I think the lack of Elsecaller squires might be due to Jasnah lacking a squad. Kaladin's squires came from the men he trained and led, as did Shallan's. If Jasnah had a ward or assistant working with her on research projects perhaps they would become a squire. Incidentally, we still haven't seen Truthwater, Edgedancer, Stoneward, Dustbringer or Bondsmith squires either.

Sigzil explicitly reads notes that state that an honorspren lived for 15 minutes and that it was a new record.

"Don't tell anyone. I can't say it. I must whisper. I foresaw this." This message was left by a Truthwatcher in the Urithiru gem archive; the phrase I foresaw this suggests that the Truthwatch had a corrupted spren.

I agree with everything you have stated. There is another possibility that occurred to me; That is that the Radiant is a normal Skybreaker using Warlight. This is assuming normal Radiants as they exist in the current SA can use Warlight to power surgebinding and it is no less efficient than Stormlight. We know that Voidlight leaks considerably slower from gemstones than Stormlight, therefore, it is plausible that Warlight leaks slower than Stormlight; This would make Warlight more useful for long-distance travel in places where there are no highstorms e.g in space.

I don't believe it was a risky gambit. It was more of a targeted strike to remove Ba-Ado-Mishram and in doing so remove access to voidlight and forms of power. The Radiants could have won a prolonged war, but it would have been costly in terms of lives on both sides. I believe they would have wanted to avoid this.

There is always the simplest explanation. The singers were afraid of Jezrien; afraid that he would fight back if one of them tried to get close enough to him to stab him.

I don't think we did. I think it is an educated guess that Edglium stores memories based on the fact that breath can store memories.

There is no evidence to suggest that, as a result of the imprisoning of Ba-Ado-Mishram, Odium was connected to Roshar. The way the Fused use surges is different from the way the Radiants use surges. e.g The Deepest One's use of Cohesion is completely different from the Willshaper use of Cohesion. This means that they are using two different magic systems.

I don't think we are supposed to recognise Axindweth; I certainly don't recognise her. The rings suggest she is a Terriswoman and probably a Fereuchemist or Ferring. It's also possible she has access to other magics e.g Breaths/Allomancy. It's unlikely that she is a member of the Ghostbloods as the Ghostbloods didn't provide any support (that we know of) to Venli and Ulim after Axindweth was discovered. If the Ghostbloods were working with Ulim to bring the Everstorm I would have expected them to be able to send another agent to complete her mission. They didn't do this ergo the Ghostbloods weren't trying to bring about the Everstorm. Which means if she is a member of the Ghostbloods her actions in RoW were independent of the main organisation. We don't know where the sleepless originated, but 23 of the 24 sleepless on Roshar were separated on Roshar and are therefore native to Roshar. 20 of the Rosharan sleepless are working together they are sympathetic to the Radiants, opposed to Odium, allied to the Larkin and protectors of the Dawnshard. One of the Rosharan sleepless is working with the Ghostbloods. It's possible there are sleepless working with the 17th Shard. Because it is relevant to the plot and/or interesting to the reader.

Yeah. That is really strange, it seems as if Hoid has been using breaths to expand his short-term memory in addition to his long-term memory. Perhaps he is using the excess breaths he would usually use for awakening that don't have long-term memories to expand his short-term memory.

No, she isn't. We don't know where she is.

Mraize tells Shallan that Thaidakar has a similar affliction to the Heralds; since the Heralds and Thaidakar are Cognitive Shadows who are worshipped as Gods on their home planet, this is likely to be true. Whilst some returned are worshipped on Nalthis very few have lived as long as Thaidakar and none have lived as long as the Heralds. Hence if Thaidakar wants an understanding of the long term effects of his affliction he can't use a returned.