Innovation

Yeah, I can imagine it would be somewhat difficult to have a dishonest conversation. Maybe you could suppress your emotions somehow? And I’m pretty sure Vorin Rosharans don’t typically play betting games like poker.

Ingenuity... no, no. How about Innovation? I wouldn’t mind being a Shard.

I think it is a diminishing Fabrial that diminishes Spren. As in, you won’t see many Spren near the Fabrial, and Nahel Spren are pushed away.

So, didn’t Sja-Anat say that she hadn’t ever enlightened a spren as large as the Oathgate spren before? The Sibling would be considerably larger. Wasn’t the Unmade that infiltrated the tower Re-shepir? I personally think that a Bondsmith broke their oaths with the Sibling, sending it into a coma-like state.

Well all we have seen in these books is war, from the war of reckoning to the true desolation. I imagine life was far less action-packed than it is now.

He probably just practiced dueling and learned tactics.

I was trying to symbolize that Glys is in between a Voidspren and a Truespren. I did not mean that Glys is bellow Truespren; I should have phrased that differently.

Just like how Renarin is bonded with a Spren a step below a true Spren but a step above a Voidspren.

This “perfection illusion” seems like a combination of Spiritual Lightweaving and Renarin’s Voidbinding Illumination. The Spiritual Lightweaving is the feeling of perfection, but the shadow we see of Moash is something Renarin’s Voidbinding shows.

Maybe Dai-Gonarthis was just in the general area, like the Thrill is in Alethkar. Or maybe Dai-Gonatthis is just enhancing something that was already there.

Renarin can see and show others the future. This seems to include possible futures, like Moash actually being good, or Dalinar turning bad. It’s not gold or Malatium, or even a metal in particular. It is simply seeing all possible futures, and Renarin is showing one where Moash was good.

I personally think the Fabrial was manifesting a bead of ice, then allowing it to melt naturally or melting using a heating Fabrial.

Specific liquids. Maybe Navani was worried she set it to blood and not water. This may not be the case; I’m just throwing ideas out there.

Maybe it just targets liquid.

He never seemed to accept the lost eye, so it could be healed by Stormlight.

Has Moash bonded with a painspren somehow?

Bronze... so Fabrials are more connected with Allomancy than I thought. I still maintain that the mental metals the most important, if not the only ones, to use.

It is somewhat foreshadowed, but I think it is a good possibility. The key idea is a good one. The description on amazon has changed. I don’t quite remember what it was before. Odium did express some interest in what the Alethi had learned about Urithiru, so it is likely Odium may be actively trying to keep things hidden from the Radiants.

Finally, someone who agrees with me! Rysn loves to travel and explore, but can be forceful and resolute when she needs to be. She also seeks freedom from her job at the gemstone reserve and wants to be free from Vorin restrictions like the safehand. Both of these fit the descriptions of the Willshapers (freeing those who are captive and freedom to wear whatever). I also have This one.

Thanks, I’ll fix it.

It could be, but I think metals in Fabrials are just for modifiers. There is probably a spren inside a gemstone in the Fused spears, a very hungry spren that loves to eat some Stormlight.

Theory on the Sibling: The Sibling was the “Godspren” who managed Urithiru, and was capable of a Nahel Bond to a Bondsmith. I believe that the Sibling is inside the gemstone column in the Urithiru gemstone archive. Allow me to explain why. So, we know that a very powerful spren can be captured in a sizable perfect gemstone. Such a gemstone could potentially be used to create a Fabrial. Both Shallan and Renarin have claimed that Urithiru is not a collection of Fabrials; rather, it is a single Fabrial. This brings us to the gemstone column in Urithiru. None of the gemstones on the column look like they would be able to hold a spren as powerful as the Sibling. However, all we see is the outside of the column. On the inside, I believe there is a massive gemstone, possibly an emerald or ruby, that contains the Sibling. The gemstones on the outside of the column are likely tied together with metals to the interior main gemstone where the Sibling resides. These exterior gems hold spren are probably used by the Sibling to regulate the tower’s functions somehow. Whomever the Sibling is bonded to can request the Sibling to do something, such as increase crop production. The Sibling then activates the specific set of Fabrials in the column that controls such a function. There may be a failsafe if the Bondsmith bonded with the Sibling dies, although the Sibling could probably run the tower on its own. In addition, Renarin claims that the column is a Fabrial that is used to “be a city.” This adds to the possibility that the Sibling is inside the column, as many of the speakers in the gemstone recordings associate the Sibling with the tower itself. One of the principles of Fabrial technology we have learned from the epigraphs is that a spren cannot inhabit a gemstone with Stormlight infusing it. It stands to reason that the reverse is true; Stormlight cannot infuse a gemstone with a spren inside of it. Dalinar cannot infuse the column is because the Sibling is inside, as well as the other spren inside the gemstones making up the column. Syl mentions that Urithiru once glowed with a strange kind of light in her interlude. This could be the kind of gaseous Investiture associated with Cultivation (growthlight?), or it could be spren inside Fabrials, which sometimes glow with abnormal colors according to Navani’s prologue. Navani mentioned in Oathbringer that Urithiru has a “heart of emerald (pulp) and ruby(fire), with veins of garnet (blood).” When the Sibling is awake, perhaps these veins glow with Stormlight, Cultivationlight/Growthlight, or another color altogether. Another possibility is that, instead of the Sibling being inside a perfect gemstone, the Sibling was wounded somehow. To repair it, the splinters of its power were gathered and placed inside smaller gemstones and weave together with a lattice of metal. So then, what happened? Before the Recreance, the Sibling withdrew. Many of the tower’s functions stopped working, prompting the abandonment of Urithiru. What I believe happened was that, a bit of time before the Recreance, the Bondsmith bonded to the Sibling broke his/her Oaths. The Sibling was too powerful to be turned into a deadeye, but was sent into a coma-like state. This “slumber” is why the tower stopped working, and hasn’t for the last 2,000 years. This aligns with what the Stormfather said when Dalinar asked about the Sibling: “you have hurt them enough!” You (a Bondsmith) have hurt (broken Oaths) them (the Sibling). None of the Gemstone recordings mention a Bondsmith breaking their Oaths, as it would be a huge blow to morale. Where are we now? It has been 2,000 years since the Sibling began it’s slumber. Awakening the Sibling will be a difficult task, requiring more than just zinc wires. I believe that it will require a person with a personality similar to what kind of people Bonded with the Sibling in the first place. Such a Bond will be necessary for the Rosharans to survive the True Desolation. What does everyone think of my theory?

The Fabrial seems to push the Nahel bond down, canceling all external powers and preventing the Spren from manifesting itself in the Physical Realm. The Perpendicularity is likely to large to be affected, and Dalinar’s other external powers might be dampened.

The Fused use Surges, but use them differently than Radiants do. The Growth Fused can change the shape of his Carapace, and Radiant Growth cannot. That is what I believe we are seeing here, with Transportation Fused unable to take item with them when they teleport.

It isn’t that early to be teasing us with information. I can imagine the novella will focus on Rysn’s travel and explorations of Aimia, and her coping with her disability. We will get some info on the Dawnshards, but I image the real explanations and facts will come later in the series.