Stormtide_Leviathan

I don't think SP1 world or SP4 world are the shardworld for a specific shard, at the very least. Aethers have been around pre-shattering, supposedly, and at the shattering the investiture got assigned to shards but aethers as a whole might not be associated with any one shard, it could be a whole smorgasbord. Aethers seem to maybe be kinda their own thing. Similarly, SP4 might not be a world that was consciously chosen to be invested by a shard. There are dozens of inhabited planets out in the cosmere and they only really become associated with a shard when a shard goes "hmm wait i have some investiture here maybe i can do something with that". But the star is so powerful I guess that probably does indicate something more shardic going on. Like cometaryorbit mentioned, if you have a way to travel to and from the cognitive realm somehow, that shouldn't be an issue. But the scadrians we know were there probably went through the physical realm, since based on various wobs and stuff we've seen that seems to be how they usually go. So they probably used heat shielding, with feruchemic brass,

So, back in the recreance, all the knights radiant broke their oaths, and the spren of those knights became "dead" shardblades that roshar fought over for centuries. But not all radiants have shardblades. From everything we've seen, you have to be at least of the third ideal. So what about all those spren bonded to first and second ideal radiants? They couldn't have gotten off scott-free and survived because then the spren would know more about the recreance and why it happened which, as we saw in ROW, they don't. Did they become deadeyes too, that don't have an associated shardblade? Did they somehow become blades? Did things just work differently back then for some reason and all knights got shardblades?

The sibling uses they/them

Feruchemical tin would be incredibly useful. Both enhancing and dehancing your senses would be quite useful

Also, the infusion of investiture from the mists may have had some healing effect outside of the normal allomantic effects.

It would also be very easy to resupply, if the oathgates still work

I think there's some credence to this. Metal is (outside of godmetals), a "key" to the investiture of preservation, but there are other ways to access that investiture, like drawing on the mists. So maybe in the future it'll become more common to trap mist in a gemstone somehow and use that to fuel allomancy instead (although since mist is only on scadrial, when you're out in space using the metal "hack" will probably still be common). Feruchemy, I'm not exactly sure how it would work without metals. You'd still need something to store the power in I think, but other cosmere magics have let you store stuff (like memories in breath) so it's not out of the question that there are ways to store attributes elsehow. Hemalurgy, I do also feel there are ways to do it without metal. I dunno how exactly, but I've always felt it was off. Many of the metals we know can only take allomantic or feruchemic attributes, but we know hemalurgy is meant to be a magic that'll be used all throughout the cosmere in the future used for all kinds of stuff so it seems odd that so many metals are taken up by only working on one specific kind of magic. But if metals aren't the only way to use hemalurgy, then that's less of an issue.

Was the Well common knowledge? I can't remember but I wouldn't think so. I agree it would make sense if kandra blessings were made using some technique the LR wouldn't want anyone (even inquisitors, possibly especially them) to know about like blanked identities

I hope so! I really enjoyed following along online with the rhythm of war chapters

You're probably right, but these are artistic renditions of the heralds right? People didn't really know much about the powers, so I doubt they'd know specific details like that, and the artist would probably draw her with a glove even if she didn't actually wear one

Oh that'd be neat! It would be cool to create a special glove or something you can use to wield nightblood. It has a nice feel to it, really gets across the "Cursed evil Superweapon" deal nightblood has going on, that you need a special glove to wield it well. (Even though I know that's not exactly what Nightblood is but it's still the vibe)

Honestly, they might have wanted it for research purposes as much as anything

I hope not. I hate the implication that humans, the colonizers of the world, are inherently the "good" side (this is enough of an issue with how brandon's set the conflict up already) and having one of the nicer fused have sided with humans in the past reinforces that.

This is probably a better fit for the cosmere thread channel than the warbreaker one, since it references events of stormlight archive

Scadrial at least seems to be a colonialist expansion state in the future conquering planets, and roshar probably is too. So they fight for the same reason any two colonial states fight. Cause they want the same resources, and don't want eachother stealing their own resources. I assume the planets won't be completely united, there's sure to be infighting and groups with different motives, but if some group on scadrial and roshar have the capability to be out there conquering other planets, it wouldn't be surprising if that group conquered their own planet first. Sel probably would be its own faction, they seem to have quite a presence in the cosmere already from what we've seen, but the nature of Selish magic being location-dependent might affect them in this kind of battle. Nalthis apparently has a long trade history with roshar, so I could see it being allied with roshar, or maybe it even gets conquered by them. I'm pretty confidant roshar will conquer ashyn and braize, its solarsystemmates. (Damn, a colonial empire that conquers its heaven and hell is pretty intense.) Most other planets, we don't know enough about to really say.

Spoiler that please, since this is the mistborn forum.

Ah, okay. That still doesn't necessarily exclude the possibility that he could have taken up honor but it does take away one of the biggest reasons I thought so. Darn

The recreance doesn't really have anything to do with the theory. Nohadon could have taken up honor during his natural lifespan.

Okay so there's probably a lot of evidence that could disprove this. This is not a super well-thought-out or well-researched theory, this is a random thought i had the other day, that I wanted to share. We've heard many times that, in the time leading up to his death, Honor changed. He went insane. And we've kinda assumed that that change is cause of the power of the shard overtaking Tanavast, or at least I have anyway. But what if it wasn't? What if it was cause Honor was a different person? Why Nohadon? Well a couple reasons. Firstly, he's one of the few people we know who was alive long ago enough, and narratively I doubt Honor would have been taken up by some rando we never heard of. There seems to be something special about him, and his philosophy was clearly very significant to the knights radiant. Dalinar had that vision of him that didn't involve the stormfather, but couldn't have been just a dream or something since he revealed info to Dalinar that Dalinar didn't know. And I came across this quote recently, in a different thread on this forum, about how in Nohadon's days (which i think was before the days of the official Radiants, and bonds were more loose then, but i'm not completely sure on that timeline) about how he wanted spren to be more choosy about who they bonded. So it would make sense that he was the one to go on to create the radiants, to enforce this idea. So yeah, what do you all think of this theory? I'm sure there are many holes to poke in it, but it seems like it could make a lot of sense.

Now, this quote is about feruchemy, so there's a number of things that could be different when dealing with kandra blessings, admitedly. But it's very possible this doesn't actually work the way you want it to either.

do you (or anyone else) happen to have this quote on hand? That gives me an idea, that's unrelated to this post so I don't want to derail, but the quote would be helpful

oh absolutely. like i said, he is not ready to take up odium yet. I'm assuming at some point he'll move past the "no more emotions" thing since in Row we saw him breaking through at various points. And I assume that's a major point of positive upswing for his character, when he begins to accept his emotions and his pain

Hemalurgy is a difficult thing to experiment with, because there are so many variables. You have to use the correct metal, have the right Intent, be spiked in just the right spot, and probably sooo many other factors we don't even know about yet. Most characters know so little about it, and it could take a person lifetimes to discover anything about it. So what if it wasn't a person per se doing the experimenting? If there is one thing computers are good at, it's running thousands of calculations in an infinitesimal fraction of the time it would take a person, or even many people, to do the same thing manually. If you were to train an AI to find new hemalurgic possibilities and create new constructs, it could likely run simulations to find hundreds of new viable possibilities in a fraction of the time it would take for people doing manual experiments to find even one. You'd still have to hunt down people with the right traits to be able to test its theories, but you could probably have a much greater degree of success than you would otherwise. Even, say, a 10% success rate would be groundbreaking. (As a tangent, I bet one viable way of creating this would be using zinc, somehow, since it stores mental speed) And AIs are coming to the cosmere. Brandon's described the cosmere as "what if you got to see something like Star Trek develop over time? If you got to see stories from the individual planets that form a part of the greater universe?" It's going to be a science-fantasy universe, with space travel and advanced Investiture-based technology. There's no way that future doesn't include AI and robots. Especially since Investiture tends toward sentience. This would be a great set up for a story about a rogue, killer AI that really could only be done in something like the cosmere. An AI that tries to learn about magic is a story that really plays into the cosmere's strengths, and is something that's both completely logical for someone in world to create and simultaneously extremely dangerous. (As another tangent- the AI would likely be trained on human-based hemalurgy, since that's what most of the known data about hemalurgy relates to, but I believe Brandon has said you could actually spike attributes from AIs, but he hadn't really worked out the logistics of that at the time of the ask since obviously bindpoints get wonky.)

Even if their identity has changed, that doesn't necessarily mean their body will follow suit. I think, in order to instigate a physical change, you'd also need to give them a spike granting gold feruchemy and get them to tap it (or heal them in some other way)