ShardlessVessel

I'll have to look for the quote, but I'm pretty sure that Maya transforms (in a small way) to help Adolin in Oathbringer.

I think "hurt me" works just fine. Kaladin swears to "protect even those I hate, so long as it's right". The third Ideal seems to be a very personal oath, so I think it's fitting that it's sworn for oneself.

The trouble here, in my opinion, is that we don't know what the difference between a Mistborn and a Misting, or a Keeper and a Ferring is in terms of sDNA. A person that is born with only one power may have a completely different sDNA when compared to a person that is born with all of them; that is, there could be one "gene" for each Allomantic ability and then another one entirely that makes you Mistborn. If you stole the power from 16 different Mistings and put them all in one person, then that person's children could inherit one of those assorted misting "genes" but not the proper Mistborn "gene" that would grant them all at once. Conversely, you can steal individual powers from a Mistborn, implying that they possess all 16 "genes" and not a single unique "gene". That was a bit rambly, so I'm sorry if I'm not making sense. Basically, I speculate that an Inquisitor cannot have Mistborn children because their spiritweb is a patchwork as opposed to a proper Mistborn, but I do not think it's possible to be sure unless Brandon can give us more detailed information on why exactly you can't be born with e.g. three powers instead of either one or sixteen. And we also don't really know what "sDNA" means; it probably has nothing to do with actual genes, and more to do with Connection.

Checking the Coppermind, it seems that Dalinar made the decision to go to the Nightwatcher (and thus lost his memories of his wife) after Gavilar's death.

I'm uncertain whether you can use a Surge to undo its own effects. Adhesion and Abrasion are separate surges, for example, and they have opposite effects. The surge of Progression encourages (re)growth. I'm not sure that it can be used to stall (re)growth, or even whether there is another surge that could do that. Perhaps that's within the capabilities of voidbinding?

Spren predate the Shards on Roshar. They didn't come from the Shards as much as they were changed by their arrival. That said, we have spren-like entities on other planets: Scadrial has the mists, which are a semi-sentient manifestation of Investiture Sel has seons and skaze Threnody arguably has the Shades, though they're not quite the same One of the secret projects I probably have forgotten some, but I think those examples (aside from Shades) are what you're looking for.

Given the metaphysics of the Cosmere, I would not be surprised if telepathy via Seeking were possible. Depending on how exactly Allomantic bronze works (it may be picking up on cognitive or spiritual signals, for example), the cognitive activity in someone's mind could be picked up by a sufficiently sensitive Seeker. In the Cognitive Realm, you can basically do that by just touching a person in the Physical. ... but could they send thoughts to someone else, or only listen?

There seems to be a misunderstanding here. A bad metal or alloy is an impure metal. There are a set of specific metals and alloys that the Metallic Arts can use. If you are, for instance, a iron Misting, you need pure iron to burn. Any impurities present in the metal will make it ineffective, and if it's very impure it can make you sick. With an alloy, there is a very specific alloy that an Allomancer can burn. Allomantic duralumin, for example, is 96% aluminum and 4% copper. If you were Mistborn and tried to burn an alloy of 80% aluminum and 20% copper, it would make you sick, and may actually kill you. Metals which do not have an allomantic power cannot be burned, not even by Mistborn.

I've thought about this. One theory that I had is that the symbols correspond to the shape of the CR itself. Where there's water at sea level, it's a rocky surface, but where there's deep water there are tall hills. Where there's land, there are holes in the black rock; the taller the landscape, the deeper the depressions in the stone. My idea is that on Sel the Dor takes the place of the beads from Roshar, and the lines of the Aons correspond to deep cavities where the Dor falls (like the mountain range to the east) or tall obstructions that block the Dor (like the sea to the north, or Lake Alonoe). That would mean that it's purely geographical, aside from the matter of cognitive activity. I'd have to know the base symbols of other nations' magic systems to substantiate this hypothesis, though. I'm going off the fact that Aon Aon is shaped by a sea, a mountain range, a lake and a seismic fault line, all of which would correspond to deep elevations or deep depressions in the CR.

I may have jumped the gun a bit. I haven't finished the stream yet, but Brandon seems to use the term "hold" for Dawnshards quite liberally, and all but states that Nomad actually was the Dawnshard.

(emphasis mine) I don't have much to elaborate here, but I want to draw attention to this word: held. One does not hold a Dawnshard. One becomes a Dawnshard. Brandon's statement that he "phrased that very intentionally" seems to imply that Sigzil is not a Dawnshard or Dawnsliver. I've seen speculation that the First Gem, Hoid's topaz, housed a Dawnshard like the mural Rysn finds in her novella. Perhaps Sigzil has held the First Gem, but didn't become the Dawnshard within.

I think the knight-squire relationship between Nomad and Auxiliary is a misdirection to make us assume that this is the cognitive shadow of a Radiant. The relationship between spren and Radiant varies between individuals. Syl is like Kaladin's sister; Lopen's spren, whose name escapes me, is a mute child; Wyndle is almost a parental figure for Lift. And Szeth's highspren seems to think they're a deity and Szeth their servant. Sigzil's honorspren could be a knight among their society, and they could have this relationship going on: the spren is the "knight" teaching the "squire" how to be a Radiant. I like the idea that deadeyes can form a "reverse bond", though. Aux seems to be the one using the magic in this book, not Nomad, which is a direct inversion of the way that magic manifests in a Radiant bond. The spren grants Surges, and the human uses them. Here, the human asks the spren to use Surges for him.

Agreed. I interpreted that as a metaphor, similar to describing his days as a bridgeman as a "living hell".

This is something that it's been burning in my mind since reading the spoiler chapters. The theories I've seen so far hinge on the idea that there's something about the planet that turns people into Shades when they die, but it appears that it's something about the people that makes them transform. It's Threnody's magic system. Assuming, of course, that Nomad knows what he's talking about and isn't just drawing wild conclusions from an unfortunate event during a visit to the Forests of Hell.

We do NOT know that. We know Hoid is mistborn and that he has, among his many Invested possessions, unsealed metalminds. We don't fully know how unsealed metalminds work - there's no guarantee that Hoid could burn an unsealed duraluminmind, or that he could use it to make other metalminds to compound.

I am firmly on the "Dalinar is the 'Bind' Dawnshard" field until it's disproven by the text.

A Knight Radiant is also created with a "mere oath". Why can't the Heralds be the same? Their bond is called the OATHpact, and it was made with Honor, the Shard of Oaths. Obviously, there's more to it than just saying some words - just like it is for a Radiant - but the first step may very well be to say the right words and mean them. That said, I never liked the Oathpact much. You get ten people, bind them together and then throw them at a planet and expect them to withstand torture forever. And when they break under the torture, you expect them to lead and prepare the people for a massive war, then fight in that war knowing that when (not if, when) they die they will have to go back to the torture. And you expect them to never falter. This was never sustainable.

The impression I get is that Gavilar thinks the "conniving" Axindweth tried to manipulate him and then ran away after he grew suspicious, when in reality she was discovered by rivals, framed and forced to flee. Speaking of which, there was a Feruchemist keeping an eye on Dalinar up until ROW...

The "videoconference" behavior didn't surprise me, it was the other stuff. I was under the impression that seons didn't have much physicality, so seeing one acting like it has hands was jarring. And there's the way Thaidakar seems to be controlling the seon. Maybe they just rehearsed that, or the seon can choose not to let some words through (like "pull down the cloak", "turn invisible" and "make a dramatic exit"). It almost seems like he's possessing the seon, though. Perhaps he's controlling it like he would a Hemalurgic construct, which is an.. interesting thought when you consider that spren may be susceptible.

If you guys don't mind, I want to draw attention to Thaidakar's "avatar". It can do a whole bunch of things I was not aware seons were capable of. Thaidakar can seemingly control it remotely It can grab things - it even simulated using hands to grab the cloak and lower its hood It can turn almost invisible It can shrink Last time I checked, seons were talking balls of light. What is this?

This reminds me of Ishamael from the Wheel of Time. I wonder if they share more than a couple of syllables in their name.

It seems natural that the buildup will continue, but I wonder if it starts changing the person physically at some point. Savantism is essentially burning so much metal that it warps your soul. I wonder if especially long-lived Savants would eventually start developing physical deformities and/or mental issues, as happens with Hemalurgic constructs.

Suppose you are an unscrupulous Seeker who is looking to dramatically increase their power. I have a recipe for you, and it will take at most three murders. We know from WOBs that it's possible to store unconventional senses, including Allomantic senses, so you'll need to spike a Windwhisperer. To compound your tin, you'll spike a Tineye. For extra Copper-piercing, you'll spike a Seeker. I wouldn't advise going beyond three spikes, as that lets Harmony control you. How to make use of your ill-gotten powers should be self-evident, but here's the plan anyway: Burn bronze optionally, burn tin, which may or may not improve the efficacy of your bronze fill a tinmind with Seeking burn the tinmind rinse and repeat Now you should have near-infinite Seeking power. You may start displaying strange powers as you tap more and more tin and start being capable of sensing static Investiture (assuming that's within the capabilities of Allomantic bronze). I'm not completely certain whether you'd need to burn bronze at the same time as tapping tin, as I'm not sure that you can tap senses you don't currently have.

We have a WOB on this, actually: And I just found this other one: So, Adonalsium could have Shattered into different Intents, and even a different number. In an alternate Cosmere, there may have been 8 Shards, with none of their Intents matching the ones we got.

On the one hand.. On the other... Not as clear as I thought. I'll go with "yes, anyone can use it" for now.