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I think the island being described suspiciously circular also leans into this but the illustration showing Hoid and Riina using pre-Reod Aons confuses me. Given that a group migrated to the abandoned city and then a generation or two later the Shaod started happening I don't think genetic or even ancestry in the region is that important compared to just being born in the region.

As long as Shallan can argue her case she should be fine. Jasnah's go to plan to stop the Everstorm was to kill all the Parshmen, with the second hunting down and killing all the Heralds, so she should accept a little lying if Shallan can argue that it was the best course of action.

Along with @That1Cellist I also don't think this means a second Dawnshard. "Known to bind any creature voidish or mortal" sounds like religious poetic platitude (might not be the right word here but something similar). The poem is stated to be ancient but it still gives the vibe of Vorinism's misinterpretations. I agree with your theory that Nohadaon held a Dawnshard but I think it might have just been "Change" itself.

I think Nightblood was in the possession of Cultivation at that time and she later gave it to Nale (after Dalinar's visit) in order to facilitate her long con of killing Rayse.

I could see a new type of Oathpact being forged with the flashback characters being the new Heralds and then the time jump being to when one of them bends their oaths but SA5 would really have to sprint in regards to a lot of those characters being in necessary place (and not just physically) to enact that. Shards can lie. I'm not sure it's possible in this moment but there is a possibility that Odium was lying in order to manipulate what type of Oath he'd be bound to.

Do we know that they don't actually have a muscular heart? Technically most crustaceans still have a muscular heart just not a closed circulatory system. I'm more curious on what their oxygen binding agent is since it doesn't seem to Hb or Hc. I don't know a metal that would bind orange like iron with red, copper with blue, or magnesium with green.

If not actually a typo, Legion has Stephan Leeds creating female aspects so it's definitely something Sanderson has played with before.

Ooh yeah Odium not wanting them to have bonds to anyone but himself.

I didn’t mean literally resistant to being cut. I just meant how like Kaladin heals himself after being attacked by Szeth as if he’d never been cut. Depending on if spiritual healing is less investiture intensive (my gut says no but I don’t think its been addressed) than physical healing if you have the ability a shardblade is actually less effective than conventional weaponry. Maybe get some Midnight Essence like creature to act like Hounds of Tindalos. Duralumin was just an example since I don’t know off the top of my head other aluminum alloys but yeah the fact AoL apparently mentions it (thanks) is what I was getting at.

Not super efficient and I’m not certain it works given how Hemalurgy is supposedly limited but he could reuse spike from members of the Set etc he’s killed.

Technically he changes from “only” to “first” at the end of the WOB but now we are going in circles.

Cultivatium?

Unless they have and those guys are actually skybreakers

Hmm well duralumin is like 90% aluminum. I wonder if there is a specific threshold. And alloys aren’t quite the same a new chemical compounds.

Well it seems like according to you the Ghostbloods have all they need to get people with surges off Roshar.

Can shardblades cut polestones? A lot of them are beryl or corundum which have aluminum as part of their chemical formula.

You seem to be making arguments for why it would be easy to leave Roshar and maintain powers.

I was specifically focusing on parrying Shardblade only. Shardplate you don’t need something specific beyond a big hammer. I meant does shardblade cut duralumin like it would steel or like it would aluminum?

How do you still have your powers if you stored your connection to your spren to get off planet?

Functionally the same so long as you have the Investiture (which is of course the catch) Y’all act like aluminum only comes as foil. It’s one of the more durable metals and if forged in large quantities around a stronger metal I think it could really do some damage. Also do we know how Shardblades would react coming into contact with duralumin? That could definitely open some options up.

Unfortunately don’t have the book infront of me at the moment. Store connection, investiture, and possibly even identity. Bounce from Roshar. Powers might not be maintained until you tap them all again.

Anyone with enough stormlight and possibly other investiture is basically immune as the sword won’t damage them physically and the Investiture will heal them spiritually. Type IV BioChromatic Entities seem immune, Honorblades, aluminum wrapped around steel, unless it act like terken a stream of mastered sand probably hard to cut, Dalinar’s stormwagon, etc. Corner based magic system when? .

Could the wavelength of the light be the reason? I was thinking that maybe it’s too big to normally infuse the gems but that once it is in that’s why it lasts so much longer. But voidlight it like ultraviolet so theoretically it should be smaller wavelength. The fact that is last longer inside gems though points to a permeability issue though either inside or outside the gems.

Well you have to think about what resources are available and if Shards have done anything to mitigate that. Harmony thinks he overcoddled the Basin which stagnated them but he also provided them with stuff like petrochemicals which most planets most likely don’t have access to due to age. Taldain was also isolated so it doesn’t get access to new ideas and technology via worldhopping. But we also haven’t seen modern Taldain, so we can’t say what their tech level was during TLM.

But neither is raw power if it can only be applied one way which might not be applicable to the current situation. Deoxys-A might be great but if it’s only got Psychic attacks to maximize STAB and goes up against a Dark type it’s fukced. I wonder if it is possible to Duralumin burn Pewter (or maybe even any metal) so that the latent amount of Investiture in your system would passively heal you on the level of a Radiant without the surge of progression. I don’t think it would be very practical but something to think about.