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I feel like they would still go insane as you are literally ripping off pieces of their soul.

Connection seems to be more of a link between spirit webs (individuals and locations) and less manipulation of a spirit web itself. I don't think it allows you to rewrite a person. I doubt even soul forging would be enough. Of the arts, it seems that a willing bond (to a spren or aviar), or a direct influence of a shard is required. Connection could not provide that.

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What would inverted investiture even look like?

In Secret Histories, Preservation does use the sun in a metaphor for how the Realms work. However, the sun is never described as inverse, only as tiny and seen through dense grey clouds. I expect it is a different sun than the one seen in the Rosharan Cognitive space. I assume that Preservation is not literally saying that the sun seen in the Cognitive realm is the Spiritual Realm, as we know that the Spiritual realm does not real have space/shape, given that space, time and distance are irrelevant. Instead, I think he is saying that the Spiritual Realm is the source of all investiture, like the sun is the source of light. That light/investiture becomes physical due to the perception of them. As they are perceived, they are created. Now, why is the Scadrian Cognitive sun different than the Rosharan Cognitive sun. Well, perception. The Scadrians only ever saw the sun through ash and mists. They think of it as distant and largely less important than someone who grew up on an Earth like planet. Therefore it is represented as tiny and clouded. The Rosharans though, did not have that growing up. To them it is a sun much more like what we would have on earth. So why is it inverse. Not entirely sure, but I assume it is related to the shadows that point the wrong way and how invested light works. We know that the light in gemstones is invested. We also know that it is slightly related to how humans in the cognitive realm are drawn to the beyond. Liquid and solid are inversed in shadesmar, why not light. I think it has to do more with the investiture. Stormlight is viewed as a primary source of light and power. It would make sense for it to be conflated with sun in the minds of Rosharans.

Hmm, I think change and create could be the same. Investiture is neither created or destroyed, so "creating" is just changing investiture from one form to the other: Change/Create: Cultivation Invention Virtuosity Endowment Control: Ruin Dominion Autonomy Honor Feel: Odium Devotion Whimsy Mercy Protect: Preservation Survival/Prudence Valor Ambition The problem with all of our guesses is that they don't really consider which of the Dawnshards is the one different from the others. Why do the shards have to fall under a Dawnshard? Do we know that they even related like that, other than 4*4 = 16? I feel like we are overlooking something.

Granted. You can become invisible, but when you are invisible, everyone else's skin is invisible to your eyes. I wish for self washing dishes.

For Dustbringers it might be recognizing that sometimes that there are things outside their control. So maybe, "I will not hold myself responsible for things I cannot control." For Edgedancers, maybe "Some people are better left forgotten." For Willshapers, could be "Freedom comes with a price" or "Not all freedom is beneficial". Bondsmiths will probably be highly unique to the individual bondsmith.

I don't really think so. The level of investiture they have would probably not be enough. The couple of times we have seen humans (not cognitive shadows or shards) do this is when they are INCREDIBLY heavily invested, Ascended invested levels. Even then they are not fully in the Spiritual Realm. See this WOB: At another point he says that all things are one in the spiritual realm, that it is made up of connections and investiture. Being there physically would probably make you go a little mad to be part of everything at once. Does not really seem much like a normal Radiant skill. Going the cognitive realm is a little more realistic.

Maybe if you use Navani's technique and also knew the true tone of Harmony.

Gets Domination Bands Inserts BitCoin

Gets a vengeful and overprotective Syl. Inserts one of Shallan's drawings.

Granted, the robot forgets to sign your name so you get 0s on all your homework. I wish for functioning portal guns.

Hmm, being able to pull over unkillable forces that you could then press gang into an army sounds useful, if horrible, during a war with reincarnating foes. Or he could be trying to take hostages in order to force spren into Radiant Bonds to increase his number of loyal surgebinders. Maybe he simply thought he could force Odium into the Physical and kill him that way (unlikely).

With the introduction of the fused I have started to wonder about the purpose of the Honorblades. Yes, they make nice weapons, but why tie the ability to use surges (before the spren copied them) to the blade? Why not grant the Heralds access to the surges and stormlight directly? Fused don't require this. Just like the Heralds, they are cognitive shadows. Unlike the Heralds, they can directly ask Odium for Voidlight using the Song of Prayer. Additionally they have access to their surge without needing a special weapon. Similarly, when the humans were on Ashyn, they had the equivalent of surges, which they used to destroy most of the world. There is never any mention to it being tied to physical items. And the magic will supposedly mutate in a disease based system. Maybe honor was trying to build a failsafe if one of the Heralds died, it could be passed to someone new. But this only makes sense if they were created BEFORE the Oathpact and I rather think that they were created at the time of the Oathpact. Maybe honor was trying to put limits on Honorblades that a direct connection would not allow for (things like stormlight usage is much higher and you cannot heal). Though that also feels wrong, a direct connection not a medium would probably more efficient inherently. Plus, intentionally reducing the power of your champions seems stupid. Maybe honor was doing something quite different. We know that his death was a protracted event. Maybe he saw enough of what was going to happen to put a backup plan in place. Put enough of his power in to the 10 blades of his champions, then when the day of need truly came, Bondsmith could UNITE the 10 blades, potentially with the stormfather, to provide enough power to win the day.

That is probably not true. See this wob:

Not just memory, but the ability to see things differently and change what they see.

Did you mean hunting? I am pretty sure they are not helping him.

Granted: They appear blank to anyone but you. I wish I could clone Sanderson so he could work on Cosmere and non-Cosmere works (ie Rithmitist II) at the same time.

That would be AWESOME!!!

that would explain food and waste issue. But what about bathing? Even a Bendalloy compounder would start to smell after a while without baths.

If he does not eat, does not bathe, does not seem to produce waste, what is he? A cognitive shadow? The 16 clue does indicate scadrial, but who? Not Preservation or Ruin's Vessels... Kelsier would not act like that. Maybe someone trying to avoid the set? Who would have been invested enough when they died to create a CS?

Hoid IS a knight radiant... But before that he also has breaths and other investiture. He probably is not manipulating his identity. He acts the same everytime we seem him. The only time we see him acting odd (for Hoid) is at the end of RoW. Now, we do know that he is storing memories in breaths/investiture. Odium/Taravangian (and theoretically other shards) can look through and erase anything in there. I don't think that changes his identity. Hoid is really old, but still alive. He is a world-hopper. He has held a dawnshard. He is HIGHLY invested. I think these things have more to do with is ability to not be easily be killed by a shardblade. I like where you are going with Aluminum, but I don't think it translates to Hoid.

Ok, so the planet is not the sapience, just the investiture infusing the planet is becoming sapient. I would agree with Sanderson that it is semantic.

I wonder if a shard that has a planet as a Vessel could use the entire planet as a spaceship to "world hop".