Kendelian

I’ve never thought of soulcasting a person as forceful savantism, but it makes sense

Compelling theory, but how does pewter enhance healing

I think part of it was remnants of the damage she sustained when her first Radiant died.

Yeah, that’s what I’m getting at

Both Talenel and the Hoed tend to repeat the same phrase or sentence without any real thought behind it. But Talenel speaks a full monologue of what he would say to a broken society. I feel like this theory fits too well for it to be just a coincidence. In addition, when Raoden used Aon-Dor in front of one of the older Hoed, that temporarily brought him out of his stupor. A similar thing happened when Dalinar opened Honor’s Perpendicularity, something that either reminded him of his true self or gave him a more solid mental standing.

It takes untold levels of strength to restrain myself from becoming a spoiler dispenser.

My initial reaction was dead listener spren, but that doesn’t seem likely because the spren abandoned the listeners pre-Recreance. But the possibility of the listeners finding them out in the wild, dropped by some unfortunate Shardbearer, seems unlikely but possible. The theory of Radiants directly giving them to the listeners or just abandoning the Shards in their territory is one I like.

My guess would be that it could be possible if you tamper with Connection, which may be possible with Shardic influence or hemalurgy

I think it might be possible to survive having part of your soul ripped out of you with the help of someone who can bind the surge of Progression. I think this because in interlude I-19 isn’t WoR, we read about someone revive someone who was mortally wounded via Regrowth. I think that something similar could be applied to someone stabbed in the heart by a hemalurgic spike. I’m unsure if the spiritweb can be mended in a similar fashion, however.

Interesting idea. However, we should keep in mind that the Radiants get their power from the Nahel bond, which I believe used the Surge of Adhesion. The problem is that Odium cannot bind that Surge, so these orders would likely arise from either a modification to how Odium makes Fused and gives them their powers or it would originate from corrupted Radiant spren. The first one could arise from developments with the Shard of Odium in RoW that I won’t go into details over due to spoilers.

It works because there is overlap

I’m not going to quote this whole argument, but one massive flaw with Radiant assassins is the First Ideal, specifically Life before Death. That would directly interfere with killing unless it was required for their oaths or demanded to maintain the general life and/or wellbeing of the many.

One problem with that is that the Radiants will still be bound by oaths, so Life Before Death would interfere with that

What do you think certain Orders of Knight Radiant would do in our society. Like, Windrunner and Skybreaker police forces and Edgedancer therapy clinics.

What effects would a corrupted spren have on a listener form?