Deejaypenguin

So savantism is an extended use of investiture that makes you 1. More efficient and 2. Better at using it(to my knowledge) so could fused potentially be savants, and could radiants become savants at both surges if practiced for long enough? Heavenly ones barely use any voidlight, if any, while flying, or is this a relation between themselves and odium?

I looked back at the book, You're totally right, my apologies. WoB talks about the Herald's madness(Idk how to link it, so forgive me). Questioner The Heralds seem to be insane in the ways of their Divine Attributes, at least somewhat. Is this because they're Heralds? As Cognitive Shadows, they're subject to people's perception, like how spren are? Brandon Sanderson That's a very astute question, and yes, that is influencing them quite a bit. I'm doing something here with the Heralds. Like, I want the Heralds "madnesses," as we call them, to be magical diseases. And the contrast of something like Kaladin's depression, which I'm trying to treat very real-world. I'm trying to treat them as these things that couldn't exist in our world. They're fantastical mental diseases, like we have fantastic physical diseases in Elantris. So I did make them thematic, and I would say part of the reason for that is people's perception of them and their mental state reacting against that. And that should be a theme among all of the Heralds. The madness of the Heralds is a mix of the torture given to them on Braize, as well as a "magical" disease, given to them by people's perception of them fighting the actual ideas of themselves they have in their heads. This could be fixed 2 ways I believe. One, Kaladin's therapy helping them restore their original sanity, and 2, Szeth's wife's account of the final days before Stormfall, given before each chapter in the first and tenth days. This could restore the people's ideas about them, changing the public perspective and restoring the "magical" aspect of their mental state.

I just finished the book maybe 20 minutes ago, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe the Heralds spren are in the SR with them. They only transported the minds of the heralds, but their bodies are still on Braize, getting tortured(By whom, I'm not sure, as the Everstorm means the Fused aren't trapped anymore[This could be wrong too]). Now with the relation to the PR and the time passing, I imagine the connection they have to their bodies in the physical realm would tether them, as the rock Wit gave Dalinar and Navani would have done as well. However, the time on Roshar is passing at a slowed pace, like how Cadmium works on Scadrial, only on a planetary scale. This doesn't expand to Braize, presumably, so even without the weird SR time shenanigans, time will have passed faster for the Heralds compared to everyone on Roshar. Remember, Kaladin is no longer mortal. The Connection made to Honor through Ishar invested him enough to become a cognitive shadow, which means his body(and mind/memories maybe) will be made of pure Investiture. We've seen Hoid store vast amounts of memory in breath, just a comparatively small amount of Investiture to the power of Honor infusing Kaladin and the heralds. While they couldn't use breath, the amount of information that can be stored in Investiture could probably hold the memories that the Heralds make while getting therapy from Kaladin in the SR.

I'm listening to Mistborn again, both Era 1 and 2, and was thinking of other ways Feruchemy could be used. One specific instance would be using a brass metalmind to store heat, and then tap it several times over, and burning others that you touch. I imagine that the user would not be affected because of the way that we see Wax use his feruchemy, with his bones reinforcing to support the extra weight( or something along those lines), and the heat wouldn't be strictly internal because we see pewter Ferrings physically grow muscle. Would this or something on the other end of the spectrum be possible, drawing heat from yourself so fast you could inflict frostbite or freeze the target?

I'm already teased by my friends for being in two, so ill take a rain check on that! Hmm, this is a tough one! I want to say Hoid, because he seems like he would be the most interesting. But he'd also leave a huge mess everywhere and always have people over. Maybe I would choose Shalan, but it would be difficult figuring out the different dynamics with all 3 of her. I think I'd have to go with Adolin or Raoden, they just seem the most chill as people in general!

Well in that case, I would love a cookie!

I have to say the Purelake! Everyone there seems so relaxed and chill, you couldn't not like living there! (Whats wrong with the cookies...)

Whats up yall! I've been reading Sanderson for a few years now, and my dad and friends don't want to put up with my questions and speculations, so now you all have to deal with it! My favorite book is probably Rhythm of War, and I cant say I have a least favorite one! I've read almost all of the books except white sand and sixth of dusk, but I'm making my way there. Excited to be here with yall!

From what I've seen, Hoid is attempting to get as much access to investature as possible. He becomes Mistborn using a bead of Leaurasium, gains access to stormlight by bonding a spren, becomes an Elantrian and is able to use AonDor, can use Yolen Lightweaving, and holds enough breaths to get him to the second heightening. A major goal might be to defeat Odium, but as one of the original "Shatterers". Could he be against Sazeds ascension to harmony and try to prevent that from happening again, or even try to destroy harmony?

I was thinking about the effect that each had on the worlds themselves and worlds around it.