sourpanda

You're totally right about Lashings, I forgot how the worked for a second I bet you're right - Rosharans will probably use this, while the Scadrians will use their medallions to move through space. Sig and Vienta actually talk about experimenting with speed and distance via Elsegate and I would love to see someone experiment with that like Kal and Bridge 4 did. That being said, I think Sig's ability to use any sort of Investiture he can + his Torment are what allow him to survive in a vacuum. So a Knight Radiant with enough Stormlight might be able to, but someone like Adolin might have to stay in their Plate. Unless they get some fancy Lashings that can keep their body from sploding. Or they could just be lame and skip right to Elsegates, but there has to be some sort of cap on that. Like, you need Connection to wherever you're going in order to open the gate on the other side or something like that. I feel like all the fabrial development would be a waste though.

I figured the one who claimed him might be Evi The main reason being that he was succed into the Beyond instead of just out of Big T's clutches to somewhere else in the Cosmere. I hadn't considered the possibility of Nohadon and I absolutely love this idea. In-universe amazing-king-guy who apparently has some sort of affinity with the Spiritual Realm, and we don't know whether he died? That's juicy rust. I'm imagining him still in there, just baking bread, chillin, and was able to wave airport marshalling wands and blow his whistle real loud to make sure Dalinar's passage through the Spiritual Realm to the Beyond was uninterrupted by Big T. Dalinar's death was one of the very few we've seen so far where the character has accepted their death. He had a plan that he executed in his last waking moments as a hail mary for the Cosmere, saved Gav, he sent his goodbyes, and his dead body was discovered. The gag of the season story will be The Blackthorn being seen again, and it causing a trauma response for whoever, but then they learn it's Evil Dalinar so it's okay to kill him, even though he's leading Retri's armies, likely very effectively. A Shard (or two) might be able to fight over a soul, but I feel like we'd see it going in a direction that isn't passing on. Dalinar didn't really have any Connection I could think of to any other Shard (aside from Culti, who if anything I could see ushering him Beyond like I said Nohadon could, but not claiming him for her own) so I think it's unlikely that Endowment, Valor, or another Shard did it. That being said, right when Big T takes up the power, it says which is before Dalinar actually dies, so they very well may have been watching when Dalinar passed to the Beyond, even through time-dilation. Honour's power was part of what said to Big T "You cannot have him," so I think we can definitely rule that or the Splinters out. So basically I think it's either Nohadon or Evi, who is part of the Beyond, but this is weird and awkward because of, ya know, Navani.

Leaving Roshar: We know the spren are able to leave now, as 12124 (since he hadn't been renamed yet) mentioned to Sig; it was Odium, Honor, and Culti's agreement/oath that kept them and their power trapped in the Rosharan system. BUT! I'm not sure whether Braize would impact the Herdalds' ability to leave the system or not. Space suits: I think this is what Adolin's armour is going to come in super-handy for, and his chicken foot is going to be most notable in his space suit. Shard Plate seems like it would be perfect for regulating a human body in the vacuum of space! However, I don't know how Gravitation would work in space, given that there isn't a massive planet creating gravity wherever you go. Instead, I could see this becoming handy to artificially create gravity on a space ship. I'm super excited to see how moving in space is accomplished in the Cosmere