VersatileThrenodite

The bondsmiths seem way to unique. Navani seems to have a different set of powers compared to Dalinar for example

One of my IRL friends thinks that each order has an expression of one of their surges that's spiritual or cognitive in addition to the effects that manifest in the physical. Like windrunner squires are because they have a sort of spiritual gravitation effect.

This seems like a mix of resonances or each Order getting to be better at a primary surge than others. Also I thought the windrunner resonance was Squires.

Idk. In WaT when the enlightened spren are stabbed with the anti-Stormlight dagger it seemingly only destroys the honor aligned investiture in them. Rabonial used anti void light to kill her daughter too. I think Investiture needs the specific anti-investiture to be affected. Also the Dakawaga wasn't harmed by the intensifer in either mode that they operated it in, which makes me think either Ed's explanation or the current Arcanist understanding of the Nephilim as beings of Anti investiture isn't entirely accurate.

I must have missed the place where Brandon wrote this is the finale of the cosmere. A lot of media will paper over the fact that progress isn't linear or uniform in order to tell a more palatable story. In fact a subtheme of this book was the positive and negative aspects of technological progress. Sixth's inner monologue was constantly weighing the pros and cons of his growing irrelevance in a safer modern world. Personally I believe that "making things better" is a constant struggle and should never be taken for granted. I still see plenty of light at the end of the tunnel for our heroes. Its always darkest before the dawn. Even the darkest nights will end etc... I'm also holding out hope that we just keep seeing the worst actors representing these planets and not the average person living there.

WaT was supposed to feel bleak, but even in that bleakness there are rays of hope and potential for the future. I'm not sure we can paint a picture of the whole planet or even the faction these people represent. I'm not sure Odium or Retribution are still in charge of Roshar not to mention the only Rosharan we've seen so far was solo and a member of the Skybreakers who've already been shown to be hardliners in the timeline of the books. He doesn't seem to mind so much. I choose to be hopeful like Starling and view his absence from the Eternal Shores as an indication he's alive So he's just about as useful as usual? He doesn't seem to concerned or he probably would have tried giving starling a hint at where he is. Brandon's Dragons seem to be a combination of Tolkien's most discompasionite elves mixed with biblical angels. It sounds like their society has only gotten more calcified as the moderating voices in dragon society have died or cut themselves off from the cosmere. Its almost a stereotype of Brandon's at this point to have a protagonist that's diametrically opposed to their society. I felt it was pretty obvious from Starling's pov that her culture is stagnating and dyeing because they refuse to take part in the affairs of mortals. It's ok to no longer feel like a series is for you. But I would argue the current state of the Cosmere is not much bleaker than it was during Mistborn era one.

There might only be a few known abilities. It seems like the abilities we do know about facilitate the survival of the birds and their partners. Its only been a few years since Patji was cleared to make raising the birds easier, and that probably will lead to new abilities being discovered.

Oh yes. But obviously our Malwish friends and the Skybreaker aren't working with the best of intentions. Treating the Prime Directive like the Prime suggestion. But Zellion or other more responsible individuals might have tried to be a bit more smooth.

If there's anything like a Prime directive, based on the Sunlit Man it seems like this is one of the biggest factors.

Ask any former college grad in their 40's or 50's who the Rizzler is or what Aura is and you'd probably get different answers and that's just evolving through slang. And that's not taking into account forced assimilation efforts. Many native American languages have virtually disappeared in only a few hundred years since the founding of the USA for example. Its not unreasonable even in a Brandon story for a minority culture to be suppressed.

Any number of reasons. Language is constantly evolving. Ask any random person off the street if they can read a middle ages form of their dialect let alone a potential root language like proto indo European

The same Frost behind the in cosmere 17th shard. Who's constantly giving Hoid a hard time for involving himself in planetary problems, turns out he was involved directly in a societies relocation however many thousands of years ago.

Well, it was for Ed! What sort of Arcanistry do you think the Silverlight Argent gets up to?

Could it be Odium and Ambition fighting? The next line is he made them attack each other and rode the resulting wave across the sea? This doesn't feel right I'll admit because it seems like they have familiarity with the Nephilim. Maybe Odium and Honor clashing we know it created the shattered plains but what effect would it have had in the cognitive realm. Maybe the people of first of the sun are the sailors on the infinite sea mentioned in one of the stories we hear in Stormlight Archive.

He told them to tell the story so it might have spread quickly. Who knows how long the Nephilim stuck around after killing Cakoban but if it stayed in the general area it may have been compelled to return to the body as the Identity imposed by the story solidified. Also Cakoban was juicing and heavily invested when he died whos to say he didn't have an outsized influence on the entity.