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I'll just stick with my, "maaaaaaaaybe"

Here's a pretty good timeline with our best guesses and what hard data we have on it. Be warned, there are full spoilers for all cosmere novels in it, though. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JJtJhHwpKdow01n2-bsT3scVvqJd6lZh4uvpNwcslv8/edit#gid=0

Maaaayyyybe. *Squints* I don't think the timeline fits though. By the time Spook puts the earring in, they've had time to build houses and a "manor" so it's been some months. Unless Sazed Preserved them (which he didn't), they'd be rather icky by that point, yes? Also, these boots are way too big.

Yeah I can see that. Or maybe it's only darkeyes and lower dahn lighteyes that become surgeons, because they can pull off the glove instead of the sleeve. It could definitely go either way.

Ack, I didn't see that the OP hadn't read past WoK. Putting stuff behind spoiler tags now.

I guess she could be. But Vedel was a surgeon, or trained surgeons, (OB) so it would be really weird for it to be a masculine art.

There are female surgeons, so I don't think it's a masculine or feminine art. I spotted one in WoR....lemme find it. WoR Spoiler Remember that while high ranking lighteyes do the sleeve thing, most darkeyed women just wear a glove.

Rushu is on my list for being Chana or Vedel, yeah. I wish we had accurate physical descriptions of the Heralds.

Yeah, in HoA when Elend walks off after his convo with Leras, there's a short description of a body slumping to the ground. Then right before Sazed Ascends, he sees Vin's body and the body of a red-haired man take form and fall to the ground. Weltall, why are you linking to theoryland instead of Arcanum? I am offend! Also, doesn't that preclude Kelsier doing anything with them?

Ohhh I see what you mean now. Sorry! Hmmmm that's interesting indeed.

Their physical body is still their own. It's kind of blended in to the power, like, it's been converted largely into investiture. But as we've seen, once the Shard power leaves them, their bodies return to the Physical plain.

If you're trying to use all of them at once for something big, probably. But while Szeth uses more Stormlight than a proper Radiant does, I don't know if he uses a ton more. He describes the amount he uses a few times, and it doesn't seem to be a huge differential between what he uses and, say, a First or Second Oath Radiant. By the time they get to 3, 4, and 5, Radiants are probably way more efficient, yeah.

Hoid is probably immortal, but there is also time dialation shenanigans going on for many worldhoppers. Some cosmere spoilers for multiple books

Edit: Nevermind, I completely misunderstood. I should go to bed or something, huh?

He might damage it but there's way too much power there for him to destroy it.

(TBH, the theory has been floating around for a while, and I'm definitely in that camp. Coming up with it independently is way better than I could do). Yeah, I'm sure the CS has some control over their appearance. I just really want Secret History 2 to see how he accomplished it

Cymatics. And yes, I agree that it's very likely. I just think that Division possibly could have done the same thing as well. Here's a description of Oh man, spoilers for Oathbringer I actually think it was a few types of Radiants working in conjunction, so it could have been both.

Yep. Brandon's also said that if Sazed were to die, he'd drop one Shard, Harmony, rather than separate Ruin and Preservation Shards. So I think Harmony would have a new, and singular, perpendicularity, rather than two separate ones. Also, I don't have any proof of this of course, but I feel like releasing Odium to wreak havoc on the cosmere would be a bad way to end SA5.

It could be! If Lightweavers had enough stormlight and could manipulate soundwaves, then they could have created the Shattered Plains. Either Division or Lightweaving could have accomplished it, imo. Or Lightweavers in conjunction with Stonewards. There's a lot of fun ways it could have been done

Yep, I agree that Kelsier has stapled himself back into a body. We have indeed seen this with the Fused, and we see this with...oh Warbreaker spoilers Now, how Kelsier managed to figure out how to do that, or what the mechanics of it are....I haven't the foggiest idea. Because it seems like he has something quite similar to his original body. At least, it has all the scars on the arms. Is that just because that's how he perceives himself, and whatever he did forced that imprint onto the body he's in? Or what? So many questions!

Hmmm I hadn't thought that the whole persecution of Feruchemists might be another deep laid plan. Interesting, I'll have to ponder it That is another really good point. Why DIDN'T TLR say something on the metal sheets? I mean, granted, they didn't find any of them till after WoA, so it wouldn't have made a difference. Maybe he was being influenced by Ruin enough at that point that he didn't ever think to put that down? Or, oh, he did have the giant metal sheets of Kwaan's words at the Conventical of Saren that spoke of it. Maybe he thought that was enough? I think the vials themselves will be aluminum. That way, they don't run the risk of the metals inside being pushed away while they are raising it to their lips. Same problem with holsters. I guess it's a pros/cons thing for guns. Unpushable but more fragile? or stronger but pushable while firing?

Hmmm I guess it's possible. I just find it unlikely. Also Aona/Devotion is Compassion/Love, so Odium wouldn't have had a significant amount of that in the first place.

I'd just like to have a variety of PoVs. All of the Kholins becoming Radiants just feels repetitive, if that makes sense?

I only have a second here, but I think for 3--we have a WoB that each spike can only hold one attribute at a time. Also, for Odium, I just don't think that SA5 is going to end with Odium free to go to other systems and meddle again, and we know that Era 2 happens after SA 5. I think I agree with you on 1 and 2, but I'll have to clarify later Edit: Okay, so I think you're right that intent and bind points really only matter when trying to steal the power. We see this often, and we have several WoBs about it. And I agree that the location that the spike is placed is much much less important. We have had spikes in earlobes, I think in an arm? As well as in the chest for multiple people, in the shoulders and chest? for koloss and I have no idea where they are for kandra. So it seems like as long as the spike is charged, location for additional powers isn't too important. The heart does seem to be the preferred location. Perhaps it's strongest if the spike sits in the heart? Location for granting sapience might be important--koloss seem to need their spikes in specific places, at least. Kandra....are still weird. I think the steelpushing and the steelvision are pretty much the same thing. That is, they get the vision and the pushing from the same spikes (in the eyes). It would be kinda weird for those to be different things, since you can't really steelpush if you can't see the metal lines. But the power granted I think is intrinsic to the spike in question, depending on what the person who did the spiking Intended to steal. So I guess I agree with you on 1, half agree with you on 2, and would like to discuss 3, because I think there's a WoB that disputes it. And I really don't think that Odium is going to manage to meddle in any system other than Roshar for the foreseeable future, unless book 5 of SA ends in a really big screw up :l

Mistwraiths breed true, so I think there would still be mistwraiths. Sazed wouldn't have eradicated the species, imo. But they're kind of myths currently. I don't think any of the current cast has seen a mistwraith other than the kandra. Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible for a human to be turned into a kandra without the intervention of a Shard. Their biology is just too different from a normal human's.