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Please change your thread title to be less spoilery, per the spoiler policy at the top (it's also a touch long?). I'm reluctant to speculate on who We Killed You was referring to because we literally have no information other than that. I personally don't think he referred to Adonalsium, but I'm not sure he was referring to Honor or someone else. Also, hey, welcome to the Shard!

The positions are mostly aesthetic. There might be some thematic relevance, but they're mostly artistic in nature.

In Brandon's books, you kind of have to pay attention to everything lol. Vivenna's storyline is probably the trickiest, with Siri's interactions being second. Vasher's importance will become clear pretty quickly. For comparison, here are descriptions of the two paintings. Lightsong Kaladin So yeah, they're definitely different paintings, I think. Even with Kaladin not having perfect color detection, I don't think he'd be able to see white/light red instsead of red-blue with a hint of black.

More Jasnah would absolutely be terrific.

Not sure on that one. Maybe they experience the entire death of the physical body before they're released to find another, and that experience is so traumatic that it injures the soul as well? And I like the idea that the Shardblade deaths injure their souls more than regular deaths.

You ninja'd me, but I ninja'd you back!

She's the highmarshal that helps them in Kholinar. If you know the sword is Nightblood then good on you. I didn't want to spoil it for you if you didn't know

Mmmm if you want to theorize about just SA, not very. SA is self contained, with cameos from worldhoppers. If you want to theories about the cosmere, then you'll definitely want to read the other books. The closest I would say to "required" reading would be Warbreaker, as it is part of Zahel and Azure and sword-nimi's backstory.

I'd say if it's not in the past few days or first few pages, and you don't easily see it in a search, feel free to post it. If there *is* another thread that someone remembers, we can link you to it.

Both are perfectly fine. We're always good with brainwashing inducting explaining things to newcomers

Yeah I think that's the prevailing theory at the moment across the Shard.

You could probably Flesh Forge them into never having had the arm cut off in the first place, depending on how much investiture that will cost and how plausible it is that the arm wasn't cut off. You wouldn't need Regrowth in that scenario.

I don't think that they would be considered Splinters of Odium if they were originally made by another Shard.

The big thing is that all of the Unmade are Splinters of Odium, so they wouldn't have been around before he started in on Roshar.

I'd say trust but verify. Listen to what she has to say, but always have a plan in case of betrayal.

Nope, not that I can find.

The flame isn't the exact same as the sapient mind. It's the cognitive representation of the mind and the body. So with enough stormlight and concentration, you would be able to Soulcast it, in a similar way to anything else. There's a passage in one of the books where someone touches one of the flames (having trouble finding it) that describes this.

It's almost impossible to spike anything to steal its investiture without killing it. Spren, since they are pure investiture, I don't think it's possible at all. I think you're too focused on using hemalurgy to get around problems that could have other, easier/less-apt-to-kill-someone methods I think putting the spren into a gemstone would work. Or providing it with stormlight to sustain itself away from the primary source of its investiture.

Trapping its investiture in a spike is possible, as I pasted in the WoB above. It would also kill the spren.

In a sapient being, the body doesn't have a separate cognitive aspect. It's just the mind. If you recall, in Shadesmar, people are represented by flames. There's not a separate bead for the body, and a flame for the mind.

...I think that would kill the spren. In order for a Shardblade to cut something, it has to be...visible and solid enough to cut, so a Shardblade is definitely out. You could steal the spren's investiture with hemalurgy, but I don't know if you can spike *in* a different connection. I'm not sure if spren would even have bind points. Might be easier to give a spren a medallion (I wonder if those would work)

Right but she soulcasts it into one homogenous thing (and an essence at that). I don't think you could build an arm with blood, bone, marrow, tendons, ligaments, nerves, muscles, fat and flesh. They can't even manage decent tasting grain. And again, for *any* kind of cosmere healing to work, the person has to perceive themselves as whole. That's the stumbling block that you're going to keep running into. Regrowth will not work to attach an arm, soulcast or otherwise, or grow an arm, or anything like that, if the person doesn't see themselves as having that arm. At which point, it'd be much simpler to get that person to perceive themselves as whole than to try and get parts of a sapient being to change into other parts of a sapient being, that you might not know the composition of in the first place.

They still need to Cognitively see themselves as healed for that to work, though.

Soulcast it, you mean? I think there are too many different things that make up an arm in order to soulcast it, and I have no idea how you could attach it to the body in any of the Realms. It's also not convincing the body, but the person and how they see themselves.

The acceptance thing is actually part of the Cognitive, rather than the spiritweb. The spiritweb knows that an arm should be there, but because the cognitive self doesn't believe that an arm should be there, the arm doesn't regrow. It *might* work with an arm that's been cut by a Shardblade, as long as the person believes that their arm will regrow as well.