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When it's solidified investiture, such as a god metal, it can be converted back into raw investiture. Regular metals are not made of investiture, and don't really convert into investiture. They're more a catalyst that allows investiture through into the physical realm.

Some of these posts are from 2016 That's a lot of books and WoBs ago.

I don't know that they're so much solid as that people tend to think of lakes, rivers, etc, as a single solid thing--The Ocean. The Purelake, etc. Whereas landmasses, people see things individually, like grass, soil, rocks, buildings, houses, tables...stuff. For Lashings and liquid, Brandon says

I feel like we're getting a touch off-topic here.

So basically, the Heralds were mortal once. After Odium got trapped on Roshar, he created the Fused, which are ancient singers who can possess live singers, take over their bodies, and continue to fight, with all the knowledge gained therein. Ten people went to Honor and offered themselves as a kind of plug, to bind the Fused to Braize, so that the Fused couldn't keep fighting. They became the Heralds. What Honor and the Heralds didn't realize was that the Heralds, being human, could voluntarily bend or break their Oaths and let the Fused back to Roshar. The Fused found that they could torture the Heralds until one of them did that. Once one of the Heralds broke, the entire lot of them would start returning to Roshar, and that would start a Desolation. The Heralds and the inhabitants of Roshar would then have to fight and "kill" each of the Fused, returning them to Braize. Then the Heralds would have to return to Braize as well, to keep them there. They would hide out, evade capture for as long as they could, fight when they had to. But since no one involved could die, and there wer elots more Fused than Heralds, eventually they would get captured, and the cycle of torture and everything would start over again.

The Fused could also heal, like the Radiants can, which makes killing them much harder. Warbreaker and SFS spoilers: A regular Shardblade would hurt them, but it seems like only a direct strike to the gemheart/Fused soul actually kills them, with a regular Shardblade. There's a theory that some of them are so crazy because they've been wounded by Shardblades so often that their spiritwebs are all messed up. Also, an entire army of battle hardened, experienced soldiers that learn from every mistake isn't something to laugh off, either.

So not going there.

I think that'd be hilarious, but highly unlikely and not particularly useful.

Brandon's confirmed that the section of the Diagram dealing with Renarin is blackened because of the interference from Renarin's visions, similar to how two atium burners will cancel each other out (or an atium and electrum burner)

I think that second WoB is referring to the time dilation, myself.

As others have said, we honestly don't know much about the Spiritual Realm. We know it exists, that it's time and location independent, that you can see possible futures and the past in it, that it's where (most) investiture dwells, so to speak, but that's about it. The Coppermind isn't really a place where people put speculation, unless it's pretty firm speculation and even then, it's marked. It's meant to be an encyclopedia of sorts, so it mostly only has concrete information.

Well one of the theories about it has to be correct, so someone on this forum is correct. We just don't know which one.

If he's in full control of the Shard, or even moderate control of the Shard, he can certainly present any face or form that he chooses. I mean, if you look at Endowment's letter to Hoid, she wasn't particularly interested in "Endowing" him with anything, either.

People have figured out how to get some sort of time dilation effect to occur in the Cognitive Realm, and a lot of the non-immortal worldhoppers take advantage of it to skip over periods of time where they're not useful or interested in living through. We don't know exactly how or where it's done right now, though.

I’m sure it’s theoretically possible, but I really really doubt that the spren would be willing to share. It’s effect would be essentially the same as bonding with an Honorblade and a windspren...some compounded strength maybe. But since that mostly depends on the strength of the bond, not a lot of difference.

Devotion is meant to be a synonym for Love/Compassion. As in, the Shard is Love/Compassion but Brandon decided Devotion fit the feel/naming convention better.

Sorry, I must have gotten confused. I thought you were saying that because Rayse believes he's Passion, he's managing to manifest that in his powers.

It's a good theory, but Odium is actually hatred. This is confirmed by Frost, Syl, the Stormfather, and Brandon. We never see him manifest anything that would be passionate, only hatred and consuming void. Rayse is lying--to himself and to others--when he claims that he's Passion.

Even if Rayse in-world believes it, doesn't mean he's right, and doesn't mean that his Shard is actually Passion while he holds it, though. Nothing he manifests has been passionate. It's all been hate or void.

Nah, the Cryptic is the one that was trying to bond with Elhokar before he was killed.

So long as it doesn't end the same way as that story, I love it

No need for spoiler tags for any Stormlight content in this forum, unless someone specifically requests them. The Rhythms, as I said, are the Rosharan version of a Spiritual phenomenon that happens across the Cosmere. They weren't created for the singers, the singers just have the ability to attune to them. They're related a bit to how Mistborn:

I don't think Cultivation is hiding. I think that she's just subtle and playing the long game. The hiding and surviving Shard is actually not involved in any planet or struggle, iirc.

Mmmm Odium had to have been trapped long before Tanavast died. Odium would have no reason to Invest, creating the Fused, the Unmade, and the voidspren, unless he were already trapped, because Investing in places lessens his pool of available power. And the way the Stormfather phrases the Heralds approaching Honor to bind the Fused, says to me that they came up with the idea of the Oathpact based on the bindings on Odium.

So it's a fun theory! But (you knew there'd be a but, didn't you? Because it's me)... The Sibling was withdrawing before the Recreance. Its withdrawal and the evacuation of Urithiru were featured in the gemstone archives, which had to have been recorded prior to, not only the Recreance, but whatever Melishi's plan was. Also, as others have stated, Bondsmiths didn't get Shardblades. My personal theory is that the Sibling was withdrawing because it was unbonded at the time--the generation only had one Bondsmith. And the one that was bonded was the Stormfather. He's called a survivor of the Recreance, after all. In addition, I believe that Tanavast chose his own death at that time so that his Cognitive Shadow would be able to merge with the Stormfather and save him, preventing him from being a deadeye or whatever would happen to him as a mindless spren.