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Most magic in the Cosmere is lcoated in the Spiritual Realm, where location and distance aren't important. So most magics can be accessed anywhere, so long as the user has the appropriate fuel. In this case, metal, which is present on all Cosmere planets. The metal isn't invested--it's just a key for the investiture to come through, so metal from anywhere would work, just like color from anywhere would work for Awakening.

Syl doesn't have firsthand knowledge of events before she was shaped, which was after Aharietiam. I don't know how much she knows/remembers from her early days either. Odium definitely didn't create the humans on Ashyn, nor were they following him around. Remember that before he went to Ashyn, he went to Sel, and somewhere near-ish Threnody. And he doesn't like to Invest, and creating life would definitely involve Investing. We don't know for sure where the humans on Ashyn originated. They could have been created by Adonalsium, or been refugees from Yolen, or who knows what. But I really think Odium just came, influenced them long enough to get them to destroy themselves, and moved on to Roshar.

Oh! Sorry, I misunderstood! I generally don't like to make concrete statements unless we know things for 100% sure. So it's most likely not surgebinding as we know it, but I've been wrong before, and Brandon might have something up his sleeve

Why probably not? We know that the Nahel bond, and surgebinding as we know it, post-date the Heralds, and thus, must post-date the first Desolation(s). So the fact that the Elia references "surges" means that they had to have been using a different form of magic.

They had some form of magic, which the ancient singers called "surges" but were probably not accessed the same way that Radiants accessed them.

Ah, I see, I misunderstood what you meant. Right, Dawnshards destroyed Ashyn, but Radiants were afraid surgebinding would destroy Roshar, I think is what I'm trying to say. So while surgebinding wasn't relevant for Ashyn, that's where the fear of surgebinding destroying planets comes from. It might mean some of what we're seeing now, and what Nale said and Notum hinted at--because Honor was dying/is dead, there'll be fewer limits on Radiant powers, and the lack of those limits heightens the potential for destruction.

Because Honor said both. Edit: I forgot to actually link the thread with my theory that the spren were willing participants in the Recreance.

I think the reasons for the Recreance were multifold--disillusionment of their "higher calling," the realization that they lobotomized an entire species, plus the promise from their God that they and their powers would destroy the planet, among others. I also wouldn't be surprised if it were their spren's idea in the first place. This is probably the one you wanted

So when Cosmere healing takes place, it heals to the Spiritual Ideal. The Spiritual Ideal is affected by age. So even though the organ is the tip top shape it can be, the organ is still old and wearing out. So it just eventually stops working, because the Spiritual Ideal is also aged. So the organs still give out eventually. It takes longer because most damages are healed, but not quite all. I think that if they have a healing started before they're hit, they could theoretically heal from it. Stormlight is more passive healing, and requires effort in order to heal a Shardblade wound, so I think the Radiant would have to be expecting the hit and forcing through the healing before the hit happens. I would guess gold-healing would be the same way.

Yep! That was Brandon's inspiration for the name. He's said one of the themes of the Cosmere is regular people given divine power. https://wob.coppermind.net/adv_search/?query=adonai https://wob.coppermind.net/events/83/#e7183 https://wob.coppermind.net/events/3/#e100

It's from the unpublished Liar of Partinell excerpts. They used to be on Brandon's site, but were removed or got lost in one redesign or another.

Welcome to the Shard! Your theory is really nicely formed and well thought out. As of right now, however, Hoid's old master was the original Hoid. OG Hoid was a jesker, or a storyteller, and was poisoned prior to NG Hoid going off on most of his adventures. And happened before the Shattering. Technically, this isn't completely canon, so it could change. But that'd be a really big change in Hoid's origin story, and I don't get the sense that it would happen. In the Traveler excerpt, it's heavily implied that Hoid wanted to Shatter Adonalsium in order to change the rules of the cosmere and find a way to bring someone back from the Beyond. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/332/#e9518

Brandon has actually said that Odium is the third Shard on Roshar, and that there have only been three Shards on Roshar. I'll be boring here, and point out that the Fused consider themselves to have helped Odium kill Honor.

I'll ask about the misspellings. I suspect they're just due to the artist not really being fluent in women's script (and who could blame him?) and wanting it to look good, rather than 100% accurate.

Actually Liring trained with a surgeon who had trained in Kharbranth. Lirin himself did not train in Kharbranth.

Yep looks like reddit beat us this time. Still, great job, everyone!

ALL OF IT!

According to one of the creators of the Call to Adventure game, in the Taravangian art, the women's script is taken from known snippets of the Diagram, but there might be a secret joke in them! So, Sharders, translators unite, and find this joke (unless the joke is on us, of course). Here is the comment: And here is the art by Ari Ibarra

Welcome to the Shard! Yes, it's possible to drain color from sticks and stones. It actually happens in Warbreaker! The color drain appears to be a chemical change, where the Awakening draws energy from breaking the chemical bonds, perhaps? There's still a lot we don't know.

You're probably going to want to spoiler tag the rest of that.

Welcome to the Shard! I think that spren are just too invested to be usable as a Hemalurgic spike. They're basically pure investiture, so adding more and foreign investiture to the mix would be really difficult.

FYI, that's A-gold, not F-gold. I was really confused for a minute when I read the title and then your theory Allomantic gold, when burned, shows an alternate version of yourself. Feruchemical gold stores healing. I believe there's a WoB that it would help.

Location is sort of a tricky concept int he COsmere due to Spiritual Realm shenanigans. Have other Shards perhaps taken a look or visited Scadrial for a short time? It's likely. Did any of them "stay" long enough to Invest? I'd say no, because we get quite a lot of information on what's going on with Scadrial in the two series, and there's no indication that there was a third Shard involved up through Era 1. Era 2, on the other hand...

Yes, Feruchemical gold would be able to heal it if they had enough stored up.

I don't think so. Pewter just enhances your natural healing, and no manner of natural healing would heal a Shardblade wound.