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She could have meant use the Stormlight to disguise himself, or to enhance his endurance and the like, too.

From Brandon's comments, I think it's pretty clear Jasnah has her Shardplate. Soon aftermath, I can't think of anything that would fit other than the glowing lines around Jasnah during the Battle.

Savantism is caused by using a power so much and for so long that it changes your spiritweb. So yeah, it doesn't matter how you get that power, if you use it to that point, you would become a savant.

Also, taste and smell can be subjective. What's good for one person is unpleasant for another. There's actual mathematical, objective numbers for colors and sounds.

I have to point out that Brandon saying it's an excellent guess doesn't mean that it's correct

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Actually, TLR used the power of the Well to make himself Mistborn, he didn't ingest a bead. Also, I believe there were ten foreign kings.

Also, Stormlight Archive is going to be 10 books + novellas

That doesn't really make him a proto-anything, though. Just someone who trained with an Honorblade. But I see what you mean now, thanks.

A proto-Truthwatcher? Where did this come from?

I think the more investiture, the harder it would be to destroy, yes. But I don't know that metalminds or even hemalurgic spikes are so invested that it would make a substantial difference. The earrings that Pathians wear are melted down hemalurgic spikes, after all. Nightblood, definitely, is so invested that he'd be harder to destroy than a normal sword.

Yeah. Grump is Galladon, Blunt is Baon, and Thinker is Demoux. And as others have said, anyone can be a worldhopper. There are various methods of getting into the Cognitive Realm, and once you're there, you can literally walk from one world to another.

He says it's like the bits of light from a crystal, not that it was crystal. So little spots of light or rainbow, and little light-vines grow from it when it's stationary.

Depending on the thickness of the aluminum, it can block all manner of things. So yes, yes, yes, and yes. https://wob.coppermind.net/adv_search/?query=aluminum&date_from=2003-12-05&date_to=2018-12-31&speaker=&ordering=-date

I believe the spren that Ym had was a Truthwatcher spren, and he described it pretty well. (It granted Progression, but clearly wasn't a cultivationspren.)

Brandon has said that the first 5 books are one arc, and the second 5 books are a second arc, with an overarching thread tying them together. And irl, it'll be something like 5 years before Brandon gets to writing Book 6. So because of this, I really don't think that Book 5 will end with any kind of a cliffhanger, such as the protagonists being so desperate that they need to reinstate the Oathpact (which I also think is a terrible, terrible idea, but that's a different subject), or any other kind of major, unresolved situation. Books 6-10 are kind of like a sequel series to books 1-5. I cover a bit of this here: And here:

And also, the comment from the Windrunner in the gemstone archive, about how "shouldn't he want to save everyone?"

Yeah, it's pretty clear Gran Gran could Sense to a degree. Probably not as much as Jason, but enough to help her navigate.

Hey, glad to help. Did you transcribe them into Arcanum itself, or in a word doc? What event was the audio for?

Tien was a Lightweaver, so no. It doesn't seem like that is his goal, since he's left a number of Shards alone, and only seems to be working against Rayse and Bavadin. Harmony doesn't hold two powers, he holds two Shards with differing intents. Shards are basically all the possible powers, so there's no chance of there being a Resonance. I don't think so. The spren's physical form is the Blade itself, it's already trapped. Adolin's sword has a gem on it, and Maya is still wandering around. We also see Ico's father as a deadeye, who would try to make his way to wherever his physical body was. I think this is more thematic. Brandon only wants to write about the cosmere planets/region, so the Shards stay in that area.

Because he's Hoid. He's used a soul as a boat before. He's an Allomancer with access to Stormlight, Breath and who knows what else. I'm sure he could design and pay people to build a boat and be quiet about it. Or figure out where Harmony's perp is.

He could use a boat or an airship.

Either way, it still shouldn't affect soulcasting another object. And Brandon's said that storing Identity would make it easier for you to get Soulcast or Forged, yourself.

I don't think so, myself. Identity is your sense of self and a "tag" to mark investiture as your own, so that others can't use it. Soulcaster savants like Kaza start becoming the element they use the most because of drastic changes to their spiritweb over time, from excessive use of investiture. I don't really understand your second question. Edit: I see this is your first post. Welcome to the Shard!

As I said in this thread: I think it'll be something like, "I will accept death as part of the journey" or "I will allow others to choose their own paths, even if it ends in death."