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I don't think it would heal or bleed. Everything in it is dead, as if it had actually been severed, so it's just an inert mass on the end of your shoulder, now.

I'm not sure that you can. Spiking someone steals their ability to perform that method of investiture, rather than stealing free-floating investiture. So you can steal the ability to burn bronze, but you don't store bronze. You steal the ability to surgebind, you don't steal the stormlight. You can spike a spren, and steal something from it--it's life essence or it's soul, or whatever--but that doesn't steal stormlight.

He's still a Cognitive Shadow, just one that's stapled to a body.

Given Elantris and the beginning and ultimate ending of Mistborn, pretty sure Brandon's always known how to foreshadow

Actually, alumia was the original spelling. He then changed it to aluminum, and then finally to aluminium. Some dictionaries had it one way and others had it the other way for quite a while, and when it was actually able to be mass-produced, the -um ending is what was published during that time. So don't blame the US for that one! http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm Brandon's an American writer, writing in a non-British area, so I'm not sure why he should be spelling things the British method?

It was 330 years exactly since the Sovereign arrived on Southern Scadrial, which was 10 years after Catacendre. So it's exactly 340 years since Harmony Ascended between Era 1 and 2. Era 2 takes place during SA 6 or maybe even 7, which is 15-20 years after SA 5. Give time for the events of Nightblood to happen, Vasher getting to Roshar, and then earning a place in the ardentia and become reknowned enough to be known as a swordmaster, and have trained Adolin (which would have been 10-15 years ago itself), and it really doesn't work out.

Nightblood would have been made before Sazed Ascended, given he was made around the time of the Manywar. Warbreaker takes place between Era 1 and Era 2, which is around 300 years. The Manywar was about 300 years before that.

We're on book 3/5 and the Fused are not remotely dealt with, nor is the world united. I think there's plenty of fodder.

My theory is that the disease based magic is just a very very weak form of the Nahel bond. You bond with the disease, and while the bond is active, you get powers. When the bond fades, the disease fades. In the Silence Divine reading, we see someone floating, which is similar to Gravitation, and someone changing the contents of their cup, similar to Soulcasting.

Kaladin also decided not to kill Szeth when he could have, at least in the revised ending.

Well we don't have a definitive answer for it, but he could have easily just formed a physical body and wrote them, or appeared to someone and had them write them.

Brandon's said that almost everything that exists on Earth exists on Scadrial, so Scadrial should have cats.

Yep, he did.

*Kaladin She's one of the main characters, so she's going to have a lot of screen time, along with Kaladin, Dalinar, Szeth, and Venli.

I think it's from the investiture he's consuming. Some of it he keeps, some of it leaks away. I don't think anyone is arguing that it wasn't ridiculously invested even from the beginning

Brandon has said he's grown in power over time.

It could also be something involving how hard she hits at opponents

I think Odium will the the antagonist for the entire series. My personal theory is that book 5 will end with uniting with the Singers and stopping the threat of the Fused once and for all. Then the latter five will be delving into the nature of the bindings on Odium, and stopping him for good.

I've felt that way from the beginning, yeah.

Vader Syndrome. Edit: Darn it Cal, don't steal my analogies and ninja me at the same time!

Nah, he was able to use them as soon as he figured them out/realized that they were possible.

The Vessels were probably the force that you're thinking of. They were definitely weaker than Adonalsium, but they managed to Shatter him just the same. They basically wanted to have Rayse pick up Odium, at least according to Frost ("He is what we made him to be"). Odium Splinters Shards because he wants to be the most powerful without taking on another Shard, which would change his intent.

Yep, that's the closest we've got. I'd love to know why she's called Slammer.

I don't think that you have to reach certain Ideals to access any of the surges tied to your order. The only time we've seen that was with Szeth and the Skybreakers, and that seems to be more tradition than ability. Also, a higher level definitely increases stormlight usage efficiency. Kaladin remarks on it I think, and Brandon confirmed it, as Calderis linked.