Bondsmiths will REMAKE Adonalsium? | The Power of Fifth-Ideal Bondsmiths

Could a Fifth-Ideal Bondsmith manipulate Spiritual Connection to restore Shards, transfer magical powers, or decide who becomes a god in Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere? 00:00 - Introduction 00:18 - Bondsmiths and Spiritual Adhesion 02:08 - Ishar and Nahel Bond Theft 05:56 - Fifth-Ideal Potential 09:14 - Bondsmiths and Shardic Ascension 20:06 - Outro This video examines the known abilities of Bondsmiths in The Stormlight Archive and what the Fifth Ideal might allow them to achieve. Starting with Dalinar, Navani, and Ishar, it distinguishes demonstrated feats from theories involving stolen Nahel bonds, interplanetary travel, and Investiture. It then explores whether a Bondsmith could intervene in the Oathpact, free Kelsier from Scadrial, rebuild a Splintered Shard, or prepare someone for Ascension. Throughout, established events and Words of Brandon are separated from speculation, particularly where spren consent, limited Stormlight, and Shardic Intent constrain what Bondsmiths might accomplish. *What’s covered in this video:* Spiritual Adhesion allows Dalinar to manipulate Connection, understand the Azish language, and open Honor's perpendicularity at Thaylen Field, while the Stormfather, Nightwatcher, and Sibling give Bondsmiths different possibilities. Navani's bond with the Sibling restores Urithiru and produces Towerlight, making the tower's systems, Cultivation's influence, and the potential of a Nightwatcher Bondsmith important questions for the Fifth Ideal. Ishar attempts to steal Dalinar's Nahel bond and his Connection to Odium, raising questions about transferring Surgebinding, healing broken oaths, restoring deadeyes like Maya, and respecting a spren's choice. Ishar's history includes the Elsegate from Ashyn to Roshar, experiments creating human Fused, and Odium's corruption of the Heralds, which Kaladin confronts with his Fifth Ideal and Nightblood. Brandon Sanderson's comments on Stormlight efficiency, perpendicularities, and Lifelight are considered alongside the loss of the Stormfather and the Sibling's coma at the end of Wind and Truth. Kelsier's Cognitive Shadow and Hemalurgic body provide a test case for freeing someone from Scadrial, while Allomancy, Feruchemy, Southern Scadrian medallions, and the Ghostbloods raise questions about reassigning magical abilities. Ba-Ado-Mishram's imprisonment, Melishi's actions during the False Desolation, and the renewed Oathpact reveal the dangers of severing Connection and whether replacing the singers' Connection to Odium with another Investiture source could shield an entire population from Retribution without repeating that disaster. Finally, the discussion considers binding a Shard, removing Taravangian as Vessel, restoring Splintered powers like Ambition and Devotion, recombining Adonalsium's sixteen Shards, and using the Ire's method to prepare a successor for Ascension, potentially changing how the combined powers of Honor and Odium express themselves through a new Vessel. Mentioned in this video: Second Breakfast, Brandon Sanderson, Cosmere, The Stormlight Archive, Oathbringer, Rhythm of War, Wind and Truth, Mistborn: Secret History, Fifth Ideal, Bondsmiths, Windrunners, Surges, Spiritual Adhesion, Spiritual Connection, Investiture, Surgebinding, Nahel bond, Stormlight, Towerlight, Lifelight, perpendicularity, Physical Realm, Cognitive Realm, Spiritual Realm, Shadesmar, Honor, Cultivation, Odium, Retribution, Dalinar, Navani, Kaladin, Shallan, Adolin, Szeth, Syl, Stormfather, Nightwatcher, Sibling, Urithiru, Azish, Thaylen Field, Ishar, Nale, Heralds, Honorblade, Nightblood, Ashyn, Roshar, Elsegate, Fused, Braize, deadeyes, Recreance, Maya, Old Magic, boons and curses, Kelsier, Scadrial, Ghostbloods, Hemalurgy, Cognitive Shadow, Ire, Allomancy, Feruchemy, Southern Scadria, medallions, Elendel, Ba-Ado-Mishram, Melishi, False Desolation, singers, listeners, Voidlight, Identity, Oathpact, Taravangian, Shards, Vessel, Shardic Intent, Shard Splintering, Ambition, Devotion, Adonalsium, Shattering, Dawnshards, Sazed, Harmony, Ruin, Preservation, Vin, Discord, Forgery, Seventeenth Shard, Dragonsteel Mini-Con, Dragonsteel Nexus, Naze-daughter-Kuzodo, perfect gemstone, Shard Ascension, Radiant oaths, Third Ideal, magical attunement.