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It is also coming after Wayne is supposedly getting a generous stipend specifically for his Bendalloy, and that he's spent a lot of time playing with and using everything he could acquire. He might be slowing down now, but it sounds like he already hit a tipping point before he started rationing.

Personally, I think it works like how the Mistborn Adventure Game describes it. The extra Investiture, filtered through the memory, creates extra details that the original memory never had. The more Investiture, the greater the increase in detail.

They are aware, at least as of Shadows of Self. If I recall correctly, Wax tests a piece of metal they think could be a Spike by seeing how visible it is to his Steelsight and how hard it is to Push.

A thought I had when y'all were discussing BAM: They discuss that if they didn't bind BAM it had world-devastating/destroying consequences, this sounds a lot to me like Ashyn. We know that Ashyn was destroyed by unbound Surges and these powers over the raw forces of nature being thrown around without restraint. Perhaps when BAM granted forms of power to the Singers in the False Desolation a similar sort of cascading effect of unbound Surges threatened Roshar. That's just my 2 second crack theory.

Sure, they lost focus. It also doesn't really make a difference, does it? They're at war, exploiting the resources of their enemies, unrepentant backstabbers. Would it be better if they exterminated the Parshendi quickly before turning to the gemhearts?

Well when your one deal with them gets betrayed for (seemingly) no reason in such a spectucular manner and they refuse to negotiate the Alethi viewpoint is understandable. The Parshendi have no goodwill with the Alethi. And regarding the gemhearts, what's your point?

And we can blame Sadeas for that. Other Alethi tried to negotiate, and were turned away until Eshonai, who then gave them the middle finger after getting Stormformed.

99% of the Alethi didn't know Gavilar's goals. From their point of view, they treated the Parshendi with the utmost respect and were stabbed in the back for no reason. The goal of the Pact was to force them to surrender, it only morphed into genocide because of their refusal to surrender or negotiate.

There's a theory that I saw recently as I was getting back into Cosmere stuff in preparation for the upcoming releases that I find to be very interesting, here:

I am doing something about it, I try to treat people equally and fairly, and encourage others to do the same. Is that not enough for you? I daresay a vast majority of the Alethi were never active participants in Singer slavery, much less responsible for it. I find your perspective to be a very ethnocentric one.

So if you're not responsible, and any benefit is tenuous, you still have to bear responsibility because you just have to? There isn't a case of personal responsibility here for most of Roshar's human population. Does being part of a culture with problems make one respnsible for all problems committed by that culture? Can we blame all of X culture/nationality for crimes committed by a few? Hell no.

My regarding collective responsibility is that it is such an intangible issue. How do you gauge how much someone has benefited from the prior oppression? Sure you can point the finger at the nobility that owned Parshmen, but even they weren't ultimately responsible. How about random craftsmen, traders, farmers, who have never owned Parshmen, or even had ancestors who owned them? You could make the argument that *somewhere* down the line they had *somehow* benefited from the oppression of Parshmen, but such a benefit is so unquantifiable that any sort of debt they owe is likewise impossible to gauge. Especially with craftsmen and farmers, people who would live at more of a subsistence level, is it right to inflict additional responsibility on them when all they've done is try to survive? My perspective regarding your real world example is this; I don't think I've personally benefited from that prior oppression in a readily quantifiable way. All I can do is live as I've always lived, trying to treat people equally and fairly. It's not that I don't care, it's that I don't think you can push that responsibility anywhere without causing more problems.

If they *need* to take responsibility, and it's not of their own volition, that's being forced to bear the sins of the forebears unjustly. If the need is forced on them, that's just creating new injustices.

Yeah, this is fairly important here. It's difficult to scale feats between the different eras as Allomancy in general is weaker by a decent degree in Era 2. If I recall my WOBs correctly, TLR also augmented his own Allomancy when he used the Well, as well as hemalurgic augmentations later. TLR could easily replicate any feat performed by a later character, with the possible exception of Vin mid-Ascension. If it was TLR, ignoring Character-Induced-Stupidity and giving him access to all 16 metals, it would guaranteed be a TLR victory. Surgebinders have some interesting hacks, but the base stats on a Fullborn are obscene, a far weaker Steel Compounder than TLR was able to move and shoot a gun fast enough that every observer only heard a single gunshot despite shooting several times. The best speed/reaction time feats on Surgebinders are roughly equivalent to Mistborn from Era 1, which is basically that they can reliably react to crossbow bolts or projectiles of similar speed, as far as I can remember. So a far weaker Steel Compounder than TLR exceeds a Surgebinder in speed by an order of magnitude, that being one both 1300 years removed from the last big injection of Allomancy into the gene-pool and the power weakened by being harvested through Hemalurgy. TLR, being a Savant or near-Savant in basically every power he had access to, could probably overcome some the downfalls of Compounded Speed to squeeze even more out of it, to say nothing of his base strength being higher. The Mistborn Adventure Game has some rules for Compounding that are interesting. Last page someone mentioned Compounded Copper, the game essentially states that it pulls in extra details that weren't recorded the more it's compounded, essentially allowing the Compounder to fully recreate the entire scene/event in their head, and not only limited to their point of view. Not sure how it would help with this fight, but it's an interesting tidbit from that game system. The biggest hurdle for the Surgebinder is that they would need to use their hacks on an enemy that far outclasses them in speed. If they can't reliably bring their abilities to bear on the Fullborn they lose. There's no question to me that a Fullborn could break through a Surgebinder's defenses. Like in speed, Surgebinders and Pewter-burners are roughly equivalent in oomph, and a Fullborn has the added benefit of Compounded Pewter, which grants enough strength to fling around RV sized boulders. If they wanted to pursue a ranged strategy, a Fullborn could use trace metals to turn slightly smaller boulders into projectiles. Compounding Brass to roast the Surgebinder alive if they try to get close enough is also a legitimate strategy. Being immune or resistant to emotional Allomancy required burning Copper (and being of comparable strength to the Allomancer), regardless of how Invested one was, which could really screw with the Surgebinder. Interesting fight to be sure, but speed is incredibly important in hypotheticals like this. Presuming equal skill, I think the Fullborn could avoid the worst of a Surgebinder's hacks and be able to kill them. At best the Surgebinder could run away with Gravitation, but that doesn't win the fight, it only prolongs it to an effective draw.

Hmm, there goes my ThrenodySilver=Aluminum headcanon.