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The way we've mostly seen it done on Nalthis is to simply buy it (even the Court of Gods does this), but what other ways might you realistically see the transition of Breath? 1. Generational passing; I imagine that there are going to be elderly people who are willing to give up their Breaths to their children or grandchildren, since they soon won't need it anymore. Additionally, there could even be family lines that collect Breath over time to stockpile a small fortune, or perhaps that grants Heightenings to a few older family leaders. As a side note, it would be interesting to see a sub-culture in T'Telir that encouraged the growth of very large families and the pooling of Breath by a certain age as a sort of rite of passage, so that the family as a whole (but especially the elders who held most of it) could prosper. Lots of interesting moral caveats attached to that one. 2. Religious/patriotic sacrifice; during a time of great need (such as wartime) you might see large groups of people being willing to donate their Breaths to a certain cause, such as with Vahr and his fellow rebels. 3. Crusading; perhaps you might see something like this in wartime, where large groups of non-combatants would be captured and forced to give up their Breath to the opposing army. Perhaps this would even be a reason to start such wars in the first place. . . 4. Straight up torture; we also technically see this in chapter 1 of Warbreaker, so clearly its possible, though I imagine that the seedier parts of T'Telir are going have some criminals who capture regular people to torture the Breath out of them. I'm sure this is a lot easier said than done, but I find it hard to imagine this not happening at least occasionally. What about other realistic ways we might see Breath being passed around?

In Warbreaker, I'm pretty sure that it was said that it cost enough money to feed a small family for a year to purchase a Breath, but that doesn't seem very specific. How much in real life American dollars would on Bio Chromatic breath cost?