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  1. Long post, TLDR on the bottom. I've been thinking about Fused's combat wars and I was surprised when they were struggling to win against the new radiance who are currently much weaker than old radiance. I realized while their surge binding powers are kinda even. E.g Windrunners have faster acceleration and another surge but Fused have better maneuverability and more experience. The power gap becomes huge once you factor in Shard-blade and Shard plate, I do not see how the Fused could even hurt the radiance of the 4th ideal let alone fight them. I do not see how the pursuer used to fight the strongest of the enemy, any radiance of the 4th ideal with plate could easily crush him let alone the strongest. So first I will list all the advantages and disadvantages of both old and new radiance compared to each other then come up with possible theories why there is such a huge power gap. Main Advantages for new radiance have in the new war: 1- Odium's vessel (Rayse) is a lot weaker than before which made him a terrible commander compared to the past so he mispositioned his forces 2- Fused are a bit less in number and more insane now than start of the war in roshar though they are now more experienced. 3- The fused mention radiance have learned a few innovative tricks now since they weren't indoctrinated into Urithiru ranks from the start. Still, I don't see how innovative tricks on WW2 fighter planes could be a huge problem for you if you are used to fighting F-35s... 4- There is modern fabrial technology and military tactics now which should favor radiance slightly though Szeth showed compared to even the most basic surge binding, both new tech and old shard plate and blades are meaningless. The side with superior surge binders can easily assassinate the enemy's leadership and win the war. 5- The interference from cosmere groups like ghostbloods, 17th shard, Vasher etc could have benefited radiance more. Main disadvantages for new radiance have in the new war: 1- Honor's vessel is fully dead and heralds are mad or straight-up traitors which is a far worse than the case on Odium's side since 5 of the unmade are fully functional, unlike the heralds. 2- The radiance are missing 3 orders with Skybreakers and dustbringers straight up joining the enemy. 3- No training or passing on of the most effective tactics and knowledge from the old radiance to the new 4- No radiance (just one) of 4th and 5th ideals which is a huge deal compared to 200-300 from before. 5- Fused seem to have access to new fabrials that shutdown radiant powers 6- Odium has his own Storm now which according to fused and Heralds is a huge deal. Makes sense since a few days is now all it takes for Fused to be reborn. As you can see the disadvantages seem to be far bigger than the advantages of the new radiance so the question is how could the Fused cause so much trouble during past desolations and even kill heralds in combat during them. We saw how strong Ishar and Nale were in combat, meanwhile, we saw how pathetic the pursuer was. How were these guys even? Through the pursuer is quite mad compared to before but as Ishar and Nale showed us madness hinders decision making mostly not their innate power which was the pursuer lacked. His innate power was why he couldn't kill kaladin though in the end, it was his madness that got him killed. Just imagine if Kaladin has shardplate in most of his fights in ROW, Leshwi would needs to land hundreds of blows on him while Kaladin just needs to strike her once or twice. Kaladin could overpower the pursuer grips easily then and the pursuer would need several strikes which is unlikely. Overall there are few things on Odium's side that can challenge a radiant of the 4th ideal: - Thunderclasts could pose a serious threat to the radiance, though they make easy targets for dustbringers and skybreakers. - The unmade Yelig-nar. The combat one Yelig-nar seems to give a strong enough carapace to deflect non shard-plate enhanced strikes from shard-blades and act as good as shard-plate in general though Yelig-nar has no substitution for shard-blade. Overall an experienced yelignar could take on few radiance of 4th ideal though I don't know if Yelignar will let a user control it long enough to become experienced in combat. - The rest of the unmade. While they won't be a threat in combat they could cause chaos through their psychological attacks through I think radiance of 4th ideal are invested enough to mostly resist them. Still massive spren like the unmade and the sibling seem to need combat protection as experinced surge binders can break them when they get to their core as we saw with Dalinar, Shallan and raboniel That's it unless the radiant of the 4th ideal is absolutely clueless or is severely lacking stormlight they could theoretically beat anything else on Odium's forces with ease due to the advantages that plate offers. Theories that could explain why the past fights were even despite the Fused seeming much weaker than old radiance. 1- Old radiance had lower access to stormlight compared to the enemy's access to void-light. This doesn't make much sense as they didn't have access their own storm. This could mean Fused would only attack at the end of the weeping though there is no proof for it and it's unlikely the old radiance had no way of not being out of stormlight during the weeping. 2- Most of the powerful fused are still sleeping, This one is unlikely as well as from the Fused accounts we know most of their superiors and best are already awake and active such as the nine and the pursuer etc. Only ones that seem to be away the ones that were never meant to be awaken such as Raboniel formerly and El currently. 3- This is the most likely one and that's that Fused's powers scale with the radiance as in once the radiance advance in their ideals. For example, once there will be more radiance of higher ideals, the more powerful the fused become! This potentially explains a lot of things as well. - It explains why in the past the fused wouldn't just get a huge lead once they'd kill high-level radiance as they couldn't simply overpower radiance of lower ideals with investiture - It explains why they seem to be on the same level of current radiance in power - It explains why their top leaders especially the ones that were first summoned by Venli in Oathbringer haven't been active much at all as they may be used to higher levels of power in fighting and are waiting for radiance to advance their ideals first before they get involved. - It explains why the most powerful active Fused in words of radiance being Roboniel and Lezian were using the surges of transformation and transportation both being Jasnah's else-caller surges as she has advanced into the 4th ideal. - It explains why Leshwi also mentions to Venli with certainty that she would know if Stormblessed has spoken the 4th ideal. - Could explain part of recreance as the radiance may have realized the further they advance in their ideals and more is added to their numbers the stronger the fused also become with their surges which results in possible destruction of Roshar. - Could explain why the 9 were worried as should the new radiance not have advanced in their ideals and instead have advanced technologically faster it would result in Odium's forces losing their advantage as the fused would have to fight with the weaker versions of their surges and forms which they would be less experienced with it as they had fought with stronger surges and forms. Meanwhile, this would allow technological warfare, especially regarding fabrials to catch and even be superior to surge-binding. - Could explain why in a lot of situations the Fused are lenient about not killing the radiance as they might want them to advance their ideals. Or it could be just Brandon not having that much attention to power discrepancies as they aren't a huge part of the story but I find it odd if that's the case. He goes as far as giving asymmetrical powers to the heavenly ones and Windrunners (heavenly ones being more maneuverable while the windrunners accelerate faster). Meanwhile, the fused have to counter against shard-blade and shard-plate? It seems odd to me. TLDR: There is a huge gap as the radiance seem a lot more powerful than fused when reaching 4th and 5th ideal. It doesn't make sense why the fused that fought the old radiance who were in a far better position and of higher ideals are struggling to easily wipe out the new radiance. My most plausible theory is that Fused's power scales with radiant ideals. Let me know what you think on this as I'm quite interested for answers.
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