Azimir's battle

[Frustration]

17 minutes ago, alder24 said:

That’s shortsighted. They wanted freedom, they have it, now you just need to treat them like people and not objects and negotiate with them. You need to show them that you’re not their enemy but their friend. That’s why you cannot piss them off by dismantling the Oathgate 

They aren't any more people post corruption than they were before, nor are they more free.

This also assumes that they would be angry with the Oathgates being dismantled, and that they could be persuaded in the future.

[Returned he/him]

18 hours ago, Frustration said:

I don't like the assumption that there must be in world information that makes it not work. If it's really obvious the it's something the author should address in the text.

That's fair, and I think that Cosmere books generally have largely exhausted the goodwill for it. It does become problematic when we demand an explanation for why every possibility was rejected in favor of what was actually chosen. Windrunners should absolutely be dropping Shardnets with weighted edges from on high, re-summoning them, and repeating indefinitely.

It stings more for Cosmere books because so much effort has gone into the low-level details of how magic systems work, and larger-scale applications of that same attention would produce interesting situations. Conventional medieval-style combat should be rare and seriously disrupted after OB at the very latest. But there are endless reasons why one tactic might be preferred over another, or disfavored altogether. The books are bloated enough without expanded 10-fold to detail things that specifically don't happen.

Edited Thursday at 08:34 PM by Returned