Shardblade forms

[DreamEternal]

The Azir are on their way out.

Proof? They fared way better than Jah Keved.

[Stormgate]

It apparently takes 3+ Surgebinders to foil the Diagram. Azir only has one.

[DreamEternal]

It apparently takes 3+ Surgebinders to foil the Diagram. Azir only has one.

That is completely irrelevant to the discussion of bureocracy. While Lift's presence saved Azir, its well stabilished legal system kept it together long enough for her to arrive.

Edited December 21, 2015 by DreamEternal

[Stormgate]

Let's put it this way: Kaladin is told he needs to fill out paperwork before he can kill the Voidbringers. What happens to the paperwork? Also, assuming they get the Oathgates to work, will there be Oathgate registration?

[Alfa]

Actually, bureaucracy - despite it's unnerving nature - is part of what helds nations together. Any governement, be it as strong as it can be, will not last long without a working state below it, that pays the army, distributes goods and collects taxes.

 

Edit 1: On the downside: It is slow. And it can freeze developement of something ore someone like Kaladin.

 

Edit 2: Actually, a portal that crosses almost half a continent is the first place, where I'll plant my bureaucrats. Just in case the Kingkillers want to follow the king.

Edited December 21, 2015 by Alfa

[Stormgate]

But make bureaucracy too strong, and it becomes inefficient. Azir is close to this.

[Alfa]

Agreed.

[DreamEternal]

Better than a bloody civil war.

[Stormgate]

Too much paperwork. Actually, Azir would have had a civil war in the past, but the one filing for war committed suicide with a letter opener.

[Alfa]

Too much paperwork. Actually, Azir would have had a civil war in the past, but the one filing for war committed suicide with a letter opener.

 

...and was buried in his documents.

[Stormgate]

And then cremated. (Actually, Rosharian cremation usually involves Soulcasters, but they misplaced the proper forms)

[Alfa]

After that cremation another civil war almost started, because nobody could remember how the formular WOSR-5 looked like (the only shablone was cremated, too). It was settled by the invention of the forms WOSR-5a, WOSR-5b and WOSR-36

Edited December 21, 2015 by Alfa

[Patrick Star]

Let's put it this way: Kaladin is told he needs to fill out paperwork before he can kill the Voidbringers. What happens to the paperwork? Also, assuming they get the Oathgates to work, will there be Oathgate registration?

 

Yeah.

 

It's pretty clearly established that Oathgates use a very large amount of Stormlight.

 

Azir's Department of Stormlight Distribution (ADSD) must be able to monitor the oathgate's usage in order to ensure that they can keep the nation's lights lit while the oathgates are in use.