Pathfinder

Calderis already explained the situation with Laral on the prior page I already responded that the literal definition of consult is to ask advice. The literal definition of advisers is a person to provide advice in a given field. The literal definition of advice is to recommend. Ialai was not requesting approval. She was wisely conferring with her advisers who are subordinate to her regarding her plans, just like any other ruler would. Male or female.

Ok, well it seems based on Laral, Ialai, and Jasnah that women can.

Ok, then could you explain how it would help with the actual question? I am not trying to criticize you. Just trying to understand.

Thing is Elhokar was still alive at the time. So we are not exactly sure how Aesudan would have been considered if he was dead.

If its not a question.....then why did you ask it? That is why I am getting confused.

Then what did that have to do with whether she was a good ruler or not? Consult means to ask for advice, not approval.

I am confused. What does that have to do with you saying whether she is a good ruler or not? Hmmm, this is a digression from the original thread. Maybe make a new thread titled on whether or not Ialai is a good ruler?

I think what kind of person you consider a good ruler is very subjective, which is why I said to each their own. For the Alethi (to the best of my knowledge) a good ruler is someone who is intelligent, strong, and can outmaneuver your opponents. Which until Jasnah, Ialai was able to do. So to the Alethi, a good strategist would be a good ruler. The soldiers of the Sadeas princedom were extremely loyal to Sadeas and then Ialai. But I respect that you disagree. Lol, thank you.

Yep, like I said I wasn't disagreeing with you. Just adding info. Jasnah assumed Shallan was of the same order cause she could soulcast, but upon learning she could use illumination, realized Shallan belonged to a different order.

Totally respect your opinion to think that way, but I hardly think that is applicable in determining whether or not a woman could in fact rule or hold land nor answer the question regarding vorinism and homosexuality. Now as an aside to respond to you, Sadeas and Ialai worked quite well together. Now personally I feel Jasnah has the intelligence and skill to check Ialai at every step and Ialai was fully disgraced at the end of Oathbringer so I do not see her being a threat going forward, but I do not believe that changes that she was a competent ruler. But I respect your opinion on the matter. To each their own.

It was my understanding that she chose Amaram so she would have her own party to investigate her husband's death because she did not trust Dalinar and Adolin to look into it as she thought they were the ones to perpetrate the murder. She said she consulted her advisors and concluded their heir was too young, so the best choice would be Amaram. Are you saying she is lying about talking to them? Or lying about them agreeing with Amaram to be the one to lead? Ialai listed the reasons for choosing Amaram. To her, and to her advisors he is the most qualified and decorated. Consulting does not mean you need the person's approval. It means you respect their thoughts and value their opinion. A ruler surrounded by yes men will accomplish nothing. I am not fully sure I understand what you are trying to say. That Ialai lied? Or that she didn't need to mention them at all?

No writing this to disagree with anything you wrote, just adding additional information. Jasnah felt the spren sent Shallan to her for training as a antibody response to the coming desolation. She first assumed Shallan was from the same order because they both had soulcasting, but once Shallan exhibited illumination, she deduced she was a member of another order.

Why would what Ialai did not benefit the nobles from her own land? Could you provide book references that lead you to believe such?

1. When you soulcast, what is the range? 2. When you soulcast, can you soulcast restraints onto someone, or does their innate investiture cause a field directly around them making that difficult? 3. Since you can soulcast items directly once you understand it, can you soulcast intricate shapes? Like with the script on the page? Thinking in terms of possible circuitry creation 4. Have you had a chance to try transportation? if so how good are you at it? 5. Can you transport around in an immediate aread easily, and it is only difficult at distance? Or the reverse? 6. How does the soulcasting "disease" (soulcast one, he hits a person that soulcasts them, then hits a person and soulcasts him) and transferring momentum work? 7. Can you put a good word in for me with the other inkspren so I can hopefully bond one?

I theorize that the "highprince of...." was meant to emulate the heralds/radiants. Highprince of Information would be Nale/Skybreakers. Highprince of War would be Taln/Stonewards, and so on. So I think we could try and guess what the other highprince titles would be based on that.

To absolutely no one's surprise, Jasnah is my favorite character.

I have a theory that depending on the level of oaths sworn associated with a radiant spren, if it is then used in a fabrial, would determine the strength of that fabrial. So the soulcasters can that only do one or two essences, would be a lower oathed knight's spren. I have no concrete evidence to back it up, but here is to hoping I am right!

To clarify, we are both sorta saying the same thing but not. You are saying Wax has a steel spike (which steals allomantic physical abilities), and harmony used the mists to fuel him in place of pewter the metal needing to burn. I was saying that the type of spike didn't matter because the charge is so weak. That the spike just gave harmony the means to communicate with Wax, but the mists fueled Wax like they did Vin, regardless what type of spike he had in his ear. But what I am saying is just as much conjecture, so I am not saying this to correct you nor say you are wrong. Just to explain where I think we coincide, and where we seem to differ.

I feel like there was a WoB that confirmed the earring let Harmony fuel Wax with the mists, giving him a pewter effect, like what happened with Vin and the mists. If Wax was reliant on the spike to give him the power of pewter, wouldn't he still need the metal to burn? (genuinely talking it out, not asking the question to be critical) Unless you mean the spike gave him increased human strength like what is done to the koloss?

Calderis already covered what people of merchant level or nobility would do. Hire someone to do it. Regarding farmers, darkeyed women wear safe gloves. So they would still be able to do the work. Actually they would be extra chaste as they would probably wear gloves on both hands given the work lol. As said, the lower strata is less restricted in the use of safe hands. Gloves are allowed. edit: for example, Kaladin's mother Hesina uses a gloved hand when chipping away at the crem on the roof of their home. Using a hammer and chisel to chip away is rather labor intensive, and requires two hands.

But with Vin, her mother spiked her with Ruin's intent. She drove the earring through Vin's twin's heart, and then pierced Vin's ear. All Vin was doing was putting the spike back to its bind point each time. Normally removing and putting back in a spike would potentially kill the person as it would be in a much more vital area, but the ear lobe allowed her to pop it in and out. As to Wax, Harmony did use the spike to communicate with him and fuel him, but I am not sure he gained any abilities from the spike itself. But I am going on recollection so I readily concede if I am totally off base. edit: Did a quick perusal of WoB, and Brandon confirms Wax's earring has a charge, but it is too weak to give any real power other than communication with Harmony, and Brandon hedged on what material/power it would be.

Just an update on my WoB search. So far no luck, but I have found a thread on reddit from back in 2016 where another person said the exact same thing. Now it could be the Mandela Effect occuring, but I think it means I am not nuts and there is something to it. Will keep trying. I have attached a screen capture of the thread I was considering bringing that up since he did use a hemalurgic spike, and it did count enough for harmony to control her. Kandra have flexible bind points so theoretically Wax could have hit the right bindpoint in her head with guidance from harmony to get the desired effect, though that is a stretch. I agree. Even if it could work, hitting the right spot during a fight would be incredibly difficult. Then again if anyone could, it would be Wax.

Awakening had a particularly good story, and there are a main cast/group of characters you play with that get fleshed out over the course of the story. They are in a lot of ways fleshed out even more than in Octopath Traveler. The development tends to focus more on a bunch of ten or so central characters, but there is also development for the other side characters as well. So as long as they keep the narrative going from how Awakening handled it, then I could see Three Houses being right up your alley. As to the turn based system, the only real different is your position and weapons matter more than in Octopath Traveler. Although Fire Emblem does not have the weakness mechanic where if you hit enough times with the right weapon you stun the enemy, it does have the weapon triangle that results in extra damage if you counter the right unit/weapon with it. Also like Octopath Traveler you can have a physical weapon, that uniquely triggers off of a magic stat so you can get "spellblade" builds if you so desire. The great thing about Nintendo is they tend to release demos for all their games, so I am sure when Fire Emblem Three Houses comes out, there will be a demo you can try to see how you like the game play. The story at this point, we just gotta hope! lol

Thanks for the WoB regarding the glyph! Regarding ranged hemalurgy, wasn't there a WoB that said as long as there was the intent to make a spike, and you hit the right spot, you could do so with a bullet? Just because of the accuracy needed it would be a very hard thing to accomplish. I will try and dig for it. edit: so far this is frustrating. Haven't found it yet. I really could swear someone asked regarding a bullet and Brandon said it would be really hard because you had to hit the bind point but it was still possible. I will keep trying to find it. That is why I believe an earlier poster mentioned having the bullet fragment into shrapnel. The radiant would have to pick out each individual piece to stop from bleeding out, which would take time. I am not sure it would prevent the surges from being used, but preventing healing, depending on where hit would do a whole lot. There was a thread awhile ago about finding ways to take out the lord ruler. At one point it was concluded if someone possessing technology far more advanced than Scadrial, could have a long range sniper rifle made from the aluminum alloy, with a bullet covered in an aluminum alloy jacket, with "liquid" aluminum in it (and yes we did go through all the trouble of figuring out how possible an aluminum core could or could not be and what percentages would be required to make it work) head shot the lord ruler could kill him because the brain damage could not be healed while the liquid aluminum pervaded his brain. This would result in enough time passing that the lord ruler would potentially be brain dead by the time the aluminum could be removed to heal him. In a radiant's case, a shotgun blast to the face with aluminum shrapnel might do the trick. Aluminum is investiture null and blocks use, but does not negate it unless it is burned, or a chromium user uses it. This was shown by using a aluminum sword run through a corpse that was about to be turned into a returned. Brandon said it would not prevent the person from becoming a returned, but the returned would have a gaping wound where the sword is. So the main use for me for aluminum as a weapon is having it disperse in the body of the radiant, and hit in such a way to hamper the radiant. So shrapnel making removal hard. Or fine coarse dust to the eyes, to prevent vision. Or full encasement to prevent using surges outside of said aluminum box. The main benefit of aluminum bullets on their own is they cannot be affected by surges to prevent them from hitting at all. It is anything else you can do to the bullet to increase the damage, and make the removal harder that is the real threat to the radiants.

Without armor, the eyes glow the color of the order, and if they do a "super hero landing" or "level up" the glyph associated with their order appears. Otherwise if using shardplate, it does glow the color of their order.