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Yes, it makes perfect sense for Sazed to distrust Kelsier. Even more if he read in the Spiritual connections of his shards the moments in which Kelsier punched their previous holders.

@Pathfinder: But carrying a chunk of wood armored also takes almost no training, and the slaves still need to be physically fit. And you already need trained soldiers for fighting a war, so you could put some shieldbearers in front of the bridges with little trouble. And no matter how expensive armor may be, I fail to see how slaves will be cheaper. Plus, you wouldn't need to pay for training, since the soldiers generaly come to the Plains already trained, and you wouldn't pay as much per for maintaining them confortable and armored as you would to keep them fed, as much of the infrastructure already exists. And the mortality rates do not remove the need to actively maintain the population, since new Bridgemen eat as much as the ones they replaced. Plus, a new slave would cost much more than 5() bucks, if a soldier must be paid 10 bucks a day. In fact, in societies with heavy use of slavery, being able to afford owning slaves, whatever you choose it or not, is the halmark of the high class. Even if we consider that part of the price of maintaining slaves is keeping them under watch, a simple task in the warcamps, they still must cost more than what a simple soldier makes in a day. And carrying slaves throught so dangerous territories is bond to make them much more expensive. Finaly, if we suppose the bridgemen are slaves primarily because they are arrow bait, we run into the rationale that replacing bridgemen that die is easier than replacing soldiers that die. But bridgemen only die so often because unlike soldiers, they are unshielded, unarmored, untrained, abd focused by the enemy. I would be shocked if more than one soldier's death was prevented by each fifteen bridgemen who died.

I know. What does it have to do with my post?

The problem is that training men to carry a bridge while armored, with other men trained to protect them with shields, shouldn't be more expensive in the long run than replacing countless slaves, considering that the risk of travelling throught Eastern Roshar should raise prices.Not only are there powerful Highstorms, but there are also constant border skirmshes inside the supposedly unified kingdom of Alethkar and desertors and bandits on the lawless Frostlands. Even if a third of the bridgemen came from inside the camps because of offenses, and the ones from outside were cheaper because of an history of bad behavior, buying able-bodied slaves from Akethkar should be expensive.

In steel I trust. In blood I dive. In shadow I rust. But only ink may save.

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I generaly prefer Stones Unhallowed as a title. It fits the pattern, feel much less generic, has more meaning to the Shin culture, and has some sort of weight I just can't feel on "Skybreaker". I also wish Dalinar's book was still named Highprince of War, even with the change of order. Oathbringer just rubs me the wrong way like Skybreaker does, and I happen to irrationaly dislike when authors mash two words together to make another one. For sone reason, Highprince is an exception.

I knew there was something fishy about Sadeas' tatics. And from am economical standpoint, shouldn't it be more expensive to sustain a massive slave trafic across the frostlands than it would be for him to use armored and shielded soldiers to run the bridges? While outfiting trained soldiers is expensive, I can't see how it is so much cheaper to sustain the use of slaves as arrow bait when the deaths reach so extravagant numbers. And the limitations on population imposed by the need of shelter from Highstorms mean Alethkar shouldn't have enough people to sustain such losses in the long term, specialy with the perpetual infighting among brightlords. Worse, if most Bridgemen come from Sadeas Princedom, them he is crippling his own land because of the gemheart rush. But, on the plus side, if it wasn't by the events of book two, by the time the war was over Sadeas would have the weakest princedom and his gemhearts would be of little use because of inflaction. Hah, that should teach him, in an AU in which he didn't die or start a civil war.

No, not just names. I am sure he once said the whole Universe is run by a drunken monkey.

Why not? Maybe he could be merged into a splinter of Trell, or just be preserved by investiture. Who is to say he wont be warped by whatever process allows him to serve as a cognitive shadow? I don't think his mind will be in a state so different from the one of the stormform parshendi, or the Ruin-controlled Inquisitors. He'd keep his skills and use, but the chances of quiting his job would drop by orders of magnitude.

God is a drunken monkey or something like that.

That is why the next Era Mistborn protagonist will be a programmer.

But Kelsier murdered

Acidental downvote.

I have the power of being considered somewhat creepy by women, yet be liked by children, to leave conversations and re-enter them without being noticed until it is too late, and to remember things that happened to me years ago and everybody forgot, yet not remember by mobile number.

When you look at yourself on the mirror, feel good looking, spend almost half an hour trying to make a decent selfie, and end up feeling ugly as hell #FirstWorldProblemsButStill

I generaly prefer to stare at blank ceilings, but each to their own.

I knew you were being silly. It is just that I sounded dead serious by accident, then forgot I wasn't supposed to be serious. I am weird *_*.

Exactly this. While Jezrien, being the patron of the Windrunners probably had a strong association with Highstorms, we are meant to believe he and the Stormfather are different beings that got combined in lore after spending millenia without public appearences.

The ghostbloods appear to have southern Scadrians among their ranks, so I find unlikely they would have to reverse engineer an airship.

I, for one, have the impression Suit died... but death will not be his end. The part of being allowed to serve in other realm made me think he will be turned into one of those red eyed immortals, whatever they are unmade, skraviss or something else.

The problem is that we have two magics with the same name. Hoid can use Yolish Lightweaving, that as far as we know works like the surge of Illumination, but he is not a KR of the Order of the Lightweavers.If we ignore that his magic is called Lightweaving, and take the KR Order as the "official Lightweavers", which is a dubious assumption, since they came much later, then Hoid is as much of a Lightweaver as Renarin is.

Not being opposed to watching ponies does not mean not being opposed to ponification of everything, Kaymyth :/. Or I think so. Maybe. I've never watched it, despite my curiosity. Can't give my brother more weapons against me.

Lightsong's theory he was a detective or crimefighter before Returning?

I live in Brazil, so I suppose I know well what a weakened highstorm, of the likes you would see in, say, Tu Bayla, is like, but I am lucky to never have seem a powerful Highstorm worth of Alethkar or even Jah Keved, like Tetriona did. Although I still must say the Kaladin in me loves the sound of thunder and strong wind.