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Agreed:

In this case I think the best we can is to look to the other in-world POV's we get, to see what cultural context they place on it. I got the impression that the actions of the Rift were considered will over the line even by Alethi standards (which are the most warlike of the rosharan cultures we've seen). They arent particularly bothered by war or death (especially before Galivar's 'unification' efforts) but they do seem to hold to some rule of engagement and 100% slaughter by Fire of a major city was more than the Alethi Culture would accept (judging by Amaram's opinion of it). They'd roll in, kill the men, then rape&pillage the place, and sell the rest as slaves, but it sounded like they still wouldnt wall them in and burn them alive.

Ive never heard it put quite that way, but in practice I think the answer is, surprisingly, "Yes". The catch is that those "Irrevocable Good" acts usually have to be your Last Act to be able to wash away anything. Human cultures seem to have a strong tendency to put a lot of weigh on Martyrdom and Self-Sacrifice (now Im curious how universal that actually is). But that's all still firmly in the context of Forgiveness for Past Actions. I dont believe there is anything a person could do that would give them a permanent Get-Out-Of-Hell-Free card for anything they did After their Good Act. But then I dont really believe in 100% irredeemably either, though I do believe in people that are as individuals incapable of the steps needed for to achieve Redemption.

We might still get the last. It's possible that reveal might have been made to wait until Dalinar finished his book, I could see him breaking it to them by letting them be the first to read his manuscript before it's published (as one possibility.

The way they should be for the given Age that their spiritual aspect believes they should be. But no amount of Gold would have saved the Lord Ruler from his true age, compounded or not.

All other things being equal, Terminal Velocity is a function of the Drag Coefficient of the object in question, which in turn is calculated to account two factors: Skin Friction (which Abrasion should be able to Zero out) and Form Drag (which is based on the forward facing shape of the object but is independent of the surface 'slickless'). With Abrasion, Lift should be able to blank out hte Skin Friction, but her body still has to shove a mass of air out of the way as she passes, which is a type of drag that Abrasion alone likely cannot address. Adhesion might, be able to pull it off in a working similar to when Kaladin split the storm that time, but I digress. With Lift, or Abrasion user, they will be able to easily outpace any other flyer with equivalent Lashings, and while she cannot entirely negate the drag, she can negate a large percentage of it. Her absolute max Velocty is going to vary based on other factors like air temperature, altitude/atmospheric pressure, and especially her body shape and flying posture. Skydivers have been able to break the sound barrier before (took a 20 mile dive) so Lift should be able to as well. But all the equations change at the sound barrier, and Form Drag has waaaaay more impact on things at that stage, so without something mroe akin to aircraft/rocket thrust, I dont see her getting enough lashings on her to push much past Mach1 where she'd start projecting a supersonic shock wave.

If you mean Shallan, I believe her issue and plan was that (as far as she knew) the Ghostbloods didnt know they'd broken the original Soulcaster, so they were stalling until they could get a replacement and keep up their end of the bargain. Whatever the economics of Marble via Soulcasters, the Soulcaster was a valuable resource, the Davar children seemed convinced that the Ghostblood's retribution for breaking it would be quick and lethal.

True, it also likely would require spren-specific Commands and probably cost more like Lifeless used to before they discovered that super-efficient Single-Breath Command. But accessing their flesh-analog, I could buy that the injection of supplemental Investiture that is the Breath might be enough outside intervention to heal the spren's condition. Assuming it's possible at all, I do think it would work significantly better-easier if you did it in the Cognitive realm to bypass all the metal (and God-metal) Awakening limitations.

Hmm, I think I have a few counter arguments for this, that may ore may not hold any real weight. The first is that I dont hold it against Kaladin for choosing to trust Dalinar and not go full open-rebel-Darkeyes. At that point would not have accomplished anything; Kaladin thought his victory would give him an opportunity to make his accusation, but seemed aware enough to realize it when he was incorrect. Another aspect is that the lives of all those Bridgemen are in his hands; he's been given a shocking amount of trust and responsibility for a former slave, and if he flaunts the law in that public and formal a setting, it's going to go very bad for the other bridgemen. And at the end of the day, I think Dalinar did the right thing: he had two people who's word he trusted calling each other a a liar, so he devised a plan to flush out the truth which ultimately outed Amaram. And when the time came Dalinar did not hesitate to call Amaram on his crem dung regardless of the political fallout.

It also probably makes a difference where you are trying it. If Spren are only vulnerable to Hemalurgy in the Cognitive Realm, perhaps in the cognitive realm you'd just be making a spren-Lifeless (no metal barrier involved).

That is...downright poetic. Quotable even. Had to pause to note that. Nice work.

Setting aside the wonkiness of the Shardblades deadeye appearance, Shardsblades likely too invested to be affected by Awakening since they are made out of a godmetal. Metal in general takes a crazy high store of Breaths to be able to Awaken in the best of circumstances, and godmetals are notoriously difficult to affect with other investiture effects.

Hmm, so it sounds like Roshar likely never saw much in the way of natural geologic processes. If Adonalsium created the continent whole, it sounds like marble basically exists because Adonalsium included it in his conception of Continental rock makeup, that it was simply part of the template he blinked into existance. If that is true, would Marble continue to exists and be created because the populations of Roshar (spren and/or mortal) think it should. Roshar doesnt have tectonics, but it does have continuous continental movement, which Id think would include some amount of mountain-building that could produce the pressures it takes for metamorphic rock like marble (as opposed to igneous), and with the Spren-souls of things being generally more responsive to belief by virtue of the porous realms and investiture rain cycle the template gets reinforced into the Physical realm more directly. That could translate to Stone-spren causing veins of Marble to spring into being because they think it should, or it could simply mean that the the non-tectonic movement of the continent finds ways to mimic our "natural" process in a more abstract "Nature Find a Way" sort of thing. Or maybe Cultivation-As-Mother Nature is influencing things on a more bedrock level, skewing things toward her Yolen planetary standard?

I never really thought about that side of it. Is that the lack of apparent volcanic activity? Perhaps there is some realmic explanation for a large marble presence on roshar? Even without traditional volcanic activity there is a lot of stress being put on the planet's crust, between the Storm(s) and potentially from whatever force is keeping the continent in the shape of a 4-D fractal, not to mention the various stages of reconfiguration (Adonalsium first then C&H).

You know, Sazed made some "change" that allowed Koloss to breed true... What If: the change he made wass broader than just kolos, what the change was that any piece of spiritweb that was spiked in becomes integrated enough to breed true in their offspring. Meaning any person that gets an ability spiked into them could start a brand new misting/ferring bloodline. This could go a long way to solving the long-term issue scadrial is likely to have with the metallic arts bloodlines diluting out.

For the gravy you could go with a heavy garlic & onion flavor palette, it's a classic that's strong flavors without and particular heat (I recommend a dash of worchestershire sauce, too, with those). I made a Chull-meat recipe on that side of things that runed out pretty good. Alternatively, you could probably pull off something pretty good on the cilantro/cumin side of things, but with the beans and flatbread you'd be going full-burrito at that point. You know, if you want to really replicate the...Spirit of the Flangria, I think cubed Spam is the only real option.

Ati was different after holding the Shard for a long time, but that's because it affected him over all that time. It didnt create a separate being, it just changed him over time, as inevitably happens to people over time. So the CS that bonded with the Stormfather is still Tanavast, just the older more experienced Tanavast that had been influenced by holding the universal embodiment of Honor. Almost certainly, for several reasons. The CS in question is the CS from the end of Tanavast's life, which is the CS of the Sliver of Honor that Tanavast had become after thousands of years holding the Shard. Separately, that CS didnt just persist on it's own, it merged with a pre-existing Sentience that was itself a living Chunk of Honor. So the current Stormfather is the product of a Human/ShoDal/Dragon intelligence that had a lot of Honor influence in it merging with a sentient chunk of the Honor shard itself. The result of that merger is going to logically have more of the Honor Shard in it than either 'ingredient' that went into it.

This is all ultimately a local economics question, and I dont think we really have enough question to answer. All value is relative, so value of the Marble is 100% based on the Marble Market in that particular part of Jah Keved; it will vary by demand and the price of it's competitors, which are going to depend on how many other Marble quarries are nearby and whether there are any soulcasters (both the fabrial and a properly skilled user) publicly available to challenge them in that industry. Quarried stone is one of those things that can very quickly become expensive the further you have to transport it, but in a war-heavy war that likes stone fortifications is going to have high demand. Marble is also a non-renewable resource (ignoring soulcasters) while Gems can be farmed indefinitely.

Ok, cool. I agree that this seems to imply that affecting atium is Possible but requires a huge power source just to affect it, regardless of final product. Hard to say if "Huge Power Source" could simply be a Soulcaster in a Highstorm, or more along the lines of a Vessel or Sliver of a Shard. If you CAN bring enough Power to bear, enough to transmute a godmetal into something else, I wonder what it would take to turn one godmetal into another? The easiest source of godmetal I can think of is broken shardplate (both blades and plate are godmetal, correct?). Could any Soulcaster who had a sample of Atium make more? Could Hoid make Lerasium, having personally burned it and incorporated it's effects into his own spiritweb.

Awesome WOB, thanks! Even thought the outcome is more or less the same in that it wont work, Im curious if that WOB means the problem is with using a condensed Investiture (god-metal, liquid, Mist, etc) as the raw material/power source, or if the problem is with creating a specific Godmetal regardless of the fuel source (another godmetal, another Condensed Investiture of the same Shard, etc). The WOB seems to be asking whether you could Soulcast more of Era1 Scadrial's Godmetals if you had a sample as a template, but I dont think it's addressing the Power Requirements either way. For example: If a Soulcaster had access to both Era 1 Atium and Ruin's Shardpool (whenever), could they soulcast the Liquid into Atium (or ditto for Lerasium and the Well)? Or would the liquid itself be too invested to affect with Soulcasting regardless?

No, you cannot Soulcast base materials into Godmetals. Godmetals simply have too much condensed Investiture in them to be able to replicate without an equivalent amount of energy/Investiture as raw material. The Catch-22 is that you need raw materials with enough Investiture to pull it off, but anything Invested enough to count (ie another God-metal or similar) would be ridiculously difficult to affect with any outside Investiture fiddling, soulcasting included. My best guess would be that you could do it, but that there would be limits and sharp trade-off's with what it used as a raw ingredient, with smaller changes being easier. For example, I suspect that the easiest would be to take a huge store of a given Shard's Investiture, and turn that into the shard's own god-metal. For example, if you took some of the liquid in the Well of Ascension you might be able to Soulcast that into Lerasium (assuming you had the requisite knowledge of Lerasium itself, which having burned it and being inexplicably awesome, Hoid may qualify).

Very true, I was referring to Compounding Gold (ie Burning it) the way Miles could being a Twinborn.

Agreed. Dont get me wrong, compounding is still a key part of the equations so they dont have to spend time weakened to recharge, but F-Pewter's mechanism to self-limit is a bit more absolute since it's an unavoidable mechanical limit. using the two in compbination does indeed seem to maximize the capabilitites of both, and the upper limits of the combo will really come down to the size/limits of compounder's skeletal frame.

IN shallan's case there's also the complicating factor that she apparently progressed pretty far the first time, but regressed after she started repressing her memories of her parents. Which for me begs the questions 2) what was her SoulCrack the first time before all that familial trauma, and 2) what were Child-Shallan's spoken Truths?

I think on my first read I took that pasaage to be more about her mistrust of the whole arranged political marriage thing more than a mistrust of the institution in general; she cant think too badly about it or she wouldnt have been working to get a marriage on Shallan OR Adolin. She certainly doesnt seem to think it's right for her, but I think that is at least partly her disdain for the pervasive Alethi gender roles, and a lot of those roles are tied to their cultural expectations of how a Husband and Wife cooperate and coordinate.