AndrolGenhald

I read that as past progressive and it seemed fine. "The refuse he would find" meaning "the refuse he used to find".

That's just not how it works though. I'm no physicist and I don't claim to understand quantum entanglement all that well myself, but look up the no-communication theorem. As I understand it, the modern consensus is that if two particles A and B are entangled, taking measurements of A will produce random results, and taking measurements of B will produce random results, but if you compare those two measurements they will correlate. However, there is no way to force A to produce a certain value (without setting it up that way beforehand), so no communication is actually happening. You're just reading random values from A that you expect to match random values someone else is reading from B, but they're still random and no information is conveyed. An imperfect analogy I've seen is two people tuning to the same radio station. They'll hear the same thing, but that doesn't let them communicate with each other.

Interesting thought, but it sounds too much like his 2nd ideal to be something new. Coppermind says the third ideal is "I will take responsibility for what I have done. If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man."

Not sure I agree with that, I'd say we have laws that are next to impossible to enforce, but that are still considered laws. I think the difference that matters is that an absolute monarch can simply change the law post facto and exonerate themselves.

Ah, got it. That is interesting then. Maybe he doesn't care so much about inheritance rights, but the rights of the actual Dawnsingers who were there at the time, and since the Fused are those Dawnsingers (or at least some of them are I think), it's only once they return that it matters?

Isn't that exactly what Nale said they were going to do though?

I think it's perfectly reasonable to think that his comment was in regard to your argument and not to you personally, even if it was a little inflammatory. How about we just drop it so the thread doesn't get locked?

Are you sure that's the case? I was thinking that if there were a law requiring lawkeepers to do something they would be bound to obey it. I think the only reason they could choose not to enforce a law is because there is no law requiring them to. Didn't either Szeth or Nale flat out say this was the reason in the book? @Leyrann I downvoted you because I think you're being more argumentative than he is at this point.

I interpreted that as Odium choosing her to be the envoy. If it was Timbre I doubt they would have listened, and I don't think Timbre would want to reveal himself.

I doubt it's necessitated by law, but it's certainly allowed. If you go back and look at how we've seen Nale executing surgebinders in other places he always obtains a writ of execution, and in fact one of the Viziers comments on how absurd it is to execute a child for stealing food. Quite possibly, yes. It's not entirely clear to me if they would consider themselves required to do this, but if they did it would be within the bounds of law.

He did do something illegal though by letting the prisoners escape. Based on the context I think the law is something along the lines of "The administrator will maintain the prison and ensure that no convicts escape", but "maintain the prison" isn't clarified, so the administrator deemed posting a single guard and letting the prisoners set up their own hierarchy to be sufficient maintenance. As soon as the prisoners escaped though, he did break the law.

The problem with this is that Ki explained that no law had been broken, so there was no malfeasance. It sounded to me like the law simply stated that the administrator had to maintain the prison, and it was up to him to judge whether or not he was doing so effectively. This is a problem with the law, the administrator shouldn't be the one to decide if he is doing his job effectively, so by not dealing with it earlier the Skybreakers are adhering to the law even when it is suboptimal. It's only once the convicts escaped that a law had been broken and the Skybreakers were able to intervene.

Has anyone considered that Rock used a shardbow? Do we have an explanation for that? Might he have used shardplate? Granted, he didn't mention anything about a spren in his pov, but there was quite a bit of time between that and the fight with Amaram.

You'd need a lot of duralumin as well. I can't remember, did we end up figuring out if it burns itself up too, or is it just really fast burning? I don't think Vin's stomach is big enough for minutes, or even one minute.

Duralumin burns metals almost instantaneously, I don't think the pewter could last more than a second or two. She'd just be that much stronger for about the same amount of time.

Why do we think Helaran had access to surges? His plate and blade were clearly "dead", he shouldn't have been able to touch them without hearing screams if he had a Nahel bond.

Kaladin heals his own soul's connection to his arm with Stormlight, so it's not much of a stretch to think that Regrowth could do the same for others. Coppermind specifically mentions it being able to heal the soul, although I can't find mention of it skimming through the interlude it references.

Weren't Desolations happening more often before though? I think it's more likely the moons influence the Highstorms and cause the Weeping.

Perhaps Odium is Invested in Braize (do we know anything about that? Or do we just know he's there?) so he can't leave, and the orbits of the gas giants make it difficult/impossible to move the planet out of the system?

Khriss says "Surely other planets in the cosmere have seen worse disasters, but on none of them will you finda thriving, technologically advanced society as exists on Scadrail." The way I read that she's not saying there aren't other places more advanced, she's saying that places more advanced haven't had disasters on the scale of those on Scadrial. Also Silverlight's study of planets without perpendicularities is extremely limited, so would they even know how technologically advanced they are? Possibly, but it's not certain. Khriss even says "...travel on and off the planets (at least in the Physical Realm) is dependent upon perpendicularities..." which makes it sound to me like she isn't even aware of space travel. Do we know when these essays were written?

When Khriss said the other 2 planets are inhabited by humans I figured the Ones Above would be from one of them. Space travel within a solar system is significantly easier than between solar systems, and they wouldn't have access to (or likely even knowledge about) a perpendicularity, so it's no surprise they wouldn't use it to steal the Aviar.

I went back and forth on Dif a lot, I initially thought he was introduced as the weird guy trying to fit in so that Alcatraz could use his Shaper's lens on him, but when that never happened and when he kept exaggerating everything so much I knew he was a Librarian spy. Especially after he knocked the Truthfinder's lens into the fan. I missed a lot of the hints about him being Biblioden though, like the Librarian Oculator being terrified. I was totally surprised by that one too, great disguise! I'm still not sure what to think about the Talents though. Was Attica right and Alcatraz the First wrong? But then why all the "Dark" stuff?

I finished it and thought it was a sad but good ending. Then I read the note and couldn't stop laughing. Oh what fun Sanderson must have had making everyone think this was the last book. Ha! Didn't catch that!

Found a relevant WoB: http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=1115#33 So Hoid didn't take Taln's, and the others are accounted for. The only way he could have an honorblade is if he took one of the Shin's and we don't know about it yet, or if he took the one a Herald recovered, but it seems more likely to me that Nale was the one who recovered his blade and he is actively using it.

http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/54541-where-are-the-honorblades/#comment-443413 There is good evidence to believe that Nale has his, Kaladin has Jezrien's, the Shin have 7 others, and someone (but not Hoid) has Taln's.