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this is an excellent chapter. I recognized it by the name alone, which should tell you something about how important it is.

regardless of whether this could work in theory, in practice you would need something like a planet mass worth of chromium, and/or duralumin. it is simply not practical.

sure, but there is a HUGE difference between orbiting the planet or even going to the moon vs travel between stars. it's been 50+ years since the moon landing and we still haven't sent a human to even the closest other planets to say nothing sending manned voyages outside the solar system. sure Cosmere folks will have magic, but thats still an enormous leap

one thing to consider on his age: Mistborn Era 2 takes place within a few years of Stormlight 1, last I heard anyway, so Scadrial has to develop from early industrial to spacefaring in less than the time it takes for Sigzil to get from Roshar to Canticle. 50-80 (for age between 80 and 125) years seems awfully low for that level of development

Sheriam had some on screen dealings with Halima in Salidar, I think.

I distinctly remember that Mat felt really off in The Gathering Storm when I read it, but hes better about that by Towers of Midnight

I don't know about that. at least once you start getting his PoVs in book 3. one of the first things he does is trounce Gawain and Galad in a fight - still one of my favorite scenes in the entire series. he was my favorite PoV character starting as soon as he got PoVs. for me the ranking is: 1. Mat 2. Perrin 3. Egwene, but 2 and 3 are VERY close. Late series Egwene is arguably better, but judged across the entire series, Perrin wins for me. 4. Rand 5. Elayne 6. Nynaeve

Do people dislike her? I kinda get it in the earlier books, but of the 3 main female leads, Egwene wises up the fastest. basically she starts getting good once she starts hanging out with the wise ones. by the end of the series, I rank her over Rand, and during the Shaido stuff, her chapters are often better than Perrin's. Mat is #1, obviously

not JUST guillotine. Trollocs die if they pass through a gateway. Myrdraal too, I think. so even if they don't get cut to pieces, the mere act of going through it will kill them. I also liked the laser fingers

yea, a whole bunch of big stuff, plus some more minor stuff as well. I remember when Brandon was picked to take it over, and it was announced it would be three books, that there were people complaining (not sure how extensive that was, but i encountered some) because Jordan had said he'd finish after 1 more book. and I was listing those dangling plot threads out to myself and thinking there was no way 1 book was ever feasible. pretty sure Jordan said that only because he knew HE wouldn't manage more than 1 with his declining health, and wanted to finish.

there are still quite a few things that have to happen, but the ball is definitely rolling. I don't think 1 book was going to ever be possible, but 2 might have been if they'd tried.

yea, that's a lot more detail than my mostly half-remembered read from a few years ago.

Aether Of Night contains at least 3 Aethers that were not in Tress. It also has "Amberite" instead of "Roseite" but in practice they are the same thing, and as has already been stated, it isn't canon, so it isn't clear how reliable it is as a source. Aether of night spoilers:

you'll get a pretty definitive answer by the end of Towers of Midnight

just in case your question about Noal was more rhetorical. answer is there if you want it, and shouldnt spoil anything else

this is a good summary of all of Egwene's chapters for the next 4 books.

could be i'm slightly off on when stuff gets discussed openly - might be one of Egwene's first chapters int eh next book that they talk about it, but there are at least some hints if you felt like digging for them. like the fact that Leane and Egwene are the best at making Cuendillar

I thought the answer was provided in that chapter, but she was trying to fuse the chains they use to block the harbor into solid bars of Cuendillar, which would permanently block the harbors (since its unbreakable) and make it harder for Tar Valon to resupply and bring in soldiers unless they removed them altogether (by literally breaking off parts of the walls they are attached to) in which case they couldn't block the harbors from hostile ships. as-is they can raise and lower them at will to let in ships they want and keep out ones they don't.

best guess: part of one of his answers from the Aelfinn was "To live, you must die." so probably its related to that

It's been a while but I think Alivia is going to "Help him die" and yea it sounds like Cadsuane doesn't know that specific thing, but Rand certainly does and it makes sense that it would carry in his body language.

He isn't - if the Dark One were out and able to physically manifest and walk round, EVERYONE would know. I don't think we ever get much more information about him. Aes Sedai gonna Aes Sedi. if they can't control things one way they will try to ontrol them another and the Warder Bond (Usually) provides for a lot of control she's very good at that. Believe this is due to one of Min's visions. I don't think Cadsuane was round when she had it, btu I do believe she got to spend some one-on-one time with Min and extracted A LOT of information from her by sheer force of will

I Think this is a lot of it, but its also partly about perspective. Mistborn is primarily told from Vin's perspective where Kelsier rescued her from the streets and basically is the first person to show her any kind of concern in years. Plus he is fighting against precisely the kind of problems she was suffering from as a child. She sees him in an extremely positive light, and so we get the same. If Mistborn were written from Elend's perspective, we may have a very different view of Kelsier. In Stormlight however nearly all of our interaction with Moash is from Kaladin's perspective, where Moash is his foil. their problems and the causes for their slavery parallel each other, don to having the same root cause; so at the same time that we see Kaladin fight through his darker instincts and come out better, Moash falls and lets his darkest instincts guide him. we can't help but compare him to Kaladin and he comes up wanting; for that matter, he is part of what drags Kaladin down in the first place, which isn't helping his case. TLDR version: Kelsier lifts Vin up, and we see him from her perspective, while Moash drags Kaladin down, and we see Moash from Kaladin's perspective.

I mean sort of low points for the characters, the points when they are at their darkest, most broken, most hopeless. the books tend to lose some of their energy there, and it makes it harder to keep going; at least for me. Mind you I'm not criticizing that particular choice. like I said, for me I think the Climax of Oathbringer pays all of that off, but that doesn't make it any easier to read the parts where characters are beating themselves up

I know the low parts of Oathbringer are very low. I'd argue more so than the two preceding books (actually I think each successive book has lower lows than the prior ones) and personally those were hard to get through at times. that said, for me they make the high points in the climax hit that much harder, so I tend to like it, but I'd guess that may not be a universal opinion.