Alfa

Only two powers: Active power: Whatever he writes becomes true. Prime invincibility: Sharders protect him from everything.

One more (small) possible usage: Regrow hair - Aon unstated, probably some variation of healing.

One external mental allomantic metal and allomantic pewter for Locke Lamora. That guy is good at talking himself out of trouble, but each time it does not work... well, he gets a lot more of trouble.

Millions of troups? That seems a bit exaggerated. IIRC, the first army having more than one million people was the french invasion army for Russia, during the Napoleon wars, gathered from France, Prussia, Austria, Italy and several other countries - 250 years from the start of the modern age. Gathered from the western half of Europe, the area with the highest population density at the time, supplied by the best agricultural techniques. They still had supply problems. The Final empire was - at best - the size of Europe, my guess would be around the size of a third to a half of Europe , and had less profitable agriculture, lowering the population density by a significant percentage compared to Europe. Anyway, my guess would be that TLR had acess to about four hundred thousands of regulars, and probably half that of house guards or mercenarys, millions seem unrealistical.

On some former posts there were the remarks about Scadrial having the highest population. I disagree. Luthadel may be the city with the highest poulation (and population density) in the cosmere, but the final empire as it is/was does not occupy that much space (there are WOB on it, but i can't enter the database for some reason "ERROR 403-forbidden"). While this does not cancel out the other advantages (high percentage of effective magic users, simple, combat-orientated magic, governmentally controled brutes, infiltrators and all-killing specialists, unified world), it relativates them. WOK-Alethkar has a similar population to Final-Empire-Scadrial; and Nalthis is heavily endowed with fertile grounds that allow to support a lot more people per square kilometer than both of the former worlds.

Forging would be even more difficult to discover than most of the other systems. It could be that at some point somebody thought "It would be nice to create a stamp to rewrite history", but unless you're Brandon Sanderson this thought is pretty strange. And even if somebody had it, nine hundred and ninety nine of thousand randomly created soulstamps wouldn't be usable on anything in the world (and with world I mean the Cosmere and not Sel), and good luck seeking the object which the thousandst could rewrite. Probably it's a stick on the southern coast of the Frostlands. Bloodsealing, in a way, is much more intuitive - to write with blood on doors (or bones) is strange, but not THAT strange if the tradition is right.

Does anybody else see faces in the "Order" circles? The face in the "Skybreaker" circle looks a bit like I see the stormfather, and the "Bondsmith"-face looks like some kind of an insectoid. Are this Spren-faces?

Or simply depictured a Non-Vorin woman with a covered safehand for the sake of modesty. Like leaves, that in the middle ages often had been add to cover the "unmodest" parts of antique statues.

Pun absolutely not intended.

When at the office your shoes and the carpet interact the way, that you are spraying sparks whenever you touch metal, you start to think if you are the Dark One.

On some occasions I saw the post "Rosharans possess only 0.7 of the strength of scadrians, because the gravity is weaker". That is not entirely correct. While on roshar it it's easier to stem weights, to accelerate something to the necessary speed (say - to accelerate a spear to killing speed) you still need the same amount of energy and force. So its plausible to say that Rosharans are still a bit weaker than Scadrians, but not to the 70% mark, but more about 90%. Also, be Roshar or Scadrial the agressor, the attacking army would have its problems with the abnormal gravity - because it takes some time for your subconsciousness to adjust good enough for precision work.

Depends what you mean with conquer. Destroy organized government as it was? Easy. Destroy the majority of soldiers? Even easier. Station about a thousand people in every major settlement? Possible, but difficult to organize. Reinforce your supply lines to all those settlements? That can take its time. Fight down the guerilla? About everyone of all the conquerors had their problems with that, even against less developed cultures. Anyway, the plague won't magically stop at the end of the war, so this war, be it short or long would devastate Roshar more than any desolation.

Actually, a chulload of wars was won by diseases - often unrecorded. And pretty damnation fast. The "cold-plague" hit the purelake in about half a year, and since you can't easily conquer a land four times the size of your homeland in a couple of weeks, the plague would do it's job. Worst case scenario for Roshar: something like pox kills 95% of the population...

Can you say where this is mentioned? If this is true, the Rosharans would have an edge, since they have at least some diseases.

Some points, that IMHO were not given proper consideration yet: 1) Population: While Roshar has about the size of Eurasia (give or take 20%), the Elendel basin is only about the size of texas. Even if Roshar is less densely populated (which could be argued), Alethkar alone is more than four times as big as the Basin, and has more people in fighting age. Could be relativated a bit, since Scadrial has no religious restraints from mustering women. 2) Immunity: Somewhere in the very first posts a point about sickness was made. We know, that a simple cold (carried to Roshar by Demoux and his friends) became a "plague". Scadrians have a lot of different microbes with them, and Roshar would have problems tot deal with them (i read somewhere that about 80% of the native americans died on behalf on european plagues) 3) Familiarity: Any of the invading worlds would suffer a huge disadvantage - absolute unfamiliarity with the nature of the invadead world. A Rosharan would eat poisonous Scadrian plants (or not eat healthy ones), while a Scadrian might not have any clue, that it's usually not a good idea to hunt a whitespine (and eat it afterwards).

I propose the theory, that the Cognitive realm does not have any geometry at all - and all observed geometry only comes from expectations of the people around.

Sanderson made the Peace/Pieces joke at least twice in recorded history.

This is only useless if you'll never tap the metalminds again. Otherwise it's a complicated way to gain end-positive mental speed.

Well...i just searched in my ebook. France is really mentioned to be fictional somewhere in book 1 ("The librarians want everyone to read their books - whether those books are deep and poignant works about dead puppies or nonfiction books about made up topics, like the Pilgrims, penicilin, and France"), but that is the only place where it comes up. The only other word that has to do with france is "french fries" - mentioned as something Alcatraz likes. That's a bit less than a running joke. Another question: has anybody discovered Melerand, where Leavenworth and Quentin are supposed to be from?

Title explains itself. France is neither part of Interna Bibliothekia nor of the Free Kingdoms - there is only water. For some reason Nalhall looks strangely like france.

A new wind arose, in the far north, in the sea of ghosts and howled with all the rage of the northern lands...it crashed down on the coast, hitting the Archmage unaware at the topmost tower of her academy and disturbing her carefully arranged long hair, whistled up the stone walls behind Winterhold, and embraced the three figures below the enormous shrine with its gentle, chilling arms. The wind whispered thre words in their ears, so silent, it felt almost like a ghost's voice "Nessa Double-Sword"

They can, or, at least, Jezrien's and Kalak's can.

Gentle wind blew from the east, bringing the smell of Ash from Morrowwind, the smell of the Snow from the Throat of the Throat of the world... and smell of freshly shed blood.

Luck compounding can be pretty funny in newspapers: All of Mr. Erikell's enemies get struck by lightning at the same time. Sun was shining. Except one - who was hit by a car driven by a voidbringer. He also won a jackpot of fifty millions, found the love of his life and solved the Voynich-code by accident.

Either this, or it's hard to stop storing determination, because...who cares?