Knight Oblivion

Yeah, reading Gavilar's abuse of Navani shook me to the core and brought back feelings I thought I'd dealt with. Incredibly uncomfortable how similar it was to my experience, especially her thoughts. The main difference was that he apparently never beat her unlike my ex-fiancé. This prologue has definitely, severely darkened my opinion of Gavilar. It's more than a bit unsettling, especially seeing the apologists here. I experienced some of that too in my life as some people would try to play off or excuse my ex when she beat me with the same techniques I taught her to protect herself.

Kaladin breaking down in front of his parents. Shallan's encounter with Wit in Kholinar after breaking down. (This was the first time I actually liked Shallan). The epilogue of The Emperor's Soul brought out some tears. The end of Elantris in which Sarene calls Heathen their savior, a completion to his thoughts earlier. Reading any of these still bring me to tears.

This would be the opposite. Scadrians are adapted to a world with a lower oxygen content atmosphere and a higher gravity than the Rosharans. Rosharans would be at a severe physical disadvantage in pretty much all environmental situations since Scadrians essentially go through more weight training and high altitude training.

I loved it. The revelation about Sandra and the end made me tear up, if not full on cry, as few books have.

How do we know soulcasting solids doesn't conserve mass? Maybe people soulcasted into statues are hollow. That would preserve the volume/shape while allowing for mass conservation.

I'm still horribly confused by what Surge Dalinar used to repair those temples in Thaylen City. I'm fairly sure that it's some nonsense with Adhesion because repairing intimate objects doesn't sound like anything Tension would do. Tension normally destroys objects and, as a concept, cannot be used to fix cracks since it's a pulling force. I guess it's also used to describe the force a string applies to an object, including one connected. Since the Surges partially appear to work on a semantic level, I guess you could stretch it to be some kind of connecting/fixing power. That makes my inner mechanical engineer want to commit atrocities in outrage though. Much simpler and sensical to play it off as spiritual Adhesion for objects.

Personally, mine is when I realized, after Edgedancer, that many of the references to weird cremlings are actually references to the hordelings of the Sleepless watching the characters. The references in Oathbringer were then super obvious and helped me recall half-remembered instances in the previous books that I'm now scouring for.

It's not even much of a contest. Rashek could compound chromium so that he has infinite luck. That would basically make him the Cosmere equivalent of a ta'veren. Szeth would have no defense for the catastrophic bad luck (good for Rashek though) he'd encounter.

Interesting that my gamma radiation idea popped up over here too. There's some insane potential for Rosharan lightweaving given enough time, knowledge, and investiture.

Oh, certainly Shallan would most likely not use various waveforms like gamma radiation or microwaves. I doubt Rosharan knowledge is aware of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, the spectrum is composed of waveforms which should be under the purview of Illumination.

That's wonderful work, well deserving of an upvote. However, like you said there is a similarity. That shape is definitely not Aon Aon though it is somewhat similar. One side is fairly trapezoidal instead of having a shallow curve/arc.

I bet the surge of Illumination can make waveforms across the electromagnetic spectrum. So, building off your ideas, things like x-ray, microwave, and gamma radiation grenades could be done. The last one terrifies me since it would basically mean that Lightweavers and/or Truthwatchers are walking, potential, partial nukes. Storms, gamma radiation might hinder Stormlight healing if not outright overwhelm a surgebinder's healing factor, Regrowth or not. Other than that, the waveforms part of Illumination's scope opens up some potential mechanical shenanigans. I would imagine earthquakes and Marvel's Quake level of shenanigans are on the table. It probably would just take more Stormlight than normal.

It's kind of missing Aon Aon though...

Marsh at least can use and compound Atium. Maybe gold since, I believe, he's pulling off Rashek's immortality trick. Anyways, it's probably a safe bet that Marsh can't use the external temporal or enchancement metals. The Fullborn could do what Miles did and have his metalminds inside him...

Yeah, but the point of my contention was the part about Maya and, by extension, spren having souls. Thank you for the WoB that indirectly supports that they do have souls. Also, I agree with the nahel bond potentially being able to fix Maya. It seems that the establishment of it bond might be the source of difficulty though.

BS on Maya and spren not having souls. Standard realmatic theory says everything has a soul, a spiritual aspect.

I assumed it had to do with the, to use an allomantic term, "pulse" associated with lashings compared to lightweaving.

To pull a line from Stargate SG-1, Harmony knows where to send his letter because "[he is] a god."

I would highly doubt that Ash is Aonic. She could potentially be from the Rose Empire, we don't know where the Herald's are from, but her appearance doesn't sound like somebody from Arelon or Teod.

Depends on the environment but Kelsier has an advantage due to being physiologically adapted to a higher level of gravity. Kaladin on Scadrial would have breathing issues (both from gravity and the air's lower oxygen) and everything would be 33% harder for him. Kelsier on Roshar would have a couple of weeks in which things are lighter for him before muscular atrophy and bone density decreases. He'd also probably be a bit light headed due to the excess oxygen...

The answer is probably some combination of Horneaters being naturally stronger than purer breeds of Rosharan humans, stormlight's strength augmentation, Rock's skill at the bow, and some lashings. Many are focused so much on Kaladin's disbelief that we forget all the things Rock has going for him. Also, what does Kaladin know about archery or shardbows?

It makes sense that he doesn't just use surgebinding. Amaram literally just gained access to the surges during the battle. Much of what he does with them seems more instinctual than not. He'd be more well versed in fighting with shards than surges, new at incorporating them in his fighting skill set.

If Dalinar dies in the series, his death would be better used in one of the more climatic parts of either story arc. As of Oathbringer we're just in the middle of the first arc and Dalinar still has work to do (both with himself, his culture, and the coalition). Killing him off in before books 4 or 5 (9 or 10 would also work but less well) just seems too preemptive. Also, you've touched one of Dalinar's arcs and issues being solved but ignore the others. Besides the coalition and general unification arcs that have been touched upon, Dalinar has this whole dynamic involving Alethi culture going on. He goes from being subsumed by base stereotypes to unsuccessfully bringing back old cultural norms and is now actively subverting them. I don't think he's done with this and the world would have been poorer if Dalinar was killed off before it was explored more

Let's see, Vivenna is 22 at the start of Warbreaker if I remember correctly. Also, if I remember correctly, Warbreaker takes place between Mistborn Era 1 and WoK with it being much closer to the Catacendre. Mistborn Era 1 takes place about 345 years before Era 2 which is situated somewhere in the roughly 15 years between the two arcs of the Stormlight Archive. I'm on mobile right now so I'm having trouble finding a more exact time that Warbreaker takes place. However, assuming that Warbreaker happens within 40 years of Mistborn Era 1 (sounds aboutright with regard to my vague recollection but, again, having trouble finding things since I'm on my phone) we can get a decent range. Taking the uncertainties into account (a roughly 55 year uncertainty) we get a range of 327 to 382. This is by no means perfect however. Beside the assumptions made above, it does not take into account the timespan from the end of Oathbringer to Stormlight 5. It also does not account for differences between the Nalthian, Scadrian, and Rosharan years.

It makes sense. Lots of things besides what we'd call "broken" can crack a spiritweb.