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I think some of the koloss were female. Or rather, they were made from female humans. Before Sazed changed them, i think the koloss were neuter.

Correction: I recently came across a reference to "bars", which may be either a currency or a unit of bendalloy.

I think the idea is that the powers of Shardplate are distinct from the powers of Surgebinding. So Dalinar's honor is attuning him to the Plate, but he has no Surgebinding powers.

Again fitting in with the notion that they are trying to maintain a stalemate. They limit their own armies to match the Alethi.

It's also possible that the rules apply differently to humans as opposed to anything else. Kind of like how humans are just about the only thing on Roshar that doesn't have a spren, or that balefire vaporises an entire human (or Trolloc or Myrdraal, who are the same as humans for my current purpose) but cuts through inanimate matter.

One important point: This presupposes a knowledge of Hemalurgy far beyond what anybody has as of the fourth century.

And the big scandal when Feltri was proven to be a Rioter?

This also has some interesting judicial applications. It might be practical to train all judges to sense emotional Allomancy (like obligators used to be trained), but you certainly couldn't train jurors to do that. So that might be a big obstacle to Scadrial developing the jury system. P.S. To anticipate a possible objection, you couldn't spot them with bronze. Without a general knowledge of Hemalurgy, there's no double bronzes, and that means nobody who can pierce copperclouds. All you'd need would be a Smoker confederate for your hypothetical Soother.

Maybe it can, but nobody's figured this out yet.

Nohadon.

Creepy.

"Natural" mists are called fog. The point comes up a couple of times when Saze is discussing whether the mists are coming during the day in WoA.

Tavarangian (or at least he's stupid half the time.) Alcatraz Smedry. (Book 4)

I was thinking more that the emotionals would have a tremendous advantage in any political campaigning on the issue.

I think there's a theory going round that the Parshendi are trying to get a battle-trained, pre-marshaled Alethi army in place for the Desolation. Serious warfare would defeat this purpose.

Another point is that each highprince has a different specialty. Sadeas has the fastest bridges, Dalinar has the best heavy infantry, someone whose name i don't remember has the best archers, etc. If you combined these armies, you'd considerably increase the total power.

I'm not sure it's a real disease of the blood. I thought "blood weakness" indicated that it was an inherent part of him, not a disease.

That is perfectly true. (applause)

Very good point here(upvoted). Maybe they always carried electrum just in case they had to fight mistborn (which is impractical with atium)

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This is what I meant when I said "if you get two different measurements" earlier.

Theory # 4 Omitting a line produced an Aon, but a completely different one from the intended Aon. Like when you take a letter out of "stick" and get "sick".

Yes, Ridger was the second-born. He's not particularly important to the larger plot, but he gets referenced a few times in the early chapters.

I think it far more likely that Renarin will become a powerful Surgebinder or artifabrian. That would allow him to use his inner strength, without totally going back on the implications of his weakness.

But both times we've seen full Windrunners, they've had Plate. And I think all Radiants had the Blades and Plate, even if their focus was elsewhere. The Shards functioned as a symbol, like the mistcloak or a jedi lightsaber.