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    -1 point for the blasphemous suggestion of men writing, but still high marks.
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    Presumably he has some larger gemstones squirreled away to hold light through the Weeping. And if a Nalthian week is seven days, then the four 5-day Rosharan weeks of the Weeping would only cost him three breaths. And that's on a Light year, when there isn't a highstorm in the middle.
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    They must have a way around the off axis motion thing. Maybe it's enough to have the counterweight constrained so it cannot move side to side. Or maybe if you cut the gems in a modified Huerffin Type III ascending lattice (Grez daughter Hilado et al, Fig vii-b) it allows the sprenions to leak out to the sides, this creating a conjoiner that only copies the Z axis with any efficiency.
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    Certainly if Shallan (or whoever) manages to maneuver him into that situation, Mraize has already lost. That's not where the actual contest is.
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    Despite the way the WoB is worded at the top, I think what we actually know is that strawberries are red, not that tomatoes are strawberries. Metaphorically speaking. ETA: Not that that's necessarily a problem for this theory; it's certainly true that not all of the spren "enlightened" by Sja-Anat are red. Personally I think that's because the corruption is over. If we could watch it happen, there might well be a red flash.
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    It's an interesting idea, and I do think there's something going on with the Origin. I see a couple issues. I'm not sure any one of them is fatal, but: We see one can opened, and it happens to contain fish. That's not enough to say "most" of the canned food available in Roshar's Shadesmar is fish. Azure certainly would have mentioned this if she knew about it, which means the only worldhopper in a position to foreshadow this just happened to come to Roshar in a nonstandard way. You're too quick to dismiss the possibility that the canned food is being imported from somewhere else. Preserving food for weeks or months of transit and then storage is literally what canning is for.
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    The thing is, they don't have a "hover a foot off the ground" fabrial. Assuming they're using something like the archery platform setup, the altitude of the barge will be independent of the elevation of the ground under it (although presumably there'll be some frame-of-reference tricks to keep it from just tangenting off into space).
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    That wasn't Pattern. That was another Cryptic. Presumably the one trying to bond Elhokar.
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    Drive by Thread Necro: Miniature Giant Space Minks!
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    Oh, see, that's a common misconception, but it's just article confusion. Vivenna is a sibling. HTH!
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    I think it's probably a mistake to assume we know everything Jasnah can and can't do with Transportation.
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    The Chapter 59 epigraph: Obviously there's room for shenanigans here: adoption, becoming a Radiant after having kids, etc. But it seems like strong evidence that Radiants could raise families.
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    The myth of the Tranquiline Halls has two parts: 1. We had to leave the last place we lived... 2. ...because of an invasion. Actual human history fits 1 but not 2. Actual Listener history fits 2 but not 1. They're both applicable, but they're both inaccurate. That said, while I appreciate the desire to highlight Vorinism's appropriation of Listener culture, I find the assertion that Roshar is the "real" TQH to be needless semantics.
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    I'm not sure why people keep bringing up emotional Allomancy as especially useful against Kaladin. If anything, the guy with Major Depression should be better at fighting through that than average. Depending on what you did, he might not even notice. That's not to say that a skilled emotional Allomancer like Breeze or Allrianne couldn't seriously mess with Kaladin. But Kelsier's not that.
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    When the Lopen is visiting the wounded soldier in Chapter 121, he shows him how to open a bottle of beer one handed. I didn't think twice about this the first time though, but on my reread: why would Roshar have metal bottlecaps? How long has that been a thing for us?
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    Wait, what? Who? You don't mean.... Ew! Gross. I'm choosing to believe that it's just been a while since you read Mistborn. Also: here, you dropped this. *hands you a slightly dented microphone*
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    I will always divide my tips with the back of house staff!
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    I think you're right about that, but it's important (to me, anyway) to remember that the Stormfather visions are reenactments, and as such we're getting them with the biases of not one but two narrators baked in.
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    I get thematically why we assume the Fourth Oath will be something about accepting failure, but all the other oaths have been affirmative and external. "I Will $do_something." How do you adjudicate an oath about how you feel about stuff?
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    The problem with using the Feverstone Keep vision as evidence for a theory of the Recreance is the glyphs in the corner of the screen for Dramatic Reenactment. Now I do think it's more likely than not that something like that did happen, more or less. Honor doesn't seem like he'd be big on dramatic license. But I'm still way of any sentence that starts with "Feverstone Keep shows..."
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    #notallhumans
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    Probably not Team Odium, per the WoR epigraphs:
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    Just driving by to say: anybody who feels the need to repeat the old saw about high intelligence and people skills not going together, please, just don't. It's a cliche, it's toxic, and even if it's true (which I do not grant), who benefits from spreading it? What possible good is brought into the world from this idea, aside from giving people an excuse to feel better about their perceived lack of Attribute X by consoling themselves that at least they still have Attribute Y? Take people as individuals. Don't get into the habit of believing you can infer things about somebody from one small piece. That way lies darkness.
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    I'm open to the idea that some of the things whose causes we think we know are actually part of some Shardic long game, but inducing a bunch of his acolytes to break their oaths, or even appear to, seems sufficiently against Honor's Intent to rule him out as Secret Recreance Chessmaster.
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