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Possibly, but it would be hard to find something worse than burning someone completely out of the pattern. I felt day 12 was probably Avi confronting Rand. We know from the previews she is already back at camp, and she was adamant about jumping him once she wouldn't be far below him.

Day 13: "We must spread the word to all of our allies," Amys said. "We must not use this weave." This almost has to be balefire. Entire series has been talking about how it is bad to be used.

Perhaps it is part of the process of bringing back how to make complete plate and blades. Weapons and armor evolve over time, but they KNOW that shardplate and blades are possible, they just have to relearn how to make them. This seems to be a necessary step in the process.

Day 12: "Enough talk. You will bed me now."

Ah. So you are talking about a spanreed system that just makes marks on sheet of paper like a tickertape machine?

Day 11: "One more thing, the marath'damane . . ." "I'll deal with those channelers personally," Mat said. She gawked at him as if he were insane.

Why run thousands of miles of telegraph wires when you already have a wireless system of communication that does exactly the same thing? Spanreeds might be expensive at the moment, but with the research they are doing into fabrials, I imagine that the cost will drop drastically. DVD, Blu-Rays, CD Players, HD TVs all had hefty pricetags for the early adopters, but they are fairly inexpensive now. Spanreeds are far better for information you want to be kept secret. A war commander can limit the information to only the woman reading it to him. Telegraphs traversing any number of miles would be basically open to anyone that could hear the clicks. Not to mention the process of forwarding them over long distances.

Day 10: "And farewell to you, old friend," she said to the air. "Until I dream again."

Day 9 The letter was written in Mat's hand. And, Elayne noticed with amusement, the handwriting was much neater and the spelling much better in this one than the one he'd sent her weeks ago.

Egwene had her tantrum with Elaida in my reading lastnight. I also liked the scene where Tyree comes in with the Trolloc heads and Tuon and Selucia contemplate how much of what Mat said they dismissed as pure fantasy.

Day Eight: Egwene strode around a frozen pillar of glass in her dream. It almost looked like a column of light. What did it mean? She could not interpret it.

For a last desperate push, I doubt they were really worried about losing many of the Trollocs. The Shadow has shown a willingness to just throw them away before, and this is a distraction for the Final Battle.

Wind, on the flipside, you could also argue that religions are under Dominion too. There is a place where it is stated that the Shu religions all came from the same point. I don't think anyone would argue that Derethi priests are of Devotion. The most telling to me is that Sarene calls her god Domi. That sounds like a contracted form of Dominion more than it does as being related to Devotion. Not all of the meanings of Dominion are negative. We know that the current residents near Elantris migrated there from elsewhere. They could have brought the Dominion based religion with them to an area that was under Devotion's influence.

Trollocs and Fades have traveled the Ways several times throughout the series.

He is a novelist, not an economist. You cannot expect him to do an indepth consideration of all the possible outcomes for the economic system. If he had to do that just to please some readers, we may only get a book every ten years or so. The brightest minds on our planet cannot come to an agreement on even some of the most basic economic questions. The currency appears to be made from chips. That lends me to believe that they are made from the refuse of the other uses of the gems. Possibly the easiest way to control inflationary tendencies would be just to control the making of new currency. If there is a glut of gemhearts on the market, you can just stop them from being used to make currency. That would leave them useful for soulcasting and jewelery. A backstop which has been used by many countries for centuries is to just recall all the currency and reissue it in a different form at a fixed rate. England has done it multiple times. Germany did it to control the currency after the wars. I think Mexico did it in the last couple of decades. All of the ECU countries did it when they moved to the Euro. Dalinar already has developed a plan to control the currency to some extent by forcing the HP to buy their food from the king. That reduced the supply of currency available in the open market.

Day 7: "Nobody travels the Ways," Ituralde said, aghast.

In the podcast devoted to TES, Sanderson explicitly states that the Fool was Hoid. He even had an interaction between the two that he cut out to replace with something more in line with the story he was wanting to tell.

Day Six: The right thing had always seemed clear to Galad before, but never had it felt as right as this. Those streaks of light were like indicators on a map, arrows pointing his way. The Light itself guided him. It had prepared him, placed him here at this moment.

Short stretch lastnight where Tuon sees Mat in action for the first time. Rand has a runin with a forsaken.

Day 5: "Creator shelter us," she whispered. Mat scowled. "You know, that's what Tuon said.

I was thinking high altitude lake for a little while, but the more I look at it, it just looks like a normal lake at the edge of the mountains.

Don't forget the gems are also used to power shardplate. It seems to take lots of large ones just for that. Even with the gemhearts, the gems are still fairly rare which has always been a reason for their value. I can't remember anything specific, but I imagine they are still used as jewelery. That is another reason they are valuable in out modern world. There may be a bit of built-in anti-inflationary tendency just since the army is so far away from the rest of the realm. I doubt that very much of the gemheart wealth has actually made it back from the battlegrounds yet. Besides, I have never read where Sanderson was a master economist. I really doubt he has bothered to workout the macro and micro economic aspects of the gem-base monetary system. Sometime you just have to go with the story and not try to nano-analyze stuff. Even the best economic minds today can't agree on even some if the simplest economic policies.

Base five and ten are generally easily acceptable for humans because they have a ready made counting system biologically. Ten fingers and toes makes it easy to count and do the math for multiples of five or ten. Base three or four just don't have the natural affinity. I have never lived in England under the older currency system, but wasn't it fairly skewed with multiples of 8 and 16ths and such? They eventually standardized it to make it easier for transactions..

I think some of them are coming from older books. They seemed to hint that not all of the quotes would be from AMOL. Some of them seem very familiar, anyway. Day Four: "Pass his bond to me."

Day Three: "Being married is not so bad, Perrin. Why didn't you tell me it was not so bad? I think I am rather fond of it."