Riddlesinthedark

Although I'm not fond of the "Parshendi=Voidbringers" theory, possibly they were recruited because the Heralds said that they had won, and the Silver Kingdoms desperately needed manpower.

Then I develop a problem with Mistborn, because Brandon Sanderson wants his shards to fit in a cohesive "natural" universe.

Unless they weren't human anymore/ever/etc.

I'm definitely interested. Same area, too.

But to get the face and voice Kandra level perfect...

Don't you need musculature to put together a Skandra copy?

Yeah, otherwise the Lord Ruler would have regained dozens of wounds and burns, based on the acts that were described to have happened to him.

Yeah, but like the human body, after the first few elements elements, every single other element only consists of a tiny, tiny percentage. (After Top 8 elements for Earth, only 1.2% is left of the Earth's total mass for everything else.)

Clearly we now know Ken Jennings' secret (a former roommate of Brandons')...

I did completely overlook Soulcasting. I read the first 3, and will read the whole of that thread later. But actually your edit is wrong, and especially in a medieval time frame, armies on the move stretch for miles if not days, except for the very brief moments when they bunch to attack one another. With soulcasting you alleviate some of that but the Alethi seem to be importing matériel and manufacturing it at the camps, and then with wounded and troop transport you'd still have long lines, nearly unbroken lines most of the time. Navy's bunch up, like I think you imagine armies doing, but even modern armies have this problem, even with an airforce. Which is somewhat like what the Alethi have, with the spans(radio) and soulcasting(air lifted supplies). Think of the long times that the bridgemen rest for in the book, transporting only minor, mobile strike forces. Then exponentially expand the necessary transport time and space needed. I've heard the largest tank battle since WW2 described as really, really bad traffic for hours punctuated by a few minutes of excitement.

Wait, isn't Dalinar a widower?

One problem is Chasmfiends assaulting your supply lines. Coordinated and sufficient Shardplate/bearers would be needed along the entire line.

Didn't mean to deflate you at all, Straff, just directing you. The names of the heralds are a funny thing, imo. In the epilogue Talenel'elin is how the herald calls himself. In the prelude, Kalak calls him Taln and Talenel. But in Szeth's prologue it has become Talenelat. (Also Kelek from Kalak). So the symmetry that Vorinism favors was clearly not held sacred by the Heralds. Why?

The bolded, yes, specific to a seer but for the second I think you undervalue the precognition. Unless it completely drops off the face of Scadrial, I'd think it would show up in the later trilogies and need to still be useful

Ahhh

Did I miss something?

Generations of warlike proto-Shin/Iri/makabaki/etc, gather to form a martial culture, they might just cultivate a hormonal response that bolsters the defense of Roshar.

Thats the way Neurology and Philosophy is leaning. We do not really have free choice, but are an amalgam of habits and previous experience.

If it works anything like the Deepness Well, which we did see in Elantris, a large enough splinter directed by a Cognitive mind might be able to re-congeal the Shard over time.

No it doesn't, because while you likely won't memorize random babble, you will recognize a foreign language. Especially with repetition. Adolin has heard the Parshendi chanting quite often in this war, and has been with his father through several Highstorms. Especially if Dawnchant is a source language for modern Alethi. It might not be comparative to Latin or Greek, but if you had often heard your enemies shouting in Proto-European, and then your Father starts off in it...

Thats why I love the Alloy of Law setting, with all those twinborns running around. I've only briefly perused the Mistborn RPG at a friends, but when I get it, gonna have to rerig the game for post-Harmony Scadrail. That the setting I think will be most fun, no Mistborn, but plenty of unique power combinations. Plus steampunk,

Or you'd taste any hint of spoilage, and every hint of char. Might be a double-edged sword.

+1 to all these

I'd think no, because Feruchemical storage is internally fueled.