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Was it theorized whether Lift can channel her investiture into the gems? I suppose she can as all Radiants can, but could we treat her as an unlimited supply of Stormlight? It would be especially usefull during the Weepings. As long as she has something to eat, the Investiture is available for those around her. Also : can a solucaster with infused gems change rocks into food and give it to Lift? How efficient would it be if she had eaten that food? Possibly the law of diminishing returs would come into play, but an idea is interesting (and most likely discussed many times already).

She would still have the possibility to go back into Cognitive Realm via Shardpool, e.g. on Scadrial, if Sazed left his Pool in the plain site (I suppose he did). So the steps to Worldhop as a Radiant are: 1) access the Transportation and move to Shadesmar 2) Walk to another planet in CR (e.g. to Scadrial). This one depends on whether you can 'break' the Connection that binds you physically to your original Shardwold? 3) Use Perpendicularity to appear physically on another planet 4) To go back, you need either a) have infused spheres and working bond with your spren which I am not sure is the case) or b ) use the Shardpool on the world you arrived to or c) use some other, local method of accessing the Cognitive Realm or d) stay there forever. This still does not explain the lack of bigger presence of Rosharans in the Cosmere. I bet in thousands of years there must have been many of them who hack the system. Or it is much harder than we pressume to hop as a Radiant.

Hi folks, There is something I've been wondering about and could not find a thread about it. Why there are no mentions of massive worldhoppings from Roshar? As far as I understand it, everyone with the Transportation Surge and access to the Shadesmar has potential to worldhop. We cannot make estimations on how many Elsecallers and Truthwatchers there were, but it can range anywhere from three (number of Bonsmiths) and low thousands (Windrunners with squires). For the sake of discussion let's just say they were a total of one thousand of KR with access to the Transportation in a one lifetime. Since the beginning of SA there must have been thousands of potential worldhoppers. How come there is no clean evidence of anyone of Rosharan origin to worldhop? We know that some visitors came to Roshar (17th Shard, Silverlight, Vasher) but they were very few. Why KR did not become a thing noticed in history of other Shardworlds? Is there any limitation on Transportation given by Honor we are not aware of? I don't think no one in thousands of years did not think of exploring Cognitive Realm to find perpendicularities and dive into Cosmere. EDIT: What came to me right now - it's possible that KR did actually hop to another worlds, but without access to their spren and the Surges, they were not able to come back, similar to the AonDor teleportation. Hence maybe there were some legends among Radiants like 'if you see a strange pool in Shadesmar, don't explore it. No one who did has ever come back'. But still, if some of them explored perpendicularities, then some remnants should be left in their new worlds like knowledge, stories, or simply a different genes or looks due to the strange Rosharan genetic traits.

My bet is on Renarin. He knows what Adolin did, and tries to pose as a killer by killing more people in order to protect Adolin. Renarin knows that Adolin will snap and reveal what he did, and Renarin cannot allow the Kholin family to lose their heir. Also, according to Renarin, Adolin is the more loved as a son, so if it is a choice between losing one of them, Dalinar would prefer disposing Renarin over Adolin. He is sacrificing himself in order to protect father, brother and basically everyone from their inner circle. Plus, Renarin is not very popular anyway so he does not has much to lose. As for Ialai, I think it is too far fetched. This theory is a bit overcomplicated, even though Alethi love complicated plots. Somehow I don't buy it.

I find this theory very plausable, but maybe as the 5th ideal as this, for me, looks a like complete trait of a full radiant - establishing a chain of command full of people who trust each other without a hesitation. 'Teft, I know you can do as good or even better than me - please protect those people on my behalf'. The 4th Ideal, as I imagine it, is widening the protection even on someone who threatens / potentially threatens Kal and humanity, like Parshmen / Parshendi not in the form of power. They potentially can become a disaster to the Roshar, but they are not yet. I can easily see Kaladin protecting Parshmen / Parshendi from the genocide or lynch perfomed by the angry mob. "I will protect even my enemies, so long as it's right', someting along those lines.

Has anyone thought of Lift being in a great spot for going out of the closet in Azimir and opening their Oathgate? I think in the previous chapters Dalinar said the gates need to be opened locally, not from the Urithiru. Would love to see her traveling to meet Dalinar and how Dalinar and Kaladin deal with her as it would be a serious clash of characters. Pattern would like her, though.

As for the magnitude of desolations being stronger / more devastating when more Radiants were around : It's possible that the part of Honor being 'crafty' was forcing Odium to follow some simple, honorable rules, like ' I am only allowed to send so many voidspren / thunderclasts / deadlyfellows as humanity can'. That's why there are 10 heralds, 10 Orders vs 10 Deaths and XX types of voidspren. The goal of Honor craftiness was to exactly match fighting forces. His Intent would also forbid Him from using any unfair advantage against Odium. When there appeared spren trying to mimic Surges of Heralds, Odium was automatically allowed to send more of his troops to bring the balance back and give a fair fight. Radiants learnt of that, hence the Recreance.