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When they see the video of the delver attacking Detris, the people in the command center mention that the surface is shooting at the delver but hitting them. So that suggests they had at the very least a base and surface to air guns capable of hitting orbital platforms on the surface of the planet. Edit: oops should have read the whole thread as kaellok covered that. The other thing I just thought of as suggesting there was life on the surface is the fact that the platforms have the sky lights to stimulate day and night for the planet. If no one lived on the planet, they wouldn't bother to build the lights on the platform. I think I recall (I believe in a WoB) that there is a sun in that system, although I don't think it has really come up in the stories. If there wasn't it's possible that the platforms were built first with the skylights as part of a terraforming operation. It also may have been done for non human life, since Defending Elysium

I don't disagree with your thoughts about the cliff hanger, but my take on the scene you reference with the bit I quoted is a bit different. I was pretty sure the text said Spensa activated the portal with her mind, so her having Doomslug I think is more a function of rescuing Doomslug than needing to have her to enter the portal.

Well bless your stars!

Delvers are Hoid. He left the cosmere. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/402/#e13336

That's a good point, once Spensa revealed herself we have to assume that the hologram is no longer so unexpected.

My take is that Cuna is alive and it's propaganda that they're dead and Spensa killed them. Cuna has the hologram wristband to look like someone else, so the rest of the Superiority may not know they're alive yet. Also Cuna confirms that a hologram projector that small is more advanced than the Superiority has access to, so no one in the Superiority would expect it and try to look for it.

I guess I'm just saying that the only thing we know about what the slugs are doing during a jump is screaming, but we don't know why or what stimuli is prompting it, so I don't think we can say with certainly that they are broadcasting affection to the delvers yet, just that their screams seem to be distracting it. Spensa hears the screams when she listens but doesn't yet probe I'm pretty sure, so I didn't think she had anything to do with the screams. My interpretation was that they always scream to distract the delvers. The delver seems to have a realization that the annoying specs are people living lives when Spensa changes their perspective, so I don't think the Superiority or anyone else would know that they are reflecting emotions back. If they did, I think their delver contingency plan would be much different. We're all stuck in RAFO mode though, so I'm not saying you're wrong, just that I don't think we know enough to say it with the certainty you seemed to, yet.

I don't think we have any evidence that the Taynix are projecting affection at them. They are still screaming which draws their attention away from everything else (except the times where one of them still focuses on Spensa in a way that makes her think she's done for). Screams are not typically affectionate. Plus that's also how Brade screams to try to draw a delver into the realm. When Spensa feels their emotions bleed into her own, they are still very negative about everything right up until she shows them their society. I do agree however that now that Spensa can show them her dimension isn't just annoying insects but an actual living society, perhaps she can project something less annoying to them that allows FTL travel without bothering them.

I think part of this is the fact that the DDF is so much better positioned by the time book 2 starts with more access to salvage ship parts, more pilots, and some of the defensive platforms in their control, that the fight for survival wasn't quite as dire. Spensa was one of the, of not the, best pilot and Mbot was far and away their best ship, however they had started to implement more of MBot's designs in their own ships and with more fielded ships, I think Spensa was a smaller part of the total power than she was in say, Battle of Alta second. Plus Cobb and the other leaders had been thinking about grounding her do as not to risk losing her due to her overall importance in escaping with a hyper jump. This probably wouldn't have been possible if she was the sole reason the DDF was holding together. The other big reason is that I got the impression that the Krell had changed tactics by then with the arrival of the battleships. They started to test for weakness by bombarding the platforms, so they may not have been sending as many drones to attack by the time Spensa left.

Finished last night. Sad about the cliff hanger and MBot's current state not being resolved further. Suspect that based on her nature Vapor survived but couldn't return the radio communications to Spensa with her drone destroyed. I'll have to go back and reread the section where Spensa shows the spy video to Cuna to see exactly how the description of changing out the slugs is. I would like to think Spensa would have noticed if the swapped out one was dead, although since they swapped it due to interference, it might not be a good indicator of if the jump normally kills them. I also think that swapping them out is rare based on the paperwork comment, so suspect it doesn't. I suspected that the nowhere portal Spensa went into was going to come out where Jerkface was, however unless it can go multiple places based on intent or other factors, then that might be an issue if they didn't find the gorilla alien anywhere on Detrius. Since Spensa had to activate it with her mind, maybe that could control which other portals it connects to, or there's just a central hub. Overall great book but since I know the next one is probably not going to be here that soon, I was a little disappointed about the cliffhanger. Cool to see that most of us were in the right ballpark about Doomslug though and to see the fungis obsession get wrapped up. Edit: I also thought about Stormlight Archive :

Point of interest my impression was always that Lin soulcasted a marble deposit on his lands every so often that he would then mine using conventional means. They talked about a new deposit being discovered just when the current one was running out. So he would use the soulcaster to create the marble and pretend it had always been on his land, then his total net worth would be higher by publicizing the marble deposits.

I thought the Stormfather flat out told Dalinar he was giving the same visions to Gavilar and was attempting to bond him? Also the gem repository talks about the sibling withdrawing I'm pretty sure, so the sibling has been MIA for way too long too have been bonding Gavinar.

This. The gems aren't the same value as what they're producing, but their value relative to other gems is set by what they can produce.

Sorry I may have combined jam into all sweets in my head, knowing that Jasnah upsets the expectations so much, as I do recall women's food being sweet. It does seem like she doesn't indulge in desserts/sweets from the way she refuses the jams, but I might be miss-remembering those scenes to fit my head cannon!

Kabsal poisoned the bread knowing Shallan was fond of jam and Jasnah was not, so he was confident Shallan would be unharmed if she had the poisoned bread because she was likely to have jam, and Jasnah would refuse the jam. So that was his plan to kill Jasnah without harming Shallan. Jasnah soulcast the jam thinking it was the poison, but she doesn't know what strawberry tastes like, since she never has sweets, which is why Shallan thought it was spoiled and smelled off, since Jasnah had soulcast it to her guess of what poison free jam would be. But Shallan didn't want to eat any because it smelled wrong, and Kabsal was insisting on eating the jam and having Shallan eat it regardless of the taste/smell, since he thought it was still the antidote. Shallan didn't have any antidote, so Jasnah had to purity her blood directly.

I believe the OP is suggesting the begar he encounters in the alley where he wakes up, who is mad about him destroying his model city that he presides over as God, could be a herald, not Axis himself.

When in doubt assume Hoid!

Presumably they have specific reasons for being on Roshar though, otherwise they wouldn't be. So if they have to flee Odium they would be compromising their plans that involve Roshar, which they may not be ready to do yet.

It's probably also worth poking around in the YouTube settings to make sure that there isn't some setting enabled that limits data usage. Less likely on a computer vs phone, but it might share settings across devices.

I think this one is true based on the clothing specifics, and it seems like the same sort of hints we've gotten with other characters. Wasn't one of Tarah's parents Thylen though, making her half? Not that it changes, since Veil might not be able to tell that, but I believe I remember reading that during my last read through.

Regarding shardplate: similar to how the spren were emulating the Honorblades to make Shardblades, maybe they saw traditional plate armor and said, "we can do that better" and made Shardplate. I realize we don't know how Shardplate works yet, but based on the vision where the Windrunner told Dalinar to speak with his spren when Dalinar said he was having trouble with his plate, the main bonded spren must be involved at least as the intermediary to organize it, if not directly.

I also didn't spot it initially since I didn't read WB until way too late, but now that I've read WB twice and am on my third read through of the other SA books, a lot of these hints stand out pretty strongly. Azure also knows the warm up kata that Zahel taught Adolin and Kaladin as part of their sword training, so if you've realized Zahel is Vasher by that point, that's another clue, even before Azure mentions she's looking for Vasher and Nightblood to them when they leave the honor spren ship. Iirc Vasher's clothing is described as color leached out or faded color as well when Kaladin first meets him, so that's another clue.

It's possible Renarin wasn't able to heal her legs because her spirit thinks of her as not having usable legs since she's been so down on herself since the accident. Maybe if she overcomes that mental block she could be healed, but I like the idea of her instead learning she's still a valuable person regardless of whether her legs work or not, and learning to contribute to the fight against Odium despite her legs, like she's already been doing in OB.

I was always under the impression it was guilt based because she didn't feel the Heralds, specifically herself, should be revered so much, and her insanity manifested in her destroying her likeness to remove one way that people revered her, so thanks for mentioning other options!

Dalinar says that he flat out thinks it looks better slate grey than painted, since it's so majestic.