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That is actually almost exactly what I had in mind when I thought of it. Right after getting the idea of a thrown weapon I did some research on boomerangs, and of the kinds I've seen, something like this looks perfect. I suspect they'd be of limited efficacy against the Midnight Essence... small targets, easy to dodge. Though they do seem to group in packs, which is a great target. So, in certain circumstances, they would be very useful against the Midnight Essence. And I don't think we've ever seen any of the other Ten Deaths, so difficult to presume how it would work against those. Still, against mundane soldiers and Thunderclasts it's totally my weapon of choice. Against the Midnight Essence... presuming that all you need is to penetrate them, a light saber, or maybe even a foil. A dagger might be TOO short, though considering the instant reload, maybe a throwing blade would be perfect. Toss it when the monster is five feet out, instantly draw it back for the next one. Too far to scratch, too close to dodge/miss...

These are both HIGHLY speculative statements. Just saying.

First, the text flat-out refers to illusion magic as Lightweaving; even Hoid's magic, which is almost surely not based on Surges. It's a bit confusing, but it was Mr. Sanderson who used the two phrases to mean two related but different things, not the fans. Please do not blame fans for being confused by it. That said, by the definition "someone who can Lightweave" Kaladin has obviously met at least three people, so the WoB about meeting two HAS to mean, "he's met two people in the order of Lightweavers." Since Elhokar has seen Cryptics, I have difficulty believing he's not a Lightweaver. Will Shallan end up mentoring Elhokar in his abilities? Will that work out better than any of the training we've seen, yet? (Teft training Kaladin, Jasnah training Shallan). Given Elhokar's capacity for general competency, let alone focus, dedication, and self-awareness, it seems to me that he'll make not only a poor Lightweaver, but a poor student. Second, I think Renarin's prophecy has absolute nothing to do with Surgebinding. Well, maybe not nothing, but this isn't "what a normal Truthwatcher does." First, Ym didn't seem to see the future. Second, Tanavast himself mentioned that it was forbidden to see the future. The idea that Honor might have nothing to do with the Truthwatcher Order seems like a stretch to me, and it's also a weird way for him to phrase it if it's just not his bag, but his girlfriend is totally down with seeing the future. In short, is it possible? Sure. Is there a reason we should continue assuming that oracular trances that happen each Highstorm are simply the way that Illumination and Progression meld? I think that's the less likely possibility, rather than the presumptive truth. It's a Comic-Book level stretch to think that Illumination or Progression has anything to do with that; it's like saying that because of Progression, Renarin will develop mastery over the direction "forward".

Thank you! Yeah... the 20-hour citation seems a bit cyclical, since it's just two sources, sourcing each other. Still, 1.1 years is canon (even though I feel it's reasonable to assume it gets approximate when you break it down to actual minutes) so a Rosharan Day should be very close to 1156.32 Earth minutes long... if there ARE 20 hours in a day, that would then mean 57.816 minutes to an hour, the same math I presume Cheese Ninja did to arrive at the "a few minutes shorter" conclusion. It helps nothing at all that there are times the words "week" or "month" are bandied about to mean the Rosharan time frame, and yet other times they're used to give us, the Earth reader, an idea of our own frame of reference. I wonder how much of the day is daylight, and how much is night. With low axial tilt, this would not change in any given location, but given that the supercontinent seems to stretch from their equator (according to one of the maps) down to a place where the ocean freezes, it's presumably different as you travel north or south.

Do you have a quote on that? I was under the impression that we do not yet have confirmation on how long a Rosharan hour is compared to an Earth hour, a day to a day, so working on the basis of 24 earth hours in a day, 500 days a year (five days a week, ten weeks a month, ten months a year) works out to approximately 137%. Hrm... if we DO know that it is 1.1 ... then surely we could work out how long a Rosharan day is? Using the Rent cheat, we know there are 525,600 minutes in a year. If it's 1.1 longer, that's 578,160 earth-minutes in a Rosharan-year. With 500 Rosharan days a Rosharan year, that's 1156.32 Earth-minutes to a Rosharan day. With 60 earth-minutes to an earth-Hour, that means one day on Roshar would be only 19.272 Earth-Hours long. I wonder how they break up their hours. Suddenly, these "six hour" bridge runs look like they might be closer to only four. Pssh, Bridgemen, always exaggerating how desolate their lives are. How on Roshar do they have time for three moons to cross the sky every night, especially since there is a period of time between each moon? If they're traversing so fast, why in the world don't they also cross two or three times during the day? Considering the percentage of the sky each moon takes up, solar eclipses should happen... like twice a day. CURSE YOU, ROSHARAN ASTRONOMY! YOU GIVE ONLY QUESTIONS, NO ANSWERS!

In response to "what can she become" he says that we've seen Syl shapeshifting all this time... does this imply that all the things she's turned into are options for her to manifest physically? If so... she turned into fire at one point. Shardfire? What would that burn? Also, to answer your Shardarrow question: Sharderang. Not the kind of boomerang that returns to you (well, not by conventional means), the kind you just throw once. It will travel reasonably swiftly (since it will be perfectly balanced and crafted), it will have a wide enough profile to likely hit the spine, if not, very likely to hit at least a limb (go ahead and throw it at knee height). Once it's past the ranks of soldiers, instantly summon it back. This is, granted, against mundane soldiers. It would be of interesting efficacy against Shardplate... with the enhanced grace, they would likely simply dodge. I wonder how well it would work against things like voidbringers. Thunderclasts, presumably, would be decent targets to it. You cannot help but hit them and they seem unlikely to dodge, and it will carve in so much deeper than a simple blade swipe would. Does it have a spine to sever? Can you rend its limb inert, or would it simply lose lines of itself like normal stone? We do see one's eyes fade as it dies, so presumably it's vulnerable to Shardblade instadeath. If not, a few throws to weaking a leg, and then when you close in, one or two shardblade attacks to "connect the dots" should sever it. Why didn't the Starfall vision Radiants change their Blades? Six-foot-long monstrosities could not possibly have been the best option for the Midnight Essense, let alone a pack of them. They were getting in close enough for scratching, so at the very least a shorter Blade. Maybe something like a spear, to reach the main body while those spindly legs attack you? A Shardhalberd, to sweep the ground and attack their vulnerable aforementioned spindly legs? Anything other than a giant sword that would only get in your companion's way. Why didn't they shift?

It's technically and specifically the Misted Mountains that block the Highstorm; in point of fact, don't we hear at some point that Aimia isn't as protected as Shinovar is, which you'd think they would be if the second set of mountains acted as a break. We don't know that those second mountains are as high, or perhaps they've got a bizarrely specific series of bluffs that help, or for all we know they have Cultivation's Shardpool and that's why the mountains are so special. Also, while the mountains surely help, the fact that the storm is on its last legs crossing the continent has to be a big factor. However well the western mountains stop the Everstorm, it won't stop one fresh off the sea the way the Misted Mountains stop a Highstorm that's almost done anyway. Hrm. Rysn's drooling grass is about to become an endangered species. The Everstorm is "old of design". Why would Shinovar have been targetted all that long ago? I mean... in a broader sense, the way Moogle described, I guess you're right? In that the phrase "old of design" implies it was, in fact, specifically designed, the whole thing was designed to harm a continent adapted to Highstorms. This includes the fact that it will smash Kharbranth deep into its own lait, just like it will do to Hearthstone, and every leeward-facing house on the continent. It also was designed to attack the entirety of the western half of the continent, which has always had lighter Highstorms, with a fresh-off-the-sea storm. By that logic, the fact that Shinovar has been most protected from Highstorms implies it will most specifically be targetted by the Everstorm, yes. Not because of anything Shinovar has done or really for any specific reason, just because it's the place that hasn't suffered from the Highstorms.

Don't forget that a Rosharan year is about 37% longer than an earth year, so by the time he's "three", he's really four, by the time he's nine, he's twelve. Also, my great-grandmother died when I was four, and I remember her quite clearly (I hope this doesn't come across as snotty or arrogant, I'm simply trying to point out that, at that age, brains and bodies develop at vastly different rates. I was a tiny kid with other mental deficiencies, but the long-term memory centers of my brain were clearly something my body felt like developing first. In your case, those memory centers must've taken longer to develop, and I'm sure something else was given priority. I've got 26 younger cousins and five nieces and nephews, and it's my conclusion that until you're 12 or so your body/brain develop in an entirely random order. There's a reason there's a cliche about that one kid in middle school who's already reached his adult height and started shaving.).

Yay, so then this is proof that the black stones are not the same thing. Or at least incredibly strong evidence.

While I don't personally believe this, I feel compelled to point out evidence that would support it. Obsidian is a sort of glass, so technically it's a kind of crystal. I'm given to believe it's most commonly found as a result of volcanic activity, so with Roshar's lack of tectonics, it could be so rare as to be unknown on Roshar. It's possible that there's an Eleventh Gemstone (a la Eleventh Metal), which will be common in the distant future but which right now is unheard of simply due to the difficulty in making/discovering it. I still don't think the rocks are in any way related, however. I'm just pointing out that I could be wrong.

The short answer is that we do not know. There's been a few W's-o-B indicating that burning "more" lerasium starts to do some weird things, but basically it seems like it isn't quite as simple as that.

Miles is not the first compounder ever. And, as we saw with Vin and Sazed, discovering compounding independently is not difficult. If he'd been the first compounder ever, even if he hadn't known that the Lord Ruler used compounding, all it would have taken was a single day when he thought to himself, "I wonder what happens if I burn my goldmind... oh hey, it gives me ALL the health!" As to the test, I assume they just give you a vial with a bit of every metal and see if you feel a "reserve" appear. Vin, before she knew what allomancy was, could "feel" her store of luck. It's difficult for others to find duralumin and aluminum gnats, because their powers don't really do anything. It's not independently difficult for the gnat himself to know. In which Arcanum did it say that they are difficult to find? I know it was mentioned in an epigraph in Hero of Ages, but for reasons which don't exist by Alloy of Law era.

Just this side of impossible, pending clarification from Mr. Sanderson on his contradictory W's-o-B regarding whether metals piercing you but not in your stomach can be 'burned', and if a metal you personally cannot burn is considered a "reserve". I don't understand what you are saying here? You're asking how it's possible for someone to know they are twinborn? Because people know feruchemy exists and test for it, and people know allomancy exists and test for it. From The Lord Ruler, they know a single person can have both feruchemy and allomancy. If you're asking specifically why they tested bendalloy, I believe Harmony gave hints in his Words of Founding.

When Kaladin's flashback mentions longroots, which taste strongly of minerals, and you think, this is a perfect export to Scadrial! Get your metals in this tangy soup.

I believe there's WoB that at least states that spren can take on forms with no martial application. Not exactly the same thing as "the can be any physical object" but it's a lot. I also think he says the size is MUCH bigger than we've ever seen, like the volume of a human.

An interesting and highly plausible theory.

Chapter 37, Kaladin talks of going to Kholinar to study, rather than Kharbranth

There is WoB that the Ten fools are inversions of the heralds. Cabine acts like a child, though he is an adult. Which Herald is he associated with? Battar and wisdom?

Hopefully this is more useful than pedantic... Szeth very specifically says his "Lashings interfered with the gemstones that powered Shardplate". So, it doesn't quite seem to be the same thing as the Plate itself, but interestingly he'd be messing with the gemstones. Of course, this is paragraphs after he states that his Lashings won't affect a man in Shardplate, so since he has to touch the thing he Lashes, maybe he also cannot Lash through Plate. Not a guarantee; we know you have tactile senses through the gloves, so maybe you could still Lash through them. But it would interfere somehow with the gemstones themselves. A curious conundrum.

Yet Adolin also notes that Dalinar does seem to get even more out of Plate than most men. More strength, more speed, even more grace. Is it possible not every set of Plate is the same multiplier? Has Dalinar got some natural talent that gives him more out of Plate than most people get? I would say that his overuse of it over the years has given him Plate savanthood, but it's mentioned frequently that anyone with Plate tends to wear it at any opportunity; that's not a reason for Dalinar to be better with it than most Shardbearers, in that case. Personally, I suspect it is a trait of Dalinar's. I think he's a savant with Plate (except by that I mean our, Earth definition of that word, meaning someone who is simply born talented and hones that skill, not the allomantic definition) and can simply get more out of it than most people can. The fact that Elhokar remains so close with him, therefore... well, actually the whole scenario is sorta muddied. Elhokar stays even with Dalinar, but he does so by starting before Dalinar does, and also by taking at least one stupid risk that happens to pay off; if that one spur of rock hadn't held his weight, he'd've tumbled to the ground and Dalinar would have won. So, you can't really compare someone going "slow and steady" to someone who takes a big risk that pays off; there's no control group. Rust you, single point of data! Anyway. Who knows. Is what I'm saying. Do we actually see that Stormlight gives you more strength? It heals you, lets you sprint forever without losing your breath or running out of energy, but does it actually make you physically mightier? I feel like I cannot recall a time this is so, though granted it's something I've assumed for so long I haven't been looking. If anyone can recall even one instance where it's expressly stated that Stormlight makes you mightier, please remind me.

As further complication, literally anywhere that the water WOULD drain should quickly clog with crem.

This is an idea which has been kicking around in my head ever since I heard there were 10 societies. Good on you for compiling it like this. Though, I think I heard somewhere that the newly-founded KR are considered one of the societies? As further support for the Diagram being Windrunners: Their other Glory is supposed to be Leading. "You must become king. Of Everything.

This, it turns out, is per the Ars Arcanum of Alloy of Law, so I'm giving it a 10/10 canonicity.

How do you mean?

Tackling the easy one first. None of it. Unless and until confirmed in text or WoB, nothing in MAG or any supplement is canon. Aru? What do we understand her as, now? That I know of, all we actually know is that she's got some relation to Cultivation. Are you saying you've already made up your mind that she's just the same thing as the Stormfather? Yep. Again, that's all I'm going for here.