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How would he avoid killing the whole rest of the plants and thus the ecology? It would seem to me that the sunless state is temporary. And why would Taravangian need to pressure Singers into his armies? Singers ultimately depend on Roshar. No forms, no Singers. And his intended warlord is the semispren of a human and he put a Singer friendly to humans in charge. That indicates to me that he plans to integrate both species into his armed forces. And on the gripping hand, the simplest and safest way for the rest of the Cosmere of dealing with Retribution is to take out his power base. I am sorry, but logic should point Jasnah to collaboration, just as it did for Fen.

So Jasnah Kholin, the ultimate realist, ready to do genocide and murder Heralds, is supposed to trust some people who operate without the aid of a Shard to pull that off? Trust it, knowing that failure would doom the Rosharan ecology? Something which there is no precedent for? Something the other side would absolutely try to prevent? It would also mean that she agrees to a plan that would destroy a lot of the infrastructure built for the conditions of the Everstorm since the Night of Sorrows. And frankly, what would she gain? This is the main question nobody ever answers. What is Jasnah's motivation for effectively seeking to restart the war? A war they lost in the first place. Furthermore why would she thwart a plan her uncle, who did have access to a Shard at the time, died to implement? Dalinar sacrificed himself so that somebody else, not the Rosharans, would need to deal with Retribution. Why?

This fails the most major prerequisite - a reason. Why would Jasnah seek to confront a di-Shard without any Shards on her side? After the Fused will have years to establish Singer civilization? After her coalition has fractured? At the cost of many of the Knights Radiant seeing her as an oathbreaker, if she does so? At the risk of destroying the only source of Investiture left to Roshar's ecology? In other words, she'd have to be desperate to confront Retribution. Hence her behavior is most likely totally shaped by the source of her despair.

Will Roshar drop spheres as currency, now that you can no longer show that they are genuine gem stones by charging them with stormlight? Are soulcasters usable with warlight? Or will Fused and Regals infuse spheres with warlight?

I must say that non-Cosmere stuff reads differently. I read the Reckoners without a pause because I wanted the relevations. But I have no interest in rereading them, whereas rereading Cosmere is fun. So, if you are ready for something different, read them, but be aware that they are not an alternate version of the Cosmere.

Yesterday I watched Shardcast. Yet the crew - big shoutout to them - took it as selfevident that the people killing Adonalsium acted in some kind of conspiracy. To be blunt, this makes no sense to me. The godkillers were a very diverse group including two dragons. Except for Tanavast they also seem to have come from a fairly sophisticated background. One of them is described as kind man. Another was quite nasty even prior to his ascension. What made them do it? This group does not look like a group that would spontaneously form in order to play board games and one day decide to kill a god. Such an undertaking sounds quite risky to me. The power? Maybe, but two of them were dragons. No, I think we have to assume that they had a good point and thus were not the only ones to have less than a completely positive attitude towards Adonalsium. In other words isn't it much likelier that at the time the dominant attitude towards the The Shattering was: good riddance? They may have come to regret it, but regret after the fact actually seeing previously unknown consequences is not exactly uncommon.

I'd say that Retribution has left, meaning that Jasnah will find nobody to negotiate with. On the side of the Singers you may argue that either The Nine or El are in charge. Nor would I assume that the awakened Singers are ready to let the Fused rule forever. In fact, them growing up faster than humans there will be a new generation, which has never known slavery, very soon. And let's not forget that Ba-Ado-Mishram is free now. I doubt that she's entirely happy that Taravangian is human. Yet none of them will put a human in an overall position of power. Hence I think it is more likely that Jasnah will kind of form an organization like - for lack of a better comparison - the Justice League, The Watchmen or Professor Xavier's school in order to be a reminder that the humans have some muscle, if the terms of the treaty are violated or humans are mistreated too badly. But she will not want to keep fighting, if she can avoid it. What would she fight for? How would she do that? At least a sizable minority among the people in Urithiru and - more important - among the Knights Radiant will consider themselves defeated and hence bound by the terms of a peace treaty. She'd fracture the Knights Radiant even more. Smuggling people out into the lands allied to Retribution, but still under human control (she will cooperate with Queen Fen), get more budding Radiants to Urithiru, explore the wider Cosmere for allies, negotiate with the Unmade and improve relations with the Spren including Wind and Truth will all help to improve their position rather than restart a hopeless war. For the Cosmere as a whole you can argue that. For human Rosharans, well, no. They are bearing the costs of Dalinar's solution. If you were an Alethi refugee in Urithiru, you'd see your homeland lost, your relatives toiling under Fused overlords, you or your close relatives may have bled or even died in the war, yet Dalinar refused to kill his grandson who had taken up arms against the realm and even mankind? While you were on the frontlines fighting other humans on Odium's side who were merely following orders? Go to a widow with small children whose husband fell at Narak and tell her that it is good that Dalinar avoided killing his grandson. They will consider this a defeat and even a betrayal. Aladar and Teshav outright say it to Renarin and Jasnah's face. About their father respectively uncle. To people who could materialize a blade they have no defense against. Jasnah herself believes him to have failed. She needs to keep things together. She may see herself forced to put the blame on Dalinar.

The problem is international shipping. Normal shipping to Europe is 30$. That takes a long time. So we'd face shipping costs of 45$ (expedited rates) for a 20$ book.

True. I must say that this hits the problem on the head. And it looked unforced at that. They could just have found out that Taravangian would have demanded that the Azish surrender or he would have destroyed the city and executed all civilians.

It seems to me that the decisive factor is the crystal structure. The difference between iron and steel is very small in terms of composition. It is definitely not the element itself. Mud and clay are made mostly from aluminium and oxygen in terms of composition.

No desolations without the Oathpact. Also no heralds to copy without it. I mean if something last for over 4000 years, it is kind of a resolution. The proposed contest of champions would have yielded a result lasting less than a quarter of that. But the bears have quite reasonable a reason for their actions. They want to eat your food. The shades react to arbitrary triggers. But there is a collection of religious texts that define what you are allowed to do, namely whether you are allowed to learn to read.

Fair point. I would counter that the rules of other arcane arts (Sel being another exception) are the kind of rules you'd expect laws of nature to follow. The Simple Rules of Threnody are not. In that case I have to point out the Stormlight Archive exists only due to the specific mechanics of the Oathpact.

If they are very fast for Christmas of 2029. Likelier 2030 or even 2031.

Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell. You can club people to death as long as you trap the blood in a bag. The whole story depends on following the rules to the letter disregarding the spirit of the letter.

No. The trend seems to be to the Shards mattering less and less. The Unoathed are rising on Roshar. Technology allows more usage of the wild card in the magic. Imagine what a hemalurgist who has a computational model of a spirit web can do. The Cosmere is going softer, if you will. White Sand had a procedural question about how votes are to be done as a central element of the plot. Shades are literally about rules. So, no, I am afraid this is just factually not correct.