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True. I have to point out that a whole continent is a very large place to search and Vasher is on a tight time budget. Each week costs him a Breath, which is irreplacable in Shadesmar.

That would not work. There are too few metals to translate to the the kinds of Spren.

That is leaving out the whole Diagramm.

How did he cross the oceans of beads without spren? Even if he built his own ship, how did he propel it and how did he find the perpendicularity?

That is an open question. Can Odium make new Fused? And that is extremely confusing and even inconsistent. After Aharietiam Taln alone was enough. But by chance alone there must have been Desolations where one of the Heralds died pretty early. Why did they not notice that Fused stopped coming back?

Aons like Ien, Kae, Kie, Nae & Mae make me doubt that extremely. Furthermore "u" is not found in Aons. That suggests that the language collapsed /u/ and /o/. All in all it looks like Aons need to be pronounced like they were Spanish or Italian.

Well, no. It also provides the reductive agent. And it is stable enough mechanically to use in a furnace. The can of worms does not stop there. If they are really using charcoal, why do they have coal tenders on their railways? They could save the costs of turning it into char coal and just use the wood directly. That is the next can of worms. At least banded iron formations result from the great oxygenation event in Earth's history, in turn triggered by photosynthetic bacteria. An artificial planet should not have those.

Well, yes and no. This is a bit awkward, because I have no idea of your background in chemistry and it needs to be understandable for other people. You may notice that for the Bessemer process, you need molten iron (well a molten alloy of iron and too much carbon). That is the natural result of smelting iron from ore. So it is true that once you use up the coal you need to make the iron the Bessemer process will need no more coal. But you cannot avoid the initial investment needed to smelt the iron. The historic breakthrough of the Bessemer process is avoiding a conversion that lasts for hours and requires the requisite heat (and a lot of extremely hard work) to make steel. That used to take a lot of additional coal. But even the coal required to just make the iron is too much by far. Can you improve on that? Not really all that much. Chemistry requires a certain amount of energy (and extra carbon for alloying) to reduce iron oxide in the ore. We today are within a factor of 2 of that limit. At a level of technology comparable to Era 2 we were at about 10% efficiency. So no, this is unavoidable. You cannot run a civilization at the population densities Scadrial has on biofuels alone. Now, they may use them to run their cars. That is entirely possible. But those are a luxury good.

There likely is. Research bodies usually have codes of conduct. Funding. How would such an operation fund itself? The Ghostbloods have found an answer, but not yet implemented it. There is too much territory and too many choke points. On Earth we have extremely powerful states because we have no free habitable land left and extremely fast travel. Not so in the Cosmere. Sure Silverlight can impose rules. But if some scholars don't like it and found their own university what are they going to do? Deny them the prestige and resources of Silverlight of course, but that is persuasive only so far. Making war on an enemy you have to walk weeks to get to and would have trouble even finding is not realistic.

There is no unified home world that could give such an authorization. And wy would they need it? If you settle in Shadesmar for generations, why would you heed some alien authority?

The Royal Locks react to emotion, hence involuntary reactions.

Making the steel for a city of 8 million people with cars, ships and railroads? And running railroads and heating some many homes? You can make charcoal, but there is a practical limit to that.

I cannot find it. There are multiple mentions of coal plants and coal tenders for railroad engines.

No, for Breath is made out of Investiture, so an awakened entity is by necessity also an invested entity. There is a connection and he is not ready to just ignore it. Zahel, being a scholar, recognised that his system described a special case of a general system and hence abandoned it. Yet being a grumpy old man he kept the names.

If these people pronounce it like that, why not write "Sarini"? I would suggest to pronounce the "e"s like in "bet".

To His Majesty's goverment they were a perfectly legal company operating under a royal charter. In India they were a government. Not a particularly benevolent government. In China they were smugglers. So what were they? This question presumes a development the Cosmere has not undergone. If you form a company town in the Cognitive Realm and set up your own government, what are you? You are an organization with political, financial and military goals.

Right. Simplest explanation: Endowment did not create Nalthis. She found it or knew where it is in the first place. No. We know of exactly one planet that was outright created: Khriss would not make that claim without researching the history of other planets. And it took two Shards to outright create a planet. Yes. Though some may be volcanic. Hot springs exist. They copied Yolen. If you have future sight, you will know whether the ecology you are creating will be stable. But you are multiplying entities without need. The Cosmere contains planets inhabitated by humans that are not home to Shards. They cannot all be Shardic creations. The simplest explanation is that human dispersion from Yolen predates the Shattering. People were either transported by Adonalsium or emigrated conventionally.

Regarding Nalthis, yes, that is correct. Regarding Roshar, no. Well no. There is an error of logic here. For fossils like that to develop, you need life forms that are large enough and have shells or skeletons. Those likely do not exist on a young planet. On our Earth, animals like that arose less than 800 million years ago. The planet as a whole is over 4 billion years old. The Earth has about a billion years of habitability left. It is extremely possible to find a planet too young to have major life forms if you settle a terrestial planet. In fact, it is the likelier case. Not for Roshar. He does not know whether they exist in the depths of the ocean. If they could exist, planetary age cannot be the issue. And Rosharan animals do have shells and bones.

Prohibitively risky for the same reason. You have to fear that he will take his realms out of the coalition as soon as he suspects being found out.

Then her brothers must have them, too. No evidence of that.

Nalthis has no fossils of cephalopods for being too young. He said nothing about other fossils. Please remember that Earth has had large life forms over less than 20% of its age. No. He said that he thinks Roshar has no cephalopods, nothing more. He didn't talk about Scadrial. Scadrial has coal. They are running their railroads with it. And they are sure making a lot of steel for building. Plastic can be made from coal or gas, too. And Scadrial does have coal mines. They are mentioned.

That will be difficult. Equal is an ambiguous word here. Cryptics and Honorspren for example are inherently unequal in a certain sense. It is blatantly obvious that their minds work differently. Their goal is survival. And it does not matter if the alliance fractures after victory. You are asking them to meld their soul on command. And that is not going to work. Singers react differently to Spren. Likewise humans killed their Spren. You are not going to convince the Dustbringer and Willshaper Spren that they should defeat Odium just to be turned to deadeyes by treacherous humans. Odium does not care about his wishes. If he wins, Zahel will count as human and not fare well. The fight caught up with him. He cannot run. He needs that sweet Stormlight and the perpendicularity is closed.

That would most likely lose him the war. It would be among the gravest errors he could make. Taravangian needs to die. He has heirs. In fact he has grandchildren. They are not going to and cannot, if they want to be taken seriously, stay in an alliance with somebody who imprisoned their king. That would destroy the coalition. You have two options You make it look like an accident or old age You make it look like poison and arrest Adrotagia, role up the Diagramm and blame it on them

If you are wielding Nightblood, any imprisonment is voluntary.

Vasher has many objectionable traits, but stupidity and irrealistic thinking are not among them. He knows that if Odium wins, he will be in deep, likely fatal trouble. If Zahel were a spy, Dalinar'd be already dead.