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Yes, it would be. Why would the Spren care about it?

No. You are right. Yet their charge is potentially highly variable. Elantrians are not dead. They are fertile.

Here may be a category for those without bodies The old numbers look like how hard they are to make with Awakening. The new numbers are not. The Lifeless have some smartness and memories left. The new scale looks like it is based on how sentient the Investiture is. So: Sentient Investiture not based on corporal patterns Cognitive Shadows Sentient Awakened objects Awakened objects with rudiments of a mind: Lifeless Awakened objects Invested objects without agency

Well, no. Returned also have a replacement soul. They are Cognitive Shadows. A Lifeless has no soul left.

The scarf should be white. It looks to me like he cannot strictly awaken with Stormlight, but he can boost aspects of his Heightening with it. By that logic it could not have yolish life forms at all. If they can make living animals, they can also make fossils.

Probably not, for Zahel's new system needs to have a place for bodyless Cognitive Shadows. Nor is it clear that all the objects he enumerated can be made with Awakening. Terraformed likely. Well, yolenoformed. A native fauna is unlikely to contain something terrestial like a nautiloid or an ammonite, or whatever Zahel carried with him. Earth spend much longer as a wasteland without multicellular life than the green planet with complex life we are seeing now. If you pick a terrestial planetr to settle you are likelier to find something with microbes only. But that raises a question. Whence did he get it? Scadrial? Yolen?

If you broaden the concept of bond that much, there is nothing you cannot describe as a bond. Hence the distinction becomes meaningless.

But where does that end? If I had put the table om a sandy place before I erase the stamp, the tracks stay, don't they? But If I have put it there and erase the mark while it is still standing there, the tracks vanish? If not, why wouldn't the apple fall down?

Objects remember things to an extent. Like rubble knows that it was part of a statue or building. How far does that go? Does a rifle remember that it was used to kill a president or king? Can a Soulcaster question objects about past events they played a role in? When does the recall end? If you use a dagger to kill a king, melt it down and reforge it into a pan, will the pan remember that it used to be the dagger that killed a king?

Right, but he'll see the gun and identify it as a weapon unknown to him. Vindication is not immune to pulling/pushing Is Wax wearing an aluminium hat? If not, he will be soothed so hard he would not care about being on fire.

What was the British East India company?

I feel you are multiplying entities without need. Take the simplest approach. Zahel is a cover. Thaidakar is Vasher.

Right. The Fused can set it up. The ancient Singers could not. So why did the Fused start it? And when?

Apologies for the title. Doing that without spoilers is hard. We have seen the Nine. OK, they are creepy. Yet how old are they? Their treatment would not work on normal people. You'd get bed sores, chafing, infection and finally sepsis. As soon as the end results of digestion appear, things get really ugly and lethal quickly. They depend on arcane means of nutrition and healing. Can they be a remnant of the government under Honor and Cultivation? Not really, they were forbidden the power of spren and surges. So it must come from Odium. So how old is it? Did they get Voidlight before their Surges? did the Nine postdate the Surges among the Fused This may have a connectuion to Shin religion. Is it possible that the Hallowed Stones date back to Odium being mankind's god?

Can you define the difference between a mafia and a legitimate business in a lawless environment?

That is the point. What is the object? Let's say I have a plank and Forge into into a small table. I put an apple onto the table. If I delete the mark will the apple fall? Or will it rest on the plank? But nobody would have put an apple onto a plank on the ground.

So I forge a copper ring into a platinum piece with a honking big diamond and use it to get married (Sel is not very enlightened). My mother-in-law finds the soul stamp and scratches. Do the children vanish?

But he has a Blade.

Well, that is exactly contrary to what Lirin preaches. He would tell you that you have to know where you can make a difference and not to despair when you cannot. Well, yes, Lrin disapproves of that, but the issue does arise precisely because Kaladin is leading a fighting force. This mixes things up. Kaladin has distinct issues. inabillity to cope with failure inability to forget that the enemy does not deserve to be killed Lirin does not have the first issue. He does have the second and his answer, albeit impractical, is absolutely logical. Nor is he the only one with this issue. Even Nale is suffering from it. He solved it by picking one set of rules and deciding accordingly. That is the Skybreaker solution. But a Windrunner has to understand as he progresses that he fights and kills not for justice (or a particular interpretation of justice), but because his or her foe is in team Odium.

Somebody has to be practical. How do you imprison a Shard Bearer? Even if she can get her hands on a Nullifier fabrial, she will still have to allow for demonstrations. A Radiant of the 2nd ideal who cannot fly would be much simpler, so a junior Edgedancer.

Lirin is not altogether wrong. If you wished to really protect everybody, you'd have to stop fighting. Fighting means killing. Now, you may find Lirin's stance unrealistic. Yet we have to ask what exactly is his problem, for he draws logical conclusions. Kaladin cannot protect those he kills in a fight. Nor can he fight without killing. He'd put himself into a disadvantage betraying his people. Dalinar reminded him (though on the one enemy Kaladin had logical reasons for his approach). Thus the issue is not Lirin's reasoning, but his goal. It is not realistic to protect everybody. People have competing and incompatible goals and interests. In the end you fight for somebody.

Apparently that was its function when it was fully active. Yet that does not fix the main imbalance. To the Fused destroying Urithiru to keep it out of enemy hands would be acceptable. To the Knights Radiant that is not an option. No, not really. Even with the Sibling asleep and a traitor in Urithiru and almost no Knights Radiant Urithiru did not fall. Attacking it is just suicide. The Fused surely did not try often. He didn't know. And for Dalinar this has been a strategic mistake. It makes much more sense to negotiate while you still have strengths. He should have offered to release Odium on condition that he leave Roshar and never return or harm anybody there.

It has a high likelihood of failure. What is there to lose? Except for Taravangian as an informer, not much. And they are unlikely to keep him much lonfger anyway. They do not even need to take Urithiru. Damaging it beyond repair would do the job. That is very much in conflict with the discussion he had with Taravangian in Oathbringer. He promised to let live the people of Kharbranth. We must conclude that he has changed his mind.

Well, he tried micromanaging. It lost him an Unmade.

It would mean a total loss of the oath gates. It also means a loss of the archives and technology of Urithiru. In the addition to the hit to morale. Indeed. Odium would exterminate mankind on Roshar.