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And I forgot a use case: doing Sand Mastery off world

So the previous chapter's cliff hanger hasn't been answered, or has it? It seems to me that the development causing Leshwi agony has been shown: An Unmade is switching sides It looks like Sja-Anat's cover is less tight than she hopes it to be.

You cannot build an electrical painrial. Or an alerter. Or an attractor. Let alone a Soulcaster. Even the fabrial fridge circumvents the laws of thermodynamics. Electricity is a toy compared to fabrials.

Why would Vasher want Odium to return, plunging his retirement world into a war? Who was last seen in the company of Honorspren and has interesting knowledge to offer: Azure Rather the East India Company.

And that is a selling point. The Cosmere is not a safe and nice place. Genocide and general mayhem is the norm. You do not want your supply of a vital commodity in the hands of weaklings. If teh "Fluffy Unicorns" developed a monopoly on Stormlight, they wouldn't keep it. You want your supplier to be strong and scary. but meticulously honest. Pattern matches?

Highly Connected people. Not necessarily highly Invested people. At a first guess Breaths are Connected to the bearer, but Stormlight is connected to Roshar or the Stormfather. An Elantrian presumably has a lot of innate Investiture, but it is his. The only other "free" Investiture we have seen is Shardpools, Skaze, Seon and Threnodian Shades. Only the latter have we seen off world. In fact, none of the Ire had Seons.

To perform these feats themselves sell it to people who wish to perform these feats research it at convinient locations The ultimate goal of the Ghostbloods may indeed be power, but in the form of knowledge. At least Mraize enjoys displaying tokens of knowledge so advanced that nobody else even identifies them for what they are. It looks for example that Mraize carries enough Breaths to have a life sense. Trading Stormlight for Breaths is quite a motivation. The Court of Gods is burning enough Breaths for a Fifth Heightening every year.

And this shows another instance of telepathy: creation spren read the mind of the creator. They knew how stuff in the Davar house looked. That must have come from Shallan's memories.

Fabrials Immortality: Making Cognitive Shadows Returned Manifesting objects - other planets have a subastral, too.

Well, none of these options are mutually exclusive. The reason why he took the job need not be the reason he was offered the job. Yet the coincidence of a feruchemist working for Gavilar at a crucial moment would be too great unless we assume that he or his superiors have access to Fortune.

The good guys? Somebody fighting for the rights of enslaved descendants is bad? The idea that the struggle in SA can be reduced to good and bad looks false to me. Why would they do that if they could just report her up the chain of command and cause Odium to switch her off? I have to point out, again, that Eshonai may have been noble, but she was certainly a failure. Her strategy was getting her people killed and was about to lead them to subjugation or worse. Venli freed millions from slavery.

Speaking multiple languages in quick succession. Apparently Kandra are good at learning languages and imitating them, but there must be a limit. Or alternatively you cannot send a Kandra because the agent may have to face somebody who can exploit the weaknesses of a hemalurgic construct, that is, an emotional Allomancer and a Nicroburst or a certain notorious Mistborn. Or alternatively, how do Kandra spikes look in Shadesmar to a living person? How does a Kandra look to a Soulcaster or a Willshaper?

Now we are getting into difficult territory. How long does a soulcasting take and are there intermediate stages?

Sorry. It wasn't guided at you. Well, he remarked on his would-be girlfriend.

You would guarantee that Elantrians fall into enemy hands or, worse, willingly join your enemies. Who would huard them there? If you don't guard them, how do you keep them there?

Kaladin is not comfortable with a lot of things in Alethkar. Taking that as an indication of how things are done in the Vorin lands is daring.

Or alternatively Terris people fled The Lord Ruler and established a colony somewhere off world.

There the difference was about 40 years and the bride not really past puberty. And it was his personal opinion. Apparently not scandalous enough that he dared say no. According to the coppermind Shallan is born 1156. She married on Nanishah 1174. That is exactly at the 20% mark of that year. That gives us a 80% likelihood that she was 17 years old when she married. In fact her birthday is not mentioned in Oathbringer. The preponderance of evidence was on her being 17. Her bethrotal was earlier, obviously, giving us a good chance that she was bethroated at age 16. And nobody mentioned that the bride is young. So, no, it does not look like Alethi think that an early marriage is a bad idea. EDIT: Adolin is born in 1150. THat makes him 23 at marriage, giving a 6 year difference to his wife. Kaladin is born in late 1153. Meaning that in Rhythm of War he is 21. That would give him about 7 years to Venli. I still think this is fanciful, but not due to age.

How? And why? Leshwi is basically immortal while the Everstorm blows. You need to report her to Odium to cancel her immortality. That is a tall assumption. We know nothing about Alethi customs in that regard, other than nobody thinking Shallan is at a normal age to wed and she was most likely 17 (Rosharan years) when bethroated. We are talking about another species, which does not do long-term pair bonding.

This seems to be unproductive. How about we guess the next three chapter in terms of content, independent of the order of that content and check back on the hit rate?

Unless that willshaper is an idiot he will explain to Navani what exactly she is doing wrong.Navani is not some kind of hedge witch. She is working in Urithiru for the Knights Radiant, led by a Bondsmith.Just making a claim that she is doing something wrong without details, proof or credentials is not going to work. Unless you are very far removed from average human psychology who will know that.

Hoid apparently detected Shallan. So he was better at it than the Screamers. Granted he was closer, but the general answer must be positive.

Why does that unknown Willshaper not provide further evidence?

Yes, but was in an official report. If gold or copper were unknown materials to make fabrials with she would report it. That is not something you just ignore. Nor would Navani or other artifabrians let that just pass. And if you made an official report your High Prince may hear, would you not check that such a claim is plausible? Yes, but is not the simplest explanation that in allomancy and feruchemy the human spiritweb takes the place of the spren? Technically the source of Investiture is not important. You can do feruchemy with Preservation/Harmony or even Ruin supplying the Investiture.

Kalami in Oathbringer already talked about copper and gold. Why? Well, of course you can take it as axiomatic, but there is no connection between fabrial types and the Surges so far. In fact fabrials can do things impossible with the Surges, like detecting people. What is the difference between augmenters/diminishers versus rioters/soothers? Is there any evidence for concealers? Well, no. They do have cages. A Soulcaster has a housing for its gemstones and it is extremely important. Jasnah told Shallan that the alignment needs to be correct. Yey Kalami noted gold and copper she suspected to be part of a fabrial. Well, no. I am sorry, but no, this clashes horribly with the effects Soulcasters have on their users. The user has to talk to the cognitive aspect of the object he soulcasts, sees Shadesmar and is slowly transformed. The closest thing to a Soulcaster would be a Scadrian medaillion. The Soulcaster gives the user an arcane power, it does not perform an arcane act. She must have read the reports on the Screamer spren and how to shield a soulcaster with aluminium. In fact, what if not those reports made the Azish experiment with aluminium? The gem on the spear did not glow. There is no indication that there's a spren in it. Why can you store allomanic ability and feruchemical ability in nicrosil if that is the case? That strongly suggests that they are the same Yes, that allows a much better understanding of pewter/tin.