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Accepting losses is strictly speaking not leadership. In fact an officer must be ready to give orders that cause losses. the gem archive says "want to protect". The literal interpretation is incompatible with that. But Kaladin's specifics cannot explain the general theme of the Windrunner oath. A Knight Radiant outside a desolation had the same issue.

Maybe I am dense, but isn't that the whole point of the mists during the Catacendre? Or are you saying that once they have made you allomantic that is permanent? And Harmony can heal people. He did exactly that to the bodies of Vin and Elend, who was not spiked. He just could not resurrect them after their spirits have gone to the Beyond.

I wonder how the flying Fused intend to do this while other Fused are watching. A truce. Or Odium agrees to battle of champions under those conditions. Well, no. Nightblood is irreplacable. You will need to give it to your best fighter. Risk mitigation leaves you no other option. In fact Nightblood is a sword. It is better suited to ground combat. Why give it to a Windrunner? You will still lose Windrunner squires and Knights below the third oath quickly. In fact you should use your low-ranking Windrunners in conjunction with other troops as paratroopers, not as air force. Yet I am not sure a Windrunner of the second oath could refuse to fight in the air to protect the rest against an air threat.

Assume you are a Windrunner squire. If the fights are really 1 on 1, the Windrunners cannot use a formation to protect you. You will be up against a Fused with thousands of years of experience and an actually better weapon than you bear. I'd say the probable outcome is that the Fused wins. But let's give you a 75% chance of winning. After three fights 57% of all squires will be dead. After five fights over three quarters are dead. For all practical purposes, joining the Windrunners is suicide. Bridge runs all over again. And Kaladin needs to watch this.

The Rosharan year has 10 months. Assume that a Windrunner fights a flying Fused once a month on average. Let's say that you defeat the Fused with a probability of 95%. Your likelihood to be alive after that year is 60%. After two years 36%. At a more realistic probability of 90% in a single fight, just 35% are alive after a year. After two years 12%. That is an idealized view. Figuring a learning curve, you are leading the squires without Blades to their slaughter, while you have a few senior knights superior in fighting ability who will feel like angels of death training doomed youngsters. And the assumption of one fight per month may be quite optimistic. Moash is correct. You cannot win against an immortal, resurrecting enemy. Of course this is wearing Kaladin down.

But why gods? If you want to reduce confusion likening the Returned to Honor and Cultivation is exactly what you should avoid. Plainly read this implies apostasy and treason.

Seons Kelsier to madmen Mental Command of the 10th Heightening

Harmony Seons Spren with their Knights Animals on First of the Sun The Stormfather sending visions Paalm Sja-Anat's messenger bird Kelsier to Spook Awakeners at the Tenth Heightening

Because it has to be a research organisation devoted to basic research. It is quite possible that somebody else discovered Scadrial. Or that the discovery was Scadrian worldhoppers turning up in other expanses. But who would determine that Scadrial is indeed artificial?

When I first read this I assumed the Stormfather was refering to the Sibling and the Nightwatcher. This makes no sense. The Sibling by themselves is a plural entity. The Sibling is a hive mind, consisting of sleeping members. The Sibling does not need to be found. It was in plain sight all the time. Navani has seen them, but not identified them. The Soulcasters collectively are the hive mind that makes up the Sibling. Burn this speculation down!

In Warbreaker we saw her kind of doubting central tenents of her religion. It look to me like the classic tale of country bumpkins coming to the big city and losing their religion. But that loss is usually without replacement. Yet in Shadesmar she talked about our gods predicting the future from pictures. What has happened? Even if she worked for Endowment she could say something like our Invested or our mages. But gods? What has happened to her?

Actually, no we don't. Spren refusing to bond is not unusual: No Stonewards, one Elsecaller, one Willshaper ... The Honorspren have a problem with public relations in Shadesmar. But that is not new. The statistical extreme. It is picky. Why don't anymore Inkspren but Ivory bond? They have different attitudes and rogues. Because they break the consensus that new bonds should not be made among the Honorspren. The majority of them is still enraged about the Recreance?

Breathing is not just about oxygen. It also removes carbon dioxide. In fact, you'd get into trouble far earlier due to a failure of the latter. I am afraid we are looking at this too simplistic. We should probably look at feruchemy as some kind of alternate reality (Sel) You are turning yourself into an alternate version of yourself who has experienced more of the activity associated with the metal.

But their leadership, as far as we have seen it, does come from another planet (well indirectly) and uses alien languages. And keeps memorabilia from other worlds. If we had one set of foreign names, Ashyn would make sense. But we don't.

That is to be expected. The distances and angles are still right. This is impossible on a flat projection of a globe. We must conclude that it does not obey the laws of Euclidean geometry. That is, if A is northwest and B southwest from C, going south from A is not necessarily going to take you to B. We do know that the voidspren arrived at the area of Tukar. So unless they took a detour that should be the place next to Braize.

It looks to me that the problems are greatly lessened if the explorers aren't human respectively aren't strictly speaking alive. But that raises the question how Silverlighters make such discoveries, Yes, but who developed then and when. If people from Silverlight discovered Scadrial, when did they build such a device? And when did they learn to build it? And where is the rest of the technology needed to build it or resulting from the research associated with it? I don't think we have a definite idea about the origin of the ghost.

Kelsier walked for days. Still no sign of the next expanse. Or settled. An expanse must have the surface area of a continent up to a good fraction of the size of a terrestial planet. A perpendicularity has the size of a large pond. How do you suppose to find it? Somebody arrived at the Expanse of Vapors. Well, first task is to find something that actually floats on the Vapors. Then they have to explore a huge area. Worse, there is no wind in the CR. You literally cannot sail. You need to find a method of propulsion. And you have no maps. The first airships were built by people in their backyards.

You are raising an important point. Why can Nightblood talk to people or understand them for that matter? It was made hundreds of years ago on another world. If it used a form of telepathy would it recognise the phonetic realisation of a word? Even more basic, can Nightblood actually hear in a physical sense?

Potentially Elantrians are immortal. That means that the range of ages in Elantris will be much larger than in any normal city. You will find people who learned to speak centuries apart. How do they talk to each other? How large does a founding population need to be to preserve its state of a language? Does language still change with the older population slowly adapting? Is Elantris large enough to impose its language on Arelon?

Even after having become literate?

Actually I am asking why they would look out for a new region. I kind of doubt anybody would seriously consider a new planet with new people being created. A new region would have to be pretty obvious. And the secondary question, even if you discovered it, how would you tell it is artificial? How do you get to the surface for research? Yes, there may be a perpendicularity, but you have the whole land surface of a planet to search through on the hope that it is there. So did other Shards tell them?

Sorry for the misinterpretation, but would they? How actually? How exactly do you have to walk in the right direction? Do people do pure research expeditions out of a planetary system into the unknown?

Well, yes, but we cannot use conventional measuring techniques in the CR. That is, you cannot assume that any other distance would change if a new expanse arose out of nothing.

(May I trequest this to be moved to Cosmere Discussions? How?)

Yes, the strong assumption is that you would notice this elsewhere. The CR has a non-Euclidean geometry, as places have their original distances although the topography is flattened. Predictions are daring. Yes. So can we say that between White Sand and The Final Empire we have more than a thousand years. Does Silverlight predate Rashek? No scientific equipment? Better microscopes? Let me give you arbitrary examples. You are studying the feruchemy of bendalloy. And of the areas you would be looking at is trace minerals. So now you need to determine the concentration of iodine, potassium, selenium and so on in urine. You are studuing feruchemical zinc. You should be able to do blood sugar measurements. And you really, really want an EEG. You are studying feruchemical iron. You really want a good gravimeter. I could fill many pages with such examples. Nobody in Silverlight has had that idea? In hundreds of years? Independent development in three cases: (Threnody, Taldain) Scadrial went from arrows to cartridges in three hundred years. So who discovered the creation of Scadrial and how? Yes. In fact much more of everything.