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Yes, but whose Kandra? Kandra under Harmony's command? Kandra who fled during the Catacendre? Kandra cut off when Kelsier raided the pits? TLR's agents who missed the way back home? House Venture's Kandra lost on an expedition? Kandra who fled during the Final Empire?

But they do. For example the Roshone affair. They invest in fashion, they host feasts and so on. They just lack it at the national level. You don't have a political career as a High Prince. At best you can marry off your daughter to the royal house. Yet at courts they practice classical court politics and intrigue, right out of the renaissance. A view of politics that requires elections and political careers of course is anachronistic. They also lack ideology. You just run a strong state. Somebody like Sebarial is possible only due to the recent political unity of Alethkar. Before unification another High Prince would just have taken his spheres by armed force. Alethkar is at a stage of technology and economy in which winning wars is still a viable path to wealth. Frequent wars are also a social necessity to get rid of too many second and third sons. Them solving conflicts by war is just a rational reaction to the circumstances. The demographic catastrophe Roshar is going to suffer will change a lot more. That is not true. Both Gavilar and Sadeas had political visions of the future of Alethkar. And they rationally advanced them. It is just a characteristic of monarchies that the losers don't just lose an election but a head.

Which gem? When the gems on them crack they are just replaced.

People change and presumably so do Kandra. Even if he was sure of them holding the well's power he could not remain so. TLR did use safeguards. His cantons watched each other and his armies balanced the Koloss, who needed spikes and were emgineered to expire quickly and so on. Ig he is around. I can see no reason a Kandra should have walked off and gone to some other world. But he would still be one Kandra. Or dead, obviously.

Did they know how their spikes are made? TLR was a good Bio-Marxist. He seized the means of reproduction. Hence the malcontents were forced to lead a lonely life without a chance to gain a family.

Yet the biology of Roshar shows some distinct influences of evolution and design. The table of chrysalis forms Shallan goes through and her conclusions are very hard to explain without evolution. And they must have eyes. Can we say that they must be flying?

Farmers glue seeds respectively spores to the ground. They harvest seeds for grain. In addition the plants that do so have doomed themselves in the long run,throwing away the adaptability that comes with sexual reproduction. There must be plant sex for fast plant evolution. But why do they have visible flowers then? Visible flowers attract pollinators who have to detect them at a distance.

Does the Reod affect your voice box?

Given that Roshar has no bees or butterflies, I need to ask about the means of reproduction. How do Rosharan plants exchange genetic information? And what does that imply for the existence of flowers?

Well, if this is in the book's present and not at the very start of the book, then I've got to ask when Kaladin is supposed to start out on a voyage. Or is he? Have we exaggerated Kaladin's role in the book?

But the Eila Stele the destruction of Ashyn The stele mentions the power of Surges and Spren. Now, its authors may have been mistaken about the source of the Surges, but how can they not have been Surgebinders?

Suppose you are spiked to the point that a Soother or Rioter can control you. From Secret History we can conclude that death would unspike you. Then you become a Returned. Are you still vulnerable to control by emotional allomancy?

Yes, but the property in question is storage. A Radiant's fuel will spoil respectively leak in a few weeks (we know that from the lack of lightning during weepings). Keeping the Stormlight within himself will only shorten the time regardless of how well he could use it, as he just isn't using it.

We know that an animal can trigger Shades. So what can? Can a Lifeless trigger them? Can an Awakened object trigger them? Could a robotic device trigger them?

How sure are we of that? The interludes of Axies for example could have been years ago, AFAICT.

Suppose a Twinborn compunder uses his metal mind as a hemalurgic spike. Burning it does he have a choice between compounding, burning the hemalurgic charge and conventional allomancy or what will happen?

But is that interlude necessarily in the book's present?

Melt your way free. Unless you can build an equivalent of a Faraday cage with respect to the Dor. Aon Tia Aon Tia How do you make them undergo this while they can teleport? That of course works only for those who care. Do you really want this to be known to the criminals among you? They all presuppose imprisonment.

Not on his own initiative. He is ordered to. Dalinar is monitoring his officers and if one needs a break, reassigns them. Do we know the temporal sequence of these events?

Mistborn burning Pewter and Duraluminium. Vin performed gruesome acts of strength.

How many? The question is important as Harmony's perpendicularity is located in a remote, hard to access area. Northern use of that perpendicularity requires a conspiracy in any case. If somebody ran multiple stage coaches with cans south per month and operated mule trains in remote mountains, how would they keep it secret? And this would be costly. What are they importing to set of the costs? Yes. The question is not one of possibility. The problem is secrecy. Scadrial has a free press and noble house competing against each other to the point of having household troops. How does one or a few houses keep such a secret for decades? On Nalthis, however, you have a centralised priesthood and a theocracy in Hallandren (presumably still - how large is the time gap between Warbreaker and Stormlight Archive?).. May there be a perpendicularity on Southern Scadrial?

Aesudan must have bonded him for weeks at least.

Whoever produced it must have the technology for canning. That leaves: South Scadrial North Scadrial Threnody The Dark Side of Taldain Silverlight And five possible candidates: Nalthis (during Warbreaker they lacked the technology - but that is quite some time in the past) The Light Side of Taldain Elantris Vax the Aether planet That i almost the whole known Cosmere. Yet they must have an open perpendicularity. That reduces the field to: South Scadrial Nalthis Elantris Vax the Aether planet So who delivered it? I would tentatively suggest South Scadrial or Nalthis, with Nalthis being likelier.

If Odium's champion bonds Yelig-Nar and gets a few weeks to train, who exactly does stand a chance? Hoid? A Herald with multiple Honorblades? Sja-Anat plus her knight after switching sides?

So, when Harmony redid the people of Scadrial during the Catacendre, he probably did not touch every Scadrian everywhere in the Cosmere. That means that anybody offworld would still be a Noble respectively Skaa. Scadrial had two perpendicularities, one of which was used for trade. So during hundreds of years, did nobody ever venture through it and went away? In particular, where did the exchange of goods happen? On Scadrial or in the Expanse of Vapors? If the latter, what did the Scadrian crews do when Kelsier cut them off? I suppose they joined the next group of traders, exhanging their goods for passage. Where did they go?