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If Kelsier is any guide a Sliver retains or regains old powers. But what about a vessel? The point may be moot, but in theory, is Sazed still a feruchemist?

No. They would still got a sharp peak instead of a bell curve. They did not get the message anyway, as they had no idea that there are 16 metals. They just detected that there is a message.

Yet they are soldiers. You cannot protect your enemy.

It would not work. Kaladin will be frequently be able to save either side, but not both. Nor, frankly, could he effectively fight Odium's forces if he tries to save as many as possible.

A bit of Scadrial or Threnody would be better. Won't we get enough Roshar this year?

This has paralells. The Cryptics themselves are big into science and math, yet they seek the artistic types.

He hadn't surrendered, still a combatant, even if a failure as a fighter, too.

I cannot make the timeline work on that. The Forescouts were second hand living memory in the time of SITFOH, which took place within a hundred years of Alloy of Law, which in turn took place 341 years after Kelsier met Nazh and Khrissalla. Silence's grandparents left the homeland. Even if they did that as older teenagers and generations are long on Threnody, 120 years since the Evil arrived is stretching it. And the Ire expected the forces of Threnody. Nazh must predate the Evil.

Well, no. To somebody inside the speed bubble everything is alright. As are things outside the bubble. The problem arises only if you cross the boundary of the bubble, to determine the distance between objects inside and outside the bubble. (Or if you send a signal through the bubble - same issue). Indeed you would get a superluminal signal, unless the bubble shrank or something else slows down the signal at another place. That something may be the boundary layer. We know that something happens at the boudary. Otherwise you would be fried by blueshift and the Second Law of Thermodynamics would be violated.

We do not know what happens at the boundary layer. For all we know that will slow the light down.

Elhokar hid behind his office and title. Challenging him openly for a vendetta would not have worked. True, but specific to Kaladin. You cannot blame Moash for Kaladin signing on with Dalinar. Well, suicide as a precondition for avenging your grandparents is asking a bit much. Kaladin went back on his word, not Moash.

Elhokar was a combatant. I am sorry, but he entered combat with a blade in his hand. Arguably Jezrien also fell into that category. He was still part of the oathpact.

Arguably not, if you take it from the thief. But if he sold it or you take it from his heirs? I wouldn't go as far as denying objective good and bad. But clearly there are questions debatable or not covered by it. We do not know that. In fact, if Elhokar weren't his nephew, Dalinar would have done exactly that. Finding a whole conspiracy ready to risk their lives for it very much suggests that killing Elhokar would have been a good thing.

On the face of it. the cultures of the Cosmere seem extremely varied, with their own pecularities, languages, religions, customs, institutions and laws. There is, however, a glaring exception: family structure For starters, no Cosmere culture we have seen is polygynous. That is odd. Nobody is paying a bride price. Everybody looks to be living in a western style core family. The Kholins are the closest to an exception. Is that to just keep it family friendly or just too hard to write, if we look at it from a meta level, or is that deep Yolish influence?

That hasn't stopped Wyndle. The problem is that the Nightwatcher would learn that he has a deal with Odium, as you have to mean the oaths. Taravangian would have to be a double agent. That is possible. In fact, Cultivation may aim for that. Wouldn't the Nightwatcher look for somebody attuned to Cultivation? Navani fits that. Rlain really does not. Taravangian in a way, would. Survival, even at a terrible cost, can be seen as an attribute of Cultivation. She does prune if need be.

Hoid needs to be added. Kelsier would definitely think so. And Rosharans arguably should think so. Also Malata and Spark.

Very well, I have to make a basic criticism of the X-Men trope basically. How does this culture stay stable and how does it develop? You have provided no mundane way (aluminium may do it - this being in the Cosmere) of depowering the Powered. Why would they take being disadvantaged? The powers you have designed are considerable. I can see no way without extreme technology and ruthlessness how mundane forces would prevail in a conflict. How do you jail a teleporter? And this is just the most obvious issue. X-Men works because there is already a high-tech society that is extremely powerful. But how would this work on a lower tech setting? How would any government enforce laws on the Powered without using Powers itself? And if you do that how do you make sure the Powered keep taking orders instead of giving them?

It looks to me like you are making the silent assumption that two observers would see the CR as the same. That is dubious.

No, that is a bias particular to the era of the Stormlight Archive. We know at least five methods to use Surges Honorblades Being a Fused Yelig-Nar Fabrials (counting Soulcasters among them - probably not correct) a Nahel bond with a spren And even in the case of the Nahel bond, the oaths are secondary. Ishar imposed them on existing Surgebinders. That you can use oaths to create arcane effects under certain circumstances. The ability is not limited to Honor. Gavilar was researching it when he was murdered. Oathbringer: That makes little sense, if Dalinar could not set Odium free. And it would take Intent to free him, as we also learn. It implies that there is an arcane system requiring Intent at work.

He does recognise the results of the Everstorm immediately as voidbringers. He is a Herald. He knows what a Voidbringer is. I am beginning to suspect that there is a magic system based on oaths and that the oathpact is not a singular act of Honor's intervention but based on wider principles.

Yet you cannot discuss Christian theology without "hell" or "damnation". And nobody seriously says: A domesticated canine is defecating onto the grassy decoration anterior to your domicile. Some words do remain in dual use.

Well, yes, but that was not what he feared: Edgedancer: He never feared the Nahel Bond itself. He thought that it was the prerequisite to another development that needed to be feared. And Gavilar seems to have discovered that the oathpact can indeed be (ab)used for other purposes.

In hindsight Nale has failed. Taln broke and a desolation has started. It would be easy to conclude that he was a fool and needlessly slaughtered people. However, would that be correct? The interaction of Odium and Dalinar strongly suggested that Dalinar could rescind the oathpact. There is also Gavilar's experimentation with the black spheres. Is it possible that Radiants could actually trigger a desolation?

The same Elhokar who made his High Princes compete on gem hearts alone, thus rewarding Torol Sadeas for treating bridge men as consumables? You are literally correct. To you. It is a matter of personal philosophy. Elhokar did not shoot the arrows. Yet, do you blame them for defending their home in a war? Torol Sadeas only then? If we were to judge Elhokar he'd end up in the category of aiding and abetting. All that as a philosophical discussion, hardly. As a "Hey Kal, how does it feel to have switched sides? Who made that uniform you wear, a slave maybe ?" Yes, he did. Moash is capable of complex, abstract thought and tends to use that capability from time to time. You cannot explain Moash to read Kaladin's mind. Or care about it, really. Yes. But then you need to be aware that you end up with a world view of a 19th century imperialist, not what we would see as the dominant view of the late 20th and early 21st century. Which is fine. You just cannot expect different people on a different world in a different epoch to perfectly share your world view. But then they will act accordingly. Well, no. I have to dispute that. If it were the answer, Bridge Four would have marched away and left the Kholin army to the Parshendi to wipe out.

To a certain degree Kaladin has betrayed Bridge 4. All the men Bridge 4 lost were lost in the name of revenge for Elhokar's father. They were killed under Elhokar's rule and laws. And Kaladin keeps killing the Parshendi who are an equivalent of Bridge 4. If the Alethi were to retake Kholinar, the slaves would go back to being slaves. This pure admiration for Kaladin and condemnation of Moash is not rational. Moash made very valid points. Kaladin's actions can be justified by the actions of Dalinar Kholin. But that is not an obvious conclusion. It is a matter of personal preferences. A Windrunner's perspective. Not even a Radiant's perspective. A Skybreaker would see it differently.