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It is. But bonding two of them is not a crazy wish. They consider it impossible, but why? They have the money. They have the money for funding a whole expedition of dozens of people. But not basic research? Centuries and nobody ever tried to bond two on the whole mainland? This is straining credibility.

This has two possible meanings. It is possible that Honor thought that the cycle of desolations would be eternal. It is not possible that he thought that they would stay on Braize forever. He took too many preparations for combat on Roshar for that. The Heralds have a set program to teach the people, they have their Honorblades. New bodies are arranged for as soon as they go to Roshar. Is is possible that the Stormfather was too alien to understand, but not Tanavast.

Tanavast was human. He remembered not holding a Shard. Either carrying a Shard does something very bad to one's memory, or this is a dubious assumption.

You'd need a boat.

But those are methods, not ideals. Reason and logic are often mixed up with customs and hidden assumptions. I am afraid this is going into philosophy. Generally speaking, for example, there is nothing illogical about selling people who cannot pay their debts into slavery. So far so good, a Skybreaker sworn to the law of the Roman Republic would uphold such laws. So Elsecallers and Skybreakers are more compatible than Edgedancers and Elsecallers. But the idea of law itself is not fully based on logic. Elsecallers look quite utilitarian, at least Jasnah does. Statistics on n = 1 is dangerous, but we know that utilitarianism is compatible with the Elsecallers. Unfortunately it does not fit with the Skybreakers. To a Skybreaker, rules are rules. If you were leaving a room on the sinking Titanic and a sign said "the last person leaving this room must switch off the electric lights", a Skybreaker having accepted the rules by making a contract to buy a ticket would have to switch it off. Jasnah wouldn't hit the switch, for it serves no purpose. The problem with Cryptics is that you would have to discover the internal inconsistencies in your order, like rules making no sense in some circumstances. Likewise if you were an Edgedancer and a Lightweaver you would have to admit that some of the downtrodden are just lazy and stupid losers who deserve the lot they have gotten. I suppose if you really want to look for the best combination under the orders we know something about, it would be Elsecallers and Bondsmiths. Somebody like Taravangian actually.

The problem with this option is that Odium wants to get out. How else would you explain his conversation with Dalinar? If he changed his mind, why did his future sight not warn him? That in turn raises the question why the Heralds agreed. This options mean that they either willingly consigned their descendant to a cycle of genocidal wars or Honor tricked them. Why and how?

That raises the big question? Why the Oathpact? Honor and Cultivation wanted to keep Odium in the Rosharan system. Why? If you cannot answer that question, I see no point in speculating about their strategy.

Aviars are not new. Else the remark about nobody finding a new kind of Aviar in a long time makes no sense. They also have a university. So why haven't they found out that you can have multiple Aviars? I would propose that it is not quite so easy as Sixth of the Dusk makes it sound you must bond near the Eye of Patji the chick to be added must be really young it must recently have gotten the worm

I'd say he let an initial bad decision dominate everything else. Yes, he had personal weaknesses in that he cared too much about the approval of lighteyes. But everybody has weaknesses. When the Alethi made the militarily sensible decision to not fight the Parshendi in a full assault, Elhokar thus made a grave political error. It sucked him away from the capital for over half a decade. It made him look hesitant in defending what is his. And it allowed the High Princes too much initiative. Elhokar was the second king. He could never come close to the glory of the founder. So he needed a swift victory to remind the world and his people, that he is a force to be reckoned with. He gave it away. He should have eliminated the Parshendi quickly, costs and losses be damned. Second and third sons you can reward with land are a decent power base.

Not really. One Herald breaking is enough. Taln could have restarted the desolations right away. There wouldn't have been centuries between the first desolations, but weeks. Either he changed his mind within a very short time, or there is a logical contradiction. And there is really nothing the other Heralds could have done. Killing him would have had the very effect they would try to stop.

When Spook pulled his spike, his new ability just vanished. Pathists take their earrings out and in thousands of times each day. A Kandra suffering a loss of his spikes reverts to a Mistwraith but can be restored. The process is repeatable. Yet a Steel Inquisitor is killed if you pull his spikes. What would happen, if you pulled the spikes out of a Koloss? Where is the limit? If the developed body is not viable without arcane support? If the wounds of the spikes would kill you?

All true, yes it looks less likely. (Scadrial)

True. However He does not need to worry about life sense inside a greatshell He know has a Cryptic to shield This may tell us whether one can soulcast or talk to a Spren telepathically while using copper the shell may just be much louder

Camouflage. You cannot find him with a detector for Investiture because the greatshell neutralizing its own mass will mask his signal.

Riino survived unarmored and indeed unprepared. And nothing keeps you from layering your armor. Put aluminium on top of titanium.

I guess you woud already fail at the requirement of getting two Shards. Even then, they are usually not diametrically opposed. What is the opposite of Cultivation? Ruin? Then what is the opposite of Preservation? Who is the counter of Endowment? A hypothetical Deprivation? And, of course, the more steps, the likelier to fail.

The Sho Del, for lack of alternatives

You can let it lie around - bad idea, as it will become sentient splinter it - bad idea, the splinters will do what you do not like Nightblood it - dangerous idea, the consequences are unknown combine it with another Shard - difficult idea. Shards are not common and you have no sure prediction of the result So you will have to get it a vessel. You want a weak and reluctant vessel. You also want a new vessel. We know that a weak vessel is a Cognitive Shadow (Kelsier was weaker therefore) somebody with a barely sufficient Connection, or even artificially boosted Connection somebody holding it only a short time Hence my proposal: You have a perpendicularity and a Shard. You can make Cognitive Shadows. Ask for volunteers, screen them for their Connection, turn them into ghosts and let each of them carry the Shard for only a few days. Institutionalize that as a religious order. You can honestly promise immortality, kind of.

OK, I stand corrected. Old Magic is to be found in the Valley. Yet, then what is coopted in the Regals?

What exactly is the evidence for this? I mean evidence for it actually being Old Magic, not what has become known as Old Magic.This looks like a bit like a meme that spread on Roshar. What happens in the Valley looks a lot like what (Scadrial) Direct Shardic action, if you will.

They bond a non-sentient voidpsren and are fueled by Voidlight (Ba-Ado-Mishram took over the supply during the False Desolation, so we know that). Red eyes are a sign of a Shard taking over another Shard's system. Why would that be the case if they were voidbinding? It cannot be explained by the Spren being somehow corrupted, as Renarin does not have red eyes. So I would draw the conclusion pointing at the missing link: They are not voidbinding. Odium can generate powers that are not Voidbinding (Yelig-Nar and the Fused). What does that leave us with? Regals are using the Old Magic and their eyes are red, because they are bound to Voidspren rather than the original Spren of the Old Magic.

The obvious problem with recognizing the right of conquest (while it is the practical choice) is the question why it now ought to be illegal to have a second round. "Why do rebellions always fail" - "Because they stop being rebellions if they succeed"

Elhokar was a soldier and he died in combat. And in giving the Bridge 4 salute Moash told Kaladin that he was killing ex-slaves in the name of the man under whose ultimate authority the members of Bridge 4 had been killed. A message that reached the intended goal. As for what Adolin did, Alethi law has a very broad view on to which extent a High Prince can take the law into his own hands. The legality of his action is an open question.

They are worldhoppers. They could go to Shadesmar aconquering and capture Spren. The goal makes some sense, in terms of wanting to do this. But why be so convoluted? They are apparently at least hundreds of years old an organisation. Why did they wait for so long?

Both know about aluminium. They can use it for armor.