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No, I want to see what happens to stuff that crosses the boundary. We can be fairly certain that they are in general transparent. You can see out of and into a bubble after all. And there is no shift in frequency. In these experiments we would find out what happens to electrons and photons. Basically the flux must be much denser on one side of the boundary. And the X-ray source would give me a spectrum of the electron energies for control. The lack of a red or blue shift is not the only mystery of speed bubbles. Another one is brightness. Suppose you put a source of light into a bubble. It will emit light at a certain power. But to an outside observer the power should grow or diminish as time is sped up or slowed down.

Put a time bubble on one branch of an interferometer. Build a vacuum tube and put a time bubble only onto either the cathode or the anode repeat that with an X-ray source put a selenium cell into a time bubble, shine light on it from outside the bubble

To understand the characteristics of Investiture.

It is not necessary. They are good enough for the job. Sadeas does not aim for the best troops. He wants the cheapest troops that get the job done. Simple efficiency.

Well, such a donor does not exist, but you could define it, couldn't you? red cells should be 0- the plasma should have no antibodies, that is it should be AB+ the platelets need to match the leukocytes Whole blood transfusions from a 0- donor were done in the early 20th century, weren't they? It may not be ideal, but we are talking about a survivable, not a good treatment.

The group is too large. I have no problem at all with putting Navani in group#1. I just think that it does not go to Kholinar. Hence Venli is not in it. The evidence you provide for Venli group#1 or in group#2 makes sense. But it seems to me that further evidence puts her outside group#1. If we combine that, she must be in group#2 Not strictly the narrative. The location is the issue. Kaladin & Navani are not as such incompatible with Venli. They are, however, incompatible with Kholinar. Seriously, can you think of any scenario under which Dalinar would let Navani go into Kholinar? Could you explain that logic again? Your arguments for Navani in group#1 are pretty convincing. Your arguments for putting Venli into group#1 or #2 are also good. But the logical connection of that putting them into the same group I do not see.

And here the trouble begins. I cannot make a combination of Navani & Kaladin & Venli make sense. One of the few hard data points we have is that Venli starts out in Kholinar (even if that scene we got were technically a flashback into the time beetwen Oathbringer and Rhythm of War). One of the major plot points has to be Venli coming to terms with being a Singer, the last of her tribe (to her knowledge), a Regal and a Radiant. She is not on Odium's side, but neither is she on the human side. That conflict more or less has to be fully on screen. Now, how and why would she get away from Kholinar? Teleport into unchartered territory? Unlikely. But then why would the KRs send a team with Kaladin and Navani into Kholnar? They suffered a major defeat there, losing their king. The city is full of screamer spren and Fused. Windrunners cannot use their Surges there. And risking Navani on a clandestine mission is madness. You'd never get Dalinar to agree to that. If we define group#1 as the Kaladin/Navani group, Venli won't be in it. Again I must disagree. It makes no sense for it to contain Navani then. And we must ask ourselves why the Horneater Peaks matter. Frankly, if Navani is to leave HQ, you will have to give a good reason. Acting as a field engineer in a guerilla in Alethkar isn't a good reason. In fact, if Rhythm of War were to have a lot of fighting in eastern Roshar, then why the time jump? It could have started a few weeks after Oathbringer. Hence if you want a group with Kaladin and Navani, it will have to be on an expedition so important or exploratory that sending Navani on it is justified. That makes sense. That also makes sense. But the proposals for group #2 and #3 are compatible with the data, not strongly suggested by it. It leaves out Venli. I would propose that there is a group making diplomacy but it will be between Venli's group and Jasnah & Dalinar on the other side.

All arcane methods seem to prefer to act on a whole object. So when Jasnah replaces Shallan's blood, she replaces all of it. In that case the existing antibodies will not matter, won't they? They are replaced. If the blood is internally consistent you should not see an immediate reaction.

Well, it would have to postdate The Lost Metal. It would spoil too much.

I read it, but I cannot claim that I fully understood it. It is massive. It probably has to be. I cannot suggest how to sensibly split it up. I would put Jasnah into group #2 (let's call it group Urithiru) - it just makes little sense to put her elsewhere Venli is highly problematic. How would she even know that there is such a thing as the Knights Radiant? And how would the Knights Radiant find her? It looks to me that for the plot to make sense, Venli has to find out these things in the book. That means that she cannot be included in group #1. Venli is in Alethkar, likely in Kholinar. We already had a story line there. The book has to take us to new places. I suppose that group #1 will go there.

Right. It looks unlikely to be Jasnah and does not fit the description of Malata.. The easiest explanation would be that she has already given birth. But it does. People like Kaladin and the other Windrunners are really not terribly suited to HQ work. Shallan, however, is. And I suspect that Jasnah will want to keep a close eye on Shallan and Renarin. And if Shallan is to continue infiltrating the Ghostbloods she will have to stay in Urithiru or the Shattered Plains. I would suggest that Shallan and Jasnah are the group that stays at base, while Navani is going into the field for an extraordinary reason.

Frankly, Roshar is a technologically not very advanced planet; Adolin is a high prince. I expect Shallan to be quite pregnant at the time RoW starts.And a High Prince cannot leave on a lengthy secret mission. I expect them to stay at base.

Moash did try to make the world better and it got him a betrayal from his best friend, who had given him his word. And no, Darkeyes keep being opprossed in eastern Roshar and letting go would just perpetuate that injustice.

Meaning that all forms of splintered investiture would need to end. That plan amounts to genocide.

It has the obvious drawback that you are chosing you leader based on a genetic lottery.

Moash is honest. And it continues to amaze me how many people are ditching a principled opposition to monarchism, as soon as they get Dalinar. I am afraid Moash will have to be held back for the culmination in book #5. In general this war needs a strategic decision. Is it Odium vs. Honor or Human vs. Parsh? The decision can be avoided only up to a point. The question is who will make it. If it is to be the one who would pay for it, it would be Jasnah. She, however, is capable of grasping the consequences of both decisions.

How? Alethkar is enemy territory by that time. The episode with Lirin even showed that Herdaz has fallen. At best the Alethi are holding the Shattered Plains.

That conflates two things that are not necessarily related. Yes, you may end up with free people. But they will be poor and ignorant. We are talking not just about a war here, but about a total collapse, like the end of the Bronze Age or the Fall of Rome.

I am afraid I have to disagree. The Parshendi were holding the country side first. The cities suffered more fighting. Secondly the human side will try to keep Soulcasters out of Parsh hands. That means that the cities will suffer more in terms of supplies. Thirdly, commerce is collapsing. That hurts merchants and artisans more than peasants. Lighteyes are likelier to fill more martial and leadership roles. The Singers will go for officers on the field. The urban elite is going to suffer more.

A tattoo on a shapeshifter makes no sense. The tattoo is not intended for recognition or to prove one's status. The other secret societies must know it after ages of use. A secret hand shake or a pass word could be changed and would serve much better. It is basically a gang tattoo. Joining the ghostbloods is like becoming a member of the undead, that is, forever. That is why Mraize wanted to check it on Shallan. It was to be a sign of acceptance and capitulation. But you cannot permanently mark a shapeshifter. The pendant is unlikely to be a sign of low status, but one of high status or a mark of a field agent, who must not have a physical mark. You are unmarked, yet trusted. The very idea of a wannabe in a secret society is problematic. They know too much, but cannot be trusted. Failure during probation does not mean expulsion, but a knife in the back. Why would they work for outsiders, if they indeed came from the source commonly suspected?

Well, the problem is coming back from Shadesmar. This, however, opens another question. Can Dalinar repeat the summoning of Honor's perpendicularity? That would also solve the transfer issue. This looks like a strategic issue to me Odium's forces hold the perpendicularity. Why care if you can go into Shadesmar whenever you want to? Odium may hold the perpendicularity for his own purposes. In that case attacking it over land looks like a bad option. You attack prepared positions.

Shallan was among the earliest Surgebinders. And an Unmade was around. That calls for a top agent, not an acolyte or somebody on probation. (Scadrial spoiler)

But is the effect physical? Or is it something in the CR your mind registers as red eyes? Would it show on a photography?

Convinient. She only tells when discovered. That makes for a good burned agent. So what do they do to verify what he says? Intimidating people really causes trust.

But it did. You went to a mint, handed in gold and got money at a fixed rate. Well, no. Limited commerce leads to less stable prices. A bad harvest locally is to be expected from time to time. All over Roshar, no that would be a rare catastrophe. Yet with commerce you get a world wide price. They look like war time price controls perpetuated over time. It still requires sand, minerals and wood for a fire for smelting. So the price of glass should be over wood needed to make it Not really, a large gem is worth more than the sum of its parts. The only economical way to breal gems is as a byproduct of soulcasting. The state really has a monopoly on coinage, but it is economic. A situation without precedent on Earth. So would a torch. When would you specifically soulcast into fire?