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    Selish magic can access at least Fortune, as seen by the Dakhor assassin in Teod. AonDor can do a lot of physical things and also has mental and corporal capabilities. But what about spiritual stuff? Can it tap into Fortune or manipulate Identity? Given that it is built on geographic constraints, Connection seems to be taboo. What do you think?
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    Because Odium has so chosen, without necessity. What is easier, defeating the humans and then the spren, or humans and spren at the same time? What is the point of announcing his resurgence? The spren by themselves are far less dangerous than humans and spren forming Nahel bonds. Letting them ignore the threat for as long as possible would be the best option. What would the spren do? Odium sending controllers to spren cities. What are they looking for? So he is taking a certain disadvantage for an unlikely contingency? Now that is a reason.
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    But why? What is the advantage of fighting the spren, too? Not enough enemies? And even if so, why now? And why search the rest of Shadesmar? What does he gain from that? What does he care about worldhoppers? And he must know that the Radiants have Elsecallers and Willshapers. Why make more of them by getting the Spren into the war now?
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    Do the Fused need to eat and drink or are they like the Returned?
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    Why is there air? Likely because humans consider air ubiquitous and self-evident. Then that air should have the expected composition, including water content.
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    Right. All normal people whose representation we have seen were on their respective home worlds. I see no way to tell whether location or origin determine the representation and if so, where. How do people in interstellar space look like? And we do know that people have Connection to their origin.
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    Why now? He has a shortage of Fused and he has as much time as he needs. Why divide his forces? Well, we have also seen that he has whole armies of "spren" who can make the transition without a perpendicularity. And why does he wish to antagonize the Spren of Shadesmar? What is in for him? They can transition without a perpendicularity and he really does not wish to drive them to reestablishing the Knights Radiant. The vast majority of humanity cannot go to the Peaks anyway. If they did transition they would land in a sea of beads. And if they mastered that, they'd end up in a land without food or water. What is to fear from the vast majority? So he's irrational?
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    Yet he never entered Shadesmar as far as we know. Inconclusive. Technically we do not know that. We have seen Rosharans in Shadesmar and (spoiler for Secret History) We haven't seen a world hopper's representation so far.
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    Odium started doing this before Dalinar had his unity moment. Hence it is possible that he thinks to deny it to the Knights Radiant as the only good way to get into and out of Roshar. Or he needs for his own goals. Indeed I see three basic options Something hostile to him needs to be blocked from going into Roshar. Hoid? Is he that important? Mercenaries fighting for the Radiants? Nightblood? Odium wants to pass something physical into Roshar. That could be anything. Ideas? Does he still have forces on Ashyn after all these years? The perpendicularity offers some way to hurt Cultivation. What do you think?
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    The Horneaters still know their pools and that sometimes strangers go in and out. Stormlight will get through in gems they charge and can trade with off-worlders. It is unclear to which extent they themselves know how to get to Shadesmar. It may be something for first sons only or totally unknown. Yet people were until recently passing through. They will carry charged speheres back out.
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    Unfortunately Captain Ico needed Stormlight. And he is a spren.
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    If you are a Misting or Ferring you still can have more powers. A Twinborn of the right kind with three powers added is pretty close to an old-style Mistborn. In which distributions?
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    I would figure the opposite. Odium's side has innovated in form of the Everstorm. The Radiants need R & D, specifically weapons research. Parts of their operations are forced upon them, such as a delaying fight in Herdaz and Navani doing research on fabrials. But that is not all they will do. They can physically search for new opportunity. One of the options is Aimia.
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    That sounds like something a Dustbringer would say. Or maybe an Elsecaller or Willshaper.
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    I suspect when they feel like it and militarily they have won. There is no reason a desolation would need to end really technically. A Desolation used to mean that each Fused could return to Roshar once. After they had used up that ability, then what would it mean that a desolation ends? The ability is gone, one way or the other. Well, probably, but it did not matter. They were not using the conventional mechanism anyway. And we do not know whether the Fused in turn reset the timer. The timer works against the Heralds. Yet I cannot see how it would matter while the Everstorm is blowing. The Fused can return again and again anyway. In fact, I cannot see a way for the Knights Radiant to win, while the storm is blowing. So they delay while they are researching ways to kill the Everstorm.
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    No. You are just reversing on the same axis. It is the choice of the axis that is not universal. You are basically presupposing utilitaranism. Ancient Persia, for example, considered telling the truth a virtue. Not because it adds to the common good, but by itself. An honorable man does not lie. Full stop. No further reason needed or given. Something similar you can see in Jasnah. The ends justify the means to her, but she stays honest. She does not just hire a group of contract killers to send the Heralds back to Braize. She told it like she was seeing it. And of course a woman like Jasnah could have predicted how Kaladin would have reacted.
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    The Skybreakers, if a law told them that they have to tolerate injustice, would do so. Cultivation might agree. In case of Honor I doubt that. The rest of the Radiants sacrifice themselves and their spren, ultimately in perceived service to Roshar. What did the Skybreakers do?
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    Well, that may be selection bias. We have seen one set of three orders namely Windrunners, Edgedancers and Bondsmiths swear second oaths aimed at service. These orders are dealing with people. The order which does not do that to this extent, the Skybreakers, does not do that. They uphold an abstract principle. Hence if we are looking at another order rather oriented towards abstract concepts, in case of the Elsecallers, namely reason, truth and other related concepts, we should expect some closer to a Skybreaker oath. Something like: I will put facts and logic above feelings and desires.
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    Threnody does make a lot of sense. They may still have no stable perpendicularity. As Aviars turned up for sure on Roshar and rumored on Scadrial as early as Era 2, their novelty value is also lower on those worlds. And, while Patji is dangerous, a team of for example Windrunners in plate should make it at least to the training island. Ideally they'd be joined by a Smoker. I just cannot see how after thousands of years nobody has started to trade through the CR with all worlds with a perpendicularity.
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    Kelsier has his good side in loyalty to his friends, exactly because it would be wise to kill them. Kelsier stands to his friends even if it means danger to himself. I don't see a contradiction. Yet it really makes no sense to villify a man bad just because he kills enemies of every kind under the conditions of the Final Empire. That is just common sense. Now you may find a flaw in his character in the satisfaction he takes from those killings, but if you judge him by his actions, that is a moot point.
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    Kelsier is also a crime lord and a wanted man. Letting people think him weak or letting untrustworthy people live is not a wise course of action. Judging him by Western middle-class standards makes no sense.
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    Elantrian with the surges of transformation or cohesion. You do not depend on drawing your Aons right. You just create them and modify them till they are ready and if they work you can store them.
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    Irrational hate? What is irrational about it?
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    What more to fear too much plot armor. This is a global war. Bridge 4 has to take casualties sentimentalties in times of a desperate war. That means revival of deadeyes. secret societies being unexplicably successful at keeping themselves secret against warned counterintelligence
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    Betray a crew member or a patron. When he offered Vin the money and told her that she is free to go, he meant it. Hence I reluctantly voted for chaotic good. Chaotic freedom fighter with a broad streak of vengeful ruthlessness would be much closer. Not everything can be pressed into good vs. evil.
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