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It looked to me like he welcomed catastrophic consequences of his actions, so that farming would require the methods the Singers have been using, just with Warlight. The same obviously applies to Soulcasting. Pray to him or starve. Classical hydraulic despotism transfered to Investiture.

Then why are you transporting it in the first place? Presumably the refill does not work in Azimir. They will have to live without fabrials.

The flooding due to the Highstorms is gone. This will drastically alter ecosystems. Riverbeds will no longer be swept clean of sediments. The Purelake will no longer periodically fall dry. This will allow fish not adapted to that to live in it. The amount of sunlight will be reduced due to a permanent cloud cover. Again plant communities will be hit hard. All the adaptions to the Highstorm are now energetic liabilities. Mammals will have it much easier. No more crem. Most plants are adapted to the nutrients it carries. Rainfall is no longer in dramatic bursts. Many more rivers will become permanent. Roshar will need a lot of bridges. Some rivers will become navigable.

Because the other hybrid light, Towerlight, stores really badly. Warlight cannot be that bad, as it has to last a day at least, but other than that, we don't know. The different lights vary drastically in storability. The oathgates don't work without Urithiru and Urithiru is cut off. If Warlight stores as well as Stormlight, which regularly ran out during the Weeping, you will not be able to ship it far in large quantities over land in a cart. Actually, land transport will be very difficult for some time. All those rivers are now permanent. They will have to build a lot of bridges.

That depends on the assumption that warlight can be stored well in gemstones.

I am afraid I need to point out that a lot more than the first arc is over. Someone has got to say it: Without the Highstorms and Stormlight Roshar might just as well be just another world. A lot of other things are gone. You can hardly be Vorin and praise Retribution at midnight to keep your food growing and your fabrials running.

A Sho Del name should have two parts. Chan Ko Sar has three parts. Going by the ending it looks like it is from the same language that gave "Midius" and "Medelantorus". The latter is a dragon and we have no idea which species Midius was.

Dalinar Kholin was a sliver at the time of his death. He would have persisted. Showing him passing into the Beyond hence was necessary.

Sigzil resorts to treaties between spacefaring planets. That requires Roshar to have had a government with a foreign policy.

I was wondering how the relationship between the Rosharans and Hoid will be in the future. I think there was a tendency to see the future of the Cosmere as a conflict between the imperialist Scadrians and the honorable Rosharans allied with Hoid. I guess this theory has taken a torpedo under the waterline. How will the survivors evaluate the result of the duell of the champions? This leads me to questions. When will the Radiants learn that Hoid has survived? When will the Radiants learn that Taravangian has become Retribution? Hoid was in an extreme hurry to get to Sigzil. I guess he told nobody what had happened and they will resort to questioning Lirin. The latest would be when Navani wakes up. Is there any way for them to be contacted earlier? Once they learn the truth will they feel betrayed? To their mind this must look like they have lost almost all of Roshar only to end up much, much worse off than if they had renegotiated in the first place. That is they should have done exactly what Hoid told them not to do.

No. It would be cool, but Taravangian has surely noticed that Hoid does not pop up as a ghost in Shadesmar. I really doubt he'll ever return. Roshar now will be really watched closely. It seems to me that that would amount to desecrating a corpse at this point. The old Roshar is gone. The Stormfather is dead. Cultivation's shard pool is gone. Horneater culture is broken.

Let's look back at The Sunlit Man. How are we to interpret Sigzil's reaction to seeing Kaladin? Can we assume that he read Knights of Wind and Truth? It seems to have been written well before he will have begun to be hunted. In that case and given the length of time that has passed, he would assume that Kaladin has died. He does not really look like a man who is seeing a ghost. Does this men that the new heralds already returned by the time of The Sunlit Man?

Didn't that happen later? Well, with a Shard earlier or later is not as set in stone. But then I have to ask, why did she hide? Isn't it valorous to tell another Shard to get lost?

From the text we know that mixed spren can leave. I think we can safely assume that pure Honorspren and pure Cultivationspren can also leave. That leaves Voidspren, the Unmade and the Fused. Given her position it looks certain to me that Sja-Anat will, if she can, flee and looking at Ulim, I would reckon that he won't wait around for his boss to return and start a second attempt of eating him. Even a lot of ordinary sapient Spren should share that attitude. Where will they go? And then the big question? Can Roshar export warlight?

Hers is the deepest. He asked her to mess with his mind.

In fact that is the very first time the name "Yolen" officially appeared.

Could you elaborate? I get that helping a coward is anathema to Valor. But why would she consider Tanavast a coward? I don't see that? He dies for what he believes in.

Well, you do you have a point. The first two books build up a beautiful mansion. The latter three books in the series have Godzilla come in and stomp it into the ground. Yet, then we would have to ask, how would the story end?

The rock changing its color when wet, that Tien showed Kaladin.

Not letting those whom you are preparing to fight collect information about you is kind of basic tactics. I doubt you can read a lot out of her current isolation. Why she hid from Tanavast is the interesting question. It may be as simple as having a fool suffer the consequences of his own actions. That is what, at the end of the day, Cultivation also did. It may be a dragon thing.

Did she hire some worldhopping mercenaries or is there a secret order of Cultivation's Knights? If so, which powers do they get?

Yes, but the hiding must have been very recent, as Harmony talked to her without problems as recently as whenever he wrote his answer to Hoid. Much of it was protagonists observing things. Another part was basically a debating club. Given the subject matter it was surprisingly captivating. But still this book was in many regards a treatise on philosophy, politics and strategy. An honest subtitle would have been "contra utilitarismum". Another part was a mixture of a practical test set by a demented superhero and a lot of talk about, again, at the end of the day philosophy.

In the text we see two groups who are still supplied with Investiture, presumably warlight The Singers The Fused in Shadesmar Has Retribution told everybody that they can request warlight? Does that apply to everybody under the Everstorm? In other words, have the Azish just cut themselves off from the supply of Investiture? Will the wild animals still be supplied? Or are we looking at a total ecological collapse?

I tried to keep the title a bit vague. I could have written: Is Vorinism dead? Religions rarely cleanly die. They schism and then branches may atrophy. Honor wasn't dead I think classical Vorinism will survive as a minority religion, ironically because of Dalinar's heresy. He is the perfect scapegoat. Will the old loathing of the Knights Radiant rearise? Worship of Retribution Taravangian personally probably thinks that it is silly. Odium however is likely to consider religious devotion a form of passion he must not surpress. This one has major social implication. You cannot worship Retribution and ban duelling for example. Pacifism is a cardinal sin. Reform Vorinism I am sceptical about that. The question how Roshar will come to view Dalinar Kholin is fascinating. Traitor, hero, loser, monster? Whatever the surviving Unmade will try to establish That is a big unknown.

limbs I presume