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Yes. Plenty of Alethi surrendered though and are cooperating now. Yes, but that kind of card is harder to play if you are a different species and the devils incarnate. They would simply count the refugees. And you can be sure the Radiants and the Stormfather are watching, as it would be terrific propaganda. Furthermore, the Fused do not care for either the natives or the refugees. If both starve to death due to having to share food, that is not necessarily a bad thing. As long as you have a quiet hinterland now, while you are still fighting. How many villages did the escaping Parshendi actually raid? It is a risk and they have to transport the grain they take. Will they work for Parshendi or Fused? The possibility that a device could fall into enemy hands was surely contemplated. A soulcaster is not large. It can well be hidden or destroyed.

That then raises the question why this would make sense. The Radiants won't release Odium out of kindness. It has to be a deal or it is a trap. Why would Odium risk his life now? Especially as he has Fortune.

Elantrian with bronze/duraluminium metallic arts.

What is the point of fighting once he is released? More importantly, why do the Rosharans fight Odium? To put it bluntly, Taravangian has a point. If you can set Odium free without him insisting on killing most of Roshar, why not make the deal and be done with it?

The (in)famous chart suggests that voudbinders have two 'voids' Renarin is bound to a corrupted spren, so it looks like he got corrupted power While you might compare him to Nightform to could equally well compare him to Moelach Forms of Power have glowing eyes. Why would that be if they were voidbinders bonded to voidspren?

If you are an Ardent, can you let a soulcaster fall into the voidbringers' hands? Or will you rather destroy it?

OK, so how many plant/growth/harvest cycles have passed? And for how many of those did Rosharans have stockpiles? The questions is whether the big famine is already past and how large a fraction of Roshar's population has perished like in earlier desolations. Or are they still living from reserves and frantically reorganizing agriculture before the run out of stores and gems for soulcasting? That leads to a question. What are the ardents in occupied territories doing? Do they make food or is cooperation with the voidbringers in any form considered heresy?

Making sure no human force would ever surrender again. And the refugees would form war bands. And the Parshendi would be hated even more. And no human kingdom would consider a peace deal after that. That would also suit Dalinar. Yes. Odium's side has a conflict between strategic and operational goals. How long is a growing season on Roshar? And we have no idea what happened to the big cities. As for not taking them in, what do you want to do, let them roam the country roads? You lose ground transportation if you do that. And if you were to try kill them, how sure are you you would win? It looks to me like there are not enough Singers in a small town to hold it against resistance. They rely on a threat of reinforcement coming on a punishment expedition. Such a threat works only if the oppressed think that they have a hope of survival if they obey.

It would be a nice twist if the mysteries were the original old religion with a magic background and the official Jesker some new, sanitized philosophy.

You cannot be passionate unless you have values. They may be less than noble, e.g. yourself and your own welfare and importance, but values none the less. Honor is not about acting according to values as such. In fact, that is extremely close to a tautology. Honor means to value a commitment and duty higher than a current emotion. Empathy is passion and thus a weakness. Now for all those who are so critical of Venli, what would you have her do? What was the alternative to introducing a Form of Power? Surrender and hoping for the mildness of a ruler whose father you betrayed and murdered and who is already percieved as weak? Indeed. There is one central point in which Odium is absolutely right. Our passions make us human. It can be bad to act according to them. But they must exist.

Way of the Stones?

That is only the second best option. Ideally you use escapees from areas the enemy firmly controls now, so that your enemy is deprived of agricultural labor. Then you drive unreliable people unable or unwilling to do useful work into his lands. Besides, the new queen of Alethkar wants Alethi there, not Herdazians. Predictable power politics.

Yelig-Nar? The Unmade? Nale? They have far fewer ordinary troops. Shard bearers cannot hold territory. That is also true of the Fused. Dalinar is luring them into wasting their strength on occupation forces. He also has the inner lines and naval superiority. He will use those advantages.

Because Dalinar is a general who understands strategy and logistics. Refugees in Alethkar are a problem for Odium's side. Either they have to feed them or they will form marauding bands plundering Odium's farms. Dalinar is not going to waste his transport capacities on refugees and will feed the members of his coalition he has to feed. No. They could make it, but not provide it. The food would be produced where Jasnah is. And that is no good. Is Jasnah supposed to teleport through Herdaz all day long? It would take Windrunners, chull carts or a navy to transport food. All of these things have better uses.

Ehm. Odium is about emotion. If you want uncaring and aloof, go to Honor. If you want caring but amoral, go to Cultivation. Honor means doing what you hate, because you must keep the oath.

Actually, which ones? There is an obvious example, but others show singe catastrophies, no cycle of disaster.

So, the Threnodites happened to be at the height of their power when the Final Empire fell, happened to discover a new continent just when the Evil attacked again and made significant break-throughs in shadow manipuation in time for Era 2? All that is possible, but it includes an awful lot of coincidences.

Again, timing. Nazh challenged Kelsier before the Evil attacked the Homeland.

You are still doing a crime against entropy. And the abundance of lead respectively gold in a planetary crust do not reflect universal abundance.

Yes. But then the process ends. You need to switch to the r, p and rp-processes, which occur only during the actual detonation of a supernova and cost energy. Therefore iron and nickel will always predominate.

That makes it worse. How depraved would you need to be not to do this for friends and family?

You are on your deathbed. What could you lose? Can you actually destroy a soul if you make an error? Why then does Nazh ask that question? It would make no sense. Again, timing. Nazh asked that question before that attack. If becoming a Cognitive Shadow is an important decision, there must be a risk or a drawback. Why else would you just die?

No. The curve of nuclear binding energy is against you. What you describe is in fact impossible. Forgery requires plausible changes. The impossible is right out.

Yes. So what is the reason for an elderly or moribund person not to perform those rites and rituals?

Because the Latin word for pig was 'sus'. Porcus means 'piglet'. The change to pork was a later development of the Romance languages. The shades already existed. And given the name they already adhered to the Simple Rules.