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In birds and insects. But not in crocodillians and turtles.

Theoretically true. However, you need to bring the Stormlight that turns into the blade together. That means that the same amount of heat is released by that work. In addition, it does not take Stormlight to summon a blade. That was the whole point that led to the discovery that shard blades are not fabrials. They work if their gem stones are dun. Furthermore, they need to displace the air that occupied the volume they now inhabit. That means that they compress air. The air would warm up from that.

The problem with that is that condensation makes things warmer, not colder.

If that were the case Stormlight would have to decay, as it loses energy. Also, the physical form of breath also shines light, as do Aons. It looks like Investiture in general does something to the structure of the universe which creates light. An extreme loss of Stormlight also causes cold. Szeth at one point formed frost. It would be odd for the blades to be cold for a different reason.

But the egg literally has no sex and never had. We could conclude that you cannot do a sex change on a grown alligator, because it knows whether it is male or female, but that is not the use case we are looking at.

Thank you. I interpret this to stand for /xolin/, as -leen usually represents a closed /i/ and an /o/ is closer to /u/ than an /ɔ/ The stress pattern in the Alethi language seem to be a question of class and/or region judging by how the stress on Kaladin's name was discussed, so I would not add stress. I am afraid there is another can of worms. The vowel system of Alethi. A language with a closed /o/ and /e/ only would be unusual. Can we assume that Brandon copied the vowel system of Alethi from Korean, resulting in 7 primary vowels? I really cannot fit a good Semitic system to the vowels in the names. So I would propose /dalinar xolin/. There is really no good reason to assume that Alethi has an /æ/ at all. And all syllables show full vowels. It would really be surprising to see a schwa in it. The names and words are just too long and show no signs of dropping vowels or syllables.

Is it /xolin/ /xolɪn/ /xɔlin/ /xɔlɪn/ How is the stress? Does Alethi have phonemic vowel length?

They already basically defeated both of them. Basically humans and shards will always be at best a shaky alliance. The tendency to use people as cannon fodder is too strong.

Can you use Progression on animals in the same way it can be used on plants? Can you turn a tadpole into a frog or an alligator egg into a fully grown alligator? Do you have a choice among features depending on environment, like sex in alligators?

The pages for Dalinar, Adolin, Renarin, Jasnah and Navani.

So, does the coppermind need to be changed?

Her name being Alethi I see no way this choice being defensible. Maybe they just were not ready to call a woman "Ken". Does your native language feature a /x/ ? That sound is indeed fricative in all varieties of Hebrew.

The Sunmaker toppled the Hierocracy. So the Hierocracy must be older. The timing does not fit.

We have indicators like this: Alethi pronunciation: [ˈdæ·lɪn·ar koˈlɪn] DA-lin-ar ko-LIN However we have this WoB: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/118-rfantasy-ama-2017/#e1847 According to it the kh is a fricative, not an obstruent as indicated there. So should this be changed to [xoˈlɪn] ?

Why? We do not know what shatters the plate. It could be energy or momentum or both. Nor do we know how this accumulates. Repeated hammerings work, hundreds of arrows do nothing. But there may be a lower limit below which damage does not accumulate. It looks like the effect of concentrating energy and momentum on a small area with a bullet does not work. I would try a large calber low velocity weapon to maximize momentum.

Aons per urination in the sand? Apparently Aons need some depth, so you cannot just write them. But there is just too much opportunity to make them. They have no explicit external fuel. (Scadrial) (Roshar) The other magic systems are not different in their powers but in their source of fuel. It is impossible to imprison somebody with a full set of magic powers. It is strictly speaking not true that other magic systems of the Cosmere allows this. The difference is that they open up a way to turn a mage into a muggle at least temporarily, usually just by taking away the fuel. Anywhere where that possibility does not exist the problem arises. That is why we have a similar thread pertaining to Threnody.

Right. But if you are a mosquito fighting a bird, you should not develop DDT.

Eondel They got back sooner than a transfer by ship would explain. All indications are that it is unknown on Opelon. You would really make armor out of it, if it helped against Elantrians. And you could still melt it. Differently from ours. (Roshar) Yes, but the underlying causes will not change. Hence I proposed an alternative to prison: corporal punishment

If there is, it isn't mentioned. And research into this would have been dangerous. You'd develop a weapon specifically against yourself for the enemy. He kept his position as a functionary of Elantris. They can use Aon Daa even in Teod and they can teleport, albeit not very well. Making a prison that can hold them for long does not look practical in Arelon. And why does there have to be a way? Because you do not like the consequences?

If we accept the general chronology that puts 'Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell' within a few decades of 'Alloy of Law', then the encounter between Kelsier and Khrisella & Nazh must predate the discovery of the Forest of Hell by more than a century. Yet Nazh spoke about rituals for becoming a shadow. And the forces of Threnody are mentioned. Hence there were shadows on Threnody before shades were discovered. That is well possible, but shadows and shades are not identical. Kelsier

But that goes the other way. Why then not become a shadow? Do you feel suicidal? It should be the obvious default. Even if you eventually go on, why throw away this stage? There must be something you give up by becoming a shadow. That was after the Evil arrived. The only witness for the era before that is Nazh. Right. But Nazh tells us that shadows are ancient. The people of the Ire suggest that shadows can fulfill certain tasks. So what did shadows do in the Homeland?

They were also policing the highways. So, you send them where exactly? If it is close, they still are very powerful. If you send them far enough, they will end up in Derethi lands. Do you really want to send people who know a lot into an enemy empire?

There was a highway police outside Elantris. I think tjis pattern will hold. But not inside. I think Elantris have an internal and external system totally decoupled. And probably two justice systems inside Elantris. The idea of equality before the law is just anachronistic. Not really, at least not fully. A life of crime just makes less sense in Elantris. The wealth of an Elantrian is to a large extent in his social capital and the Aons he knows. You cannot steal that. Also the output of an Aon depends, all things being equal, on its size. That is easy to change. Giving away a lot of the same stuff is cheap. Yet even if their external benevolence extends to inside Elantris, there will still be conflict. Things like murdering your neighbor because he has an affair with your wife will happen and Elantris needs to deal with it. That is basically the point. Humiliation is the intended goal. How else do you punish an Elantrian? You cannot use the death penalty for lesser crime, like, if we stay in the example, a man just beating up his neighbor. You could declare them outlaw. That is a pretty bad idea. A band of outlaw Elantrians roaming Arelon is a nightmare. What else is there? You may note that in countries on Earth things like fines and community service is used. That falls short. For fines you need to have money. For community service and even jail terms, you need to be able to keep people imprisoned. Long term imprisonment is impractical for Elantrians. So what do you do?

I am afraid I have to disagree. The reason is best eplained quoting Adolin: 'A Shardbearer cannot hold ground.' Of course TLR is not literally one of them. But he is stll one man. He cannot be everywhere. Thus I would say that this battle is far from certain. But the Rodharans have an advantage in leaderhip aerial combat logistic combat engineering These factors together should allow them to win after many years by attrition alone. They will burn fields and collapse mines until the Scadrians run out of supplies, mainly food and metals. It doesn't have them. You need to look at the center of mass. You'd better emulate Syl and go for a spear. It can be wielded better with two hands and be thrown.

I always assumed that he was the aristocratic reaction to the Hierocracy. If they needed to be subordinate to somebody at all, better one of their own and a fighting man rather than a council of priests. And after conquering all the Vorin lands to get those troublesome priests, he had grown to like the idea of empire and conquest. So he kept going on. Plus conquest allows you to hand out lands to loyal followers. Possible, but without evidence. The claim itself can just as well, in fact even be better, explained as a weapon in a war of propaganda.