Oltux72

There have been discussions how fabrials arose and what gemhearts do. As fabrials use gems to trap spren and Singers house spren in their gemhearts, the assumption that Rosharan animals are doing the same is natural. It would require that Yolish and Rosharan life forms are distinct, for Ryshadiums being from Ashyn do not have a gemheart, but it is otherwise easy and straightforward. Unfortunately it collides with observations. The spren are not trapped inside the gemhearts, as they can be seen around live animals (the skies of Roshar are not filled with skyeel corpses). Kaladin even saw them around greatshells. For a greatshell the loss of its spren's effect would be fatal. Hence the spren are continously working even when they are only in the vincinity of the animal as opposed to inside it or its gemheart. Those animals have a primitive Nahel bond, Given the unnatural agility of chasmfiends we can conclude that the bond allows them to lower their mass. So why do they have gemhearts? They use them for the same reason Rosharan humans use gems. They need to store stormlight in order to keep using their bond between storms. Greatshells have a large gemheart because it must last for a full Weeping. The spren inside Singers' gemhearts are an innovation of their line, which allows them to change forms without a chrysalis stage.

Can you make Aons that make Aons?

It goes through stone like a normal sword through butter. A normal sword that can be summoned and dismissed is a gimmick, not a treasure. Hence the defining characteristic of a shard blade is the preternatural edge. Azure demonstrated that in battle. Why make it sentient?

Why would Moash assume that Odium has a champion at all or that he is higher in the pecking order than the magical Fused? He, as an alien among SIngers? No. he knows that they need somebody to do the dirty and dangerous work. But at least they are honest. Kaladin did renege on his word to him and he had a fully valid point when he avenged his grandparents or tried to.

Possible, but I would doubt it given the continuation That just not matches Nale. What he did remained hidden. People had no idea the Knights Radiant were returning.

Demoux. There must be quite a tale behind his mission. If not him then Felt. I suppose Zahel would also be interesting, but I don't like him.

Been there, done that. It led to Moash almost killing Elhokar for the first time. Kaladin is not good at this. He is a very good leader of men and a gifted tactitian and a soldier. But not a great thinker. Give that man a break. He is in his early twenties and his education was limited and specialised.

Venli did what was necessary. By the time the Parshendi unleashed Stormform, there was no other option. They would have been massacred and/or driven into slavery. Eshonai was in the end too sane and too obedient to save her people. Not only did she not want her role, she was unable to fulfill it. Strategically she failed to provide for the case of her peace plans failing. A good plane would have been something like accepting Stormform for enough people to wake the Everstorm, evacuate the civilans and send a part of her troops out for delaying actions at night.

A death rattle. This sounds poetic, even biblical, Abraham and Isaac kind of stuff. And it pushes us to some kind of mystical interpretation. But could this be the literal truth? If Odium cannot have Dalinar, how about forcing Dalinar into fighting for and protecting his champion? Could Odium's new champion be Adolin's and Shallan's first child? Assuming Navani is beyond child-bearing years. It looks like a plan that uses Odium's professed goal, passion, and combines it with the enemy's weakness, honor, and combines them into one weapon. We might see Jasnah and Zahel vs. Shallan, Adolin and Dalinar going at each other in full shard plate. And Adolin has to go for the noble third option. He takes his child, walks into the light and keeps walking through Shadesmar.

Exactly. But I am still wondering how the map of a world with two continents, whose people don't know that the other continent exists. looks like. Even the location of the perpendicularity does not really help, because there can be more than one. Is Shadesmar the same for everybody?

Yes, if and only if you sell them on the mainland. If you sell to other trappers, you have millions of aviars compared to hundreds of trappers. Remember also that on the mainland they believe that one aviar is the maximum, hence the values of useless aviars are negative in a certain market segment.

In exchange for what? Things like open source software show that respect works, but you have to have something they pay respect for? What could that be? Again I arrive at arts and science. Sports?

The sensible scenario for that is a captured herald strapped to a table with a funnel down his or her throat.

That makes sense when we talk about commerce between Elantrians. It breaks down when we talk about the rest of Arelon and Sel. And what can Elantrians give to Elantrians? Art, exotic stuff and knowledge come to my mind.

Does Elantris have an economy? What do they have to sell? That is pretty clear - mostly AonDor. But what do they buy? It could be argued that AonDor creates a kind of subsistence economy. It can feed you and Elantris itself provides housing and public infrastructure. So what could you want that AonDor cannot give you? exotic stuff - travel is costly for Elantrians travel knowledge services - AonDor can make your dinner, fix your clothes and heat your home, but not easily put your room in order sex fame fashion Anything else?

Why ? Is there a reason you couldn't run a buisiness stamping Aons into metal and selling them? That is a connection that is not necessary. You may spend time in a library and learn for entirely different reasons. That leads us to the question what would motivate an Elantrian in general. For some people boredom would be a factor driving them to research Aons. Fame is another thing that they cannot create by AonDor. Sure they would also go for sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, but for decades? Especially as I don't think Elantrians can do drugs.

What for? A spare aviar? If they have money for spares, why would you risk your life for such aviars? The birds are nevertheless valuable. While that is true, it would diminish his market value. They can be bred on the mainland. They have no magic, but they look like aviars. This is irrelevant. Not invaluable. Merely somewhat valuable. They already have a cloaking aviar. Perhaps it is a bit worse, but it is perfectly workable. And it is available on less dangerous islands. We could make that assumption. The text is ambiguous. But if we assume that it is another species, we need to ask why Dusk does not use his own products. More, he goes to the trouble of importing a mainland chick. They know aviars raised on the mainland are powerless. They could not know that unless they had something that can test those abilities.

It is an admission of weakness. How do you do justice, if the crooked make the law? The Skybreakers are aware that just following the law causes problems.

There are a few hundred trappers, who all have access to the source. If there is a market for them at all, it is on the mainland. If there is no market, then you can't set a trap with their feathers. A cloaking aviar makes only sense if there is something to cloak against. And if your belief is that you cannot have more than one aviar, then you are prizing the one you pick over all others. Obviously they can raise birds on the mainland. The birds are not rare. The abilities they grant are rare. Hence they can test the abilities.

Why would the user as opposed to a specialised developer need to do that? I can see no reason Elantrians could not have spell libraries and be trained in them.

While that is possible, it still collides with Nazh. The living know about the dcision. Hence people make that decision while they are still alive.

How do we know this? (Nalthis)

Technically that is true. But neither do the people who would become shades and shades don't talk. Nor do they act with visible intelligence. So the people making that choice would have to go by appearances. Thus the question is: Would you like to become a deadly monster enforcing, with extreme violence, some stupid rules, while floating around aimlessly and slowly falling apart? Add to that the religious implication. You might argue that a shade is a soul, so what happens to your soul once the shade loses all form? Are you throwing away heaven? I am afraid the answer would be overwhelmingly negative and the positive cases might need an evaluation of mental health. Nazh spoke with some reverance of Cognitive Shadows and called it an important decision. Hence there must have been a trade off likely involving an altruistic act.

But you can imagine a place beyond which there is nothing to you. Like for Europeans probably the southeast coast of New Zealand. There is nothing worth mentioning or thinking about beyond it.

The only other fourth and fifth oaths are limitations or deviations from the line set up in the second and third oaths. Like a crusade is active action not triggered by the law and Windrunners are supposed to not protect some people. Going by that analogy the fourth Edgedancer oath would come from the healing attribute of their Herald, not the loving and contradict the other oaths to an extent: I will not neglected those who can be helped to take up hopeless cases (classical medical triage) I will not let infection spread even if some have to be left outside