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Not really. The city was being attacked. Preventing that meant attacking now. A truce meant Kaladin would lose.

During the battle everybody acted honorably. The Radiant team defended its home town. The Singers defended their freedom against slavery. The Queen's guard followed their oath to obey their queen. And so on. Honor does not mean peace or justice. On the contrary honor means keeping your promise. That implies that you do what you promised even if that becomes senseless or counterproductive. Or cruel. As the Stormfather said. Slaughtering civilians whose lord abandoned his oath is the right thing to do.

Kaladin always used to be able to see a battle as us vs. them. He lost that ability during the battle of the palace. Kaladin is facing multiple issue, one among them is indeed a feeling of impotence. Yet that was not new. In Kholinar he directly faced knowing both sides and yet needing to kill people he should protect. This is not the same as accepting failures or imperfection. His duty was kill innocent honorable people and friends. Remember what the stormfather said about burning civilians? It boiled down to traitors needing to die no matter what. Skybreakers are supposed to care about justice. Windrunners carry out their mission honorably, but not ethically, humanely or justly.

That kind of reasoning won't work. Windrunners mess with gravity. The force he exerts is proprtional to the mass of the object he lashes. Even if you assume a tenfold lashing in a vacuum, it would take five seconds for a projectile to come close to the speed of sound. During that time the object would travel over 500m. A Windrunner is not a gun. He is a trebuchet.

That, however, does not tell us how the Heralds (or the people who would become Heralds) got to Roshar. They may have used the Surge of Transportation directly, or an Oathgate or even a space ship. Nor need this be uniform for everybody. An advance team to build an Oathgate may have walked through Shadesmar.

Felt, Iyatil's parents, Mraize (and technically the vessels of the Shards of Adonalsium)

Sorry that is a misunderstanding. Sylphrena can fly pretty fast. Searching a large area is possible to her. Jasnah, however, can observe Shadesmar while in the PR, so Kaladin could not approach her undetected, nor could Syl. But we have a scene (The Recreance) where Knights Radiant materialize. They must have come from somewhere. Kaladin uses Stormlight for movement. If Kaladin walks, he gives up a lot of his advantages. I suppose the orders who do that (Skybreakers, Windrunners, Edgedancers, Dustbringers)are likely to use more fuel than those who use their powers only for a specific effect.

Yes, though still better than facing a Radiant after you've run out of Stormlight. But why Shadesmar? She will do as the Radiants in Dalinar's vision and teleport away. Or behind Kaladin and run him through. Kaladin has the advantage in remote sensing though. Sylphrena is very mobile. She is likelier to find Jasnah than Ivory would find Kaladin. Yet tactically surprising somebody who can see your soul through obstacles is likely impossible.

Well, no, or at least not unless she needs to kill him for an external reason. She is an Elsecaller. If she wants to flee, she will.

Are there any spren who can cause sparks? If so, gun powder on Roshar may be not so good an idea.

Well. windspren are specifically said to be exceedingly rare in Shadesmar. No. The plate also locks up without Stormlight. Thet screamed a lot in Shadesmar. Like animals scream that is.

Well, no. A heap of dead horses is an acceptable way of doing field fortifications.

The lesser spren make it like a greatshell makes a chrysalis. That is, it is a product, not the bodies of the lesser spren itself. Why? If they were dead, they'd scream. If they were still alive, why do they stay around for centuries? They need fuel, while blades don't. Neither dead nor live spren need Stormlight

Debatable. The energy behind a charging horses would do a lot of damage, if you can transfer it to the target. That is a very big if, however. It would by nature of the thing require stopping horse and rider. That is, you'd essentially ride into a wall. You might note that that is exactly what Szeth and Kaladin do, if you substitute riding by falling. Unless you have stormlight that is a suicide option. The likely outcome is your lance splintering and a dazed shard bearer getting up again. Or he dodges and you are riding a smoking horse. You don't. You'd use tripwires, ropes, traps and nets. And then you send in the men with the hammers. But somebody has to go in for the kill in the end. Now you are forcing me to go into the physics instead of tactics. From the description I fail to derive whether the armor is cracked by energy or momentum. It just looks much more able to distribute an impact over the whole plate than any known substance.If it is indeed momentum you can forget about defeating it with any weapon whose recoil you could survive holding it. If it is energy you can operate with a very light but fast projectile. However, a crossbow's quarrel is not that much faster than an arrow. The kinetic energy is a few times larger than an arrow's at best. Bullets and arrows, if you look at them from a very abstract angle, are wedges, both in time and in space. They work by concentrating a moderate amount of energy on a very small area in a very short time. As soon as your armor deats that principle, you need to resort to brute force, like killing a tank by blowing it up with a large explosion just by crumpling the frame.

Energy. You are basically limited to the speed you can move your arms at and run, unless you throw the spear. If your warhead is on the end of a stick, you use that stick as a lever when you swing. Also you are up against a target that is more mobile than you. Getting a pike pointed in the right direction will be hard. And if you give your enemy a chance to chop at your weapons, a pike will become useless.

We know that White Sands and Elantris predate The Final Empire. That means that there are centuries between the Wax and Wayne era and White Sands. On Taldain even then gun powder and microscopes were known. That is 16th century level technology at the very least. That means if Taldain developed at our pace, they should roughly match us technologically even in the tightest possible chronology. Yet canned food has to come from Scadrial. It looks like most peoples in the Cosmere are slow to progress technologically. Harmony states it explicitely but he limits himself to Scadrial. He may have hit a common principle. Why is that? I would blame magic except that the dark side of Taldain has little to no magic. Geography? Lack of overseas trade? Was Europe in some strange sweet spot and most of mankind is just average in the Cosmere?

There you see that he does not swing the blade. In effect he uses himself as a hammer. Hence we cannot know whether this works on the principle of overwhelming the armor or dealing concentrated damage. Added to that that he was using a magical weapon.

A conventional warhammer is not designed to destroy the armor it is used again. It is supposed to transmit enough energy and momentum through the armor to harm the wearer. Shard Plate seems to block this kind of attack to a large extent. The design of conventional warhammers reflects its use. It is a one-handed weapon not much heavier than a sword. But fighting against a shard bearer some factors change. A shield is useless Armor is useless You must attack as a group You cannot really train realistically Parries are impossible That means you want range. If you are attacked you must dodge. Hence your fighters will carry only their weapon, no shields or armor. The weapon can be swung with both hands. It seems to me that leaves you with a very long weapon, up to the length of a smaller poleaxe. You also expect your hammermen to die quickly. Realistically speaking attacking a shard bearer with a hammer is suicide. Tiring of your soldiers is not an issue. You will give them a heavy weapon. If they can get in a single strike that does significant damage, that is a success. It also means that you will not use your best men in that role if you can help it. Expensive training would be a waste. They swing and dodge. That calls for a hammer as large as those used in construction: 5 to 10 kg. If you can swing it at the speed of a baseball bat, that will get you more than 3 KJ of impact energy. The longer the haft the more leverage, but you want it short enough, so that you can grip close enough to the hammerhead to lift it up reasonably well again. A bit less than man height I would estimate. And I'd tell my men to go for the hands. It is possible to disarm a shard bearer, if you hit there hard enough.

Well, you are supposed to play fovorites, just not your own favorites. Note, that you are supposed to stop wanting to help some people. That is not the same thing as accepting that some are beyond help.

But how? If he had to stab himself for the transfer, how did he continue experimenting after the first test? If he experimented on other shadows, where did he get them? And where did he get the bodies? Stabbing somebody in the eye, if you do it wrong, will generally be fatal. Using a mistwraith has the advantage that killing them with a spike at least is quite unlikely.

Good luck at herding pigs a long distance. And if you want to keep to the simple rules, why keep animals who can run at all? Or naturally herbivorous animals?

How sincere is she? For all we know there is a coalition and Hoid just has secondary goals they do not approve of.

Then imagine Pattern asking to do something again, so that he can get a statistically significant sample size. Are we talking about a Radiant with a muggle or two Radiants?

How would you do that if multiple Elsecallers around? Cost.