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It would seem to me that they have evolved to lose their carapace. Or strictly speaking modified rather than evolved. The system is very young, but the organisms show similarities you would expect from phylogenetics. Either Adonalsium copied them from elsewhere, or, and here things are getting weird, as an entity with access to the spiritual realm took the potential outcomes of evolution in a Rosharan environment from the spiritual realm.

Way of Kings mentions legends about people straigght up teleporting. Why not take it at face value?

What then is Renarin doing?

During a contest itself hostilities will have to occur. That is kind of the very point. I don't see the contract saying anything about limiting collateral damage or having to stay alive during the battle. Suicide attacks are definitely allowed.

Sorry, this is a misunderstanding. I am basically proposing for Odium to send a champion with a nuclear weapon and a dead-man switch strapped to his back with orders to blow himself - that is the champion - and Dalinar and most of Urithiru up.

No, the idea is here that Odium just sends somebody, whose powers and fighting style are so cataclysmic that a fight on top of Urithiru would level it. Odium surely has access to microkinesis.

The contract assumes that somebody survives. Odium may go for a suicide bomber to take the other champion with him. Odium may force them into harming his champion. He could be carrying the equivalent of a nuclear weapon onto the top of Urithiru. Odium may force the Radiants into violating the peace treaty after the contest. Maybe he starts crucifying the population of the areas he still holds, forcing Dalinar to attack.

Sebarial, the land, is possibly not originally ethnically Alethi. They conquered it. Old names last a long time.

Wit knows for sure. Zahel may know. Kalak knows. Spren may know. And that leaves Wit in the bad position that his consort is in a conflict with the oldest friend of the shard who is his close ally. Inevitable in the long run. Hence they may at least reap the bnefit.

It seems to me that much of the fandom expects Shallan to go on a crusade against the Ghostbloods. However, when I think about that, such a move would seem to be unwise, to say the least. Currently the Radiant coalition on Roshar is fighting a Shard. Even if the contest brings that to a satisfactory end, the economy of Roshar is still ruined and they are facing a low level war with the Singers for decades to come. That is not the time to start yet another war. If I were Jasnah or Dalinar I'd tell Shallan to stop this foolish endeavour right now. My wording might not be that polite. In fact I'd inform her that one of the obvious strategies the Ghostbloods could use would be to arm the Singers and whether she'd like the idea of going up against cannon and grenades next time. That looks like a source of internal conflict among the Radiants. What do you think?

It may mean that Kaladin was still alive when Sigzil became a hunted man, so he strictly speaking does not know what happened to Kaladin, he just expects him to be dead from old age based simply on time.

By directly going to synthetical rubber from butadien probably. There are relacements for natural rubber. They are just not as cheap under early industrial conditions. For luxury goods, which automobiles are at such income levels, that does not matter much. If we are talking about cheap mass produced stuff like bicycle tires, it does matter. Directly speaking it does not. However, for as long as punted barges can satisfy much of the need for public transport, a lack of bikes is not that keenly felt. Add to that that with extreme fertility you will have a much higher fraction of urban population, which means that mass transit is more important than bikes. Not just that. You need a wierdly shaped part made from an exotic alloy? Have a wax model soulcast into the material you want. Lions and giraffes are boring?

They do have coal. We see coal miners in Era 1. However, they have very fertile farmlands. For luxury applications biofuels can be a viable alternative. Scadrial takes aristocracy seriously. I cannot see them avoiding a personal means of transportation for the rich and privileged. Drowned in canals and priced out by a shortage of rubber? Scadrial lacks true tropical rainforests, at least as far as the Basin knows. Hence no rubber. If you couple that with an excellent network of canals, bikes never were cheap enough or the pain to find alternatives worse enough. You will probably see that on Roshar rather than Scadrial, as they have better external applications. Drilling tunnels, for example, is far cheaper on Roshar than on Scadrial. They may actually develop trains in evacuated pipes.

It would seem to me that calling out to the Allmighty in that way presupposes that you grew up as an or at least amid adherents of classical Vorinism. Taln would call for Honor or Tanavast or Cultivation.

Looking at the art Dalinar ascending the stairs The burdens of nine become mine. Why must I carry the madness of them all? Oh, Almighty, release me. The Nine are most likely the Unmade, not the government of the Fused. So how would their burden become yours? By bonding one of them. Technically they are Spren. Does one of the Unmade have a very good reason to bond somebody who'd call on the Almighty? Yes, Sja-Anat's communications with the Radiants were known to Taravangian. As soon as she learns that Taravangian has picked up Odium, she'll think that she has to run. Hence, wild speculation: This is Dalinar walking up the stairs to the contest of champions, bound to the Stormfather and Sja-Anat, turning him into a Bondsmith as well as a Voidsmith. EDIT: There is also a specific reason she has to go to Dalinar. Odium has made an agreement not to hurt the champion of the other side. Removing a bondmate that gives him voidbinding powers is harming. She is using the contract as a shield.

Still, whom does a Herald call in the expaction to get somebody better equipped to handle suc a situation. And who would attack a Herald's daughter in her presence?

If a Herald dies all indications are that her Honorblade disappears while they are on Braize. The very first prologue shows that. Unless she had for some reason gotten a conventional dead blade in addition. But this raises a question. Why does a Herald or a Shardbearer go for help to deal with a child bonding a Spren? Why does she not just tell the Spren to leave and is obeyed?

No honor, no problems with him telling people anything. This assumes that Cultivation does not exist and that the shards would have known what would happen and disapproved. So because there is too much power in the hands of a human being who can be killed, if worst comes to worst, you would give divine powers that come with an influence that warps the mind to another human being? Do I need to point out that the original Honor approved a plan that got 90% of Roshar's population killed over and over? How is this in the interest of the people of Roshar? Why would they rekindle the cycle of Desolations to do that? The Almighty is their god. A human being elevated to divine powers with the help of other human beings who needed to put back together an object to do so is not the god of Vorinism. If anything that is a sacriledge. The very point of the contest of champions is to remove that aid. And then? You restart the desolations. That is not desirable. I am sorry, but somebody has to say it: The rational long term strategy for the humans on Roshar is to negotiate a settlement with Odium that will let him depart in exchange for leaving Roshar alone and unharmed. The Honor we know got his original Singer followers basically wiped out got Roshar plunged into a cycle of Desolations Honor is a continued failure. They should be glad that he is dead and splintered.

Now I am wondering whether we read the same books. Roshar lost 90% of its population multiple times while Honor was alive. The horrible catastrophes are the result of intact shards acting against each other. Splintering them is the best thing you can do in terms of your own survival.

It seems we are talking past each other. What mess? Honor was splintered thousands of years ago. No major ill effects from that are observable. There is no mess. Hence a very simple question: Does anybody have a practical reason to restore Honor?

Again, at the risk of repeating myself: Why would they want to? Stating that a Bondsmith could potentially do this, if he or she had all the pieces, which is not the case, does not answer the question. For what reason would they want to reassemble Honor? They spent thousands of years without it. It does not look like a vital task. Yet it would involve handling the power of a god to some unchecked person. Why would you do that? If it helps people. Honor is splintered. Reassembling it is no more an act of altruism than repairing a piece of funiture smashed to pieces, that nobody wants, would be. Then why only now?

Yes, but Honor is splintered. There is no shard to pick up. They'd have to develop a new procedure to do something that has never been done during or in the aftermath of a serious crisis for no gain to themselves. That just makes no sense. Nor does it make sense for Cultivation to want to do this. Why do a lot of work to give to somebody what her husband once held for no benefit to herself? In fact you'd have Jasnah Kholin, a famous atheist, who is working to limit the personal power of royalty, work to create a god. That absolutely makes no sense. That makes sense and she'd need a replacement vessel. (Sel, Threnody) Yes, but the Stormfather told us that Ishar needed to use threats to make the Radiants and Spren accept the need for oaths. They needed to accept it. I would quite confidently state that the current coalition would for sure fracture if a Kholin tried to impose that now.

I am sorry, but where is the sense in that? Why would Cultivation wait for a desolation to retire? Why would reforming Honor be necessary for her retirement? I am afraid I need to point out that the Oathpact predates the rise of Surgebinders on Roshar by several desolations.

Why? I know people keep saying this, but nobody ever gives a reason why anybody would attempt that. This is certainly not easy and likely not entirely safe. For what reason would people make the effort? Again, what issue does this solve? They went to great lengths to get a treaty that would replace the Oathpact, but then people keep suggesting that for no good reason people try to put themselves into a position that got their predecessors tortured for centuries, which worked as long as it worked only due to circumstances unlikely to repeat themselves and ultimately failed. Why would anybody try to repeat it?

That suggests that Highmarshal is a political role, like viceroy, who not just commands armed forces but is also a government official.