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What would they fight about? Sure, they have issues, but Adolin doing a revenge killing on Dalinar for his mother? I am afraid somebody has to say it: Evi ultimately was a traitor. Why would Adolin see that differently. He is a military officer. He knows the objective of his mission. It has not been reached to a large extent. No, it is not an odd question. But a part seems to be missing: What would they fight about? You are talking about highly educated intelligent people, who are unlikely to fight over emotions. They were sitting at the same table with Taravangian and are ready to deal in good faith with Odium. They are not going to start a civil war over disliking each other.

But they were known, if the formation of Shades predates Nazriloff's exile.

Windrunners protect by fighting. They fight by using their powers. The same is true for the Stonewards and Skybreakers for their respective ideals. If we look at the other orders Bondsmiths - emotional allomancy Edgedancers - feruchemical copper Truthwatchers - allomantic gold + feruchemical zinc Dustbringers - allomantic pewter + feruchemical electrum Elsecallers - allomantic pewter + feruchemical zinc Lightweaver - allomantic gold Willshapers - not emotional allomancy

If you were to see Tanavast now, you'd see a Cognitive Shadow. The Shard of Honor no longer exists. It has been splintered.

First, I need to say that Brandon needs to weave in a lot of lose threads. And he has added threads in Rhythm of War and Dawnshard. Hence I suspect that he will need to use the interludes to close the gaps. So where do I see the largest gaps? At Gavilar's secrets. We really need his antifabrians and - most of all - Aesudan. There is a huge hole in how she managed to get an Unmade to bond her. The Recreance. What happened really? The thing is, the second big secret can wait for the second half. What Gavilar was up to really cannot. So I want to see Aesudan. As far as the orders are concerned, the biggest lacuna is the Dustbringers, not the Stonewards. We have seen a whole lot of stoneshaping, but no division.

This has an implication for the count. It is the fifth journey to the fifth land. That means that their original homeland is not one of the lands. That requires that the interlude be in the very close future with respect to the end of Rythm of War.

Then why did the Forest of Hell terrify them?

But does he attain more power? Th contract is designed to limit his power. Even if he finds a loophole, he just avoids the contest. If it wasn't her, the number of feruchemists on Roshar grows to numbers that are hard to explain. Though if it is her, Hoid risks the Sharders discovering that there is a feruchemist on Roshar. And there is one more thing (the earlier reading of SA 5)

It could just refer to the Dawnshard he carried. Why now? What would the contest worsen? If danger causes it, why not as the Everstorm appeared? And a few questions: Why does an Iriali teenager know what the Cosmere is? Her mother has a Blade. What oath is she on? How does the exodus practically work? What about bed-ridden nonagenerians? What happens to mixed people? Rira?

Or they have returned. Or they spent that time in Shadesmar. The important part there is the messenger. The rings scream feruchemist. If we accept that this leaves us with two unsatisfying options This was either Axindweth or somebody from her group. That would mean that Hoid is cooperating with somebody who transported a voidspren. We are looking at multiple groups of feruchemists.

For all we know the image was only in Nomad's mind, so I do not want to add this without confirmation.

Or Dalinar is dead and Navani and Jasnah have chosen to limit the damage and made a deal: release from Roshar against leaving the humans of Roshar alone.

He is carrying the equivalent of a bazooka. His blade can damage the hull and doom them all. He freely tells them that he has a blade. No, the Ghostbloods can reach some planets just fine. Others are cut off. That shows that the obstacle is on the remote side, that is, in Roshar's case, in Shadesmar.

(Scadrial) And taking up the Dawnshard required Rysyn to be within a few meters of it. There would be no point in guarding Aimia, if distance did not matter,

Again, a single nuke will do horrendous damage, where it explodes. But you are not going to destroy a whole planet. I am afraid we need to look at the basics. Nuclear weapons are so frightening because we have delivery systems. With the technology of, let's say, 1850 nuclear weapons would be far less an advantage than they were in 1950, because you could not smash multiple cities with the fleets of bombers an industrialized country can build but not defend with the required reliability against. The Cosmere will likely be somewhere in between. To destroy a heavily defended planet you need to overcome either its space defences or get at its subastral. Yet they have battle fleets. There is no reason an attacking fleet would have advantage against a defending fleet. In Shadesmar, this is even worse, because your speed is limited to a few times the speed of sound (air resistance) and you'll be very very visible if you do that.

Then they'd all be dead. Sorry, but you have only hours to establish flying cities once you are on the surface of Canticle. That includes the time for understanding the danger the sun poses. They mentioned something much more sinister. They knew that death by sunight does not produce shades. I will say it outright. Zellion and his associates wanted a new home like Canticle, where Threnodites live without Shades and in an environment that forces passificism. Then they surpressed the engine technology.

You won't blow it all up. You'll land a few warheads. And in Shadesmar you are limited to flying with atmospheric speeds over featureless terrain with no weather.

Shadesmar is terrible for an attack, let alone an invasion. The defender has huge logistic advantages and you have to gurd in a ring as opposed to a sphere.

That would mean that Wyrn foresaw people with precognition, but did not send in Dakhor monks in force immediately regardless of the consequences. And that makes little sense.

Then let me ask a simple question: The Shard of Honor has been splintered. How would he even find the pieces?

They derived the engines that lift the cities from their ship engines. They state that temselves. Hence we are certain that they left Threnody in space ships. They went to that systems intentionally or extremely recklessly.

Doesn't Ulim show that storing them in gemstones simply works?

No, for they lack the equivalent of an ICBM on the cosmic scale. You can have a nuclear war. But it would be winnable.

Spanreeds cannot be used between realms. Do spanreeds, however, work within the Cognitive Realm?