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If he does that he dooms his own troops. Without the Highstorm the Singers are unable to take new forms, so the species will die out. And we do not know whom the contract is with: Dalinar or Honor's heir. One could argue that in case of his death the other Bondsmith would ingerit the contract, so Navani would nominate a champion. The contract does not prohibit that, though.

If you do that, take it up to eleven. Your champion walks up into Urithiru and butchers, eats and kills a baby on each floor.

But why would they do that? What is their reason for such haste?

If they want satellite navigation, yes. But this matters only if the dilatation is different on the surface versus the satellites. That is if they are wrong by the same factor for satellites and the surface, it does not matter. I have to point out that if you do intentional time manipulation with allomancy, you have a sharp border of the affected volume with a uniform effect within it. The same effect you seem to see with allomantic forces, by the way. That leaves us three options. time dilatation in orbit and on the surface are equal and they know it they are not equal, the Night Brigade knows that, compensates and doesn't care otherwise the effects are equal and they do not know.

That actually makes the case for a larger Cosmere. He has been to tens of planets with a lot of Investiture. There cannot be tens of Shardworlds.

That is because gravity obeys the square of the distance rule. Investiture need not do that (note: that is not the whole reason you need to adjust in satellites. They are also affected by being in motion as special relativity acts. But that part is unaffected. They expect it and will still see it.) Yes. You cannot have orders of magnitude here. But even an effect like 1:3 is important. 50:50 chance. It little worse because of the storm and you needing time to get away. But yes, you cannot get orders of magnitude of dilatation. They would have simply died of suffocation in the shelter.

There is El writing about day#x of the ten days, so they ought to have some significance. The problem here is that it somehow makes the conclusion of so many plot lines moot. What does it matter whether Ba-Ado-Mishram is found, if the war is decided in ten days? What does it matter, what has happened to the Honorblades, if the war is decided in ten days? What does Ishtar matter, if the war is decided in ten days? What do the Dawnshards matter if the war is decided in ten days? Do you seriously think that SA5 will be about discovering a ploy to find a loophole and the plan to plug it and win the contest will just happen to require closing all the open plot lines? Something like they need to defeat the Unmade that happens to reside in Shinovar with the Dawnshard they just happen to locate in time just in order to allow Ishtar to use it in order to make Odium fight fairly? And if they do that, what happens to the second arc of Stormlight? What is the point of continuing if Odium is bound to the Rosharan system for centuries after SA5? Hoid's main goal would have been achieved. Do you really want five whole books about a mopping up operation?

(Komashi) We do not know what they store. Is it raw unspecific Connection or something along the lines of "Connection to your homeland". If it were the former, Connector Ferrings should effectively have the Surge of Adhesion. They do not.

I would dispute that. The idea of sending out multiple groups would cease to be meaningful, if the first half of the Stormlight Archive ended with the contest of champions. But if the contest goes out of the window, so do the ten days.

Why was ancient Komashi so hot while UTol apparently is a normal planet? Shouldn't they share a roughly similar climate if they share an orbit?

Experience has shown that the No Cosmere Spoilers section of SP4 is for practical purposes empty. Are we approaching a time where this distinction is no longer sensible? I'd say yes and would like to propose that SA5 be the last book the distinction ought to be made for.

Hoid is a Mistborn and understands the effects of Investiture to a high degree. If he needs to slow down the flow of time for himself, all it takes are a few flakes of metal. We are talking about FTL here. I am reluctant to make any conclusions about time from that.

Such conventions are usually written either before the possibility really exists (convention on weapons in outer space) or after they have ceased to be relevant. The convention on land mines and cluster ammunition is instructive in that regard. The list of countries not signing is basically the list of countries taking the possibilty of a major land war seriously. I'd take Sixth of the Dusk to take place in an era where the Cosmere is mostly explored. In terms of rough earth analogs The Sunlit Man seems to be in an early state of expansion - earth 1700 in terms of geopolitics - versus an era where further gains will require actively fighting other empires to take worlds away from them - earth 1890 - for Sixth of the Dusk. The main difference - politically speaking - between the Cosmere and Earth may be the lack of a Trinity moment. Yes, they can depopulate a planet, but there is no MAD. You can still win a general war.

Not necessarily. You can come to a point where you just function. You call the necessary people. The grandchildren will watch TV. You are basically in denial and self reflection is not what you are prone to in that state. People in extreme situations act in a variety of ways, few of which are as one would usually imagine.

I would not threaten somebody in a way that invites eliminating the witness and accuser, if I were alone among them and they were armed.

That time when you check for your cell phone because somebody special might need you and then you remember.

I might have jumped to conclusions, subconciously. We have a mention of Nomad almost meeting his end at an encounter with a shade. I assumed that this meant that the Dawnshard defended its bearer at the cost of most of Auxillary's life, but that may be a false conclusion. My apologies.

I get what you are saying, but may I offer the counterpoint? Basically: How human is Sigzil at that time? He is possibly much, much older than humans are adapted for and has had an alien piece of Investiture in his soul for decades and is suffering from the magical equivalent of withdrawl symptoms. Has he really understood that Auxillary is dead, deep down?

Auxillary mentioned that a shade killed him. That very strongly implies that Sigzil carried the Dawnshard off Roshar (indeed that may have been his mission - deny Odium the Dawnshards by getting away from Roshar), unless you want to propose that somebody brought a shade to Roshar. Hence the exile has to come earlier.

Not if you want him visiting two new planets, Canticle and the Sho Del world, in a row with any reasonable likelihood.

We are entering a territory where we would have to know how the tracking works. There must be some technological component, because he does not tell anybody where he will go, for the simple reason that he does not know himself. And we have no idea how well that mechanism works.

He has been to "tens of planets". That gives a lower bound to the skips he has made. So we are asking in effect has he been to some destinations multiple times? Yes, but the only hard data we have is two new destinations in a row. I think the only conclusion you can draw with any confidence is that he cannot have been to more than very roughly 2/3 of the worlds fitting the criteria.

Still too low. Give him a hundred planets and a month on each and he has been on the run for 8 years.

Not providing a destination may precisely be the way to specify a new place. The question you are asking seems to me to be indirectly be the question about the size of the Cosmere. In fact it is combinatorics. Complicated by him possibly not knowing the answer. Suppose he landed in the Final Empire and again on Southern Scadrial. Would he know that he is on the same planet by the time he needs to skip away?

I will update the post, when the case is clear. Now: May we be looking at an enlightened Highspren, so "interaxial force" could be something else? I alreday have those Good catch I am afraid it does not meet the definition of external arcanum