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That planet is an uncontacted backwater with a tiny population. Frankly, it is odd that it gets regular, albeit infrequent service at all.

Well, but then we saw the protection backfiring, so the assumption would have to be that Hoid removed it and hence Tress of the Emmerald Sea is later.

It seems to me that Yumi and the Nightmare Painter predates Tress of the Emerald Sea because Hoid does not just teleport away using Aons. But that is a very thin conclusion. Any other clues?

It seems the latter. An actually Awakened machine would be powered by its Breaths. Dragons like steak Hoid owns a fabrial that can do at least half a Bondsmith's job and it is a recent invention Giving spren bodies ended badly Elantrians are more invested than Returned a Rosharan audience knows rice. That implies that interstellar trade has become cheap there is a reguarly, though not frequently, scheduled service for interstellar travel Threnody was still odd by the time Design got off Roshar Rosarans know about allomantic tin. Either madaillions are exported or there is rather frequent contact We may note that Harmony did not mention Virtuosity. But that amounts to drawing conclusions from a negative. She may just have been a hermit, as few met her standards.

Hoid to free himself and the indirect way of communication is a result of him being in a degraded state of mind.

It isn't conserved. Let me quote from Bands of Mourning as Waxillium was dancing with who has to be Khrissalla: (chapter 11, page 190) I am sorry, but no. Waxillium says that allomancy and feruchemy are different. And, yes, Brandon confirms that Allomancy conserves momentum. But that is allomancy specifically. Allomancy has the big advantage that pushing or pulling against something dictates the frame of reference. With feruchemy you have a very big problem. Momentum in which frame of reference? Scadrial is spinning. You should experience considerable coriolis force each time you store or tap mass. Scadrial is moving around its star. You would experience forces due to that. And so on. Feruchemy on its own does not conserve momentum. Nor does it conserve energy. Every iron feruchemist is a perpetuum mobile. Just put him or her onto a spring. And this is not just theoretical. We have seen Wax storing and tapping on a train. He was not flung towards the tip or tail of the train, as conservation of momentum would require.

This leads me to an extremely generic reply. Arcane powers are antidemocratic. Harmony rules Scadrial. Why? There is no point in denial here: Because he can. MIght is right in last consequence. Now you may argue that his shardic powers make him especially wise and prescient. While that is true, it is a bit beside the point. It tells us that he knows what he is doing. What he does with the knowledge is still his own affair. And that he chooses not to exercise these powers. But that is the very point. He chooses not to. He is accountable to no one. He is above the law. Now to the humans on Scadrial that leaves them in a situation where they can face up and take a stand meaning that they'll secure as much power as possible for some of them. Or they can submit and leave the business of the Shards to the Shards and live with the outcome. What Kelsier will do is obvious. And will you really tell somebody who lived under The Lord Ruler that there is an alternative to that choice?

No, but it does not matter. Kelsier caught Sazed in a lie within weeks after his ascension. And Kelsier is not a trusting person in such questions. Sazed is no longer a member of the crew. A dear friend, yes, but not crew. That depends on how easy it is to get Trellium and what other godmetals do. Kelsier is perfectly capable of hiring or manipulating the most academic and theoretical of researchers to do the experiments. Where is the problem with that? Do you propose that Scadrians face Shades, Surgebinders or Fused with a few Mistings and rifles?

Well, from a story telling perspective I am afraid the thing has been decided with Bands of Mourning. As soon as the spikes were ripped out of MeLaan it was clear that Kandra physically have two pieces of metal inside their bodies. That means as soon as X-rays or even mine detectors are invented, Kandra are detectable. No need to go for DNA. Yes. But here we are at the point where we need to ask what the effect of the spirit web on a developing embryo is. It is possible that the combination of Kandra and human is not viable on that level.

If it works that way you could make a simple blood test for Kandra DNA.

Not really, as relative prices change over time. Electroncs are getting cheaper while food does not in our time for example. That is from a nursery. Those prices are for the apple tree. The Elendel basin is extremely fertile. That means that if you use only agricultural goods as opposed to industrial goods, you'll get defalted values.

Watching an episode of Shardcast I again stumbled upon "These children should not have existed" if I may paraphrase @Chaos . However, upon thinking this through I think this contains an unstated and unproven assumption: That all his children postdate his ascension. If not, the cat was already out of the bag. Unless he were willing to turn his own children into Mistwraiths, his bloodline will be out there. It would also mean that he'd forgo many of the advantages of dynastic marriage in his early days. We do not know how old he was when he ascended, but he was a member of a primitive tribe. Such people tend to marry and procreate early. Hence it seems to me that he had to find a way of dealing with his children and their children. Now if he is unwilling to turn them into Mistwraiths, turning them into spikes is not an option either. So what do they do? I think the most obvious solution would be exile. Sending them south would alter the control group and it would be harder than using the perpendicularity. So I can offer three theories: Somewhere out in the Cosmere descendants of Rashek are forming a group and they have feruchemists and ferrings among their ranks. Lutha or Luthad was Rashek's wife (Roshar)

If that were the case the forescouts would have expected to meet Shades.

Is there a good reason to assume that Nazh postdates the arrival of the Evil? If we do that than there is one hard question. Where are the Threnodite forces the Ire already refers to at the time of the Catacendre during the events of Stormlight archive? It seems to me to make more sense to assume that the arrival of the Evil happened shortly after the Catacendre and ended Threnody's external ambitions. If Nazriloff postdates the Evil his remarks about Cognitive Shadows make little sense, because just becoming a Shade was common on his home world.

Ruling out stuff definitively is obviously impossible. The problem is that we are taking Spook only into consideration because We want him to be alive We know him He is a Mistborm But there were thousands of Mistborn on Scadrial during the history of the world. And being a Mistborn does still not explain why he does not eat and <best not mentioned>. Hoid could detect Surgebinding.

Spook was a Mistborn, hence also a Seeker and she was full of Stormlight. And carrying at least some metal on her body, lest she intended to kill him with her bare hands.

Xisis arrived around 300 years before Tress of the Emerald Sea. The Iriali vanished round about that time frame (we do not know whose years Hoid was counting in). They must have lived there for some time. I do not see how you can make that fit any time line where Xisis would have to be on Lumar at the time of Rhythm of War, while the Iriali are still on Roshar. Xisis claims to study the ecology of the ocean floors, while Foil wants to control the aethers. It is possible that his goal shifted over the centuries, but they are not identical.

I am sorry, but why would you bother? If you have means of teleportation, which AonDor, Elsecalling and Dakhor provide, why would you mount your warhead onto a missile? Teleport it.

These events need not coincide in time. When Harmony sent out Kandra into the wider Cosmere he necessarily made some of them imitate non-humans. In fact, as you can physically remove the spikes out of a Kandra, their value as imitators goes away to a large degree as soon as technology progresses to taking X-rays. However, by that time he had obviously not released them.

That axehound has eight appendages, or if the antennas are mofified legs, ten. You are missing the small ones at the mouth.

The Singer agents among the Parshendi Whoever Sixteen is a member of Whoever sent Azure possibly Ishar's secret service the people who smuggled in Odium's spren (like Ulim)

Turn the air above the chasm into rock and soil and let it drop.

It may just have been filled by sediment. Or the Elantrians decided that it was cheaper to fill in the chasm line than change all fixed Aons in Elantris.

As far as Sazed wrote them, yes. But we know that they have works by the other Originators (as well as apocryphal works). So did Kelsier spill the beans to Spook, who did then record it?

This is centuries in the future going by the technology we see. I am afraid cannons tell us exactly nothing. If anything they point at a primitive and low magic world, as the more advanced worlds are unlikely to have human soldiers walking into battle against actual cannons. I mean we are seeing what for practical purposes are combat robots in the very book. But they of course may have historical novels and history, so they know about cannons even on the advanced worlds.