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They do know that Vin held Preservation. But do Scadrians also know about the Ire and Hoid?

Hoid did it centuries later. After looking at the examples. After millenia of failed attempts. With the knowledge and resources of looking at arcane arts for millenia. With convoluted plans and access to another Elantrian. Yes, but a stamp operates on likelihood. Most people who turn Elantrian do it where they originate from or close by. Simply because most candidates are there. People are not all that mobile, even less in a preindustrial economy. Let's say that she does not suffer from a deficit of confidence. Nevertheless she does know her invested art and usually does things sanely. The most plausible way to explain her apparant age is that that is the age she became an Elantrian.

How would you make that work? For sure people would try to bring back memorabila.

So dimensional travel does make crime pay again. They have people who started a zombie apocalypse for fun. The moral depravity aspect of interdimensional tourism exists. They conquer countries for fun. Better not discuss? It does boost the market for personal combat and language instruction, albeit to a minor degree. Cartels existed anyway. We got important information about the economics. The actual transfer once you have established a connection is basically free. The big difference is that dimensions exist in a hierarchy and you cannot transfer stuff "up". What does that mean? In addition dimensions very like our Earth are rare and expensive, thus not available to the general public. That surely impacts tourism. Nevertheless I think we can find economic uses for interdimensional travel under the revealed constraints: tourism exportable services - you want to film "Riding on Smilodontes". No need for CGI. (Though you may need a good medical team, even if you have nanites.) exportable labor - you cannot bring back stuff. But you can bring back information. Outsourcing R & D to another dimension is possible. dumping - you have this incredibly dangerous waste? No problem, we have an Earth devoid of most higher life forms after a major impact. Dig a hole and dump it in. marooning - exile as a form of criminal punishment has just become viable again local services - why retire to Florida, if you can retire to another planet's Tahiti where the sl... , servants, I meant servants, are cheap? exportable resources - you cannot take stuff back, but again information is possible. You can isolate new antibiotics from plants and fungi in unspoiled jungles and even megafauna Or - more sinister - you need a new bioweapon? We have this dimension nobody else wants ... true colonialism - you have useless hungry masses in need of land to farm? Problem solved.

Yes, however, that connection I did not see. The whole point of TFWGTSME is that the pseudo-past is not shared, which is the exact opposite.

But then she has to write a soul stamp for a native of Arelon who dilated and returned to be turned into an Elantrian. And that with an experimental stamp. She had to be in Arelon or very close at the time of her transformation in terms of the stamp's virtual story. If she used anything close to solid engineering her soul stamp just changed her nationality and turned her into an Elantrian at her apparent age. Well, two possibilities Shai is not humble. This simply may be her likeliest personality if she turned Elantrian at a relatively young age. It made the stamp easier to make. How is the plausibility of a stamp judged? Does the judgement of uninformed crowds matter? May I point out that the remade Elantris found itself in serious trouble with the Fjordell Empire? Now, the new leadership may have been intially a lot humbler, but if your children are at risk, you use any advantage you can get. And secondly, how many Elantrians died in the invasion? That is, were those who had experienced the fallen Elantris actually a majority for long or did the backfill from the losses and returning worldhoppers turn them into a minority?

O well, no use sugarcoating it. Doing better than The Long Earth is trivial. That series has ridiculous economics. Who would buy all that grain those would-be pioneers are growing? Well, no, not unless you can transfer at arbitrary points and in huge chunks. You need to figure how costly it would be to build transport infrastructure. You can't even easily run a ship. no weather forecast no GPS no refueling underway no ports no charts if somebody falls ill or has a serious accident during the trip, that's it unknown germs Can you imagine what it would cost to run a railway inland under those circumstances? Those resources are out there. You cannot ever run out of something, but they are not cheap. And as a second point, can governments let companies without a lot of regulation? For starters, you have just unextincted smallpox. Do you really want to let people teach the Mongol Empire (even less savoury possibilities omitted) about modern weaponery?

O well, you have not touched the big question. Is it worth it, if you already have the three previous ones?

Because they are also limited by laws of nature. Apparently there are limits in observing the future of an uncooperative entity which is also observing the future. And Shards are affected by it. This being the same issue users of atium and electrum have when meeting and (Roshar) we need to assume that it is independent of the vessel. Now, I personally would not say that this precludes being a deity, but the distinction is real.

In fact it seems to be semistable if we assume that they repel each other. As gravity attracts them to the planet there should be a height of equilibrium where their mutual repulsion is as large as the planetary gravity. They would also spread out to the corners of a regular polyhedron. If we further assume that a moon is also repelled by spores of the other kind, it might even be a stable configuration.

Why do they have those specific colors? I'd say the moons are the aethers.

Welll, the simple explanation is that you are ramming a square peg into a round hole. There just is no connection between Rosharan essences and aethers.

Though if this is the last major magic system, what about Mercy, Whimsy and Valour as sources of systems?

With local impunity. First of the Sun may just not be worth triggering the Shardic equivalent of WW3. That is iffy. Nalthis having a customs agency suggests that Endowment has the capability but lacks the desire. And what Kelsier demands from Harmony implies that Shards can give away technological knowledge.

They have suffered brain damage or its equivalent. This tells us very little of the capabilities of the bond. Again, no. I am sorry, but a Knight Radiant can still summon his or her spren as a blade after having run out of Stormlight. We saw that with Kaladin and Sylphrena in Oathbringer. Well, that a bond grants a certain capability, does not mean that it will ever be used by the bonded. My phone can transmit video if I call somebody. I rarely use that feature. Nevertheless, it is the same kind of connection whether I use it or not. That is just not true. Those of the Husk demonstrate that. So yes, they are very efficient with their Surge in general. But why does that tell us anything? A solar powered vehicle may be able to run forever. Nevertheless, it still needs power. Threnody argues for the oposite.

As weapons, no. If you want to summon them, they are. You need a bond for that. And it works completely without Stormlight. Nevertheless the users of a Honorblade do have a bond with it. That is certain because Szeth was able to sever it and ceased to be a Surgebinder thereby. That was not merely the act of dropping it. Honorblades can be dismissed and summoned and the bearer remains a Surgebinder in either state. Again, no. Heavenly Ones who are forced to use up their Voidlight for healing fall from the sky. They are using fuel. They are just so lucky that their supply is large enough to sustain continous ordinary use of their abilities.

No, it does not a power source. I am sorry, but that is just not right. Surgebinding needs a fuel source. But it does so even if the Fused do it. But the Nahel bond itself does not. In fact that is the very point that told the Rosharans that Shardblades are not fabrials. You can summon and use them without Stormlight.

He determined much of his rule during a few minutes in the Well of Ascension, during which he at first had to fix the Deepness and deal with fundamental relevations about the nature of the universe During later times he had the advantage of enormous experience and zinc compounding

The problem is not Silverlight. The problem is the caravans. And yes, we know their level of technology based on travel times through the CR. If they chose to process it on site they need power plants electrical equipment to make it DC at the correct voltage factories for graphite electrodes factories for kryolithe ore processing plants and the factories you need to make those in turn. There is a reason aluminium became cheap only at the end of the 19th century.

Then he would have just said "under Thanasmia itself"

Trouble obtaining it? No. Trouble transporting it over land via a non-mechanized caravan and still make it at cheaper cost than processing the ore on site? Yes, they would. In fact they would fail. People just forget how expensive land transport was in preindustrial times.

Rabional physically handled the silver chain she had gotten from Mraize.

A list we would now have to add to: Dragons (surely) Sho-Del (surely) Sleepless (likely) The Messenger MeLann met (likely) maybe really old Cognitive Shadows, some spren and so on ... At this point it is time to face the drums. Shardic magic is important, yet it is a minority case in the Cosmere.

It may also mean equidistant between edge and lunagree. And that is a factor of 2. And we need that kind of accuracy for such a claculation.

Yes, the moons are not in orbit. They are hovering. How they manage that feat is unclear. And here I am afraid we are reaching the first hard roadblock. The oceans are pentagons. That means the surface of the planet is kind of a deformed dodecahedron (projected onto a sphere). That means that the moons form an icosahedron, with a moon right in the center of the pentagon. In other words, if you are in the exact middle of an ocean, you are at the lunargree and thereby dead. Hence the "middle" here is taken too literally. Ixthos did it. Honor to those who deserve it. Note that while the distribution of the moons has to be as depicted here, the actual position is arbitrary. We can only know that Diggen's Point must be located polewards of the Emerald Moon for the sun to be in line with its center.