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Aluminium sold for its novelty value on Roshar until very recently. That is, you can earn nicely in relative terms but not absolutely or you flood your own market. Getting your trade partners to revere you as a god is really good scheme to get what you desire at really low rates. While that is true, those offworlders will be rare. If you are trading in the CR, your trip kind of naturally boils down to five stages a trip to the perpendicularity the origins land area turned into some kind of ocean, which you will sail to the point closest to the subastral you want to get to an overland trip through the equivalent of deep space another ocean trip to perpendicularity from the perpendicularity to the destination The traders on the caravans for stage#3 have no economic reason to go further than the outermost Spren city. So the Horneaters get nothing from them.

They could. But it is unlikely. They are not better in that regard than anybody else and they'd have more trouble running engineering experiments than a noble house. And you cannot easily run such research off world either. You need people and equipment.

One of Dalinar's men who was originally an agent of House Venture on Scadrial at the time of the Catacendre.

I stand corrected. Date the information Do multiple articles or sections. It coulb be argued that pre-Catacendre Scadrial would have ended up higher on the index than Way & Wayne Scadrial, which in turn was certainly vastly more powerful than Scadrial a few decades after the Catacendre And you may need a political section to tell us about the degree of political unity or the chance of an opponent to exploit internal disunity.

I am afraid that is directly contradicted by the evidence. Harmony wrote MeLaan a physical letter informing her of Wayne's death. (all the way to SA5 prologue)) Or some of the first generation were not happy about being turned to Kandra and left.

I am afraid this needs to add a section on population to really build a useful comparison. And we have the problem that the intelligence is centuries out of date. At the time of the Catacendre, the Ire had to fear Threnody in another solar system. At the time of the last Desolation, no longer.

Not to use it. I am afraid this is incorrect. We also saw the Ire. They built fortresses, had their own military force, sell technology nobody else has and made a device that allows stealing a Shard and it worked. Debatable. The mere knowledge about the offer weakens the 17th Shard. Its members know that they have an alternative they can go to. You cannot give the lukewarm members dangerous missions, to state the most obvious effect.

I am afraid I have to point out that he participated in making a whole planet.

Presumably you will not lose your powers, if you can make it work. That is a specifically Selish thing. You physically cannot leave being pulled back.

Kelsier gave us a major hint when he mentioned their method of making aluminium. Somebody has had to develop it. That likely means there is an unknown major industrialized world out there, unless Sel has changed beyond recognition. Now it could be Taldaine. But the Ghostbloods imported aluminium. It looks likely that the source of the aluminium and their knowledge of electrolysis is one and the same. Autonomy is unlikely to allow large scale trade with Ghostbloods. Silverlight also looks unlikely, as this is industrial technology and they are living a long way away from mines. So Mythos? Bjendahl?

We may speculate that the aethers have a life cycle from spore to bud to eventually core aether, which makes new spores. The spores do create vines upon contact with water, which could be another aether's equivaent of the crystal buds. They were propagated by splitting the buds. That, however, need not be the proper method.

Then why bother? If it is to be permanently on, why tatoo it? Use a pencil and just draw it on the skin. Much easier to correct errors. Or use an ordinary, mechanical stamp and press it into the skin while you want to switch it on.

They have already taken baby steps towards quantum mechanics. Shadow of Self mentioned research into the Zeeman effect. They can now make cyclotrons. That will put them on the way to particle physics and relativity. Waxillium is a pulser now, too. Among other things.

Take a standardized allomantic grenade for steel or iron. Fill it up. Let it push on a spike. Measure the exerted force. Weigh it. Divide. You can do that, but it raises the question how you measure an invested particle.

Even then, because it affects opponents and resupply. Patji, for example, is an island. Meaning that once you have taken the land around the perpendicularity, your opponents would need to do an amphibious opeation to dislodge you.

So you say that Dalinar, when going to a battlefield with high value people who might need instructions, would leave behind his slave who happens to be his top instructor? Firstly, the Horneaters themselves rarely see worldhoppers. You will leave the final leg of the journey to Spren, who already have ships that can sail the Seas of Beads. Secondly, what are people actually trading? And whom to? I am sorry to put it that bluntly, but the money in the Rosharan system is in Shadesmar, not on the physical planet. Riino ate fish from another planet, not grain from Roshar. It seems to me that trade goods are either luxury goods or absolute necessities to travellers.

Zinc presumably.

I see what you are saying. I do not like to say this, as it has some very evil connotations, but for fairness you could make two arguments: Scadrians are not human. They are artificial constructions after all. It is possible that Ati and Leras left some things out, intentionally or not The Final Empire was not a place whose ruler rewarded curiosity or progress. I fact the opposite was true. That may have triggered a change that goes very deep. True. That drives me personally to conclude that there is an unknown danger that precludes it, unless you are sailing in a very modern ship. It may be as simple as Scadrial's seas harboring life forms that are hostile to wooden sailing ships. The Lord Ruler after all had to keep his people and the control group separate. That means that prior to the introduction of steam engines and air ships, contact was prevented by other factors. Or there are things on Scadrial that Brandon still wants to tell stories about. We have seen hints like the mysterious metal constructs mentioned in a broadsheet. Settlements in the Roughs are multiple decades old at this time. Its a few weeks by ship along the coast if we are to trust those maps. It is hard to explain why simple fishing vessels did not discover the South centuries ago.

I am sorry, but that is extremely convoluted an explanation. It would require the access to three other systems, which the Radiants cannot reach due to their Spren, to be cut off for other reasons and recently so. Yes, but the same applies as to explaining why the access to Roshar is curtailed due to a victory in war. In fact, this explanation is even worse by far, because you now need to explain why Hoid has been spending years as Waxillium's coach man away from the war. Again, unless it is an incredible accident that access to many worlds has just become much harder for independent reasons, just as a Desolation began on Roshar, you need to find a common explanation. I am afraid you are thinking way to small. This looks like the restrictions on Fused leaving the Rosharan system have been broken. In fact, even Odium may have been freed. The war Hoid had been preparing for on Roshar has begun. Coalitions of Shards are clashing their forces.

Northern Scadrian obviously has a word for light. The Scadrian system's gas giants having moons and Marasi having visited the university of Elendel, which uses a broad curriculum, is doubtlessly aware of them and will know a way of referring to them. Even if you are using English, what justifies calling "moonlight" a word? Is "traffic sign" a word? Languages differ drastically in their ability to create new words from existing roots. We have no idea where on the scale Northern Scadrian lies. Scadrian has had multiple languages. We have no idea whether Ati and Leras used languages they knew when they created Scadrial. Hence it is unclear whether it can have vestiges from presumably Yolish. The ancestors of today's human Rosharans had hounds. The phenomenon that a word survives only in compounds is not rare, by the way. Do you think of "quoth the raven nevermore" when you read "bequeath" ? Or do you recognise the preposition in "midwife"?

Well, no. They have artillery observers. People who can motivate troops. Means to allow an HQ to think things through. People who are strong enough to wear armor that will stop a bullet. People who can walk through a cloud of gas without protective equipment. Scadral is more prone to produce assassins if you look at it with individual combat in mind. If you look at it from the point of supporting industrialized warfare, which includes logistics and combined arms, things change again. The key here is industrialized. It is true that other worlds are better at supporting preindustrial warfare. But you are not going to Soulcast an artillery shell and railways to move canned food remove a lot of the relative advantage of operating without logistical support for food.

An agreement based on Taravangian serving Odium. He has done the very opposite.

Yet major plot points of The Final Empire revolved around hiding from them. So was The Lord Ruler. Yet he is dead and gone. It seems to me that the issue arises from Brandon telling stories about near-normal people in clashes of titans, if you will. Earlier stories, especially The Final Empire, were about people in hiding.

On Scadrial the number of extremely powerful individuals is going down. No more Mistborn, no new Steel Inquisitors, no full Feruchemists. In the wider Cosmere, the number of Shards is going down, too. On Roshar the Fused are a shadow of their former glory. A vessel is killed by mortal hands. Aluminium is spreading.

Find a native ally. Strike at the oathgates Isolate the perpendiculatities Go for the Spren. Roshar has a lot of physical fighters and Investiture, but the Spren are not all that trained in war Can Regals go off world? If they can get Regals off planet, they can generate Voidlight in the field.