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Yes, but there is a crucial difference. They do not publish publically available reports. But can you imagine the events of TLM trigger a debate in and some action by the Elendel senate? People react to getting flooded and almost being blown away. Learning about those outworldly things is now a matter of survival. They'll appoint somebody who will in turn have to justify expenses.

I am afraid that does not add up. How and why would the Lord Ruler or Ruin make spikes for metals unavailable at the that time, in particular Nicrosil?

True, but it works the other way round. If you are too far behind in terms of technology, you will lose, no matter how large you economy be. That's basically the story of China in the 19th century. I would not say that it is the better option. But it is an option that may work. Rashek and Leras, be it intentionally or not, used that strategy. And they coupled it with more and better Allomancers and a competent security service. In terms of planetary defense, the Final Empire was more effective.

True, the problem is that you need to leap. Assuming two independent threats, who but Odium is a likely second threat given the temporal proximity?

Yes, but the problems they are now facing are military, no longer economical in nature. It seems that there are two safe positions. Either so backward that Autonomy does not bother you, or so advanced that she does not dare act against you. Scadrial is in the dangerous region in between.

But probably not uniformly. And that makes the question interesting. They set up a statue of Wayne in the same park as the statues of Vin and Elend. That requires a public justification. Secondly the governor is highly incentiviced to paint himself as doing the will of god.

It seems to me that an Aon needs noticeable depth. Otherwise the Elantrians would have just used a brush to paint the Aons for their transport system in Elantris. Instead they poured them using moulds.

Apparently the explosion was massive enough to vaporize a metalmind inside a human body.

Surgebinders twist gravity. They are literally falling. A Steelpusher will have to move in a series of ballistic arcs. A Surgebinder need not do that. But they can. Just their speed profile will look differenrly. And obviously they don't need coins. But equally obviously they can drop one for show.

That takes specialised knowledge to answer. Factually I have to point out that she noticed the symbol. Why? If the war on Roshar really ends with a victory of the Knights Radiant, the Highspren fighting on the other side may have a problem. And if you are really forced into exile as a spren, you have a problem. Other subastrals do not have large communities of sapient cognitive entities. Nor do they get a supply of Stormlight to manifest stuff from traders next door. If you want to live in civilization and stay sapient, it means bonding.

The Fused. Meridas Amaram.

Unfortunately it would. One Rosharan, who might be short for a Rosharan, in a group would not be overly odd. Eight people with alien facial features and most over 2m tall in a group? You might just as well wearing a sign claiming to be foreign. Steris is not stupid.

They are facing two related but distinct problems Autonomy is attacking so they need allies Something is wrong in Shadesmar Yes, they need allies and more allomancers. But the obvious way to reach allies is through Shadesmar. As Sazed states that, Kelsier objects. The first issues is obviously to be explained with Autonomy. The second isn't. If this were also Autonomy's doing, all the planets whose access she is blocking would be allies.

That problem'll vanish if you don't insist on those two "va" being the same. The second free standing "va" could be a contraction of iva.

That is pretty close to circular reasoning. They passed one test, so she does not test them fully? Then why send that army in the first place?

After a whole book of the era is named after them? The Malwish knew about the manipulation.

It would require the electrum to be created out of nothing when Waxillium split the Harmonium.

Good, yet difficult question. A set of powers with similar ways of using them. That leaves open the question where you cut. But not whether an ability is a member of a system.

Not really: Now, you could interpret that like the geometry of Shadesmar itself is changing. But multiple gods want you dead. And Roshar is one of those worlds. War is just the simplest explanation and you need multiple gods.

Under that premise you need to count each kind of Misting and Fering separately Surgebinding: Knights Radiant, Fused, Yelig Nar, some fabrials, (Singer rhythm magic?) Voidbinding: Renarin and other bondees of enlightened spren Regals Unmade (even Yelig Nar offers additional abilities - turning your body into crystal) abilities lesser spren offer: Rosharan animals & some fabrials Stormfather Urithiru or rather the Sibling possibly Cultivations ten abilities abilities of lesser voidspren: the detector voidspren Purelake fish Thunderclasts Sleepless Aimians Iriali Horneater magic No. They clearly have a bond to luckspren. And on Scadrial you call the people who do the same thing Ferings.

I think that the era of individual worldhoppers as we know it is coming to an end. Too many worlds have too much of a mass media, too unified a government and too ovious an alien influence to ignore the rest of the Cosmere as a topic for at least the general political elite. As soon as your queen's lover is a space alien from the dawn of time or aliens detonate a nuclear weapon in your extended harbor, it is time for some Lewis & Clarke style expeditions and diplomatic missions.

In the short run of course Scadrial. But the longer I consider this the more pyrrhic that victory looks. Scadrial lost 1/3 of its Mistborn Scadrial had to use up hard to replace munitions Scadrial used up whatever if took Kelsier to make the men of gold and red turn around Harmony and his sword are permanently estranged to an extent Harmony has to sent his Kandra out to missions that do not immediately serve him Harmony and the Ghostbloods are at odds Harmony is doubting himself possibly this led to Scadrial being forced into an aggressive foreign policy that will have made reconcilliation with Roshar impossible and it cost her: the remainder of an organization she had written off an army marches needlessly Investiture she gets back in the medium term I cannot help myself. Team Scadrial are not looking good.

Or indeed internal regulation. The other medaillions are not for random civilians.

Let's cut straight to the heart of the matter. It took an extremely individualistic constable, whose statue the citizens of Elendel can go admire, to defend Scadrial against an alien god. After that will they still put their trust into Harmony? If not, what will they do? If gods wield the quivalent of nuclear weapons on your porch, athism will be unlikely to seem a good alternative. So will we see a revival of activist Survivorism? Or, far fetched, Sliverism? Ideologically speaking you could point out that Rashek had sort of a point when he said that you need to break eggs to make omlette. And he kept Scadrial free of alien ship bombs.

Telsin is dead. Some scientists of the Set are dead. Their breeding programme has been disrupted. Most members, however, are alive and still affiliated with the Bilming government. Will they simply vanish? If not, how will the Northerners deal with them? What will the Ghostbloods do? The Set still seems a lot more advanced than the rest of Scadrial in science and technology. They had a weapon of mass destruction go off right next to their capital. The story of an alien invasion is kind of hard to surpress if it is that obvious. And it is an alien invasion. Marasi may keep quiet about the men in gold and red, but a lot of people too influential to just make disappear again know about it. So will we see a Scadrian equivalent of NASA charged with exploring Shadesmar? A military equivalent? An "astral force"? Intrepid adventurers searching the Southern Roughs for the perpendicularity?