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I suspect Brandon of getting a copy of the Rgveda. There you'll find the Vishvadevas or Allgods, as it is usually translated. The root itself can be reconstructed to go back *weik'- (more or less settle). You find its modern descendants in "-wick" in place names. The world sense probably comes from a shortening of the "settled world". Stonebirther would fit what his aether does. "Stoneborn" would also fit. It is linguistically closer. The name seems to be an adjective.

Scadrial may have more axial tilt, hence more extreme seasons. Scadrial may be more distant from its star or its star may be dimmer. Frankly Elendel has too many fireplaces and a style of clothing and architecture incompatible with a subtropical setting on the Earth. That would make the true geographic poles horrible places. But we cannot rule that out.

Yes, but either Roshar's Shadesmar has changed beyond recognition or she is not there. Now these might be migrants from Roshar Harmony is interested in. But why? If we are talking about large groups, yes. But I have a hard time assuming that the Knights Radiant will not send out scouts as soon as the war allows that. The Ghostbloods are known to work on making that travel possible. Voidlight would be a possible fuel. The Fused do not glow. We may speculate that Nale will have died by the time of TLM. Then the Skybreakers who swore to him will need a new guide.

Scadrial has some additional nasty options. Gas warfare. Bacteriological weapons. And if they get really desperate: Koloss. They could start production of hemalurgic spikes.

I like TLM. As a book it was odd, as in extremely paced, but it pulled that pacing off. As the end of an era, however, calling it mediocre is a bit charitable. It opened almost as many threads as it finished. Now, I am reminded that Brandon finished a book series featuring a group that perfected the art of misleading truths. IIRC he said that he will not write any more books in era 2. Fair enough, I believe him. I also note that he has hired a "narrative director". Does that raise a suspicion?

You left out an option: Kelsier is no longer an allomancer because he made the Bands

That still leaves us with a number of questions: Why is that her task? Can Harmony still afford to send out Kandra on generic missions? I am sorry, but he is getting his home world invaded and yet he sends his top people on a do good trip? Unfortunately the obvious question whether he is out of his mind may yield an affirmative answer. What is she hoping to achieve with just herself and a guide on a boat? The timing is odd. A refugee trck of human beings cannot last for long in Shadesmar. There is no water. They'll live as long as they can power the condensers. Yet if they have a source of Investiture in Shadesmar, why do they need rescue?

(Roshar) Well, Harmony could just make Mistborn, as he did with Spook. If the admiral really thought that a god is on his enemy's side, he should surrender. Yes, apparently Harmony is so far gone that cannot just make Mistborn anymore, but that is an assumption you cannot make from the outside.

They are a kind of unique tool we know little about, so ... But then you suppose that the admiral supposed that the agents of a god don't know how to properly handle an object based on that god's Invested Arts. That's courageous.

So it lasted decades, if not centuries in front of the temple, but drained in a few years under care of the Kandra? And the Kandra or Harmony did not notice? And the admiral could predict that? How convenient.

As a motivation - you are right - this makes perfect sense. The timing is awfully convinient though. So counterproposal: The admiral was working for Autonomy. Autonomy needed the bands taken out for her invasion to succeed, if it came to that. She has a Kandra in her service, who drained the bands. The admiral was there at the right time, because Autonomy knew when he had to be there and needed the Northerners to blame somebody else than her Kandra.

He was dead. That was the whole point of The Emperor's Soul. That was the whole reason Forging him to have suffered a lesser injury did not work.

Wax first used acids and bases on the material and tested it for hardness. Maybe it is the metal his lab equipment is made of. Maybe it is the box he used. Maybe it is exposing te Trellium spike to Steelpushing before he used it to influence the Harmonium. He ran his experiment under ground level. And so on. The are a lot of variables if you want to be really thorough. Experimental science in an unknown field is hard.

That would render Hoid's attempt to steal the Noon Sceptre useless. Hence I have to doubt that.

How then can it be used to make a soul?

It seems to me like Sazed would like to avoid Kelsier's methods and he doesn't really like his goals. But at the same time he knows that they may become an, in his eyes unfornate, necessity. So he plans for the case of himself becoming incapacitated or in fact a detriment to Scadrial. And the plan for that case has to be to use the Ghostbloods as defenders of Scadrial. Who else would be there? Kelsier at least has part of the knowledge of a Shard.

Well, main difficulty: Why would a man, whose other limitation is known even to the lowest level of operative, hide a lack that is less debilitating among worldhoppers? Being a Sliver who has overcome death should be plenty impressive.

Because we aren't. It is presumably full of Spren who are better equipped to help stranded Horneaters. If they are Horneaters we may look at refugees who have reached another subastral. If you are a physical, living Horneater on the other side of the perpendicularity and it becomes impassable, you will need to evacuate. Your supply of food and water (either directly or for Stormlight to condense water) has gone away. You need to leave. EDIT: If I have to speculate, I'd say this is Ashyn's astral, as that is close and Rosharans would hardly go to Damnation. An eternal fall is kind of a counterpoint to flying cities

Unless they were idiots a Surgebinder using Gravitation to emulate Steelpushing would drop a coin. He just wouldn't use it.

Yes. She would make an acceptable Skybreaker. But not the only kind. And Kelsier would obviously prescreen the candidates for a Spren. The Skybreakers are not primitive. They are capable of dealing with a situation where you have a limited body of universal law valid on the whole planet coupled with various local laws covering the rest. That was sort of the situation of medieval Europe with canon law being universal and coexisting with, yet superior to, local rules. That is an almost perfect description of the government of an imperialist country. Yet they have law. Skybreakers need rules. They do not need rules under which everybody or every planet is equal. That depends on the laws of the land. But that is the core feature of the Skybreakers. They are perfectly aware that laws conflict. That is why you pick one set and then stick to it. That really depends on his orders. He may have told them that a threat of that magnitude overrides all local law. But if he neglected to do that, as we may suspect, Skybreakers being under his command being a relatively new development, they would ask that question.

I'd say it is Allik getting snarky.

And red eyes. That is exactly what an army of Iriali fueling whatever Invested Art they wield with Autonomy's Investiture would look like. If it waddles and quacks ... . I'd say that's exactly what they are.

Well, no, not necessarily. You are making the mental shortcut of equating Skybreaker with Rosharan. If they are Skybreakers then somebody, likely the Ghostbloods, has solved the problem of getting a Spren off Roshar. If they can do that, the bondees of the Spren may or may not be Rosharan. In fact you could construct a narrative that the rightful ruler of Scadrial is Kelsier. His crew defeated The Lord Ruler and he gave the Shard of Preservation up voluntarily. Hence he kind of inherited Scadrial. To a certain kind of Survivorist that will sound plausible. Surgebinders using Stormlight glow. What fuels them on Scadrial is an open question, as @Cocoa suggested .Exactly. And they fought on Odium's side. Depending on the end of SA5 many Skybreakers respectively their Spren may no longer be welcome on Roshar respectively on Roshar's astral and Navani has created a reason treasonous Spren now have a very good reason to fear revenge.

Last warning: This contains spoilers for The Lost Metal and the preview chapters for Secret Project#1 Discussions with @Chaos have resulted in this going here. You have been warned. What is the connection? Aethers obviously. What have we learned? Aethers need water to grow Aethers put their bearers into a Connection with a Core Aether, to which the Aetherbearer is subservient to an extent Now what does that mean for the rest of the Cosmere? It makes the worldbuilding of SP#1 a lot less odd. Aethers react with water. The planet is undergoing what ought to be expected if a Core Aethers goes wild and rains down unlimited spores onto a planet. It also explains why Aviars are so valuable. They come without restrictions. Surgebinding requires oaths and Aethers make you serve a Core Aether. A Shade is quite dangerous and ethically dubious. A Seon has rather limited abilities. It may also explain what Hoid wants on the SP#1 planet. The Core Aethers there have undergone some change. Hoid hopes to get unrestricted Aethers. Yet we are left with many open questions What will have happened to the Core Aethers? Is there one Core Aether of each kind for the whole Cosmere or multiples of them? What is the connection between Aethers and Sandmastery? What do you think?

Doing it unnoticed and quickly was the issue. Just shooting them was not an option.