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Suppose you measure the speed of light between two points A and B, which are at rest to each other and are right outside a bendalloy bubble. Is the speed of light still the conventional value or is it increased by the factor of the bubble?

A carriage driver is less likely to need to explain his movements. "My boss told me to drive there and wait for him, but not the reason" is often credible.

What makes you think that Kandra actually do marriage? They are an alien species, albeit derived from man. In terms of behavior human pair bonding is likely to come from a need to raise very immature children. Kandra do not have this issue. They may pretend to be married to fit in, but that is just that and for Wayne to fit in is futile.

Now, you might see Selish people. All objections are against Selish magic systems. If you are going to hire a mercenary troop, going for the planet with the highest surface gravity makes sense. There is no reason you could not have a troop of Ghostblood paramilitaries from Sel using Aethers.

Yes and no. The quote: Elendel charges the outer cities for being connected to the rail network. But it does not charge individual citizens of other cities.

Would you take him on your crew? His captain just needed to write a truthful report and most captains would consider him unreliable for personal reasons.

That is doing statistics from two examples. For all we know that is just a use of the Surge of Adhesion.

That is exactly how the Outer Cities see themselves. They are politically independent of Elendel. The continuation of that state of affairs is the point of conflict. Elendel has power over the railways and the river and immense informal power, but Elendel cannot tax citizens of Bilming or New Serran at home. The issue is hopelessly muddled by them until very recently not knowing the concept of a foreign ethnicity in a real sense. They know Koloss, but they are a different species. It was a thing from historical records and fiction. So they see themselves as one ethnicity precluding ethnic nationalism. I guess the best paralell to Earth would be ancient Greece, whose states absolutely saw each other as different countries and went to war against each other, but did recognize a common ethnicity. Even the proposed bill would not erase the distinction. It just turns them from formally equal states into one ruling state and a lot of subjected states.

But it would suggest that they are speaking a second language to the audience. The only ones doing that from their own perspective would be the Terris people. Well, Dragonsteel has a linguist. You could go full Tolkien and make the movie in the original language Though, the Final Empire does have strong regional accents. There is no need to limit yourself to actors of one origin. I would let all Terris people speak with one foreign accent though. Cutting that out would deprive the audience of a clue that they are different. It could but it would make people wonder why this romanization was chosen. Why couldn't Brandon just spell him Kelsié and be done with it?

Those are hardest to export and we know that the Ghostbloods have Aethers. The Ghostbloods not showing up once an existential threat to their home base arises would also need a special explanation. I mean you could also have Shallan's exploration group of interstellar Lightweavers wielding weapons from Valor' s arsenal show up, but why complicate things?

You are raising a point. What good is a civil war in the Basin if you want everybody dead? In last consequence the likely outcome seems to be a southern win, not universal death. So what is the plan?

The Set must go back to Waxillium's youth at least, possibly decades older. Hence it must have been established while Rayse held Odium.

Compared to the prior reading we learn that Waxillium is outmanouvered and the imperialist bill is passed. I would like to see a connection with the Set, but I am afraid the support can be explained with economic interests and hunger for power.

I think the most fundamental words in your observation are "for his team" Well, how shall I put this ... To many people, including many in the fandom, a good man is also a fair man. And that he is not. Kelsier is for the best friend you can have. He is not the best man to have to negotiate from a slightly adversarial position with. Were the crew of the Enola Gay heroes? I suspect the answers to the these questions have a significant correlation.

Yes Talenel plucking a needle out of the air in Oathbringer Nale grasping an arrow fired at him in Rhythm of War Ishar fighting multiple Radiants in Rhythm of War They perform superhuman feats. But they are not just ageless. They get to create new bodies at will. No other Cognitive Shadow gets that.

Well, the amberite does not turn liquid. So there has to be a second aether if we consider it liquid.

So we need to assume that the Ghostbloods have access to at least two aethers, don't we? Why are they not using them more often?

Do you have any idea how often small children run?

Even more troubling How could Honor, who is about keeping promises, aid people in getting out of their land? The Honorblades are optimal weapons only if you get the direct link to Honor for Investiture. So why give them immortality before the oathpact? How did it work? The Heralds got this suspicious ability to just form new superhero bodies on Roshar, which the Fused do not get. I can't help but see that as an intentional method. The problem with the immortality is that death sends them to Braize. You would have to propose that that is secondary. But then why do they get bodies when returning to Roshar? You would need to start handwaving like saying that an oath is an oath only if it can be violated. Now you are at a stage of finding ad-hoc explanations. Their bodies are just made for continual war. Their weapons are made for their bodies and their direct link to Honor. And of course Honor is a Shard, with futuresight. Are we supposed to believe that he did not forsee the Desolations? I am sorry, but I cannot help but conclude that Honor chose to inflict the Desolations on Roshar.

Exactly. We might take "held" absolutely literally. His spren absorbed the Dawnshard in a suicide move and became a weapon Sigzil held in his hands.

That opens a can of worms. In fact why do they have weapons at all? Were they supposed to fight on Braize? If so, a destroyed Braize would have been in Honor's interest. For this to make sense I see no alternative to Honor expecting the Oathpact to fail. So why bother at all?

To the spren they are an imitation. To Honor it was probably the other way round. He saw the animals of Roshar. He knew things about the Cosmere. He knew about Aethers at least. Bonds to grant powers are not limited to Roshar. His innovation was making an artificial spren to make a bond, not the bond. They are not the real thing. I guess he found creating a sapient creature to be used in an involuntary bond dishonorable.

The timing makes no sense. That clash was thousands of years ago by this time. In that case almost all Shades would have to be thousands of years old, because the Forest of Hell was settled only recently. But old Shades are an exception.

Well, no. Those killed by Shades continue for sure. That does not mean that others do not. Otherwise, how would the first Shade have arisen?

It has a breathable atmosphere. The oxygen must come from somewhere. They are using wood for temporary construction. It has to come from some plant. The planet has native life. Highly debatable. Most of the time the Earth existed no visible fossils were created. The other animals have had to tie to learn to hide under the roosting trees. Aviars protect against the sense predators use. If Adonalsium created the Cosmere as if it had evolved, then by definition you could not tell how old it was from native stuff you find inside the Cosmere. However, the worlds and the Investiture found on them would still predate the shattering. However old the Aethers may be, we still can be sure that they, too, predate the shattering.