Oltux72

Hemalurgy and the Compact are incompatible. I am afraid that is a misunderstanding. For the donor the spike invariably and fatally goes through the heart.

No. I have to point out that between SP#4 and Secret History centuries have passed, at a minimum. If this is space age Cosmere, something closer to a millenium. There will have been newly settled planets. Threnodites are actively colonizing. So are the Scadrians. The Dromiad system is a good example for something else. Look at the telepathic plants having coevolved with telepathic predators. That system is millions of years old. First of the Sun doesn't have Aviars because a Shard's avatar went there, but the other way round. And, crucially, Investiture is not limited to settled systems.

We have learned from SP#4 that Threnodites turn to Shades outside Threnody. Has anybody thought about the implications? Consider this: You are trying to get the barbecue lit and children are running around in the garden. Your Threnodite neighbor suffers a fatal stroke. How is that issue dealt with? Segregated housing? Threnodite registration laws? Are you potentially dangerous if just your grandfather was Threnodite? There are obvious historical examples and I am personally wondering who the Threnodite Magneto will be, but a mean question looms. Would such laws be justified, even necessary?

A kind of cyborg holders of the Ferrous ether can transform themselves into. It has some auxillary powers like great strength and generating light or heat. In addition they are ageless. As a downside they lose the power of speech and their body. Their body becomes immobile and totally enclosed within the metal part.

There are sixteen shards. Quite a lot died early. Yet more have trapped each other for millenia. How many planets has Sigzil visited? Dozens? Hundreds? I am afraid we are not talking about four or five planets per Shard, but about dozens. Obviously it could be. The thing is that we have more clues: The future space age. First of the Sun is one planet among many to the Ones Above. Animals and plants other than Aviars on First of the Sun. Magic plants from other islands are not going to cross the ocean to get to that perpendicularity. Magic there is old, as in dozens of millions of years old.

Of course not, but where is the qualitative difference? Surgebinding may just be stronger because luckspren are stupider than Radiant spren. No. I gave you another entity that can form a bond. There is no evidence that the bond itself is different. Aviars even allow for squires. Radios are not the same as vacuum cleaners. Nevertheless you can run them with the same cable.

Aviars? There is no reason to believe that multiple forms of bonds exist. But luckspren grant other abilities, namely to reduce to reduce mass. The reason you don't get a Surge from other spren may just be that they don't fit, not the nature of the bond.

On SP#1 and SP#4 I would say: none This will not work. The premise of SP#4 rules it out. We are running out of Shards. The Cosmere has too many worlds with Investiture and Invested Arts Sigzil went to without getting himself stranded for lack of fuel for more than a small fraction of them having a Shard in residence. Unless you assume most of the Cosmere being dominated by avatars of Autonomy. We have just seen the worlds with Shards first, beause that is where the exceptional action is happening. Shards are just not that essential.

Exactly. Formalized. Nevertheless it is revenge. For rules to exist there must be punishment. Locking up, let alone execute, a murderer or a rapist will not undo a murder or a rape. We pursue such people at considerable expense despite that having no practical worth. We do so for deterrence. Justice is a refinemnt that allows deterrence of a community in defense of its rules against lawbreakers.

Yes. They were sold like pigs. Well, horses. They did not eat them. That is before that they were absolutely beaten.

On the contrary. Revenge is the basis of every civilization. Without revenge people doing as they please are rewarded. There is no such genuine thing as justice. Justice is a formalized form of revenge. True, but only true in that direction. To an ordinary Singer a victory is a victory regardless of whom or what the Fused intend to win for.

And that make it right? Whether he wanted it or not, he accepted it. He may claim mitigating circumstances, but let's be clear he cooperated with including the Knights Radiant into a feudal structure. This is putting Kaladin onto a pedestal for altruism. Let me make one thing clear. Moash had every right to kill Elhokar. You may say that then he should not have sworn to protect him. Fair enough. But if you disagree about his basic right to avenge his grandparents then I am afraid there is no point in continuing. That is fair to say. You say that because you are not a Singer. Let me put it this way. You are judging Kaladin and Moash by different standards. Yes, it is clear that Moash did bad things and more and worse bad things than many others. That does not mean that his basic motivation was unjustified.

I am afraid you are equating being the government with total control. People could still have guilds and stuff. Again. Government does not imply law. In fact the idea that law is something man-made and subject to the government's decisions is not universal. In fact I would find that unusual in a culture whose god is a provable fact. I suspect that they have a core of laws set by Spook or even to be found in the Words of Founding. In fact they even contain political statements going back to Kelsier. If you equate this with war, yes. Debatable. People often resent a rule simply for being too long and may have rejected such a ruler's principles just for being his. 300 years is a time long enough for quite some history and the attitude of veneration they have for Spook now may not have been universal at the end of his rule and what they had then was probably not how they saw him in the first decades. That they are experiencing social unrest at the same time as intercity conflict points to technological change as main culprit, but that is far from definite. Parts of the Basin still seem to be essentially empty, going by the travel seen in Bands of Mourning. They are at a stage where natural resources may still be a prerequisite for wealth, but by themselves no longer generate it. The more you advance in technology the more skilled population and cities rather than mines and fields become sources of wealth. I am thinking that they are the police there. The idea that police and armed forces are distinct is very much non-universal. There has to be a neutral police force in cities because noble houses share them. But that applies only to cities. The assumption that such behavior would be illegal, shameful and hidden is probably wrong.

Now what exactly is a republic? The city of Elendel? For sure. The immediate area around Elendel? Maybe. Estates in the far outback? It was my understanding that the country holdings of a noble house are truly theirs. They are the government there. Right. Unfortunately we do not know the early history of the Basin under Spook. There is an area in between that, like one house doing raids on another house's mines or transports. It looks to me like they are in that paramilitary range. But did councils already existed under Spook? Or making its control more important. Before railways trade just was more expensive and thus less in volume and worth. For war between cities, yes. For war between houses, no.

Culturally they are a nation. They share language, currency, ideology and religion. They also have family estates and stuff. House Tekiel had true armed forces mentioned in Alloy of Law If I play armchair strategist, then I have to say that before railroads Elendel is invincible. It sits on the mouth of the only major river.

Stoneshaping taken to extremes should be able to create a volcano.

OK, I am afraid I do not get it. Under the assumption that the whole accident was fake, I wonder what was Edwarn's reason for killing Hinston? Given the amount of trouble Waxillium has caused the Set, why not leave Hinston alive?

But how different? Waxillium's father was Edwarn's younger brother, wasn't he?

How shall I put this? Human attitudes are quite variable. You could be a hard core socialist and see Moash as the only member of Bridge 4 who did not sell out to the aristocracy. Mind you, it is not a position I would hold, but if you have a highly skewed perception, there is a kernel of truth to this. Kaladin is now technically a feudal lord with command over people who are not allowed to leave his lands. Moash stood up for slaves and eagerly accepts hard labour. No. Simply no. Moash is a man who fought for his revenge. Who fought slavers, who could just have ended him then and there. He is not weak. He may be beaten, but everybody can be beaten, if too many things go wrong. That does not make him weak. There are things you can say like that he is treating a friend with a mental illness in an inexcuseable way, but he is neither weak nor a coward.

Right. Wayne chose a relation that would not inherit. The problem is his exact wording. Yes. There are systems on Earth which do not obey this rule, but that is immaterial. Edwarn had no children. Inheritance has to go into the collateral line through or to a sibling of Edwarn's. Yes. I think we can rule that out. No. I am afraid not. This is Wayne speaking to a third party, who who not know that. The remark is supposed to create familiarity. It must not seem strange.

Indeed. But why does he have to mention that? Now he could be the third brother on the father's side. But, let me quote it: Wayne is a decade younger than Waxillium. However good his disguise was, he still will not be an older brother of a man who has had a son of over forty years of age now. By age Waxillim's father must have been the older brother by a considerable gap under that premise. The implication of his explanation is that a brother on the other side would have inherited.

The are not a single nation in a political sense. Each city is independent. We are also shown that the Elendel constablury has access to military weapons. One noble house against another house. The nobles have troops. The Northern Scadrians take the notion of aristocracy seriously. They are not just rich people with old-fashioned titles for show. They rule. Up to including having armed forces of their own. The Basin is not a democracy. Again Scadrial is an analog of Earth, not the Western World.

Unfortunately again Paalm pretty much disproves that. She made new spikes. And if it took special metal minds only the Lord Ruler had, she would have lacked them. The victim Waxillium and Wayne found had no indication of anything but the standard hemalurgical spike through the heart. By Intent. You must mean to create a Kandra when you spike the donor or the Mistwraith.

On a second glance, something strikes me as odd. When Wayne impersonates Waxillium's uncle, he makes it clear that he did not inherit the title because he is a maternal uncle. This is interesting linguistically, but it is also very odd in terms of inheritance of titles if we go by European standards. As far as Europe has accepted primogeniture at all, the title always advances into later generations, tht is the third child and his or her children inherit only if the first and second child and all their descendants are dead. I cannot help but interpret Wayne to mean that this is not the case in the Basin, as Waxillium would either inherit anyway regardless of younger brothers of his uncle or not at all. Does this mean that titles will always go to the closest relative genetically speaking (genetically your brother is like your son and your nephew is like your grandson - leaving aside female inheritance as a separate issue for now). What does that mean for family structures? How common are nephews murdering their uncles on Northern Scadrial?

Somebody who took a statistics class and knows how to make a neutral poll. He agreed with him going ahead to do a capital crime. Technically that is not an oath. Nevertheless, it is his word.