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Future Scadrial most likely is a beautiful place to live in. It is just a horrible entity to be an enemy of or hindrance to. A military that gets you a mandatory court martial after six losses is hardly a sign of fascism. It isn't genetic. It is hereditary (mainly), but not genetic. That means that they'll have to resort to actual breeding. Now, people in the Cosmere will eventually try to do something to manipulate their sDNA. But, perversely Scadrians have less reason to do so. They can use good old breeding after all.

Honour crated them and they were aimed at Honour, not Odium. This seems to be what happens if a Shard attacks another Shard without knowing what they are doing.

As opposed to worlds where regularly 90% of the population die in war or its aftermath? Or where the underclass consists of slaves which are regularly culled in mass executions? Or worlds where deeply inhaling can kill you? Or worlds where religious fanatics use people as fuel for ritual magic? Brandon hasn't become bleaker. He just spreads the damage more evenly. What do you think the Herdazians thought about the Alethi? The life of average citizens has become better. You can buy a ticket to another world, albeit at a high expense. You can get feruchemical healing. You can get a job that doubles your life span. OK, I have to state something basic. Man is subject to conflicts. This planet has been living with nuclear deterrence for decades. In the last few decades some countries have turned to thinking that nuclear weapons no longer matter, but the general peace they guaranteed is for free. Nothing of that is true. If you do not introduce an equivalent of nuclear deterrence, you will continue war between the great powers. And that has a simple consequence. The strong give orders and the weak take orders. Nothing about this is new in the Cosmere. In Rathalas we saw what happens if they refuse the orders they are given. Brandon has just ceased cherry-picking stories.

Exactly. Though you are still not suspicious enough. We are looking for a spy for a southern continent ... Though they are obviously all spies. Where do you think Huio's cousins live? Obviously he is working for Sja-Anat.

Count the bells in his beard. They'll tell you which Shard he is working for.

I doubt it, for Scadrial has a Shard and exactly one Shard. The weaker side would be really pressed to ally with the Shard.

No storms - having the spren itself is no use if you cannot get it into your gemheart you need the spren that give you mate form, or your population is finished after one generation

Well, the sinister interpretation is obviously that they no longer exist. But benignly I doubt Singers can live off Roshar permanently. How would their offspring gain forms?

Presumably a Scadrian fighter could operate in it.

Human beings generally cannot regrow limbs. Yet this happens with feruchemical healing.

While that is true, why would them working together make the book necessarily better? I mean we are talking about a protagonist not necessarily known for extreme social skills. I think introducing the secret police was an attempt to salvage letting a fool run a base. It makes plausible, but does not really show, that on the Malwish side somebody is running a power play by giving an incompetent member of a rival faction ample rope to hang himself. But yes, Dajer came pretty close to ruining the book.

It may just mean that the subastrals of Vax and Scadrial look similar.

That precisely is the issue. The machines they use, use up prodigous amouts of Investiture. Under these circumstances, they should have used a rush of dolls to get through the tunel or have used other awakened tools. Also Breaths are probably the most useful personal form of Investiture. They include immortality as a fringe benefit. Articial Breaths should be at top demand. If you are fighting Scadrians, buying or developing weapons that circumvent feruchemical healing should be a top priority. How you would do so is an interesting question. Weaponized forgery? You rewrite the past so that the injury the weapon caused was always present.

Not over less than 400 years. Yes, it is entirely possible that any given person won't speak a languge. But an educated person will know that the language is basically known.

The issue is that making that claim makes only sense if it is remotely plausible. Hence they need to be at least rare. Or alternatively the Aethers wish to keep their cooperation with the Scadrians (or some Scadrians) a secret. We cannot know what of what we learn is misdirection and what is genuine.

This opens up quite some questions Why is nobody using Awakening? Can't they make Breaths for some reasons? Where is Invention's technology? It seems odd to me that the major tech branches come from Scadrial, Roshar, Sel and Nalthis. I would Invention to be a major sources of technology.

What do you count as spacefaring? Having their own FTL capability? It does not seem likely to me that a species would be represented in numbers in Silverlight, but having no ships travelling at least through Shadesmar.

Sorry, you cannot conclude that. The usage of the Aviars for security purposes may be old, older than firearms.

Why is their language unknown on Lumar then? I took that as a sign of him being highly Invested. They sent scouts to Patji. Those never returned. The map is a warning.

For the rational part of the readers: Of course the Iriali have an extreme amount of ethnic cohesion. All of them left Lumar, really everyboody. That is extraordinary, but seems to have ceased. Both developments need an explanation.

Yes, but not multiple centuries as one might expect from Earth's progress. The technology of the Dynamic is not that advanced. If we had Harmonium and aethers, we could do better.

This novel is highly connected to the rest of the Cosmere. That should allow conclusions on the timeline Captain Crow - this novel must be timed within a few decades after Tress Hoid is married. That is really new. So this means that IoftE is the youngest Huio is still alive and resides in Silverlight. Roshar must have opened up to the Cosmere soon after WaT. Soon here meaning a few decades.

Because, as her master had taught her, a series of questions could reveal a great deal about the questioner.

So you are saying that this refers to the specific structure of Cultivation's perpendicularity?

At a minimum Autonomy must know about Patji. She wouldn't sell the Ghostbloods Aviars, though.