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I am afraid I need to point that the very first event Sigzil witnessed on that world was a mass execution. That was followed by gladiatorial combat. I have a problem combining that with general nonviolence. There are nonviolent people, but as a general trait?

That raises three questions What do they want him for? Where is Jasnah? Under those circumstances I would have expected Sigzil to suffer ... an unfortunate, inexplicable accident. Even the 17th Shard identified Roshar as the place he is at. Why do they need to trace Sigzil? That does not help. Hoid may have those powers because he held a Dawnshard. Now there is a good reason to think that one would not send out something as valuable as a Dawnshard. But then who bears it? Or will it be used up in SA 5?

Witness statements are problematic. I am afraid we cannot draw that conclusion, as we do not know the state of affairs when Sigzil left Roshar. Roshar may just have exploded after he was already gone. Even Hoid is likely Invested enoug to become a Cognitive Shadow, if he so chose. In theory. What do we know: Sigzil is alive He interacted with a Dawnshard He is no longer a Windrunner Anyting else is basically conjecture. Sigzil is most likely guided by Fortune. The likelihood of appearing at an execution site in use right as the sun is about to rise by chance is essentially zero.

If he keeps going to new planets. And that may be rare. For all we know, most of the Cosmere may just not matter to him.

The problem is that metals have universal properties. Hence we cannot rule out that, if they are using brass, they are using it for the same reason it is used in feruchemy in that way, instead of them using feruchemy.

So you think the plants they are growing are not native?

What is the fundamental distinction between a Cognitive Shadow and a spren or seon? It is historic, isn't it? The Shadow is Investiture shaped by a previously existing full soul. The others aren't. But is that a distinction that is more fundamental than the difference between a spren, a seon or a skaze? They are all sentient or sapient pieces of Investiture. Investiture can be turned into metal,

You still need a reductive agent. Smelting ores is not just heating stuff up. It is a chemical reaction. Why not dig new caves? You could do it over multiple days. And yes, the plants may not grow ther, but then you need to send out expeditions and that raises the question why they wish to go under ground into predug Scadrian caves.

Like the White Sand Raboniel and Navani used? Like the birthplace of a member of the 17th Shard just on Roshar?

There a dozen's of inhabitated worlds. Most should have considerable inhabitated areas. And he just happens to meet Kaladin on a random flying city? We actually do not know whose Scadrian writing Sigzil recognized, north or south. We have no idea of the technology of South Scadrial other than that they can build airships in large numbers. Based on this: Some people who knew him must be alive on Roshar. So within 80 years after SA 5

You have opened the next can of worms. How would they smelt the ores? I cannot see a coal swamp developing on a world like that. I am afraid we must answer that question by saying that they do not have mines for reasons unknown. So do they have soulcasters? Eathquakes? Are we sure the rings belong to the world itself? May we be looking at a gas giant's moon?

Actually, no. The Nightmares are much more aware of their environment and do not obey arbitrary rules. They are basically predators made from Investiture.

I didn't catch it the first three times. But at the fourth time it hit me. How can they possibly have wood? We have a biologist, but for now I am playing one. Wood is basically cellulosis and lignin. Cellulosis is biochemically speaking a sugar. Wood is considerable investment of energy. And plant form it to outcompete other plants for light and to last. But that makes no sense. The plants Sigzil observed lasted a few hours at most. What are they doing with wood? Whence did the refugee Threnodites get enough wood to casually waste it on temporary construction? @drunkenbotanist Invoking our biologist

But not necessarily convinced by foreigners that their terms are the right terms.

As far as we know the universe contains truly random events like radioactive decay which happens when it happens without a cause strictly speaking. Einstein did not like it, but he never could didprove it. That does not mean that it is true though. The universe may be meaningless. We must not engage in wishful thinking.

Well, no. That just tells you that Auxillary is something Rosharans would call a spren, and nothing about the personal identity of that spren. A Rosharan would call a seon or a spirit of Yumi's world a spren for sure. And even if it is a Rosharan spren, it cannot be his unaltered Honorspren. He can't fly but he can do other odd things.

Hoid confirms faynlife to be pre-shattering We have a new Vax! What is the "world of caverns" Hoid confirms that he is native to Yolen flying cities are common in the Cosmere Ashyn is still populated

No. Then he would not call Sigzil a squire. Note that Auxillary uses and controls the Invested arts, like a Knight Radiant. Sigzil just gets benefits from being very Invested.

That raises a point. How come that they don't know? So nobofy on Roshar is telling stories about how the Windrunner Sigzil took up the Dawnshard from the dawn of legends and stopped Odium, saving everybody? How is that possible? Sigzil and Wit secretly saved Roshar?

That is the full quote. Sigzil talked about oaths. Auxillary does not know about them. As whatever will have happened in SA 5 may have damaged a spren's mind, you cannot use that to say that Auxillary is not a radiant spren. But not knowing the oaths surely does not support the theory.

The Ire guarded their fortress specifically against Trenodite Cognitive Shadows and a guard mistook Kelsier for one of them.

Sigzil uses "shade" to refer specifically to Threnodite shades. And he may have come to the conclusion that Roshar is right in their terminology. The Threnodites did useful things with them, as we saw in Secret History Maybe I should have listed the clues in the story: Snarky implacitation: That was me, you dolt. Hesitation. Sigzil is going for a touchy subject.

Threnodites have gotten off planet. When? How often? The ability to turn into a Cognitive Shadow is genetic among them. Ambition's wound did not just change Threnody. It has changed the Threnodites, like Ruin and Preservation have altered the Scadrians. They are the only people on the planet. In fact they are so monocultural that they have forgotten that other languages exist. Centuries therefore.

We are talking about Rosharans. Their usage of the term spren is extensive. This raises a possibility. And it would explain why Sigzil is a squire and Auxillary the knight. Is Sigzil bonded to a Cognitive Shadow, specifically a Knight Radiant's Cognitive Shadow?

If he had gotten the Dawnshard from Rysn we should assume that the restrictions the Sleepless applied to her would also apply to Sigzil.