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Dragons, Faynlife, the sea monsters of First of the Sun, the Ire's devices ... Why not the Aethers, too? It looks to me like our view of the Cosmere is skewed

That is possible, but it does not explain the market. Would you transport multiple barrels of a food that has to be imported from far away to a poor island? And would it be so common and cheap that a miner's daughter would be familiar with it?

Doe Kaladin fly around in flip-flops? While wearing a formal jacket? Have a look at the man's feet.

It will. Between the great powers. But why pay if taking is cheaper? We live in a world where a major war is surely costlier than the profits gained from conquest. But that is a specific feature of our economic and technological environment. It was not always so.

How so? You are referring to Old English as Old English because there is a Modern English. You woudn't call Sumerian "Old Sumerian". Yet the Iriali have vanished. As far as those people are aware there is no modern Iriali language.

Do Rosharans and Scadrians wear boots and other closed shoes? How about Nalthians?

That is literally true, but only because cannons are outdated muzzle-loaders by the time of Era 2. The battleships Bilming was building have breach-loading artillery. Scadrians definitely know what cannons are. And educated Scadrians also know what moons are. The gas giant in their stellar system has moons.

I see a lake. And by the reflections it is water in it. He is no longer on Glorf's planet. In the top right corner seems to be the Scar. Yet I cannot find the remarkable constelation of the four bright yellow stars in a deformed rectangle with the two white stars sticking out of them on the star chart. Any ideas?

Putting a character with a known backstory there shows that it is possible, doesn't it?

No. Ashyn's Invested Arts depend on infections. They are basically transferable. If Brandon introduces any power, this power will basically be available to the Rosharans as soon as the get to the point that they are exploring their stellar system.

I don't. But still anything he puts into canon now would have repercussions on SA 5 to SA 10, even if the novel is set in the past. And that applies most of all to the Invested Arts of Ashyn. And the character must be either killed off or whenever he or she acts anything learned or acquired on Ashyn must be put into continuity.

True but irrelevant to the Ghostbloods. They want portable Investiture. Stormlight is available but not portable. Hence it has to have an advantage over other perpendicularities, which must be availability. Sure. But why do they want Stormlight. Because you can get it into a gem. The Investiture in other perpendicularities may or may not have that issue. But in any case it is closer. Conclusion: you cannot get it into a gem by any means known and available to the Ghostbloods. They do have access to aluminium. It could be bought on Roshar even as Shallan was a child.

cheap, almost unlimited power (iron feruchemy implies that) perfect wireless communication (bronze allomancy) personal recreation devices - keeping it family friendly (emotional allomancy)

Living organisms on Earth have a density roughly like water around 1000 kg/m^3. Rock is about three times as dense. Terrestial planets as a whole are a bit denser because they have a compressed metal core. Most importantly, they must not be in orbit. We do not know whether the aethers employ an active mechanism to get the spores to the planet. For that work you'd have to put the moons insanely low. EDIT: Insanely low meas that you'd plung the area directly under the moon into night for a lot of the planetary day if we go with a moon covering a third of the sky. It would be more than a third of the energy being lost, as it would block the sun when it were straight up in the sky. We are talking about shielding about half the light. In order to get the places under the moons to a decent climate you'd have to bake the rest of the planet. The resulting winds would be insane. She'd be living in a permanent hurricane

The best way to approach some topics is a detailed look at the picture and its oddities. So @cosmere_play be notified, let's start with a description. Two people are depicted. They are floating withoutvisible support. One on the lower left (tentatively designated male henceforth); the other on the upper right (designated female). They are oriented in opposite directions. Behind them is a depiction of two bands or strips curling in at the tips, together but unconnected. The turquoise one is on top. Both are depicted from the front. They are looking at one another. They are both using their left hand to reach for the other twisting their bodies to increase their reach but not touching. Both stretch away their other arm the other way with the fingers of the hand spread. Both have hair agitated in a way consistent with wind blowing from the lower edge of the book or the observer or a direction in between. The female has hair reaching her poterior. Her hair has been styled to be of uniform length. The male has hair reaching about the middle of his shoulder blades. The man has his knees bend and his legs facing slightly backwards at the hip. The woman's legs are covered by her clothing. She is wearing a one piece gown with an extremely long lower part that would drag on the floor while walking. Her dress is swirling in a manner consisted with both of them spiraling away from the observer while being twirled around. Her sleeves extend down the arm up to the wrist and are tight. Their is a disk or a bun on the back of her head. The pectoral part of her gown seems to be somewhat loose, the rest is fitting her body closely. He is wearing pants and a long short covering the crotch of his pants without a collar. The shirt is closed with three buttons on the center line and leaves a long but narrow part of his chest exposed. Above that he is wearing a cross between a jacket and a vest without a possibility of closure at the front, too narrow to meet in the middle and long sleeves. His neck is visible and unadorned. No piece of his clothing has visible pockets. His jacket elongated split extensions on the back that would, if he were standing, end half way between his posterior and his knees. Both have uncovered hands. On his feet are very simple sandals kept on his feet only with a strap between his big toe and the rest of his toes and two straps attached to that strap at the upper end, curling back to the sole. The hind end of the soles extends a few centimeters behind his heel. Now enough of the description. They are both clearly in formal, impractical clothes, yet dancing in that gown looks very hard. The footwear is odd by our standards. The clothes do not look Rosharan nor Scadrian to me. Nalthis? Any ideas? I feel like I am missing something.

I am assuming you are talking about the fourth? Now, I want to believe this. Yet apart from the lights on the undersides of the objects, I must say that the upper sides don't really look different from their counterparts. Secondly from another perspective, Ashyn is accessible to the human inhabitants of Roshar now. Their spren do not pull them back and they have Elsecallers and people who can make temporary perpendicularities. It would need special explaining why they would not go their in the time between SA5 and SA6 or even during SA5. Hence Brandon would need to fit this into an already extensive canon. Thirdly, Ashyn is inside the Rosharan system. Brandon will put six more novels and presumably a lot of novellas there. Yet he said that this project was in danger of falling through the cracks. I cannot make that match up, as much as I want to.

If they taught you in school that the oxygen you breathe generally comes from trees, they were not telling the whole truth. Over half of it comes from cyanobacteria and algae in the oceans. And there is an obvious problems if you do not have oceans in the conventional sense. What could replace them? land plants - they require abundant rain. Where does the water come from? the spores being photosynthetic - that is possible. But - unless they generate their water by magical means, it must rain for that. The actual oxygen atoms in the air come from water consumed in photosynthesis something utterly alien - then why so terrestial a fauna? nothing - that is disturbingly plausible. The aethers may be a recent - meaning on the order of centuries - arrival and are killing the planet. That world is running out of oxygen, they just don't know it yet.

They may also have undersporic oceans, that is the lowest part of the planet could have live spores - dead spores - salt water as layers. He could but that does not solve the issue of rain without the water evaporating from oceans the fish and whales live in.

If you do that either the regular solar eclipses or the extreme apparent size due to a position very close to the planet go away. In that configuration, objects will be at the poles and at 30° north and south of the equator. But for a regular eclipses by objects so close, the sun needs to be close to the zenith. You cannot combine that with a terrestial axial tilt. Indeed. Every single feature of the moons Brandon has described is possible. But you cannot have them all and preserve Euclidean geometry. I also like the exaggeration explanation best, but that is personal preference.

This is Hoid, who has bonded a Spren. Meaning that after Oathbringer he hardly can speak to one listener only, unless it were Design.

The problem with that line of reasoning is that merely a human shape reduces the requirements for Awakening. That's why dolls are so popular as awakened servants. And what could have more of a human shape than a human body? Again many variables and too few examples.

Extremely plausible. These thoughts are correct but incomplete. Corpses are also uninvested. Yet they keep their natural color. But of course the natural color of a corpse need not be the one of the living organism, especially if it is Invested. I am afraid Invested living organisms, dead organisms and organisms destroyed by Investiture are three distinct categories. So we do not have enough examples.

What makes you think it died by Investiture? If it died so, probably yes, but there is no evidence for that at all. All we know is that the spores of Verdant change their color at death regardless of reason. All you can conclude from that is that you ought to look at either live aethers or live spores for such considerations.

It was most likely a dead aether. No way to know whether the color remained unchanged. Dead spores of Verdant change their color.

Suppose you are a Windrunner hovering in the air. Then suppose you lash yourself towards the horizon in a direction you want to go. Technically you are moving approximately tangentally to the planet if you aim for the horizon. Will that course eventually take you into space or does your Intent of going into a cardinal direction automatically adjust your lashing?