Oltux72

I read that to say that all spores react to water the way they react is specific to the type of spore - Verdant turns into vines (hence the name presumably) That is the big question here. Do they react to all non-salty water that way or does it need to be in connection with a living organism? Is the Verdant ocean covered in vines after every rain? Raising the obvious question: is it related to an Unmade?

The things we do for a Sharingan... Isn't that what a Lerasium spike would do? It transfers everything.

(a lot of worlds) You can argue that every Shard has the potential, but needs to execute it only if local preexisting conditions already feature Spren or it loses control of its faculties. Just like every Shard can make Cognitive Shadows (indeed has no choice but to enable its holders to become one), but some make tens of thousands of them, others none.

The way you expect it to look.

The Kickstarter is running this month only.

The occasional slip. But Hoid is not a fool and has a lot of experience telling stories. He is not going to do honey, flax, whale, elephant seal ..., if those animals mean nothing to his listeners.

True, but they must exist on the planet of his audience.

There is also honey and flax and wheat. All unknown to Rosharans. And frankly if you suggested to a Rosharan to eat an insect's predigested vomit, you'll get a reaction to is incompatible with a compliment.

honey, hence honey bees scrambled eggs, hence domesticated birds - likely chickens Vines are usually matter. But you are right. (Aether of Night) There is also the matter of the dead grey spores. They stay behind. If they were Investiture, they ought to vanish when destroyed.

No. Scadrial itself has no moon. The Scadrian system contains planets with multiple moons. An educated Scadrian would understand the concept. Good points. That would imply Autonomy and the Aethers sharing a world. That seems counterautonomous. The spores remain after death by salt. That indicates that they are matter. Possibly extraordinarily Invested matter, but matter.

Yes. These people, however, have 87 uses for plywood. Wood must be cheap. Hence it must rain at least in a lot of places. What happens to the activated spores?

The young man uses a variant of his name as an alias. And Tress/Glorf refers to that scheme later in the story. If Hoid were to use the original pair of names, he'd risk that his listener would not get the connection. Hence he substitutes the real name with something the listener knows. Probably Tress is not called literally "Tress" but in equivalent in her own language. It seems to me that we are looking at steam engines they use to operate equipment presumably over a system of belts and shafts. So what happens if you just pour water over spores?

And you do not consider the likely audience somebody who has to deal with aethers for the first time and gets, willing or not, the background story? EDIT: OK, here is the wild speculation. Hoid has to make sure his ally Harmony does not collapse on him. So he is on Scadrial during The Lost Metal. Marasi meets the military section of the Ghostbloods wielding Amberite. He tells her the story of the aethers.

You'd have to assume considerable internal strength. And that means the absolutely have to be geosynchronous or the earthquakes will pulverize the planetary crust, if the moons weigh anything at all. I'll go as far as saying that nothing that obeys Euclidean geometry can have that. Though I think we even have the answer in Warbreaker and Rhythm of War. That much Investiture does odd things to light and perception. The picture of the moons you see is not real. Meaning that if we want the true sizes of these objects we need to time the solar eclipses (or in theory stellar eclipses) and calculate the height of the geostationary orbit from the planetary mass and day length.

Now that I think about it, there's another issue with an object filling 1/3 of the sky. The climate would be horrible. In fact we get the indication. An object that fills a third of the sky by area has to have a radiuseven larger. The areas under the moons would be in darkness half the day.

And that is exactly the issue. You are sitting in an ocean of spores you can turn into compostable matter just by spitting on it. Why do you bother with the ships?

One thing more. If you are on an island so deficient in fertile soil that you make compost piles, wouldn't you be happy about spores that can be turned into vegetable matter for compost just by spitting or urinating on?

It seems all spores react to water and getting them onto your inner membranes can cause bad things like blocking your airways. So you should always guard your airways and eyes. The obvious way to do so would be goggles and masks. But why do you want to inactivate the spores? Your food and drink is wet. What is the point of putting salt into it? If a spore of Verdant sprouts, you can still pick it out of your dinner or drink and all is well. Lets look at the exact text: The conclusion to which I am pushed tortures the text quite a bit. They sprout explosively, but not immediately. So you get spores into your drink and you turn into a bush minutes later. Or do we get told here that it is water inside a human body that causes the sprouting, not just any water? Or does he tell us that salt and silver also kill vines already sprouted?

True and there we know that Autonomy cracked down and isolated the planet. What has happened here?

Makes sense, but opens another can of worms. It means that this story needs to be very early. Iri is one of the Silver Kingdoms. And these people have cannons and powered machinery at that point, What has happened to them? Are they cut off due to the lack of a perpendicularity? Then whence did Mraize get his aether and how did Hoid get there?

The cup my use some form of symbolism. Then interpretation is hopeless. Hence we must assume that it indeed depicts the part of the dry ocean that is filled with red spores. The "emerald" spores become vines when wetted. So the easy interpretation of the picture is that the red spores become a butterfly when exposed to water. This contains an assumption. Are we sure that there is only one group of Iriali? That is are they necessarily descendants or ancestors of the Iriali found on Roshar at the time of Stormlight Archive?

Rethinking this I have changed my position, based on Dan Wells not being mentioned on the title and him not taking part in the video. I now think it is set in the Reckonerverse.

The sea is red. The simplest explanation would be that the butterfly is an aether.

I was under the impression that one and only one of the stories would be a romance. It turns out that TOTES is the romance. Going by the covers I was convinced that SP#3 is the romance. So if SP#3 is not the Cosmere's Romeo and Juliett, what is it?

The "fish" were affordable to lowly mineworkers on a godforsaken island and available in bulk quantities. They also were not all that well preserved and losing a whole vat of them was not a catastrophe to be prevented at all cost. That does sound like local catch to me.