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    Apparently I was talking in part to a physician. If my explanations were a bit on the ridiculous level and unneeded, my apologies. I approached them from a chemical view point and tried to simplify them as much as I could. I think that at least all of the metals in the temporal quadrant are there for a good reason. They are in a way temporal manipulation. You undo a part of the present while you store; the part then being having breathed, eaten or drunk or being healthy, which you then use again to do a limited and partial manipulation of the timeline when you tap. But, that feruchemical cadmium usually stores indeed full acts of breathing, does not preclude that a skilled feruchemist could tap it in a more restricted manner to only oxygenate his blood and/or remove carbon dioxide without physically moving gas in and out of his lungs, thus avoiding other side effects of breathing, like a loss of water.
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    But you would not exhale. This needs a bit of physical chemistry and anatomy. Your lungs work passively by diffusion, because you are a mammal. Your blood flows around little sacks of air until the concentration of those gases in your blood are equal to the partial pressure in your lungs divided by solubility. Theoretically your body could add so much CO2 to your body fluids that you generate bubbles, but you'd be dead a long time before that. That will not work. We need to go into organic chemistry. Oxidation of a molecule of sugar: C6H12O6 + 6 O2 -> 6 CO2 + 6 H2O All good, so far, as get as many moecules of carbon dioxide as you put in molecules of oxygen But now lets go to a fatty acid: C18H36O2 + 35 O2 -> 18 CO2 + 18 H2O Not good at all. Each cycle just about halves the amount of oxygen available.
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    With Soulcasting? Why would Shallan care about some stranger who fought her father? It doesn't. But there is no other indication that exchange refered to that kind of exchange. And Pattern would care or know about that, why? After Sylphrena acting like a dummy in the PR for a full book. Unbonded spren in the PR eventually loses their cognitive abilities. That is not mental illness, which Shallan was referring to. Well, how about she asked Pattern a few questions about the nature of the Nahel? That is sort of what people do when they start a symbiotic relationship with an extradimensional incorporal entity.
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    That would not work, as the gas in your lungs would get saturated with CO2 to the level of your blood and you'd die from your blood chemistry getting out of whack. Even if you kept breathing you still could not do well without oxygen in your air. Your lungs would reverse and oxygenate the air. I am afraid we have to resort to something more complex. (Sel)
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    Spren need a bond to stay sapient in the PR. I am afraid you are overinterpreting that line.
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    What would allow us to presume that he was aware of all his abilities? He had not been given an introduction or a handbook.
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    You need to go full out. What happens if Renarin takes a dun sphere and sings the Song of Prayer?
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    Yes. Nut that tells us that they are shaped by their own wishes, not an external standard.
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    Tanavast may just mean "Head of House Avast" and he is from a culture that drops given names for somebody in that position.
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    This being based on Polynesian, the conservative assumption that the apostrophe represents a glottal stop. That is ua and u'a are potentially different words. There is also a t, but no d. That is highly interesting, as the system is asymmetric. There is a contrast betwenn p and b, but there is no g to contrast to the k. It may be a palatal fricative, too. If it were an s, why not just write that? No, we do not know that. These may be compound words, not suffixes. And that is important. It may just be "mind" and we have a classical compound here. No, we cannot. In fact the scant evidence we have is against it. There seems to be no difference between "Horneater" and "Horneaters" Debatable. We may also have a case where the Horneaters do not get why it is sometimes supposed to be "he", "it" or "she". Yes
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    She is Autonomy, not Liberty. Stalin's Soviet Union was pretty autonomous. It for sure wasn't free. You need to make up your mind. Freedom and equality are distinct concepts. They may come into conflict. Harmony is a bit like Star Trek's Prime Directive. Freedom of choice without shelter of the consequences. If freedom leads to Empire, so be it. Harmony has made his choice. If it is freedom versus equality, he will go for freedom. Are you implying that Trell is a part of Harmony's Ruinous side that is outside his conscious control?
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    No, I am sorry, but that is a hard No. The Cognitive Realm shortens distances between planets. It does not shorten horizontal distances within planets. You'd still have to cross hundreds to thousands of kilometers on land and a trip through the sea of beads. Refugees are not going to walk that far. In fact anybody who does not know the technique for condensing water will perish. They are no longer in their original bodies. If Ashynite magic requires a physical symbiont, they have lost it. The Eila Stele is very clear on them having an Invested Art. The Voortrekers defeated the Zulu. Australia was conquered without issues.
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    Because they just developed, installed and used devices or techniques for interplanetary travel of large numbers of people and livestock. And go like a hot knife through butter through anything pre bronze age. He got them. That is the point.
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    Not really. If and only if you assume comparable levels of development. And that is unlikely. A small difference in time can make an extreme difference. Compare our Earth in 1900 against the same planet in 2000. For most cultures a global advantage in numbers is fairly useless. They lack the capacity to transport and supply troops at that magnitude. How many men did Cortez and Pizzaro have? Some of the Heralds had fought each other. If you have the power to wreck a planet, even a small share of your power will make you superior to less developed and less tested in war natives.
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    Do we know anything about how to dissolve a marriage under Vorinist doctrine? In particular, can you do so at all by default? They are all about oaths and if you swear "as long as we live" I suppose they mean it. In particular did Lin Davar something actually illegal to his second wife or is killing an absconding spouse something a Vorinist noble is allowed to do?
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    They could have bought them. The Kandra were incredibly wealthy. And not stupid. So they eventually concluded that they and the Koloss were basically created by the same technology. That does not mean that they know how precisely it needs to be done. He was in a bind. He had not recorded the original orbit. And what if he moved the planet back and the Deepness came back a few months later and he had no more well? We do not know when he fully understood the conflict between Preservation and Ruin. In fact, did he? Indeed. You may find an island that has a few left. But in general? I am afraid a hyena is as good, if not better a scavenger than a Mistwraith and they are subject to evolution. If they are outcompeted in their niche, they will die out.
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    He does not need one. They had years. All he needs is fighters. We must drop the illusion that people want peace. That is a very conditional thing. A successful warrior does not invariably want to go back to the farm. It is not enough to say that they had enough land. Just the availability of slaves is a potential motivation. And they wrecked a planet. Those were the survivors. The bad fighters had been weeded out. Not necessarily. We have no idea about the organizational level the Singers had developed. We may be looking at a scenario like early colonial North America or Viking raiders. Just replace firearms with Surges in that former scenario. We know that there was a conflict. Strictly speaking we do not know that the planetary devastation was a direct consequence of war. In fact we may have inverted cause and effect. But ... does it matter?
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    The theory is good. In fact, too good. If he is good enough at pretending, how do you tell the difference?
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    The goal was not met. Such a person would have just killed Kaladin. Nor written the letter to Restares.
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    I don't think you are interpreting refugees correctly in this case. Those were war bands and leaders who escaped together with camp followers and their entourages. They were very much ready for war. War was their profession. The idea that the armed forces are to serve the general population is pretty modern. Now, the big question, did Honor and Cultivation let them in while they still were loyal to Odium or did they have to renounce him?
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    To be brutally honest, the first two books of SA are a kind of prelude. Who really still cares about who cut Elhokar's saddle or Shallan's shipwreck or the Diagramm or House Sadeas? These story lines were strictly speaking not part of the core plot. Stormlight Archive is a war book. The real war starts, if you will, when the Alethi march on Narak. If Brandon had written a third book of that kind, we would start to ask when something fundamental happens. If you, to bring another example, set a book at the beginning of the 1940ies in the USA, Pearl Harbor will have to come eventually and it will alter the story. The observation is correct, though I do not share the conclusion. For the record Oathbringer is my favorite book in the series so far. I'd say that RoW repurposed the flashbacks from a device that explains a character, which, in my mind indisputably so, found its summit in Dalinar's flashbacks, to a background plot line introducing Odium's strategy and mysterious outside forces. And that, yes, is a weak point of the latest book. Absolutely.
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    Frankly, it irks me. I already paid for three physical volumes.
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    In Alethkar you kill your enemies. If that case were handled in court, it is really uncertain whether there would be a guilty verdict. And one more thing. Dalinar is a Bondsmith, not a Skybreaker or Truthwatcher. He must preserve unity among the coalition and the Alethi. Sweeping that affair under a rug is arguably his duty.
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    We must assume that things incorporated in you body counts as your body. Otherwise it is hard to see how a feruchemist would breathe. The gas inside your lungs would have to be extremely compressed to inflate your lungs.
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    I am afraid that you can get faster by storing while pushing yourself away from something even if you push sideways rules out that explanation. And that you break through the floor tapping enough rules out the other explanation. I think, we need to resort to Feruchemy working with alternate realities to an extent. You are heavier to the rest of the world, but not to yourself. What yourself is is determined by CR representation. That such concepts exist is more or less shown by allomantic gold.
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