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The spikes also make them stupid, amnesiac and impulsive. It is hard to argue that one aspect of the change is clearly major and the other aspects are minor side effects. So that neat categorization fails. The assumption that spikes from other quadrants wouldn't show varied effects rests on extremely shaky grounds. The only thing that we can tell with some confidence is that a certain intended effect will happen, as the Koloss indeed get stronger, but it is impossible to us to say that something else will not happen.

You mean the woman who picks a fight with an interstellar mafia boss and gets skewered through the chest? Or who thinks that it is a good idea to antagonize every slave owner among her allies in the middle of a war? Or who makes large parts of the nobility and the church detest her rule? Who happily aided the man who wanted to sacrifice her and her whole family? Now from her view point she made the experience that she alone knew best for the simple reason that she saw the truth nobody else could see. And we can take that absolutely literally thanks to her mastery of Soulcasting. Granted most of her failures take place off screen or are building up for the future. Though that means saying that Words of Radiance and Oathbringer were too short. You see the problem? Secondly she seems so good because many of the things she advocates and works for are building blocks of enlightenment, which are accepted unquestioned as good without regard for any other consideration.

You can do stuff. You can condense water from the air. You can pipe the Dor. The apocryphal works have magic systems that can make food. It is possible to live in the CR. But if and only if you have specific knowledge and equipment. You need to be scholars and engineers. You can run caravans made from lifeless animals.

Familiar to whom? I guess being in Europe 60 degrees north is not that extreme. OK, there is two more things (rather assumptions - sorry about going for absurd stuff, but unconcious assumption are most trouble.) I can come up with Do we know for sure the older map is oriented with a pole upwards? Did Sazed rotate continents? Yes we have directions from a map of Luthadel, but does that convey absolute direction? Projection. I admit it is a long time since I did spherical geometry, but we project our maps so that the true east west distance is correct at the equator, don't we? As far as I understand this is pure convention and any great circle would do. Is it possible that Scadrians are egocentrical enough to use Luthadel and Elendel respectively? Right. Sorry, I went into mentally strange territories.

What they are using is confusing. We have indications of both number bases 16 and 10. If you care about subdividing a larger unit. I really doubt that you talked a lot about things like 1/3 of a year. Again I have to point out that until a dozen or so million years ago Antarctica was forested. Now, you are raising another issue. What justifies the assumption that Scadrians put degrees on maps? How can we know that they don't number their maps like in units of 256 times of a unit of length?

In preindustrial economies the share of income average people spend on food is larger.

We have this cultural factor of having 12 months in a year, which Scadrial lacking a moon does not have. So I'd say the next obvious number after 256 is 160. And I'd rather take mountains, rivers or interior seas for matching. Scadrial had nasty tsunamis at teh Catacendre, so I'd expect the coastlines to be least stable. And of course to us a circle is a circle. To a Scadrian a spinning circle may be a different thing to a static circle, though I think that this is an assumption you must make. And while we are at it, you need not start counting at the pole or the equator. It is possible that they consider the southern hemisphere empty and of theoretical interest only, so they start counting midway between poles and equator, or even at the arctic circle or the tropics of cancer. Winters are reported to be mild in Elendel. Though it is right at a coast, but if anything this points to less axial tilt. And secondly even the Earth's axial tilt is not constant. And while we are at that, there is an obvious glaring gap in Scadrial's terrestiality. It has no moon. So the applicability to astronomy is patchy. Though the basin has snow on a rare but regular basis. I don't think that you'd find a good fit for a terrestial planet with our axial tilt and regular snow in the tropics. But a condition with little snow even in the polar regions is not unusual for Earth. Even a Scadrial that is very earthlike can be different to our Earth, as we are currently in an ice age. You can make the argument that Scadrial is closer to a typical Earth than our planet at this time.

After you have prepared. Investiture you do not have. No Highstorms in Shadesmar. And they still need water. Well, no. Soulcaster fabrials revert to spren form in Shadesmar. Human soulcasters are pretty rare. A few hundred on a whole planet. And they need Stormlight and gem stones. Neither of which is readily available in Sadesmar. Exactly, on Roshar. Within the time they'd need it before they run out of water they can carry? Look at the expedition in Rhythm of War. It took them quite a lot of the world's human Soulcasters, local help and ships, yet they still are running out of supplies after a few weeks.

On what would you survive? You absolutely need water food Neither exists in Shadesmar. The voyage in Oathbringer was extremely instructive. Had they not met Riino they would have died within days.

Yes, but that does not mean that this is a solution that is open to refugees from preindustrial lands without much infrastructure. Trained and properly equipped people have crossed Antarctica on foot. That doesn't mean that normal people can do so.

The first death rattle sounds rather like the firing of the weapon that created the Shattered Plains to me. How would significant numbers of people exist in Shadesmar? They wouldn't even have water. For normal, unprepared people Shadesmar means death.

Do we actually? I would interpret the launch of the escape pod in Bands of Mourning as the Feruchemy always being enabled and only the Allomancy needing a starter cube.

Snapshot is thoroughly horrifying. Imagine seeing the medal and knowing that you are a doomed simulation. Switching that machine off is basically genocide.

How real is the illumination in Shadesmar? The sun is described as cold. Does that mean that the ability to see in Shadesmar is a cognitive process, not a physical one, that is the light does not carry energy? Could you run photovoltaics in Shadesmar do photosynthesis run a solar destillery operate a film camera operate a CCD camera

Moreover the question may not have an objective answer. It is true that in the Cosmere, living beings have a part that goes to the Beyond upon the second death, but equating this to personal identity is as far as we know arbitrary.

On a related note, let's call on the great theoretician @Argent on the question of Identity. Feruchemical iron is used differently in Southern Scadrian technology in that Investiture isn't tapped but stored. That raises a questions. Whose Identity is Investiture equivalent to the stored mass*time keyed to, if a machine stores it? Obvious possibilities the Feruchemist who made the machine the Feruchemist who started it for the first time it changes on every restart nobody, it is anonymous What do you think?

I am afraid I have to point out that ship carry passengers.

But they do their job by tapping them. Ironminds are different. You use them by filling them while you are flying in an airship.

The map says "Canton of Cartography". This sounds very much like the Final Empire's terminology. It is safe to assume that it predates the discovey of all metals. Scadrial is not in an ice age and the poles at least the north pole are free ocean. You can expect temperate climate far further north. Using base-16 we should expect 256 degrees in a Scadrian circle.

Identity. The current user woukd surely be able to tap his or her stored mass, but nobody else's.

The medaillions the South Scadrians are using to lighten themselves while riding an airship convey normal iron feruchemy, don't they? People apparently do not need an extrametalmind when using them. So presumably the mass is stored in the medaillion. So a simple question. What do they do once those parts of medaillions are full? They can't just tap them, as they don't have the correct Identity. Can the medaillions easily be taken apart, the iron parts be replaced and melted down? Have they found a way to selectively wipe a metalmind? Or is the feruchemy granted by a medaillion different and generates an unkeyed metalmind?

That is, are they immortal in the same sense as the Heralds or will they age and eventually succumb to that and become disembodied spirits?

Uli Da was Sho-Del. Cultivation apparently is a dragon. I am afraid that is a fundamental mistake. Kelsier showed that the requirements for taking and holding are different things.

Brandon has stated that the "o" in Kholin is a closed vowel. So I pronounce Moash /moaʃ/. I am unsure about the stress.

But not every Investiture. Somebody got Nightblood, the Returned and Seons through the CR. There clearly is an unknown factor, presumably Identity and/or Connection.