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I am referring strictly to the ability, not the intention or ethics. Can they? If so, how?

Sorry, this is a fundamental misunderstanding. The perpetuum mobile effect does not come from the propellers. That is peanuts. It comes from the ability to float at all. In short, put an airship on a spring and switch the lift thing on and off. Unlimited electrical power. That being based on feruchemy does not need fuel.

The Southerners use it to power huge airships. It seems to be feasible with little doubt. It did on our Earth at those technological levels. Los Angeles and London being the primary examples. Brandon subverting tropes is not exactly rare. That is certainly the most straightforward explanation, but it is still possible that Scadrial has coal, but no oil and gas. Or Harmony put the oil outside the Basin, but did not forsee that those lazy slugs would run their cars on vegetable oils.

Shards show some interest in foreign star systems. Harmony runs a secret service. For the others we do not fully know, but there is a Shard that likes to do things semipersonally. In fact splitpersonally. Now there have long been assumptions by a process of elimination that Trell is an avatar of Autonomy. Trell was present on classical Scadrial already. Do we really believe that Autonomy placed a sleeper on Scadrial centuries before the action began, but did nothing on Roshar? I doubt that. So who is the agent? I have a hunch: Sixteen. No supplies, no wastes, no company. He lived kind of autonomously.

But Trell was present on Scadrial before The Lord Ruler took power. He features in legends. Yes, he probably expected to head home and be reassigned soon or to seek a new world on his own, depending on whatever exactly he be and operate, but he would not miss the interesting part after centuries of boredom, would he?

May I suggest you reask this in the generic Cosmere section, if you are ready for full spoilers? Any further answer would be a sequence of spoiler spaces.

They are gaining the technological base for mechanical allomancy and feruchemy. Iron feruchemy gives you a perpetuum mobile. There is just no way around that. You do not build your houses with chimneys and other facilities for using coal, oil or gas, while you have essentially free electricity. That is a question of cost. We do not know how this scales to smaller plants, so the cars may still run on fuel. And some metalurgic and chemical uses still need coal. You may see pollution, but not on a level of comparable times on Earth. And it will be concentrated in industrial areas. Think Ruhr Valley rather than Los Angeles smog or London killer fog.

If you think about the technological progress Scadrial is making, something is odd. Harmony is a Shard. Hence he has Futuresight. How can the lack of technological progress the Scadrians are showing surprise him and how can he be unsure of the cause? It is of course possible that the Catacendre was so dire that he had to make the basin so fertile, lest the Scadrians die out, but he still would have known the drawbacks of this option. This seems almost like his Futuresight had been blocked. We know that Trell is concerned about the technological progress on Scadrial. So, must we assume that Trell was already trying to predict Scadrian technology during the time of the Catacendre?

Hero of Ages, chapter 26 People are looking only at the books of the era they are discussing. I am not surprised. Spook has forbidden planting anything but fruit trees in Elendel. Can you square that with using a field that could grow food for growing fuel?

Spook met coal miners in Urteau. The trains of the Elendel Basin run on coal, not liquid fuel. Wax is fighting on fuel tenders. Now, the motor cars may be operating on liquid fuels, but they are a minimal share of the energy usage on current Scadrial. Most likely they use most of their energy on heating and hot water. And that is done with coal (or gas made from coal). That is how things are done at such tech levels. The advantage of being pumpable that liquid fuels have is much lower, while manual labor is still cheap and also apply to gas for stationary applications. And the Northern Scadrians seem to have an ideological issue with burning food, which is what biofuel is directly or indirectly doing.

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Allomancer Jak is roughly contemporary to Wax and Wayne. Nicelle Sauvage was only mentioned in the broadsheets. But when exactly did those events happen? I think we can conclude from Jak's story that it and Bands of Mourning cannot coincide. Any clues about the timing?

It could, but the likelier explanation is an unsealed coppermind recording only voice. And we may wonder what owning a ghost gun or its magazine like in the Ghastly Gondola may feel like.

Whom did he record it for, then?

Looking at this a second time, it seems to me that we can conclude that Leras used a number system based on ten in his native language.

They almost exclusively run on coal. Even the Final Empire already had coal mines. All those highrises in Elendel mean a lot of steel. They may, however, convert to electrical power sooner than our Earth. Southern technology opens up the possibility.

Forgive me for saying so, but that looks almost like a contradiction to me. We know that the phenomen of deadeyes was new. They could not even have known that there was a connection left, let alone known how to break it, nor would they have known how to deal with a surprising utterly new phenomenon without discussion.

In classical Hoid fashion I am afraid we must assume that he does not know himself. The events, yes. The depiction, no. In my personal opinion Ms. Nicelle's father was a member of a secret organization.

Featherstone Keep If you follow that thought you are saying that the Radiants who dropped their Blades during the Recreance let all those people kill each other.

This is one of the things I do not understand. Why would she need training? She deadeyed Testament. That should lead to an immediate manifestation until you affix a gemstone.

No, no, no ... The Connection works on Brandon in the Sandercave under Castle Mistskull when he stops surpressing his Breaths and starts creating inverted rainbows and starts channeling the Cosmere through his Dragonsteel sword.

Kelsier is worling to make the Cosmere a freer place. Whom does Hoid want to determine the fate of the Cosmere - a coalition of Shards reigning in divibe wisdom. Kelsier wanted only volunteers in his crew. He gave Vin oodles of money. He let Clubs just walk away. Kelsier is the champion of freedom. And he treats you like a human being who deserves to make his own choices. Harmony simply let Waxilium shoot his wife and kept him in the dark. Yes, he is not into non-violent solutions nor into humility. I am taking the liberty to go back to ancient history. The ancient playwright Aischylos was a famous author. What was the inscription on his gravestone? That he fought at Marathon. In a place where Shards routinely inflict death rates in excess of 90% you want him to mellow out? How to put this, are you sure that is a good idea? What do you think will happen to the planet which is home to the majority of Odium's supporters if this war Hoid is organizing will start in earnest?

Because there may be nothing nothing in the beyond even if there is it is unclear what relevancy it has the Beyond may just be a fancy name for death and emptiness. The shards of Adonalsium exist in a special realm, are to an extent independent of time and space, have higher forms of perception and understanding and are powerful enough to ceate worlds. You may obviously personally insist on omnipotence. But that is a personal preference. For practical purposes they pretty much qualify.

They do not know the language they are speaking. The Heralds coming back and spending the first few months learning the modern language would not work. Likewise Ulim could hardly learn an unknown language in advance. Hence they are likely using some form of Connection, which connects them to the present time of the land of the people they are speaking to.

I am not saying that he was a saint. He murdered servants. Though again, we do not have his side. For example, some may have been spies. But he has been nominated for titles like worst father of all time. And there is the question of what you do expect between sons who think their father killed their mother and him? Did anybody ever nominate Shallan's mother for the title of greatest traitor who got a much easier death than she deserved?