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I think I now know what zinc/brass are used for and I feel stupid. Navani mainly works with cojoiners. A spanreed does have a cage. It is natural for her to start her lecture with them. You need something that does the the off-blink-read-write setting on a spanreed. That effect can be very well be described as a spren affecting the physical realm in terms of force, not Arcane Effect. In other words, the spren manifest (physically). That's what zinc and brass do. They are the on/off switches for cojoiners. Heatrials and the augenters/diminishers in general work with pewter/tin, not zind/brass.

The fabrial itself is the stylus, which is independent of the board, or spealing even more strictly a part of the stylus. You can use any board with the fabrial. The boards are indeeed standardized and do have clips and spirit levels, but they are not Invested. If you want the spanreed to be easy to repair, you will also standardize the stylus and the way the gems attach to it.

They are used as an air force. Division works by touch only. You see the issue? And Divison cannot kill you any deader than a Shardblade. You have to be at the third oath at least to use Division. When and where would you use it?

So we got new Shards. At least some of them must be residing on populated worlds with Arcane Arts of their own or with migrants from other worlds. Those are prone to have perpendicularities. Hence they can originate worldhoppers. Can we try to find worldhoppers whose origin is odd? Sixteen - OK, that is the most unsatisfying answer to his identity, but such people must exist The Iri - we should have noticed strange golden hair on known worlds The Feruchemists in Rhythm of War (I suspect them to be from Misery's world. Which Shard would be likelier to take in refugees?)

Why? What makes that connection any more plausible than any other? Mind you, I am not saying that it is implausible. I am merrily saying that there are many plausible interpretations and this one looks like it derives interpretations from an outcome derived from a theory about the loop hole, not a death rattle. The problem here is that Knights Radiant like Jasnah would flat out argue that Honor is foremost keeping your word and doing your duty. Hence if your duty means to kill a child, you do it. Yes, as far as True Desolation and Everstorm being distinct, but what requires the "choice of honor" death rattle to be connected here?

Shell Mandras Eyes like a greatshell Tentacles tell you very little. Barnacles are crustaceans.

Possible, but they basically seem to be Greatshells.

Earth is 4.5 billion years old. Until past the middle of the 20th century we thought that the oldest fossils date to the Cambrian 541 million years ago. In fact it is called proterozoic because they were unsure about traces of life. That is the first 88% of the age of Earth are without a major fossil record. Now the Sun has lived about half its life and it will take the Earth with it. So if you pick a random terrestial planet orbiting a star roughly sun-like, your chances of it having much fossils of macroscopic life forms is about 50/50, if the Earth is typical. Well, no. He told him that he doubted that Roshar has this kind of fossil. And indeed we have never seen anything resembling a shelled mollusc on Roshar. No snails (or slugs) on Roshar.

Now, is it me or is Mirandus another take on the concept of a colony world whose natives are striking back commanded by an outsider leadership? Now, why did I get this thought only after finishing? Is that only me? Did the concept of The Narrative hide it for you?

So a spren trapped in an aluminium box underground will dissolve?

I am putting this here as what I will say is not strictly a spoiler but sensible answers will almost certainly be. This death rattle was almost directly aimed at Taravangian. So I think the most straight interpretation is that it means him. To be blunt I think those child champion theories are silly. So I will take this directly: The one making the choice is Taravangian He chooses life It causes a catastrophe In other words his decision to save Kharbranth sacrificing the rest of Roshar is honorable. His oldest and foremost duty is as a king to his original people, that is Kharbranth. He is keeping them safe. Hence his choice is honorable. And the premonition has already been mostly realized.

Elantrian. On Earth you could store your Aons in a database and make them via a 3D-printer. You are basically a demigod under those circumstances. Nothing even comes close to that.

But then what makes the black White Sand white again?

I hope the title is so generic that it should be no spoiler. Anyway, the reference should be clear in its murderous application. But why did it actually work? The Sand stores Investiture, which has to come from somewhere. It means that Spren bleed a bit of Investiture. Them being made of Investiture that may not be so much of a surprise. However, it raises an important question. Why don't Spren vanish over time? Cognitive Shadows do so, unless special measures are taken. So Spren must have at least a small source of Investiture. Considering this, it seems to me that the ability of te Stormfather and The Sibling to generate Investiture is not peculiar to them, it is just many orders of magnitude larger. How is this testable? It would be difficult, but in principle a talented Seeker should sense Spren, just as Vin sensed the Mist Spirit.

Forgery means rewriting the history of an object. The difficulty of making a stamp and its durability depend on how likely the alternate history is. As you can quantify durability and difficulty (not easily, but you can) you have an objective way to measure how plausible a story is.

In the Cosmere plausibility is a measurable objective property. The difference in how long a stamp will last makes that clear. I tink we must conclude that it is to some degree a multiverse or that the many-worlds hypothesis is verifiably true in it. And you can travel between those worlds to a limited extent. This has consequences for conservation of matter really (mass is obviously alterable). It is no closed system in terms of thermodynamics either.

I love this. Suitably dark. Can you imagine Hoid's face when Jasnah and Navani set Odium free on the condition that he leave the Rosharan system alone for a suitably long time? But then who is Trell?

Feruchemy does something routinely which other Arcane Arts, but one limit to very specific circumstances. Feruchemy creates temporary matter. That matter only stays temporary under some aspects. It shares this aspect with Forgery. If you break the seal on a Forged object, it reverts, but its products do not. That is, to take a trivial example, if your Forged arm is lost again, your sweaty sleeve does not become dry. Feruchemy also shows this characteristic distinction between exterior and interior. If your strength is lost again, the added matter goes away, but, staying with the exampe, your sweat does not go away, although physiologically some of it must have been part of the matter that appeared when you tapped your metalmind. Feruchemy returns you to state that actually existed in a sense its deviation from reality is limited to overlapping, combining and temporarily shifting a state, but it does not invent change. Is this testable? Yes, take a Subsumer and malnourish him. His metalminds will carry the calories, but deficiency sicknesses will still set it. The metalminds don't nourish, no they restore an earlier state of having eaten.

This observation is true, but incomplete. Many of us are considering the second question moot as soon as the first is answered positively. That is a nice can of worms. It more or less denies objective justification. If something is right, how can it become false because you like to do it?

What allows the conclusion that they were sensing him as opposed to the Honorblade?

Of course not. Why would government be special? It is just people. There is no reason to see government apart from other human organizations, unless this being Roshar, it is not run by human beings. No. In the end if they come to take your food and your relatives you will need to kill. We had this discussion, but pacifism is fundamentally not viable. So if they do not pay their taxes, you do what? If they beat the people you send to collect taxes? Their can be no order without the potential of violent enforcement.

It must use violence. It is not the only tool, but it is an essential tool. There is no point in mandating what everybody would do anyway. Now, if you see that then you will see that people have diverging interests. So as soon as somebody acts on them in a way breaking the rules, you will have to deal with them. People never all agree on anything. In fact we consider that unhealthy. And then you need a way to compel the dissenters or you get anarchy. Yes, and what do you do if somebody then does not go fight? And if you do not execute him, what will you say to those whose sons went and never came back? And there you have the collapse of the Alethi system of government.

Now, yes, Moash is socially maladjusted. Yet, do you judge people based on that, let alone their causes? Indeed you can make the case that Moash is a traitor. However, firstly that does not mean that Kaladin did not switch sides. And it is not what people loath him for. Again, relative rarity is not a measure of importance. Especially not when you discuss the most exeptional target. Well, no, if there is an uprising, the army will eventually be called out. Government is fundamentally violence.

We need to keep some realism here. Moash inflicting any lesser punishment on Elhokar is unrealistic. An example. And that is the issue. Even if we accept every order of Radiants as holding moral truth, we still see that they are radically different among orders. Who is to say that Moash is wrong? Absolutely realistic though. We even have historic examples of freed slaves becoming slave traders. And that was exactly what Moash expressed in an admirably court way when he gave Kaladin the Bridge Four salute. And he was right. Kaladin sold out. I have no way to answer this but by a civics lecture, so I will make it at least entertaining. Murder is always the ultimate answer. Rules that are not enforced do not exist. Rules ultimately rest on violence. Yes, we organize a civilized world by getting people to agree to the rules and heed them voluntarily. But that works only because they know that they will be protected against the minority ready to break the rules. Saying that violence is a minor exception is mistaking the mechanism for the reason. At the end of the day (literally in this case) you can only sleep quietly in your bed because if an intruder breaks into your home to kill and roast (hopefully in that order) you and rape your pets, police will kill that intruder. Now the kings of Alethkar have removed themselves from legal recourse. That may even be necessary. But it makes it insincere if you insist that somebody is bad for not resorting to a mild, civilized method of addressing grieveances against somebody officially above the law.

I suppose you could use the Surge of Progresssion. Shortening it to half an hour should have the same effect, though you may see an odd mental development, removing all prenatal learning.