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Advisor is the key element here. Once you claim supreme power, you reap supreme responsibility. (Scadrial) In Alethkar a king decides. The advisor suggests. The king is free to take or refuse that advice, yet thereby he assumes responsibility. Well, at some point do you have to make up your mind. Is Moash bad because he is a traitor, breaking his promise to protect, or is he bad because Elhokar had entered the path of redemption? If the former, why can you like Kaladin, who broke his word to Moash? And why do you deplore Dalinar for burning Rathalas? They were traitors. Why don't you deplore Zahel as a murderer?

None. They are playing for time. Endowment, Valor, Invention. But they will deal with Odium, not help Roshar. Their strategy seems to be to weaken Odium as far as possible by spending the Rosharans as ammunition. And given what happened to Rayse, that plan must be deemed to work.

True, but not Moash's moral problem. Now, what do you want? A moral judgement? That is simple. E killed M's grandparents. M killed E. Frontier style, but basically just. We drop all this talk of law and thus, sic semper tyrannis. Fine by me. Well, no. At some point you are judged by the consequences of your actions, if you seek power. Meaning well is no excuse for a king. Yes, that is the definition. That does not make it right, though. Or acceptable to those who were wronged. No, it does not. Moash's grandparents are still dead. Well, partially. A Skybreaker would certainly not see it that way. Moash, however, is no Knight Radiant. There is no point in blaming him for not acting like one. He never claimed to be one, never wanted to be one. He wanted retribution and took it. He did not kill Gavinor. He just executed an eye for an eye. A right that any member of the Kholin family would have claimed. Against a king who had no problem with making war, wanted people's head merely for insulting him and so on. Blaming Moash for killing Elhokar is based on sympathy. It is basically justice by popularity.

Grading for effort is for elementary school. Elhokar was at the very top and he bent or even broke the rules. (Scadrial) They do. There is no requirement that you exclude personal reasons. Elhokar took up the sword. That he did so while somebody who had personal reasons to hate him was a cruel twist of fate. Then he died by the sword, like the guards and parshmen he had cut down You may argue that he has betrayed the human race. That is inexcusable and irredeemable an act. There is no point in saying that Moash is a nice or even sensible man. He isn't. But, again, Elhokar deserved to die. And so does, in principle, Dalinar. If some Herdazian or a relative of somebody from Rathalas took a dagger and kept stabbing until he runs out of Stormlight, there is no point in morally blaming them, unless, again, you wish to see the act as treason. You just cannot say that by saying sorry and doing better your prior acts are erased. And Elhokar, even clearer than Dalinar, murdered people it was his duty to protect. If you put yourself above the law as king, then you live or die by the sword. Moash is either irredeemable as a traitor or merely an enemy, who requires no redemption.

There is no reason a spren couldn't form a primitive gun like a matchlock, minus the part actually carrying the match. The open question is whether the spren actually move when they change shape or dematerialize and rematerialize. If the former, a spren can simply form a gun, but not the ammo.

Correct. Elhokar deserved to die and he was a combatant,

Who, then, has a live aether? Iyatil?

I was listening to the new podcast and he made me think about reproduction, marriage patterns and allomancy. Allomancy is inherited. An houses military strength is fairly closely linked to the number of Allomancers it can field. That opens up the way to a strategy that Straff Venture used. Why was he an exception? Because using Skaa women like that got you an Steel Inquisitor who wouldn't come for tea. You could use impoverished noble women, but that was a limited supply and they could in theory say no. But if breeding your own Misting army would have been easy and legal, I can see no way any noble house could have afford not to do so. So I'd say without the prohibition and the way it was enforced I cannot see how the Final Empire could have existed.

Because you cannot trust Dalinar to do what has to be done under those circumstances. That's why she would do it before the contest starts. Jasnah is a suspicious and careful woman. She will get Dalinar to designate a deputy champion and somebody to take his place in picking one. Though it raises a point. Would she rather cancel the contest than losing it?

4. Jasnah pushes Ivory through Dalinar's head and two minutes later Adolin will be heir presumptive to the throne of Alethkar

Air being diatomic in general splittig its molecules apart roughly doubles air resistance. And you are flying through a cloud of oxygen and nitrogen radicals which happen to be quite poisonous. And you would leave a brown cloud of pollution behind yourself.

Well, wouldn't a reassembly of Adonalsium mean exactly that to a very large degree? All Shards gone, all Seons gone, the Skaze, too. The Dor gone. The Stormfather again only a storm.

It has neigh exact parallels in 1914 in Europe. The instability comes after the war. And here I think Queen Jasnah is about to alienate the middle class and will not end well.

A tower-city the size of Urithiru needs a police force, a judiciary and somebody who enforces court decisions. It may be that the orders of Knights Radiant were policed by their spren, but the Knights Radiant were a minority in Urithiru. If a Knight Radiant did not pay his bills or the Stonewards had a bar brawl or whatever, the enforcers would need to include Surgebinders. I am sure any mentally competent Knight Radiant who spent more than a few weeks in Urithiru would understand that. But that does not mean they would need to like it or like the people who gladly did that job.

They are a part of our system. Rosharans and the Radiants of old may have thought otherwise. Basically I'd consider the relation between the Willshapers and the Skybreakers not one of the best. But not interested. You need not have perfect justice to be perfectly efficient. Cryptics are interested in sincerity and are equipped to deal with cause and effect. The concept of justice is a very human thing. We are not talking about simple fairness. Remember how hard Pattern was pressed when he needed to explain why he had secret communications. To him there were a number of factors that made it a good idea and some factors that made it a bad idea.

That is what the Thrill did for decades in a mild manner and to the point their eyes went red during te battle of Thaylen field..

Suicide attack. Odium's champion carries a bomb incidentally also obliterating much of Urithiru. Convinient, isn't it?

But the symptom is new. He had been acting as god king for decades.

It seems to me that the question of the actual physical mechanism and the queston of how internal and external effects are distinguished are independent. And you do need this difference. It is not just the bones not splintering. The mass of the atoms in your body makes a difference. Heavy water does have measurably different chemical and physical properties apart from its density. It is less acidic at standard conditions for example. In fact heavy water is poisonous: Symptoms of heavy water poisoning And this issue is not limited to feruchemical iron. How do you breathe when using steel? How come you do not poison yourself with the carbon dioxide you exhale? How do you manage not to cook yourself? Your body's waste heat has to go somewhere. It looks to me like feruchemy involves some overlap of alternate realities. Indeed it seems to have an underlying component not too dissimilar to Forgery.

Who would that be? Willshapers are by their oaths rather defense lawyers. Elsecallers have a rather utilitarian view of the law. As far as Lightweavers are concerned, it would be best to look at Shallan's Pattern, who called the idea of reasons a lie. They are predisposed to toss out the concept of guilt.

Waxillium did display a full understanding of Newtonian mechanics when he was talking to Khrissalla. It does change density and gravity and weight internally and externally in different ways. When they get ultraheavy their bones do not splinter. Nor is that limited to iron feruchemy. When you use chromium, where does the carbon dioxide you need to exhale go? If you use bendalloy, when do you go to the toilet? When you charge or when you tap?

He is a Shard. He does not have to be smart. He can see the future.

Why? Think of the benefits, should you ever get into an accident! The irate owner of the other car sees your logo, pales, gulps, admits being 100% at fault and pays for everything.

And Navani took the rest of their purpose away with her flying ship. Why did you think thay have switched sides? Though now that you mention it, what happens if a young Skybreaker- adept reads "Das Kapital" or worse and swears to it? Hail Hydra, anyone? Now that I think about it, the story about Nohadon and the shepherd murderers cannot be genuine. But basically with Soulcasters and Cohesionists isn't everybody on Roshar potentially under 24/7 surveillance - retroactively? And you cannot even lie about your emotions. "Honey, do you love me?" is even more of a silly question on Roshar. "Does my ass look attractive in those pants?", no use asking. And so on ...

Well, how do they know that it stores Identity? In fact, how would they know that they have no Identity? And why do their charts not have a big, fat warning? But you still need to make a spike. And it does alter the spirit web. Not in a useful direction, but that does not matter for this discussion, does it? It removes something alien, your connection to Preservation/Harmony's Investiture. By ingesting the metal, something happens to it. Otherwise finer powder would burn faster.