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They wouldn't. But the moribund Rosharan overcome by a vision would. The visions are always changed by the person speaking them. Otherwise they would be in the Dawnchant and unintelligible.

That may also to the Nine governing the Fused.

May I offer an alternate, more prosaic interpretation? Honor and Cultivation were less naive than the young Stormfather. Honor would never encourage oathbreaking and he never lied to the Stormfather. Telling him that desolations are happening because men break their oaths is technically absolutely true. It is even true that that disappoints and saddens Honor. The idea that it surprised him, though, is the naive Stormfathers assumption. So they can reform their bodies just in case? They have weapons on Roshar just in case? Being immortal is part of the CS package and necessary. But that is not all they got. They got Blades and supernatural bodies optimized for fighting. Being immortal does not mean having a body, especially for a Cognitive Shadow.

Yes That is arguably included in the 4th ideal. Yes, though he kind of broke down over that in the palace. The Windrunner ideals already include that. He does not swear to protect everybody or not to kill. You swears to protect those who cannot protect themselves. Killing in selfdefense or even retaliation is perfectly allowed, maybe even demanded. But it does not end there. In war you may have to kill even those who cannot protect themselves. Suppose there is a factory in which the enemy has slaves building weapons. Do you bomb it?

First things first, I am not talking about Scadrial. In that case the answer is obvious. And I am not talking about the worlds. They are natural. But that does not mean that the life forms living on them are natural. They could be Adonalsium's creation Yolish imports Shardic creations or a mixture thereof. We usually expect a planet in the habitable zone with live to show macroscopic life with animals and plants like our Earth. But that is wrong. For the greatest fraction of its existance Earth had only microscopic, unicellular life and all the land was barren. And with the inevitable brightening of Sol, it is unclear how long Earth will remain habitable. It is possible that macroscopic life is an exception among the planets capable of supporting it. In case of Roshar and First of the Sun we can be reasonably certain that they have native life forms. The prime suspect and the reason I am posting this in this section is Nalthis and its fossil record. Zahel told Kaladin that Nalthis has no fossiles. I think the easiest explanation for that is that Nalthis is too young. So who has introduced multicellular life to Nalthis? If it has been people, why has the technological level of the Cosmere's worlds decayed so far? If I may speculate wildly, was Adonalsium going mad, destroying stuff and the people causing the Shattering had a very good reason?

But I do not need to make assumptions. The suns of the settled worlds of the Cosmere, safe for Taldaine, just are not blue monster stars or dim red dwarfs. It would be cool, but again we have not seen such worlds and the length of the years alone would make them extremely obvious. Provided it is old enough.

Yes, it does. But Honor gave them the swords that materialize with them and the ability to form new superbodies on Roshar. He knew that they would break their oaths.

He gave them superweapons which they get access to on Roshar and believed they would stay on Braize?

Yes, it is too small. There are about 70 stars visible on the chart alone. It seems to me that the whole cluster has to be in excess of a thousand stars for that to be likely. The ratio of G stars to M stars is about 1 : 10. If this chart shows. How much of the sky does it show? Constellations that span more than a few percent of the sky don't make sense. (We have 88 constellations covering a sphere) Let's say it is 10% of the sky. M dwarf stars are really too dim to be seen (We cannot see Proxima Centauri and that is the closest. It is so dim that it was discovered in 1915 only) A star of apparent magnitude 4.5 would appear on a proper star chart, but that is not what we see with the inhabitated planets. They do not merely appear. They make up the backbones of constellations. And if you look at Centaurus, to stay with the example, only two of the bright suns forming the constellation can be called sun-like at the most charitable interpretation. Impressive And how many of those you listed are remotely similar to the Sun? Counting F, G and K stars: Alpha Centauri, Tau Ceti, Epsilon Eridiani, Procyon, Omicron2 Eridani, Eta Cassiopeiae, e Eridani, Delta Pavonis, Beta Hydri and pi3 Orionis. If we subtract the subgiants that is two less. And three of these stars are not exactly all that bright. 10 at the nicest interpretation. Yet for the Cosmere we have 6 such stars in a subsection of the sky. So something is unusual.

Honor did this. He had the oath pact put in place. It very much looks like the oath pact was designed to be periodically broken. Desolations were built in from the very beginnning.

To put it bluntly I would answer those first two questions with: obviously yes The Heralds were equipped with weapons The Surges and their combinations are well suited to forming armies The Heralds are suspiciously well suited to rebuilding civilizations Yet, if a god condemned your descendants to endless cycles of war with horrendous losses, why on all possible worlds would you venerate him? And frankly, if so, did Honor betray the Singers?

But removing Stormlight in that sense is trivial. Just exhale. It vanishes by itself. The hard part is getting it out of something that wants to keep it. It is unique. A Leecher cannot make things explode or affect static Investiture. No matter how much he leeches you, you stay a Metalborn or Radiant. Raboniel showed us that you can erase the thing that makes a Fused a Fused with antilight.

Nale is a Radiant. The Highspren may be strange, but they are intelligent entities. Nale has to display at least vestiges of logic. Two things. It is quite likely that he was present when that agreement was made. In fact he may have signed it. Breaking a contract is beyond what a Skybreaker can do. Apart from that it likely depends on his exact oaths, which we do not know. Perhaps this is the true meaning of the fifth oath of the Skybreakers. You cannot retreat to your code any more, but you are bound by the logic behind the code you are sworn to. Those are a matter of opinion. Maybe, and I mean that literally. I think that a Skybreaker who, for example, swore to Roman Law, would need to return enslaved prisoners of war and put down their rebellion.

yes no. If it weren't related, the effect would not be limited to Radiants and would not fail on those of a higher oath. Yes It does not. At a minimum, it does not affect itself. Yes What? Out of gems: any Radiant inhaling Stormlight Chiri-Chiri the Arnist method a tuning fork whatever device used in Elhokar's feast Out of Radiants: Chiri-Chiri modified hordelings Fused spears By definition, but not necessity. You could obviously give a Misting the training, you would, if you were a traditionalist, just not call them Hazekillers.

Odium rules them Hence treaties he makes are the law of the land. Nale may justify his actions by recognising the Parshendi as the original owners of Roshar, but he is bound by his own justification. He stopped killing Radiants as soon as Lift really proved that it was futile. Not only that, but he recognises that the coalition shall govern the land if he loses. He is subject to the law. If he recognises the Parshendi as the rightful owners, he must recognise their ruler's law. That is the interesting case.

Your gem stones stay invested under surpression, while a Leecher wipes out your metal reserves. And obviously a Leecher cannot put you into a coma.

You need to be fairly close to see them at all. Sol would be barely visible to the human eye under the best possible conditions at 50 light years. Think an absolutely clear night in the Australian outback with no lights for hundreds of kilometers.

If you let the general population and your breeding group interbreed. Well, technically if you keep the offspring of such intercourse within your breeding group. If you start out with a large enough breeding group, that is not necessary.

Is there a point to it, though? On either side he is bound to the agreement about the duell of champions. That starting in nine days, the question looks moot to me. Leshwi is a traitor. I am afraid for a Skybreaker revolutions are a problem.

Looking at the star map is instructive. Though we do not know whence it is seen from, except that it cannot be one of the systems marked on it, we can note that all the known systems' stars are easily visible. Now, except for Taldaine it looks like the worlds we have seen all orbit main sequence stars pretty similar to our sun. That means that they are really close to each other in astronomical terms. From our Earth the only true sun-like stars that seem bright to us in alpha-Centauri, which is less than 5 lightyears from us. Epsilon Eridani is about 10 lightyears. Tau Ceti isn't exactly a bright clearly visible star. Vega and Procyon are not similar to our sun. Hence I would conclude that the Cosmere has a diameter of no more than twenty lightyears at most.

"A greasy little man" by Scadrian standards would be a dwarf on Roshar. Who would put a dwarf into Dalinar's guard and why does he nobody mention his stature?

That may change, however. In fact it applies to the Northerners only and even among them secret groups are more advanced. As long as they are in small numbers. The number of Metalborn, however, is in principle unlimited. You could go baby farming and breed allomancers and feruchemist. In fact, there is a precedent. They have radio. It does not really matter all that much.

If you insist on doing it with people. Given that they already have starter cubes, there is no need for doing so.

It leaves us with an issue of timing though. How old is Shai? (Scadrial) And The Emperor's Soul is not that much later than Elantris, is it? In other words how come she was still alive when Kelsier became Thaidakar? That presupposes that she left on her own a long time before that.

He hates her anyway. Why not Bondsmiths? It would seem to me that especially a Bondsmith would almost be required to overlook morally grey actions in the interest of unity.