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Sja-anat had left Taravangian with a few altered Spren. So where did she go? Urithiru? She had an interest in the Singers escaping and Odium failing. How do the eyes of a Knight Radiant forming a temporary bond with Sja-anat look like?

She does not care. She is Cultivation, not "Ethically Impeccable Behavior". She is looking for somebody who is capable of rational and constructive behavior to the extent that she can cultivate. That is the most important quote. It explains her. She is perfectly happy with a murderous empire builder, as long as he build. He is a Shard. She is a Shard. Shards have a huge issue with breaking their word. Not the best. The most controlled. Taravangian is ruthlessness on steroids. But he is also disciplined and determined to an extraordinary degree. He saw the issue. He did not flinch or go into denial. He went to the Nightwatcher. Confronted with a threat he was ready to salvage what could be salvaged at whatever be the cost.

Well, those are his memories and he'd have one shot and one shot only. If you mess this up you have damaged your mind and hence the thing you absolutely need to fix such damage. He was present at the Catacendre which was only about three undred years ago. His current method has an order of magnitude more testing and was designed by a Shard for sustaining immortal beings. Changing stuff without testing is dangerous.

Yes Even if Dalinar becomes Fused-in-Chief they are not going to march into the Cosmere right away. Odium does have some deep strategic problems. Ending the war on Roshar ends the immortality of his Fused. He is not going to get a steady supply of willing Singers. He is really short on skilled people. He has experts in the Fused. But the rest of his people are ex-slaves. No NCOs, master artisans or middle management. He'll hold a small part of Roshar. The economy is shot. His population is small. Not a good base to conquer alien worlds from. Logistics. Soulcasters make travelling through Shadesmar easy. How many of those are among the Fused? He is technologically behind major enemies.

The new Odium, like the old Odium wants to turn outward. That has consequences. Singers have biological requirements that tie them to Roshar as a people. Without the Highstorm they cannot change forms. That means that the next generation at the latest would degenerate into parshmen. Odium will need new, due to abundance most likely human troops. Why? If left without leadership they are most likely to fragment along national lines. They are not Listeners. At most a small group would join them. If a lot of Spren bound to their number, those may be the building blocks of new leaders, But why would they associate with a traitor? Her recruiting worked based on getting out of the war. That stops with an armistice. What else is open to them? They are stuck in the form specific to their brand. Hence they cannot reproduce or function as normal Singers. If they have or get the ability to leave Roshar, some of them may become mercenaries. Also depending how long a Fused in a Singer body actually lives. Thet may also set up some sort of monasteries or academies. But in general people people who have spent hundreds of years of getting used to being a warrior aristocracy rarely go back to normal civilian lives. And the Fused would forever be marked by their unchangable form. And in a certain sense they are walking corpses. Some of course will serve Odium. But there is the problem that he will use more and more humans. With the war on Roshar over Nale will no longer fight. You ought to be ready for him turning up the day after the duell (if it is conclusive) and demand a seat in Urithiru as the leader of the Skybreakers. A blind man? During a genocidal war? He can only hope that they don't just slit his throat. Each Unmade will have to be looked at separately. And some of them we know nothimg but a name about What will happen to the war? That is the question you need to first ask. That determines what comes next.

Mraize indicated that this payment woul be periodically repeated. Presumably the payment would be the same, or the Fused would be required to accept a vague promise. Now such a chain is valuable while it is rare. But it has little practical value. So how would such a transaction run smoothly?

There is a problem. Unless he goes into action soon after Bands of Mourning he will be retirement age.

OK, there may be something. But these clues would match any Sleepless. Yet, the Ghostbloods knowing what their member is would not be an issue as long as they didn't know the core mission of the Sleepless. The parts of a Sleepless have to be within a certain distance. I doubt that a few light years is close enough. Unless he took all his horedelings along, his mind would rip apart when worldhopping.

Bands of Mourning implied that Harmony was clueless about the identity of the enemy. Harmony being in communication with Hoid about Odium, how is it possible that he would not know that Odium is attacking?

She was fleeing from her oaths, not outright rejecting them. That is they were bad, especially in consequences, not wrong.

Why the rogue Aimian? OK, accepting the premise that he is an Aimian for the sake of argument I cannot see why you conclude from these clues that he is a rogue Aimian. It makes a ton of sense for the Sleepless to want an agent in the Ghostbloods. Though with Mraize, if he is a worldhopper, there is an obvious issue with that. Is he really so "small" that he can get away with his impersonated body and a few trunks?

There is another related point I must talk about. Scasdrians are descendants of artificial Shardic constructs. Kelsier learned this. And at least the elite outside Scadrial in the Cosmere is also aware of this issue. To put it bluntly, are Rosharans human in Kelsier's eyes? Average Rosharans obviously know nothing about Scadrial's history. Cultivation, however, surely knows. As do presumably Hoid and therefore now Taravangian. Are Scadrians humans to them? How do other Shards and scholars see this? Given her Intent I can very much see Cultavation having a problem with Rosharans. Invention likely loves them.

An announcement. If you can stall for ten to twenty years I'll have the special forces ready.

Yes. That conclusion looks inevitable. THe former is likelier. We may also consider him quite angry. From his perspective the rest of the Cosmere happily traded with The Lord Ruler, while he was flooding market squares with Skaa blood.

It is valuable only a few times unfortunately. And we are talking about a repeatable payment.

That would reveal that the Fused have a leak. The thumbscrews would come out, however useful Mraize would be.

There is a problem. Rayse wanted to turn Dalinar into a Fused and send him out. Presumably not all alone. We must conclude that Taln and the oathpact kept them there. But a new Desolation has begun and won't formally end.

If they have Fortune, they may have reacted to Taln's return before it happened.

Yes, but not in voiced form. (with the exception of v, which likely until recently was w) Please put the shem root into the other binyamin and tell me whether the resulting words have consonant clusters. Ialai, Sadeas, Sadees, ...

(Scadrial) Or like Dalinar keeping his pain harmed Rayse. Debatable. The False Desolation shows that Voidspren could get away from Braize for some centuries at least. Yet Ulim traveled in a gem, which he really detested. It looks like The Oathpact hinders and limits them but not totally keeps them on Braize. Yes. Theyprobably can, but the process ia less efficient and slower. There is no other indication of them being worldhoppers. The sons of Honor in hindsight look like an organisation of useful idiots whose leadership exploited them for their own goals. The only bona fide believer was Meridas Amaram. They did almost nothing really effective. And Mraize is a very good indication how a real Ghostbloods dealt with such problems. It does not involve fleeing the entire planet. Heralds may have some acccess to Fortune.

It is based on a Semitic language. You can see traces. Words end in "h". That does not tell you how it sounds. Italian and Polish are related, hence based on the same language. Do they sound alike? In fact Hebrew and Arabic or Ge'ez do not sound alike. At least not to me. Yes. Yo - ko -ha - ma Hi - ro - shi - ma Mi - ya -mo - to Mu - sa -shi Hebrew is a normal language. It shares a lot with other normal languages. English isn't normal. What makes a language sound te way it does you are looking at non-standard features. You could do that to most historical English names as well. But you see that Hebrew if you form the actual words do have consonant clusters -shm- or in other names Mordekhai Going by the Alethi rules you will turn Yitzchak into Yichak (I hope nobody with that name will read this). See the difference? The sounds you can produce as long as your air lasts that are not vowels. Try ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss or fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff or nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn That works. Now tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt It means you have to repeat the consonant but you cannot hold it in a steady state. It is called a fricative because the airflow is continous (that is why you can say them for as long as you want) but it passes through a narrow gap so that the friction turns the airflow extremely turbulent.

It does not exist. The molten metals just do not mix. You need to add a third metal Phase diagram From an arcane view point it most likely has the opposite arcane properties of pure silver (Threnody) Hence we may speculate that it sustains Cohnitive Shadows.

What is the alternative? Let the Ghostbloods keep stewing for two more books? Felt is not into that Ironeyes thing. He is from the World of Ash. He is not advertising tht he is a space alien. You need to really shock him. Well, that is from people to whom Arabic is a very distant language. Found in Irish, Russian, German, Czech, Greek, Spanish, Vietnamese, ... and incidentally, yes, in Arabic and Hebrew. But in no way characteristic for semitic languages. Now that is semitic or caucasian. Because the things you see in Hebrew, which is a semitic language, are of course to be found in semitic languages. But not because semitic languages are somewhat special in that regard, but because they are normal. English is an extremely odd language phonologically speaking. Hebrew is also pretty strange for a semitic language, especially in the vowel system. What makes Alethi similar to Spanish is likely the system of rhythm and vowels. Especially as Alethi has very few closed Syllables. Ka - la -din. Tha -na - dal. A - do - lin. Adolin is a special gem, as he is explained. Adoda = light + lin. But it is not Adodlin, but Adolin. The consonant cluster is eliminated. The rhythm is very much uniform length per syllable. Colloquially this is called the "machine-gun", "staccato quality" of Spanish. You see this also in the way Alethi mishear alien names: Scadarial. Nalathis. They put in extra vowels to break up consonant clusters. Alethi has 5 vowels and we see no evidence of vowel length mattering. That is not unusual. You find that in languages as diverse as Spanish and Bulgarian for example. So I picked Spanish as an example in the mistaken assumption that the likelihood that you are familiar with it is high. The vowels are not those of Spanish though. Hebrew vowels are closer. But the consonants don't match not at all. It lacks that tendency to voiced fricatives. In fact it seems to lack them. Alethi consonants are basic (taken from names): p t k b d g f th kh and a few special ones: s r l j n m sh v and maybe (z) - probly only in loan words. This is highly regular and normal for a human language. Nothing of that system is in any way remarkable.

That is the next issue. Who has Feruchemists? Would Kelsier really have his people eliminate one of Harmony's people? If not, who else has Feruchemists? Another secret society on Scadrial? The Set having agents on Roshar?

Interesting. I am afraid we will have to say in the future that if you read SA, you either read all other Cosmere stuff concerning a planet or none. Yes. But that means Brandon Sanderson had to use "scars", "survivor" or "Hathsin". Either would have had that issue. You have triggered me. The Alethi are not the semitic speakers. The Azish are. Alethi as far as we can tell would sound like a slightly darker version of Spanish with a touch of German. It has none of the sounds characteristic for a semitic language. There are no uvular or except for 'h' pharyngeal consonants. In fact from Brandon Sanderson's description of the pronounciation of "Kholin" we must conclude that 'o' and 'e' have a closed pronounciation. And he must be able to tell the difference. It is a feature of Korean to distinguish between those vowels. The only feature they seem to lack is vowel or consonant length. They'd struggle with Nalthian or Threnodite names (no 'z'), not Central Dominance stuff.