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That would make you largely immune to things like soothing. Cosmere wide implication that combo is actually really powerful. I think electrum is way worse in some ways but the one that takes the cake for me is Cadmium . You can compound as much breath as you want which is usefess and it makes it even harder to waste time as you burn. Fun.

As a former king I do not think the Lopen is interested in elected office.

So? Some people will probably stay there but it will need to be supported by different means and it will get much smaller for a while. All things that normal people use. We have no evidence that the grav ships will be used by normal people. Navani's current interest for them is warfare. It will take time before they are cheep enough to use by normal passengers or for the passengers to afford using them. Remember it took several decades from Dalinar's memories for the spanreed to go from government use to almost everyone has some. As to radiant fabrails they seem to be almost as scarce as radiants. I assume that they were hard to make for some reason or many more would have been made. By this logic a Darwinian process of natural selection has gone on with only already mass producing fields working these days which would render the radiant work worthless. The other alternative is that radiants have to keep coming back in which case I don't think you have enough radiants. This is even more true if you are right and the average radiant sticks around where they were born and does not use their powers to the fullest extent. Pluming is nice but neither it nor airships are really articles of production espeshally if all airships are currently working for the military which they will be for the foreseeable future. He notes making manufactured goods more efficiently then can be shipped. Kaladin notes that making food here at all is difficult. Sebarial says he is doing it to supplement soulcasters not because he thinks he can render this place self sufficient. The first recorded rudimentary steam-powered "engine" was the aeolipile described by Hero of Alexandria, a mathematician and engineer in Roman Egypt in the first century AD.[3] They had both of those in the Roman empire too. No industrial revolution happened. After the war we sometimes do get various advancements as in the world wars. More often we do not as seen in the 30 years war, the 100 years war, or the US revolutionary war. Not used for production. In fact making them is difficult and expensive which may actually reduce the rate at which other products can be made. Patented before the war actually. In 1920, Croydon Airport, London was the first airport in the world to introduce air traffic control.[3] The "aerodrome control tower" was actually a wooden hut 15 ft (4.6 m) high with windows on all four sides. It was commissioned on 25 February 1920 and provided basic traffic, weather and location information to pilots.[4][5] I could go on but I want to make my point. 1. These are all post industrialization products where the methods involved in research and development had standardized methodologies, mass education was pretty normal, and people had enough wealth that starvation was not always an immediate problem. 2. A lot of this stuff was produced either before or after a war not during. 3. Even more of this stuff does not have civilian applications let alone uses for industry. 4. A lot of this stuff was made in countries not directly involved in the war. 5. This phenomena does not seem to hold true prior to industrialization itself.

I am a Jasnah supporter. While some might be turned off by her privileged background neither her commitment nor her accomplishments are questionable.

Sure but that was not the question. It might be a bit faster since a CR depends so much on their investiture. Well he seems to be fullborn now which means he could feed it for much longer... Yay...? For a while depending on if he had the wherewithal to burn them. However Nightblood increases his demand for investiture the longer he is drawn.

Cognitive Shadows are made of investiture. Nightblood eats investiture. So they would be drained until they died. Kelsier holding Nightblood is a bit scary for everyone else in the immediate vicinity.

That does not disprove my point. Washington DC was also initially such a place and it would also not have been built or sustained without government support. The fact that businesses are now setting up shop there does not change the fact that it would not exist without the Alethi war effort and if the king was to pack up and go home the settlement would collapse to a much smaller size. All depended on creating markets for their goods. The first industrially made product was textiles. Everyone wore clothing. As such making a lot of it cheaply was profitable. However making a large number of something that only the wealthy can afford is not an industrial revolution. With the exception of soulcasters none of the fabrails we have seen produce goods. Navani is not even working on any that do. On average I am guessing the vast majority will. How much stormlight do you think middle of nowhere edgedancer has access to? I don't think you can grow a plant in a highstorm even with regrowth. It would probably blow away(as would the edgedancer). Also look at my math. You don't have enough edgedancers in the first place. Largely for security reasons that don't exist with spanreads. Goods not food. That helps with famines but it does not increase overall production. Also check my numbers you don't have enough radiants for everyone. I just checked. You have a bunch of quotes where you say something like "Navani is thinking" but no actually in book quotes. I checked all three pages by her name. You also need accountants, actuaries, insurance agents, mechanics, administrators, and business people. You can't pull those off the street. Because you are artificially restricting who can get a patent innovation is going to happen slower it is that simple. What if for example someone like Lirin cooperates on painkiller fabrails. He has no financial reason to because the patent system will likely not include him and even if it does it may be biased against him. Radar was invented in the 1930s at MIT. It was far from a covert military project. Interesting you should bring that up. The man involved was self taught far from the front lines of the conflict and interestingly. Raytheon filed a United States patent application for Spencer's microwave cooking process, and an oven that heated food using microwave energy from a magnetron was soon placed in a Boston restaurant for testing Somthing he would not be able to do as a self taught darkeyes in alethkar. That is not industrial. The Romans did the same thing as has been pointed out and it did not lead to an economic revolution. The problems are not limited by scientific knowhow but by economic, social, and political realities. So you think monopoly is what caused the industrial revolution? Name a few.

If am very glad that this is not what we got in skyward.

I really don't have the time but thanks.

Competent parshendi would actually exclusively target officers.

Welcome!

The question is how you make those without a printing press. Copying them by hand sounds like a pain.

Lifeless can be spiked However they don't have much investiture to take(one breath for the standard ones) so that is going to be hard.

Someone asked and it was RAFOed.

They have an extraordinarily high literacy rate and maybe something like shorthand. Dalinar notes that their writing system looks a bit odd so maybe they can use it to write faster. Also they don't have much in the way of military conflicts for most of the region and they might be wealthy enough to support a large population of people who just copy out duplicates. They do not have many soulcasters and those would be impractical for remote areas.

She would be pissed and confused and scared and venerable. Exactly where the GBs would want her really. Telling her that he was a skybreaker and then telling her that we lied to you seems more likely to just piss her off. Remember how ivory talked about Cryptics and how they are drawn to lies? Shallan is sort of the opposite she is drawn to deep truths. Adolin draws her in by telling her that he killed Sadeas is a good example. Shallan as Veil admits that she wants to know the truth of things. Telling her a lie and making her think it is true seems like one of the fastest ways to make her angry.

Yes. You might get confused because the Cognitive realm is flat.

Anyone know where I can get one? I do not have time to make one but it would be fun to have for an upcoming event I am attending. Just a mask is fine I do not need the full cryptic regalia.

Actually. I think it more likely that they were testing him and he lost his cool which does happen unexpectedly to a lot of people when stressed. That is one interpretation. However he states clearly that he cannot yet have justice for his mother's death. This indicates that he has not yet reached the point where he can be trusted with justice. Remember most of the Skybreakers in training do immediately hunt people they are told are criminals without checking twice and as far as Heleran is concerned his father is a criminal. The GBs do know that keeping a secret forever is a very difficult task. Shallan also might slip up so eventually Jasnah will know one way or another. So then why put it in there? If she is not going to question it then it can't be a test if she is going to then it undermines your mutual reliance. The lies I IDed already serve that purpose without pissing Shallan off.

He is also trying to be a good friend and a perfect Jedi at the same time. So he thinks about it as little as possible or tries to rationalize.

We won't know about the shattering for some time yet.

Cryptic interaction with computers. A shard vs shard combat. The kind that Odium and Ambition did not Vin vs Ati. The big Hoid reveal.

Brandon has confirmed he is. I do not think any other prison would be safe from Szeth. He is wanted for execution everywhere. Yes. He used his abilities pretty publicly. Also Lift knows and she might not want to keep a secret. Also what good is keeping this a secret at all? I think it is more like they want everyone to cool off their demands for execution.

Because he loves his sister and this blinds him to the truth? We don't know when they started to check out the Davar household but it seems to me like it was only after Shallan's mother's death which is a period of time in which Shallan was not talking. Just because of how I think the narative is going she is must tell Jasnah eventually to make progress as a person. This is also a really big gamble that is not even necessary. Jasnah might just accept Shallan as a GB if she thought it was advantageous to team Radiant. If they keep providing false information then Shallan being a member has no benifit. She knows how to find out this stuff though. She knows who to interview and how to go about it. It might take some time but information is usually verifiable. The diagram? Team Radiant knows nothing about them. To some extent I agree but I also think that you don't want to short change your people. What if Shallan now tries to get lintel on the Skybreakers? She could embarrass herself and the organization as a whole as she is now a member.

He seems exactly the type who would. Many Lighteyes are well versed. He was very careful and the day was very sunny. Old fashioned detective work. If Helaran spent time thwarting petty crimes he is a skybreaker. Also the GB have no way of anticipating when Shallan might have a chance to interview other skybreakers. So? The letter happened before that. With the redounding of the orders publicly and a desolation they have no way of knowing what Nale, a crazy person, is going to decide to do. Jasnah does and they are known associates. Also people like Navani do know how to do this kind of thing. Stupidity and ambition exist in all individuals no matter how stable. Since this is going to take some time I thought parsing the letter might be a good idea. Does this make sense? A lot of lies by implication but whenever they feel they might have to outright lie they always give themselves an out on a technicality. You cannot run an organization properly without if not trust that at least base standards. If information is what these people trade in then they are going to be very careful with it and they are going to make sure that every datum is somewhat useful/viable. To do otherwise risks reducing their value as a source of information which would be a bit like getting a reputation for counterfiting.