Karger

We don't see many islands on Roshar Lone shardbearers can't do much. Remember Dalinar saving Sadeas in WoKs? They need proper. support.

You too!

OOh another one of these. Silverlight Space pirates! Some combination Weird crossbreeding. Nalthis in 10,000 years A super uninvested shard world that still has something unique going for it(besides first of the sun).

No. Aluminum bullets. Sure. He may also find a way to combine them but I see no reason why they absolutely must blend together. Everyone has resonances but Hoid has so many magic systems that the interference makes these unnoticeable.

Considering what we know of the metallic arts indicates that it is not necessary. I stand by my belief in this case as reasonably well founded.

I have an opinion on this. Basically. it is about the Law's fundamental devotion to peaceful settlements between aggrieved parties. Maybe you don't exactly follow the rules or you have to make up a new one but your overall purpose is to help people live together with a reasonable expectation of having their deputes settled amicably.

This is a problem for me. I really don't have much in the way of actual information on 5th oaths. It is basically just an educated guess. Your 5th oath is interesting but I see it being rather problematic in practice. What constitutes aggression for example?

"Our current understanding which may be flawed does not indicate..." Should not have to preface such a statement since any summation I make will be based on the same. The fact that your statement had a qualifier does not make it a more valid argument. Either way Pathfinder's point makes this moot. But does that donation really benefit the person who is on the other end?

It was a mass of regular singers who penetrated to the palace so yes I agree with you. As does Adolin's professional military opinion. Agreed. It might take a couple weeks but you could have a rough barricade at least. Just make a framework out of wood or shell of some kind and let the crem fall on it.

Progressing with the ideals is not just about power. It is about self improvement. The impulse to do better is not as dramatic as it is during wartime but among highly motivated people like radiants I would think a large percentage even the majority would work to better themselves no matter their surroundings.

Elend is hardly an average Mistborn. And we have zero actual evidence of. It is a workable theory that someone proposed but it is not by any means definitive. If another method to gain the benefits exists then this entire argument becomes fairly pointless. I am not going to assume that something is true without evidence just because of a lot of other people do. That is a particularly problematic way of thinking particularly in the digital age.

That is a special skill. Sazed is surprised Vin can do it. However if everyone can instinctively tap or burn then they can use medallions the same way. Spikes are not necessary. We have author confirmation that this was not all just natural.

Switch Teft into a 2nd ideal skybreaker whose partner has just died while in pursuit of some armed murderers. Not an uncommon occurrence but one that would lead to the same result.

I actually agree.

If I am correct singers were likely semi nomadic or in cities. I do not think humans would tolerate a large enemy presence on land they could use. This one was just a small note. I agree that without spanreads this would not matter to most people. Assuming that the only available ships are for fishing you are not going to get much tunage out of them which makes supply or the movement of large numbers of troops much less feasible. Maybe you could use them to cross a lake or river but that seems to be it as far as I can tell. Sure. We see a stoneward build a stable set have handholds into a cliff. Making a trench would be quite easy. You could even orient it for drainage. You can make walls too. Prior to the everstorm the fused would have risked their "lives" until the next desolation. Taking the city would have involved a few of them dying by ambush in close confines.

Zaire mentally does the calculations. "400 gold would be my standard rate for such conditions."

Yeah but as I said most of Roshar is at war and has been for years and just witnessing some of the things your average cop has to face should be traumatizing enough to get the job done. Kaladin's struggles or more operatic because he is the main character but Tefts are perfectly normal ones that many people go through every day and overcoming them proves equally effective for getting to higher ideals.

The diagram does indicate that stressing a potential radiant can make them realize their potential quicker but it is not like Roshar is a particularly peaceful society now. Considering the work that Skybreakers do as law enforcement you would think that they could find the requisite amount of stress quite easily.

Infants also can't tap metalminds or burn metals so the point is moot.

Assuming what you say is about the lack of stormwardens or spanreads is correct(and we have little to no information to the contrary) then I do not think a battle during the desolations would look like a conventional war like we see on earth. As you pointed out. Supplying a human army across Roshar is not usually a practical option. Even the 10 oathgate cities may have needed to be supplied via Urithiru. Singer forces do not have nearly as great a problem with highstorms and as such can likely move a larger group of people farther but even they would have trouble keeping that kind of force supplied for any length of time without surgebinders which they do not seem to have. During times that are not desolations human force have surgebinders and singers do not. As such singers would probably live seminomadic lifestyles or else inhabit cities that existed behind some kind of natural or singer made fortification that made attacking them too costly to be worthwhile. Any offensive by a massive group of singer forces could be countered by a group of radiant forces whose mobility would allow them to inflict incredible damage on the singers while they readied any nearby human settlements for the conflict. This perpetuates a kind of ongoing stalemate. Humans cannot catch or destroy singer civilization and singers can't attack human civilization on a large enough scale for either to destroy the other. With Odium fanning the flames the conflict does not die down but practical considerations prevent it from going into any kind of total war because the defender always has a large advantage. All of this changes when a Herald breaks. When a Herald breaks, at least traditionally, all ten arrive on Roshar to warn humans of the coming conflict and to tell them to get their act together. A little while latter the fused start to arrive on Roshar and gain bodies. Suddenly the mutual stalemate is broken as both sides have an incentive to move to total war. With the fused on their side the singers can damage human cities without retaliation. They can also now put large armies in the field and not worry about surgebinder attacks since their own surgebinders can counter. Meanwhile for the humans damaging the parshendi civilization as possible becomes essentially their only option for survival and as such attacking fortified cities becomes a necessary action. They also have the added help of a large number of new surgebinders assuming Jasnah is correct(and she almost always is) that helps with going after armies or nomadic groups. I think this is the origin of the Vorin myths. Mankind defending itself against the desolations as evil monsters attacked from the east(where human population density was probably lowest) and attempting to drive mankind off Roshar. The average human soldier at the time would not know of mankind's origins and would only know that monsters were attacking the land that had been theirs for as long as local memory allowed. It also explains the Alethi knowledge of war as they would probably have the most frequent conflicts between humans and singers in between desolations. I find myself doubting either side used siege engines of any kind during most of these. Remember the Heralds had to help these people into the bronze age. Also the singers had thunderclasts and humans had surgebinders which make them kind of redundant. Syl can predict Storms within a day or so. She does so in OB. Every few days there is a highstorm. Humans in modern Roshar find that sailing under those conditions are impossible. I have a hard time believing that maritime tec was used much at all by anyone. Theylens might use it sometimes but even that was probably limited to coastal movements. Actual conflict on the seas I very much doubt.

That is cool. Whenever you are ready.

What other resources will you provide? Information? Specialists? Security?