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Well for a start Coinshots are extremely valuable. It takes several years to make a new one and their are a limited number of them in supply. A general's conversation might go "well they punched a hole in our defenses but we killed 30 coinshots so we are still about even." Coinshots also have several weaknesses. They need an anchor so a good lurcher can pull them out of the sky. They can be easily detected by a seeker(I don't know the range of a coppercloud but a coinshot will have trouble moving one with them). A tineye or windwhisper can spot them even in the dark. Aluminum bullets can hit them just as easily as anyone else. No problem.

They have the telegraph and chemical warfare while gruesome was actually less important to either world war then people believe it is. Very good but remember metalborn are rare. I am not sure if there are enough coinshots to make a difference and the Northerners do not yet have aircraft.

If this is the case where did the King's drop come from? Dun Dun Dun.

I was referring to this scenario and I am sorry I did not make it more clear. I personally do not think that any of the captured sotherners have the political clout to start a war on the other side of the world or that they would want to after being given reasonable aid by a foreign government. They also seem to be suffering form their own conflict with the deniers of masks. I also think that it takes time for technology to migrate and that if this conflict happens within the next decade their will not be any airships willing to get involved(or at least an extraordinarily limited one). If you can explain why you think the southerners will show up faster then feel free to include them in your projection. Do not be limited by mine.

I understand but you hit a pet peeve of mine.

That seems kind of cold for Saze(no pun intended).

Well if they don't maintain their rage the probably go crazy and or become completely useless. He is also the greatest tactician in Rosharn history, a bondsmith, a king, leader of the Radiants... Navani is not invested and can't see shadesmar.

As I previously stated, I personally do not think that southern technology will be widely available int the north for at least a decade perhaps longer. You are free to disagree provided you give explanations as to why. Southern wars are obviously different and we can talk about them as well if you wish.

I actually kind of like this theory. Enough spren in one area is going to act kind of like a perpendicularity and make it easier for the Radiant spren to come through. When reading I just thought that Pattern needed to be defined before he could be understood or interacted with by Shallan.

Have you seen the emperor? Also just no. The empire is supposed to be Nazi Germany. Calling them the good guys is plain ridiculous. Agreed. This is why Odin sends him to learn humility. He has absolutely no choice in the matter. He is just doing the best he can. Agreed actually. Although Ned Stark, Arya, Jon, Sam, and Brienne are all mostly OK.

Kelsier spent quite a bit of time with the southerners. I personally think that the hunters are the proto ghostbloods.

Fair point. Awwww.

What about us 1%. "This does not seem like a good idea for either of them or like something they would be interested in."

I think Rock would be OK with any of the above. We airsick lowlanders are incapable of proper speech after all.

I believe it is Shallan who mentions when looking in when time that the beads rattle to a strange rhythm.

I do know for a fact that this form has had some remarkably accurate theories. Some one for example used clues in Way of Kings to figure out King Taravangian's secret. I also know that this form produces some remarkably bad theories. (Like my theory about Nightblood that can easily be disproved if you know the right WoB.) Take from this what you will.

What do you all think war will look like in Era 2? By war I mean a full scale war between two opponents who have comparable resources, manpower, technology, and metalborn(like the war Wax may or may not have started in Bands of Morning). Wars during a comparable human time technologically like The First World War and the American Civil War were characterized by long sieges, heavy human costs, and indefinite waits but what happens when you throw metalborn into the mix? Of the feruchemical abilities, only the physical ones(other then weight and strength) and gold have an obvious use. While the others certainly do have some applications in certain circumstances, generally speaking those are the best ones for combat. Teris beliefs about pacifism mean that requiting a large number of feruchemists would be difficult. Still both sides will likely have some, so each side will have to know how to fight them. The existence of machine guns on both sides makes gold largely useless. The amount of time storing health vs the amount damage machine guns can do makes them not viable. Tin enhanced sight means better lookouts and snipers so that decreases sneak attacks but it has no offensive use. Steel is a different story. A group of stealrunners can easily cross an open space(like the no mans land between trenches or through the kill zone outside a wall). They can also do a lot of damage once they get there. Strategically used they can break an impasse and I see no way to stop them. Thoughts? Alomancy Unlike feruchemists alomancers are widely available for requirement. There is still a limited number of them (Kriss claims that they are 1/1000 although I suspect she is exaggerating) but unlike the Teris they are generally less pacifistic. Also unlike feruchemists nearly all of their abilities are usefull in combat(gold, cadmium, duralumin, chromium and aluminum being the exceptions). Alomantic steal means a large number of airborne targets smaller then airplanes. Lurchers mean more effective tanks. Pewterarms are excellent for some types of combat. Electrum is a fairly good substitute of atium. Smokers and seekers are excellent for disguising and finding on what the other side's alomancers are doing. Tineyes may be able to spot ambushes even in darkness. Soothers and Rioters mean that armies moral will remain higher then expected at all times potentially prolonging conflicts. They also have uses dampening enemy moral. I don't the experience to judge what kind of effects these will have. I am hoping some one on the forms is a military history buff if northern scadirail is in for a yearslong meat grinder like our turn of the century wars or if something about the metallic arts might spell a faster victory and spare them a similar experience. Note. I did not include compounders do to their rarity or the effects of southern technology as there are no local sources of harmonium that we know of but if you think that these should be talked about feel free.

He claims to have been a courier in his youth and I am inclined to believe him.

In the interest of fairness I am going to try and support the lessor spren theory against @RShara 's excellent points. If the spren are being summoned through the CR then you would not see them just as you often don't see Radiant spren before they turn into shardbaldes or deadeyes befroe normal people do. If they can form a lessor bond with the Radiant then that identity will not be a problem. We see this with how Pattern can hold Shallan's lightweavings. Tein asks a similar question of his mother in one of Kaladin's flashback chapters. Hesina says that if you break an object each piece of that object has its own spren that is simply smaller then the original. Alternatively if you think of shardplate as a weave of different spren, a broken section is just that weave being pulled apart. A group of creationspren cannot block a shardblade. The spren are breaking off from the original peice and rejoining the new one. Alternatively the individual spren that have broken apart are now rejoining. Same for dismissed shardbaldes. We have confirmation that plate is less dead.

Neither Navani nor Dalinar's parents have been mentioned by name in the entire Stromlight Archive. However Navani is not currently set to have a flashback book of her own. During an Oathbringer scene Navani mentions her mother had good days and bad days like she thinks Taravangian does now. Good question.

Singer mind's are closer to the CR then human ones. They also may be more invested.

Except science has no bearing on cuteness as cuteness is an emotion felt by humans and science can not generally account for subjective individual feelings. Additionally things shaped like infants are generally regarded as humans as cute regardless of how helpless they are. Also are you telling me that every time you call your girlfriend cute you are saying she is helpless?

As far as we know there are no fullborn after Reshek other then Kelseir himself.

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But it would arouse suspicion if he was consistently the only person not to develop powers.