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Khriss gives a decent rundown of what the shards are, where they come from and how they work in MB secret history but until Dragonsteal you can't do much but read the coppermind. Welcome to the shard.

Could be either. We don't have any way of knowing. As a Lightweaver myself I am completely cognoscente of the power of a few well placed traps, tricks, or distractions. A combination of sound, lights, images and possibly even solid objects can do a lot. However in a dueling environment you have problems. Your opponent will have studied you and your capabilities maybe even specific moves and trained to counter them. Additionally it is probable that Odium will chose a powerhouse as his own champion. Someone capable of withstanding a lot of damage and outputting a lot of different kinds of forces. It is hard to craft a complex illusion when on the defensive and if they start smashing the field you could end up in serious trouble.

I will never get over Vin.

Maybe it does but if you use it less the process is slower(like a drug). Also a bunch of time dilation happens so she could have consumed to at the first everstorm and still been around when meeting Elhokar.

Shadesmar has a lot of different kinds of people traveling through it. I personally think scadrial since they were the first to have both it and shadesmar access but it is hard to say. Tracking simple tech is pretty hard.

But I don't think she used it much. The only time we see her try she gets destroyed.

Good questions. I personally think that breaking bonds is more of a division thing. It is entirely possible however that Willshapers can do some kind of bond stretching or reshapiong

Makes a degree of sense. It is also possible that a strike or research team discovered or took a dawnshard and that lead to the transformation of the singers.

From what we saw you can't really train with Yelig-nar. You just do your best to control him before he burns you out. Also Nightblood.

Even then I doubt any of the Skaa and Nobles were pureblooded. Humans not interbreeding with other humans that are in the area basically never happens. Also even if by some statistical fluke a pure skaa or noble did make it off world before the perpendicularity closed they would have interbred with some other cosmere group for the next generation(like a skaa nalthian hybrid). I suppose someone from early in TLR's rule might have gotten off and joined Silverlight(with its time dilation) and they could still be around but I don't think you are going to get a large population of pure one or the other any time.

Unless that gives him access to the full range of Edgedancer powers(and I personally don't think it will) Kaladin is better. Even if it does Kaladin will be a year ahead to surge training. I fully acknowledge Jasnah's certificate in butt kicking but I think she relies to heavily on her two big moves(soulcasting and elsecalling). If Odium's champion is preped against those(by for example bonding Yalig-nar) she is not going to win. Less so in a direct duel. Shallan's capabilities are best when unexpected. If the enemy is prepared for a Lightweaver they are much harder to trick. I agree that Ishar as a back half villain trying to splinter ALL the shards and or take their power would be super interesting.

Except they could not have been time traveling. That is impossible.

I agree with this. Whenever the hero/monarch falls for their "swift blade" IE the person they keep around to be unexpected and find clever solutions to problems it always feels icky to me. I do wonder how to do this well though. In a direct mano a mano confrontation I am not sure that Dalinar's side has anyone better then Kaladin in open combat except maybe Szeth.

War history from almost a thousand years ago would probably not be super useful to Jasnah. I doubt she spent much time on it. Also she knows that he can read. She would just assume he read some of the same books she did. Considering she probably did not cover those in great depth they must have been fairly well known works for the most part.

I did not get that impression. During the final arc of the book Jasnah is preparing the army and Dalinar is grateful that she is around. She talks practically and capably about supply moral and training just like she has for the past several years. Agreed but I don't really see it here. At least not in overt major ways until the last scene where she can't work through the battle. That should probably have been handled better. At the time of reading it I saw it the same as Kaladin's battle shock moment and I agree it should have been written more like that. Publicly revealing her power as an awakener was actually her last political move. It gets her out of a marriage she is not interested in and away from a court that she can no longer stand. It is arguably selfish but I don't think she wanted to be a politician anymore nor do I think could she stand the personal cost. As to believing Prael's lies. His story makes much more sense then the truth and is verifiable by evidence. I do think that given some time Jasnah would probably think out the other possibility. If Taln is telling the truth then exactly nine other people would have known about the birthmark but lots of people are vulnerable when grieving(just ask the US embalming industry).

Depends on what you mean by important. It could be important in a this is a unique character moment kind of way for example.

No. Devotion died during Sel's prehistory.

Do we? What is your example?

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A pillar scene does not have to be big or important plot wise. Ender's game was based off of the battleroom game. Feruchemy was based on Brandon's narcolepsy in highschool.

That was the aliens.

I am kind of into Jasnah and Taln these days. Also that pun was terrible.

We don't exactly know what is going on with the champion business but couldn't Dalinar appoint whoever he wants?

To be fair Jasnah is a tactician not a historian in this version. Jasnah did that anyway. I personally think that he would have gotten back up.

I don't think Jasnah ever acted irrationally. She became a bit more personable but that is not the same thing. I always assumed that Jasnah hired an entourage to convey her places and then dismissed them when she got there. This makes sense as a security measure as it is much harder to track where she is going and why until she has already departed.