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Probably is just "ado" reflected, the way other Alethi words usually are made (example: khokh and linil are kho and lin). If I had to guess, it's just weird variance in things ("zeradoreh" has plain "ado" rather than "ada" or "odo") but maybe the language was more gendered in the past and so the old glyphs are too? Might explain why women's script seemingly has gendered words that the spoken language does not, like how "I" has a gender in the written version that does not obviously correspond to a spoken version. Could also be trying to avoid repeating the vowel too much for some reason? ("kor"/"ros" in Lifelight's glyph vs "tav"/"vast" and "ras"/"nar" in Voidlight's, so use the vowel not in the rest of the word, vs "zer"/"reh" in "zeradoreh", so just use "ado" in its original form.) Spitballing here, though.

Ah, yeah, I had seen that, but I don't think it implies they can choose to do so.

Wait, they can?

It seems likely Taravangian didn't even go to the Nightwatcher until after Gavilar's death. WoR I-14: Combined with

I do have to say that this Death Rattle fits the Battle of the Tower pretty well. He swore the first Ideal that is unique to his order, which you could argue gains him the title of Windrunner. He picked up the spear to fight for what he saw as right. And as thanks, he got Dalinar's cloak, with Dalinar's tower and crown glyphpair sewn into it.

That WoB does not in any way confirm it means he's Tanavast's successor

I was referring to that chapter because I think it points Elhokar as "the one who killed my promises" (reference to Tien's death, perhaps? he does in that chapter think about the chain of cause-and-effect with Roshone). I think the Rattle itself refers to the Third Ideal, protecting the person pointed at by the earlier chapter.

Stormfather shouting in his head angrily Rumbling of thunder when an Ideal is accepted Wind rips open all the shutters dramatically when he explodes with Light (I'm still not sure why this part happened...) Stormfather's off-schedule highstorm hits soon after

Personally, I suspect this is why Ishar's doing what he's doing. Trying to work out how transforming a Cognitive entity successfully into a Physical one works, so he can bring himself over. As for why, I'm not sure. Maybe he's in the back of his head sort of aware he's crazy or might be, and wants to avoid this. Maybe his crazy plans extend to Ascension. Maybe he wants to disconnect from the Oathpact fully. Few possible options.

Probably his Third Ideal. The chapter where Dalinar confirms the story about Moash's grandparents and explained about Roshone, and where Kaladin decided Elhokar needed to die, is called "The One Who Killed Promises".

Well yes but it also takes them a pretty long time to reach the age they can do things at. I feel like allowing Shards to directly intervene and make more magic users is gonna mess with this too much, because then we get to "have Cultivation make an equivalent to Honorblades or something" lol. Yeah, I have zero clue where to begin estimating there. Hm, interesting point. Didn't think about that. If freeing Ba-Ado-Mishram does fix them, then yeah, that'd be a massive boost. Not actually the way it works, btw. Makes sense.

Yeah, he's certainly skilled. But it is a rather small sample size Depends how much the orders grow in the next ~10, 20 years until Era 2 happens. Metalborn are actually pretty rare — one in one thousand people are Mistings, and even less than that are Ferrings (and the Terris being insular makes those even lower than they'd otherwise be). This gives us around 5k Allomancers in Elendel, but a decent number of those are probably too young to use their powers well yet (a quick search is showing me around a third of the population was under 18 in the past, though it doesn't stretch back to approximate Era 2 times, nor do we know if Scadrial fits the pattern exactly due to the Catacendre). Some of those can certainly use their abilities (see: Vin), but I imagine the pretty large majority of that percentage can't. Let's use 15 as the cutoff, and pretend that the 33% is evenly split between the ages (I suspect it wouldn't be, but have no concrete numbers there). Looks like we knock off about a quarter of the Mistings here, so we'll go 3750 or so (likely lower, if Elendel's population count is rounded up). If we arbitrarily claim Ferrings are half as common as Mistings (I'd guess rarer than that, honestly), we get 5650 Metalborn in Elendel. We don't know what amount of the population Elendel makes up, so we'd have to guesstimate even harder from here, but Metalborn are super duper rare in the South, I imagine Metalborn are rarer when you get out of the big city and further from nobles, so I am going to 100% arbitrarily declare we can double the number, and get about 11,000 Metalborn as a shot-in-the-dark guess. This is pretty certain to be larger than the orders themselves, but we don't actually know spren populations, and if we're assuming every Metalborn is fully dedicated to the cause, I feel we can assume the same of spren, and squires. Unfortunately, I don't have any idea how to begin guesstimating the size of the orders, but the vast difference in power between the average Radiant and average Misting probably balances things out somewhat (a Coinshot's got no protection against a Blade!). Though apparently some types are more rare than others (Wax is of the more common kinds), so who knows what the distribution there is. Not accounting for medallions here, though, as we have no clue on those numbers. As for Twinborn, however, those are gonna be absurdly rare, likely less than one of each kind alive at any point. Wax is the third known Crasher in 341 years since the Catacendre, and he remarks that his powers are considered common, which implies less common ones too. So there's probably only a few Compounders alive at any given time, and maybe a couple hundred Twinborn of any kind. Note that obviously all this math is extremely extremely filled with guesswork (I have no idea if anyone did better math earlier in the thread, as it's over 30 pages.)

The fact he's most likely the only one alive probably plays into this too lol. He's the third known one in three-and-a-half centuries.

Part of the issue's that we still don't even know what "corrupted Investiture" is enough to answer this type of question.

I like the public defense lawyer Windrunner idea as well. I'd say therapist Windrunner, but Kal already seems to be heading there! I've liked the idea of a Skybreaker who also would be a good fit for Edgedancers, with a focus specifically on justice for the ignored and repressed. Their Ideal of Crusade would probably involve tackling injustice in a community. Dustbringers have always struck me as good candidates for nuclear scientists. Engineers with a focus on channeling but also very precisely controlling and limiting destructive power. (Admittedly, based on the order blurb, this one might not actually be all that non-traditional, if we leave aside the fact Rosharans don't have nuclear physics worked out quite yet.) An Edgedancer archeologist or something dedicated to digging out the truth of underrepresented stories throughout history could be fun, though this one's not that non-traditional either. (Also does align with Truthwatcher closely.) Conspiracy theorist Truthwatcher is a fun idea. Lightweaver psychologist! Examining themselves, and from there gaining an interest in the mind in general. (Feel like there should be some more odd, creative things you could do with the truths to get a more non-traditional Radiant, but my mind's blank.) Ooh, horror novelist Lightweaver using their understanding of the mind to make some really terrifying things? Not sure for Elsecallers, they're generally open enough there might not really be enough of an archetype to break here. Lawyer Willshaper could be a good one too. Also, ancap Willshaper? lol Therapist Stoneward? Always being there when needed sounds like it could fit. (Alternatively, Stoneward-branded alarm clock ) Perhaps Stoneward congressional representative, trying to "be there" for broader metaphorical fights? Bondsmiths are both so vague and so rare that I'm not really sure on this one. Feels like there should be some good ones, too tired to think of any. CEO? On the negative end of things, a highly nationalistic Windrunner focused on "protecting the homeland" and ending up harming other places for the sake of this goal would be an interesting take on things (mainly because I get very tired of "this order bad, this order good" xD). Edgedancers could potentially have some "paradox of tolerance" problems if taken too far (though delving into that one is probably too political). Lightweaver psychologist could probably be a very terrifying person if they wanted, Lightweaving people's worst horrors. Bondsmith's got the obvious flaw of lending itself well to dictatorships.

When it undergoes a chemical reaction with water, yeah. I'd say the fact ettmetal is even capable of existing for a decent amount of time indicates they're probably not anti-Investitures, in my opinion. But our knowledge of this stuff is pretty limited, so I could be wrong and there's a way to keep Investiture and its anti together after all.

Not sure, breathing in the mists seems to be something else, since all Allomancers attract the mists a bit, but most can't breathe them, right? I think Pres probably did something specific with Vin to allow it. The fact Scadrial does not spontaneously combust makes me guess probably not.

That seems to be a mistake on the questioner's part, because both Khriss in AU and Brandon in other WoBs have said that Ambition was Splintered, and Harmony says something similar.

I'd guess probably not, since the mists aren't just actual mist but are gaseous Investiture. (Personally, I'm a fan of the theory that the reason the mists are attracted to Allomancers is that the bronzepulses are [probably, though question technically had wiggle room] to Preservation's tone.)

Shallan mentioned that Kalak mentioned it (RoW 115): This line from the Sibling slightly points to it too (RoW 49):

Yeah, I know, I was just trying to point out to people watching the thread that Final Empire standards must be really low

Answer seems to be that space stations might grow Cognitive space, but in general, space age isn't gonna have enough people actually in space to grow it.

Something to note: "plentiful" still means Mistings are around one in a thousand, and Ferrings even rarer (and Twinborn obviously even rarer: Wax is only the third known Twinborn of his type ever born), according to Khriss in BoM chapter 12. Allomancers and Feruchemists were just super rare in Era 1 (but Allomancers tended to be sent at one another, so we get a false impression of how many there really are).

Ah, I misunderstood, then. Yeah, agreed lol