Nitpicking

I'm wondering about the logistics of making thousands of Soulstamps, though. One "This field was farmed by dedicated farmers until yesterday" stamp is just one stamp. You don't have to make individual stamps for every soldier. You can't reuse a Soulstamp, as far as I know. Yes, as a matter of fact, I am trying to make Forgers into Elantrians, able to do anything they can "code" into a stamp.

"Wit leapt to his feet. 'I'm an absolute fool! The most awe-inspiring, spectacular example of idiocy this side of the cosmere." Translating Wit: "I'm an absolute fool! I am the most awe-inspiring, spectacular example of idiocy short of the creation of the Cosmere (which was even more idiotic)."

That's just silly. He sacrificed 1000 years of his life to preserve the world from destruction. You don't like his methods, but his intent was always good. Except Susebron. The God-Kings have normal human lifespan, apparently. Read the Warbreaker annotations. Raoden isn't necessarily even a dictator. Even granting the above, which I do not necessarily grant, and forgetting that Soulcasters could just make tons of it out of stone, there are lots of other explosives that don't require sulfur. The cheapest is probably ANFO. Explosives don't care about atmospheric oxygen. The whole point of the nitrates is to supply oxygen for the reaction (technically, to replace it). They don't consume any oxygen from air. Ask chemistry major Brandon if you don't believe me. Note: I consider candles dangerous here on Earth. Because they are. However, very few Alethi buildings, at least, seem to be very flammable.

Hoid is telling the story truthfully, according to his lights. To Wit, "narrative truth" is more important (sometimes) than faithful recounting of facts. Do you think Dog and Dragon really happened? I'm sure Hoid would tell you he was telling a larger truth in that tale.

Perhaps Hoid thinks creating the Cosmere was idiotic? Brandon denies Hoid ever breaks the fourth wall, but I can see him using our favorite showoff to engage in a little self-mockery.

This is a minor side point, but why would you say that Roshar doesn't have sulfur? Gunpowder only requires sulfur, charcoal (which they can certainly make) and a source of nitrates. Nitrates can be extracted from pee (and in medieval/Renaissance Europe, that's that they actually did). What material is missing for internal combustion engines? Not steel, we know they have that. Are you thinking of petroleum for fuel (and Vasher's lecture on fossils)? You can burn any flammable liquid in an IC engine. Notably, biodiesel is literally oil squeezed out of seeds. Like I say, that doesn't affect your larger point, but I do not understand what you mean.

I have always assumed that lurchers can see ironlines, like the steel lines that coinshots see. OTOH, compounding iron would be very hard to use. "I can dramatically increase my own weight and fall through this floor!" Admittedly, Wax did use that trick once.

I don't think anyone, including Kaladin, has claimed that Kaladin is perfect. He only claims to be improving. Journey Before Destination. Dalinar's Third Ideal is actually a restatement of (part of) the First.

Is that really easier than just having food and campsites? How many Forgers are you assuming the army has? Would it be better than Forgers who can make crops grow out of barren ground by Stamping the dirt with "This was a cultivated field"? The latter would be very close to how Soulcasters feed Rosharan armies.

Certainly. I mentioned it because another person upthread was talking about a Fullborn combatant.

I gave three possibilities in the previous message?

No. Radiants don't heal infinitely, only to the limit of their Stormlight. If you limit the Mistborn's metals, you must impose a reasonable limit on the Radiant's Stormlight. Once you allow compounding, all bets are off. Just compounding a metal as common as steel is terrifying--see Paalm for examples.

Kaladin's parentage, my own crackpot theory: We learn in the discussion of Adolin's name that the "-in" ending means "son of". Kalad is one of Vasher's names, attested in Warbreaker. So Kaladin must be Vasher's son. A heretic has to be (or claim to be) a member of the religion. Someone like me, who is a member of no religion, is an infidel, not a heretic. The Catholic Inquisition could burn heretics (professed Christians who didn't follow their teachings) at the stake. Professed non-Christians would normally only be subject to exile.

It's odd to say the conditions are meant to be fair, then give the Unoathed hundreds of pounds of god metals (shardblades and Plate are made of god metals) and the mistborn none.

I already said this, but the US forces (if in a historical period where competently led) would find a local faction to support, not just try to defeat everyone. Singers vs. Ashynians? Conquered and dominated humans vs. Alethi militarists? Militarists as useful puppets to rule everyone else?

If I was a Coinshot and knew about Plate in advance I'd bring along some chains. They're a liability when fighting other Metalborn, but against one of the Unoathed they'd be super useful.

We've "heard" Radiant Plate talk, but not quite that eloquently ("Shallan!"). And note, we've never "heard" Fifth Ideal Plate. Is the dead Plate that awakened for the Unoathed maybe a remnant of a Fifth Ideal bond?

If you include the Unmade you kind of need to include the three Bondsmith spren: the Stormfather, the Nightwatcher, and (already mentioned) the Sibling. I put the Stormfather above most (all but one) of the Unmade. Only Ba-Ado-Mishram can (like the three Bondsmith spren) grant Light.

You wrote "shattered". Means the same thing in this case, but Brandon's people (in-world) refer to "splintered" for Shards and "the Shattering" for Adonalsium. Note: in my reply I originally typed "shattered" myself, but then my nitpicking reflexes kicked in and I corrected what I had typed.

We know that the Mistborn series after the Ghostbloods one (due out starting 2027) is the space war, between the post-Voidlight Roshar and the post-Ghostbloods Scadrial, or rather factions they lead.

OP posited that Odium was splintered.

Which time period are we talking? Wax and Wayne era, Shai does. I'm not sure (maybe I am just not remembering) whether she could do that in Emperor's Soul.

Finally figured it out. When Taravangian does the big reveal about Jasnah's old assassination plan, here's how it should have gone:

I'm referring to the belief among many (notably Jews) that the "first" fulfillment really happened, but the second "fulfillment" was just Jesus deliberately trying to match a prophecy (riding a donkey into Jerusalem) or made up by Gospel writers long after Jesus's death (notably Joseph's flight to Egypt, which really couldn't have happened as written).

The trouble is, you can't (in the Emperor's Soul period) make a generic "horse" fast. You'd need to craft a custom stamp for that horse.