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I agree with what you said here, but those quotes don't really confirm it. The fused got the first ideas for anti-Light from Shards telling about antimatter. From RoW Chapter 65:

A big problem here is that the CEO changed from a man with eons of experience to a new guy. When Navani and Raboniel discovered anti-Light, Rayse didn't do much - but Taravangian did. Taravangian might not have gotten the knowledge Rayse had access to at that point.

I always assumed that the reason Shards don't give away technology was to prevent people from killing their planets Ashyn-style and becoming disinterested in research and science, like Sazed inadvertently did to the people of the Basin. In Odium's case specifically, he already pushed humans to experiment with magic they already had - and they nuked their planet. Not the best approach to raising an army for galactic conquest, especially when your forces are mentally fragile.

I assume you mean that the news of mortals having anti-Light is what surprised Odium, not the anti-Light itself. It would be weird if a Shard didn't know something about the fundamentals of the cosmere and Investiture.

Is it an actual object, or is it some sort of unreachable backdrop thing? Is it a star or some natural Invested lightbulb that provides illumination? Could you go to it on a plane or a rocket?

Ash and smoke are exactly what you get in an early industrial revolution - there's just not enough people in the Basin for it to really show. Not really Neuromancery, yes, but I doubt that a bunch of regular old humans could pollute so badly that the sky will change color.

RoW Chapter Two:

Elendel factories are doing that already. Shadows of Self Chapter 3:

Most likely, I think. Maybe a conjoiner made out of musicspren or something like that. There is a chance that Roshar might be stuck with Spanreeds for some time, but fabrials should allow for some form of voice communication.

I always assumed that she was talking to her spren. Modern fabrials are a new thing, so I doubt it's anything technological.

It seems that it's one of those religious themes Brandon wants to explore. Like the Bible being a retelling of real events that got changed and mistified more and more with each retelling/revision.

The first half of Stormlight takes place about ten years before the Wax and Wayne series - around 300 years after the Catacandre. Meaning that Kelsier had a little less than that to establish the Ghostbloods because he arrived at the south 10 to 20 years after the Final Ascension.

Tones and rhythms are not unique to a planet or a Shard - they are a property of all Investiture. Bronze pulses are rhythms of Allomancy, in a way. Rhythms are sounds, so you could write them down. Finding a rhythm on your own seems to require either training or supernatural help, so I incline towards it being possible with Perfect Pitch. All Investiture manifests in three states: Gaseous - the Mist on Scadrial, the Lights on Roshar, and Breath on Nalthis. Liquid - in stationary Perpendicularities. Metal - Atium, Lerasium, Raysium, Trellium, Harmonium, Sharblade metal, and so on. They have different properties, but still fit into one of those categories. Apparently, color is also important but the places where it shows are not necessarily numerous. So congratulations, you have figured out cosmere mechanics on your own!

I'm not saying that he isn't important. Dalinar, as a character, is someone who represents "Journey before destination." He conquered and murdered, only to realize that his entire life was a string of atrocities and start doing better. Taravangian was a regular monarch who discovered that the apocalypse is coming - and began doing whatever it took to save humanity. He has a much more utilitarian view of the Immortal words - to him, the Last Desolation is just calculus. No matter how many people die right now, as long as humanity survives at the end, "Life before death" is achieved because there are people to live. Raboniel is a mix between Navani and Taravangian for Odium's side. She will do everything it takes to get Roshar back to the Singers. Moash is the opposite of "Journey before destination." He doesn't accept responsibility for his actions, instead choosing to give up uncomfortable emotions. He doesn't have any reason to do what he does other than what Odium told him. He has no desire to improve, only for life to be easy. If there wasn't a narrative need for an antagonist to be someone whom the protagonists and readers know, from Oathbringer and forward, Moash could've been replaced with any random murderer from the street and serve the same function in the plot. Dalinar, Raboniel, and Taravangian are at the point where if you add more atrocities to their past, they wouldn't change as characters. That's what I mean by counting bad guy points. If you were a judge in a court, those would be relevant, and Moash would be tried for murder and possibly treason, while Dalinar, Raboniel, and Taravangian would be tried for crimes against humanity and war crimes. But as characters in a fictional work, D, R, and T are doing what they do to achieve something, while Moash just keeps kicking the proverbial dog from Oatbringer and on because it's easy.

In your first topic, you were surprised that Moash is hated so much when there are characters who are objectively worse than him. But people don't hate characters based on how many bad guy points they have. Taravangian can systematically murder the powerless, Raboinel can create biological weapons, and Dalinar can commit war crimes while still being more sympathetic to the average reader because of what they represent in the series than someone who kicks children, murders drunkards, and convinces their friends to commit suicide.

-Rhythm of War, chapter 61 -Rhythm of War, chapter 49 The first quote makes more sense to me if the shield is turning the air from the pillar to the edge of its influence to glass, a solid sphere, rather than hollow, otherwise it should be possible to smash through it, and once you can do that you can get inside, if you cannonball through. I didn't mean that it was hollow but that a spherical shell around a soft human is not as strong structurally as a sphere made entirely of glass, or even a glass shell around another solid object. There are videos on youtube of people shooting or otherwise damaging spheres made of solid glass. You can see there that they distribute the energy around the surface quite well, and the worst damage is from glass being layered. But when there is a person inside the benefit of the sphere diminishes severely. First, humans being roughly taller than wider makes it so that some parts of the sphere have less glass than the others. Next, unless the person inside is wearing Shardplate, they would still get wounded by the force of the impact going through the sphere. Sure, but a projectile made of soft or brittle material is still less dangerous than regular or jacketed lead if they hit armor.

Even if soulcasting a solid into gas is too costly in terms of Stormlight, you can just turn it into other solids - like rock, wood, ice, and so on. Should be extremely effective regardless. The minimal viable version would be attached to a separate hull/armor plate and soulcast air into necessary material. I think that it should be possible to attach that fabrial to the entire hull, but who knows.

Radiant hamsters are the best thing I heard today.

Because a solid glass sphere is no longer solid glass when there is a human inside. And I was thinking that a personal armor suit wouldn't be a literal glass sphere, but a regular piece of armor that can regrow on its own.

That is debatable - I lean towards a no or a kind-off. Living in a state where you can't do anything immoral is not exactly the same as choosing not to when you are tempted. What I tried to say in a sentence you quoted is that morality wasn't really a concept relevant to tribes of hunter-gatherers and the like. Because not every species has the same values. An intelligent mushroom or insect would have a very different perspective on some things we consider moral because they would be irrelevant to them in the first place. We might just have to disagree on that. I absolutely agree that what we consider moral is biological in origin, but a being has to have reasoning beyond instincts to exercise those values, whatever they are to them.

It's not like morality exists somewhere in a vacuum - humans only began exhibiting moral behavior when society(-ies) formed. If it is somehow beyond what humanity imagined, every species across the universe has to have the same morals as we, despite having nothing in common with us.

They would have to scale it down for it to be effective as a personal shield. Also, in this application, it wouldn't be effective against firearms. Regenerating armor is useful, but it doesn't help the person if it got penetrated. It seems more useful for structures and/or mechanisms than people, at least if I'm not missing anything. The coolest use for that fabrial I came up with is soulcasting air/water into air, for deep-sea exploration. But in practical terms, it could make Roharan vehicles, like the Forth Bridge or Navani's sphere, practically indestructible.

The Basin discovering southerners should be enough motivation to at least try catching up technologically. Their main slowing factor is Sazed making the land into a practical paradise. He practically removed the need for people to adapt, especially compared to the Final Empire. Not only strength but the plate section have to be connected to the breastplate via other parts. There were a few scenes where our characters had to discard a section because the one next to it was destroyed/depleted.

That is indeed what I meant. If that was all it did, iron and steel Allomancy would work like a bubble-shaped force field.

I second this. If anything could shatter a Plate section, it would be the main character with a special gun that fires special bullets. And given what happened in RoW, I assume that the one-bullet method involves anti-Investiture.