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I assume the sunlight aether corresponds to spark essence. As for Crimson essence we don't really know what the spikes are made out of, could be Blood. But Blood as described in the Ten Essences would be weird in the aetheric system for the same reason slatrification was decanonized.

The Coppermind is actually inconsistent here. Some places say "mastered" sand which implies it only nullifies kinetic investiture, while other places say "Invested" sand which implies kinetic or static. Obviously it wouldn't do anything to regular sand. In regards to MoGaR I think they should only be mentioned as a possible asset in the Shard or Allies section since we have not seen them on Taldain (unless you plan to also include them for First of the Sun which still feels weird).

From the way it's presented it doesn't stop sandmastery directly; it devests the sand itself.

Not sure how important this would be since the the chemical make up of polestones on Roshar don't seem to effect how it interacts with the Investiture systems

Seems like it doesn't talk much... if at all? Maybe they only communicate to their specific Heralds and not other wielders.

Access to terken oil which seems to nullify Investiture in a way similar to either aluminum or silver. Access to Investiture is probably even more easy than on Roshar given that it is delivered by the sun rather than having to wait for a storm to come by. Starmarks which we don't really have specifics of but can be used to make blades and shield capable of stopping bullets. You kinda just glossed over sandmastery. I don't really see it as very helpful in large scale war efforts but maybe discuss some strengths and weaknesses Do we know if the men of red and gold originate from taldain or are they possibly from another planet Autonomy controls.

Well we have only seen half of the 12. I'm assuming we haven't seen Illuminous either (I think the sunlight aether is different). But yeah those seem to work differently in AoN since they seem to change the host itself which might no longer be the case anymore.

I don't know if water actually kills them or if it removes their terken based invulnerability to Sandmastery meaning they can just be killed afterwards

Taldain’s sun is Invested. The sand color change reacts to Investiture, not sunlight specifically.

While I agree the tablet being solar powered might just be mundane, we do know that Autonomy seems to be the most active in multiple systems so that could account for multiple stars being Invested by it as a possible MO.

To be fair using “at the Shattering” as a clue answer would be like saying “Colonel Mustard, with the candlestick, at the scene of the murder” rather than where the murder/Shattering actually takes place, assumedly “on Yolen”.

So Khriss in the Ars Arcanum notes that Ruin is subservient to Preservation which I take to mean that while Ruin is stronger than Preservation Sazed own personal Intent is what is tipping the scales but it is specifically this that keeps him tied up rather than the actual dichotomous nature of the Shards and as time goes on he will be less able to keep Ruin’s Intent suppressed.

Her comments to Hoid in the letters imply that she was part of the original 16.

I don’t know how lawful evil Brandon likes to get but technically with the wording of that question Brandon’s answer could refer to Dominion, Devotion, Ambition all of which are not being held by their original Vessels.

I don’t think it works this way. Gold would heal the damage the dehydration is doing to your body but I don’t think it would actually be creating water for the aether to then use. I think theoretically you could “Aetherbind” until the proverbial well runs dry at which point the aetherbinding stops with the gold healing keeping you from dying from the dried out well but the well is still dry so no further aetherbinding after or during the gold healing (have I said “well” enough times?).

The Preservation in humanity causes it to be weaker in the Shard not more. It’s why Ruin was able to kill Leras the first go around. More humans would cause Sazed to imbalance away from Preservation not towards it. Also several billion for era three is very generous. The average doubling time on earth is 60 years. Scadrial’s total population is probably less (probably a lot less) than 250 million currently. Even taking a fast doubling time of 30 years Scadrial would just be hitting 1 billion 60 years after TLM. Era 3 is 1980’s level development so technically about 80 years from Era 2’s level but they seem to be progressing faster than Earth did.

Epilogue 4: I will make an addendum this is actually Kelsier’s PoV thus susceptible I feel to more unreliable narrator. But it lines up with a lot of WoBs about Ruin being stronger.

Sure but still doesn’t address Sazed saying he’s never been in balance.

Well like I basically said earlier I’m sure Passion felt right to Rayse.

Well there is the quote, from Sazed’s POV even, that he was never in balance which by a strict interpretation of the term means he could never have truly been Harmony.

It’s possible that it reaches equilibrium at some point. Maybe the more aethers there are on the planet the quicker they degrade or recycle or whatever.

Don’t care for audio books myself but obviously I want more choices for all the other fans that do. It does seem weird for the Secret Projects not to get them but they are published in house unlike the other novels (SfSitFoH also doesn’t have a Graphic Audio version). Not sure how often the Dragonsteel team monitors these forums though.

Fate if anything sounds more like a Dawnshard (unless they are actually all verbs) than a Shard (although I could see it being a combined Shard name) but I think he’s just anthropomorphizing Fate/Fortune as a concept.

Wax also repeats the tenfold multiplication and this is after both the Words of Founding was written and Compounders became more common. So I take the statement at face value. Your WOB doesn’t support that it is more or less powerful just states that Feruchemy is now being powered by the Shard. This WOB implies that compounding burn rate is proportional to the amount of investiture stored in the metalmind meaning it would be multiplicative. But I will acknowledge there is no explicit WOB on what the rate actually is. I did not know we were only taking into account cases where the antagonist is more powerful but lost. I thought it was just the more powerful person lost regardless of role in the novel.

Look, interspersing “satirical” counterarguments that aren’t lampshaded isn’t a great move since it relies on the “it was just a joke” defense when called out which is never a good look. No. The first would have 14 (1 compounded to 10 + 4 stored) breaths worth at the end while the second would have 50 (5 compounded to 50) per TFE epilogue. I was unaware that was another criteria. Leshwi beating Sigzil. Admitted she was equipped with a raysium spear. But he had a shardblade/spear and two surges vs her one surge and the raysium spear. However this is also a supposed more powerful protagonist losing. Well I’d say Vasher won that fight but again Kal is the protagonist so it will be disregarded as a valid example. I’ve been trying to stay out of crossing wires with different people but this feels like moving goalposts again.