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It's implied they existed before the Shattering or at least naturally developed from stuff put in place before the Shattering I believe.

I did make the Nale/Azir laws connection actually as well in the original post not just him being Makabaki. I do agree that with how little we know about the Heralds and the Silver Kingdoms it is hard to correlate them individually and that some of my connections are tenuous at best. Jezrien being Herald of Kings actually makes me think of Urithiru but that was built later and results in an eleventh possible location. Chanarach is called Herald of the Common Man; what does that entail? I even have a theory that would be bolstered by her appearing near Narak rather than Kalak as I postulated. And yeah some fit several places like Tukar and Tashikk (parts of ancient Makabakam) being named after Taln and Ishar respectively. I'm mainly just brainstorming here.

Do we know if singers actually breastfeed or do they just have a secondary sex characteristic that resembles that of humans? There are a lot of non mammals that have secondary sex characteristic that run the gamut of features.

Since he never directly says the group of Ghostblood members are not Skybreakers or that they are just Coinshots both of these options actually rely on assumptions. Option 2 does have more assumptions though so you can argue Ockham's Razor (which has it's own flaws) but does Ockham's Razor beat Chekov's Gun?

Invested metals in this context does not mean godmetals. It means metalminds with an active Feruchemical charge. The WOB is specifically about leeching from twinborns. Whether Allomantically burning metals actually requires a bit of investiture to “turn the key” so to speak I don’t know. Just wanted to clarify that WOB.

Probably to show why the hair needs such attention. None of the pictures show braids this is true but tresses can be used to described freely blowing hair.

Additionally it might not work this way but possibly they got off world without maintaining their powers but then hacked it to bypass that via something like unfiltered Dor or Nicrosil Medallions.

Taln seemingly returns in Alethkar near the Kolinar Oathgate (although not via it). Taln is the Herald of War and during the Silver Kingdoms era (and even now) Alethkar/Alethela was the kingdom devoted to war. Can the other Heralds be attributed to specific kingdoms that they might have returned to first during the Desolations. Nale is described as Mabaki and his legalism could be aligned with Azish culture who now control the Mabakabam Oathgate. Valhav containing both the Horneater Peaks and the Valley could be the kingdom for Vedel, the patron of Edgedancers/Cultivationspren. There really isn't a Herald that is the patron of commerce that could align with the Thaylen Oathgate but the Silver Kingdom of Thalath included Kharbranth which is connected to Pailiah. Ishar I could see being either the Shin Oathgate; he is described as looking Shin and it most likely be where he first brought everyone from Ashyn. Alternatively as the Herald of Mysteries I could see him connected to Aimia but Aimia also fits with Battar due to the connection with Soulcasting. The Iri Oathgate being in Rall Elorim the City of Shadows makes me think Shalash and Lightweavers. I'm not sure where to place Kalak, Jezrien, and Chanarach in relation to Rishir/Kuth, Natanatan/Narak, and Sela Tales/Panatham. Kalak is connected to metallurgy so maybe Narak which is close to some mountains otherwise I am at a lose with these three. Any thoughts or am I one of the Ten Fools (probably Eshu, although I'd prefer to be Cabine).

If singer-human relations resulted in the stone like fingernails of the Herdazians could a chull crossed with a horse have created the stone like hooves of the Rhyshadium?

Obviously he didn't otherwise wouldn't be having this conversation but maybe I'm giving too much credit to an author's specific phrasing than I should be.

Brandon proceeded to describe why it would be weird for them to be Skybreakers while specifically avoiding saying “they’re not Skybreakers”. If he didn’t want us theorizing along these lines he should have just shut the train of thought down rather than talk around the issue.

Well its from the trunked AoN novel where it turned the user into some sort of metal machine called a corpate. Aethers seemed to have changed a bit since his first draft though. I assume it functions similar to roseite but with generating metal rather than crystal. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Taravangian was the tool of a Shard better at manipulating than Odium. Same with Kel, Vin, Zane, with Preservation and Ruin. I said as much three posts ago but as long as you finally caught up, it’s ok for me. Actually since Investiture is finite then Fortune is as well. Whether practically feasible it is theoretically possible to manipulate someone else’s by accumulating enough for yourself.

That is the connection I am making. That possibly the Alethi used to fight the same way but as their views on genders changed it evolved to what we see now but still having this it being a spousal endeavor theme. Obviously there isn’t enough evidence either way, just a shower thought.

I mean I have two Dawnshards, time is on my side. Not sure where you are getting the equation of mass of metal to how much an attribute can be stored in it though. No. That doesn’t contradict that it wouldn’t generate infinite luck, it’s basically just a RAFO with more wording. I’m not influencing anyone else’s fortune. I am only influencing my Fortune to be higher than all my opponents by a great enough margin that I win the competition.

So like chromium compounding backed by 2 dawnshards (which still leaves me 30+ points to spare) or backed by a 976 point Boon?

If Destiny is something that can be stolen then Luck can most likely be stored. As for your frag grenade question my guess would be probability amplitude or other quantum related shenanigans. Nothing cited has overridden the Feruchemy chart (which I realize is in universe and susceptible to unreliable narrator but still needs a convincing enough argument to disregard). But anyways I’m not actually using compounded to kill anyone; I’m using it (backed by two Dawnshards) to win the competition. The hows of my Fortune achieving that are immaterial to me; it Final Destinationing everyone is just flavor text. Same argument for a 1000 point boon to win the competition.

He’s not using chromium but the underlying principle, assumedly Fortune. But just because Hoid uses it that way (which is also suspect given Brandon stating Hoid “doesn’t know why”) doesn’t mean it can only be used in that one specific way.

My only quibble would be the semantic of it being phrased around Vin vs Kaladin. Even if you argue Vin beats Wax which is a logical assumption (although I can see some arguments against) it could be a weird rock-paper-scissors thing instead of just a transitive property thing. Possibly because I’d argue that Wax has more of a soldier mentality than Vin does which might make him a better match up for Kaladin than she would.

Then default to my first statement. But also counterpoint: Rayse had trouble seeing it but Cultivation seemed to be able to account for it with her future sight stuff.

I assume there is a WOB for this. How exactly is it worded? I actually don’t have an axehound in this fight just playing Odium’s advocate.

And for my (1000 point) boon… I win this competition. Bane: I lose the trophy recognizing said accomplishment. I’m not using Fortune to divine the future though, just manipulate my own luck. And it’d be really lucky for me if you forgot to bring it with you on the day of the competition.

I just noticed that the Parshendi conducting military operation in their warpairs is vaguely similar to how the Alethi family unit operates during war. I wonder if there is a common cultural or societal ancestor to the phenomena with the Alethi diverging as the separate spheres ideology was pushed to the extreme. Or maybe I’m just making connection where none was intended.

They also talk about building Urithiru “the place closest to Honor” and we still don’t know the exact meaning of that (at least I don’t). Could it be elevation related? Near where Cultivation hangs out? Does Honor have a secret shardpool? Also is it weird that Nightwatcher’s Valley and Cultivation’s Shardpool aren’t collocated?

I assume the “Final Metal” is meant to be a godmetal but godmetals are described by Brandon in terms of of being super-“regular metal group” with Harmonium being a super alkali and Atium being super platinide so Autonomy’s metal (assumedly) could be super actinide. Although given the Intent noble gas element seem to fit better thematically.