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They might be excellent guide relative to the time period they are being called excellent guides in. Or they are good going from known point A to known point B while Navigators are better with uncharted areas.

Me. I plan to in the Stonewalkers campaign (well I guess not in the timeframe of that but like in some post campaign session). I also want Nale's larkin.

Ch 51 page 388 Should "wise" be capitalized here? It looks like it's being used as a byname a la Alexander the Great.

Jess in shambles right now

One thing to also note: we don't know the original builders of the city of Elantris. It was found abandoned by the ancestors of the modern Aonic people. This tidbit is used in some Long Trail theories (along with the abandonment of the Diem) but could fit here instead.

I can accept your criteria and agree that with Sarene it was guided by ulterior motives. But Hrathen while not maybe a rejection of pessimism I would describe as overcoming cynicism which might be close enough. I guess that then would be depending on how you frame it.

Actually Brandon has described Yolen as Bronze Age at the time of the Shattering, at least for IRL tech level but supplements it with generally high arcana level.

Mirris is a "streamer" (pretty sure was in SotD) and is stated to have the same mind shielding as Kokerlii and Rokke iirc

Would not the whole plot surrounding creating a new community in exile be HopePunk? Similarly wouldn't Sarene working to show the lords that there is a better way be HopePunk (sorta it still is feudal in the end). I could even see an argument for Hrathen's arc being HopePunk as he struggles with his religion but comes to the conclusion that it is not inherently flawed or doomed to fail. If you agree with those, then all three main POV characters would be HopePunk. Would it not follow that the whole story is HopePunk?

Not really because that still means aluminum is doing more than just blocking investiture. It is also forcing your body to also burn the other metals. Otherwise the scene where Vin is captured doesn't work. (Sidenote: Brandon toyed with actually having it be silver in that scene before going with aluminum for the reference to its scarcity in the corresponding IRL historical period but then undercuts that reasoning by introducing electrum.) Similarly aluminum doesn't just block the flow of other types of investiture but actively flushes them. For example if I am holding Stormlight and burn aluminum the stormlight doesn't just leak from my body at the regular pace but is unusable, it is removed from my system. This doesn't even get into aluminum is able to be feruchemically or hemalurgically charged. I don't think it should be able to be charged because I don't think it should be able to hold investiture like that. And can you even compound it then? You might say silver replacing it causes similar issues but to me silver interacting with investiture one way and then interacting with it another way is more logical than aluminum being investiture inert except in this specific case. I could see aluminum having a use by blocking a person from burning any metals at all because it causes a shadow that makes the magic system not recognizing the person. But it should exist outside the 16 metals imo.

I have been looking at what silver does across the cosmere. I say in my post that is exactly why I think this. Additionally, Allomantic aluminum doesn't just block the flow. It actively wipes all the stored metals. To me that sounds like silver's dispersal of Investiture. It's obviously not super destructive otherwise the fused would have been using it against Spren more.

Hoid talks about (assumedly) Yolen similarly but I don't think the Proto-Eelakin are from Yolen.

So my first thought here is Aona and Skai but that contradicts a WoB about that being before Ambition's splintering although it's possible but unlikely that the migration started before that with both occurring during it. If the migration took multiple generations the mythic Cakoban could be a composite character of multiple historical migration leaders but only named after the final one. Alternatively the giants clashing could be some form of war between two superpower cultures.

Naked is sexy. I will say I doubt it reduced pollution. Contact with the Ones Above jump started or at least turbocharged the Eelakin Industrial Revolution. That tends to lead to more pollution, not less. Labor conditions can be iffy, most likely it transitioned from a workshop system to a factory system which can come with its own hazards. I do agree with the medical benefits.

I don't think there is a bottom to the unsea. Starling doesn't describe subastrals as jutting out of it but that is just becomes incorporeal. This implies to me that one could fly under the solid ground of a solid subastral.

I know silver was originally going to be in the place of tin but I think given how it interact with other forms of Investiture it should have had the place of aluminum in the Metallic Arts. I get that Sanderson wanted a secret/rare metal and Scadrial is our closest Earth analogue with Era mapping onto the late Age of Enlightenment which predates the discovery of the Wohler and Bayer processes. But Sanderson then immediately undercuts this by also have electrum (a silver alloy even) as a secret metal which doesn't have a similar corresponding IRL history. I also just don't think aluminum should be allomantically, feruchemically, or hemalurgically viable at all.

Reading a bit about this emerging (at least in the sense of recently becoming codified) genre made me think about Sanderson. I am only familiar with his cosmere work but assume similar themes generally show up across his works. Curious to see if people think he qualifies or is it not central enough to his stories?

Also a possibility. If so I could see it being reference to trune and fainlife but that might be too early.

No. This all seems correct. Daccwaga seems to be something from the Eelakin homeworld's culture and predates the migration. What I am pointing out is the myth has Cakoban encountering and defeating the Entity that would become the Dakwara before finding the perpendicularity while the Dusk's vision shows that he only learned about the Entity being in the area after having found the perpendicularity.

Right but even then in the vision it didn't sound like Cakoban knew about the Dakwara until after reaching Patji and then going back out to explore more while in the myth the Dakwara is chasing them from before they ever reached Patji.

Yeah but we don't really know what's going on with the fish, whether it's innate or via some sort symbiosis. We don't know the specific parallels. And honestly the worms are all kinds of weird with the implication that they metamorphosis into a cognitive entities for the adult stage of their life cycle. There's also the possibility that Brandon is Orson Scott Carding here.

Assumedly there is a specific symbiotic relationship going on here that was coevolved, seemingly for birds. Not sure it would carry over to felines or canines (at least the latter are on First of the Sun though). There is implication that the powers (in general, not specific) pass through trophic levels though when Dusk eats the skullsnake so who knows.

Side tangent but Malwish and Basin relationships might be similar to Fjordel and Arelon. Not sure retreading that type of political dynamic would be interesting though.

Not necessarily the only method, just the only one we've seen so far Explicitly not the case per WoB and just the parshmen in general

I wonder if this was to obfuscate if Retribution is still a thing at this point, either split, or god forbid became trishardic.