Asmodean

I must have glossed right over that.

These are all very good points. Another thing I am wondering, so the Shroud existed for 1700 years, constantly attracting new Spirits. But why would the Shroud dissipate almost immediately when the machine is stopped? Surely after the initial slaughter of the nation 1700 years ago they only got a trickle of Spirits afterwards. So why would the Shroud persist the entire time but then go away so quickly?

Favorite WoT character is Mat. Favorite cosmere character (so far) is Wayne My favorite secret project so far is Tress

I actually just finished secret project 3, so I have read everything published to date

Excited to be here and ready all discussion and crazy theories about the Cosmere

How did the machine get Awakened in the first place? It seems like the yoki-hijo were the only humans that showed any signs of Investiture, and we have seen that Awakening metal objects takes a lot of Breathes and therefore a lot of Investiture. The small machine was able to be kick-started by a single spirit, but it seems like that wouldn't nearly be enough to match the 1000 Breathes, or however many, that it takes to Awaken a non-human object like that. Especially since that even happened 1700 years ago so probably even before the contemporary novels. Or maybe I just missed something