Arcanist Lupus

The Roughs aren't the only place that they might want to communicate with. There are other cities as well.

I thought Brandon had said at one point that he was just there for the cameo. I could be wrong, though.

I don't know if it's actually Wit per se, but I agree that it's the Seventeenth Shard equivalent to the Heralds. Does Wit appear in any chapters where the Masked Man does not appear? Also, have you found any other correlations between characters appearing in chapters and the chapter heads? EDIT: I found one. The header that appears on the epilogue besides the Masked Man is the one in the upper left hand corner of the power chart. If number the orders using this system, that's Order #9, which is Taln's Order. And Taln shows up in the epilogue. EDITEDIT: Could they be a numbering system, like in AoL? I don't have my book with me, so I can't verify anything.

There's one in AoL. (more or less)

And no, he wasn't doing anything important. He was just there for the cameo.

Yes, but this was Kaladin's flashback book. This was the big chance to talk about his past. We can still reveal stuff about him, but the other books will be focused on other characters.

Again: Kaladin's Leading/Protecting attributes are what gives him access to his power. This is not the same as actually using the power.

The quote didn't say "in the West", it said "west of Alethala". Which includes the far west, but isn't restricted to it. And actually, Aimia (the big island) is farther west than Shinovar.

But not important enough to ever meet in person in Kaladin's flashback book. I agree with you, I just think it's odd.

All of this is according to Wikipedia. The first commercial telegraph was installed in 1845. Noncommercial lines were in place earlier than that. The first commercial automobile appears to have been sold in 1886. Early skyscrapers were built around 1890, and were about 10 stories tall. Finally, the lightbulb was commercialized in 1880. In AoL, the horseless carriage is a new invention, and lightbulbs were invented in the 20 years that Wax was away from the city. This pretty solidly puts Scadrial in the late 1880s or early 1890s both in general technological level and in electrical technological level. However, it's skyscrapers (which were expected to pass 50 stories) both exceed this timeframe dramatically. That means that on an Earth timeline, the telegraph should have been invented about 40 years earlier. However, technology is progressing faster on Scadrial, due to Sazed's copperminds. And of course, not everything is developing at the same rate, but I would assume that all electrical developments are tied together to some degree. Looking at this, I don't think I can bend the timeline enough to avoid the existence of the telegraph based solely on technological development. However, this doesn't completely eliminate the possibility of the absence of the telegraph. Perhaps early attempts to create a telegraph set things on fire, or exploded for some reason (I'm not even going to pretend I could come up with a reason why a telegraph would explode), and this set back telegraph development for some time. With such a centralized civilization, I suspect that independent development of technology was a lot less common than it was on Earth, and therefore a couple accidents could set back technology more than they would have on Earth.

'cause no character has ever been played by two actors in different movies. *cough*JamesBond*cough*

Good point. But at that point, Dalinar was only giving away his Blade (although he said he planned on giving it away), so that may have skewed the conversation a little bit. I see it either way.

I can't recall any mention of his skin tone (although logically a group of people who lived near the north pole would be as light as light could be). Rashek almost certainly lightened everybody's skin tone in general to cope with the reduced sunlight. So it is unlikely that Sazed is black. However, his notable physical traits are being tall and bald (well, completely shaven, technically) and he's supposed to be a separate race from the other characters, so it doesn't seem too suprising that actors fitting these three criteria would be chosen, even if the skin tone isn't quite logical. I just realized we've been leaving out a critical character! Who's going to play Hoid?

I suspect it would fall under the category of "theoretically possible, but practically impossible", with the exception of the living essences (Blood, Pulp, Sinew, etc)

This is completely absurd (and yet no more so than half the other theories I've seen around here). I do question the likelihood of the Nightwatcher preforming a massive mind wipe and a resurrection for the sake of one person, especially as I can't see how it would add the plot. I like the idea for it's audacity, though.

Do we have any evidence that Syl doesn't hate Plate, or do we just lack evidence that Syl does hate Plate?

Have a cookie!

Of course, you get access to power on Scadrial by being born into it (or stabbed with it), you get access to power on Nalthis by having a lot of Breath, and you get access to power on Sel by being randomly chosen (or being sent to a demon monastery). Don't confuse getting access to power, and using that power. These are two separate things.

Good point, too.

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I've described my theory on Shardic equilibrium over here

Cool maybe, but I don't think it's likely. For one thing, I'm having real difficulty coming up with a scenario in which Szeth attacks Shallan.

I hope that all the characters are cool.

Here it is!

Urithiru. Home of the KR. Also, the 9 large swords stuck into the ground somewhere.