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Ba-ado mishram actually has a bavadinium(trellium) spike, which along with odium's pool allowed her to connect to the singers and break away from odium, granting the singers autonomy (did you see what i did there?) ultimately, BAM's unstable nature is due to odium and autonomy's intent clashing within her- not allowing her to trust anyone, and hate everyone. The singers' quest to break free is one of the factors leading to the recreance tensoon and kaladin

That does make sense to be honest. Huh, so non allomantic metals might preserve aluminium's blocking property, while copper might push it towards duralimin(and give you a headache). I imagine intent does not play into it then.

From what I understood from the text was that spren slowly grow more self aware as they exist in the physical realm- so chatgpt wasn't my first thought for them (especially with the ickiness of gen ai) They do deserve moral consideration, and are seen to make decisions for themselves, as seen in wind and truth, one of them even becoming an unoathed. I don't think they deserve the consideration of being gods though- by the logic of "they are tiny bits of investiture made self aware hence they are a god", all of scadrial would be dieties. Iirc the lesser spren already existed on roshar before the death of adonalsium- so lesser spren have only started becoming self aware now in the timeline, when navani changed the way fabrials are created because of her changed world view now that she has bonded to the sibling. Again, they became self aware because navani treated them as self aware and tried to (and succeeded) in giving them a choice to being in a fabrial. It's not very different from how you use ox in a field, in my view. Also, navani still believes in vorinism, so sibling isn't a god to her, just a higher spren Quotes from wind and truth: The text does show that yhe sibling initially rejected fabrials because they seemed unnatural to them. However, upon seeing the way the fabrials are now being constructed, the sibling sees that it is not inhumane(insprenane?) When the text itself shows it as giving the spren agency, I fear I do not understand where it seems like slavery. Would you call going to work to earn money for sustenance slavery? The lesser spren seem to require attention to remain longer in the physical realm the same way I think.

I read (somewhere on this website) that you can use aluminium for bullets, even though the metal itself isn't very good for making bullets. You can make an alloy of aluminium which still behaves like aluminium and is not affected by pushing/pulling. So if you start making duralumin, for example, would there be a point where it stops behaving like aluminium?

hi, i'm a bit unsure about the mechanics of shardblades, but a deadeye blade- does summoning it use stormlight? because iirc, a living blade needs investiture right? (from tsm)

macha tbh it just sounds like you're hate reading stormlight at this point. i get that different people engage with media differently, but it is stated in the text that kal's intention was that the listeners only shoot him, not any other bridge. and the result was that there were no bridgemen dead. the intention was not to lure them into a trap. and when you look at it- in all the battles before, the listeners chose to target the defenceless bridgemen as easy pickings, rather than the soldiers. the listeners are not morally absolved because of kal using their corpses. despite the honor they show later in fighting dalinar one on one rather than dogpiling, they do not show that honor to the bridgemen, a fact which sadeas makes use of. i feel like that is the point sanderson wanted to make in this series- it might not be true in all fantasy novels, but here it is clear that no side is morally absolved in a war.

would nightblood be affected by anti-investiture on a giant scale? iote spoilers:

i think that's why the apology was done after we know about the listeners, about the singers, after we know more about them. the way i saw it, it was wrong, but the bridgemen were themselves in a death trap, and kaladin saw preserving the lives of people more important than the sensibilities of the dead. yeah, it was a difficult decision, but that was the point of it- that in war, there is no right or wrong side, that both sides lose common people, that both sides have their own story which needs to be told. the common soldier may not know why he is fighting, but he knows that he's fighting to defend his home. it's this realization kal feels when he meets the newly freed singers in OB, that these are also people he must protect. at that point of time, maybe desecrating the corpses was the only way he could protect people (which he did, iirc he diverted fire from ALL the brides to himself). like yeah, no decision is perfect, but that's the point of stormlight archive i feel. mistborn has been more black and white wrt morals, but even there you see quellion taking what kelsier preached and putting that into action, and we see why that results in a messed up society. elend too had to become a dictator in order to do good, a philosophical problem he was forced to go through in WoA. that hasn't been seen as an atrocity in the text because it wasn't- it was the right thing to do in-world, as was kal's decision to use the corpses of the listeners.

if no one is on the planet to think about it, would it even exist in the cognitive realm?

oh no not yet. what would you suggest as a good place to start?

Hii! I'm buzz, been a lurker here for such a long time, finally joining the shard! I've read all of the cosmere, currently on my mistborn era 1 reread good day for us all today, what with the cosmere adaption announced! storming good day. i shall make rock's stew in celebration!