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I do believe that it did say something to that effect.

Rosharan ->Earth year conversion rate. 13+6=19 Rosharan years, but times 1.1 equals ~21 of our years.

I didn't intend any. I just thought it would be a fitting age.

It doesn't say they can't bond with KR spren. That may be what it means, but it may also mean that the Listeners simply provide too little for the spren's taste. In the latter case, then likely any forms with honorspren would not allow the spren any intelligence like a human does. I don't see why Listeners would only be able to make forms with one shard's spren, so it seem very plausible some form using them exists.

Ships can be platonic, though they usually are associated more with a romantic side. And I'm pretty she was just going along with your joke, being no more serious than you were.

I'm calling a six-year gap. It's a nice amount of time to allow Lift to grow older- 21 in our years.

About 300 years after iirc- plenty of time for Zasher to switch planets.

Bleh. I'm really conflicted with this. On the one hand, I really want Shalladin to happen after their time in the chasms, and I agree that her relationship with Adolin is too shallow to last... but I really couldn't stand it if she got between Adolin and Kalladin, seeing as their friendship was the one of the best parts of the book for me. Here's to hoping Brandon finds a way to satisfy both of those desires.

213, if that's all you're getting from female authors, then I recommend you stop reading Twilight derivatives (aka 90% of urban fantasy). Because that's the kind of book you're describing. And if you just avoid female authors, how will you ever find any good ones? Don't look at the author at all, and just let the book do the talking.

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A splinter is entirely possible, but that is very different in scale from saying a shard is there. And a Sliver is just someone like Vin or TLR who has held a shard's power for a time and given it up. I doubt they would be responsible for what is happening here.

I don't believe SfS has a shard at all. Remember, this is just a minor shardworld.

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True, though I think the other powers Surgebinders have far outweigh that benefit. Besides, after a Duralumin burn, you're helpless. You have to chug a vial of metals before you can do anything. If Kaladin uses up the stormlight inside him, he just takes a breath and now he's Invested again (though I will admit that we don't know if this applies to other orders).

Isn't Duralumin just a method to overcome an artificial limitation to Allomancy though? All it does is make metals burn faster. Stormlight, by contrast doesn't seem to have any limit to how fast you can use it up, and there's no mechanic that forces you to use it all up at once either. All Duralumin is is a worse way of doing something Stormlight can do anyway.

My headcanon was that he actually gained power from Hemalurgy- that the power lost to hemalurgic decay flows to him. Just seems like a very Ruinous thing to do, IMO.

Forage, he does not like this man. He does not like this man at all. Not only is this Lent a brigand who accosts poor merchants, but he is delusional too. The idea that Forage would willingly serve such a man- aah, how great an imagination this Lent must have? These hallucinations this man experiences, they are laughable, pathetic. Does he think that he can make amends with Forage for what he had done to him, for the humiliation, for the blow to his pride? Forage, he is a forgiving man, but he will not forgive this, when even now this Lent is wronging him anew, putting words in his mouth. Such acts are called rude among Forage's people. This man, was he brought up in a barn? Has he no concept of manners?

Oh, I though it worked both ways. Didn't the MAG say Aluminum could be used to steal another's metalmind?

Well- you see- um- arggh, Forage's head hurts, he doesn't like this- um, uhhh..... Forage does not approve of this. To be assaulted so, before the town? It is a blow to Forage's pride as a merchant, his pride as a dealer of stuff. This man, this creature of body and voice robotic, he does not seem right. He is a man of violence, and Forage is but a humble man of peace. Certainly Forage can supply Aluminum aplenty, there is no doubt of that.... but Forage has standards, and highway robbery like this, it violates them. Forage, he says NO to this! Forage is a man of meekness, he is a man of passivity, but he can be pushed too far! This man, he will refuse him! He will not be pushed around and manipulated like a puppet! Forage, he is not just a cog in this man's machine! Forage, he will defend himself if he must! Forage will take back his pride!

The funny thing is he could probably tap the blade's stores by storing his own Identity. It would be hilarious if that allowed him to survive somehow.

True. I don't see why the Invested bit is needed though: can they really heal through metal? If they did, then the metalminds in Miles would be ripped apart instead of just contained.

I believe Brandon said the air has more oxygen when he was explaining the sizes Chasmfiends can grow to. That either means the composition of the atmosphere is pretty different, or that atmospheric pressure is actually greater on Roshar.

To kill him, you need something to cut off the head instantly, so that everything is severed before it reconnects on the other side. It would be very hard to do that with a blade weapon. I think lasers or high power explosives are the best bet for instant severance. An easier, less technologically advanced method would be hemalurgically stealing his compounding with pewter bullets, but you need godlike aim.

Aren't there hundreds of forms though? There's only ten Nahel Spren. I agree with you on the immortality bit. I don't know too much on blood color. AFAIK, the only ones we've had violet blood are chulls, but that could be wrong. However, there is quite a bit of difference in Earth life's blood colors, so I expect the same would hold for Roshar.