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Please stay away from the personal insults. Hoid himself says it. Plus, Retribution literally vaporized him at the end of WaT. If he hadn't had the foresight to stash away a cell culture, he would be completely dead. And I'm saying if there had been a contract of nonaggression/nonintervention/etc, then there wouldn't have needed to be another contract between Odium, Honor, and Cultivation to stop them from doing those things. Which they were very freely doing before they agreed to the contract. I'm confused. You literally said And I'm pointing out that all four of those were disproven in the text. Heck, just in WaT, let alone Stormlight and Mistborn. Clearly no such pact existed before the three swore themselves against the first three. The 4th is untrue from reasons given in Dawnshard and the end of WaT. The Sleepless guarded Change because it could destroy worlds, and Hoid couldn't let Retribution have Exist for the same reason I mean, this is proof that Hoid did not swear any sort of non-intervention oath? I'm not sure why you need a WoB? We see Rock tell Kaladin this story. We see Sigzil affected by the same Torment as Hoid, being unable to harm or kill. We don't need a WoB to confirm things that are shown in the books. And I'm trying to say the premise is faulty. Most of them are disproven just in WaT, and the rest in the other books

He can't directly fight Shards because they would wipe him from existence with barely a thought, not because of any contract Exactly my point No, your point was they agreed to a contract at the Shattering. This was done only among the 3 Shards, thousands of years after the Shattering. If a pact already bound them, they wouldn't need to agree amongst themselves. This was explained to you on Discord. The Dawnshard is the reason why Hoid can't kill or fight. We see Sigzil having the same problem after he carried it for a much shorter period. The Coppermind quote is specifically a tale told by Rock to Kaladin. Filtered through his people's myths and legends and religion, he believes that the god he thinks Hoid is was bound by the other gods. It's a mythological tale and should not be taken as fact.

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Because he wasn't *actually* harming Kelsier. Kelsier only felt pain and injury because he thought he should. As soon as Kelsier got his brain to stop being stupid, the pain went away and he was fine Not entirely sure the OP has either....

So to reiterate from what I said on Discord: Hoid is absolutely interfering with the Shards Hoid can't hurt or kill because of holding the Dawnshard Exist. You can see it affecting Sigzil the same way Adonalsium being reformed in any way is too similar to Wheel of Time for Brandon to want to do Ruin and Preservation, Honor and Odium, definitely These three are shown in the text to not be the case Ruin and Preservation directly clash multiple times Honor and Odium directly clash multiple times Odium got Devotion and Dominion to directly clash, then swooped in and killed them both Odium directly clashed with Ambition and Splintered her (Mercy was involved in this somehow). Ruin directly controlled the koloss, the Inquisitors and the kandra. Ruin *created* wars. Odium and Honor directly interfered in both Ashyn and Roshar until they agreed on the contract between the three of them. Sazed would like to have a word with you It's strongly implied that Hoid's true motive is to bring someone back from the Beyond, and that he was for the Shattering in order to change the rules enough to do so. You said on Discord that you used ChatGPT to help you write this, which explains a lot of the incorrect premises. ChatGPT is usually only correct something like 20-30% of the time. Don't use it

Chapter 46, this is the only time God of Insects is capitalized. All other instances are lower case So in the version, most of the references to the mainland as where people lived have been removed. Currently the mainland is considered cold and inhospitable However, in the flashbacks, Vathi still considers Sak a mainland bird, which doesn't quite fit in with the mainland being a frozen wasteland. So is Sak still from the frozen wasteland mainland somehow, or should those be changed to homeisles instead?

Yeah it's normal. They print/bind pages in sets of 16 (hmmm) so any full color images have to be put in between those bunches. So full color images are often a little before or after the "perfect" place in the pbook. Not a problem in ebooks, of course.

In the alt-text for the Part 1 Marginalia doodles, it says "Mervin is started when the tall sales-wizard..." This should probably be "startled" instead. Also, it should say "Santa Claus" not "Santa Clause".

I think that Kelsier is the one who had the Bands drained. He wants to promote tensions between the N and S in order to force technological advancement, and realized that the North "secretly" draining the Bands would cause major bad feelings between them. He was in the South just very recently and was on an airship back North when Marasi and Moonlight tried to contact him. And Kelsier is the Survivor in the North, head of a major religion, and the Sovereign in the South. If he wanted to, he could easily get both continents to work together. But having them at odds works better for the future of Scadrial (in Kelsier's opinion).

My goodness, it's been over three years since I said that.

Don't forget Rushu, the pretty ardent. Also, Lin, Lyn, and Lirin.

Chapter 4, near the end, the word "instead" is used twice in the same sentence.

Children of the Nameless Mothers indeed

I'd be hesitant to say he's wrong when he makes definitive statements like this. He usually will admit when he doesn't know something.

I don't know if this has been fixed, but in my copy of Words of Radiance, chapter 11, it says This is from Shallan's PoV, and I think she shouldn't know what a bird was, to call something "birdlike"? Perhaps skyeel-like?