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Mmmm just to mention, that WoB doesn't mention off-world. It could mean elsewhere on Sel, away from Elantris, but still in contact with the Dor.

I'm sure the population will continue to go up. But you're comparing a fully modern country (SK) to one that started with literally nothing, not so much as a stick of cut wood, other than what was in the storage caches, and is barely entering the Industrial Revolution currently. How fast did populations rise 100-200 years ago? As an example, here in Utah, reproduction is hugely encouraged. It's not rare to find 6+ children, and it's been like that since its settlement. However, we've still only have a population of less than 5 million, despite arable and buildable land that I'm sure is comparable to Elendel Basin, if not more. "In 1850, the Utah population was recorded at 11,380 but some significant increases were to follow. Just ten years later, the census of 1860 revealed a leap in figures of over 250% to 40,273. Further sustained growth was to follow and by the end of the century, the population of Utah had grown to 276,749. While the overall picture through the 1900s was one of further increases, it wasn’t until 1970 that numbers breached the one million mark for the very first time. However, from that point onwards, percentage increases on a census by census basis have been quite significant, and in the present day, the Utah population is now climbing toward three million. Utah Population Growth While the Utah population may be relatively small, it is growing rapidly. By the time of the next census in 2020, figures should have comfortably exceeded three million." http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/utah-population/

Sorry, I just edited my comment: However, you're probably right that there were other factors. Space, illness, primitive conditions, would all account for quite a bit of attrition or limiting, especially the first few generations. And I wonder how many became world hoppers? I know Wax only had the one sister, and his father only had the one brother.

Yeah, it's said in the books that Survivorists emphasize fecundity. I can't remember what segment of the population they are, however, and they would have sprung up a little while after the Catacendre and taken some time to become established. I really think that an average of 4 children per family is reasonable. However, you're probably right that there were other factors. Space, illness, primitive conditions, would all account for some attrition, especially the first few generations. And I wonder how many became world hoppers?

Let's say 10,000 people made it into the caverns. I think that's a really high number, but we'll run with it. Gen 2 would be ~20,000. 3 would be 40,000, 4 would be 80,000, 5 would be 160,000, 6 would be 320,000, 7 would be 640,000, 8 would be ~1.3m, 9 would be 2.6m, 10 would be 5.2m, which is right around the estimated population, if I did my math right. You could add a million or so on to that if you think the average was 5 children (I don't feel like doing the math on that)? But an estimate of around 5-10 million seems right to me, without needed any other factors.

The Honorblades are solely of Honor, whereas the Shardblades are a various mix of Honor and Cultivation (and maybe a tiny bit of Odium and/or other Shards).

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He's a worldhopper candidate in my mind, because of his name.

Because only some thousands of people survived the Catacendre in the Northern Continent. However many people fit into the caverns. They were large caverns, but it seems unlikely that they would amount to even a million people. 300 years is about 10 generations, give or take a few. If we want to guesstimate that 50-100 thousand people managed to get into the storage caches and caverns (and I think that's high, because there was no official evacuation), and they had an average of 4 children per couple, so that the population doubled every generation, we'd still be looking at the low millions of people in 10 generations.

Not much to know about poor Spanky.

Because she's still majorly suppressing her abilities and memories from when she was a kid. Plus, it doesn't seem you automagically get Plate the instant you swear the 4th Ideal. You have to know how to make it work. Which she doesn't.

When she first soulcast the goblet into blood.

Lightweavers say the first Ideal, then they just have Truths. She spoke 2 Truths in WoK, so add those to the First Ideal and she was at the 3rd level. Journey Before Destination/I am Terrified/I Killed My Father = 3rd level. Her Fourth Truth was "I Killed My Mother," spoken at the end of WoR.

I'm with @Invocation I think it's just because she advanced and regressed. But keep in mind that by the time she actually summoned Pattern as a Shardblade, she was already on her second Truth/third Ideal, so there's not really a contradiction either way.

I don't believe there's evidence of that, currently. Her family was influenced by one of the Unmade during the last 5-10 years, but we have no idea which one.

Isaac is doing an AMA on reddit, and I got confirmation that this overlay of the Elendel Basin over the Final Empire map was pretty close, size and location-wise. It's crazy thinking of how many people must have died and how little ground has been resettled since then! If I remember correctly, the population of Elendel is in the low millions somewhere, and the population of TFE was in the 100 million range. So we're talking a 90% loss of life. And pretty close to that for land, it seems.

--Jasnah Kholin, Words of Radiance.

All of the Shardblades are a silvery metallic color. Living spren Blades should also have glyphs or patterns in the color of the Order, which for Elsecallers is something like a bluish-gray.

The Stormfather created Syl, so I would imagine it's the Stormfather side calling her Daughter. But the whole parentage thing is sorta fuzzy with spren and Shards anyway.

Nightblood's need for investiture increases the longer he's drawn, so he'd end up eating the Allomancer long before the Allomancer managed to become a savant. As Karger said, it'd be easier and safer to just flare your metal all day every day, like Spook did.

seems too convoluted to me. That's the point? Either way you look at it, one of them is extremely unlikely.

Right, but the point being was that their entire bodies melted, no bladder or anything left over, when exposed to water. Sort of like what's left after you sprinkle salt on a snail.

I think it's not mentioned in the GN, but in the prose, the sandlings do completely melt if exposed to enough water. They actually make their food out of sandlings that have been melted into goo, spiced, dried, and shaped into various dishes. They probably had to leave it out due to size and time constraints, since it's not really plot relevant.