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Shai just forges her date of birth one year later every year.

Brandon has now said Sunlit Man takes place around SotD, putting it a couple centuries after SA.

I think that Autonomy might have also influenced this system. I see similarities in the how investiture is delivered here with how it done on Taldain, ie solar based. This system could have been a prototype that was later refined in Taldain. Maybe after Ambition’s clash with Odium and fled here Autonomy found them and finished the job.