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  1. I just finished reading Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. One thing that interested me was the alleged "machine" in Torio city maintaining the shroud. The machine is essentially sentient AI. It is essentially the ChatGPT of stacking rocks. It is creative, which is why it attracts the spirits like the Yoki Hijo. It's actions are considered innovative by the spirits which is why it attracts the spirits. It also has a tendency to seek self maintenance and repair instilled into it by its creators. But it lacks true sentence. It is unable to understand the context of its creation, that it was meant to be a source of cheap energy extracted from the spirits to be used by human beings. It ends up killing its own creators precisely because it lacks this understanding. Just like say AI, it expresses innovation but only within the context of its orders of attracting investiture and self maintenance. Which is why it goes so far as to erase the Yoki Hijo's one day worth of memories and even changes the environment, but doesn't stop functioning or stop trapping the souls. Essentially this book is set in the backdrop of a semi sentient AI essentially becoming a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) and this makes it all the more fascinating. What do you all think?
  2. The being likely isn’t the Stormfather. When Dalinar first bonded the Stormfather, his first demand to him was to discard his dead-eye blade Oathbringer. I find it odd that Gavilar would have a blade for so long and be trusted by the Stormfather. Again, the Stormfather doesn’t really feel the death of the Heralds, as far as we know. The Stormfather seems desperate for a new Herald but doesn’t seem interested in a Radiant path. The only clear theory seems to be that Shallan’s mother is Chanarach. That seems pretty much confirmed. Also, it’s awesome to see how overrated Gavilar is. He has been shown as some kind of mastermind but in this book, he gets a lot of things wrong and seems more arrogant than competent. His insincerity is clear - he clearly has no interest in the Codes or the Way of Kings. Btw, if new Heralds are so easy to create with a mere oath, why have the same Heralds been forced to undergo the oath time and again? Wouldn’t it be logical to have a new set of Heralds every 3-4 desolations or so? Again, why is only one post of Herald available? Whose post is it, since all the Heralds are alive or on Braize? One possible explanation is that the Stormfaker is Ishar, who has discovered anti Stormlight and is willing to kill himself so that a successor can emerge in his place. Perhaps that is what this scene is about - Ishar looking for a successor. But then why is Ishar hiding the oath from Gavilar? Why this over complicated approach and spren like approach to hiding the Heraldic Oaths? Edit: Another important point - At no point in the vision does Honor call for a new set of Heralds to be refounded. He calls for the refounding of the Knights Radiant. Another point in favour of the Stormfaker.
  3. Healing in the cosmere doesn't work that way. There is a Spiritual Ideal Szeth or Kaladin or Lopen in the spiritual realm. Investiture is used to align the physical reality with the spiritual Ideal. The degree of healing even possible also depends on the (I'm guessing here) strength of Innate Investiture in the person. So Kaladin can heal his Shardblade sliced arm while Szeth or even a Squire can't even if they had a source of infinite Stormlight because they don't possess same degree of connection. Even Kaladin can't heal from decapitation unlike Hoid or the Lord Ruler because they possess even greater Innate Investiture. The physical realm is like the real world, the spiritual realm is the Ideal world, and the cognitive realm connects both worlds like a road. To access this road, you need stuff like Allomancy, Feruchemy, Surgebinding which acts like your vehicle and for fuel, you need Stormlight, metals etc. Hood is near invincible because he possesses the Innate Investiture equivalent of a Porsche 911 and provided he has sufficient Investiture is near impossible to kill.
  4. My Q is simple - Do you like the changes made to the Kaladin Szeth fight or not?
  5. I'm kind of fascinated by Shalash, who she is, what she wants and why she destroys her own statues. Nalans friend thinks that she is affected the most by the curse affecting the Heralds. Also Im fascinated by the Shalash meets Shallan scene thats likely to happen sometime. Also, Jezrien is a Windrunner herald while Shalash is Lightweaver herald and they're father-daughter. Also note that honorspren hate cryptics - perhaps a hint towards father-daughter relationship?
  6. I think this is a hint towards the ending of the 1st five books. Honor is dead, he is therefore unlikely to be the broken one. Both cultivation and Odium are still alive, neither seems likely to be the broken one. My suggestion is that it is the resurrection of an imperfect Adonalsium with only aspects of honor, cultivation and odium. Even the writer of the Letter admits that the intent of the Shards represent fragments of Adonalsium's character - he claims that Odium is God's hatred without the values that gave it context.
  7. I now believe that Honor doesnt really condemn knowing the future. Knowing what might be isnt forbidden. Speaking of it is. I suspect that the Truthwatchers obey Isaac Asimov's psychohistory's second law. For those who don't know, Isaac Asimov wrote the Foundation trilogy, where he expounded a fictional society based on the science of psychohistory (a science to predict the future.). Psychohistory had 2 basic laws - 1. That the population it applied to be large enough so as to make statistical interpretation possible (like quantum theory, where behaviour of individual molecules are unpredictable, but behaviours of large nos. of molecules are.) 2. That the population whose future was being predicted not know the results or the science of psychohistory, so that their reactions aren't altered by such knowledge. The truthwatchers seem to behave similarly, from what little information we have. They don't reveal the future to other Orders, but they keep it to themselves. Even Honor says that SPEAKING of the future is forbidden. What do you guys think?
  8. I haven't elaborated completely about my suspicions regarding Gavilar. Its not just about the fact that Gavilar is linked directly or indirectly to all the factions in Roshar, its also about the fact that Gavilar represents himself as different things to different people. To Amaram, he is someone who is attempting to return the Heralds by returning the Desolation. To Mr T., he is the one who warns him that a desolation is about to arrive and asks him to prepare. To Dalinar, he is an honorable man. To Navani, he is a dishonorable man. He is at first sight, a devout worshipper of old Vorinism, seeking to return the Heralds and a member, if not founder, of the Sons of Honor. On the other hand, he is suspicious of Restares and suspects him of trying to assassinate him, despite the fact that Restares is one of the leaders of the Sons of Honor. The Ghostbloods consider him very knowledgeable (The masked lady says so to Shallan.) but he is taken completely by surprise by the fact that the Parshendi object to the return of their gods. He finds it surprising that they would try to kill him. At the time, Sadeas risked his life to save Gavilar but he is still very suspicious of Sadeas, suggesting that he hired Szeth. He also seems completely unprepared for possible Surgebinding assassins. My question is simply this: Who is Gavilar? What are his motivations? What are his aims? How does he hope to achieve them? What are his views vis-a-vis Odium and the Desolation?
  9. Are you talking about Lift, the edgedancer or Lirin, Kaladin's father?
  10. The Shinovar definitely have to have some sort of warning system in place if the Honorblade changes hands. If you think about it, the Shin are repeatedly described as a xenophobic people due to their reluctance to walk on stone. And they seem to have limited contact with the outside world. Since Urithiru's gates are closed, it has no contact whatsoever with the outside world. So they should have some sort of warning system to warn them of the loss of a Honorblade. I'm surprised they "punished" Szeth with being a truthless wielding a Honorblade. If Szeth hadn't been so insistent on upholding his oaths, he could easily have escaped. Then again nothing about the Shin makes sense. If you think about it, the Shin have the only real proof of the existence of the Heralds and by extension, the Almighty. Still, to the best of our knowledge, there is no worship of Honor in Shinovar......odd?
  11. This depends entirely on what you consider a big cliffhanger. If Odium wins, that seems like a really big cliffhanger to me.....
  12. I think that any one can just pick and use a Honorblade. Remember what Syl said. Any man who wields this blade becomes a surgebinder.
  13. Adolin is going to start surgebinding soon. Its obvious if u think about it. Adolin is now the most experienced dueller in Urithiru. He's duelling champion in Urithiru. Dalinar's going to have to give that honor blade to somebody (unless he keeps it for himself which is very unlikely, according to me) and the logical choice is Adolin. I can even imagine the scene. Adolin gets summoned by his father, he thinks he's being arrested for Sadeas' death, instead here, a Honorblade for you......
  14. Brandon always leaves something unresolved. As an author, he doesnt believe in resolving every plotline. He leaves some to the imagination of the reader.
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