MistGyorn Posted May 17, 2018 Report Share Posted May 17, 2018 Has anyone ever asked if there are any world hoppers on bridge four? It sounds like the kind of question that would be RAFO'd anyway but I thought I would ask. I am reading WoR again and I just feel like Bridge Four is such a prominent part of the books that there has to be something there that isn't blatantly obvious. Someone like Teft who has such a mysterious past and seems to be older mentally than he is physically. Then there is Lopin who came into bridge 4 with almost no fear or concern for what was going to happen to him. Then the way he talked his way into bridge 4. I think there may be more to him than what we know in these books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RShara Posted May 17, 2018 Report Share Posted May 17, 2018 I think that any worldhopper worth their badge would have been able to escape or avoid being put on a bridge crew. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersmith Posted May 17, 2018 Report Share Posted May 17, 2018 What about some of the people that joined after the bridge runs? people like lyn(I think that's her name) who join after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weltall Posted May 17, 2018 Report Share Posted May 17, 2018 All the examples mentioned so far have clear roots in Rosharan culture. Lopen for example is clearly a native, not only does he have the Herdazian fingernails (which come from his ancestors interbreeding with the Parsh) but, well, he has a mother. Kind of hard to imagine him as a worldhopper. Teft's got a background too, etc. They have a worldhopper observing them (Nazh, pretending to be an ardent in order to get close to them during WoR) but none among their number that we can determine. Just being important doesn't mean worldhoppers have to be directly involved. Case in point, the entire Kholin family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+robardin Posted May 17, 2018 Report Share Posted May 17, 2018 I dunno about Bridge Four, at least the original crew that was already there when Kaladin joined; but there's a suspicious new member of Bridge Thirteen in Oathbringer (who would have joined after Dailnar took them over) who struck Dalinar as "a little off". He smells of off-planet to many people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toaster Retribution Posted May 17, 2018 Report Share Posted May 17, 2018 5 hours ago, supersmith said: What about some of the people that joined after the bridge runs? people like lyn(I think that's her name) who join after. Lyn feels incredibly genuine, and also not that experienced, so I doubt she is a worldhopper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weltall Posted May 17, 2018 Report Share Posted May 17, 2018 3 minutes ago, Toaster Retribution said: Lyn feels incredibly genuine, and also not that experienced, so I doubt she is a worldhopper. Adding to this, we learn a bit more about her in Oathbringer and it pretty definitively establishes her as a Rosharan native. Spoiler She's clearly chafing under Vorin gender roles and has apparently been wanting to push those boundaries for a long time. She even calls another female recruit a 'cheater' for having secretly practiced with a spear from a young age, wishing she'd thought of it herself. Her conversations with Shallan and then various members of Bridge Four are, as Toaster Retribution says, incredibly genuine. None of this gives the impression of someone from another world and on the contrary are pretty firm in establishing that she's Rosharan. She also doesn't exhibit any of the typical worldhopper traits like an appearance that doesn't quite fit in, or unusual expressions or speech patterns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersmith Posted May 18, 2018 Report Share Posted May 18, 2018 5 hours ago, Toaster Retribution said: Lyn feels incredibly genuine, and also not that experienced, so I doubt she is a worldhopper. I don't literally mean lyn, just people who joined after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtafa Posted May 18, 2018 Report Share Posted May 18, 2018 14 hours ago, MistGyorn said: I think there may be more to him than what we know in these books. Welllll OB spoiler: Spoiler He ISSS technically King of Alethkar now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weltall Posted May 18, 2018 Report Share Posted May 18, 2018 6 minutes ago, Xtafa said: Welllll OB spoiler: Hide contents He ISSS technically King of Alethkar now Technically he was the King of Alethkar. Kind of. Brandon has said that during the end of WoR he convinced Elhokar to abdicate for a short time (or that's how he sees it at least) as part of hiding him. But he isn't the King any more and even the claim that he was King for a time is... arguable. But one does not argue with The Lopen... Oh, and getting to the original observations about him, Brandon has said that Lopen wasn't planning to get into Bridge Four, it was basically an accident that he then made the best of 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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