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  1. Given that a worldhopper from Scadrial is pretty high up in their ranks, I expect you're correct about their interests extending beyond Roshar.
  2. With regard to Eshonai's comet-spren, I had always assumed that it was a Willshaper spren. My reasoning for this is not based on the spren's appearance but on Eshonai's personality. She is an avid explorer who hates leading troops and just wants to do her Star Trek thing- explore strange new worlds, meet strange new peoples, and draw her maps. Doesn't her mother ramble about how she used to disappear for days at a time, exploring? I don't have a source within easy reach, but I think Eshonai fits the psychological profile of a Willshaper much better than a Dustbringer or Skybreaker.
  3. Maxal, I think your last sentence would make an excellently succinct version of the oath: "I will do what others cannot." Said another way (the way I would personally say it if I ever got the chance to take a Dustbringer's oaths), "I will not flinch from a task that others find distasteful." Current speculation is that the Dustbringers are some of the most impulsive and... morally flexible of the Knights Radiant. They might be willing to do something morally unjust if "someone had to do it." Such as (one might offer as an example), putting down a man who had definitively abandoned all moral decency yet still hid within the safety of the law, having done nothing that could be decisively pinned to him in legal proceedings. Classic Al Capone stuff- we all know he did it, but no one can prove it in a court. Of course, that sort of oath might be the third for Dustbringers, after something like "I will destroy those who would harm the innocent." Perhaps that is too similar to the Windrunners second oath, but the Dustbringers seem a more... aggressive order.
  4. @Moogle: Is it in fact confirmed that holding an Honorblade changes your eye color? I believe we have only seen Szeth's eyes change color when holding his. I don't know if Nalan's eyes changed color when he summoned his Blade (or indeed, if it even is his Blade) but the eye color change for Szeth may be something along the line of his eyes turning blue because that is the color of the Windrunners; see also Kaladin when he took his third level in Windrunnner. Whereas Jezrien (presumably) has sapphire eyes and thus would not see any color change when he held his own blade. As far as "Taln" goes, I just re-read both books and noticed that his Blade at the end of WoK is described as long, thin, and straight- like a "spike." The Blade that Dalinar takes and briefly wields in WoR is describes as sinuous- like flames, if I recall correctly. Very definitely not the same Blade. Hoid is, I believe, the most likely holder of "Taln's" original blade.
  5. I can put you in touch, certainly. I will PM you. Kobold King and Argent, I know. She's pretty awesome.
  6. This is a piece I commissioned from my younger sister- I needed some wall art for the new apartment and I convinced my wife that it would be a great idea. My sister and I are both diehard Sanderfans, so it seemed perfect. I asked for "something from the Stormlight Archive" and the attached painting is what she sent back. Can't wait to get it on my wall! The glyph is a stylized version of the Kholin family glyph and the mark on the shardblade is my sister's signature. I would have attached the .png but it was slightly too large... so .jpg it is.
  7. -The Unmade will mostly bring themselves down through constant scheming and meddling in each others' plans. -Each faction will be its own worst enemy and only rarely clash in open combat. -It will take until book 7 for most of Alethkar to actually acknowledge the Voidbringers as a threat. -The newly-formed Knights Radiant will cloister themselves in Urithiru, only emerging to glare coldly at each other, sniff, and make vague pronouncements such as "Odium is as Odium does," and "Surrender to Cultivation is the only victory."
  8. Resulting in Sanderson finally having said main character explicitly tell another character that he isn't related (by blood) to a character he has been boinking, just to finally put a stop to the internet's incessant cries of "Incest!" Oh, wait...
  9. Shardblades and Honorblades are not really differentiated between, as was stated by Kurkistan. I can't provide a citation at this point, but I think Brandon pretty clearly said that the healing abilities of Stormlight are limited by what the wielder believes about him or herself. When Luke sees his X-Wing rising out of the swamps of Dagobah, he says he didn't think it was possible. Yoda tells him, "That is why you fail." Same concept here, which seems to be a common one in fantasy fiction.
  10. This is a theory borne partially out of wishful thinking. As I was reading and re-reading all of the scenes where Szeth and Kaladin use their powers, it struck me that the Gravitation surge (half lashing, reverse lashing) appears far more powerful than the Adhesion surge (full lashing). Notably, we see Szeth Lash a door closed, and Kaladin Lashes rocks to a cliff face and himself to a horse. Doubtless, the surge is used more often than that, but it doesn't seem to stand up to the powers of flight, basic telekinesis, or making people fall into the sky. Realizing that Skybreakers share the Gravitation surge was rather disappointing, since I felt like it spoiled the Windrunners' thunder to share the "best" surge (and thereby the power of flight) with another order. But then I started thinking... what if each order specialized in one of their surges and the other surge is a secondary power? Windrunners should be able to do far more with the Gravitation surge, so perhaps the Skybreakers can use Gravitation, but not powerfully enough to fly, since it is not their primary power. By this logic, it stands to reason that each order's specialization would also be the surge clockwise from their order's glyph on the chart in The Way of Kings. That way, no surge specialization would be shared by two orders. The immediate problem, however, is that from what little we know of the other Knights Radiant orders, everything seems to indicate that any sort of specialization would be the surge counterclockwise from their order glyph. Lightweavers are clearly the specialists of Illumination (as their name suggests), not Transformation. From what we saw of Lift (as well as the name of the order and the epigraph describing them), Edgedancers seem gifted in Friction, not Progression. If Ym is a good representative of the Truthwatchers, they are better at Progression than Illumination. At least, that is what came most easily to him. Renarin provides inconclusive evidence, since his self-healing could also be the passive effect of holding Stormlight. Elsecallers could go either way, perhaps. We know that Jasnah is incredibly skilled in soulcasting (Transformation). She isn't too shabby at Transportation, either. Nevertheless, since it is strongly hinted that Willshapers are "explorers," the Transportation surge would logically be their domain. When asked what order he would like to be, Brandon stated that he would want to be a Windrunner so that he could fly [citation needed]. This doesn't rule out the possibility that Skybreakers can also fly and Brandon simply would prefer having Adhesion to Division, but it is the only WoB I have come across on the subject. Thoughts, notes, relevant passages that I have missed?
  11. As Tempus noted, the danger in that instance would be to your own flesh. The bones in your fingers are fairly fragile things and punching with "enhanced strength" without enhanced durability (such as pewter would give) would... well, in the immortal words of Bane, "That would be extremely painful... for you." Holding a small iron cylinder in your hand might protect you from cutting your own fingers with the push, but by "pushing" on the metal, your punch is actually being pulled along by an external force. Importantly, this means that your weight is no longer behind it and your punch won't carry a good follow-through. The shock would just get absorbed into your arm when it lands, and you might even be pulled off-balance.
  12. Not unlike the priests in Hallendren, eh? Of course, those squires, if allowed the power of interpretation, could swiftly become the actual rulers of the order.
  13. I think as far as the series goes, you would get RAFO'd on that question.
  14. That would peg him as a budding Truthwatcher or Elsecaller. We already have examples of main characters in these orders in the books, making this theory somewhat less likely. Nevertheless, I heard a plausible theory that Elhokar may be under the influence or oppression of some form of Odiumspren- envyspren or inadequacyspren. As mentioned above, the behavior of the watcher seems highly ominous.
  15. Do you have a reference for that first theory? About Seers replacing Pulsars? The impression that I got in the Alloy of Law is that the secret organization is trying to breed an Atium misting, since it has been 300 years between the series, a number that is, coincidentally, the amount of time stated as necessary for the Pits of Hathsin to regenerate. Are you implying that with Harmony in charge, Atium mistings are no longer a thing? It is interesting to speculate on a new shard metal replacing Atium and Lerasium. I recall a thread recently about trying to come up with a question to put to Brandon asking whether killing Sazed would drop two normal shards (Ruin and Preservation) or one powerful shard (Harmony).
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