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  1. Szeth, when he had the Windrunner Honorblade, did not need it physically in his hand to use the surges. Conceivably we could end up with one single person bonding all the Honorblades and having access to ALL the surges. Kind of like Roshar's version of a Mistborn.
  2. I just want to say that Dalinar is the badassinest badass who ever badassed.
  3. Have we actually seen Ishar yet in the series?
  4. Dear Lord. Those Kaladin reveals to Hearthstone were six years in the making. And they were glorious.
  5. Am I the only one who was incredibly disappointed at Lopen's two-armed reveal? I guess since it was from Dalinar's perspective it makes sense that he would be an afterthought, but I'm really excited for the first Kaladin/Lopen scene where Lopen has both arms!
  6. Agreed. Dalinar also thought he heard screaming when we ran among the fading blades and plate. I similarly believe that this was a point of no return for the Bond...either repair or break...and in this instance, the scales tipped the wrong way.
  7. The Lopen. Any one-armed Herdazian jokes. They're armless little jokes, but I love them.
  8. I would also argue that Parshendi are distinctly not human. My question on darkeyes was more for the human characters...but boy, did that WOB shut me down. Thanks Brandon!
  9. This is more a general question that I'm hoping can be answered relatively quickly, but I am searching for instances in either WoK or WoR where darkeyes feel the Thrill. The only instances of feeling the Thrill I can think of come from Dalinar and Adolin viewpoint chapters and possibly a conversation between Sadeas and Dalinar. Essentially, the only examples I can come up with where a character specifically feels or notices another character experiencing the Thrill come from lighteyes chapters. During Taravangian's viewpoint Interlude it is mentioned that the Thrill had been particularly strong during the battle of Vedenar, but that single mention still doesn't prove that darkeyes feel it--it could still mean that lighteyes commanders were affected and gave irrational or vindictive orders intending to totally crush their opponents. It may be that we have a tainted sample size of darkeye chapters, as our main darkeyes are Kaladin the Radiant and all those in Bridge 4 who are his potential squires. With Dalinar losing the Thrill throughout WoK, there is a strong argument to be made that being a proto-Radiant or nascent Radiant--or even just receptive to stormlight like squires--makes it more difficult for the Thrill to latch on to you. This would also mean that Kaladin and Bridge 4 are similarly protected from the recklessness of the Thrill, which would explain why I can't come up with a specific instance of a specific darkeye experiencing the Thrill. Taravangian also mentions that certain Unmade are more intelligent than others...it may be that the Unmade causing the Thrill specifically targets the leaders of a nation and its most powerful military commanders and warriors (i.e., shardbearers) in order to foment additional pain and destruction, leading to more hate. I apologize if this topic exists already...I couldn't find it. I'm eager to read others' thoughts or receive a swift correction if I'm in the wrong.
  10. This is the most interesting part of the problem for me too. It's difficult to conceive of Odium peacefully coexisting with the other Shards at any point, even if it was for just a short time. Ruin and Preservation were able to work together to create Scadrial, and I believe Ruin says that both of their powers were needed to create humans, and his power is what causes them to age and eventually die...there could be a continuing theme in Brandon's work of a perfect "paradise" not being all it's cracked up to be. One cannot appreciate life without struggle and death. Maybe Honor and Cultivation, ruling by themselves, could only create a boring pastel world where no growth or development occurred. It could be that Odium and "hate" were necessary to provide context and value to "honor," as there is no value in honor easily obtained without consequence or challenge. The question I still have, then, is what does it mean to "rule?" Could it just mean Odium had a hand in influencing the creatures/humans on Roshar, such that a bit of him is in everything? I really don't know, since he's supposed to be stuck on Braize.
  11. First-time Skybreaker! I guess that fits me, as I am an attorney, although I'm not big on their current iteration of flat-out murder...that wouldn't be good for my business.
  12. Guys, I can't wait that long. Like Veruca Salt, I WANT IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  13. In WoK, Dalinar feels the Thrill when he sees back in time in one of his visions and fights the Midnight Essence. My question is, did Dalinar feel the Thrill there because of his physical body's location in the Shattered Plains near the specific Unmade who causes the Thrill, or did he experience the Thrill through the Unmade's likely presence during the Midnight Essence's attack? The only reason I ask this question is because Dalinar's visions seem incredibly real, with sensations and deviant free-willed conversations with others in his Visions appearing to be the norm. A tangential question raised is whether Dalinar ever felt the Thrill in his visions in WoR once the Unmade causing the Thrill departed. I don't know the answers and welcome idle speculation!
  14. I think it would kind of make sense if the one Order that didn't break its oaths was the Bondsmiths. Think about it: we know that they were always extremely few in number (no more than 2 or 3 at a time), so it would be easy for 2 people to disappear in the greater realm of Roshar. We also know/speculate that Bondsmiths can only bond with extremely powerful/unique spren, so the rate of "repopulation" of Bondsmiths would be extremely low, even in three thousand years, and especially when at least one massive spren (the Stormfather) hates humanity and doesn't want to grant them surges anymore. If the Bondsmiths of yore broke their oaths, wouldn't there be fewer great spren around? Or maybe legends of great spren who no longer exist on Roshar? We could have been introduced to that concept by the Collector who is attempting to document all spren on Roshar, but instead we encounter unique but unthinking spren, like spren who weren't betrayed but whose Bond was nonetheless dissolved by the death of a Radiant..... This is pure speculation, but if the Bondsmiths had broken their oaths like the rest, wouldn't their unique spren have "died" with their broken oaths? So spren like the Stormfather, the Nightwatcher, and that giant one in the sea wouldn't exist in the physical realm. Actually, now that I think about it, what if Cusicesh the Protector WAS a spren for a Bondsmith who broke his/her oaths? It certainly seems unthinking and unable to hold a rational form. So I think that it was probably the Bondsmiths, who have a thing for creating and maintaining BONDS, who didn't break their bonded oaths with their spren. We just don't know about it because 1) the spren are unique and few and far between, which makes for a smaller chance of creating a Bondsmith; 2) these Bondsmith spren seem to have some sentience and actually can refuse to grant a bond so long as the right words are avoided--it seems entirely possible that the original Bondsmiths simply died out and the unique spren were so appalled at the death of so many of their cousins that they refused to grant more Bonds to potential Bondsmiths, who are recorded as being very few anyway. Just something to think about. I don't know if this has been debunked yet.
  15. My favorite character is Szeth--he is a character of conflict, both internal and external, and you can't help but pity him when you read his POV's. That said, my favorite moment in SA is Szeth's introduction in WOK. We knew from the prologue that Shardblades were wondrous weapons, but the very next chapter showed us that we were only scratching the surface of this 10 volume epic. Not only did we get a firsthand account of the astounding powers that Blades possessed, we also received a hint at the abilities this world's Investiture provided, which, in Szeth's hands, proved stunningly powerful. In fact, it took until the very end of the book with Kaladin's "Radianting" for another character to start to close the gap on his abilities. He's awesome. That palace murder-rampage scene is a great introduction.
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