laxrulz777

That seems like pretty sound reasoning to me. Lightsong's memories of the events line up pretty well with both Wax's and Kelsier's experience.

I had always assumed it was a recognition from the Heraldic statues. I'm starting to think we need a wiki for every minor character mentioned in every Brandon book. Then we can cross reference and maybe find the Terriswoman in Warbreaker

Beginning of WoK, Elhokar is ruling the feast in Gavilar's absence and is talking to a "dark-skinned Azish man who had an odd patch of pale skin on his cheek". When Szeth is resurrected by Naln, he is described as having, "dark brown skin like a man from the Makabaki region, but had a pale mark on his right cheek in the shape of a small hooked crescent". Azish is a subset of the makabaki region. Are these the same person? Does this have significance?

For reference, here's the relevant WoR quotes So we know the Windrunners were "engaged" and that some "wicked thing of eminence" was discovered. Any theory needs to find some way to conform to that (unless and until we think the WoR is lying to us).

THIS. A huge part of your bond is your intent and your belief. If Adolin truly believed (wasn't just justifying it to himself but actually believed) that killing Sadeas was the only way to protect those he'd sworn to protect then I don't think the Windrunner's would have a problem. On the other hand, if his actions were born out of expedience, revenge or rationalized thoughts of protection then I doubt he could get an Honorspren. I think, from what we know and the WoB, these are the orders he's still in the running for (barring a redemptive story about earning the rights to be something else back) Duskbringer (definitely brave) Willshaper (resolute... check) Stoneward (dependable and resourceful... sure) Lightweaver, Windrunner and Bondsmith might all be possible as well (though unlikely for story reasons) and Truthwatcher also might not care (as long as he doesn't lie to cover it up... ) Skybreaker is obvious out. I think Edgedancer (Loving and Healing? Remembering the fallen?) is out (though I realize others disagree... I'd be curious what the rationale is for that). Elsecaller is probably out (it probably wans't a "wise" thing to do... and it certainly wasn't caring)... Although even here, you could convince me that it was "caring" in the same sense as putting down a rabid dog and it was "wise" because he had the realization of the political environment to recognize there was no other way... so, with the right mindset, maybe Elsecaller COULD be justified.

I tihnk in between these he had questions like this that sort of changed the way we and he think about this stuff... He also may have changed his mind on it. His first statement doesn't make a huge amount of sense in the context of how hemallurgy appears to work in the books.

Necroing a 3 year old post because of a bit of brilliant prescience that would make Cultivation proud... have a +1

Brandon has earned the trust I place in him as an author and he's yet to spoil that. I distinctly remember thinking that Shallan was going to have this stupidly cliched experience in the war camps where the bandit lady (name escapes me) would try to blackmail her because she would think that Shallan was conning Alodin. I actually got kind of nervous reading because it seemed so obvious. Then, a chapter later, BAM... bandit dead... totally different plot direction for Shallan / Alodin. Sanderson has done that multiple times and it really impresses me so if he says "Renarin will have flashbacks" then I'm okay with it. The 15 year gap also gives me a ton of hope. I could totally see book 6 picking up with a strong, confidence Renarin and having flashbacks to how he used to be (we've also still got 3 books in the first 5 so he could become strong and confident in these books). Renarin may be a fully fleshed out character in Brandon's mind. He isn't particularly interesting in my mind (in fact, I'll admit, I was a little bit like "what? really?" when he just waltzes in and goes, "Yup... Truthwatcher up in here, Yo" (I think that's the quote, right?). I knew something was going on with him but didn't realize he was going to be a KR.

I lol'd too loud at this. Well said. And I agree. The title of "Knight Radiant" is kind of defined however you want. Would the old KRs consider any of our heroes KRs? I suspect the answer to that is no. But does Dalinar consider himself a KR (and, by implication, everyone else)? I suspect yes. The only one that he might not consider a KR would be Ym. Ym didn't understand what he was and while Dalinar certainly would have liked the man and almost certainly would have tried to get him to BECOME a KR, I think a certain amount of self-awareness of the title is necessary for anyone. So Ym isn't on my list. In my mind, even Lift is suspect. But she seems further along oath-wise then some of the others so she falls into kind of a Limbo state but, if I had to wager money, I'd say she's not there yet. Her attitude just doesn't fit (for me at least). Again, I totally understand and recognize the validity of the other camp (not a KR until all the words are said). It's just not a stand I personally agree with.

I'll take a shot at this one. We know that burning a Ferruchemically charged metal mind gives you a burst of the ferruchemical power and nothing from the allomantic side (basically, in this case the Ferruchemy "overwrites" any allomantic ability that would have happened otherwise). So the same general principle would seem to indicate that you'd get a supercharged burst of Hemallurgic power. We know that Hemallurgy is basically tearing up some of the sDNA of the victim and transferring it to the recipient. What would a super charged blast of this do? I can think of a couple possibilities. 1) It enhances that bit of sDNA that you already took. So if you ripped off a minor misting maybe you become a really, really strong misting. 2) It makes the sDNA permanent 3) It exactly offsets the power loss implicit in Hemallurgy (this makes sense from a symmetry standpoint) but it only lasts as long as you're burning it 4) There's more than just power use to the sDNA so burning it allomantically might make you spiritually more similar to the vicitim 5) If victims can live through spikings (and I think we assume they can though we've seen no evidence of this) then maybe it links the two individuals in a more meaningful / permanent way? 6) Brandon's exact wording would indicate that it would actually reverse the stream and splice your sDNA back on the victim... I'm not 100% certain if he meant it that way but that seems weird... especially given that most Hemallurgy victims are dead (traditionally).

This is one of the ones that bothers me because, right now, there are no real satisfactory answers We do know that there have never been more than 3 shards on Roshar and that the three known (Honor/Cultivation/Odium) are those three (Obviously, there was a time when Odium wasn't there because he was busy killing Dominion/Devotion). So "three rule" seems pretty clear. But there's no real good choice for "the broken one" Honor is clearly broken (shattered) but how does that make him "rule" any more now than when all 3 of them ruled... the prophecy certainly implies a time order (three ruled then one) Odium seems (of the three) to be much more "in charge" now but calling him the Broken One seems odd. It's possible that he's considered "emotionally broken" but that doesn't feel quite right to me (especially since we know his shardholder was a bad guy BEFORE the shard... it's not like this was Ghandi who picked up Odium and is now having his personality destroyed)... Adonalsium certainly fits the title of "Broken One" but, here again, we come across a problem. How is Adonalsium any more "in charge" now than when the three ruled. I almost wonder if it's something else entirely. Maybe there's another set of 16 on Roshar that we haven't seen for which we will see. The other possibility is this and that this represents the ending of the book. Honor (the previously Broken One) is reformed (perhaps after Cultivation and Odium annihilate each other and everyone is "Broken") and now a united / restored shard is ruling...

Q: The ending of Mistborn was hidden in the first chapter epigraphs. Is there something similar to that in The Way of Kings A: There is, but they are hidden in different places. The last chapter of the Stormlight Archive is somewhere in these two books. It sounded like he was specifically hedging that they might not be in the epigraphs... I think Dalinar's visions are the other possibility.... I meant to say, however, that I think they're in the Moelachian prophecies specifically... I did have a narrower guess then just "the epigraphs"

The pronouns in the most relevant WoB are... mixed (an object lesson in why writers write rather than speak). I was (maybe incorrectly) interpreting it this way: "No, not at all. [Hemallurgy], like the other two powers, was not created by Ruin or Preservation, but by the natural state of the world and [the planet's] interaction with the gods who created [the magic]." And since Ruin and Preservation didn't create the magic, I was assuming this meant there was another creative force that had sort of "set it all up". But this sort of conflicts (at least in spirit) with the other quote... So now I'm reading it as "No, not at all. [Hemallurgy], like the other two powers, was not created by Ruin or Preservation, but by the natural state of the world and [the planet's] interactino with [Ruin and Preservation] who created [the planet]." The logical conclusion from this being that the Shards can create planets and ecosystems but can't intentionally craft magic (with a logical implication being that they lack the knowledge to know how a particular choice in creating a planet will affect the magic later). Their presence then suffuses the planet and creates a magic system (influenced by both them and the planet's properties). I think this is still an open question. We know that Spren predate the planet But we also know that Honor and Cultivation had an affect on the Spren and that things changed even further upon Honor's shattering. Where that puts Honorspren in the continuum is unclear (I tend to agree with you... whatever little piece of pure Adonalsium they may have had is probably dwarfed by the pure piece of Honor they have... but it's not clear).

The only thing that we can predict with confidence is that 99.9% of us will be completely surprised while 50% of us will claim we saw it coming a mile away

I've been taking these two WoB together To mean that the shards don't set them up but the shards DO power them. And that he was trying to make it clear that since Adonalsium was the source of the shards and all the magics were from Adonalsium that even places like First of the Sun were, in some ways, powered by the shards (although maybe not "powered DIRECTLY by a specific shard...") I also think the shards are how people's sDNA gets rewired (which explains why Threnody and First of the Sun can have magic without humans actively being able to use it). I think we also know generally that Investiture is a separate thing from the Shards and, finally (more to OPs original question) there's this WoB and these help to kind of explain where Brandon's going with his "cross-system" magic. There's a lot we don't know about it