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It was more of a love rectangle. All three loved Rand. Rand loved all three. What needed to be resolved?

Additionally, Renarin's eyes are healed even though he wore glasses for a while. His personality seems more like he would see himself as "broken" though.

You and your crazy talk. I'll be on my reread before Christmas. Kindle and Audible on 17 Nov. Signed hard-copy for Christmas. I have directly paid a proportion of future tuition for Brandon's kids.

I can't see that it would be stationary. The star itself would not be stationary. Then again a cognitive anomaly wouldn't necessarily have to follow physical laws, only cognitive laws.

This question got me thinking along some different lines. The Returned don't remember anything about their 'previous life,' however, their spirit-web does. It is essentially who they are really. When they Return, they don't look like they did prior to death. Thier bodies are made more perfect images of what is in their spirit-web. One saw himself still as a child and that is how he appeared despite being one of the oldest known Returned. Lightsong subconsiously saw himself as bigger, stronger and more noble looking than he was in his mortal life, because that is who he really was in his spirit-web. This didn't change his past, but his spirit-web convinced him that he was a hero of some sort, because he acutally was; just not the type he assumed.

I bet if you lock some aluminum gauntlets/gloves on an Elantrian's hands, you'd pretty effectifly cut them off from accessing the Dor. This in and of itself could be a punishment, but combining this with other punishments could help with varrying degrees of crimes.

Yes, if you are coming from a reader's perspective, that changes things. You provided your views on why you think that the differences in the magnitudes of the crimes (which they all are) determine, in your mind, that some should be redeemable and some not. From my personal point of view, everyone is redeemable from their actions. This makes it easier for me to be on Dalinar's side. It may seem contrary, but I also believe that no one deserves redemption; that would not satisfy the demands of justice. However, I believe that mercy can be extended to those bound by justice and they can be forgiven and receive redemption, not because they deserve it, but because someone with authority is willing to offer it. I have done some things in my life that I am deeply ashamed of. I've tried to fix what I could and learned and moved on to be a better person. I've also had some horrible things done to me that still affect me to this day. I try no to let those people and their actions rule my life and I have tried to forgive them (still working on it). This is all an internal action that I must do. But if I have hope for the redemption that I need, I surely need to be willing to offer it to others as well. A bit of rambling on my beliefs, but it is because of this that I don't find it hard to follow Dalinar's arc and call him one of the "good guys" in the end. It wasn't for his drinking and feeling sorry for himself. It wasn't becasue he went and forgot it all and started doing good things. It was becasue he remembered it all, accepted what he had done as a vile action, and is trying to do better now. I was inspired by the story of Eva Kor, a holocost survivor.

Fain's dagger in the Wheel of Time had a ruby on the hilt; however, there was nothing about taking souls into it. They just died very painfully.

I think this is the crux of the whole argument. In the Cosmere, who has the divine authority to determine right and wrong? Who gets to say this is the line that you have to cross before you are irredeemable? In the Cosmere, what does redemption even mean? Is there a Heaven and Hell construct where the good and bad a divided into after death? Or are you just referring to redemption and forgiveness relating to the laws of the land? Or even redemption and forgiveness in the eyes of someone else? All of these scenarios have different answers. From what I've read in the Cosmere, there is no final judgement to where redemption and forgiveness would even come into play. The only thing I can think of is how your physical, cognative and spiritual selves align with eachother. In that case redemption and forgiveness are completely internal concepts that don't give a hoot about what anyone else thinks.

Okay, so you can soulcast fuel for the investiture from Harmony to work through, but the investiture itself is coming from the Shard. That makes sense. It also makes sense that you would probably destroy yourself trying to soulcast any amount of a god metal since it is solid investiture and not an element. So does allomancy just pull from the available investiture of stormlight on Roshar since Harmony is not around to provide it? Does this mean that you need to be holding stormlight while your burning metal if you are on Roshar?

Getting back to non-God metal topics (since it seems so dificult it's impractical), being able to soulcast a hunk of elemental metal from dirt seems like a net increase in investiture. The amount of stormlight investiture that it costs to soulcast the metal seems small compared to the amount of investiture gained from the metal. Investiture follows the laws of thermodynamics and cannot be created or destroyed, only redestributed.

It would seem to me that for a relativly small amount of stormlight (and an undetermined amount of your hold on your physical body) you would be able to create masive amounts of "burnable" metals. Judging by how little effort it took Jasnah to transform a huge rock to smoke, she could create a meter cubed of iron with not too much trouble. How long and what could you do burning that much iron?

Yeah, forgot about that part.

Wax pushes Kaladin's spear away. Kaladin thinks "Oh, yeah?" and lashes Wax's guns away. Kaladin turns around and walks away cause he's not a bully. I'm not sure why all the rules were put in place to take away Kaladin's advantages. That just means that you already think Kaladin would win. Why not blindfold him and tie him up as well?

I can see how there could be evidence for that in Raoden's case and maybe Taan (the sculptor), but not anyone else. Especially Shaor, the spoiled little girl, could not have been devoted to anything.