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  1. Maxal, I think you took a real disliking to Elhokar and because you dislike him you see a lot of his actions even worse than intended. He seems to be a really confused young man who is following greatness and, so far, is not great himself. I believe he is experiencing what a lot of other sons of great men dealt with throughout history. No doubt he has been seeing spren and it may have been for the past 6 years. You might be paranoid as well if you were seeing things out of the corner of your eyes with no explanation for them. Either something is there, or he is crazy. Which do you think he chooses? Oh, and he is right, there really is something there, just not assassins. Also, you speak of talk to his council for help. He has been. Unfortunately, who is his council? High Lords that are doing everything they can to fight for power with each other. Any advice he gets is not advice at all but positioning for power. He is not a good king. Look at Renarin* for instance. He hasn't handled his interaction with spren well at all. If Renarin was the king while going through what he has been, how well do you think he would do?
  2. Mat definitely kept me reading through the slower books. Perrin is very hard to read but even he isn't bad compared to the female POVs. The females are the reason the middle books are so tough to read IMO. The last Jordan book before his death was getting back to really good again. When Brandon takes over, the pace increases dramatically.
  3. Yeah, like others have said, Jordan was the trailblazer in this type of epic fantasy. Others have learned from his mistakes and improved on his techniques. Without Jordan it may have been another 50 years + for someone to make the leaps he made. I have told people, read the prologue, if you like it then you most likely will enjoy reading the series. Books 4-6 are definitely great, but I liked 1-3 as well.
  4. How old was Taln before he commited to becoming what he was? At what point did he decide he would be willing to take centuries of torture between desolations to help save humankind? With the knowledge Kaladin has now, if he was offered the same choice, wouldn't he make the same decision that Taln made?
  5. A lot of these questions or "theories" are already in the book. Maybe you should do a re-read.
  6. Giving Kaladin the flute never made ONE BIT OF SENSE. Hey bridgeman, while you are in a fight for your life, living in slave quarters, carrying every valuable possession you own on every bridge run so other slaves wouldn't come steal your stuff, KEEP UP WITH MY VERY VALUABLE FLUTE. It was dumb, never made any sense, and I wish if it played any important role should have been written in a way that would make atleast a bit of sense why you would give Kaladin the flute in the first place. Of course it was lost.
  7. Maybe I am warped but I dont think so.... If a person does their absolute best to KILL ME, and then dumb enough to leave me for dead, then lets it be known he is going to do whatever it takes to finish the job.... That is an absolute immediate threat. I don't care if he has a sword in his hand at that very second or not. Next time I turn my back he will kill me or my family/friends. He SHOULD have a sword in his hands, that is his mistake.
  8. At some point they broke down the chances of him having that intelligance again and it was like 1 in 1000 years or something. He wasn't just brilliant that day, he was the sun to a flourescent bulb.
  9. 000s meaning time was up. The everstorm had arrived. It was part of the countdown.
  10. ^ I disagree, Sadeas is as big if not bigger immediate threat to Dalinar and family as Szeth ever was. Sadeas was after destroying everything and rebuilding it his way in the midst of the Everstorm. Sadeas had attempted to kill Dalinar and Adolin before and would again.
  11. Kaladin didn't kill Szeth in self-defense. He chased after him, over and over, until he killed him. Of course he was resurrected but that is beside the point. If you say it was in defense of Dalinar and family (who were not around) then you can say Adolin killed Sadeas for the exact same reasons. Sadeas was a threat to everyone and made it clear he would continue to be.
  12. Yep, that is what I have been wondering. At first I was thinking Dalinar until he bonded Stormfather and was told no shards. The next logical step is Adolin.
  13. So what you are saying is, if your BROTHER was about to be killed by 4 people, you would stand and watch because you couldn't do anything anyway.... I would be embarrassed to even say that, but hey, if that is your look on life, more power to you.
  14. So far I have disagreed with just about everything you have posted in this thread. Most seems like a real reach to discredit Renarin. Right off the top, do you not see the contradiction in "he shouldnt put himself in mortal danger" because both his father the high prince and his brother the heir are already busy putting themselves in mortal danger at every turn.... Shouldn't Adolin be the one who shouldn't put himself in mortal danger?
  15. Would he have been able to draw the stormlight from a sphere if he were a squire?
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