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  1. This might be relevant: http://brandonsanderson.com/annotation-the-alloy-of-law-chapter-twelve/
  2. As far as the "flattening" goes, I think there are a couple possibilities. One is just that the border forms at the point most distant from any sentient beings. It would make sense, then, for it to typically be in the middle of the ocean somewhere, though, it's plausible that on another world it might be in a desert or other wasteland. Second is that it just forms in the way that most people perceive their world to be. So, for example, if there was a cognitive realm for earth, it might roughly be in the shape of a mercator projection just because that's the dominant way that the earth is perceived (I think. Maybe that's just an ethnocentric perspective, but I think it is).
  3. I find sometimes find his attitude annoying and a bit petulant, but totally understandable and completely within character.
  4. He may be dead, but he's definitely not inanimate.
  5. Hm. Possible, but the italics really make me think that it is an external compulsion. And I'm even going to stick to my guns on the Thrill. It's an almost exact inversion of what the Radiant said should be happening. Instead of those with the desire to fight being compelled to Alethela, people in that region feel the desire to fight. I can totally see a spren (like the Stormfather, but bound to the earth instead of the storms), having it's mind ripped apart by the Recreance, going on with some strange perversion of what it had been doing previously.
  6. The Heralds might have used the existence of the Radiants to partially justify abandoning the Oathpact, but ultimately, I think they did it because they were tired and broken.
  7. Fair enough. Though, it does still seem to me that people who feel the desire to fight being compelled to Alethela is something of the Radiants. The Heralds aren't around at the time and it doesn't seem to be present in the time of the books. Maybe it's not related to the Thrill, but I still think it might be related to a Bondsmith.
  8. So, the Heralds are off wherever to be tortured and when they returned to Roshar, the Desolation began, after which they needed to return, lest another Desolation start up again. The nahel bond is the spren copying the way that Honor empowered the Heralds. In Dalinar's visions, we see the Radiants fighting all kinds of strange creatures that do not appear to be present on Roshar in the first two books. Is it possible that the Radiants and their bond were somehow drawing forth the very things that they were fighting against? Clearly, it wasn't a full-on desolation, but if they discovered that they, themseves, were the source of all this misery, I can see them abandoning their shards and breaking their bonds/oaths as a way to protect Roshar. Also, one of the Knights in a WoK vision mentions that anybody with the desire to fight should be compelled to come to Alethela. That sounds a lot like the Thrill, sort of. Could it be that the unmade, back in the day, was Bonded to say, a Bondsmith, and he somehow drew fighters to him in Alethela? And then after the recreance, he was "unmade," his mind broken, it now just gives off the effect of the Thrill? Just some thoughts.
  9. Edit: never mind. It seems more likely that the senescence phase is just another pupation into a larger entity. Like a big rock cocoon.
  10. All she needs to do is to carve out a handhold. If she manages to do it before she hits the bottom (which seems possible given the abilities of Shardplate and Stormform), she's set. If she hits the bottom, once she manages to get even a slight handhold anywhere, it should be relative easy to make more and then a shelter. Finding random bodies is easy. Find a specific one, I think is less plausible. If anybody knew that it was out there, you might get a few individual treasure hunters, but Dalinar has bigger things to worry about than one set of Shards. Most people probably aren't even aware that it happened.
  11. There's no evidence of anything here. It's all speculation. I don't think Syl was screaming. After all, she wasn't trapped in a Shardblade. By the time Syl is arguing with the Stormfather, Kaladin has already taken up his oath again, by deciding to protect Elkohar.
  12. If Taln still has his Honorblade, that could explain his ability to snatch a dart out of the air.
  13. Well, even if Hoid didn't switch them, that doesn't necessarily mean that he doesn't have the Honorblade. He may have taken the Honorblade and somebody else provided the double. It might even have been Dalinar. His son came into a bunch of extra blades recently.
  14. Denial is a powerful thing. In her fight with Tyn, she thinks ** Ten heartbeats. But for her, it didn't have to be ten, did it? No, it must be. Time, I need time! ** Then, later: ** He could come more quickly than the ten requisite heartbeats. He'd done that before. She hadn't been willing to admit that he was capable of it. Admitting it would have meant too much. **
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