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Chapter 65


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Welcome to my liveblog of Rhythm of War! Index post here. Beware of spoilers.

Chapter 65 (Hypothesis)
Icon: I’ve got no idea why Vev is here. Doesn’t connect to the title in any way I can see.
Epigraph: Wait, what? This doesn’t sound like any of the people that I have postulated as authors of the main text. Who would be thinking of God in this way? Not Venli, not Raboniel. Not Jasnah, obviously, but I’m still favoring her for the undertext so that’s not an issue. Navani possibly, but she really doesn’t make sense to me as a main text author unless she’s engaging in some double-speak in earlier entries due to being observed. Yeah, I’m just confused. Why do I have to revise my guesses (hypotheses! Look, title relevance!) every single chapter?

I’m glad Navani thought to cipher in decoy messages. It’s what I would have suggested after her previous chapter.

Mostly I’m surprised that they are equating light with Light (a.k.a gaseous investiture) and I am very curious if the discoveries will translate between the two very different substances.
Huh. Already we have some screwy physics going on with Light, and that’s just from acquo\iring a rudimentary spectrum.
I’m shocked that a simple prism can separate “emulsified” Light in such a way that they would not recombine into the same admixture. This implies that the investiture itself is being split by the prism, not just the light it emits. But that sort of physical filtration would render it far more susceptible to interference than I would expect from the effects it is able to exert on the world.

Hm, and we just got confirmation that some of Navani’s writings–specifically those about Gavilar–were written in a staged manner. So if she is the author, then the idea of doublespeak in the epigraphs has some support here. I’d need to go back and read them again to get a better sense for things.

Ah, and the character beat of recognizing her own scholarship gets shoved into the foreground, with a callback to Gavilar’s hurtful comments in the prologue. I’d say “called it” but the foreshadowing was obviously already in play.

The insane Fused is staring at the wall… not a good thing, with the hidden garnet band there for communicating with the Sibling. I’m betting it gets noticed in the next scene where this Fused appears.

Now I’m more baffled than before about what could be in Szeth’s sphere. Anti-investiture? That’s quite the hypothesis, and one I can’t wrap my head around. There’s so many reasons why it shouldn’t work… and yet…

If combining Odium and Honor is possible, Raboniel will abandon the Tower. Whatever she wants to do with it is definitely bad news.

Oh, that’s heartbreaking about the daughter Fused. I’m also relieved that Raboniel seems to have misinterpreted that comment, because I’m more convinced than before that the daughter knows something about the Sibling. I hope that Raboniel didn’t partly cause the sanity problem by being her usual Lady of Wishes self.

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