Malevericas

agreed

Tempus, I just quoted the book and mused it might be autobiographical.

interesting

This is the most earnest heartfelt thing I have read in Brandon's work. "Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed. Conversely, if you gain a reputation for being too good, too skilled. . . beware. The better art will be in their heads, and if you give them an ounce less than they imagined, suddenly you have failed. Suddenly you are useless. A man will find a single coin in the mud and talk about it for days, but when his inheritance comes and is accounted one percent less than he expected, then he will declare him self cheated." No need to hedge Brandon said let there be stormlight; and it was good.

intriguing

Lopen often told jokes about how his hand was giving the bird from an animal's stomach. He breathes stormlight and it starts to regenerate. I think it is fair to say that that his mind has always seen him as having 2 arms. Cognative. His soul was not changed by losing an arm. Consequently I conjecture that storm light heals to the point of your cognitive version of your self. A person sees himself as healthy so wounds heal. The slave brand is on his body and soul. Brandon has made it abundantly clear that Kaladin is a slave to his desire to redeem himself for what he considers to be his failures at protecting. Once he heals the spiritual wound, the scar only exists in the cognitive realm and he will then be able to heal it with stormlight.

Sadeas is calculating and just formed an unknown plan with his wife. He goaded a master dualist alone into murdering him and did not draw his blade. While many note that Shallan committed murder and is ok, one should note that the different KR orders have different ideals. Shallan's bond with the Cryptic was not precluded by murder but rather fostered by her self delusions regarding the murders. If Adolin is bonding the spren in his shardblade I find it telling that he did not use it. This could either mean that the murder causes the cognitive/spiritual break humans require for the nahel bond, or it means that Adolin fed off his rage and struck down the Emperor. The descriptions of the veins in Sadeas face and nose smell like void spren. He did not draw Oathbringer. I do not think this is the end of Sadeas.

The name Ryshadium seems like a nod to the Ranyhyn in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant and I suspect their relevance to their respective stories will be similar though more defined in Brandon's work.