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Kallandras

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  1. I want to thank everyone who has worked on deciphering glyphs, and I am excited to see more - I have been planning to get the Windrunners Glyph on my back, and wanted to get the Ideals around it in some way. Super excited at the prospect of doing the first Ideal, at least, in glyphs around it.
  2. I think Shallan and Kaladin may not end up together, but they're at least going to be together for a while. They clearly both feel strongly for each other. Kaladin describes her as beautiful, opens up to her, and gets sullen when seeing her and Adolin together. He also seems to respond to her presence in a similar way to how he did to Tien, in that even in the depths of his despair over losing Syl, she's able to make him smile and come out of his shell. Shallan is noticing how her time with Adolin is less good than her time with Kaladin - she got distracted thinking about Kaladin when she "should" have been paying attention to Adolin, she tried to banter with Adolin like she had with Kaladin and found his response lacking, and again, she opened up to Kaladin very quickly. However, there are a lot of conflicts that I think make it so that even if they're together, they're not storybook couple forever as soon as they decide to be together. For one, Kaladin killed her older brother. He knows it already, she doesn't. When this gets revealed matters. If Kaladin hides that he knew this, Shallan will probably feel thoroughly betrayed (it's not really in Kaladin's nature to do that, though). Besides that, their spren are of types that practically hate each other. If that's not a signal that their basic understanding of the world is going to be conflicted, I don't know what is. Kaladin also has a strong desire to protect those he cares about. Shallan expressed pretty clearly to Adolin that she hates being shut away and treated like something that needs protecting. On the other hand, Kaladin has experience teaching newbies the ways of combat, and Shallan has some need of training so that she can put her Blade to use. All in all, I can't say that they'll end up together, but I'm almost certain they'll at least be together for a while before the series is through. I can't wait to see how it develops in the next book.
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