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Yeah kindle version isn't up for me yet either... I'm in the eastern time zone, and I don't think it's gonna release until 2 AM eastern time... at least that's what it says on the preorder page for the audible audiobook

Ok... I just misinterpreted what was written there. That read, to me, like things that don't have an audio source including comments directly written by Brandon are marked as paraphrased. But I see from browsing the site that this is definitely not the case. My bad

This is great! It's good to know why a couple of people were marked as 'Arcanists'. I was beginning to think there was a Kingkiller section of the shard.... But I'm confused as to why you would mark Brandon's Reddit comments and such as 'paraphrased'. I would consider the wording of anything he typed and posted more accurate than the phrasing he uses off the top of his head at a signing.

I think the restrictions @QuantumHarmonix Was referring to are the Oaths... which were imposed on the Spren/surgebinders when the Knights Radiant were founded, sometime after the first spren bonded humans. I am unclear as to why Syl being one of the first spren to bond humans would grant Kaladin any additional power, as she is clearly constrained by the oaths now. Plus, I thought the only reason we believed Kal was demonstrating powers that aren't typical of a Windrunner was because Syl was surprised at what he could do... That probably wouldn't be the case if something weird about her was giving Kal additional abilities.

Especially if they're going to be renewing their efforts to kill Jasnah...

So... They were already planning to send Elhokar with Kaladin to try and activate the Oathgate in Kholinar. If that happens in part 2, and I'm guessing they will try to do this as soon as possible, then my bet is Kaladin is the missing secondary character and Elhokar is the tertiary character with viewpoints.

I think, from the oathbringer prologue, we can infer that the listeners change form by capturing a spren inside their gemheart. The typical parshendi transformations seemed to involve non-sapient regular-spren. The storm form transformation seemed to involve a non-sapient odium-spren. I'm guessing that a "Fused" is a listener/parshman whose gemhart contains a sapient odium-spren. The term fused would seem to indicate that they are no longer two separate entities, as with a nahel bond, but a single being formed from a fusion of two sentient beings. At least, that's my interpretation... but I would be interested if a stormform listener was considered one of the 'fused'

Perhaps it was because this was the first time someone mentioned Evi while he was holding stormlight?

The listeners all communicated verbally with each other... they just have acces to the shared rythms, which allowed them to coordinate actions more easily... Also I'm not sure we can call this group of former parshmen 'listeners' since Kal didn't mention any 'sing-song' quality to their speech, they may not have access to the rythms.

Indeterminate.

The actual quote from WoR is this: This sounds more like the diagram suggests Dalinar would become an enemy if he managed to create stability, and thus become a competitor for the ultimate leader of any alliance of humanity... It seems like becoming 'high king' puts him directly in opposition to this passage from the diagram. I suppose you could argue that with whatever is going on in Kholinar, Alethkar is still unstable and the diagram may not be against Dalinar... But that's really not where I'd put my money

He got Adolin's plate through marriage...

I think you're misinterpreting what @robardin is saying here, I said something similar in a previous comment: And I didn't mean that I thought Kal is ashamed of being who he is or that I think he's going to be determined to hide that he's a Radiant... I meant that Kal is uncomfortable with the fact that he became a lighteyes when he became a Radiant, and he's uncomfortable with the implications of what that means for the current lighteyes' justification for rule... The last thing he wants to do is give the current lighteyes additional justification to say that their eye color indicates the favor of the Almighty. So using his supposed 'rank' to take control of the situation would seem like a regression of character and a sign of reduced maturity, to me. For proof that he's still at least somewhat uncomfortable I give you this from chapter 5: For proof that he doesn't want to further justify the lighteyes supposed superiority, I give you this from WoR:

The counter I have to the idea that Fabrials don't need stormlight to function is this passage from WoR: Since Rushu was surprised that the blade could still be summoned and dismissed when the gemstone had gone dun, that would suggest it was an anomaly, thus, their typical fabrials probably need to be infused to function.

I imagine the 'hurried tone' is Lirin trying to keep Kal from being locked up... Or perhaps even summarily executed (the guard did mention hanging earlier in the chapter) We don't really have any evidence that they did send a message since the storm. all we have is this paragraph: A competent and considerate Lord shouldn't need to be told that the towns/villages under their purview would need aid after the land was wracked by a storm traveling in the wrong direction in the middle of the weeping... The competent and considerate part is why Lirin is surprised when he thought aid had already been sent.