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  1. (I posted this to the Facebook Cosmere group earlier, but I wanted to share with you all and see what you think. I know a couple of these points were made already) I really enjoyed the surface story, character building, and Cosmere implications, all which have been discussed at length, so I won't go into it too much. One thing I would like to point out is that when the spirits are drawn to people stacking rocks, it was very reminiscent of creationspren showing up on Roshar like when Shallan is drawing. The act of turning into fabrials in exchange for the art is how I imagine fabrials are created without having to capture the spren. That means that what the scholars are doing with the machine is the same as what the Sibling accused Navani of doing by capturing spren in gems and forcing them to power fabrials. What I enjoyed the most, however, was the themes explored in this book. The value of art, to the artist is in having someone to share it with. To the audience itself, in the way the art changes you fundamentally. It feels like an extension of the monologs given by Hoid at the end of each Stormlight novel. The importance of trying new things, pushing boundaries, taking risks. What is beauty/art and how they relate/ differ. The way that art has no intrinsic value or function without an audience. Good art from a bad artist is considered great, while the same art from a master would be considered mediocre or even bad. What happens to someone when they lose passion and sense of purpose and identity, and they become disillusioned and just go through the motions of doing the job. He literally just calls himself Painter. I also felt like a strong analogy could be made between the father machine and AI art that we are seeing in the real world. The machine performs the same function as the the yoki hijo (artist) but without inspiration or other value i mentioned above, and is actually harmful to the spirits (audience). It literally sucks the souls from the people around it. Never meet your heroes. It's better to hold yourself to higher standards and become the hero you want to see in others. The flip side of this is knowing how to strike a balance between fulfilling your duty and allowing yourself to be happy. I'm also happy they got the ending they deserved. Edit: You know those quirky love-em-or-hate-em characters like Wayne, Lift , Hoid, Lopen? I'd like to formally petition the community to accept the fanon new secret society of these characters called the Wahoopli. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
  2. In spirit with the season, I'm going to say its something horrific like say, a corrupted fused Dustbringer Evi. "You burned me, Dalinar, and now I have returned to burn YOU!" <suspenseful horror music>
  3. I thought so too, but Kal didn't hesitate to break whatever rules he needed to in the name of protecting people as a slave, or in either military career. Skybreakers seem like right or wrong, they will follow the letter of the law without question
  4. I suspect she's is physically aging at a standard rate, but is maturing mentally and emotionally very little.
  5. I think we have confirmation that Urithiru wasn't a ship, but I could be wrong. I've had the beginning of a theory for awhile that the key to taking KR and their spren off world will lie with peoples perception of space and the ways it could change the landscape in the CR, since spren existence is tied so closely with the cognitive and changes depending on the way its perceived
  6. You are in for a treat, reading the entire thing knowing what you know know. You'll pick up on all kinds if things the second time through a first time reader would ignore
  7. See, I'm completely in the other camp on this. I suspect that she forsaw the contest between Dalinar and Odium, and her meddling with Dalinar/ Lift/ T was all in service to the long game and making sure that not only Rayse but Odium the shard would be at a great enough disadvantage to lose. I'm out of the loop, so I don't know if we have confirmation that T is still affected by his bane/ boon, but if it hadn't been for his smartest day he would have never been able to manipulate events to where he would be holding Odium. The same goes for Dalinar and being a Bondsmith and being in the position to confront him. I don't know if Lift has a greater role to play in the contest, but I think if she was using regular storm light like the other radiants, its possible she may have been incapacitated like the majority of them were during the tower sequence during RoW and those events would have ended much differently. Most importantly though, what happens if the god of Divine Anger at a crucial moment lacks the capacity for anger? I could be way off here, but I always interpreted Cultivation as controlled growth by design. I don't see her changing people for the sake of change, or being completely random without an end game at all.
  8. @Use the Falchion I saw it too. Page 104 around 44 percent. I think it's supposed to say "I didn't know what it meant..."
  9. My biggest question is what rank to they need to be promoted to before their taynix will manifest as a Mindblade and Mindplate?
  10. Since so much of this story is built around symmetry, I fully expect the last flashback to be a scene adjacent to the feast/assassination,either right before or immediately following the events in the WoK prologue Szeth pov scene that started off this whole arc. I really like the idea of the whole thing going full circle like that. I personally am looking forward to some insight into Shinovar's culture, and maybe some more explanation on the shin invasions and what they were looking for. My prediction is a giant cache of shardblades!
  11. I like it as an idea, but several don't sit well with me. I feel like cultivation is controlled growth, so could fit easily in either row. Odium doesn't feel like something that unites, and I've always wondered if that shard was interpreted that way due to Rayse being hateful anyways. And whimsy feels hard to categorize by definition. Im sure there is a definitive chart or something close to it, and I've wondered about it too. I just wonder if we have enough information without more dawnshards.
  12. @Player22 Don't let it discourage you, our theories get shot down immediately 90 percent if the time, but it's still fun to share them anyways! Plus, you never know when one will stick, or at least spark a discussion. I used to take it personally but nobody means it that way. Keep at it
  13. Maybe I'm not looking into it closely enough, but i always assumed the prophesy was speaking of Sazed. I also agree with Weltall about harmony and discord, but with a twist. We are seeing him struggle right now with having two shards with opposing intents. His story isn't yet finished, i believe, and it's totally possible for him to shift to Discord later if he fails to keep the two balanced (and it would make a really interesting story). But yeah, I'm almost completely certain the prophesy is all about Sazed.
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