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  1. damn, this is too native. No idea what you mean as a non-native speaker.
  2. Hi all, apologies if this was asked, but I never explored the Warbreaker sections of the forum as this is my least favorite novel. I have some questions about giving away the Breaths. 1) Would a person born on Nalthis be able to give his Breaths to non-Nalthian if they were on Nalthis? (e.g. If Kaladin moved to Nalthis, could he receive Breaths?) 2) Similar case - Kal moves to Nalthis, can he give his Breath to a Nalthian? 3) Can a Nalthian give away his Breaths off-world to a non-Nalthian? E.g. Zahel to Kal on Roshar? 4) Can a non-Nalthian give his Breaths to a Nalthian on Roshar? After proper training, with Intent etc. E.g. Kal to Zahel on Roshar 5) Can two Nalthians exchange Breaths off-world? Like on Roshar? I think the answers would be 1)Yes 2)No 3)Yes 4)No 5)Yes but I am just guessing based on the fact that Awakening and Breaths are not planet-related like Elantrian magic but they are inborn, sDNA related abilities. This is only my speculations though. Obviously Hoid is Awakening and he is not from Nalthis, but he is an extraordinary individual so maybe not a best example.
  3. Call me stupid, but do they have all sorts of alkohol on Roshar? Until now, I treated it literally, they called it wine so I imagined wine, with odd colours to it, but still wine. But do they have everything, with the 'weird shinovar wine' being the only type we on Earth would call wine? Is this 'weak, orange wine' that Dalinar allowed to be drunk during feasts actually A BEER? I literally never seen a topic to discuss Rosharian types of alkohol, but this chapter opened my eyes and broke my head canon that was rock solid since like 5 years.
  4. The Cultivation is not usually granting the boons, it's the Nightwatcher. Cultivation let the NW interfere with humans in order for NW to grow and learn. Dalinar speaking to and getting boon from Cultivation is an extraordinary exception, not business as usual. IIRC, it didn't happen for centuries prior to Dalinar's visit to the NW valley as per Cultivation's own words. Not to contradict your other points, though. Especially the use of word 'spike' makes it suspicious.
  5. Totally forgot about the fact that Taln's HB was never at Shinovar. Thank you.
  6. If Gavilar was supposed to bond the Stormfather how could his oaths look like? I guess second ideal could stay the same, Gavilar also wanted to achieve unity, through different means than Dalinar, but to a similar end. Also, do we have any confirmation that Stormfather was going to bond Gavilar? When SF mentions what Honor told him to do, he lists visions and bonding, but does not imply this should be the same person.
  7. How is it even possible - and even more confirmed by WoB above - that the blade the madman had in the Kholinar was actually the Honorblade? They gave up their blades and Shins hold them. I thought that the Heralds not only left the swords and went the other way, but also severed the bond with them. Those were not THEIR swords anymore. But now, out of nowhere, Taln-madman has the Honorblade on his person. Did he go to Shinovar, fought off the shamans and took it back? Or maybe they never actually gave away the swords and the bond was not broken? In that case, how come the Shins had been able to train multiple people in using Surges? To me, the entire giving up on Honorblades in the WoK Prologue would not make sense unless the bond is also broken. The only possible explanation of the above is that the blade knows it belongs to specific Herald, no matter who wields it at the moment, and the rightfull Herald can summon it anytime. Otherwise, I have no idea how the Taln-madman could have had a Honorblade shortly after going back to Roshar.
  8. The OP might be right that the spheres as a currency will need to be replaced, but the part about how afordable they are is incorrect. How much a specific person earns is linked to their nahn and dahn, but this is only true in Vorin Kingdoms - Alethkar, Jah Keved, Kharbranth (?). For Azish it works differently - I guess it is based on the state-run exams? - and we don't know much about Shinovar. So, at best, the analysis done by OP on how much afordable fabrials are and will be, is only valid for Vorin half of Roshar.
  9. OK, but what is the God Beyond really? It is still a legend, right? Not a singe Arcanist knows what the God Beyond is? Is it even a real thing in the lore? That's OK, but since Evi's death, many years have passed - about 10 I guess. The strongest, most invested people, like Kelsier, would spend minutes or hours using their Investment status to prolong the time before going to Beyond. I don't think this counters my points above. The fact that Dalinar can access Spiritual, does not mean he can talk to the dead. The holder of [some two other Shards] was way more powerfull than a Dalinar, yet he was unable to break the rules of the world beyond. No reviving, only speaking to the dead shortly after their deaths, but that's it. I believe this is simply not within reach of any Shard, unless untill they gather all 16 and merge them. You didn't buy me with this, thank you for your response though.
  10. Guys, I was doing my 4th reread of Oathbringer (coronavirus, right?). This time it really occured to me how unusual those weird mentions by Dalinar are, regarding the other source of consolation and comfort etc. I listed them, but don't quote me, as I'm translating from my memory: 1) feeling of warmth and light during vision with Nohadon 2) feeling of warmth and light during one of other visions, when it was apparent, that Honor is dead (this is the one Dalinar mentioned in the conversation with Kadash) 3) feeling of forgiveness from a woman (Evi?) when he embraced the Thrill 4) feeling of Navani shading 'the light' when she closed the balcony window while Dalinar was writing the 'Oathbringer' What is the current 17th shard most common theory on that? In my view, 1st and 2nd cannot be explained in any other way than other Shard's intervention. Which Shard would that be, doesn't matter. 3rd point - Evi's forgiveness - might be explained by assuming Dalinar extremely a very strong Connection to her and she was somehow Invested. Maybe due to her origins from Rira / Iri, or other, but it can be explained in a way. As for the 4th - no explanation except other Shard's influence on Dalinar. ALSO : why did Odium scream 'we killed you'? Any links to existing topics are welcomed Help me, folks.
  11. Your wife's theory sounds very nice. I would rephrase it slightly - maybe Kingdoms had chosen Heralds as their informal patrons, like the Radiants did? Based on the Herald's attribute, they shaped their governments, policies, ways of living etc. Another example of having particular focus on some arts while postponing the other is Kharbranth with their famous hospitals / surgeons (so Battar?), and also the Paleneum (Palliah?). As for the Kingdoms being unable to survive by focusing on only one thing, I believe Oathgates might cover that for a bit. No reason to build univerities and maintain hospitals in Vedenar or Kholinar, when you can have surgeons available at request via Oathgate from Kharbranth.
  12. 'You cannot have my pain' is my number 1 favorite part of the SA. Combining all Dalinar POVs from Thaylen City and reading them without disruption from other characters should be a priority. 2nd is battle on the Tower - the part between Sadeas' betrayal and Dalinar and Adolin spotting that Kal's team came back for them. They seemed to know they will die, but decided take the death head-on. Sad, but no despair. Grief, but not overwhelming. Complete agreement with what is going to come. And they were rewarded for their heroic attitude. 3rd is Adolin's duel when Kal comes to help (well yeah, again!). True epicness. Sad that Shards are now less usefull since all the supernatural beings appear everywhere.
  13. I think you are overestimating the number of people on each planet. 7 billion is a number for modern era, developed societies, and planets of similar size to Earth, which I don't know if it's the case for Cosmere, isn't Roshar bigger than Earth? Also using Roshar as an example : Alethkar is one of the biggest kingdoms there and can only gather an army of ~100 000 soldiers. On earth, in Middle-age'ish or ancient times such numbers were achieveable for great empires, like Roman empire. In the 25B.C there were about 60 million people inhabitating the Empire and could equip ~150 000 - 300 000 soldiers at a time. Also, please keep in mind that Romans did not have the soulcasters which make feeding those massive hordes many times easier. My wild guess, basing on a number of soldiers purely and assumption that Soulcasters reduce the effort required for supporting an army let's say 5 times, I'd say that there were 10 million people in Alethkar tops. If we add the other kingdoms, maybe we can gather 100 million inhabitants of Roshar. This is based on speculations and arbitrary approaching the subject of soulcasters efficiency, so feel free to argue with me here. I bet someone has asked Brandon about it already.
  14. We know that Nightblood kills in all three Realms. Does it mean people killed by it cannot go Beyond? If it does, then using it as a weapon has some serious moral implications.
  15. Trolling since we were supposed to look for her as per WoB, like it would be a challenge to find Vivenna. It was not. Everyone who knows who V is would have guessed that with an ease. That's precisely why i'm sad - no mistery, no debates here on 17thShard, No wondering 'where could we find her'. It's almost not like what Brandon does, to give something for his readers so obviously. He used to hint at things, not to hit us in da face with a brick. That's why I'm not 100% happy about how Vivenna was introduced into SA.
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