Wolfbeckett

I still like Autonomy the most as an Intent. Personal liberty is one of my bedrock principles.

I think Adolin is out by default. Right? He's still at Lasting Integrity and it took them weeks to get there. It will take them weeks to get back and the duel is in 10 days. I think whatever role Shallan and Adolin have in book 5 is in the Cognitive Realm unless they somehow get teleported back.

It's always confused me that it says im that WoB that the Skybreakers would accept an "ends justify the means" philosophy. Their whole schtick is that follow the law of the land no matter what. They can twist it around like an Aes Sedai, granted, but still, there are means that that order explicitly will NOT accept no matter the ends. This philosophy seems much more at home with E.G. the Lightweavers.

Before RoW I would have been okay with a Moash redemption, I don't like Elhokar THAT much. But after RoW, no, he's gone too far now and he just needs to be ended.

Rhythm of War... hmm... Raining Blood by Slayer? Gotta be a heavy metal beat. The Trooper by Iron Maiden? Something like that.

This thread has been interesting. Every person sooner or later learns that their parents are not perfect, that they are flawed human beings just like everyone else. Some learn it much younger than others if their parents are actively abusive but we all learn it. This thread reflects two very common reactions to that realization. The first is that you accept this knowledge, internalize it pretty quickly, and learn to see your parents as another person and to get along with them as such. The second is to see the mistake that caused that realization as a personal betrayal (and, to be clear, sometimes it is, I am not saying this reaction is unjustified or anything like that) and to become resentful and often bitter as a result. Lirin is far from perfect. He's made mistakes and some of them have been serious ones. But he's not some irredeemable monster. He's just human. And he has shown at the end of RoW that he has the capacity to grow and become better. That's all we can reasonably expect out of people.

And all of them glance at each other briefly before turning in unison on Moash to take his stick and take turns beating him to death with it.

We all need to remember though that WoB is not necessarily 100% canon. It's not canon until it's in the books. There is every chance that at the time of that particular WoB Brandon hadn't fully fleshed out the Thaidakar = Kelsier plan and that as he did develop it he realize Kel needs to be a worldhopper for it to work so he's changed his mind.

I wonder, would this mean that Dalinar can safely use the visions again with world rulers because Odium can't show himself to Dalinar anymore?

I voted Sadeas and Amaram. Moash is a douche as well but at least he acts somewhat openly. Sadeas is a weasel that smiles and shakes your hand while plotting to stab you in the back the minute you turn around while Amaram is the worst kind of hypocrite. 100% glad to see the end of the both of them.

He was an interesting character but I'm glad he's gone. He was a "destination before journey" type, in our world we'd say he believed that the ends justified the means, a philosophical position that I strongly disagree with. He also needs to be gone from a narrative perspective so that Kaladin can move on. In this book we got Kaladin realizing his beef with Roshone was too petty to be worth pursuing, and Amaram being dealt with once and for all. I expect some proper growth from Kaladin in the next book now.

I suspect Nightblood itself has no real concept of gender and doesn't have any pronouns. It seems like whoever is holding Nightblood projects their own impressions onto it. As I recall everyone else we've ever seen interact with it has used male pronouns for it, but that's basically just Vasher (male), Szeth (male), and Vivenna (already had a concept of Nightblood as male due to talking to Vasher).

Investiture resists Investiture, so most likely the effect will depend on the level of Investiture of the thing being hit. My guess is all 3 of these things would defend against Nightblood initially, with the half shards being destroyed faster than the dead shardplate and that going before the Radiant Shardplate. And I would say it's perfectly moral to use an unsheathed Nightblood as long as you're doing so in defense instead of offense. Whether the slain goes to the Beyond or not is not relevant, if they started the fight the consequences for how it ends is on them.

In some ways I can see that, but in other ways I think Ruin was more impressive. More subtle. And he came just a hairsbreadth from total victory. I think Brandon's writing of Odium is far better because he's come a long way as an author since then, but overall I think Ruin was just as effective in his own way.

Can you imagine this in the hands of Szeth? Dude would rock the house.