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This line of thought springs from Leshwi's reaction to finding out about Venli's bond to her spren. The relationship between Singers/Listeners was never explained in depth beyond the fact that Singers/Listeners can trap them in their gemhearts to switch between different forms. In the listeners' songs, there is mention of a betrayal from the spren, but the information has been passed down verbally for many generations, and is therefore very unreliable. In Rhythm of War, Venli reveals her bond and Leshwi's reaction is to wonder whether they have been forgiven for their betrayal. That of course raises the question: What betrayal? Was their bonding with Odium some kind of betrayal? What was their relationship to sentient spren?

You would probably stillt be able to store some of it, though with highly diminished returns. Much as burning a slightly impure metal, I doubt the effect would be lost completely.

Hi guys, I was re-hearing the Words of Radiance and I noticed something odd that made me think. I only have the audiobook, so I cannot produce the quotes, but Pattern said he was attracted to Shallan's lies. At first I assumed those were the lies she told herself about her mother, but that cannot be possible: Her mother wanted to kill her precisely because of Shallan's abilities and she was killed by Shallan using Pattern in shardblade-form. Now I am wondering, what lies Shallan could possibly have been making that were so "powerful" that they attracted one of very few, if not even the only, Cryptic that has come to bond with a human? The way Shallan spoke to Hoid implies her childhood was fairly uneventful until Pattern came and her mother tried to kill her. Or is that maybe another lie she has told herself? Perhaps something traumatic happened even before that? She had to have been broken at some point, or else she would not have been able to form a bond with pattern and she must have been bonded to him for some time, since she progressed at least far enough to use him as a shardblade. I think there is even more crazy stuff in Shallan's childhood. What do you think?

Well he had to train under someone, otherwise I doubt he would have been as good a surgeon as we have seen in the books. And since we do not have any proof to the contrary, I am going to assume that was in Kharbranth, just not the expensive tutelage in the hospitals but under some surgeon.

Do we actually know where Lirin trained? I think the only thing we know is he didn't have a formal training but learned from another surgeon, perhaps in Kharbranth. We also know, that Mr. T's wife is an ardent and those are treated as neither lighteyed nor dark. So if she were a darkeyed ardent, she very well might have darkeyed children with Taravangian, like Hesina. Plus, we need something to bind Taravangian's plotline to that of the others

I just wanted to chime in on the " [...] for the choice of honor is life." quote: this phrase has two possible meanings. 1. Honor, or whatever substitute, chose life. 2. The honorable choice is life. The first one is pretty straight forward, but the second one is less so, since we do not know WHO was choosing. Was it Honor? Was it his Champion? There is far more variability in the second.

There isn't really any evidence to the contrary, but I think it is highly unlikely. We know, that the Ghostbloods want to kill Jasnah and that alone is very un-Hoid. Also we see him actively working with Jasnah, going completely against the Ghostbloods. I do think he is a worldhopper though and someone very important.

There is also "Dry nets" by Shallan, though I'm pretty sure that has nothing to do with any religion.

This is something I thought about posting myself a couple times, it's just that I always had a problem with that theory. We know, that "better" or stronger the aspect, the more spren are attracted to it. In this instance it would create a feedback loop: fire attracts spren, spren make fire hotter, fire attracts more spren and so forth. If that were true, I am fairly certain Axies or the two ardents that study spren would have noticed something like that. Something that speaks in favor of the theory however is Syl's behavior during Kaladin's extended sickness: what reason would Syl have to fight the deathspren, if they DIDN'T make him worse? Perhaps there is a threshold of some kind stopping the loops from forming.

I don't exactly know why, but I always took Adolin's brutality as a good sign. Before this one, duels were a game to him, a contest, something done for the fun of it. He now connects these duels with his father's efforts for unity and the war on the shattered plain. He doesn't duel for frivolous reasons, he fights for an important cause. As such, he is more driven in battle, leading to the "war"-Thrill. He drew a distinct line between the duels he fought before and the battles he is fighting now.

From the sound of it, it seems they incase it in crystal. Perhaps they soulcast it for purification? or maybe something similar to creating spheres?

I don't think they particularly want dead ones, it's just near impossible to find any living larkin. They are apparently, for all practical purposes, considered extinct. Also I think it's more as a kind of trophy than anything else.

Something I don't understand about Amaram's decision is why exactly he thinks his choice will save lives. What is that the shards enable him to do, that he could not do without? Shards are essentially mass slaughter machines that come with a bandwagon of honor, prestige and the like. That he uses the shards to physically protect a thousand people is absurd (at least in my opinion, though I am not quite as sure as I make myself out to be. Blame it on the assuredness movement). So that leaves the reputation. However we know, that Amaram is already a very high-standing military general, is well regarded among his own army and has connections to the royal family. That begs the question: was the advice he got given honestly? Or did they simply want someone they have connections to to have the shards? Or perhaps he saw it as a convenient opportunity. I just honestly and completely doubt his ability to "save thousands of people" could only be accomplished with these shards. Plus, these "thousands" are a number he simply pulled out of his a*s

Actually, the contents of the latrines ARE soulcast away into smoke, we can hear Dalinar thinking about it in his POV, when he is digging a latrine ditch I guess they soulcast it to smoke, because the idea of eating something that was once poop, fermenting for a couple months, is pretty gross.

Something I find far more interesting than the fabrial itself, are its implications: We already know of diminishing fabrials and their opposite (the term has slipped my mind). So perhaps it is possible to create fabrials that soothe or riot certain emotions, and that would certainly be a powerful tool, since Rosharans don't know it might be possible. Imagine Navani, one of the most brilliant political schemers in all of the cosmere with the powers of a soother and nobody even knows such powers exist. Alas, I don't think we will see such a fabrial, since the idea was used up on mistborn, but one can hope

I was rereading the Way of Kings (again) and stumbled upon something that piqued my interest. Szeth mentions in the first interlude, that death wishes are sacred to his people (the Shin). I read nothing further into that at first, however that's when I noticed the next quote: So the only one of Taravangian's "patients" to apparently know what's up is a Shin. These two quotes together leads me to the conclusion, that the Shin know more about the death-visions than the other Rosharans. What are your thoughts on the subject?

Well, with the choices given me, I think I will take "death through unspeakable horrors". Would you serve it without onions please?

I think Axies is a Dicean Amian (I hope I spelled that correctly) and we hear Hoid/Wit talking about them to Dalinar. He says something to the respect of "Can you do that to a man? dissect him and put him back together into something different, like a Dicean Amian?" So I'm thinking, that Axies is a little like a Kandra, being able to controll and manipulate his body in a way no human can, allowing him to survive wounds that would normaly be lethal.

Sell, I believe Jasnah had some very traumatic events concerning men. She will have a very hard time trusting someone. Sometime in the far future the name "Bridge 4" will be used for the most elite soldiers of the alethi army. (in the sense that noone remembers Kaladin or the others but the name stuck)

Buy, it would be ridiculous not to explain them In one of the first five books of the Stormlight Archives we will learn how splintering works.

I believe that if that is actually the case, the shards would be unable to affect the writing, much like the shards on scadrial It would also make sense, seeing as how people on Roshar believe they have to burn prayers to "send" their soul to the almighty; the shards are simply unable to see them in written form.

That quote is actually very enlightening. In the last chapter the Almighty said something akin to "He realized he doesn't have to fight you". Maybe Odium just set up this Thrill-thing so the Alethi would start wars all over the place and thus weaken humanity. Dalinar says that the Thrill drives the Alethi as a people. Now that Dalinar is starting to have a completely different view on life and the world he is starting to reject something he has been using for a very long time, causing his sickness. Another quote pointing to that direction is, that Kaladin was taught to care very early in his military career, thus he never felt the Thrill, he rejected the whole concept from the start, because "He would hate what he would become". Dalinar on the other hand was admittedly a warlord and a tyrant that even contemplated killing his own brother.

I have read Mistborn several times now and the last time around I noticed something: When the Renoux convoy was raided by imperial soldiers none of the crew wondered about how the soldiers knew something illegal was going on, because they assumed Marsh told them. Marsh however never told anyone anything (At least that is what I think), so how did they know? I have theorized about Jastes Lekal having something to do with it, or perhaps Straff Venture, assuming the spy Ellen used reported to Straff as well nad while both are plausible enough I want to know for certain. So is there anything I overlooked?

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Something else this whole thing fits in is the process of becoming a soldier in Shinovar: Men who pick up a weapon are given oathstones and traded between shin much like slaves. I always assumed Szeth was truthless because he picked up his shardblade (whether or not it is an honorblade is fairly irrelevant to my point, though it would contribute to it), making him even worse / lower than a regular soldier. Like if taking a gun was a sin and he just up and took a hydrogen-bomb. Oh and I can't remember in which part of the book that was mentioned, though I believe it was in an interlude or another. Sorry.