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Ohhh... The Fused when they talked about, they were wary of radiants who have sworn the fourth oath. And by now it seems the only "main character" who stays in the city will be Kaladin... => He's going to swear his fourth ideal when the city gets attacked, he will sacrifice someone and that will enable him to save the city? Something like that ~ Suddenly with a freaking shardplate he can mow them down. Although, now that I think about it, Windrunners do not profit at much from the shardplate as (potentially) other orders because they lose the ability to maneuver. Still... that's how I envision it to go down.

I presume that the different orders all have their own commander. But I really hope for the Edgedancers that Lift is their CaptainCommander! ^^

Totally shiny *nods approvingly* Sadly they "ended" it with the movie, there is no second season coming, ever ;( I love your comparison between River and baby yoda

This show reminds me so much of Firefly.. I like it a lot, imho the Mandalorian is way better than the last three actual SW-movies, and it hurts to say that.

So I think most people here are in agreement that he can only swear the ideal if he is willing to "give up" a person's life and is not actively trying to save the person. That leads us to the question: Which person is dying (or in mortal danger) at the time Kaladin swears his 4th oath? I think a member of his family would make is oath super powerful.... but it also seems so very unlikely that he is "strong enough" to do it in that case.

Consider my mind blown. Very well done. Now I feel stupid for failing to realize that myself. It explains perfectly why it was impossible for him to swear those words in this situation, thank you. I always wondered "why he didn't just do it". Lives were in danger after all.

Yeah, that is a very good catch @ windrunner recording in Urithiru. Why I am sure that the fourth oath has something to do with "you cannot save them all, accept it and FORGIVE yourself" is that he wasn't able to swear the ideal when it really mattered. When - from his perspective - his own life, Dalinar's and also Shallan's & Adolin's life were in mortal danger. In that situation he wasn't able to swear it. So it has to be something profound. Something his entire mentality/personality rejects. And as you quoted and we have seen it countless times his insane (and irrational) behavior to try to save everyone and then blame himself afterwards if it didn't work. All those little kids he tried to save when he was squadleader, then later when he tried to save slaves, also when he was bridgeleader. It's a reoccurring theme and it's time Kaladin faces that life is harsh, unfair and without mercy. I also agree that someone very close to him must die, the sorrow and guilt will nearly crush him (especially compounded by his depression) and then he has an epiphany and viola.

When I read that I thought "oh, how cute, they made rooms only for spren to use. How thoughtful." Absurd idea or possible?

I ship lardin - she knows him since they were children and suggested the "get yourself a shardblade then we can marry"-thing. So I think they might fit together. He obviously liked back, something that apparently doesn't happen often according to Syl.

Honestly, Syl has more emotional intelligence than 90% of the people I know. She is a gem. And Kaladin should really build a little shrine for her, she deserves it.

mooooorrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Hmm... it might be an unpopular opinion but I'd have preferred her to be "regular". For me it feels forced to give her an uncommon sexuality even though I admit that she did seem uninterested in romantic affairs so far, BUT that could have had 100 different (better) explanations. For example it must be pretty hard for a woman like Jasnah to find a worthy partner. Jasnah - as we have seens with Amaram - does not do "political marriage". So she'd have to marry out of love, and for her it must be really tough to find such a person. Not only because she's filthy rich and powerful - thus she can never know if her partner might not just be after her money/power - she's also extremely intelligent and I don't picture her as someone who could be in a relationship with someone who is not intellectually on par with her. So her being hetero but because of her ... complicated status/lifestyle/philosophy she is still hoping the find the right one. I'd have preferred that because my experience tells me that this is far more likely. But well, now she's asexual, it's not like Brandon will make a big deal out of it - I hope.

Well, better to make it way harder to actually lose it and not knowing if it is taken than making it easier to take away but knowing when it has been taken. /edit: Especially if you don't think that you could re-capture it anyway. How do you know?

How is hiding it under Urithiru better than dropping it randomly somewhere into the ocean? The aluminum-casing could also be used when you drop it into the ocean, but since they don't know about its relevance, you cannot use it in your argument how to hide it better. Cast into space, I highly doubt Kaladin can cast it outside of Roshar's gravitational pull, that means it would in short order crash down somewhere. Fair enough, maybe the unmade doesn't survive re-entry. But if heat and fire could kill it, they could have dropped it into a volcano.

But the ocean is gigantic. Even if somehow Odium knows that the gem was dropped somewhere into the ocean (I hope Dalinar gave it to Kaladin and even he wouldn't be able to find the place he dropped it down) that at least makes it incredibly tedious to re-find. What would the alternative be? Always in Dalinar's jacket pocket? Somewhere hidden in the tower? Somewhere hidden on the landmass of the continent? There is no foolproof spot, wherever you drop it, someone can retrieve it. And they didn't feel to take the chance to try to destroy it, a decision I can understand.