Kalaksbreath

I will say I do like the symmetry of him stabbing Elhokar in the eye and now being blind seems like a nice balancing of the scales but I will agree that eventually he needs a little more awful treatment.

Something that has occurred to me after learning the significants of rhythms on Roshar and likely the greater cosmere is that it should be possible to make a fabrial Shardblade using Honors rhythm. In fact I think it should be possible to replicate any god metal through the use of one of their rhythms though the resulting compound may not be as good as a metal created directly by a god because I don't think mortals could replicate a gods rhythm as perfectly as that god unlike a spren who can get much closer. It may be out of reach for the near future but I think Navani should be capable of creating a Shardblade that does not use a spren living or dead, if I had to guess it would be similar to the sort of Shardblade Azure had in OB less powerful than a living blade but still a formidable weapon. I think this is one of the reasons Odium was so interested in Roshar and the Singers, because of all the creatures we have seen so far in the cosmere the Singers should have been the most capable of figuring out how to make a fabrial Shardblade with their access to the rhythms and Odium could use the fabrial shards to take over the cosmere with the well trained army's of Roshar. (edit): I just realized that this should probably be moved to lore, magic and cosmere discussion.

So we got the reveal of what Shardplate is in this book (a lot of people have speculated what it was I didn't want it to be lesser spren but unsurprisingly how Brandon wrote it was really good so I like it). What I am wondering is how Renarins plate will work the impression that I got is that Sja-anat does not have that many corrupted spren so will she have to corrupt a ton of spren so Renarin can get living plate? Or will Renarin just keep using Dalinars old plate? Or will Renarin be able to use uncorrupted spren for his plate (that seams unlikely to me)? It seams like Sja-anat will be able to operate more openly now that Odium has a new Vessel so it could be that she will be able to send and corrupt more spren more easily and it wont be an issue.

@Elsecaller_17.5 I had the exact same problem plus Battle Ground came out just a little while ago too which didn't help anything (though that was a much shorter book).

This literally blew my mind I think I just sat in my dorm for like 30 minutes staring into empty space with my mouth hanging open.

I am equally grumpy and also sitting and waiting.

May you come to the attention of those in authority. lol your so lucky and I'm just jealous.

I looked around a little bit but was not able to find an exact release time for the Rhythm of War digital book/audio book. I was wondering if anyone knew what the exact time of release will be?

So by all accounts Dawnshard is supposed to come out today. I was wondering if anyone had an idea of what time Brandon will send out the email with the book in it at.

While I agree with this for the most part I don't think this is a big enough troupe for Brandon to take it out or avoid it.

I know and I did think about that my only possible reason for this is that when they fall asleep something weird happens to them so they become a sleeping humanoid. Maybe their Connection to whatever shard they were connected to vanishes at their radiants death and they just become semi-conscious free floating investiture and they lose their normal spren shape and just become this humanoid thing Navani describes.

I came up with this a little after reading chapter 9 where Navani describes the spren for soulcasters as being asleep. It occurred to me that Syl said she went to sleep after her radiant died I don't remember but I don't think her other radiant had hit the 5th ideal yet (so the affects were not permanent). I also need to point out that Capitan Notum says that the Nahel bond can be broken before the fifth ideal with out killing the spren. So my theory is that the spren used in soulcasters are the spren for knights who died after swearing their 5th oath we know hitting that oath in not common and after that knight dies I think their spren goes to sleep like Syl did after her knight died. After the knight dies the spren kind of just goes to sleep and doesn't wake up and people then figured out how to make soulcasters from the sleeping higher spren.

Yes I think he might said it in a live-stream though as I said I don’t remember where I saw it.(but I’m sure it exists)

Brandon said somewhere (I don't remember where) that we will see a dawnshad in the book

I like this idea I just think it needs to be someone we have had a pov from (when plate gets reviled it seams very likely just for a writing and reading perspective that we will see it happen from a pov) maybe a bridge 4 member.