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  1. Thank you for this! Exactly the perspective I was looking for, I haven’t approached it from this angle before. Very insightful.
  2. Hello all, I’m wondering if anyone here has had a similar experience as myself: I’ve taken the Knights Radiant quiz numerous times over the years with varying results - mostly I get Truthwatcher, an Order I generally do not feel attached to. I’ve felt like I belonged to nearly every different Order (minus the Bondsmiths & Stonewards) at one point or another. At this point, I wish spren were real so that one could reveal itself to me & therefore end my doubt on the matter! It’s very strange to me to feel such a strong affinity towards the Knights Radiant while also not feeling drawn towards a specific Order, as others seem to be. When I see this topic discussed on the forums or on Reddit, most seem very firm as to what Order speaks to them personally. I do not. Does anyone else feel this way as well, or am I some sort of Radiant outlier? I would love to hear your input!
  3. Although I'm sure there is more than just this, here is my guess: "The death is my life, the strength becomes my weakness, the journey has ended." >> "I'm standing over the body of a brother. I'm weeping. Is that his blood or mine? What have we done?" >> "A man stood on a cliffside and watched his homeland fall into dust. The waters surged beneath, so far beneath. And he heard a child crying. They were his own tears." >> "I'm cold. Mother, I'm cold. Mother? Why can I still hear the rain? Will it stop?" >> " Light grows so distant. The storm never stops. I am broken, and all around me have died. I weep for the end of all things. He has won. Oh, he has beaten us." >> "The darkness becomes a palace. Let it rule! Let it rule!" List of Death Rattles
  4. I would say either Yolish magic (which to be fair is apparently broken now) or Surgebinding, based on how dangerous they are regarded in the narrative. "Powers that we have been forbidden to touch ... Dangerous powers, of spren and Surges" Oathbringer Ch. 111 "Surge of Cohesion, cousin to microkinesis, is far less explosive of a power ... bounded by Honor to prevent the mistakes that happened on Yolen" RoW Ars Arcanum Etc etc. Surgebinding in particular is regularly referenced as very dangerous in a way that, say, Feruchemy isn't.
  5. The next episode on The Stormlight 5 Prologue is delayed until May 7th because it's a bit long & is taking more time to edit. I believe Shardcast is returning to episodes every two weeks soon as well, so this could just be the start of that.
  6. I've actually had this same thought about Kaladin, but I agree with @KaladinWorldsinger, it is more than likely Wax. I compiled some quotes about it. (Harmony) - Rhythm of War, Chapter 29 (Wax) - Shadows of Self, Chapter 25 (Kaladin) - Oathbringer, Chapter 20 (Kaladin) - Oathbringer, Chapter 73 There's actually way more than this for both characters. If Wax wasn't around, I would definitely say Kaladin is at the top of Harmony's list.
  7. This is really good. The worlds kinda resemble a yin-yang: Painter's black sky with a single star in it, and Yumi's world dwarfed by a huge sun.
  8. This post has been long overdue. I have to live up to my namesake, after all.
  9. Would it be possible to manufacture an item that worked identically to any given Honorblade? Let’s try to figure it out. Any sufficiently Invested piece of metal is supernaturally sharp. Whether it is a Godmetal (Honorblades, Shardblades, Seon blade), or an infused physical material (Nightblood, Vivenna’s blade). It's likely that there are at least a few more methods to craft a Shardblade than we know of currently. Rosharan Fabrials can replicate Surges, but do not grant the ability to Surgebind. I wanted to mention this just so it doesn't seem like I intentionally overlooked it. Scandrian medallion tech can grant abilities. Specifically, Nicrosil can grant the ability to use Feruchemy, and also the Feruchemical ability to use Surges. Ok, now we have an object that looks like an Honorblade, cuts like an Honorblade, and grants the ability to Surgebind… But only while you are physically touching it. How can we rectify this? Bondsmithing I am not even going to expand on this one. I'm pretty sure an Unchained Bondsmith could do anything. Aonic Connection I believe it would be possible to 'program' a Blade using Aons to artificially Bond it to the wielder, making it able to be dismissed & summoned again. There is no direct evidence for this, I am merely speculating. Physical Link Some sort of 'bungee cord' that keeps the wielder touching the Blade even if it's knocked from their grasp? The biggest flaw with this system is that it does not grant powers unless making physical contact with the skin of the user. If the wielder is using Gravitation to fly and the Blade is knocked from their grasp, they instantly stop flying (or.. falling the wrong way). The odds of recovering the Blade whilst falling seem pretty low to me. Seems like an easy counter, though not insurmountable. We are close, but not quite there yet. All my solutions are pretty bad. Does anyone have any ideas, or something I've overlooked?
  10. Just wanted to quote to tag you, love this take. Very interesting. Although the Everstorm currently coexists with the highstorms, so something there would have to change. The Silence Above would make a fantastic title for SA5, sometimes I wish we weren't beholden to the ketek naming scheme...
  11. A small & tongue-in-cheek detail is that Vasher chose 'Zahel' deliberately to indicate his divine heritage as a Returned, with 'Zahel' being linguistically close to 'Nahel'. Not to take away from the point of your post (which is quite good), I think Vasher is just exceptional at using the tools at his disposal to their fullest extent. He is a master of creative applications. It reminds me of SP4
  12. On the contrary, I do think this is explicitly about the Death Rattles. And there are a few that to my eyes seem related, and none of which that we can satisfactory tie an event to ... Yet. I actually have a theory related to this called the Lighthouse, which you can find linked. I will paste Death Rattles here. The day was ours, but they took it. Stormfather! You cannot have it. The day is ours. They come, rasping, and the lights fail. Oh, Stormfather! Above silence, the illuminating storms—dying storms—illuminate the silence above. So the night will reign, for the choice of honor is life… Light grows so distant. The storm never stops. I am broken, and all around me have died. I weep for the end of all things. He has won. Oh, he has beaten us. I'm cold. Mother, I'm cold. Mother? Why can I still hear the rain? Will it stop? Again, these all seem to be referring to a single event. A storm without end, that does not renew spheres with Stormlight.
  13. Although Roshar is perhaps lacking in psychiatric care, their medical knowledge is very well-developed (all things considered). I just wanted to point out that Kaladin, a home-schooled surgeon from a backwater village, knows enough to diagnose Renarin's symptoms as symptomatic myoclonic seizures, as opposed to the many other types of involuntary muscle seizure. I'd also like to say that I disagree with the terminology here. 'Autistic meltdown' feels pejorative. Anyway, I think the answer is no. Renarin's Radiance fixed his epilepsy. It did not cure him from being on the autism spectrum, something that from his perspective does not need to be "fixed".
  14. Was thinking about this the other day, I feel like very little can truly shock Hoid to the point where he is flustered as we see him in this scene, if only briefly. My first thought was that Shallan is a spitting image of Chana ... However. In OB Jasnah mentions that Hoid has provided detailed drawings of all the Heralds. If Shallan resembled Chana so closely, wouldn't Jasnah have immediately recognized that too? Hmmmm.
  15. I believe Dalinar only begins to bond the Stormfather after his visit to Cultivation, after which he is a very different person. Could be that the Stormfather saw that and changed his mind?
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