Master Silver

I greatly prefer Tuor of Gondolin to Turin. al'Lan Mandragoran, is very good and I love his last duel, but Kaladin has the winds on his side, he essentially moves like Obi'won or maybe Yoda would be a better example. Yoda is essentially, lashing himself when he fights In terms of Kaladin's best traits, his dogged determination and loyalty remind me of Samwise the brave.

I mean in terms of Power, a Shard namely Odium is the strongest followed by Cultivation (although all Shards are technically infinite in investiture), followed by Dalinar followed by Ishar, followed by Nahle, followed by other heralds. Although Seth has to be up there if instead of power we are saying most dangerous to fight. If that is the case Ishar and Dalinar flip, with Seth arguably being up there as long as he is wielding Nightblood. Following them, again if it is power Jasinah (Radiant of the 4th ideal) then Kaladin. If it is fighting, flip-flop those two. The fused are clearly hesitant to engage Radiants of the 4th ideal, they spent a good amount of time early in RoW discussing that. Radiants of the third ideal =Fused roughly. Followed by Full Shardbearers followed by Regals and Squires/Radiants of the second ideal. followed by those with either plate or blade, followed by Warform followed by mounted human in plate armor. Individuals will very, but generally, this is where I think they are. Obviously, I am mostly talking about fighting.

I have expressed this before, but I think that a couple of things could be possible. Knowing that Brandon likes to make things big and impactful, I think it has to be more than efficiency although that is part of it. Two things have stuck in my mind. The first goes with efficiency (I think someone else came up with this first), But upon swearing the fifth idea, the Radiant truly becomes native to Roshar and gains a perfect gem-heart. Which has the following benefits: no stormlight leakage. Can store vast amounts of stormlight (so it is like a miniature perpendicularity. In this way it would act similarly to an honor blade). Allows Radiants and spren to safely travel out of the Rosharan system. The other thought is that reaching the fifth ideal slows the aging process allowing Radiants to live much longer. I've been convinced that functional immortality is unlikely.

Who would have thought that Jasnah trading up for Kaladin would cause Hoid to lose his mind and become Odium's champion. People do crazy things for love am I right?

I am really hoping Moash becomes a herald, not only because I love redemption arcs, but him getting daily hooks dug into his flesh sounds like a great form of penance haha. I know resetting the Oath pact doesn't actually do anything. No need to tell Moash though

Would that mean that the reason the Alethi are taller and like war is because of War form ancestry?

Since it says best powers, I really have to go with Windrunners. Not sure if Kaladin's abilities with all those wind spren doing crazy things is because he is special or because he is a Windrunner, but would be awesome. I've always wanted to fly

@Oltux72 How you ask. Why by magic my friend. How else does anything happen in the Cosmere. I wouldn't be surprised if there was something just for an occasion like that. Besides a few oaths and a little stormlight and they are off lashing across the landscape. @alder24 Why not? I am free to make any and as many farfetched predictions as I want. Maybe reforged would be a better way of saying it. The point is to bring the heralds back to lucidity and functioning. let's hear your predictions of days 1-10. It gives us something to discuss anyway.

Just to revive this a bit. Give your prediction on what happens during the 10 days leading up to the contest. Day 1: We sort of have seen what happens in preview chapters. Day 2: Hoid leaves, and the Radiants have their giant meeting. Kaladin and Szeth leave.Day 3: We get the reveal of what the enemy is planning and the Radiants start to counter it. Day 4: Things get worse and we see Kaladin and Szeth start to interact. Day 5: More traveling and prep. Day 6: Adolin and Shallon arrive back at Urithiru while Kaladin and Szeth arrive in Shinnovar. Day 7: The judgment of Shinnovar begins and Dalinar launches his counter attack. Day 8: Resolution of Odium attack. Day 9: The long wait. Day 10: Oath pact renewed and Talenel takes Dalinar's place as the champion and we get our duel.

I thought with enough breaths they would act as a Divine breath, so you would reach the fifth heightening. But perhaps you still couldn't manipulate your body to make it stronger etc. Someone mentioned that they could do that because they were highly invested cognitive shadows. So all reaching the 5th Heightening would do is give you agelessness, but not reverse time and put you back at your peak. Although we did see from Kaladin's slave brands that perception has something to do with it. SO if you viewed age as a wound or sickness could investiture heal it, especially if the mental image of yourself was much younger?

This is a tangent. I would say SPOILER, but given the topic that is a given. What would happen if Vasher gave his breath (or a bunch of breath) to Dalinar? We know he has enough breath to awaken objects as seen from his fight with Kaladin. We also know that Dalinar has in times past talked about his age catching up with him. Yes, he said in plate those differences largely disappear. Is that true of stomrlight to? Or would a young man filled with stormlight still be faster and stronger than an older man in there mid/late fifties? If the humans don't pull out all the stops to win the contest it is hardly believable. Vivenna also (very likely) has Breath she could loan. The point of the breath wouldn't be awakening (not enough time to learn) but to enhance speed and strength a perfect body fights better than an old one. I am hoping for a cross over of magic systems. I still don't see Dalinar as the best warrior from a physical standpoint (anymore) for this fight.

I also think it will be very hard for Adolin to travel all the way back to Urithiru without an Honor spren trying to collect him. After all he is very honorable. And having a living spren may in some ways help the dead-eye spren you are bonded too (maybe it makes it easier to swear oaths). But that is a double edged sword, because as Odium sais, the power will bind you eventually.

Might be a neat rematch, but location would be the issue with this. Gavilar currently resides in the beyond. Szeth will be in Shinovar. Besides Szeth is and remains the better warrior.

"He must pick up the fallen title, the Tower, the Crown, the Spear." I think this is speaking of Kaladin becoming king of Heralds. Kaladin becomes new king of Uritheru when Dalinar ascends to Honor, taking Dalinar's Glyph pair and ends up marrying Jasneh since Witt has pretty much doomed their relationship. Also I don't think all the death rattles must come true I think some of them are bound to be either this happens or this happens.

That is a great point about various religions prohibiting the transfer of breath. And I suppose we saw this in the book. Given the short amount of time, 400 years is about 20 generations. But, I imagine that if parents passed breath to the eldest child before they died, they would still likely have less than 50. And this would be if your family managed to stay middle class for 400 years. So even if a breath is between 15k and 20k, how many families actually increase wealth from generation to generation, someone always screws it up. 40 million dollars is what it would cost to stop aging. Your family would essentially need to save 100k a year for 400 years. Also, is there a point when a normal breath would wear out?