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Master Silver

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  1. Would that mean that the reason the Alethi are taller and like war is because of War form ancestry?
  2. 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
  3. @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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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?
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. "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.
  10. 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?
  11. Not sure how many breaths Vasher is carrying these days, but sure would be nice to give Dalinar a boost. Although you could argue stormlight does the same thing. I think Gavilar's name has come up too much for him not to be Odium's champion. If Gavilar has gotten to see events play out over the past (7 or 8 ?) years from the eyes of Odium, he would have every reason to hate Dalinar (took his wife and kingdom, acomplished what he could not in bringing back the Radiants and got his son killed). It reminds me of what Morgoth did to Hurin.
  12. I'm just amazed that monarchs and powerful nobles don't line people up at sword point to achieve the 5th heightening. In the long run, that would likely be economical as you wouldn't need a court physician or a wine/taste tester for poison. If you reign 1,000 years it pays for itself. In fact, when the goal is not dying if you achieve the 5th heightening, why it isn't pursued with more vigor, I don't know.
  13. I guess my point is that a spren is a spren. So is an honor spren more highly invested than a wind spren? That would mean that when they manifest as metal, honor spren are made of a stronger metal. Or is it that it takes more spren to make shard plate, so the damage is just breaking the spren apart from each other and that is what stormlight heals. But if it takes 0 stormlight to summon the living plate initially, why couldn't you simply dismiss and re-summon it. Finally, dead plate is healed by using stormlight.
  14. I wanted to be a Windrunner, but was almost sure I'd be a Skybreaker. Windrunner=82%, Skybreaker=76%, with Bondsmith coming in a distant 3rd at 69%. And coming dead last, Lightweaver= 22%.
  15. I think Sanderson, just wanted to shorten it for simplicity's sake and marketing reasons, but I think the shorter title goes against his intent ofThe Stormlight Archives being grand and sort of his magnum opus.
  16. Aside from that, Kaladin has always been able to keep his sanity by putting things in us verse them categories. I think his fourth ideal reinforces this. I actually hope they swear their fifth ideals together resolving whatever conflict/tension may arise between them while fulfilling this mission.
  17. I've heard this phrase, "new you new me." When playing RTSs. Wouldn't that apply here. The old Odium was tired of the conflict. But there is a new Odium. Plenty of new powers and abilities to test out. Besides, if he thinks it is in the best interest of mankind for him to win, then he will do what it takes to win. Perhaps, just replace the old fused with new fused? Batta bing batta boom. On the other side of things, I think Dalinar's assessment that they would lose this war is wrong. Presumably the Radiants are just hitting their stride. None of the heralds are pulling their weight. They only just got their second bond smith. They have a bunch more Honor spren on the way, which means more squires. I honestly think that Radiants would continue to gain the upper hand both in terms of raw investiture on the battlefield and technological advantage.
  18. One thing that is apparent from Szeth's development throughout the series is just how amazing a fighter he is. Arguably, Szeth has more feats when it comes to fighting (like taking out a small army) than Kaladin, but Kaladin by winning duels shows his superior skill. I hope they become besties. After all, the new generation of heralds should get along
  19. I just realized three things. 1) Odium only remains bound if Dalinar wins or Odium wins, not if it is a draw. 2) On the tenth day of the month Palah, tenth hour. It does not give a year. Nor does it say next month. 3) If Odium offers Dalinar's allied kingdoms a separate peace for breaking their alliance with Dalinar, Odium can then attack them at a later date. Also Odium can conquer all neutral kingdoms (Shinnovar) and third party kingdoms (Ishar's kingdom)
  20. Firstly, I love the topic. I will work my way up, but others have done a great job of answering these questions. The Storm Father says he will not come at Dalinar's call or be a blade to him or be bound in such a way that he could be killed. I think these initial statements might have been true when said but are no longer true. Now that Dalinar is of the third ideal the Storm Father is far more connected to him. We see from Radiants of the fourth ideal and how scare/concerned the Fused were about them, that the Nahel bond becomes so strong that even inversing the Towers protections doesn't work on Kaladin. I think if glory spren chose to become plate for Dalinar that is their choice. Heck, I am amazed that Honor spren haven't tried to bond him too (all I'm saying is Dalinar is super honorable). I always thought it funny that Syl was driving off the glory spren around Kaladin. In terms of Shallan, I think she will manifest plate once Radiant leaves. I think she is on oath 3.5 right now. Her next truth will revie Testament (mostly) and grant plate. For the stormlight, it is odd that living plate uses it, because spren blades don't use stormlight. Maybe it is because the plate is not as connected to the physical realm as the Radiant spren, plus the augment the plate enhancing strength and speed via stormlight. It is possible the fifth ideal helps rectify plate's weaknesses. Finally, Radiant plate can just be dismissed. So it doesn't have the same issues of dead plate when all the stormlight runs out. Cheers
  21. I'd agree that 10 days is too short of a time for any major stroke to be launched against Dalinar's coalition. Especially since, one Odium is still extremely new to his powers and coordination and execution of orders takes time. Two, Dalinar is coming off of major victories. He has lost a few Radiants, lots of troops, but it seems like Odium has lost a large portion of the Heavenly Ones along with his chief scholar and a very capable (but insane) fused. Which side is the city of Kohbranth (Taravangians old kingdom on)? More on topic, Taravangian said Odium should have never allowed himself to be maneuvered into a contest of champions. If the contest is prolonged (since it only is over when one champion is killed), if it is a child who cannot hurt Dalinar and Dalinar refuses to kill the child. The contest could be dragged out for 20 years, giving Odium time to wage his war. Nothing in the contract prevents the contest from taking an extremely long time. In 20 year Dalinar will be in his mid-seventies.
  22. Oh no..... I am just re-reading Oathbringer. And I just finished the chapter, where Dalinar and Taravangian are talking about a hypothetical with 3 murderers and one innocent, and Taravangian says you hang them all, but Dalinar says, taking the life of one innocent, is one too many. Dalinar also, didn't kill that little one when he won Oathbringer. Taravangian may know all of this, so that will make it hard for our man to win. Unless by refusing to kill the child Dalinar ascends. But even if he refuses to kill the kid, that just means the contest doesn't end.
  23. @alder24 and @Oltux72 Good points on both sides. In terms of Dalinar being the best fighter. I think he distinctly said he was the best killer. Adolin is likely the best duelist, but for stormlight (this is not including the Heralds). I think it is universally agreed that Kaladin is the best... hate to qualify that lol. But Kaladin is the best Soldier. All of this however is only when you are talking about humans born on Roshar in the past 50 years or so. This El, that we see at the end of RoW, may have served as champion of the Fused in the past. In Chapter 28 of Oathbringer, Dalinar does ask if there is anything that can be done for his former shard blade (this could be a foreshadowing). Yes, his best weapons are his Bondsmith powers, but we see that even Ishar ended up using his blade against the Wind Runners and Seth.
  24. Did Honor go from being in the hearts of singers, like their gem hearts to being in the hearts of men? Something worth considering. Where the tiny pieces of Honor are wouldn't diminish his power. The singers always talk about how their old gods betrayed them. Maybe that was part of it.
  25. I think everyone agrees that Ishar could do this, but the point they are making is that the process was interrupted so the connection snapped back into place. The Storm Father is no ordinary spren, just like the sibling, destroying or corrupting them or in this case stealing a connection takes a lot of time. The process was interrupted and both Dalinar and the Storm Father were fighting against the theft.
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