Crysanja

The Radiant in Dalinars vision said to him he should go to there place/school, so he might become a Radiant. The Radiant couldnt know much about "Dalinar" at this point, except that he could fight and was brave. Thouse seem to be very low requirements, sure there might be more, we dont know, i guess the real requirement is trust. I guess Dalinar trusts most of his close fam. So as a Bondsmith he could propably help them all to become Radiants. As far as i understand thats the work of a Bondsmith to help creating thouse bonds.(instruct/attract/order Spren? idk) So the chance for more Radiants in the fam. is very high. Maybe there is a difference between Spren chosen Radiants(Kaladin, Dalinar, Shallan, Lift) and thouse helped/made by a Bondsmith. i hope there will be no more Radiants in the fam. but i think there will be.

i think the reason why Pattern didnt "die", is that Shallan remembered, she had a Shardblade. i guess this was the only link left between them.

i dont think that the truth about her father/mother advanced her. but only to catchup to where she was before. thouse were lies which she made herself belive - i guess thouse made her regress. interesting would be which truth would make her realy advance? maybe things like what spreen are, natural(/social) laws for the world, maybe thouse things make her advance. maybe we should check the conversation with Hoid, there could have been truth which advanced her. however that was after she killed her mother, so there must be much before. thouse must be kind of an easy truth if a young child can comprehand and accept them. maybe it is far less difficult for some KR to advance throu the first steps then others.

about the immortality, i guess it could be closely connected to changeing theire form. changeing form could be/is? rejuvenating, alot of damage to the body could be healed. the question would be now if frequent or accumulating changes are deteriorating in the long run or not.

ok my take on this someone of the good guys has to die, Renarin seems kind of importand as well as most of the others. but hey there is Adolin, who seems not realy importand at all. on another hand, i could see some need to split the worldly powers. i would go as far as to say that a KR(Dalinar) shouldnt be a highprince. being a KR will be alot of work. educate/train more KR for one thing. but there is the Desolation too, so the KR might need to be highly mobile to help as many as possible. this seems to make it very difficult to be a good, responceable highprince at the same time. so i realy hope that Adolin will not become a KR, but replace Dalinar as highprince.

guess this goes back to Gavilar. as i understand Sadeas was playing a decoy to protect Gavilar - so we can asume he acepted the rul of him. while protecting Gavilar in this way, Dalinar was drunk and useless. but now Dalinar more or less usurped the throne for a long time, and its getting worse and worse. when it was importand Dalinar was drunk and now he claims the high horse with his honorable behavior thing. we dont know how honorable Dalinar was in the past - my guess is that he wasnt. --- i can understand Sedeas, that he does not like anyone to undermine the throne. when he reached for more power (high prince of information) Dalinar fought against it. so what todo against it? his way is war, which is accepted by most Alethi. --- i dont agree with Sedeas, as i dont agree with Dalinar. but i think Sedeas has a point here, Dalinar does alot of harm. maybe more then an arbitrary king.

as you said we know much more now. so the weapon can turn in whatever they want, but i allready saw a huge flaw. in the fight with Szeth, Kaladin used Sly as a hammer at a time and hit Szeth. if he had used Sly as a sword, then it would have been over. so there are lot of possebilities, but not all are advantages. maybe the hammer would have been better against shardplate idk, but here it was a mistake to use it. about the proposed shard arrows. i agree that they can be deadly, but maybe not a quick death. for example maybe you hit one side of the lung, this wouldnt kill anyone. ok it would be a huge disadvantage, but not deadly. if you hit the intestins, sure he will die, but in days. same for the stomach. And most other organs. deadly would be the spine, heart, head, everywhere else a normal arrow would be more deadly. there is no bloodloss with shardarrows i guess, so no bleeding out, or suffocation. shard weapons without an edge to cut seem much less usefull.

i realy hope its just one of thouse quirks. like with the food he eats before duels. it would be kind of odd if we only get the super hero povs. if you ask me, it would aid the series alot more, if he does not become a KR. when Dalinar eventually steps down to do his real KR job, Andolin will be needed as highprince. but hey i thought about him awakening his sword too. however i think the ideals/oath of the Spreen are much more importand then speaking with it.

Last page of chapter 17 page 256/257 ... "It is an i mporrtand matter," Shallan said.. "Iwon't do it. I'm not one of the Knights Radiant. Jasnah made that clear. A man who can use a sword isn't necessarily a soldier. Just because I can do what I dodoesn't make me one of them." "You spoke oaths" Shallan froze. ... i thought this would mean atleast 2 oath.

remember how quickly Sly was back from being dead? she was not stupid again. Pattern was propably as far developed as Sly(turning in a shardblade), but when hes back hes stupid again and develops slowly. Pattern also mentioned that Shallan swore more then one oath.

ok i have to agree that i dont know how thouse forms would look like. i kind of think there will not be changes like growing another arm or the brain getting twice the size or so. i could immagine that another finger could help for music, but i think its a huge change too. however we dont know what Spren are bond for the different forms. maybe there is a different purpose for Nimble form. we dont know yet. maybe art form would have much more dexterous fingers? i guess specialized forms would have disadvantages, like mate form. so art form would have difficulties doing other things then art?

there must have been a relativly quick way to form advanced KR bounds to Spren. thouse bounds we saw so far all to years.(except maybe Dalinar) im sure thouse years are way to long for new KR to realy matter in the upcomming conflict. the Stormfather atleast claims he can prevent/rule bonding over Spren(honor). if this is actualy a power of the Stormfather, then we can assume that this power would be closly related to the powers Dalinar could get. so Bondsmith could do actualy what the name says, create bonds between Spren and humans. we kind of know the Stormfather is related to Honor. it would make more sence if there would be a Spren closely related to Cultivation, which would enable the creation of a Bondsmith too. Since here are 3 shards, i would guess for a Spren related to Odium, which promotes bonds with Odium related Spren, to create a Bondsmith too. 3 Shards, 3 sources of Spren? 3 Bondsmith?

i guess a compassion related Spren is not one of the Spren for KR. so it would be much less usefull. however i would say we can be sure, the Spren would be not related to Odium. maybe he is not able to save the world yet. the old magic might be time sensetive and he needs to work together with the KR. or form a colition of rulers, to enable the KR.

Eshonai(?!) actualy asked her at the end of the book, if she knew about Stormforms Spren takeover(?), and she said yes. so i guess she was either influrenced by the captured Spren, or before, which enabled her to get into the mindset to attract the evil Spren. we know only about 2 forms which have the same look, that is slave-form and dullform. the other 5 forms all look different, i would say the sample is to small to say anything. so schoolar form could look compleatly different or not.

Dont think Dalinar could have saved Kaladin again, if he "slandered" Amram again after beeing released, so this could have been a warning