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Daishi5

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  1. I disagree, as his editor Moshe has probably killed several of Brandon's darlings, the parallels should be obvious.
  2. So if we have 3, and the Sibling is the spren of the stone, that would give us 3 godspren as the spren of the skies, the spren of the plants, and the spren of the earth.
  3. Don't forget, when Adolin was stabbed, Maya attacked the fused.
  4. Wow, I finally got something kind of right: Or at least Dalinar is just as wrong as I am, in which case he is doomed.
  5. I think the "time before the storms" must have been in a place that either has no storms (another planet), or a place that is completely safe from storms, (shinovar.) I think it is more likely another planet.
  6. I could go with one of the 10 deaths (or is it 9?) and this one is revenge? If there are 10 deaths, could they be 10 corrupted mirrors of the Heralds and revenge is a corruption of justice? Edit: Not just revenge, but the "eye for an eye" revenge seems like it would be an Odium style of corruption of an ideal.
  7. The wall story seems important, but many parts of it do seem to be modeled after the walls of Elantris. A giant wall with stairs on the side to keep the "bad people in." The "bad" people have white hair. However, the rest of it is different and I think those differences and the similarities are important. The similarities hint that the people who told the story knew about Elantris. The differences are harder to figure out what they mean. In Elantris, the people inside the city knew they were being kept in. Why do the people in Shallan's story not realize the wall keeps them in? I like this idea that the story foretells that the humans are the bad guys. I have felt that the Parshendi acted far to nobly in the Way of Kings for them to be the "bad guys." (The twist that they are bad guys against their will does throw a wrench in it.) What does the stealing of stormlight mean? Did they steal actual investure or the ability to use it?
  8. Also, Ryshadium choose their riders, but we know that Dalinar was not chosen until after he changed his ways. He brutally abused his horse in this chapter while his opponent sent his Ryshadium away rather than risk it in combat with Dalinar.
  9. Adolin is just REALLY bad at intrigue. Which is going to be a big problem for him, with even Amaram agreeing to be tried for murder by Dalinar, Adolin will have to be punished when he lets his secret out.
  10. The story about the girl and the wall feels like it tells us something important about the past. I think maybe when the first humans came, and the girl is the first person to bond with a spren. "Stealing" the ability to bond from the listeners. We know they feel betrayed by the spren. I also just keep feeling that the Humans are really not good people, especially when compared with the listeners. The blackthorn chapter is a great example.
  11. Dalinar saw red again while fighting and just slaughtering the enemy. Voidbringers are supposed to have red eyes. I really think parshendi are not the only ones who can become voidbringers.
  12. I think our voidspren is something like a vengeance or revenge spren. It wonders if Kaladin is willing to fight for them. I see it as looking at him like a tool for its plans. It is willing to follow plans and work towards a long-term payoff. It has hints of meanness in insults but mostly controls them. It basically feels like a spren of the long-term suppressed hate. The Parshmen have good reasons to want vengeance and that seems like the spren type that would be closest to Odium and the Parshmen at the same time.
  13. Stone is also somewhat sacred to the Listeners. Parshmen don't do much on their own, but when their people die they take the body out and leave it on the stone. The Parshendi leave their bodies where they fall on the shattered plains, which is always stone I think, and they very strongly object to them being moved.
  14. Dalinar is considering going back to his warmongering ways and making everyone work together by force of arms. Basically, unite them through war.
  15. Will Kaladin get back in time to warn Dalinar that the Parshmen became people rather than voidbringers, or will Dalinar commit some horrible atrocity because he believes in the greater good? Come back next week to still not find out.
  16. We need to remember that you can ask the nightwatcher for things, but she gives you boons and curses that she wants to, you don't necessarily get what you want. If the nightwatcher is cultivation, or even strongly related to cultivation, then a lot of Dalinar's changes from who he was to who he is today may be due to her influence. Dalinar used to be pretty bloodthirtsty and a might-makes-right kind of guy. What ever they are, the curse and boon probably helped separate him from his past belief in power as the source of legitimacy and helped him become a bondsmith. So here is a theory. He went to the nightwatcher for help with Renarin. His boon: the nightwatcher directed a spren to bond with and guide Renarin. His curse: the nightwatcher blocked whatever memories would get in the way of him becoming a Bondsmith. It is important to note that in this theory, Cultivation is not necessarily being nice or kind to Dalinar by making guiding him to be a bondsmith, she is "growing" him into what she needs.
  17. 6) something to do with his being bonded in marriage by the Stormfather has affected him. Their oaths don't seem like they would have affected it, but I think swearing oaths in front of him, while partially in the cognitive realm (or whatever was happening in that scene) is a big event involving powerful investure. It also happened between his last failure to hear Evi's name and the scene where he heard it, so it fits in the timeline.
  18. I don't know if there could have been a "good" way for the humans to treat the Parshmen. The Parshmen were people, but they lacked not only the ability to make complex decisions on their own, they also lacked any real ability to communicate what feelings and desires they had. In the WoK they go over how they are basically mute. From what we know, it seems the modern humans treat Parshmen as cattle, but valuable cattle. It is hard to come up with a good analogy so I will slaughter it anyway. The Parshmen are like someone who has been drugged against their will, normally if you ran into someone who is on a bad trip, or just drank way too much, being a good person involves making sure they are ok ,keeping them safe, and getting them medical treatment until they recover. The big problem with the Parshmen is that they never recovered. If the people who did this could have helped them recover and they didn't that is evil. However, modern people don't even realize or have any way to know that the Parshmen have been "drugged". The moral imperative for protecting a drugged person comes from understanding that someone has interfered with their ability to make decisions (usually to take advantage of that state.) Modern people on Roshar have no way to know that the Parshmen are not themselves and that someone has done this to them, therefore they lack the information they needed to make a good decision.* *Caveat: It is possible that the humans of Roshar have seen plenty of evidence that the Parshmen have feelings and they all just ignored it and it was never brought up in a way the reader knows about. If the humans have just been ignoring the signs, then it strays more into the evil acts camp because they ignored the signs of what they were doing.
  19. Dalinar's character has some influences from Mongolian history, and Ghengis-Khan is famous for recruiting one of his enemies because the enemy hit him in the neck with an arrow and admitted it to it when they asked the person to come forward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebe I don't think there is foreshadowing in the recruitment of Teleb, it is more a call-back to a famous moment in history.
  20. That isn't completely true, when Dalinar inhales stormlight the first time on screen in WoR, it heals his wounds partially because he only inhaled a small amount. He goes on to heal completely by inhaling more stormlight towards the end of the scene.
  21. I don't know, he is literally a god of hate, driven to hate and create hatred among people. Seems kind of ultimate villiany level there.
  22. In addition Brandon has been giving us lots of PoVs for Dalinar yet he never even thinks about what his boon and curse are. It's a pretty transparent trick, so he pretty much needs a big payoff to justify it.
  23. So, it seems that not all of Urithiru has the weird strata. Strangely the lack of strata makes it even weirder.
  24. The problem with this theory is that Dalinar was out in the Everstorm the first time and it passed by before his marriage. When he talked to Navani after those two cases, he still heard shshshsh. I can think of two things that happened after he heard shshsh the last time and when he heard Evi. He got married by the Stormfather, and he put on the painrial watch. I am betting on the Stormfather's marriage bond being the likely cause, but the painrial is a possibility.
  25. Shallan went looking in that area because she heard of the stabbing, then she found out that the murder people were talking about was a strangling which had a duplicate.
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