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  1. I wonder if Adolin will manage to reawaken Maya but, not being broken or the normal Edgedancer type, will be some sort of hybrid.
  2. I suspect part of it is how much stormlight she had access to during the early part of that fight. With an unlimited power budget I'm sure she's capable of some pretty incredible stuff.
  3. It sort of fits with the existing Vorin narrative of humanity being pushed out of the Tranquiline Halls to Roshar. What I suspect happened is Braize, now called Damnation, was then called the TQ and Odium's forces took over, forcing humans to refugee to Roshar.
  4. I suspect that blade was taken from Azure when the ship was overhauled. If it is a Nightblood-as-it-should-have-been it may be able to kill in two or all three realms and may be a danger to even be handled by at least certain types of invested beings. The heralds may be like the Fused in that a normal death will cause them to be reborn on Braize but able to come to Roshar. That blade seems a pretty large Checkov's Gun to me. I wonder if it could slice a piece off of Odium.
  5. Well... Brandon could be giving an Aes Sedai answer and trolling us. His quote could mean that they both existed *somewhere* before the shattering, but given that most of the original shard holders were human, that isnt saying a lot. I'm not convinced he's telling us humans existed on *Roshar*, or at least the planet Roshar as opposed to the Greater Roshar System prior to the shattering.
  6. They hardly gave Brandon any screen time, unfortunately.
  7. By placing her thumb and index fingertips together and rushing the finger to the base of the thumb :-)
  8. Odium has managed to kill and splinter three shards, whereas the only other shard on shard combat we know was a mutual kill in Mistborn. So, Odium has an advantage somehow. I see three possible categories: 1) Advantage in ability: Odium has some ability lacked by at least some other shards that is useful in combat. 2) Advantage in technique: Odium is better at effectively using his power for offense or defense against another shard. 3) Advantage in concentrated power: At least before he became bound to Braize, Odium may have retained more of his innate power vis-a-vis Honor, Devotion, and Dominion, enabling him to prevail in a fight. We know Preservation put so much power into Scadrial/Humanity he was a a disadvantage vs Ruin. I asked Brandon what Odium's edge was at a signing, giving the three possibilities. He was going to RAFO but threw me a bone and said "some combination of the three".
  9. When I viewed the post there was a "This post has been reported for attempting to skirt the rules" embedded within my text. I'm unaware of any rules I might have attempted to skirt. Was it linking to YouTube? Was it recommending an artist? I realize it's not strictly about Brandon but I know a number of sharders are from the general area this artist plays in and thought they might like to know.
  10. I came across a musician on YouTube who apparently plays (judging from where nearly all the videos are located) at the Pie Pizzaria in SLC. I thoroughly enjoyed his music, mostly covers of popular songs, and thought I'd mention him to folks who might be tempted to stop by, assuming he still plays there. His name is Mike Masse, and his youtube channel is: https://www.youtube.com/user/mikemassedotcom He's got considerable skill, and I enjoyed the music, although you might want to be wary of this one: The musical skill is the same, but it's a mashup of Hotel California and...another song. The title of the video doesnt warn you that he segues into...that other song about a minute in. It's the pairing of Hotel California with..that other song that is the kicker. No. Just...No. (Note: While it was indeed a This post has been reported for attempting to skirt the rules moment when I realized what he was doing I'm embellishing things for dramatic effect)
  11. In another thread, I believe on this site, it discusses the Heralds and what's happened to them in the years since they broke the oathpact. It could be a conseuence of breaking the pact, or it could merely be a result of their extreme age, but they are all not quite right in the head. There has been speculation that their current state is a perversion of the virtue they were associated with. Taln's messed up view of the relationship between surgebinding and desolations could be explained by that. He's already gone from Justice >> Javert (Inspector Javert) and a messed up appreciation of the cause of desolations.
  12. It's mentioned somewhere in one of the archived interviews that Odium took the steps necessary for Rosharan species to access his magic, and I'm confident that's related to why he's so bound to the Greater Roshar System. IIRC he's actually resident on Braize so it's a system wide thing. I'm guessing it had somethng to do with being able to defeat Honor or was a side effect.
  13. I'm sure one of the orders must have "No, I am a stick" in the sequence somewehre
  14. I would also add Taldain, as even though White Sand isnt generally available one could argue we've "seen" it.
  15. I suspect that the killing of the shard holder is a distinct event from the splintering of a shard. The shards certainly seemed intact after Vin and Ati went at it, and it seems far less likely Rayse would have gotten both Aona and Skai if he was so debilitated after dealing with just one of them. It's likely he killed both holders, and then splintered both shards. I wouldnt be surprised if the effort of splintering two was less than twice the effort of splintering them one at a time. Speculating on WoB about Rayse being stuck on Braize and "whether or not that was Tanavast's intention", I wonder if Rayse had to invest himself some way in the planet in order to defeat Tanavast, or else it was a consequence of the battle, perhaps something Tanavast did deliberately. Tanavast could have sacrificed himself to do this, or did it when he realized he was likely to lose. It makes one wonder who provoked the fight in the first place as well.
  16. I will listen to the voice of The Stick
  17. Didnt Brandon say that the ending of the series is echoed somewhere in the first two books? IT MUST BE THE STICK! :-)
  18. Having just received and read White Sand, if it's someone who appears onscreen in the book there really only is one choice. If it's someone from the same nation as the onscreen character, on the other hand...
  19. I suspect that whatever Gavilar mentioned to the Parshendi, he wasnt fully aware of the implications they would assign to it. It could be as simple as letting them see that black sphere he had which they knew to be associated with their old gods. It could be something about wanting the heralds to return which they knew was unlikely unless their old gods also returned.
  20. I'm guessing that it was the earliest confirmation Hoid had that the spren were preparing to refound the KR, and thus that the crap was about to hit the fan within a few years. I'll bet her age was also a factor.
  21. It's a well known literary convention that the mentor must be removed from the picture or the protoge doesnt mature into their new role. Gandalf had to fall in Moria or to force Aragorn and Frodo to bring their A-Game. Since WoR is Shallan's viewpoint book, it would have been a disappointment to see her fall short in character development. The only other possible mechanisms I can think of would be for Jasnah to be wounded and incapacitated, or else forced to be somewhere else. Neither of these are really compatible with the current plot lines. Surgebinders can heal almost anything and story events converged on the shattered plains.
  22. We have WoB that if they remain on Roshar too long it will trigger another desolation. They discovered that the trigger was if *all* of them remained, but the oathpact isnt completely broken. My theory is that either Ashyn was the Tranquiline Halls and was trashed by the invasion from Braize, or else Braize was once the TH and is now damnation after being conquered. The heralds returning to braize would support the theory of it being TH originally, otherwise I'd expect them to go back to Ashyn. I suspect the oathpact was some sort of magic that ties the forces of Odium to the presence of the heralds, who stayed behind on Braize as a rearguard to protect the evacuees on Roshar. On Braize they get overwhelmed and brutally murdered, only to reincarnate due to the magic of the oathpact. For those who play World of Warcraft it's like getting ganked by another player who camps your graveyard to do it again when you rez :-) Or perhaps when the opposing faction takes all of Alterac Valley *except* the final graveyeard to farm kills without ending the match.
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