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First, I think reviving dead spren (something I consider very likely to happen) will be up to each shard bearer to achieve or not achieve. Second, I think that the passage about melishi probably has to do with turning voidbringers into parshendi (based on a reading of book 3's prologue). So, the bondsmith's powers likely allow them to form a link between cog. And phys. Realms (maybe even spiritual realm as well).

Crazy idea, what if the Nightblood-Szeth bond changes Nightblood as he learns what it means to DESTROY EVIL from Szeth. Can an unbonded spren draw on stormlight?

Steps he inside / hearth brightens / kind in heart warms heart in kind/ brightens hearth / inside he steps. Sword, eyes, man / defined honor for all / kings of kings all / for honor defined man / eyes sword. Sky shatters / has man fallen / soul, one of murder / of one soul fallen / man has shattered sky. Rolling dice /the red hand, his / bloody dice / bloody, his hand red / the dice roll. Keteks aren't hard.

The Declaration of Independence isn't a legal document and is in no way a part of what a skybreaker would be bound by. Anyway, I feel that kaladin's choices aren't so much limited as syl bonded someone who already acted as a wind runner should and the only thing driving him towards actions that could break or weaken his bond is hatred. When he spoke the third ideal, he basically stated that what is right is more important than whether or not he likes or hates a person. I don't think Kaladin is going to have this sort of trouble in the future, but that doesn't mean that he won't be conflicted about this sort of thing in the future (first test for this is Roshone, if he still lives.)

I think Laral's story is to dependent on the rest of hearthstone for any easy speculation on her future, but I also think that she could potentially be a radiant. Lets face it. We know ALMOST NOTHING about Kaladin's parent's past, and I think that there are factors unknown pertaining to Kaladin and Laral being promised.

I don't really see the spren as causing either attribute and the interpretation that the primary attribute is the one that attracts the spren actually seems completely wrong to me. The primary attribute is more like the essence of who the person is and the way they think and behave reflects this. The inherent "abilities" that kaladin and shallan demonstrated (skill with spear, memorization abilities) are probably a dependant upon this. I noticed that Kaladin has difficulty manifesting his fighting skills when he is betraying his primary attribute. I wonder if Shallan's memorization and pattern recognition abilities would be disrupted similarily if she were to refuse to be creative (either by becoming super boring or by destroying her drawings and not making more). minor theory: If someone who could be a KR isn't behaving the way that their primary attribute says they should, no minor inherent abilities for them! I think that if a potential KR demonstrates both the primary and secondary attributes, it probably increases the likelyhood that a spren will bond to them. Seeing as how the whole process of who gets to be a surge binder is still woefully vague, I can't come up with any details on how this would work. (darn you allomancy, you were so easy to understand) some things that this has lead me to conclude: I have suspicions as to how renarin might have triggered his bonding, but I don't actually know the timing. Szeth will have to become confident in order to actually become a real skybreaker, and this will likely require him to resolve his many issues and confront kaladin, who named him a coward in WoR. I suspect that the identity of the dustbringer has been well concealed by a number of factors, including a red herring. I believe that the brave/obedient personality actually does not fit adolin (and if this theory is wrong and it is adolin, oh well this might be stretching a little anyways) or eshonai (i'm hoping she is the willshaper). I believe that it is elhokar is the dustbringer, that he is actually brave despite the obvious signs of paranoia, and that doing what dalinar tells him to do actually triggers his bonding in the near future. He used the word "pattern" while talking to kaladin in WoR and spoke of spren with unnatual angles in tWoK, and I believe we are meant to think that he might be another lightweaver (it is possible that this is actually the case) but I think that this is a red herring because he doesn't seem to have any inclination towards creativity. I think that gavilar might have become a bondsmith if things had happened differently. silly theory: the edgedancers were all refined food critics, and knew of the healing powers of awesome food...the lopen knows awesome food when he sees it...

There is nothing, so far as I can tell, that forbids the blessings a kandra carries from holding the ability to surgebind. Jasnah's "death" was pretty obviously faked if you bothered to actually think about it. The only questions were how she did it (elsecalling and soulcasting obviously, but what where the specifics) and why brandon sanderson wrote it this way (I agree with Kobold King's post here). However, I do not feel that there is currently a good explanation (in the story) as to why Jasnah didn't just kill the assassins, and I will reserve judgement of the way things worked out in this scene until after Jasnah has had her chance to explain events and the rest of the crew has a chance to resurface (no, they aren't dead).

It is an interesting theory, and I wouldn't be disappointed if it did turn out to be true, but I believe that there is a much better explanation for their ability to hold stormlight. Let me explain. The nahel bond connects spren to the physical realm, but it probably connects the surgebinder to the cognitive realm as well. I believe that this is the cause of increased efficiency with stormlight. The spren has greater abilities in the physical realm when each oath is spoken, and the surgebinder's abilities also increase. Voidbringers (aka parshendi) are more in the cognitive realm, and are said to hold stormlight extremely well. Parshendi corpses didn't appear to contain a gemheart. There is the small issue of why pattern doesn't hold stormlight as well as shallan, but I suspect that there is an explanation, like the one pattern was about to give before shallan stuck an illusion onto him.

Ok, What I think you are all forgetting is that stormlight is just investiture. If Jasnah was on another shardworld (possible reasons for this include exploration, got lost, or ran out of stormlight while deep within Shadesmar and got kicked out on another shard) she would need investiture to elsecall back to Roshar. With this in mind, there are a few possibilities. The bandolier might hold lots of metal from scadrial which she could eat the metal and use it as she would stormlight, or it might contain something similar from an unknown shardworld.

This quote definitely implies that there are more riders out there, but I don't think that they all ride storms. I believe that Cusicesh is one (maybe he rides tides or something). So, what might this imply about the Stormfather? Well, the Stormfather is called a traitor by Eshonai, probably because of his role in the process of creating surgebinders. The Stormfather states that he is a piece of Honor, but why would it take the form of a storm, implying to me that it is a spren of nature (of Cultivation)? Perhaps Human perception and something Honor did changed him. The Listeners are called Ancient ones. WoB Imply that they were not ORIGINALLY of Cultivation or of Odium, which implies that they are now, and that they are NOT of Honor. Maybe they were Native inhabitants of the Greater Rosharan System before Honor, Cultivation, or Odium showed up (just a theory). Anyways, I believe that Cultivation is still around, that the nightwatcher's nature is determined more by the perception of the people who actually come into contact with her (which means that those foolish Alethi don't change her much at all, as they are so far away and that their idea of what the Nightwatcher is is often very different than what she has actually become...The cognitive realm probably has a lot of rules that no one has figured out yet).

My biggest issue with his attitude was that it seemed to me that Kaladin had a little trouble remembering the 2nd ideal of the wind runners, and completely ignored the 1st ideal until the end...So the real problem is with Syl, who could have saved herself a lot of trouble (but ruined Brandon's book ) by reminding Kaladin that he only gets stormlight when he is living up to those ideals (which he figured out for himself when he learned to consciously breath in Stormlight in book 1). I blame a 4 year gap between books and convenient memory loss as plot device, not that big a deal.

Ok, Shallan makes it absolutely clear that she thinks Renarin is a creepy and weird. In the first book, it is stated that this is the general female reaction to him. So...It is clear to ME that if he ends up with anyone, it will be because Hoid convinces someone quite ridiculous (one of the less insane haralds) to go on a date with him. then, and ONLY then, Laral will realize she hates Roshone, leave him, and start courting Renarin (who ditches one of the heralds because she is downright insane). Afterwards, Renarin asks Adolin for relationship advice... So, the triangle is actually Kaladin-Laral-Renarin. This is the ONLY scenario Hoid will allow. ...Aaaaaannd that is just about as seriously as I have considered the Shallarin theory.

No, the week of sickness that dalinar claimed to have was a lie to keep his bonding of a new shardblade a secret. Anyways, something that bothers me is that we don't even know WHY he joined the skybreakers. Also, I think that the fact that he was trying to kill Amaram and that Amaram has his shardblade is going to weigh more heavily in Shallan's mind than the fact that Kaladin was the one to actually kill him. Maybe we will see his ghost at some point (in shadesmar?) unless being killed with a shardblade is like being hit with balefire in the Wheel of Time series, but I think he is dead.

This was always the more favorable of 2 possibilities that I saw, the other being that they were in Amaram's retinue (which might still be possible). Now if I could only remember where Hesina's parents lived, if it was actually mentioned...

Ill be honest, I didn't catch it at first (the now obvious way he is physically described and his first odd idiom) but by the time Yahel mentioned there being 2 people who lived in his room and the voice he hadn't heard in years I was pretty sure. additional clues: purelake reminds him of home and has adolin training to throw his sword (this is might or might not be intentional, but I am inclined to think it is in hind sight). GAH...now I have to get my friends to read warbreaker...they will just miss this reference...