WhiskeyJackDaniels

This was my first time going to a signing and I didn't realize the theater was going to be sold out. I was about 10 people away from being let in from the standby line, so if anyone can tell me what I missed from the reading is appreciate it. I don't know if this has been asked or discussed before, but I asked Brandon if it was possible that Hoid had any descendants running around in the books. He replied "It's possible." But wouldn't give any details on whether or not we had or would see it.

I don't know if this has been asked or discussed before, but I just left a signing and asked Brandon if it was possible that Hoid had any descendants running around in the books. He replied "It's possible." But wouldn't give any details on whether or not we had or would see it.

I know Brandon said that it would be possible for one person to bond 2 spren, but are there any WoB about whether or not multiple people could bond the same spren? I think it would make just as much sense for all the Bondsmiths to bond the Stormfather. It would explain why expanding beyond a few members was looked at as almost treasonous. Syl said Kaladin is taking something from her to get his powers, so if a few dozen or hundred Knights were bonded to Stormfather it might change him too much. It also fits with why he won't be a shardblade for Dalinar. If he was being a blade for one of his Bondsmiths that might take him away from the others for that time.

The ability to touch spren could be her curse or her boon, I can see it both ways. Obviously it is an advantage being able to touch and climb Wyndle, but when she runs into voidspren it might be a distinct disadvantage that spren can physically touch her. Same problem with metabolizing food into stormlight, it is advantageous because food should be more prevalent than stormlight, especially during a time like the weeping, but it also seems like a much slower way to get your stormlight, and potentially pretty dangerous to your health.

Is it possible that Reya is the name of the woman that wrote the book on Roshar describing and assigning the masculine and feminine arts? I think the book has been named at some point, but the only reference to the author is made by Hoid (to Kaladin believe). She obviously wrote it a long time ago, and considering the impact that it had on Rosharan society, she could have been turned into a legendary character and had a star named after her. Also, I just thought it was weird how Hoid seemed to go out of his way not to name the author as he was talking about her.

Wow I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet. Its the only time I can remember actually standing up and fist pumping while reading a book.

I think that Nighblood as an invested item must be able to infuse itself with stormlight. I can't imagine that any spren is going to bond with Szeth while he's carrying it. The Heralds were examples for the Knights Radiant, but I don't think they have any direct control over them, and I don't think they can create new ones. The Knights Radiant were created by the spren, and I'm pretty sure that sprint are directly the reason that KR get powers, e.g. the Stormfather approving Kaladin and Dalinar's Words. My guess is that Nalan uses Szeth to enact his own twisted brand of justice, and will even call him a Skybreaker, but he's not going to be an actual anointed Knight Radiant.

Maybe he discovered he could inhale storm light and has been off practicing in private. Explains the odd breath comment.

I know this was already mentioned in abridged for up ahead, but it was the funniest line in the book to me, so I wanted to give it its due credit. This, my friends, is worldbuilding lol.

This last glimpse kind of seems like something Dalinar might say to Elhokar.

I don't think this is a KR surge, it seems too redundant when you factor in the shardplate. I mean I know there was surgebinding before there were KR and shardplate, but it just seems much more like a Parshendi, Voidbringer, or Herald ability

I just went back and read the quote. Apparently Gavilar had Sadeas duel and kill someone named Yenev, a Highprince that was against the unification of Alethkar. The quote doesn't specifically mention shards at all, so it could have been just conventional weapons, but that seems unlikely for a duel between Highprinces. It wasn't a duel for shards or honor though, it was a duel to kill someone over a disagreement. Still interesting that Gavilar chose Sadeas to do it.

I can't really answer why Sadeas never dueled anyone to get a blade to go with his plate, but I have been wondering about how good a duelist Sadeas is. In WoK it gets mentioned pretty early on that even though he doesn't have a Blade, Sadeas is an excellent swordsman. And then in one of the released chapters from WoR I remember Dalinar talking about how when they needed a rival Highprince taken out in the days of the unification of Alethkar Gavilar had leant Sadeas his Blade so Sadeas could duel him. I thought that was strange that neither Dalinar or Gavilar would have done the fighting considering how good they were both supposed to be, but I also took away from it that the King completely trusted Sadeas' martial abilities with Blade and Plate.

I know I said I think he's talking to himself, and I still do, but I just had one other possibility that makes sense pop into my head. He could be talking to Hoid. I'd imagine Hoid would be maybe the one person we know that could get Kaladin off-guard enough to be talking/monologuing to himself to work through a problem and solve it.

I'm firmly in the camp that thinks this is Kaladin talking to himself, probably while pacing in his barracks, preferably upside down on the ceiling completely unconsciously having discovered use of the final lashing while he was distracted. I think the real question here is whether or not this delays Kaladin's partnership with Dalinar to re-found the KR.