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I'm 46 and my wife is 43. I first encountered Brandon Sanderson in the last 3 installments of the Wheel of Time (which I started reading in 1994 or so). After I read The Gathering Storm, I next read The Way of Kings, then Warbreaker, then Mistborn and Elantris.

Where is the shardfork??

So one wonders... now that Amaram is dead, if Kaladin can start to heal those spiritual wounds from his betrayal and enslavement?

Technically, yes. We do see him summon his shardblade (distinct from his honorblade). So in that aspect yes, his spren is shown.

I was just re-reading Oathbringer today, and came across Adolin's observation that the Ryshadium are sometimes referred to as "the third Shard". Perhaps, then, it has to do with a KR as (s)he progresses? So at 3 ideals they get the blade, at 4 ideals they get plate, and at the 5th ideal they get a Ryshadium?

I'm not going to spoil anything in this thread. However, I will say the answer IS in Oathbringer. Both what he asked for and what he got. We also have a pretty good understanding as to WHY his memories began returning. In some ways it's so simple. In other ways it will blow your mind.

I personally like the version, "I will accept that some must die so that others may live"

My wife had issues this morning, and apparently not only was Audible broken, but so was Audible support. When she tried to open a support call, they would call her and it would go straight to voicemail.

Noooooooo!!!! What kind of publisher in their right mind releases something the day AFTER Christmas!?!?!?!?

Yeah, that is a scary thought. Forgetting someone who is literally right there.

Oh that was BAD

Oh, boy... it sounds like Shallan is starting to go to a really dark place in this book, much like Kaladin did in WoR. It sounds like she's developing a serious case of MPD or dissociative identity disorder. I understand that she's trying to avoid coping with the Truth of her mother's death, but Brandon, you're going really dark really fast with this.

Actually, going by your reasoning, the Cosmere began with the shattering of Adolnasium. Therefore, would it be logical at the end of this vast epic that Adolnasium is somehow restored? We have already seen two Shards coexisting within a single holder (in the form of Harmony). Perhaps he can somehow absorb all of the remaining Shards and their splinters?

Every time I hear that sequence on the audiobook, I positively get shivers down my spine. I also have to add: - Any scene with Hoid - Any scene with Lift's Awesomeness.

56% Truthwatcher.

Since Jasnah can summon her Shardblade, I have to assume that she is at least to (the equivalent of) the third ideal. Also, since she has been consciously Surgebunding since her father's murder, then it is very possible she has progressed even further. I wonder if she's figured out how to summon living Shardplate? Hmmmm...

Thanks for the clarification, Peter! I was rather concerned that I'd actually caught a substantial error.

I suspect there's far more to it than that. Something (or someone) probably has to forcibly break the bond between the voidspren and the Parshendi first...

Hey everyone, I was recently re-(re-re) reading WoR, and I believe I have come across an inconsistency. In tWoK, it was established that spanreeds cannot be used on ships due to the swaying of the ship (a la the communication with Nan Belat in Chapter 39). However, in WoR, Jasnah and Shallan are clearly on a sea journey, but Jasnah is able to communicate with her mother via spanreed. Am I missing something here, or did Brandon let an inconsistency slip into his writings?

Are the Shin stone shamans somehow related to the Order of Stonewards? Are they their descendants?

A few (spoiler-heavy) Bondsmith-related questions (most likely will get RAFO'ed, though) Can a KR (say, a Bondsmith) somehow break or alter the bond between the Listeners and the voidspren? Are the spren that a Bondsmith binds to inherently more powerful than other spren? Is there a strict 1-to-1 relationships between KR's and spren, or can more than 1 KR bond to a specific spren (say, the Stormfather)? If there are up to 3 Bondsmiths at a time, is one of the other Bondsmiths bound to the Nightwatcher? Are Bondsmiths always Shardless? Or is this specific to Dalinar's relationship to the Stormfather? Did Dalinar speak two oaths, or three? Also, were the Parshendi already on Roshar before the arrival of Shards?

Hey everyone, Moderate-term fan of Brandon here (I started reading his works around when The Gathering Storm was released), and I'm now addicted to The Stormlight Archive. As for me, I'm a 41-year old IT guy from the Dallas area, and my interests include reading (duh) primarily fantasy/epic fantasy, some suspense/thriller (a la Tom Clancy), and a few others. I am also a grad student at UTD finishing up my Master's in CS, and about to start on their PhD program (in CS). So far I've read the four Mistborn novels, Warbreaker, and the two Stormlight Archive books. I've got the audiobooks for Elantris, but haven't had a chance to read them yet... that's probably going to be part of my summer reading/listening. I've been lurking for a bit (and occasionally posting) in the Words of Radiance threads... trying to figure out so many questions that are plaguing me after reading it.. and now I have to wait another two whole years for the third book? Argh :-) -- Cheers!

One other thing that the duel proved beyond the shadow of a doubt is that Kaladin was capable of fighting a Shardbearer and winning. It is one thing to stab a distracted Shardbearer in the leg, but it is completely another thing to get into a fully disadvantaged duel among six Shardbearers and win, defeating two of them. What he did should have been impossible. Amaram may be a great general, a worthy friend, and an excellent warrior, but how many people actually have defeated a Shardbearer?

Is the dark sphere of Gavilar's at all related to the trapped spren that transformed Eshonai (and the other Parshendi) into stormform?

The oaths are a necessary but not sufficient condition to advance. Remember what Kaladin had to go through before the third Ideal came to him. He needed to understand why that third Ideal was necessary and accept that while he may not LIKE or RESPECT Elhokar, his duty and the precepts of the first and second Ideals REQUIRED Kaladin to protect Elhokar.