bluefoxicy Posted March 11, 2014 Posted March 11, 2014 In the first book, we start with a very clear picture of the Heralds saving the world repeatedly and having thousands of years of horrors for their troubles. One comes back, apparently mind broken, four thousand years later. Will there be more explanation of this? Why are they locked away as such, how did that come to pass, how were they roped into this mess, where did their blades come from, were they sent back to hell when they died anyway? Likewise, Dalinar tried very hard to get someone to tell him why the Knights were abandoning their shardblades. Apparently something was wrong in the world; the manner in which they abandoned their oaths, orderly, determined, and apparently willing to commit mass murder in the process, indicates they were deeply disturbed and disgusted by something. What was it? Did they find an unimpeachable moral decision? Did the world around them decay into hubris and despite? I want to know what it was that made and broke these people, and why they were faced with their trials. They all have failed.
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