Guest Posted October 3, 2014 Posted October 3, 2014 Very strong tradition it seems but then again it is pretty clear that the world is about to change. Traditions like this could well be viewed as inconsequential compared to the upheavals that are about to occur. Probably, but I doubt the world is going to change fast enough. Deep religious tradition are very long lived and Dalinar's first attribute is pious. I sincerely doubt he'll go against Vorinism just to marry Navani. Besides, he does not need to marry her: he's got all he needs right now, as it is.
bobsaveg he/him Posted October 3, 2014 Posted October 3, 2014 Back to the Kaladin not being as awesome as the first book, I beg to differ it took 3 full shard bearers and a shardplate bearer with a shardbow to take down one chasmfiend on a plateau out of it's element. Kaladin killed one on his own with a little help from a lightweaver and a borrowed shard blade in its' own territory with no stormlight just his own ability. 1
Rubix he/him Posted October 3, 2014 Posted October 3, 2014 Hey everyone, please keep discussion in this thread about Kaladin, and differences in his character between WoK and WoR.
Kal973 Posted October 3, 2014 Posted October 3, 2014 Daxos, I agree with what you say. I think that the Kaladin we see in WoK is more mature than the one that is portrayed in WoR, as if WoR had been written before WoK, as if WoK was showing us the ultimate version of Kaladin, the man (the living legend ?) that he was meant to be in the mind of BS when he first imagined him. Kal was my favourite character in the first book. While reading, I found him so compelling in his struggles, in his doubts, and in his oaths, that I bought him completely. I found him very pure of heart in his intentions to protect those who need it. And in the end of WoK, the way he fights is almost divine. Maybe that was the problem. Maybe WoK showed too much of the evolution that the character was destined to know in the end of the serie... and then, what ? Maybe by writing him this way from the beginning BS arrived a dead end. In fact, his arc in WoR made me feel that he had regressed in many ways and I didn't like it. In WoK, he appeared as a great fighter and as a selfless man, almost the figure of a savior. Even when it was hard for him to fight his depression, he was wise and thoughtfull. And he always thought about the men he had to protect, in an obsessive way. To see this Kaladin, the one I first embraced, become a grumpy child, too proud for his own good and obsessed with vengeance, was sometimes very difficult. It made him appear more human, of course. But I would have prefered to see his flaws first and his heroic side then. It would have been easier for me to empathize with him... 2
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