Wind and Truth Released Chapters Spoilers (Urithiru With The Sibling)

[Heilven he/him]

Consider my spoiler warning to be in the title, as everything here is going to be spoilers.

From how everyone seems to talk about it, the common consensus seems to be that the Sibling is able to offer unlimited investiture to radiants within it. I disagree, and I think my theory is better supported (naturally) but I'd like to know if there are details I am missing.

First of all, our knowledge comes from this quote:

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Kaladin had stuck it there with a Lashing last night after Teft's funeral, testing something he'd been told by the others: Urithiru was awake now, with its own Bondsmith, and things were... different. That Lashing he had used should have run out after minutes; yet here this one was, ten hours later, still going strong. The extended powers only worked in the city, but he could already see that going forward, this would be a very different place to live.

FanX 2022 (Sept. 24, 2022)

I'm not going to harp on the exact wording due to this being a first draft, but I actually think this points to something other than infinite investiture. I don't think this is the sibling automatically regenerating the investiture for the lashing, but rather something about the activated tower causing the stormlight to no longer leak. As part of my grand theory of surgebinding, I don't believe that most surgebinding actually consumes stormlight. Especially the surges of the windrunners. When using adhesion you connect two objects together, and the connection is formed using stormlight. Due to the skill of the user and the natures of the objects, the stormlight fades and disperses over time. I have a bunch of evidence for this point, which I can go over if requested. Regardless, I believe the tower is enforcing the connection, or in some way making the stormlight no longer leak. Therefore the objects simply continue to be connected, and the lashing is maintained. 

[Quantus he/him]

4 minutes ago, Heilven said:

Consider my spoiler warning to be in the title, as everything here is going to be spoilers.

From how everyone seems to talk about it, the common consensus seems to be that the Sibling is able to offer unlimited investiture to radiants within it. I disagree, and I think my theory is better supported (naturally) but I'd like to know if there are details I am missing.

First of all, our knowledge comes from this quote:

I'm not going to harp on the exact wording due to this being a first draft, but I actually think this points to something other than infinite investiture. I don't think this is the sibling automatically regenerating the investiture for the lashing, but rather something about the activated tower causing the stormlight to no longer leak. As part of my grand theory of surgebinding, I don't believe that most surgebinding actually consumes stormlight. Especially the surges of the windrunners. When using adhesion you connect two objects together, and the connection is formed using stormlight. Due to the skill of the user and the natures of the objects, the stormlight fades and disperses over time. I have a bunch of evidence for this point, which I can go over if requested. Regardless, I believe the tower is enforcing the connection, or in some way making the stormlight no longer leak. Therefore the objects simply continue to be connected, and the lashing is maintained. 

I think it's a slow-burn equivalent to Duralumin/nicrobursts, where it takes a Kinetic Investiture effect and amplifies it with a secondary source of Investiture, but it simply maintains the trickle Connection rather than blasting it open.  Whether thats a Sibling Fabrial spren effect or some more general property of Towerlight, it's hard to say at this stage.  

[Palindrome]

Has there been new chapters released this week? If so can someone point me in the right direction to read them.

[alder24]

5 hours ago, Palindrome said:

Has there been new chapters released this week? If so can someone point me in the right direction to read them.

The last one was from April 26. You can find all new readings here: https://wob.coppermind.net/help/readings

[+robardin he/him]

In addition to the mention of how his Lashings within Urithiru "stuck" for far longer than they usually would, something else Kaladin mentioned is very intriguing as well:

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He lingered in the sunlight and wind, hovering, because why not? Light here was constantly replenished, and holding the tower’s new Light seemed not to push him to action the way Stormlight did. Instead, holding it was… calming.

Radiants can Invest with Towerlight for Surgebinding, it would seem (Kaladin hovers and floats around Urithiru constantly because he doesn't have to drain spheres of Stormlight to do it), plus it "feels" different to hold it. Whether or not drawing it in involves a "sharp breath" like with Stormlight remains to be seen.

As an aside, Lift doesn't draw in Stormlight from spheres, instead metabolizing food into Lifelight; I wonder if she can draw in the new Towerlight in Urithiru?

And the "Towerlight burn" that Navani blasted Vyre with that seared his vision at the end of RoW couldn't been healed with Stormlight, either. Interesting, eh?

Edited August 5, 2024 by robardin

[Master Silver]

Do you think tower light is a magical anti-depressant?