Why Doesn't the Testament Blade Scream in WoR?

[MasterK-Bob he/him]

Okay, it is specifically noted that the shard-blade that Shallan gives Kaladin doesn't scream, but that is clearly Testament, though we thought the reason must be that it was Pattern when WoR came out. But if it was Testament, she was a dead-eye and should have screamed. What the heck is up with that? There are no WOBs with "Testament AND blade AND scream." Maybe the answer is in RoW, but I don't remember that.

Edited December 3, 2024 by MasterK-Bob

[Treamayne]

16 hours ago, MasterK-Bob said:

Okay, it is specifically noted that the shard-blade that Shallan gives Kaladin doesn't scream, but that is clearly Testament, though we thought the reason must be that it was Pattern when WoR came out. But if it was Testament, she was a dead-eye and should have screamed. What the heck is up with that? There are no WOBs with "Testament AND blade AND scream." Maybe the answer is in RoW, but I don't remember that.

Because Shallan is Testament's Radiant (even with the Oaths broken) so we see the Garnet glow of a Lightweaver and don't hear Testament scream from her perspective (also unreliable narrator, because she was trying so hard to pretend it was Pattern).

By the time they were wandering the Chasms, Kaladin had already killed Syl (partially) and so did not have enough of a bond to hear any screams that may have been there (she had already regressed to before the First Oath while they were crossing the Chasms, then he yanked on their bond to survive the fall into the Chasms). 

WoR Ch 68:

Spoiler

“What happened?” Kaladin whispered to Syl. “Is something wrong with our bond? Is it because I haven’t found the Words soon enough?”

She landed on his wrist and took the form of a young woman. She peered at his hand, cocking her head. “What’s inside?” she asked with a conspiratorial whisper.

“You know what this is, Syl,” Kaladin said, feeling chilled, as if he’d been hit by a wave of stormwater. “A sphere. Didn’t you see it just now?”

She looked at him, face innocent. “You are making bad choices. Naughty.” Her features mimicked his for a moment and she jumped forward, as if to startle him. She laughed and zipped away.

<snip>

Here, blessedly, he found Syl inspecting a cremling crawling across the rocks toward the safety of a nearby crack.

Kaladin sat down on a rock beside her. “So you’re punishing me,” he said. “For agreeing to help Moash. That’s why I’m having trouble with the Stormlight.”

Syl followed along behind the cremling, which was a kind of beetle with a round, iridescent shell.

“Syl?” Kaladin asked. “Are you all right? You seem . . .”

Like you were before. When we first met. It made a feeling of dread rise within him to acknowledge it.

Hope that helps

Edited December 3, 2024 by Treamayne
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