Numuhuku he/him Posted August 22, 2015 Posted August 22, 2015 Response to spoiler Keep in mind that Szeth is a Skybreaker in name only. We have seen no evidence of a spren, nor do we have any evidence that spren bend to a Herald's will, and so Nalan dubbing Szeth a Skybreaker does not mean a spren suddenly bonds him. Now, it's quite possible that Nalan knows Szeth has the right "stuff", and as such is influencing him in such a way as to most likely attract a spren, but we've yet to see that. I doubt it. Making skybreaker surgebinders would go against their imperative to kill as many surge binders as possible. I figure the entire order is "SkyBreakers in name only", and they're using mundane usage of shardblades (including night blood) as a substitute for the Nahel bond. Note: Lopen is somehow associated with Syl's bond (through Kaladin, or in some other manner). This very minor bond gives him access to stormlight & healing. Don't see why Nightblood can't duplicate that with his minor bond that allows speech. I wonder if Syl does the same thing. That is, Kaladin's Squires have something like a "talking bond" to Syl. So Syl could talk to them, if she wanted to. Implication is that sufficiently ranked Radiants of some orders have "squires", who they divest a portion of their power to. It seems to be a function of their emotional bond with Kaladin through bridge 4. Teft did mention that all the members of Bridge 4 were faintly glowing at the end of Words of Radiance. We also saw regular soldiers serving alongside a radiant in one of Dalinar's visions having their weapons suddenly glow before going into battle.
DreamEternal Posted August 22, 2015 Posted August 22, 2015 I doubt it. Making skybreaker surgebinders would go against their imperative to kill as many surge binders as possible. I figure the entire order is "SkyBreakers in name only", and they're using mundane usage of shardblades (including night blood) as a substitute for the Nahel bond. You must remember that Nalam killed surgebinders in order to prevent a desolation. Now that he failed, he may have temporaly changed his goals. Plus, one order of the KR didn't abandon their oaths, but entertained great subterfuge in expense of the others, and Jasnah aparentily considered the Highspren archives to be good source of information about past desolations. It is impossible that the Skybreakers made a pact with the Highspren to not bond spren and kill surgebinders between desolations, but if one did happen sone of their number would gain surgebinding and either break their oaths(unlikely) or suicide once it is over.
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