Zas678 he/him Posted April 2, 2011 Posted April 2, 2011 So how did Gaz die/disapear? We know it happens after Kaladin's highstorm, but what happened to him? Does it have something to do with his one eye? Or perhaps a secret that Gaz was keeping to be paid quiet? He disapears in Chapter 59. Brandon, when asked, said this: "I'm planning for you to find out what happened to Gaz. There are sufficient clues that you can guess. But it is not explicitly stated, and I'm not going to say it's as obvious as Robert Jordan implied Asmodean's killer is. I was tempted to spell it out explicitly, but there wasn't a good place for it. I will probably answer it eventually, maybe in the next book, but until then you are free to theorize. " So what do you think? Sadeas? Ghostblood? Hoid? The Almighty himself? A vengeful Bridgemen The Nightwatcher? 1
FeatherWriter she/her Posted April 2, 2011 Posted April 2, 2011 I don't know. I just reread WoK and I was specifically looking for clues, but I couldn't find anything... 1
mycoltbug Posted April 2, 2011 Posted April 2, 2011 I think it was one of the people Szeth was sent to kill. The time frame is right and it's something that seems so obvious it's stupid. 1
CrazyRioter she/her Posted April 3, 2011 Posted April 3, 2011 I suspect what happened to Gaz had something to do with whatever he was paying Lamaril off for. 2
Chaos he/him Posted April 3, 2011 Posted April 3, 2011 I think it was one of the people Szeth was sent to kill. The time frame is right and it's something that seems so obvious it's stupid. Why would Gaz be worthy of Szeth's attention?
Zayde he/him Posted April 3, 2011 Posted April 3, 2011 I suspect what happened to Gaz had something to do with whatever he was paying Lamaril off for. Wasn't he having trouble paying Lamaril until Kaladin offered to give him some of his spheres? It's been awhile since I've read WoK. If so, he was probably killed for not being able to make the payments or turned into a bridgeman and then killed in a battle.
ZeldaDad he/him Posted April 3, 2011 Posted April 3, 2011 You were there!?!? On a totally different note, where would one find you, if one were so inclined to, say... silence you?
FeatherWriter she/her Posted April 3, 2011 Posted April 3, 2011 Gaz killed Asmodean and the WoT fans found out... 16
grinachu Posted April 3, 2011 Posted April 3, 2011 I suspect what happened to Gaz had something to do with whatever he was paying Lamaril off for. Lamaril was executed though. That implies others apart from Lamaril knew and/or were blackmailing him.
Link Von Kelsier Harvey he/him Posted April 3, 2011 Posted April 3, 2011 Snape killed Gaz with Rosebud. 8
Silus - Shard of Flame he/him Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 Link, leinton, Feather and Endra each get 10 AWESOME POINTS for making me literally laugh out loud. 6
ZeldaDad he/him Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 Link, leinton, Feather and Endra each get 10 AWESOME POINTS for making me literally laugh out loud. And you get one uptvote in return to make it an even 10! 1
Silus - Shard of Flame he/him Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 My scheme is working perfectly...yes... 1
FeatherWriter she/her Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 Never mind that. I just took your up votes... *pulls off sunglasses dramatically* ...UP TO ELEVEN!!! 6
Silus - Shard of Flame he/him Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 YES! I love everything about that post! 20 AWESOME POINTS! 2
mycoltbug Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 Why would Gaz be worthy of Szeth's attention? I have a feeling that Brandon wants a mystery that's obvious but would be over looked and dismissed as a silly scenario. This seemed to make the most sense to me. Also what if Szeth was sent to kill him with the intent of slowing the bridges down. What if Gaz is more than meet's the eye? How many times did we and do we continue to dismiss certain characters as unimportant to later realize that there is a much greater connection to something else. There has to be a greater story to it than what I think we know. But I can't back any of this theory up with factual information, just a gut feeling.
leinton Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 I don't feel like Szeth has had the time to kill Gaz.
CJ Feboris Posted May 21, 2011 Posted May 21, 2011 Might it have something to do with the things that he could sense out of his sight, those things that were hiding just outside his vision? He seems paranoid about something supernatural, it is too late in the book to be purely for character development, and there is little internal character development of him anyway. 2
lordofsoup Posted May 24, 2011 Posted May 24, 2011 Why would anyone waste Szeth's time to kill Gaz. He is a one eyed guard of the bridgemen. The amount of money he was getting from Kaladin was insignificant, 1 diamond chip a week. He could not have owed Lamaril much, if that made a difference.
Popular Post Mad_Scientist he/him Posted July 31, 2011 Popular Post Posted July 31, 2011 I don't think he's dead. I think he's a spy for Taravangian, and he left the Shattered Plains to report on the alliance between Dalinar and Sadeas. Why do I think this? Well, I was struck by something odd when reading Way of Kings again recently. Near the end, Taravangian orders Szeth to kill Dalinar to stop him from uniting the Alethi highprinces. Why? Why does Taravangian think Dalinar is a threat right then, and not before? He mentions "recent events," but what are those events? It can't have anything to do with Dalinar becomming Highprince of War, that hasn't been announced yet, and so no one but Dalinar and Elhokar should know that. And even if Taravangian did somehow know, would he really consider that a bad thing? Elhokar seems to think this is going to cause all the Highprinces to try to assassinate him and Dalinar, and Dalinar seems to kind of agree with him. It seems like any objective observer would feel there's a very good chance that Dalinar is going to bring about the complete collapse of Alethikar. But regardless, Taravangian shouldn't know about that yet. So what recent events was he talking about? Sadeas betraying Dalinar and nearly causing a war between the two most powerful Highprinces? Certianly not that. That would be something Taravangian would be happy about. The only "recent events" that make sense would be Dalinar and Sadeas's initial alliance, which seemed to be going well at first. This implies that Taravangian does not know about the most current events on the Shattered Plains. Either his spies have been lax in reporting to him about something as important as Sadeas and Dalinar's alliance collapsing, or Taravangian doesn't have enough spanreeds in his possession to give them to all his agents, and thus his Shatterd Plains contacts have to send him information the old fashion, and slower, way. What is the point of all that stuff I just typed? Well, I noticed that Gaz disappeared right after Dalinar and Sadeas formed their alliance. In fact, unless I remember wrong, the first bridge run where they worked together was the last bridge run Gaz ever went on. The timing seems a bit coincidental. Why would Gaz have disappeard right then? His old blackmailer was dead, he was specifically ordered not to murder Kaladin because it would make him a martryr(and thus Gaz wasn't likely killed by Wit or someone trying to protect Kaladin), and his current Lighteyes would have just made Gaz a bridgeman if Kaladin went too long without dying. Why would Gaz have disappeared then? Perhaps he had something to report to his master, something so important he needed to deliver the message in person (which of course provided an escape for him). I don't have too much hard evidence for Gaz working for Taravangian, but if you think about it, it makes perfect sense. Taravangian wants to collect the visions dying people see. He's not going to be content just using people in his own city. He's going to want to have agents in places of death and bloodshed, to hear what other dying men say. But that presents a problem. A common soldier is going to be busy trying to stay alive and unable to focus on what his dying friends are shouting out, and is also has a high chance of dying himself on any battle. An officer who stays behind the lines in safety won't be near the dying as they gasp their last breaths. But Gaz? He's never in danger. Safest job in the entire army. And he goes on every run. And he's always around the bridgemen, who always die. Perfect position to hear the visions of dying men. Also, consider Gaz's eye. He lost an eye, and nearly died. Put another way, if he had not gotten some good medical treatment, he would have died. And who has the best doctors in the world? 24
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