KevinTheHerdazian he/him Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 Shardplate- okay, now I've been thinking about the physical appearance Of it. Does the whole armor glow when used by a Radiant? Or just the joints? And when it is being worn by a regular human and is not painted could you tell the difference from regular armor? It seems weird to me that people can just tell that someone has shardplate all the time. If you painted a very intricately designed armor plate would people think it's shardplate? When I first read WoK I thought that shardplate was translucent and see through-ish, now I know that is not correct according to WOR. Another question, is the person in the cover for WoK the parshendi chick (venli? I forgot her name and don't got my book with me now)? Or is that dalinar's unpainted plate? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natc Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 I'm not sure if the physical architecture of shardplate is even possible with current Roshar technology. Even the joints are sealed by armor plating. Not chain mail, literal interlocking armor plating. It just holds together somehow, completely sealed by materials that don't even actually bend. That's a lot of pieces. I do believe it's the glyphs on the plate that glow, said glyphs not even being there under normal circumstances. They only appear in flashbacks when the radiants had been infusing stormlight. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockbud he/him Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 I do believe it's the glyphs on the plate that glow, said glyphs not even being there under normal circumstances. They only appear in flashbacks when the radiants had been infusing stormlight. In the purelake flashback I think it mentions the radiant's plate start to glow fully when they spot the spren. Also in the Starfall flashback the windrunner is glowing when he's falling. I think it depends how much Stormlight theyre holding. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwelfthOfSnackTime he/him Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 I've always thought of Shardplate as a misture between medieval knights armor and Iron Man armor. And yes I believe it's the whole plate, not just the joints. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AerionBFII he/him Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 On the Radiant Plate there were Runes inscribed on them, i thought this might be how a Gem is on a dead Shardblade and can be used to bind it to a Shardbearer, Plate is bound to a Radiant.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clockwork he/him Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 If a surgebinder were to bind plate to himself by wearing it at the same time as he has Stormlight, Jakamav's Shardplate would've gotten runes and been bound to Kaladin during the duel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHOUTAGOD he/him Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 (edited) Im still in shock youve only read it 38 times! Do you not love it?! ( Bawling uncontrolably ) Someone give me a nappykin please! My own brother an infidel!! Fie this life!! FIE!! Edited November 3, 2015 by CHOUTAGOD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSC01 he/him Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 Man, you guys are insane. People think I'm crazy for having read The Wheel of Time three times (for context, I didn't read any of it until the whole series had been released; I started reading in January, 2014). And my first WoR re-read came exactly one week after my first reading. But 38 times?! Do you read other books? There are other books, you know. Some of them are pretty good... Just some good-natured ribbing, by the way. If that's your thing, go for it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clockwork he/him Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 I read it tWoK about three times before I let go of it, and I've also read both tWoK and WoR about 50-60 times each. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baby he/him Posted November 4, 2015 Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 I read it tWoK about three times before I let go of it, and I've also read both tWoK and WoR about 50-60 times each. Hot Diggity Dog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battar Posted November 4, 2015 Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 And I thought I was crazy for reading Harry Potter around 10 times in my childhood. There are so many other books out there, I wouldn't have time to reread the Stormlight Archive that much. I'm going through the rereads from tor.com though right now and that's pretty fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clockwork he/him Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 Well, I read really fast, and have read alot of books that I find good... I read at about 1 page every 10 seconds. Or 6 pages every minute. It takes me a little over 3 hours to read a stormlight archives book. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegatorgirl00 she/her Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 Do you have any tips for how to read quicker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sublime he/him Posted November 8, 2015 Report Share Posted November 8, 2015 (edited) Well, I read really fast, and have read alot of books that I find good... I read at about 1 page every 10 seconds. Or 6 pages every minute. It takes me a little over 3 hours to read a stormlight archives book.Wowza, I can't even turn pages that quickly . On topic though, I thought that shard plates only glow when they get cracked? (when normal humans are wearing them anyway) it's been a while though, I'm probably wrong. Edited November 8, 2015 by Sublime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardbearer he/him Posted November 8, 2015 Report Share Posted November 8, 2015 Modern Shardplate glows (or rather leaks Stormlight) when cracked, but the KR of old had glowing Plate while they used their Surges. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taveren he/him Posted November 11, 2015 Report Share Posted November 11, 2015 well my theory is that lesser spren bond to make the plate so the curent plates don't glow becuase the spren aren't alive anymore. this is based off of when kaliden summoned windspren around him and shallan summon creation spren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayneSpren he/him Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 And I thought I was crazy for reading Harry Potter around 10 times in my childhood. There are so many other books out there, I wouldn't have time to reread the Stormlight Archive that much. I'm going through the rereads from tor.com though right now and that's pretty fun. My life was sad. For three years, all I did all day was read Harry Potter. I finished the series 29 times. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battar Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 My life was sad. For three years, all I did all day was read Harry Potter. I finished the series 29 times. I was similar. I read very slow, though, so I guess it makes sense that I only read them around 10 times. I've gotten faster, but still only read at about 2 minutes/page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormingTexan he/him Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 I've always thought of Shardplate as a misture between medieval knights armor and Iron Man armor. And yes I believe it's the whole plate, not just the joints. From looking at Shallan's sketches of shardplate that is a pretty good description. I also assumed the whole thing glowed. The thing I have always wondered is how the old KR helms seemed to disappear and reappear so quick I guess they summoned it like blades are summoned now when the plate was "live"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadmium he/him Posted November 14, 2015 Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 From looking at Shallan's sketches of shardplate that is a pretty good description. I also assumed the whole thing glowed. The thing I have always wondered is how the old KR helms seemed to disappear and reappear so quick I guess they summoned it like blades are summoned now when the plate was "live"? How does Kaladin's honorblade change to a spear? He wills it to be so, right? and the Nahel bond responds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natc Posted November 14, 2015 Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 How does Kaladin's honorblade change to a spear? He wills it to be so, right? and the Nahel bond responds? I'm not sure how that question relates at all to what you quoted, nor why you would think Kaladin has ever actually wielded an honorblade before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charononus Posted November 14, 2015 Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 How does Kaladin's honorblade change to a spear? He wills it to be so, right? and the Nahel bond responds? Assuming you mean shardblade, it's not just that but Syl working with him and anticipating his needs as well. I always read it as they were becoming so symbiotic that he didn't need to consciously will it, it just was. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayneSpren he/him Posted November 15, 2015 Report Share Posted November 15, 2015 Assuming you mean shardblade, it's not just that but Syl working with him and anticipating his needs as well. I always read it as they were becoming so symbiotic that he didn't need to consciously will it, it just was. I thought it meant that he could change his shardblade's shape because he had become a radiant. As far as we know, all radiants can do this (Shallan made Pattern shorter when she was cutting a handhold). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSC01 he/him Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 Something like that. In the same vein, the glowing hammers in Dalinar's Purelake vision always struck me as a little odd. I think they may be Shardhammers, so to speak. That said, I don't think that anyone is quite fully a Radiant yet. As soon as we see some living Plate, then we can talk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamEternal Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 Something like that. In the same vein, the glowing hammers in Dalinar's Purelake vision always struck me as a little odd. I think they may be Shardhammers, so to speak. That said, I don't think that anyone is quite fully a Radiant yet. As soon as we see some living Plate, then we can talk. The hammers didn't glow. The men with tge hammers did. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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