Isilel Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 On 10.10.2018 at 6:52 AM, earthexile said: I'm sure people have noticed by now that the bridge crews provide a way for random dudes from anywhere, regardless of background, to find themselves as personal bodyguards to the Highlord. It's the perfect cover for a Worldhopper who wants to keep tabs on Dalinar. But how and why would an Emotional allomancer worldhopper have found himself on the bridge duty? Particularly since there was no way to know in advance that they'll find themselves close to Dalinar in the end. Those who survived. Or do you suggest that he insinuated himself into Bridge 13 afterwards and somehow made everybody believe that he had been there the whole time? That would require some mad Connection-compunding, I imagine... I mean, all the things that you pointed out do hint at something like that, and it was a great find on your part, I am just unsure as to how this might have come about. Because the bridges were a meat-grinder where a normal human allomancer was very unlikely to survive unless he was a steel-pusher. And the whole "Kholin bodyguard" stuff would have been impossible to predict, methinks. Unless the dude is a kandra with a relevant hemalurgic spike, that is, and was just using the whole thing for research at no personal risk? That would also nicely explain why Rial isn't noticeably short for an Alethi, and doesn't have "Shin eyes". On 11.10.2018 at 2:40 AM, Slimy_Slider said: Hmmm, wonder what Spook's been doing since he went into retirement... Spook could have kept himself alive in a bridge crew, of course, but would he have let his bridge-mates die like flies in order to keep his cover? Not IMHO. And wouldn't he require Hoid's level of access to Fortune to know that he needed to be in the crews so that he could become Dalinar's bodyguard via an unlikely sequence of events?
Slothspren Posted October 15, 2018 Posted October 15, 2018 That dude is certainly not from around those parts( of Cosmere). That being said he could have just worked his way towards bridgecrews after the freedom. Or might as well have infiltrated towards the end. We know that there are many ways in Cosmere to see or at least guess the future so he could have easily infiltrated at the right time. Or he might have used some other form of Investiture to fit in, which we don't of at this time.
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