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While reading kaladin´s coppermind page i came across a quote about the meaning of his name which is "born unto eternity". Could this be a foreshadowing of Kaladin´s future  taking on Jezriens role and responsibilities.

What do you guys and girls think?

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I suspect he's gonna die or make a brave sacrifice sometime later make a big gesture of "i will protect those who cannot protect themselves" or whatever the other windrunner oaths are.

Or the " born unto eternity " would mean him ending up taking up a reformed shard of honor(Mr. Sanderson said it's not impossible and stormlight is a long series) but i gravitate on him dying or ended up leading. 

Yeah i can totally see him taking up Jezriens responsibility and i think only Taln is the only clear ally herald that might actually do his job.

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It’s really based—it’s Kalak, which is the Storm—not really the Stormfather but people, y’know.  Most of the names you’ll find are based off one of the Heralds in some way.  So he’s KALA + DIN, Kalak and din is a suffix.”

“It means ‘born unto eternity’.”
— Brandon Sanderson and Isaac Stewart (Orem signing 12/12/15)

 

 

 

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JamHeretic

How do you pick names?

Brandon Sanderson:

It really varies based on the book. I'm often picking a linguistic paradigm. Alethi - there are two separate paradigms because I like linguistics to be messy. Usually based on symmetry being holy, so they'd pick names one letter off from symmetrical to avoid hubris. Also suffix - like Kaladin is Kalak (Herald) + din which is a suffix, all of them mean things, like the old Hebrew names have "born of" or "comes through". Stick that on and drop the last letter. Dalinar, Elhokar, all of those have suffixes - nar, kar.

 

 
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4 hours ago, muco said:

If Kaladin dies who would be the other windrunner?

I remember reading a passage where Syl says she is the only one among her kind who made it to the other side or something to that effect!

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There is another Windrunner saying oaths in book 3, so he won't be alone for much longer. Now the Stormfather is bonded, the ban is most likely lifted. Sprens are going to come in large numbers.

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1 minute ago, Zea mays said:

Whoa, whoa, whence comes this info?! Also, shouldn't stuff like that be hidden under, you know, spoiler tags? :huh:

Sorry, I thought it was common knowledge by now. I don't recall where I read it, Reddit probably which is where Brandon posts most of his updates on SA3. I put the spoilers tag.

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Sorry, I never heard about that at all. Now I wonder how much more tantalizing wild Oathbringer information is lurking around on this Reddit.

Have an upvote for spoiler tagging though.

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Just now, Zea mays said:

Sorry, I never heard about that at all. Now I wonder how much more tantalizing wild Oathbringer information is lurking around on this Reddit.

Have an upvote fore spoilering though.

A tantalizing wild amount of information.... It is hard to keep track of the right references, but anyone who is perceptive and cares to spend the time to read all of it does gather a few clues here and there. I am not sure the bout I posted came from Reddit though... It has been used quite a few times in those pages which is why I didn't think to spoiler tag it.

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1 hour ago, maxal said:
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There is another Windrunner saying oaths in book 3, so he won't be alone for much longer. Now the Stormfather is bonded, the ban is most likely lifted. Sprens are going to come in large numbers.

I thought that this was still in theory phase. If it really is true, then maybe it may only apply to honorspren.

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21 minutes ago, Blightsong said:

I also remember seeing what Maxal said on Reddit. I recommend going through Brandon's comments every month or two (he is u/Mistborn). It feels creepy but it's worth the sweet sweet Cosmere tid bits.

Yes. He does give out a few interesting tip bits of information. Nothing truly mind blowing, but stuff gets leaked out there. Also, he does answer if you poke him occasionally as long as you are not abusive and you mind what you are asking for. In any advent, it is worth going through his comments on a regular basis: you do learn a few things with respect to SA3. In other words, he'll answer stuff about SA3 main narrative as long as you remain basic with your questions, but he probably won't answer the more in-depth questions which are typically asked at signings.

And I still did not manage to get the answer I so wish to have, so it does have its limitation.

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If anyone could find the source and provided the link! I've been keeping following Brandon's activities on Reddit these recent months but didn't remember seeing anything like this! I hope it is canon =)

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On 8/19/2016 at 9:12 AM, Blightsong said:

I also remember seeing what Maxal said on Reddit. I recommend going through Brandon's comments every month or two (he is u/Mistborn). It feels creepy but it's worth the sweet sweet Cosmere tid bits.

He actually replies (though out of my like 3 questions i got rafo'd twice and answered one of my questions vaguely lol) if message him in one of the comments. Mr. Sanderson is quite active i love it. 

It was about book 3 

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Where i asked if are we gonna see involvement/influence of other shards that aren't in Roshar on book 3 like not directly involved (if i phrased my question correctly to him) and he affirmed 

And he also said that Mistborn was more cosmere than Stormlight at least the first 5 books of stomrlight was less cosmere he said

 

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