Toaster Retribution he/him Posted February 2, 2017 Report Share Posted February 2, 2017 Do we have a WoB of wether or not Ym was able to Stormlight-heal himself and survive after being stabbed by our beloved Herald of Justice? Is he still alive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weltall Posted February 2, 2017 Report Share Posted February 2, 2017 His own point of view rather strongly implies that he's dead and was so the instant the blade connected with him. The thing with Stormlight healing is that you need to be alive in the first place to do it. A shardblade to the spine like Ym got will kill you instantly (evidently with some small lag time before your connection to the Physical Realm is completely severed, based on the original ending of Words of Radiance) so Ym would have needed someone else to heal him very quickly before he slipped from 'mostly dead' to 'very very dead' and wouldn't have been able to do it himself. Given that Nale knows that the apparently dead can be revived within a short window of opportunity, it's likely he waited around a few minutes just to be on the safe side. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manukos he/him Posted February 2, 2017 Report Share Posted February 2, 2017 most likely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nashan’Elin he/him Posted February 2, 2017 Report Share Posted February 2, 2017 It's also likely that Ym was not far enough along in his oaths and use of his powers to be able to heal a Shardblade would. Additionally, I think the blade pierced his spine, which is basically an insta-kill, Radiant or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iniricean he/him Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 I was really enjoying his story until "experience ended". He reminded me of the cobbler in Name of the Wind. A sad loss indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxal she/her Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 Quite frankly, I hope so. It wouldn't do good to through in another revival at this stage within the story. There are no reasons to believe Ym might have survived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iniricean he/him Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 I agree. Sad as it Is, he's just not significant enough of a character for revival to even be considered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARARITA he/him Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 I want Ym to be alive sooooo bad --- but I believe he is not I think Lift's spren is the very same spren in the Ym interlude ...he's gone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata he/him Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 Nale knows better than any other main character what Stormlight and Surges may do. If he want you dead...you die. He is too devoted to his duty to leave a survival margin. Simply waiting for 5 seconds would probably be enough to avoid any kind of problems...I find very unlikely he didn't take some precaution aganist Stormlight's healing (if it's possible at all to recover from a Shardblade's kill with Stormlight's healing) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iniricean he/him Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 45 minutes ago, ARARITA said: I want Ym to be alive sooooo bad --- but I believe he is not I think Lift's spren is the very same spren in the Ym interlude ...he's gone That is a really interesting idea I hadn't thought of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata he/him Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 1 hour ago, ARARITA said: I want Ym to be alive sooooo bad --- but I believe he is not I think Lift's spren is the very same spren in the Ym interlude ...he's gone Ym is confirmed to be a Truthwatcher therefore his Spren could not be Wylde...much more Lift is already bond with her Spren when Ym died Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARARITA he/him Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 obviously I was going from what Wyndle said in Edgedancer - if there is a WoB I wasn't aware of it do you have it ? I still believe Ym is dead - I wanted him to be our friend from Elantris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata he/him Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 (edited) 52 minutes ago, ARARITA said: obviously I was going from what Wyndle said in Edgedancer - if there is a WoB I wasn't aware of it do you have it ? sure Quote TED HERMAN Ym is confirmed to not be an Edgedancer. Does that mean that he would have become a Truthwatcher? BRANDON SANDERSON Yes As far as we can extrapolate from the books, Ym was a possible candidate for both Edgedancer and Truthwatcher orders...Wyndle himself considerate to bond with Ym. But the bosses sent him to the crazy girl with the Mother's blessing, so a Truthwatcher's spren took him instead Edited February 4, 2017 by Yata 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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