Sasukerinnegan he/him Posted March 9, 2014 Report Share Posted March 9, 2014 I've said it before, that Nohadon is a sliver of the Almighty and now I'm convinced he is the Stormfather.Why? 1. The Stormfather isn't a Herald. “The Stormfather,” Dalinar said. “Are you a Herald?” NO. 2. The Stormfather is a Sliver of the Almighty. I AM THE SLIVER OF THE ALMIGHTY HIMSELF! the voice said, sounding angry. I AM THE STORMFATHER. I WILL NOT LET MYSELF BE BOUND IN SUCH A WAY AS TO KILL ME! 3. The ideals of the Knights Radiant were based upon Nohadon's book. “Isn’t everything? There was some old king who came up with all this. Had his wife write it in a book or something. My mother read it. The Radiants based the Ideals on what was written there.” 4. The surgebinders before Nohadon weren't bound by the ideals. “The others want to blame Alakavish. And true, if he hadn’t brought us to war before the Desolation, we might not have been broken this badly. But Alakavish was a symptom of a greater disease. When the Heralds next return, what will they find? A people who have forgotten them yet again? A world torn by war and squabbling? If we continue as we have, then perhaps we deserve to lose.” How did Alakavish bring them to war? Bound as he is by his ideals, even if he is not a Windrunner, it would be exceedingly difficult to wage war and not break even one of the ideals. When Kaladin breaks even one of his Ideals, this is the result. “What happened?” Kaladin asked. “The Stormlight drained from me. I felt it go.” “Who were you protecting?” Syl asked. 5. We have WoB that all slivers are humans (or atleast sentient beings), who have temporarily held the power of a Shard. 6. Somebody imposed Nohadon's ideals and imposed them upon the spren. The obvious answer would be Nohadon himself. 7. The Stormfather does not speak during Nohadon's vision. “What does he decide?” Dalinar asked. “Did he unite them, as he wanted?” The voice that often spoke in his visions did not come. What do you guys think??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aleksiel Posted March 9, 2014 Report Share Posted March 9, 2014 A sliver according to coppermind is A Sliver is a human intelligence who has held the bulk of the power of a Shard and has since released it. and spren with Nahel bond have intelligence, so I do not think a sliver has to be biologically human. Plus: YOUR KIND HAVE BROUGHT ONLY DEATH TO MINE which implies the Stormfather is a spren and not a human. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArthurB he/him Posted March 9, 2014 Report Share Posted March 9, 2014 I think it more likely that Nohadon was one of the original Bondsmiths, that the order of the Bondsmiths and the oaths were his means of controlling the surgebinders. He actually discussed means of controlling them with Dalinar in one of the visions. Perhaps Nohadon orignally bound the Stormfather much as Dalinar did? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numb Posted March 9, 2014 Report Share Posted March 9, 2014 One of the theories for bondsmith is that they each bonded with one of the major spren(Stormfather/Nightcrawler) so that could make sense. I also wonder what the relationship between Spren and Surgebinders were before the radiants. It's possible that surgebinders were killing spren but the spren didn't know a way of keeping themselves safe while still getting the benefits of the bond and that is what Nohadon managed to accomplish. The stormfather all but confirms he is a spren at the end of WoB too. Much like other spren seem to be the embodiment of ideas he is the "almighty" in a sense. Sprens in general are a bit confusing. They seem to have been around even before Honor was splintered so does that mean only Honospren are from the splintering? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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