Grypa Posted May 10, 2018 Posted May 10, 2018 She changes a lot in one moment. Maybe it's her boon/bane thing? Maybe when she realises that she always be king daughter/sister, a trophy not a person to fall in love with, she chooses to become a logic icequeen instead of love? P.s. English is not my first language. There will be misteakes. 1
Weltall Posted May 10, 2018 Posted May 10, 2018 Welcome to the Shard! There's no evidence in the books that she's ever visited the Nightwatcher and no indication that she's suffering from one of the Nightwatcher's curses. We have some big gaps in her personal history (like the childhood illness that's mentioned in Oathbringer) but nothing that indicates a Nightwatcher visit. And from what we can tell, Jasnah hasn't gone through any radical personality changes, with Navani joking that her daughter was 'born old' or something like that; I don't remember the exact wording.
Angsos Posted May 12, 2018 Posted May 12, 2018 My guess is whatever happened to Jasnah as a child, which we won't fully find out about until book 10, has to do with why she is the way she is. welcome to the shard.
Llarimar he/him Posted May 12, 2018 Posted May 12, 2018 I think it's an interesting idea that Jasnah may have visited the Nightwatcher, but I'm hesitant to believe it just because of the fact that so many characters already have visited the Nightwatcher. Dalinar, Lift and Taravangian have all gone to the Nightwatcher (which... I guess is only three characters but it seems like a lot because the Nightwatcher is so remote and I don't think a ton of people visit her). I may be forgetting a character who visited the Nightwatcher - perhaps Nale did in order to get his hands on Nightblood? If I remember correctly, the Nightwatcher vaguely mentions Nightblood to Dalinar when he goes to visit her, which at the time led me to believe that she had Nightblood in her possession, and that Nale must have taken it from her.
Angsos Posted May 12, 2018 Posted May 12, 2018 5 1/2 years ago, I believe she offers Dalinar a sword that bleeds black smoke which has to be Nightblood. That means Vasher either visited her or Cultivation directly.
Weltall Posted May 13, 2018 Posted May 13, 2018 Not necessarily. We know that Vasher and Nightblood were separated after arriving on Roshar but we don't know how that happened. It could be that Vasher lost Nightblood in some other way and it found its way to the Nightwatcher without his direct involvement. We see people take the sword from him on several occasions in Warbreaker so it's not unprecedented. Brandon was asked about this and the answer was, of course, RAFO.
Angsos Posted May 13, 2018 Posted May 13, 2018 I wonder if one of the reasons Brandon keeps putting off Nightblood is that the book would spoil too much.
Weltall Posted May 13, 2018 Posted May 13, 2018 Probably not, he's been willing to mention some of his plans for the book (including that he intends to use it to start introducing more material from Aether of Night into the canon) and that why Vasher and Nightblood are on Roshar is not a focus of the story, so it's probably not going to spoil a lot. Brandon has said that the main reason Nightblood keeps being pushed back is that it's a side project for him and he's gotten into various commitments where he's either explicitly promised to publishers or implicitly promised to readers that he's going to see some series through (Reckoners for the former type, Mistborn Era 2 for the latter) and he's had trouble finding time to slot the book in.
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