shimwick Posted March 31, 2014 Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 (edited) THis topic is now resolved. Please feel free to inform me of how to delete a thread. Edited September 26, 2014 by shimwick 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifth of Daybreak he/him Posted March 31, 2014 Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 Have you read Warbreaker? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgedancer he/him Posted March 31, 2014 Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 Hint: Read Warbreaker, it is free on Brandons website. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver he/him Posted March 31, 2014 Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 River Song Says- Spoilers! Zahel is a character from another of Brandon's books, Warbreaker. He's one of the main characters of that book, where he possesses a black sword named Nightblood which should be familiar to you; it can talk, has a childlike nature, and wants to 'destroy evil'. According to Brandon, Vasher/Zahel and Nightblood were always intended to appear in Stormlight Archive, and he wrote Warbreaker as an introduction for them. Besides that though, take Edgedancer and EMTrevor's advice and read Warbreaker. It's my favourite Brandon Book. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galavantes Posted April 1, 2014 Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 Actually, the guess that he may have had a spren is spot on. Since Brandon has said that <you know who> is exactly the same as a Shardblade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybal Posted April 1, 2014 Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 Actually, the guess that he may have had a spren is spot on. Since Brandon has said that <you know who> is exactly the same as a Shardblade. But made on the wrong world with the wrong magic system. I'm pretty sure that he doesn't have a spren, though his lifesense is probably the reason he can sense Kaladin and Syl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardbearer he/him Posted April 1, 2014 Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 But made on the wrong world with the wrong magic system. I'm pretty sure that he doesn't have a spren, though his lifesense is probably the reason he can sense Kaladin and Syl. What is a spren, though? It's the cognitive aspect of something which is able to slightly manifest in the Physical, and that manefestation can be strengthened by a Nahel bond for some spren. NB is the cognitive aspect of the concept "destroy evil" or something like that. He has the physical form of a blade because that blade was fed enough investiture and given a command. So NB isn't all that different from a spren, in some ways. Of course, he is locked into the form of a blade permanently, as far as we know. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shimwick Posted April 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 OK, so I read Warbreaker. Where does it say that Vasher is Zahel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter he/him Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 OK, so I read Warbreaker. Where does it say that Vasher is Zahel? It is not explicitly stated in the books but it can be deduced from certain clues (and it has been confirmed by WoB). "Zahel" uses numerous color/flower based idioms that don't fit with Roshar, but do fit with Nalthis. He discribes the highstorms as being Invested in his interlude, where he also exhibits life-sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifth of Daybreak he/him Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 The color metaphors, he can sense life around him, he plays the sphere game, he used to hear a voice in his head, he's cosmwre aware (talking about storms being invested,) and a lot of the training he does witg Kaladin he uses tricks to get the advantage. All these signs and probably more point to him being Vasher in WoR. We have WoB to confirm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shimwick Posted April 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Oh, oh, oh. I just read the Zahel thread. The clothing, the breaths giving sense of people around you, Nightblood=Szeth's new shardblade... It all makes sense now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seloun Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 One might even say that there's more than meets the eyes....Returned in disguise. Ardents wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Voidbringers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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