Vote in the next Bondsmith election!

[King Aragorn of Gondor]

Ok, so my friend and I got talking about who is the next Bondsmith, these two are the most likely that we came up with, so get voting!

Edited November 1, 2019 by Aragorn

[Honorless he/him]

Navani is also a popular candidate

[King Aragorn of Gondor]

14 minutes ago, Honorless said:

Navani is also a popular candidate

I hadn't thought of that.  Could be...could be....

[Aon Tia she/her]

And Rlain

[+Invocation]

Yeah, like Traveller said, Rlain is a common one. I'm all for him, to be honest. Let's let that poor dude get some metaphysical bread.

[GoWibble he/him]

Well, T is a plant, Vasher seems done with voices, so Navani or Rlain. R might be more under Cultivation's influence, but Cultivation might be more prone to choose a woman

[Karger he/him]

And yeah he is Vasher.

Edited October 30, 2019 by Karger

[That1GuySpencer]

I think it would be a cool dynamic for Taravangian to be a bondsmith, maybe eventually evolving to be a foil for Dalinar. Taravangian's condition would probably affect the logistics of the bonding.

[Karger he/him]

2 hours ago, TheBlueTaco said:

I think it would be a cool dynamic for Taravangian to be a bondsmith, maybe eventually evolving to be a foil for Dalinar. Taravangian's condition would probably affect the logistics of the bonding.

Why and how?

[TheWadehart he/him]

Rlain bonded to Nightwatcher 

Navani bonded to Sibling 

[That1GuySpencer]

21 hours ago, Karger said:

Why and how?

Both Taravangian and Dalinar are respected political figures, and if Taravangian became a bondsmith, they would both be bondsmiths.

With Taravangian changing mental capacity each day, how he uses his radiant abilities could be altered; when he is less intelligent, he might not have the ability to access some.

[Karger he/him]

2 hours ago, TheBlueTaco said:

With Taravangian changing mental capacity each day, how he uses his radiant abilities could be altered; when he is less intelligent, he might not have the ability to access some.

Accessioning investiture takes intent not intelligence.  I don't think "stupid" T lacks willpower.

[Lidolas he/him]

Rlain gets my vote.

[Aon Tia she/her]

Dear OP @Aragorn

Can we not add Rlain and Navani to the poll?

[TheWadehart he/him]

You should set up two separate votes.  Who will bond the Sibling and who will bond the Nightwatcher?

[Toaster Retribution he/him]

Rock is another popular candidate. I think he and Rlain, or Navani. I was on the T train before OB, but I’m not sure anymore. Dont think Watcher or Sibling are going to be keen on bonding a guy who is working for Odium.

[King Aragorn of Gondor]

Just edited the poll, please vote again!

[+Invocation]

Rlain for Sibling, Navani for Nightwatcher. It seems to fit. The Sibling is somewhat of an outsider, from what we've been hinted at and from how the past Radiants talk about them, and Rlain can relate to that. Navani would fit with the Nightwatcher because of her whole building stuff thing, from which both good and bad stems. At least those are my thoughts.

Also, I'm still in full favor of Rlain getting that Metaphysical Bread.

[ArdentRuby she/her]

Why is Rlain an option? Did I miss something about/related to him?

Edited November 2, 2019 by Tristan_Hollow

[+Invocation]

22 minutes ago, Tristan_Hollow said:

Why is Rlain an option? Did I miss something about/related to him?

It's been a theory floating around as a way to help unify the two races, especially since now we full-on know that Nahel bonds with singers are possible and we Rlain deserves something going right in his life.

Edited November 2, 2019 by Invocation

[ArdentRuby she/her]

6 minutes ago, Invocation said:

It's been a theory floating around as a way to help unify the two races, especially since now we full-on know that Nahel bonds with singers are possible and we Rlain deserves something going write in his life.

Oh, I like that theory. It would be nice to have more singers as main characters.

[+Invocation]

Just now, Tristan_Hollow said:

Oh, I like that theory. It would be nice to have more singers as main characters.

Indeed. (We'll probably get more in SA4. There's a reason we haven't heard from Rlain in a little bit, and Sandman hints that it's important. We'll see him again.)

[Aon Tia she/her]

1 hour ago, Invocation said:

We'll probably get more in SA4. There's a reason we haven't heard from Rlain in a little bit, and Sandman hints that it's important. We'll see him again.)

I want to see Rlain reunited with the remaining listeners in the next book

[+Invocation]

Just now, The traveller said:

I want to see Rlain reunited with the remaining listeners in the next book

That's probably what we'll see. I'm gonna put the rest of this in a spoiler box for the people who don't want to see it.

Spoiler

He disappeared about halfway through Oathbringer after going back to the warcamps (and probably into the Shattered Plains) and there was a group of listeners in WoR that fled the Stormform transformation also into the Shattered Plains. I'm reasonably confident he went after them, per a few past theories here on the Shard and the WOBs about Rlain's disappearance being important.

I think SA4 is gonna give us more Rlain POVs and see him leading those listeners like Kaladin did the emancipated ones after Hearthstone.

 

[Aon Tia she/her]

18 minutes ago, Invocation said:

That's probably what we'll see. 

Quote

I agree 

Spoiler

After Rlain had his heart to heart with Kaladin, he might have suggested Rlain to go look for any survivors and that they would be welcomed in urithiru..