Algafix Posted November 6, 2020 Posted November 6, 2020 Yeah: Dawnshards, Sleepless, Akinah, Adonalsium... But I want to share my thoughts and theories about Huio. First of all, Huio's personality and intelligence in this book surprised me a lot. Behind the language barrier, we find a very curious, intelligent and practical person that we haven't seen in the other books. Then, the scene were he is taking apart the spanreed to see how it works and talking in engineering terms really made me think of the Dustbringer definition in the Knights Radiant quiz. And then he summoned a Shardhammer! What is more Dusbringer-ee than that?? I know that this is a very thin base to justify that a character may swear 2 orders oaths; but we know it's something possible, and right now my best candidate is Huio. 8
Rushu42 she/her Posted November 6, 2020 Posted November 6, 2020 I agree that if anyone is going to, Huio is one who has the most overlap of our current characters. However, I think that he serves a better purpose as a representation of the variety of people that can belong to a single order of Radiants. The idea of having scholarly Windrunners opens the door for Truthwatcher warriors, for example. It seems an excellent way to avoid turning the orders into caricatures, which is easy to do when sorting characters into groups like this. 7
Algafix Posted November 6, 2020 Author Posted November 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Rushu42 said: I agree that if anyone is going to, Huio is one who has the most overlap of our current characters. However, I think that he serves a better purpose as a representation of the variety of people that can belong to a single order of Radiants. The idea of having scholarly Windrunners opens the door for Truthwatcher warriors, for example. It seems an excellent way to avoid turning the orders into caricatures, which is easy to do when sorting characters into groups like this. Totally agree too. After this post I went to reddit and saw this beautiful annotation about Huio: I also asked directly in a reddit comment about Huio double-ordering and got my first RAFO <3 3
Benkinsky they/them Posted June 15, 2024 Posted June 15, 2024 I could see Dustbringer/Windrunner as a cool combo to balance each other out. The desire to protect could help make Huio more aware of the pitfalls Releasers seemed to typically step into, with their curiosity to take things apart and analyze them scaring or hurting people. Helps to have a little honorspren on your shoulder to be like "I understand wanting to understand this, but maybe do that AFTER we saved those people" . And probably the other way round too. We saw Syl struggle with some stuff that Kaladin struggled with too, like the fact that to protect his men, he had to kill Listeners who were themselves just trying to survive and protect theirs. The kind of rigid us-vs-them type thinking could be broken up with the help of an Ashspren. I assume the taking-things-apart is not ALWAYS like this for Dustbringers. And could include non-physical things. Like being able to say "I want to protect people from harm. They keep getting into situations where they risk harm, because these structures are dangerous/promote risk/etc. We should dismantle those and figure out how to make it better" be that stuff like surgeons should wear gloves or changing certain laws etc. Like, imagine two groups who keep getting into fights because idk the food distribution doesn't leave enough for both groups, so they fight. A Windrunner could come in and stop them from fighting. Time and time again. Not bad. But maybe a Windrunner/Dustbringer would take the time to ask both groups why they fight, figure out where the problem is coming from. Not that a regular windrunner couldn't do that, this is more me trying to find where the two Orders could overlap well. Plus, man, four surges. Imagine a Windrunner flying with a multi-lashing AND ignoring friction. that would be FAST 2
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