Erklitt Posted September 15, 2022 Posted September 15, 2022 Take with a grain of salt: 1. Pattern We're seeing a spren reawakening - it's only fair that we should see one becoming a deadeye. And he's known it all along, hasn't he? How - Shallan subconsciously finds her next truth, and simply is not able to admit it, it's too horrible*. So she does 'it' all over again. * SA5 prologue wide-spread theory spoiler Spoiler Realizing she triggered the desolation by killing her herald-mom might just be trauma enough, after 'only' killing her 'considered-ordinary' mom, her dad and her spren weren't. 2. This next one contains Mistborn spoilers: Spoiler Thaidakar / Kelsier Well, he's just VERY long overdue, don't you think? Also, Mare is yearning for him. Let's end her agony. How - His scars inflame so badly, not even a cognitive shadow can survive this. 3. Hoid Design drives him to desperation, so he finally gets tired of life. Again: overdue, after all those millennia, and with Design being what she is. I mean, it's quite inescapable at this point?! Also, he's believed to be unkillable, and we're owed some REAL surprises now and then. How - He steals Nightblood and unsheathes it. It takes Jasnah entering Shadesmar to identify the body... ============================================================================== On a more serious note: Adolin is NOT going to die. His arc with Maya is too unique and important. And while we know spren react differently to the deaths of their knights, we know what it did to Syl - and seriously: you think a barely reawakened spren would be less devastated? Brandon simply can't do that to her. 1
GroundPetrel Posted September 25, 2022 Posted September 25, 2022 On 9/15/2022 at 2:44 PM, Erklitt said: On a more serious note: Adolin is NOT going to die. His arc with Maya is too unique and important. And while we know spren react differently to the deaths of their knights, we know what it did to Syl - and seriously: you think a barely reawakened spren would be less devastated? Brandon simply can't do that to her. I'll put ten bucks on Adolin being beaten up and on the verge of death when he swears an Edgedancer 2nd Ideal by promising to never let Maya be forgotten, right as Shallan or Navani fixes the issue that's making spren go deadeye. He starts metabolizing stormlight and gets up to kick ass, then goes straight to third and Maya goes hog-wild with shapeshifting blade weirdness and they take on half an army together. As for characters who're doomed--my money's still on Kalak/Restares and Ishar. I think Nale will survive.
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