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I don't think it does, I think Jasnah could go direct. The oathgates seem to be fabrial that mimics transportation. It is possible that Jasnah can't take someone with her.

I don't think we should always assume that Brandon tells us the everything, or that he doesn't sometimes say one thing that is true to obscure something else that is also true. But generally you're probably right. I just never saw it as an intentional kill by Kaladin in the first place. It reads as a testing jab that accidental is a knockout because the opponent unexpectedly drops all his defenses.

I'm sure they do eat wild Chulls out in the Natan hills like is speculated by Shallan at one point, but a giant apex predator makes more sense if it spend most of it's life cycle in the ocean. As for Ashyn, that's how it works now with the illness based magic, but who knows if that's how it always worked. Even if it was it doesn't preclude humanity on Roshar from moving from there. They don't have to be from Ashyn originally, just before they were on Roshar. Braize is too cold for life. Braize fits into the story much better as damnation. Especially since I would bet it is where the Heralds are "damned" to between Desolations.

I think it's possible that the obsideon tower he sees is somehow from Shadesmar though. I think it's definitely the Pure Lake. According to Navani he was speaking an ancient Selay dialect which would place him in Sela Tales.

Open the end pages to see up-close the beautiful art of Jesrien, Shallash, Vedel, and Ishar.

I wonder if Brandon just wanted to backtrack on being able to revive a shardblade death. Or he thought it strained credulity that Nale would be able to get to Szeth in time if one only has moments to heal a shard-severed death.

Killing, especially for Kaladin is a problem, especially someone who is clearly disturbed and distressed. Killing is always distructive, even if it was the right thing to do. Killing has an emotional price on the killer. Kaladin had regrets about having to kill the Parshendi, he regrets killing Szeth in the original scene. I'm not being very eloquent, but there are some famous novels and movies all about how killing leaves a stain and corrupts the soul, even if it's with good intentions: Shane, Road to Perdition, Godfather trilogy, Logan, etc. One of the major themes of A Song of Ice and Fire is that violence always leads to violence and that revenge is a never-ending cycle that causes destruction to the innocent and helpless. Stephen Spielberg's Munich is a great depiction of how even righteous violence destroys, warps, corrupts the ones who have to carry out the acts. I love that Kaladin is a fantasy hero who tries not to kill, that he even objects to killing his non-human enemies. BUT... in the original scene Kaladin doesn't intentionally kill Szeth. He is trying to force Szeth to block but Szeth allows himself to be killed by not blocking.

Also it seems like the Chasmfiends must spend some of their life in the Ocean. Especially since Shallan thinks their chrysalis looks like a Yu-Nerig chrysalis.

Ashyn is a planet in the same system that has suffered a massive cataclysm, and the only people left there are living on upside-down floating cities. It also makes sense with the Tranquiline halls myth. Ahsyn would have been a more earth-like, less stormy aka more tranquil, place that a massive disaster forced humanity to mostly abandon with the survivors fleeing to floating cities or somehow to the other inhabitable planet in the system.

I have an animal question on Roshar. What does a Reshi Tai Na look like? How is the head at the top. At first I pictured them as giant chulls, but a chulls head is near the ground. How does a Tai Na eat? Does it raise food to its mouth? Does it dip it's head? That would be dangerous for the people living up there. Is it a giant crab? Lobster? What does it look like. A giant hermit crab doesn't make sense with the geography of the island.

I've been keeping a list of animals that seem to have come with the human refugees to Roshar: Horses Pigs Chickens Parrots (i'm only assuming confirmed birds) Turtles Goats Rats Minks Any I missed? I believe that Cultivation has created and sheltered Shinovar as a sanctuary for these exiled plants and animals. (probably from Ashyn) I find it amazing that cats and dogs didn't come through, the parrots must have been exotic pets. The hardest to catch was the goats. In Edgedancer, Lift thinks about small, hairy, horned horse beasts. I assume these are goats. There is a wall carving of what's probably a lion in Urithiru, but I think that is a memory of the world before Roshar (probably Ashyn).

Does the rewrite change this scene emotionally? I understood in the original that Szeth refuses to defend himself, he lets Kaladin kill him. How does it work in the rewritten scene. I agree that the imagery of Szeth in the dark hallway with the rain outside, glowing is amazing.

In WoR Kaladin refuses the call a few too many times on reread. I understand it, and it passes on the initial read, but in rereads it grates on me. There is also a little bit of characters withholding important info that would advance the story, just to not advance the story. As I said though, it makes sense in-narrative, and it worked on the first read-through. It just annoys me a bit on rereads. Also, in the audio-book, especially WoR the male narrator does Elhokar too whiny, what he says is whiny, it's putting too much paprika on the sandwich to make his voice so whiny. And for the record; Shallan is an amazing character.

I'm sure we will in the series two Lift flashback book.

Or they just have the language that has changed the least

I think Szeth will be a Stoneward. He is neither confident nor just. He is stubborn, he exemplifies resolve and he will follow is orders to the last. In Edgedancer he constantly challenges Nale and disagrees with him. Also the Shin and Stone Shamans have so many connections to Stone. I wonder if they are the remnants of whichever order stayed and never abandoned their oaths. Either the Stonewards or Dustbringers.

I think it's actually the opposite. Shinovar is a piece of Roshar made safe for humanity by Cultivation.

- Kaladin will have to confront his past as a budding revolutionary leading the darkeyed revolt and his status as a protector of all against the backdrop of an Alethi revolt and the cruelty of Lighteyes like Roshsone, and the waste and callous behavior of the queen. A miserable, beaten down Leral and a angry, bitter Liridin will both play rolls in this. - Dalinar will discover both his own dark past and the secret that broke the Radiants and have to overcome both - We will learn that Ishar is a traitor to humanity, either out of madness or despair. He may be either Restares, Tezim, or both. Nalan will confront him - Szeth will not progress towards a Skybreaker, instead he will be either a Stoneward or a Dustbringer - Eshonai will recover herself and swear at least the first oath towards being a Willshaper - Rysn will swear the first oath in her Interlude.

Hoid and Lyft have already met. Just not on screen. Lyft talks about a man who intentionally got swallowed by a greatshell in merebethia, she says she misses him. Hoid says he once spent time in the belly of a great shell.

Kaladin gets several additional benifits besides the two surges. He can ride the storms in his dreams to see what is going on the world, he gets a spider-sense like awareness in battle from movements in the winds, and he gets squires. I don't think the squires will actually be able to surgebind. I think they will just be stronger and quicker and be able to heal wounds with stormlight. Shallan has picture perfect memory, can have visions of things going one around the world by letting her mind drift (or something, she did those drawings of the crew of Wind's Pleasure and of Shalash) and may have some supernatural ability to lift spirits of people. Lyft seems to be able to naturally understand what people are saying. (that's it so far) It's been theorized that Skybreakers were naturally able to tell the guilty from the innocent.

The knowledge of creating bacon was lost with the shattering

Thanks.

I think that's what they mean when they say it's different this time though, that's all they mean. Of course everything is different because humanity is both more and less prepared than they were in the past. They are more advanced, smarter, and bettter armed, while also lacking the Heralds, no Radiants and no memory of desolations as well as ready voidbringers embedded throughout the world.

Another legitimate question: what is the difference between Slaveform and Dullform? Is Dullform an empty spren bond and slaveform is a blocked spren bond?