Patrick Star

This thought just occurred to me a couple of minutes ago: What do people on Roshar do for fun? So far, we've seen storytelling, hunting whitespines, hunting chasmfiends, fishing, courting, formal dueling, informal dueling, plotting, scheming, fighting, drawing, drinking, eating, cooking, sleeping, reading, writing, dressing, and killing bridgemen appear as activities that people on Roshar do. However, not every country on Roshar will have as much of a combat-oriented culture as Alethkar, which creates a conspicuous lack of pastimes in places like Azir and Shinovar. Also, I haven't seen any sports (other than dueling and hunting) on Roshar. Do they have any varieties of football, American football, baseball, basketball, tennis, or any other sport? I really don't see why they wouldn't, especially in places that don't have such a glorified view of combat. What do you guys think? How do people on Roshar pass the time?

Lightflame already talked to Brandon about what would happen in "Stones Unhallowed", and was kind enough to share his findings with us. According to Brandon, Lopen is a member of "The Ganchos", a new Radiant order. Thanks, Lightflame!

So, I was just thinking about how difficult it must have been for the recreance to occur. Every radiant of 9 different orders simultaneously breaks their oaths and kills their spren. How did this happen? I highly doubt that simply saying "I won't kill any more evil" or "I'm going to stop protecting people" would break the bonds. As we see with Kaladin, the radiants must have actively broken their bonds. This means that in order for the different orders to kill their spren, a ton of atrocities must have been committed. The Dustbringers would have had to set up an evil tyrant, the Windrunners must have allowed a ton of people to die, the Edgedancers would have oppressed the poor, and so on. Maybe this is just me, but I find this highly unlikely. In my eye, there are two other ways that it could have occurred. The first option is the existence of an anti-oath(s), like the one from that death rattle. The second option is spren suicide, which is exactly what it sounds like. What do you guys think happened? Personally, I'm leaning towards the anti-oath option. Though I do think that it would be helpful to hear what the highspren said before making a judgement. Edit: I probably should have been more specific about the point of my post. I'm more interested in how the recreance happened, not why. I'm trying to think of the mechanism that allowed for hundreds of radiants to simultaneously break their oaths and kill their spren, not why they did it. Sorry if I was unclear about that.

Noooooooooooooooo!!!!! They turned him from a stick to a fence!!! The horror!!! The stickmanity!!! The firebringers will pay for this!!!

Probably not. Fire isn't physical matter, while water is. He's almost certainly. able to lash water. However, it'll probably be pretty useless. Kaladin lashing water will likely be equivalent to a magikarp using splash.

When Brandon says that the amount of squires that Kaladin has is "abnormal for the Windrunners", does he mean that Kaladin has more squires than a Windrunner should have? If so, that could add another dimension to Kaladin's future role in the series

It turns out that Adonalsium was the name of a Yolish law firm that eventually was split up due to the trust-busting of Hoid Senior. These battles are actually massive lawsuits aimed at reestablishing a single mega-law-firm. Also, we find out that Hoid Junior has been gathering objects of power in order to gain the knowledge needed to pass the Bar exam.

Ym has the progression surge, which narrows him down to either a Truthwatcher or Edgedancer. His spren is nothing like Wyndle, and Syl said that every spren (of a certain type) is basically the same person. As such, it's only logical to assume that he's a Truthwatcher. On a side-note, I wonder if Truthwatchers were the most cosmere-aware group, as they are able to "see" into the future. That would explain Ym and his story.

He's also waiting for drivers to make lane changes without their turn signal! On a serious note though, why hasn't Nalan tried to kill Kaladin? Basically everything he did as a slave was illegal, as was his slandering Amaran. Plus he and his family stole the spheres in Hearthstone. If Nalan really wanted to kill all proto-radiants, then why hasn't he taken advantage of this golden opportunity? Maybe Nalan WANTED Kaladin to kill Szeth?

http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states Let's see here: It's illegal to look at a moose from an airplane in Alaska. In Alabama, putting salt on a railway is punishable by death. Also in Alabama, it is illegal to play dominoes on Sunday. In Ohio, Women are not allowed to publicly wear patent leather shoes. In Kentucky, it is illegal to fish with a bow and arrow. I can keep going... Although, I wonder if Alethkar has a law against women wearing military-grade boots under their dresses...

He needs to fulfill a greater roll. He must no longer be just a punching bag. He must be made to handle all kinds of abuses from any and all sources from across the cosmere! The whitespine isn't as clever as it seems to be. It's just more clever than Roshone. Not much of an accomplishment though...

Early Samurai emphasized horseback archery over sword-fighting, so probably not the best comparison.

I'd like to point out that both of these incidences happened at the height of a Highstorm (right around the point where Stormfatherface appears). They definitely went SOMEWHERE, and it almost certainly wasn't Shadesmar, as that would be too boring. I'm going to bet that they visited the Origin. I have absolutely no substantial evidence, but just wanted to come up with the crackpot theory of the day.

There's a difference between light manipulation and straight-up laser beams of death. It takes an enormous amount of power to create a sustained, viable laser. I'd imagine that Lightweavers may be able to use it in a truly desperate situation, but that the stormlight consumption would be too high for viable use.

Kaladin should have Syl turn into a Nokia 3310. He'd be unstoppable!

No, they interfered with Kaladin's. Remember the shardhelm boxing glove? It repaired itself by sucking Kaladin's stormlight

How about our antisocial heroes? Or oblivious Dalinar? I expect this trend to continue, especially with Sadeas being murdered and Kaladin killing Helaran (not to mention going back to Hearthstone). I also fully expect Dalinar to keep misunderstanding what he's being told (he was never told to lead the Radiants).

The big question mark with Radiant power levels in relation to the Voidbringers is the ability of surges to work directly on Voidbringers. How invested are they (the Voidbringers)? Will Lashings work on them? Can they be soulcast? Or set on fire and exploded via abrasion/division? Or melted into goop by cohesion? Or turned into stone (or at least made very, very brittle) by tension? Can abrasion increase their mechanical friction to the point at which they become immobile? Or can they actively negate surges? For all we know, they can counter illusions, sound blasts, incineration, cohesion, and long-distance soulcasting (among other things). Also, do they have their own shardblades/plate? I find this highly likely because of their relationship with Odiumspren. Can the unmade actively battle? How powerful are the ten deaths? Will the heralds return? What other forms will the voidbringers take, and how can the Radiants fight against them? There are too many wildcards for us to simply trust in the ability of surgebinders to beat back voidbringer cannon fodder. What we've seen is only an unreliable glimpse of the true abilities of Radiants and Voidbringers.

When you have thousands of radiants, even more squires, and the 10 heralds fighting an army of voidbringers, that luxury exists. When you have possibly 20 radiants (of which at least 2 or 3 aren't able fighters), about a thousand or so squires, maybe a hundred non-radiant and non-squire shardbearers, and hopefully a single herald fighting the same (or an even stronger) army of voidbringers, there simply won't be enough radiantpower to limit the responsibility of fighting to certain orders.

If anything, some of the radiant orders are looking vastly underpowered. I just don't see how Lightweavers, Elsecallers, Truthwatchers, and possibly Edgedancers and Willshapers will make effective fighters. In traditional desolations, each group had the luxury of a well-formulated battle plan with defined roles and hundreds of other radiants. Because of how few radiants there are, nearly every member will need to fight on the front lines, which does not look doable. With this desolation, there simply won't be the radiantpower to fight back.

I'm perfectly OK with no vampires. Seriously, even "Vampires Suck" sucked... I'm voting Midnight Essence... because of reasons (actually, I'm picking them for agility).

What if Aluminum acts as a Stormlight Sponge? I hypothesize that normal aluminum behaves the same (more or less) as other metals when not infused with stormlight, but has perfect stormlight retention and gains incredible qualities when infused. Maybe?

I think that it'll be a 3-way confrontation in Kholinar between Kaladin, Vasher, and Szeth (four-way if you count Nightblood). The question is why Szeth will go after Kaladin (which he probably will). I think that he'll either go completely loony after killing the Stone Shamans or (more likely?) will be told to kill Kaladin by Nalan. Or maybe Blightwind (Yelig-Nar) will start influencing him... I also agree that Vasher will not "get" Nightblood anytime soon (if at all).

Fantasy/Magic Rule 2: If you don't have the body of the target, the target isn't dead. Fantasy/Magic Rule 3: Even if you have the body, cut off the head and skewer the brain. Otherwise, the target will likely return to life. By Rule 2, Eshonai is alive. Jasnah and Szeth both fit in Rule 3. I suspect that Jasnah is still alive because her brain was intact. From the time of her stabbing to Shallan sinking the ship, she was likely still alive enough to elsecall out of there.

1) I'm assuming that Szeth attacks Kaladin. If he doesn't, Szeth will likely keep Nightblood. 2) Kaladin has had interactions with Vasher, Nightblood's creator. It's logical to think that he will get Nightblood (which will earn Vasher's respect). 3) I'm still shipping Nightblood and Syl, and I think that Nighblood will leave Szeth during the confrontation (if there is one).