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I believe it is confirmed via WoB, though I would have to locate it, that that is because Kaladin was already bonding Syl, he just hadn't spoken the oaths yet. In Gavilar's case, the stormfather had sent him the visions, and Gavilar had been on the path, but had not started to bond the stormfather yet.

Nope. I wrote my thoughts. You wrote yours. I disagree. Good luck with your theory. To each their own.

I disagree. But to each their own.

I do not think it is, but as we have no information showing in either direction, to each their own.

I am not sure that would work. Aons need an elantrian and intent. Aons created into a material for activation still have to be activated by an elantrian. Theoretically you could create and activate an aon to create another aon, but that new aon that was created could not activate on its own, and could not create another aon. Based on my understand that is. Isn't that theoretically already nightblood since he does not know what evil is? And the question could be what is everything, and why is nightblood 2 exempt? What is different about everything else from nightblood 2 for it to know to destroy? Basically how does it differentiate everything from itself? Do you mean awaken a hemalurgic spike? If so, I believe we have WoB that that would not work.

I agree. I will spoiler my response because I am not sure how much it may give away, so might as well just respond without any reservation and spoiler the whole thing

On the path does not mean bonding. I will need a moment but I will update with the corresponding WoB. So as shown below, Gavilar was not bonded to the Stormfather when he received the visions like Dalinar. So although he was on the path longer than Dalinar, Gavilar did not end up bonding him like Dalinar did. Now having said that, I do know and acknowledge you were saying it might be a semi-passive effect. I don't think it was, but that is just my own opinion. Questioner The visions Dalinar gets in WoK always struck me as odd – you don’t just look at the past, you are able to act within this experience. Now we know that Gavilar was also on the way to being a Bondsmith – was he acting in a different way? Were the visions only basically the same but different in the end depending on the personal reactions? Is this something like a test? Brandon Sanderson He did see the same visions. They were the same thing. But… I will say that his reaction to them were very different from Dalinar’s reactions to them. Anyway it was difficult for the Stormfather without a bond to determine/to tell the difference between very easily. When Spren are bonded, they gain a lot more ability to understand the world around then, so you’ll find out soon more stuff about this in the third book. Leipzig Book Fair (March 24, 2017)

Maybe that her body grows and matures, but she does not? But Cultivation also has the Nightwatcher grant boons and curses to understand humanity better. Perhaps she made her separate so the Nightwatcher would not be especially influenced by any one person? Not sure that necessarily means Rock is no longer around. I think this may be a sign that radiant recruitment has definitely increased in the pass year. At least to me. What I think is also interesting about this is we now know at least 3 viewpoints that most did not expect to come up. Navani, Jasnah, and Lift. I do not feel this excerpt is an interlude. We do know Jasnah and Navani won't get many viewpoints, but they definitely will have some. This makes me think the characters that will have greater prominence in the back five are slowly being expanded as we get to the end of the front five to better set them up.

I don't know whether or not a non-physical spren could be trapped in aluminum. I also do not know if a spren manifesting as a shardblade would be trapped in an aluminum box. Let me see if there are any WoB on it.

In that case, then a larkin to eat all the stormlight, then soulcast a body cast of aluminum that is attached to the ground. No hands to grab a shardblade or manipulate it. No space to manifest shardplate. Muzzle I think would be a good additional idea. Getting it off is now no longer a problem as per Booknerd. So soulcasting bindings without a means of opening them is viable now to me. I believe the idea he or she is going for is the physical property of being an atom thick would allow it to physically cut the aluminum. Not phase through. Regarding aluminum, shardblades operate as normal swords. You can still break or dent aluminum with a shardblade depending on the durability of the aluminum and the force used behind the shardblade. WoB support that

The edge would be. The question would be could a spren manifest a portion of themselves physically on the physical plane to be thinner than an atom to cut between them. I do not think they can. But nothing explicitly say they cannot.

Then I guess the question I would pose to you since you are the architect of this scenario is does the radiant being held have to be kept healthy and whole, or does the means swordnimi mentioned are allowable/on the table? Same thing with karger. Because if that is the case, then holding a radiant becomes much easier.

Lol, so I was operating on the premise that you would want to hold them as prisoner for judgement or such so mutilating the captive would not be preferable. But sure you could do all of that, and assuming you don't wait too long, all of it could be healed back to normal so they could appear for trial. Though I am pretty sure that would fall under cruel and unusual punishment lol.

Potentially. It might matter at what oath the captive radiant is when the spiking occurs. Theoretically the individual could bond another spren since the bond was forcibly ripped away, and the captive didn't technically break any of his or her oaths. The healing from regrowth would restore the person back to bondable status I believe. So the captive radiant may not even need to rebond the original spren. Not writing this to say you are wrong or right. Just thinking on the concepts.

That does raise an interesting question. In order to do that, you have to rip the bond out of them. WoB say that if you do that, the spren can still choose to voluntarily end the bond. That potentially would then leave the spren free to rebond the radiant.

I know there is a WoB that states there is a limit to how big a shardblade could get. This lends me to believe there is a limit to how small, but I do not believe there is anything explcit stating so. If theoretically a sprenblade could get that thin, then I do not think there is a way to hold a radiant.

Last I checked, a sprenblade and shardblade are not an atom thick (if you recall where it is said, please let me know. i love learning new things). It is the magical nature of the blade that it cuts through anything via phasing through the object. Not determinant on thickness. The blade can also get caught in what it is cutting if you pause. So if I were to make a slice in a wall, but did not follow fully through, the blade could get jammed in the wall. Dalinar speaks of this in the novel.

In order to hold the radiant, the aluminum would have to be alloyed with a metal to be strong enough to prevent that. If it was possible for tools to break the bindings, then the radiant could have the spren turn into that tool and break it themselves. So the bindings would have to be resistant to breakage. edit: I think in order to hold a radiant, you would need a few things 1. deprive them of stormlight 2. have bindings that cannot be cut by a shardblade 3. having bindings that cannot be opened via the spren transforming into a tool to break or object to open (key) 4. (assuming you are holding them legally), the means of holding them has to be ethical

True, though unless you intend to now let the radiant go, you would either have to give them stormlight to heal and survive the procedure without them losing their arms which would risk them using their powers to escape, or only allow an edgedancer/truthwatcher already holding stormlight in their body (not in gemstones), to heal the radiant while you melt the chains. It could be considered cruel and unusual. All just so you could theoretically move the radiant from one prison location to another.

I think it depends on the investiture of the person sacrificed. There is an annotations or WoB where Brandon was asked about the 50 people sacrificed needed to make a dakhor monk. Brandon explained it was using the investiture in those people's souls. So I think theoretically, in order for the Dakhor to teleport using any old people, they would need to sacrifice a lot more people than one Dakhor monk. That they used the dakhor monk for expediency sake. edit: correction, 50 to become immune to the Dor Tsidqiyah On Sel. It costs about 50 sacrifices to become immune to Aons. Is that number essential? Or if someone with 50 Breath was sacrificed...? Brandon Sanderson That number is not essential. But you would have to hack the magic system. You need that much Investiture. So, 50 peoples' souls worth. But if you knew how to hack the magic, Breath could substitute there pretty easily. Arcanum Unbounded release party (Nov. 22, 2016)

Still a lot we don't know to be sure. We don't know how shardplate for a radiant works. Does it require stormlight to summon? Does it require stormlight to maintain? If so, then a larkin eating all the stormlight so the radiant has nothing to draw on, coupled with thick strong aluminum chains should hold the radiant. The only issue that comes into play there, is the locking mechanism. If you soulcast the chains, and do not leave a locking mechanism, then there is no way to remove the chains, as aluminum is supremely hard to soulcast into anything else. If you include a locking mechanism, you have to worry about the radiant seeing what the key looks like, and using the shardblade shaped as the key to open it. So theoretically another type of locking mechanism would need to be employed. I would need to investigate what would be possible in that vein. edit: of course! use a combination lock. Just would need a way to hide the code from the radiant and spren observing when opening and closing it.

Fabrials are still limited in what they can do. They can do one thing, and do that one thing well. Radiants are not as limited. So I do not think they would become useless in a magitech society that is coming. I would like to see technology develop that could counter radiant abilities, but that does not mean the radiants would become useless. Anti aircraft may be able to windrunners a run for their money, and maybe skybreakers as well (we don't know if skybreakers can use division at range or not), but there is still 8 other orders with different abilities that you will need counters for as well. I think it would make more sense that technology, fabrials, and radiants are used side by side on either side of a conflict, than purely one against the other.

I think the quote speaks for itself. To each their own.

Way of Kings page 384 Bridge Four hand been called out on a bridge run today. Thankfully, they'd arrived before the Parshendi, and none of the bridge crews had lost any men. Things hadn't gone so well for the regular Alethi troops. The Alethi line had eventually buckled before the Parshendi assault, and the bridge crews had been forced to lead a tired, angry, and defeated troop of soldiers back to camp.

I'm in the process of re-reading Way of Kings during my full re-read in preparation for Rhythm of War. They don't specifically mention a percentage or number of times who got there first (though if you give me time, I could list the number of times specifically mentioned where we see them arrive prior to the parsh or after). The things they do mention is the location referred to as the "Tower" as being the furthest point. That it is closest to the Parshendi so they tend to get there first. Otherwise it depends on who spots the chrysalis first, who is closest, and who can get there the fastest. Also the Alethi getting there first does not guarantee victory. Kaladin mentions during one run that it was good for the bridgemen, because they got there first, but bad for the soldiers because the parsh were able to push them off when they arrived after.