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Well, he's a cat, so he kind of already does those things. Oh, the nightmare that would ensue if he actually had access to surges.

Oh, you thought you knew Kaladin already? Not my new kitten, Kaladin.

Oh, definitely it will take more than just that one event. But I think that will certainly be the catalyst. As for Ialai, I don't know if she'll immediately suspect Adolin. I doubt that anyone will, if he keeps it secret (and I'm sure he will--for a time). However, her husband's death will spur her to action, and I think that she will prove to be more dangerous than Adolin et al had ever imagined. I don't think Adolin would be a primary target for assassination. Elhokar and Dalinar would be more likely. Regardless, I believe that she will reveal herself to be more than someone with a strong network of hired killers. As soon as she realizes that Sadeas is gone, she'll probably step in and start playing the same games he did, likely to even more devastating effect. And that will definitely make Adolin feel really guilty. He'll already be full of conflicted feelings about killing Sadeas, and as soon as he sees that Ialai just stepped up to fill the same role, the excuse that he keeps trying to comfort himself with--that Sadeas had to be taken out, for the good of all Roshar--will seem very holow.

"Less" is definitely correct--not a typo. The spren from before Tanavast's death were Splinters that he (probably) intentionally broke from his Shard. However, when Rayse killed him, his Shard was seriously Splintered, so now there are tons of spren running around. I doubt that this is news to you, Blaze. I'm guessing that it's the "with minds" part that is causing you to wonder. Although there is the suggestion that a bond is necessary to give the spren a mind, I don't think that this applies to all types of spren. Wyndle had a mind of some sort before he was bonded. Knowing what we do about Splinters, it is pretty unlikely that there would be all of the pieces of the Shard drifting about that never gain sapience. Also, I think that this reveals that there are probably a ton of nascent Nahel bonds out there that we don't know about.

I suspect Ialai will become a big problem, too. And that will probably fuel Adolin's guilt, when he begins to feel that killing Sadeas didn't accomplish anything. I understand the viewpoint that it wasn't altogether honorable to dispatch Sadeas as Adolin did, but the situation is kind of like the classic idea of using a time machine to go back and kill Hitler. It would probably be really hard to find Hitler being an immediate threat to anyone, but he still caused the death of millions. Sadeas wouldn't intentionally commit a genocide, of course, but his meddling, if successful, would derail preparations for the Desolation and have the same effect (and his intentions are bad enough to condemn him, anyhow, without worrying about the unintended disaster he would cause). I suspect that Adolin killing Sadeas will be very important for his character, though. I always thought people made too much of the "broken" requirement for Radiants. I got the impression that Syl was talking about the human condition in general, not saying that Radiants had to be particularly broken people. However, I recently read a WoB indicating that there must be gaps in people's spiritwebs that allow Investiture to get in and fuel their various powers. That makes me think that I was mistaken. If so, Adolin needs something like this to break his spirit a bit and give the bond a place to take root.

I don't have my book in front of me to double-check, but it seems like the articles have some things confused. For one thing, Temoo is listed on Galladon's page as one of his aliases. I'm pretty sure that one belongs to Demoux. In fact, I don't think Temoo and Vao (for Baon) are actually aliases at all. Ishikk thinks that they're using false names, sure, but I believe that they're using their real names with each other. Hoid already knows they're chasing him, and they're on a totally different planet than any of the 3 different worlds they come from. However, because those names are from languages that are unfamiliar to the Purelaker (and the interlude is his POV), we see them written as he hears them. Maybe I'm confused about this, but I really don't think so.

I don't know. I think that Windrunners probably would object to how Adolin killed Sadeas, but I'm not 100% certain. Was that really dishonorable? I mean, Sadeas presented a serious threat to the lives of individuals, to their country, and to all of Roshar. However, he was a crafty little snake. He was clever enough to never present the kind of threat that his society would accept as grounds for taking him on. This is a guy who openly tells people that he's going to ruin their lives, engineer multiple deaths, and continue to have no regard whatsoever for the value of anyone's life. But he'll never do that with a sword in his hand. It seems odd to me that so many people are so hard on Adolin for killing him. I think Adolin will be haunted by it, and I wouldn't say it was the ideal way to do it, but what's the alternative? Let him continue to kill people and ruin preparations for a coming apocalyptic event, just hoping to trick him into doing something that he wriggle out of?

And yet, there are orders that would judge that Adolin killing Sadeas was the right thing to do.

I thought Durn was really suspicious, myself, when I last read Mistborn. I'd say he's definitely not Hoid, but he could be some other worldhopper.

I think that the Set creating Mistborn with Hemalurgy is automatically a really big problem.

Personally, I'm glad we're only getting one more Nalthis book. Warbreaker was interesting enough, but it's not my favorite Cosmere book. All I care about is a little bit about the adventures Vivenna and Vasher, a lot more about Nightblood and the Scholars' history, and how it is that Vasher started worldhopping. At this point, the Cosmeric momentum is steadily building, with the books getting more and more in-depth about its workings. One more Nalthis book could continue the trend, but I don't see a whole lot of potential for an extended series there to serve the overall Cosmere narrative.

I would like to point out that Kaladin doesn't really fit the Windrunners, himself (that is, not throughout the entire story). He has to grow as a person and internalize the ideals before he can truly achieve Radiancy. Sometimes, as with parts of his arc in WoR, his behavior is directly in opposition to the ideals he should be following as a Windrunner. That direct opposition to the ideals is a part of his character development. So when one finds Adolin behaving in ways that seem wrong for any order in particular, that could just as well be evidence for him eventually joining that order as evidence against.

I agree with you to a certain extent, but as I mentioned before, there is a component to his power that understands moral judgments. He may not understand evil, but those who are not evil are not tempted by him. Whatever the reason for this is, he would certainly come to understand it as soon as he picked up a Shard, and that would inform his moral compass.

See, I don't think that the Shattering was caused by the death of Adonalsium's holder. I think Adonalsium was already dead, and that's why (s)he/it was shattered. Obviously, we have so little information right now that I'm willing to reverse this position at the drop of a hat, but...

I think the Cognitive expansion he experienced from picking up the Shard would give him an idea of what evil is. Even in his current state, while he can't differentiate between good and evil, something about his power can, as he has no effect on the pure of heart. If his mind was expanded by holding a Shard, I'm sure that he would be able to tap into that.

Doesn't Harmony need at least two spikes to control a person/creature, though? The foreign god metal spike doesn't count. He can't use it. Or am I remembering how it works wrong?

I was ignoring this thread because I didn't recognize the title as "Nightblood" + "Odium" and thought it was some bizarre musing on Nightblood having a Scadrian god metal or something. I was not interested in such a theory. This, however, I am quite interested in. Even if it's not altogether accurate, you have to be on the right track. Nightblood holding Odium solves some major problems. I am pretty sure that Nightblood's directive to destroy evil would combine with Odium's intent to create a Shard that hates evil and tries to destroy it. Note: I don't think Odium would overwhelm Nightblood's mind the way Ruin did Ati's. I think Nightblood's Command is very much like a Shard's intent and should work well with one, as long as they do not oppose each other. Plus, I think that a simpler mind would be easier to get to work in accordance with a Shard's intent than a complicated human one. Ati was like, "I like walks on the beach, and puppies, and the color green, and being nice to children, and tomato soup, and I get annoyed when my fishing lines tangle, and I don't really like carrots, and..." and Ruin was just like, "No. Break everything into it's smallest pieces." Nightblood, on the other hand is just like, "I destroy evil." Period. Odium is like, "Well, I'm disgusted with everything. Let's hate evil together."

You know, I don't entirely remember. I'd been going through something of a reading dry spell and hadn't read much recently. This was 2010. Then Game of Thrones debuted, so I went ahead and read ASoIaF. Of course, I wanted something else to read after that. I'm not sure how I ended up on Mistborn, but I read and thoroughly enjoyed the series, having no idea what the Cosmere was, at the time. I didn't pick up the Wheel of Time then, though I was interested. But when A Dance with Dragons came out, and I saw people online saying that its drudgery was far preferable to later WoT books, I was scared away. Now, I did pick up The Eye of the World in January of 2014 and finished A Memory of Light 40 days later. And I've re-read the series twice since then. I'd say that Mistborn is largely responsible (more so than ASoIaF) for the dedication to high fantasy that lead me to be so into the Cosmere and WoT. I honestly don't remember how I heard about Mistborn, though, and I wish I did. It had to be an Amazon recommendation or something.

There's a thread in the Stormlight forum, so why not here? At the end of the first trilogy, Ruin has just about won, but or heroes are defiant. Manchester Orchestra's "Virgin" really reminds me of that atmosphere (and it mentions rust): https://youtu.be/fKgSs0MQ270

Here are the Liar of Partinel sample chapters: http://brandonsanderson.com/drafts/warbreaker/LiarPt12.doc

I want Ray Stevenson to play Sebarial.

I've been thinking that there's something odd about the way geography limits ( Kurt doesn't limit) the magic systems on Sel. The Dakhor monks' powers seem to work pretty well when they're far from home. Maybe Dominion-based powers work differently than Devotion-based ones? I'm pretty sure I remember something about ChayShan drawing on the Dor, but that may have just been what the characters believed. I don't know of any relevant WoB, but I'm sure there's something out there.

I just can't imagine that it isn't supposed to be a Parshendi. It seems so obvious to me. No, that's not exactly how I imagine that Parshendi look, but it is a drawing based on a description from a disturbed adventurer who barely got a look at it. So there are no gems in the beard, and the markings are symmetrical in a way that Parshendi's probably are not. It's not like the subject sat for a portrait. I bet this is going to turn into a Who Killed Asmodean thing. It was supposed to be obvious, but since no one got it, Brandon's not gonna tell us. And let me tell you, I am gonna be so mad if we find out that it was totally a Parshendi like 20 years from now.

I already said this in the "Classic Trell" thread, but I believe that the Trell from Trellism is indeed Bavadin (well, I didn't name him, but that's the Shard I was thinking of), and he intentionally distorted the Trell of classic Trelagism because he doesn't like the real Trell. And Trell is just a worldhopper, not a Shardholder, but he seeded religions around the Cosmere based on the idea of two gods, with one who isn't worthy of worship. My idea is that he is motivated to do this because he is from Bavadin's planet and was disturbed when he discovered his god to be evil.

My theory is that Trell was/is a worldhopping missionary, of sorts. I have the notion that he seeded religions that involve two gods--one who is petty and/or foolish and another who is actually worthy of worship. I think that his motivation is that the Shard on his homeworld was one of the "bad guy" Shards, and he discovered its true nature and was disillusioned. However, after hearing about the God Beyond and such, he was inspired to teach people belief systems that allow for your god to end up being a jerk and things can still be okay. Also, its a sort of revenge on his Shard, as the religions he seeded subtly reference him as the evil god. So people all around the Cosmere indirectly dislike the Shard. Now, that is only for Trelagism. I'd wager that the new Trell religion was founded through the influence of the Shard from Trell's homeworld or one of his minions. Why start a new religion when he can corrupt one that was set up to troll him?