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A WoK personalization from Brandon about Syl
DreamEternal replied to Battar's topic in Stormlight Archive
Awesome. Maybe it will become her nom de guerre after she and Kaladin becone more famous. -
Even then, someone so close to Gavilar he told him his visions? No, I'd rather believe his dullness was always an act. At least before the random intelect thing.
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But forming a world spanning conspiracy with wi-fi and air travels is much harder? Cause here in Earth rich old men don't become shadow dictators in a couple of years.
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Sorry but... Why?I mean, he is running out of deeply personal plot-points, having only the reunion with his parents. He isn't the de-facto head of the most powerful nation in Alethkar. He didn't recently kill a very powerful man in a fit of rage and now must deal with the consequences. He didn't get recruited into one of Roshar's many conspiracies. Why shouldn't he be rotated out of the spotlight, since this series explores worldchanging events that affect many more people and does not lack interesting characters to take some of his space?
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Paired Shards and Honour's Opposite
DreamEternal replied to Jo and the Bush's topic in Cosmere Discussion
Odium+Autonomy+Endowment=Chaos?EDIT: but Harmony is not the intent/mandate of Sazed's double shard. It is just a fancy God-name he took for himself for being the merging of two fundamentaly opposed primal forces. -
Makes me wonder how he has spy network that is so big and competent. I think he probably was already a spymaster of sorts for a long time before the Diagram, and helped Gavilar's unification of Alethkar. Sadeas was probably just kept around for when they needed a "visible" spymaster to cut deals and intimidate enemies, but the real work was done in Kharbrant.
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I just have to say that it does not "excuse" their actions as something that is not negative and has to be stoped and/or prevented. It is just that "evil", destructive actions are seem more like symptoms of a diacease, and the person who did the actions as either a patient or a plague victim that unfortunately must be isolated before it spreads, not a villain.
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True. Still, Sanderson is guilty of having mostly clear-cut good/evil in his stories, even if not as much as others. I myself prefer the idea of mostly good or decent people becoming enemies by force of circunstance.
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No. It was an accidental comparison.Maxal: Szeth has the choice to kill or deny all he ever believed. The hypothetical survivor has the choice to die or betray a cultural taboo. I'd say Szeth has less of a choice. EDIT: Of course, not saying he shouldn't have simply gotten over it and abandoned his sword and stone, just that it wouldn't be as easy as some think. I think most people would do as Szeth did if they were raised in Shinovar, at least at first. It takes a exceptional kind of person, and not in a good way, to go as far as he did before giving up. Also: as a determinist I sometimes have a hard time understanding people talking about who is to blame, and shifting blame away from him and etc. In my mind, it is always the universe's fault. Szeth is just a weak alloy, so to speak. I think I said in other thread he shouldn't be a Radiant because he is the personification of "Weakness before strenght". But that only means he is pathetic, not evil or deserving of any non-simbolic punishment that does not have the primary goal of making people safe or forcing him to make some sort of service towards society. My ideal ending for a Szeth redemption scenary would be a life of isolation dedicated to meditation and service.
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I think Nale will try to make Szeth his squire instead of a true Radiant if Heralds can have squires. That way, his honorary Skybreakers aren't real Radiants, and if Szeth tries to use Nightblood against him, he dies.
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True. To give an exemple of how Szeth may feel like, imagine you are isolated in the mountains after an accident you were the only survivor of, and the only way of surviving was eating the corpses of those who died. Some would do so and be happy that at least there was a way to survive, while others would prefer death. Szeth is the second, only instead of dying himself, it is killing others, and instead of cannibalism, it is violating all his beliefs in a much, much deeper level. Edit: real-life events similar to this may have happened, but any paralels are not intentional.
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Why Hoid?
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I don't remember he ever being happy. The happy obligator was the one who became a bureocrate in Elend's government after the fall of the Lord Ruler.
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Dustbringers were both brave and obedient. They wouldn't jump of the isle just because they could, that would make them all suicidal.I believe facing your fears is part of the Dustbringer path, but it is more like acomplishing their mission despite how afraid they are. In this case, Rysn would be an ideal candidate. Although I would prefer if she didn't become a surgebinder. It would be nice to have an important character who has a big physical disability, like being unable to use one's legs EDIT: Dubtbringers. I wonder if my phone wanted me to write Debt, Doubt or Duty. Now I wonder what oaths a Debtbringer would swear, and why Doubtbringers are so terrifying to face. And if Bondsmiths and Dutybringers are the same order.
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Lets just say we disagree and not derail this even further, please? Edit: unsure why I quoted Maxal.
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Honestly, if the Breath-to-spiritweb trick works as I think, you could just design your custom magic system in a way much more efficient than any natural system.
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The Ars Arcanum says the kandra use hemalurgy. While most seem to believe it only means they are hemalurgic creatures, it could also be implying Harmony allows his main servants to make use of the Dark Art. I don't really beieve this theory of mine is true, but it is worth considering.
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True. If someone is openly not giving you answers, it is because they don't want to lie, and if they don't want to lie, they are at least half-honest when they tell you something. Half-joking aside, I agree.
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Yes, I was aware of that. It is just that... Well, I am somewhat of a determinist. I don't have an easy time with the idea of anyone being truly responsible for their actions, for good or ill.The idea of punishment as something that must happen to someone because they did something wrong also disturbs me slightly. I guess my notions of right and wrong are not fully... aligned with those of most people. At least before you look into a deeper level, since mist differences are more about hiw I see things than any possible alieness of my nature. Still, I wouldn't have Szeth be praised or openly forgiven, or have all the destruction he caused forgotten. That would be only empty disregard for those who died and those who were affected by their deaths, and I still am against that. That is why I think a life of silent isolation and service would be best. It would cause the least suffering for all involved, as long as no one torments themselves because he didn't die.
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I think Brandon said there was no magic involved.Plus, the whole point of Szeth's character is the question of how much of our actions are our responsability and how far our cultures can force us to go. Making it so that he had some magical compulsion takes all of his uniqueness away and makes him much less polarizing and interedsing. And I say it as someone who does not fully believe in free-will, but still sees how much it would cheapen his character to make his choices affected directly by supernatural sources.
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Truth to be told, I don't really see it as a punishment, since I think only through a life of isolation, service and meditation he would be able to find some semblance of inner peace. Maybe.
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What I meant was something more inbetween, actualy. I don't want him to be friends with the New Orders and fight by their side. But IF he changes his mindset in a way he is no longer a danger, any form of punishment besides something like imprisionment and isolation from society would be unnecessary in my eyes. The ideal ending for a Szeth redemption scenary in my opinion would be if after the world is no longer ending he willingly let himself be imprisioned in a lone cell in Urithiru and became a hermit scholar of sorts dedicating his time to meditation and study in the hope of doing a service towards the world he almost destroyed. Edit: I also don't want him to become a true Radiant. Not because I think he is evil or something, but because he is the epitome of "Weakness before strenght".
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Where's WalDo: The Kandra Worldhopper
DreamEternal replied to Kobold King's topic in Cosmere Discussion
Well, according to my own theory, the voidspren is already gone. Now there are only his hundreds of personal issues. -
Happy inquisitor? I think you mean dutiful obligator. He was neither happy nor a hemalurgic construct.
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The interesting think about Breaths is that they can store information in the form of commands, which means they can be shaped by intent in a limited way. I wonder if this could be explored in a way that shaped the breath into a fake spiritweb fragment of sorts, so you could have something like Hemalurgy, but more flexible, safe, reversible and with no bloody corpses and less torn souls . Unless you make lifeless into a Koloss
