DreamEternal

Since parshendi, as well as many of Roshar native lifeforms, need to bond to spren, I would assume their spiritwebs already come with a spren shaped hole.

How about going back to simplier things, like pure Adhesion? Perhaps it could be used to lower air resistence, hold a crumbling object together, or to explode things in an inverse full lashing of expanding air.

Vasher?

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Vin?

We should start a new thread about possible advanced uses for surges and return this thread to whatever it was supposed to be about, shouldn't we?

While I know you are joking about the teacher in the mountains, I believe there are advanced "lashings", like perhaps using Adhesion to lower air resistence while flying, or suddenly changing air pressure to create an explosion of expanding air in a reverse full lashing?

It would only work if the Knight Radiant had broken his oaths. Plus, maybe lifeless can't bond Shardblades, since the bond happens at the level of the soul/spiritweb, and maybe a breath does not count as enough of a soul to work.

So the listener songs are lying, the everstorm is not something new, and it dissipated before being able to go around the world and colide with the highstorm somewhere else? Seems too overcomplicated and confusing, even for Sanderson.

Topomouse got it

There is a parshendi song that says it is possible to blend the surges of Men to theirs, and it has happened before. This points towards the theory that the parshendi bonded with surgespren in the past, perhaps because of a pact with Honor and Cultivation that they would gain powers so long as they helped humans adapt to Roshar, becoming the dawnsingers. Sadly, after humanity was ready, and the dawncities built, the surgespren started to bond humans, and left the parshendi with their old forms. Them Odium came. As additional, very doubtful and circunstantial evidence, there is the fact that both dawnsingers and voidbringers are believed to be some sort of spren by most of the rosharan populacy.

In general I believe the following rule may make the first oath easier to understand: Killing may be right, if it follows the idea of "Journey before destination" and is the only alternative, or if highter level oaths demand it. Not killing never breaks the first oath, but may break the others depending on their nature.

Shallan can attach illusions to pattern. I assume that if Lightweavers had squires they could do the same to them.

That, it doens't make much sense since Syl did kill Szeth in the original edition, wich was changed for characterization issues, not worldbuilding. Unless you believe, like I theorized before Peter gave us a hint, that being killed and ressurected restored Szeths sanity. Also, nowhere it says it is Kaladins blade what is doing the healing, or Szeth is the one who has his soul healed. All in all, I believe that a living spren heals his radiant soul, or at least holds it together, while an honorblade just breaks it further. Perhaps a regular dead sprenblade also breaks its wielder's soul?

Wait, so he basicaly comfirmed "Taln" was carrying a honorblade?

No, but it was a good one.

I wonder what would happen if the Stormfather let Dalinar use him as a blade. Would it only work during a highstorm? Would Dalinar be able to control the highstorms? Would he have acess to all stormlight of the highstorms? If he could be called between highstorms, would it affect highsrorms somehow? Summon the highstorm? Temporaly take away the highstorm stormlight?

Heat diminishing fabrials so you can simply build things with permanent ice, wich would be cheaper than soulcasting everything. Of course, it has to be planned in a way that the highstorm doens't make the structure so heavy it breaks before the extra ice can be removed. Also, I wonder if gemstones covered in ice can absorv stormilight, since spheres covered in glass ca do it.

Maybe all the breaths just condensed into a sentient, vaguely sprenlike, splinter locked in blade form. Seems more likely than acidentaly binding a worldhopping spren to a blade.

I am a shadow, of the dark winter wind born, I am a warrior, fighting for glory and life I am a failure, lieing to myself about my sin, But the whispers, unheard, watch me, So I lied, to reveal the truth unseem. So I failed, bringing us to the brink. So the warrior, punished me for my sin. So I punished he who did win. And now I regret it, and seek to learn. But I was rejected, and the whispers died unheard. Now I am failing at each step along the run. But I will keep running, till I reach the sun Cause the storm has come.

Nalan used a healing fabrial of sorts when healing Szeth, so it being his blade is out. I believe he meant that surgebinding from a living spren(like in a radiant or fabrial) can heal a soul, while an honorblade can't. Another possibility is that when a sprenblade kills, it also repairs the soul, perhaps removing Odious influence? Like, kill a voidbringer with a living shardblade and the voidspren bonded to it is destroyed? Nalan said that Szeth was reborn, and he did seem somewhat sanner to me, altough not much. And I don't like the idea if the unmade making Szeth evil, since it takes much of the tragedy of him destroying himself because his faithfullnes and honor conflited with his compassion when they could have been virtues if he was not made truthless Edit: Ninja-ed by Peter! Interesting. Maybe it means that honorblades also need a broken soul, or even break the soul themselves to give surgebinding, but while a spren can also help hold the broken soul together or even heal it, honorblades may only make it worse. I actually like it, Szeth having his soul broken further by his own Blade, both by the killing and by the power itself he used to kill. Way better than "Odium did it".

Nice theory But how the hell would a spren show up in Nalthis? And why it would enter a sword just as Vasher awakened it? I do believe that nightblood wasn't created by regular awakening, but I doubt it involved spren or some weird offworld magic loophole, just a weird magic loophole.

It is said by the stormfather that the everstorm would come periodicaly like an highstorm, but less frequently, so it is slower. Plus, the way the plains originaly shattered doens't fit with the collision of storms, wich threw plateaus into the sky, something very diferent from turning stone to dust along weakened lines and blowing it away. And the listener songs say that it wasn't their gods who shattered the plains. In general, I believe it is quite unlikely the breaking of the plains was caused by the storms. Plus, the stormfather says the Everstorm is something new, and Hoid says this desolation is not like the others.

I honestly doubt Hoid would give away his lightweaving so Kaladin could have a flute, so I think it just has great sentimental value to him. Mayyyybe it has some other power, but there is no evidence of it.

Them I see it diferently. I belief that killing first, them dealing with what happens is a greater infraction than letting a criminal go to avoid risking greater damage. "Life before death" is part of "Journey before destination" and essential to understanding it to me, while you see both as separeted ideas, where the latter takes precedence. To make things clearer, killing people to collect their death rattles is against the first oath, but NOT killing the ghostbloods because they have information is not.