Michael Portz

*headscratch* ... well ... I mean ... Adolin was THERE quite some of the time of the Blackthorn and had to live through it. He must have KNOWN at least some of the dark aspects of his dearly loved and venerated father.

The interaction of all involved, its quality, the deep deep affection for each other, the insights they all have of each others personalities ... it should not have suprised me but it did and it left me positively speechless.

Yes, of course we have in Chapter 2 3 FIVE *god...m* FIVE(!!): Edited: Ok, further reading shows this already was discussed, so ignore at will :-) But count me in the camp of "Fused have Aluminium Confirmed".

I think, @Karger is talking about a different kind of blindness (Odiums presumed blindness towards Venlis spren) than @Blightsong (Odiums presumed blindness towards Venli herself). Or? But of course Odium distinguished Venli by preventing the Fused to take her.

Or e.g. cutting up gall or kidney stones, cleaning your arteries of atherothrombosis ... lots of good to be done for a –moreover intelligent!– tool like a sylspel ... and thus the name of the 6th SA book now is obvious: "Emergency Room Roshar - The Manual"

Each to his/her own. Heroes journey is all fine when analyzing a story afterwards; but it tends to spoil it for me while reading. I prefer thinking/feeling "What an admirably feat of my beloved <insert hero name here>!" over "Yeah, of course! Brandon needed to revive <insert hero name here> right at this moment because of heroes journey." anytime. Thinking too much about possible constructs used by an author leaves me sometimes without wonder. That is usually the moment I stop reading/watching the story. Happens way too often. Peace!

So your answer to the poll would be "Yes" or "YESSSSS" ???

I am quite sure this is where Kaladin story is heading. Are you too?

There is too much discussion of Brandon's intention or literary tropes or the hero's journey for my taste. Let us trust in Brandon in that everything will explain out of the story itself.

Naaa, he got his copy of "Mistborn: Secret History" finally ...

The part of "relieving him from his duties" brought tears to my eyes. Dalinar is a tough bastard, but he is right. Quite sure we 'll see one of the others speak the 4th ideal now.

*ROTFL* ... BOOM goes the first theory... 6hours only for the flight home ...

Upvoted, although I think Renarin's light did everything else but uplift Moash. Being confronted with his stronger self forces him to admit everything he has done wrong, which pains him to no end and which he feels he can not bear: Funny (and significant?) that right before this he tried to persuade Kaladin to give his (Kaladin's) pain to him (Moash):

The not-deserving assumption as a stormlight healing block sure fits Kaladin's slave brands.

Yepp, you are right .. but doesn't that mean, that Renarin here tried to heal MOASH? Which could totally be true, given Renarins kind nature, perhaps lead by the detection of necessity? Some kind of "HEAL!" application of his power instead of "HEAL MY FRIEND!".

Yes, I am puzzled, too :-) My guess would be, that it was not intentional.

*scratchhead* I 'ld say that both sides are hard to compare. On Gaz's part there was imho a whole lot of longing to have his eye back - he saw himself as not whole . Sunny character prodigy Lopen on the other side never seems to have given too much (negative) thought about his lost arm - there was always a Lopen version for him which "worked".

I really think that was Renarin's doing, but I do not think that was an illusion at all. Several ppl above already mentioned spiritual aspects of this display of power related to Allomancy.

Nice! I really have to check on my allomantic awareness ... somehow it seems to be on vacation ...

I think of it more of a differential view on their respective characters. Moash does not want to take responsibility for his actions AT ALL, whereas Dalinar found it UNTHINKABLE not to.

rotfl***

Moash, the Anti Dalinar? I.e. vs Hmmm....

OMG, so little text, so many emotions generated ... What actually did Renarin DO there? Is a thing?

Upvote for the Grimdark reference ... :-D