AngusThermopyle

First of all, that is a great post. I thought Nalan was doing it in an attempt to stop the upcoming desolation, because he thought without surgebinders it wouldn't happen. Due to his code he could only go after people who had committed crimes. One of the arguements made by the Parshendi for trying Stormform was seeing Kaladin surgebinding so he may have been right. Those are my thoughts anyway. It may be similar to Amaram seeking to bring back the Voidbringers in an effort to bring back the Radiants and return the world to more of a Hierocracy state. The spren came back because they saw something terrible coming, but maybe them coming back caused it?

I have been reading fantasy (and sci-fi) all my life, and I just finished listening to both audiobooks of the Stormlight Archive. I recently started doing that with my long commute. When a sword was given to Szeth and it seemed to be Nightblood, I was flabbergasted. What is Nightblood doing in this series? I had to come online to see if I was wrong and found this site. I had no idea that Sanderson's books were interrelated. One thing I learned about from listening to an audiobook is I don't pronounce the names in my head anymore when I am reading. I see the letters and view them as a symbol (I think). When I first started reading the forums I was reading the names of the characters and not knowing who they were talking about; I had to sound them out and then it clicked. Weird. I have been reading his books since Elantris and love that his books keep getting better and better. He seems to be growing as a writer with every book. Words of Radiance is his best work to date in my opinion. The only bad thing is that I have to wait for the next one. Edit: I put in a spoiler alert because someone who didn't read it yet might not want to know about Nightblood