Stormwalker

Really? I was sure he had explicitely said it at one point. I guess I must have completely misremembered it. I suppose its about time to reread WoK anyway.

Actually, I believe Dalinar believes forgetting his wife is the boon, and the guy who saw things upside-down got accustomed to it. Moreover, WoR Spoilers (if you can really call them that): As far as we have actual evidence for, the Nightwatcher doesn't seem bad, merely balanced (at least in terms of boon to curse ratio). Sort of like Rand's Ta'veren effects in WoT. Edit: As for what I would ask (if I actually did), you can't really get better than Delightful's: Although maybe explicitely saying that the boon is given before the curse (or at least retroactively) might be appropriate.

There is also the example of Vin's earring. If I remember correctly, Vin only started wearing her earring regularly when Kelsier suggests it at the beginning of tFE. So it was outside a human body for over a decade, yet still gave her a significant amount of extra power. That would seem to suggest there is indeed a maximum amount a hemalurgic spike can decay (either that or it decays so slowly as to not really matter).

Well, now I look foolish... I actually read page 31, just not page 32 where Peter confirms it.

I don't know if this would be considered necroing, but it seems like there have been worse instances in this thread before, so I'll do it nontheless. I should also note that I haven't read the whole thread, so someone might have already said this. Now my immediate reaction to seeing the map was, like some of you seem to have said, that it sort of looked like a hurricane/storm. However, after thinking about it, and from my knowledge of physics (and I admit I'm not a expert on geology, physics, or weather dynamics), I have no idea why constant storms that move across Roshar would make Roshar look like a storm frozen in place. But lets just assume that I'm wrong and this is the logical effect of the highstorms. My next observation was that the Roshar-storm is moving counter-clockwise, just as hurricanes do on Earth. Except of course that Roshar seems to be in the southern hemisphere (by the location of the frostlands), so the coriolis force should really make the storms rotate the other way around. At least that would be the case if highstorms are cyclones (areas of low pressure) like the tropical storms of Earth. So what if the highstorms rotate counter-clockwise because they are really anti-cyclones (areas of high pressure)? Now, from what I know about weather, anti-cyclones on Earth are usually associated with clear skies, not cataclysmic storms of doom. However, highstorms are also magical, so maybe that doesn't matter. Moreover, I do know of at least one storm that is an anti-cyclone: the great red spot of Jupiter. I once saw a quote where Brandon said he got the idea of the highstorms from the storms on Jupiter. So maybe the easter egg is just that highstorms are sort of like the great red spot (the math part would be the coriolis force calculations?).

Hi all. My first post , but I've been lurking here for awhile now. Anyway, I though I'd put my two cents in on this. I find this unlikely. While the Heralds were probably named after their heralding of the desolations, they must have certainly been incredibly powerful in combat: Even though originally there were no spren-bonds, and so the only source of surgebinding was the Heralds, it is apparent that humanity survived the desolations. If 10 Heralds + conventional armies were enough to at least survive a desolation and Radiants are indeed more powerful than heralds, than one would imagine that 10 Heralds + (presumably) hundreds if not thousands of Radiants + conventional armies should have easily defeated all desolations that came afterwards without too much trouble (although I must say, now that I think about this, I somewhat question how they ever survived the first ones). I must say I had originally agreed with the OP, but I think I like this idea better. As we know from a WoB, Nightblood is also more powerful than a regular shardblade, so it makes sense that extra draining of investiture gives extra powers. Plus, as Vaspin already referenced (yet strangely got the opposite conclusion), we have a WoB that one Herald went back to get their Blade. If the bond wasn't broken then they wouldn't have to go back to get it, they would just summon it to themselves (although I can't find the quote, so my wording could be wrong). Well, as to this, in the prelude, Jezrien does strongly imply it: This was not 'should be left', nor was it 'we will leave our blades and go our seperate ways'. Right after saying things that they would do, he says something they must do: it seems to me that the choice of wording was purposeful. Hence it seem unlikely for it to be for symbolic reasons. Moreover, even Syl could figure out that the Honorblades are dangerous if they get into the wrong hands. If the Heralds wanted to help humanity out by leaving the Blades, then just leaving them in the middle of nowhere is a pretty bad way to go about it (after all, it did lead to Szeth murdering who-knows-how-many people). I would think the Heralds would realize this, and give them to people they know would use them for good (such as the Radiants).