Aggrax

So, if Eshonai is actually dead like we saw at the start of the book, does that mean she is no longer a candidate for a Flashback PoV in the books? Since according to Coppermind the 5 Flashbackers were Kaladin, Shallan, Dalinar, Szeth and Eshonai, but now shes dead. Would we maybe see her as one of the Fused? or in some other capacity?

I find your reading of Sazed as Harmony to be a bit off base. The only point in the book where he ever uses his powers to "enslave" anyone is at the end when he restrains Paalm and even then she is clearly in full control of her mind. She is able to be commit suicide while he is doing this, so clearly it's the lightest touch possible, which is saying something because Hemalurgy control tends to be fairly brute force. It is outright stated that Sazed never controlled Paalm, just that he was very insistent about what he wanted her to do. Ultimately, I don't think he had a hand in the events of Lessie's "death" the way you think he does. Paalm herself basically admits to this with the way she talks about what happened. She says several times that Sazed could have saved her, implying that he let the tragedy happen, but also that he wasn't the one that told bloody Tan to kill her. Tan says in the Prologue that he's seen God. He doesn't say Harmony. He describes Marsh and invoked the Survivor, but never says Harmony. It's possible that Tan was being moved by this unknown other Shard as a way to break Wax and Paalm. Lastly, lets not forget that Paalm is not an unbiased source. She is a rogue Kandra with one spike of a completely unknown metal. Kandra explicitly have 2 spikes because they provide a balance to the souls grafted to them, allowing the Kandra to form a stable personality, rather than being completely unhinged like the Koloss. Paalm posses one spike of a completely unknown metal that is stated to effect Kandra differently than all previous spikes. A spike made of a metal from another shard, who is likely on Scadrial for the express purpose of taking out the only known holder of more than one shard. After their first conversation, Wax never speaks directly to Sazed. We never get his interpretation of things, never hear straight from the source what he did. To sum up, I think your reading of Sazed is completely incongruous with both his personality during Era 1 and with the being known as Harmony that he has become in Era 2. I won't deny that he is manipulating pieces, but he is allowing people choices in what they do.

Hey everyone, my first post here, I had an odd thought as I was reading through Dalinar's vision of feverstone keep. He describes the knights plate as glowing from the inside. We know this can't just be from the gemstones inside them, since none of the current shards do this. So I thought, what if the plate of a Knights Radiant was actually the source of their stormlight or assisted the Knights is using stormlight in some way None of the Knights themselves were glowing like Kaladin and Szeth do, but their blade and plate was. Additionally, when picked up by people that can not use stormlight, who had not become knights, the plate and blade went dull What I think really backs me up on this is when Kaladin says the second oath on the shattered plains. There is an audible crack and the stormlight becomes more intense. Maybe a full Knight can draw in immense amounts of stormlight, or even somehow become a source of . Thoughts?