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Oathbringer

Happy to see he is worried about focusing on Cosmere more. Love the side stuff and understand why he likes to do it but I can get that kind of thing anywhere. What I can't get is hardcore Cosmere lore ... Don't want to be 10 years older before we get into the next serious Cosmere series.

I would prefer if future books just left Brade alone and refrain from giving her a redemption arch or exploring her phsyc too much. Some people are just ruined and you don't always know exactly why ... That's what Brade is to me and I'm not interested in going deeper with her.

I like the alien crew better than the original crew.

Startsight was superior in every way except it had a less satisfying ending ... definitely built upon everything Skyward established by a lot though and was very well paced IMO.

What I mean by my comment is that figments could literally be ancient AI. Sort of the end result of AI evolution.

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I thought that figments were what AI turned into

Just finished the book. Really enjoyed it but ugh ... I do feel like there was very little resolution on almost all fronts at the end it was almost all incomplete book Now too wait at least 2 years for the next one ...

Just email Sanderson and tell him you are poor...I bet he sends you a paperback.

Not entirely inconsistent with the other theory that claims Odium ****ed up the afterlife in Roshar system and blocks souls from passing to the Beyond.

Yea, I agree this theory (my theory) is almost certainly not correct. So the higher post is interesting...is it a pure theory or supported in text that the storm father was born out of the recreance through the merging of murdered spren? It does make sense in that the spren of honor then existing and sentient would refer to themselves as Honor's spren/shadow...

The other note is just that if they're all bonded to the Stormfather why limit it to 3? Why not 1 or infinite? The shardblade part makes some sense if it was 1 but...if he doesn't have to be around all the time and form a weapon or protect the human then I'm not sure why there is a limit...unless they're not all bonded to the Stormfather (and if they are 3 different "god spren" then it still makes sense to have no sword just b/c they're so "important" and above that sort of usage). I'll also point out that the Stormfather is kind of a ****. He sent the storm to kill everyone and tried to stop Syl from bonding with Kaladin at the moment Kaladin was going to die. He only bonded with Dalinar reluctantly after (presumably) he had no choice following the spoken words. So ... IDK ... didn't seem like the type to take multiple bonds ...

Just thinking out loud here but why do we know bondsmiths all have the same powers or necessarily work like normal KRs?

Both good points. I had not thought of the idea that the "stormfather" as we know it did not exist until Honor's death (obviously it was deeply shaped by his death but I assumed it existed in some (similar) form before that)...nor did I know about that passage of WoR. Meh...just spit-balling here but these are good points. Bondsmith may be a stretch...but most agree there is something going on with "Taln." Whatever that is, I still think it's something nefarious.

So...I mean...no more than 3 bondsmiths at a time....and the one we have seen is bonded the Stormfather (Honor's personal spren in some sense)...we also know that the Nightwatcher is likely something similar only connected to Cultivation (because Lyft's spren refers to her as mother)....it follows that Odium would have something similar. We really don't have enough to intelligently discuss this beyond that I don't think but 3 is a pretty convincing number and if 1 of them is the Stormfather you would think the others are connected to the other shards. Also, I get the comment that bondsmiths are KR and therefore not Odium...but we really don't actually know that for sure. I mean, even referring to them as a proper/standard order of KR (given that we know there are only 3) is weird...so it's possible a bondsmith is something different than a standard KR (WoB almost confirm this in saying they're closer to Heralds)...perhaps something with close bond to a shard. If that is the case...the number 3 has even more significance. So here, the idea would simply be that "Taln" is in fact an impostor sent from Damnation posing as Taln, to do Odium's bidding...perhaps to undermine attempts by Dalinar to unite them or even to "unite" those who would further Odiums end-game (for whatever reason). The main thing here is that he's definitely got some info that only a Herald (or something else from Damnation) would ahve and he's definitely not being confirmed as Taln by Brandon .... and he's definitely got abilities (snatching poison darts) and he's set up to get with the Vorin nuts (Sons of Honor) and Amaram (which are inventively on the wrong side)....so I could see it happening where he's there to steer things in a way that frustrates everything Dalinar is doing....and if the Heralds are not helping (which the few we know are around do not seem to be helping) then him posing as a Herald will allow a lot "frustration" to ensue (really...he could completely undermine Dalinar and put the Sons of Honor in charge of everything if he plays his cards correctly).

*Obligatory statement about how I'm sure someone else has posted this but I haven't seen it and I'm sorry if it's out there already and take no credit etc. etc.* WoB state there are never more than 3 bondsmiths at a time...and that bondsmiths are closer to the Heralds than the other Knights Radiant. We saw Dalinar bond with the Stormfather to become a bondsmith. There are ... obviously ... 3 Gods known to the system. Therefore, it makes sense that bondsmiths bond with the spren of a God. In all likelihood then, someone could bond with the Nightwatcher (perhaps the spren of Cultivation) and become a bondsmith. Someone could, therefore, also bond with Odium in some manner. What if Taln has bonded with Odium's spren and is basically a spy sent back from Damnation for as of yet unknown dubious reasons?

Ishar is the leading candidate to be a traitor.

Also, what if the desolation is honor? If they really are fighting in the Halls to retake the afterlife then maybe when they lose that battle they need another desolation to replenish the warriors in the Halls....

Damnation. Some aspects of this theory are almost obviously going to happen IMO...nice work. Makes me think the world will end at the end of book 5, or at the very least almost every major character will die. The second set of books will be saving the souls of the dead.

Graphic Audio is amazing, everyone should listen to that anyway.

How many drafts does he have to do?

Is Zahel light eyes?

I'm just saying, if Terris people are black, and other people are not, then TLR's secret Terris heritage makes no sense. Terris are obviously distinct, but it's more subtle than skin color.

How can you make the Terris people distinct but not reveal the Lord Ruler is Terris?