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I think it unlikely that Gavilar had the visions like Dalinar, if just because surely Navani would know her husband collapsed, raving every highstorm. That said, if he concealed it in some way... Amaram likely knew about them, hence his reaction to Dalinar's visions.

Jumpdrive would certainly know where she is. Perhaps if he gets captured, Iconoclast could interrogate her location out of him, as she is a non-PI Queen he could kill.

Hmm yeah, that is a good observation. Much like how Blade's had the gemstone added onto them to allow bonding when it wasn't necessary in Radiant hands. Radiants can draw in their own stormlight to fuel the Plate, what need would they have for gemstones?

Well, I suspect that there will be something bad that has happened or will happen, but a reunion with at least one parent will happen, i think. Also to answer your question- symetrical is holy, not the other way around.

Very unlikely unless he knows its location. But if he found it somehow, that would work. He could lie in wait until she returned.

No chance of catching her on the way there or back.... hmmmmm a dilemma

Pinning her down would be difficult. What if she comes out, is distracted somehow, while someone surprise-attacks her? Iconoclast would be the likeliest candidate atm to want or be able to attack a Queen.

Hmmm a spectacular death scene would be very interesting

Yeah, things have slowed down lately :\ Bye Winter, we understand

Personally, I believe this refers to the Everstorm and the stormforms. Eshonai and the others just wanted to defeat the humans and survive, and have their own place in the world. The storms crashing broke the land. They destroyed their city and possibly themselves, just yo defeat the Alethi. And finally "they come" is just a warning that they are on their way. That's my take, at least.

Perhaps the strength of the Heralds was more their own innate abilities, as opposed to whatever the blades granted them. Taln catches two or three darts flying past him. Easily, without even realising what he was doing. How strong could he be with just some normal sword, let along an honourblade?

Its likely that you need to be a Herald to properly unlock the power of the Honorblades, given that they were made specifically for them.

yeah, and Syl couldn't have bonded anyone else because any Spren bonded to a Radiant was killed. Syl is younger than that.

And not everyone handles the "telling truths" part very well. One epigraph mentioned someone who was a fine warrior and a good person, but they made a bad Lightweaver because they simply weren't capable of the level of self-discovery and reflection that their Cryptic demanded. Sure they don't have binding oaths and values, but not everyone can be truthful to themselves.

Well they aren't quite "dead", they are just broken. Syl uses the metaphor of a rock cut in half. The rock isn't "dead", but it is not whole, not what it once was. She also says that the ten heartbeats are required to "revive" the spren, so I'd say that when held and in physical form (as opposed to invisible spren form) they are "alive" enough to feel pain, and scream. The Plate, we don't know. It certainly doesn't act like Blades in any way, other than being obviously magical. It isn't unbreakable like Blades are, it remains physical at all times, it can't be summmoned or bonded, it can be regrown with stormlight, and feeds off it, as well as requiring gemstones. We have no concrete answers about Plate atm, as far as I know, but in my opinion I believe Plate are not formed from Spren and does not scream. I believe they are incredibly powerful fabrials, of a sort, made with the knowledge given by the Spren perhaps, and perhaps only forgable by Radiants through the use of Surgebindings. They are certainly technology or magic beyond the modern Rosharan world, but they aren't Spren. I think they were made specifically for the Radiants, maybe by the Radiants. Consider the Heralds- at no point do we ever receive an indication that they wear Shardplate. They certainly carry the Honourblades, and are Surgebinders, and are superhuman in many other ways, but never are they mentioned as wearing Plate. Perhaps modern art depicts them wearing it, but we can't trust modern art too well. Consider Telen, Herald of War. As far as he knows, he is returning to fight a Desolation, but he doesn't appear with Shardplate like he appears with his Blade. I think Heralds are too superhuman to need Shardplate- or at least their own dedicated set.

Sweet

So what's everyone thinking for their next post?

I heard some sort of inspriational montage music playing in Words of Radiance when Kaladin is learning how to Lash himself. Especially when he is flying in the open air, windspren flying around him, and finally grabs that rock spire and they break around him. I just got the coolest mental image as that scene unfolded. Perhaps Son of Man, by Phil Collins? Perhaps too light-hearted, and perhaps too much of a plagiarism of Tarzan, but it fits well I think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-udx1ojowws

I think it likely that if Cultivation was used to imprison Odium- much as Preservation sacrificed his mind and much of his power to imprison Ruin- then it would be willing on her part. I don't think it would be so dramatic though- Ruin for instance was almost completely sealed with nearly the full power of Preservation. If Honor and Cultivation could do that, the Desolations wouldn't happen. No, it seems like Honor and Odium made a complex deal, and some power merely forces Odium to keep his word. His power is channelled into the ways the deal allows him to. Perhaps Cultivation supplied the power to hold him to the deal. What makes me curious, is why the two didn't just defeat him two-vs-one when he first rocked up to Roshar. Why this complex deal, when they surely could overpower him? Perhaps they were already too invested in Roshar to easily defeat him, and Odium himself was fearful of the combined power of two shards, so they made the deal as a safe means of accomplishing their respective goals.

I don't think all Epic powers go haywire at death. Steelheart's went haywire because he is a special steel snowflake and his powers of transfersion reacted to his emotional response at his death by transforming him.

Ah, okie dokie

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sounds good although there isn't a need to give her little extra abilities to help her fly- small resistances like that are usually part-and-parcel of a power. For instance, we can assume that all pyrokinetic Epics are also immune to fire damage. Or that speed Epics are immune to the pain of wind resistance. So we can assume that flying Epics are resistant to wind resistance, and can breath at higher altitudes.

woo go alliances and trade!