Emerald101

My first post was intended as more of a joke than anything else. Go ahead and keep doing your thing, it's apparently part of what makes you the sharder you are.

You could be the spiritual ideal of enthusiasm when it comes to this. It's good, but it can also be a bit overwhelming

Except that radiantspren aren't composed just Honor or Cultivation, but a mix (with varying ratios) of both. Is it really "Tanavastium" if there's some of cultivation's investiture in there too?

You just opened the floodgates. Nothing can stop Maxal now - which isn't to say that I disagree with the theory. I love it, actually. It's just that Maxal loves that theory more than a Herdazian loves Chouta.

I do what I can.

Just a little side note: this is technically incorrect. Blades will change shape slightly over time. (Source) (emphasis mine)

I do what I can. (Some of you with small children/siblings will know what I'm referencing here.)

This. A partial lashing only severs a part of the planet's gravity.

Here's a WoB on shardplate bonding with the user. (source) So the question is, is that's enough to change somebody's eyes?

Don't mind me, just tagging a quote onto the (one-hundred percent correct) claim made here. Source

No, Aluminum cannot block a Shardblade. (source)

Though I'm not sure on Shardplate, the situation for Shardblades is a little more complicated than what you're thinking. Remember that spren are splinters, and that radiantspren are composed of both Honor's and Cultivation's investiture. Now, Brandon has also compared Shardblades to Lerasium, so I would say that when Kaladin summons Syl as a Shardblade, that blade is composed of the godmetal of Syl rather than the godmetal of honor.

I always assumed that was just lightweaving.

Just a little tip on posting WoB's (Words of Brandon (quotes), if you're wondering): when you find the quote you want to use, click on the link for the interview it came from, and then use ctrl + f to find your quote. Then when you post it here you can tag #n (n being the number for your quote) onto the end of the url, and that'll make a link which takes people straight to the quote. makes it a little more convenient for the rest of us. Other than that, you did great!

This.

IIRC, it's never explicitly mentioned, but heavily implied. The essence table in the Ars Arcanum place the number 'Jes' in the first row (the other numbers also appear to line up with their respective heralds), along with the attributes of protecting/leading - which line up with the oaths Kaladin has sworn so far. the position of first in that table makes sense thematically for Jezrien being the leader of the heralds, and also lines up with the position of the Windrunner's in the KR chart and with the placing of their surges in their respective list. Additionally, the glyph of jezrien's honorblade appears on the cover of TWoK (which we know to be Kaladin's book) hardback copies (under the dustcover). Given all that, the implication is pretty clear.

It's sentences like these that make Brandon sit back and laugh like a mad scientist.

I would certainly expect so, for the reasons you named. It's just not confirmed that that is the case.

By way of clarification, perpendicularities are shardpools, or at least exist within the same space as a shardpool. It's unclear whether or not a perpendicularity can exist separate from a shardpool.

This makes me wonder about what would happen if you burned gold while storing most/all of your identity in some aluminum. I'm gonna go drop that question into the Ultimate list.

Your are correct, Ym was a proto-truthwatcher. He displays on-screen use of progression, which makes him either a truthwatcher or an edgedancer, and his spren was clearly very different from Lift's. I guess it's technically possible for them to be the same type of spren, by I highly doubt one type of spren would exhibit such radically different appearances. As for the "hiding" behavior, there might be something there, but it's a somewhat tenuous connection. There could be a hundred different places for Renarin's spren to hide, and by WoB there is anything particularly significant about the box.

While I highly applaud your efforts, I feel I have to note that Brandon was probably not calculating how much force the plate exerted on things as he writes the story. I suspect that even given perfect descriptions and hard numbers to work with we would still end up with inconsistent numbers. Don't let my cynicism discourage you though. You go and do your math on these things, because it's wicked cool. just don't expect to get fully consistent answers.

Well, we know that there are Adonalsiumspren on Roshar (source), so the shards clearly aren't all of Adonalsium's power. Whether or not there are more shardish-level pieces left might still be an open question. I'd expect not, but you never know.

Theoretically? Yes, because we have no proof that he's not (at least, none that I'm aware of). But as far as I've been able to tell, Taravangian doesn't seem to give a hoot about if the heralds return or not, which appears to be the goal of the SoH. So probably not.

We know that the unmade are splinters and presumably so are voidspren, so what makes the difference?