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Had a thought, It will be funny in the future when everyone will have all this future tech wit guns and spaceships and Nightblood is just chilling as a sword.

Was thinking about the menstruating part... Stormlight

How about...Wit? Not that I disliked them, but I don't think we have known that much about them. But now? We have seen that they have flaws, they are scared of things. We have seen him want things and people who they like and dislike. We knew Wit before even Stormlight began, and he has grown much from the start of the first book. From a guy who just told stories to a guy who has now has a girlfriend(?) and we know that the mysterious bard can be afraid.

I mean, those people put themselves there. Rayse had nothing to do with the creation of the oathpact. I don't remember that they actually did genocide, on the contrary the humans actually enslaved almost a whole race. That wasn't Rayse, that was Ishar I believe?

I see it paralleling the part Odium has failed too much thing as part of the Pursuer failing too much. He wasn't scary at the end. It is more a writing narrative decision, than a logical one.

I mean, if we are going to argue that, I would argue that Rayse wasn't bad either. Hell, I could see a world where it ends up that Tanavast was a dick and Rayse was justified.

There is a quote from the Stormfather talking about how at the end, Honor cared more about oaths than the meaning behind it. I see this kind of like the Kaladin vs Szeth argument. Szeth really doesn't know what they are doing right now, from the life that we see him in a book we just see him just more have their choices made for them, being truthless or even following Dalinar(which I guess that was a choice), they really haven't had to make that much decisions. Like, he really never actually had a character change in a sense, because he is still following some code and not making his own decisions. I feel like he won't actually change until he swears the 5th ideal. But good news, his book is next I think? But my point, is just following some code, isn't honorable in of itself but the action of using it to do action is. While he has done some honorable things, I don't think it has matched what Kaladin has done so far.

I was thinking about the 5th oaths and I think like the Sky Breaker "I am the law", Windrunner is "I am the Wind" and with this, they actually somewhat become part of the wind by somewhat fusing with their spren, becoming the embodiment of that attribute or ideal that spren themselves are.

Killer of Wit

This reminds of my theory that Alendi was a worldhopper, which is the reason that they were very tall and conquered Scadrial.

Did Row talk about the elevator spren wanting to manifest as elevators fabrials so they are closer to the physical realm, thus can think more or something? For some reason that is stuck in my mind. I feel like that is an on going theme of some spren wanting to get into the physical realm and bond, so that they can think in it.

I mean, the whole deadeye/mental issue arc in the book shows how people devalue life if people are having those type of issues. Also with the power of magic you could probably make spren have souls, given certain experiments....

I do wonder how all the Deadeyes somehow knew to be at Adolin's case, it seemed like they were coming there on purpose, like they knew that they needed to be there. I guess it could semi make sense, as Adolin has faced a lot of other shardblades before, they must somehow know who he is, he has won plenty of them dueling, so he might have more of a Connection with them than other people. Also, how do the singers/listeners see deadeyes? Have see heard any of them talk about them before?

Another thought, Whimsy can see into the future very far ahead and picked the name Trell to hard troll the 'real' Trell.

So... Would you kill book 5 to save one human life? And I would argue the spren life has value, just as animal/plant life has value. It's like saying I would kill all the cows to allow a single person survive. And like, we somewhat have real life equalivents, people have allegeries/in tolerances to food... And other people still eat them even though if it could get mixed or close to the person who it could harm. People are still selling peanuts.

I would like to argue that even some human do not see a value in life. It isn't a great measurement.

I argue it doesn't necessarily even make you better, it can be progression for progressions sake. I don't know why she couldn't have bonded with just not being a scholar, I wonder if she chose not to, would she still have been able to.

I think the bad part of the radiant bond is that...it doesn't allow people to just..be who they are. Like Navani, she was a good person before she became a bondsmith, she was good at helping other researchers research, funding and helping others reach their goals. Nothing was inherently wrong with her. I personally wanted her to accept herself who she was, she didn't need to become a scientist, she was a useful member of society even not being one. Yet she was forced to progress. This might be one of the flaws in the system, some people can't just be, some can't just accept themselves and instead have to reach out and be a 'better' person.

I don't think shards are moral or amoral, they are literally acts of god/nature. Ruin wasn't evil, preservation wasn't evil. They can do good things, they can do evil things. It is somewhat in the hands of the wielder, to an extent. If a tornado comes and blows up your house, the tornado isn't evil, it just is. I feel like 'Honor' biased, letting some people like Kaladin get revenge when it suited Honor, but not let Moash get his and act like he did something wrong wanting it but the others it was fine because it was suited to Honor's goals(beating Odium). And a lot of this is for narrative sake, like you could argue if you wanted that killing anything would break "Life before death", hell the whole contest doesn't make sense if your going to throw a Radiant in there in a fight to the death, it doesn't really make sense. But I don't think these super get addressed well. But people's personification can make shard's power look evil, like how people think Braize/the singers are hell/demons. And people's perception of it can somewhat influence the power, but that can change, the power itself isn't evil.

I don't think it is just normal skill. I feel like it is just some connection/spiritual power gobbledy goop, similar to atium but not the same.

I could argue that Whimsy could have just been trolling, naming themselves Whimsy just to mess with another shard whoever is the actual Trell. Or maybe even they were Trell and someone stole/cop-opted the name from them, which honestly is a very Odium thing to do.

I mean, I dont see the difference of putting it in a living animal rather than a steak.

I do feel that insanity is a running theme that it effects CS more. Like, you have to consider that being broken seems to welcome investiture, and CS are basically just souls made out of investiture. You put two and two together and you are going to have a bad time. I also feel like this has something to do with becoming a savant. The way I see it, when someone is turned into a cognitive shadow, the investiture fills up what is left to complete a soul, but after a while your soul is damaged more, so the investiture just keeps filling it up. Slowly your soul ends up becoming more investiture than the soul you had to begin with, which messes things up. It ends up like a picture over the internet. First it starts off as a nice good picture with a good resolution, then slowly people the picture have less resolution, they crop it, and the quality is much less than what you started out. You end up with a blurry cropped out mess. I do feel like the Returned do very slightly hint at slowly going mad, like Lightsong talks about how they were more willing to give their breath away and no one has done so in such a long time. But I also feel like the Returned are structured in the way they are so they don't go mad. Ever wonder why they don't really see any conflict(besides Vasher and his friends...)? Why they are not out in the world? Why they stay where they are? What if they are like that so try to minimize the madness? What if they are designed to die when they give their breath away because it is a way to kill them, hence make them not go mad? Endowment knew what they were doing, they knew that the CS could become mad for living so long, so they tried to develop them a way to stop that from happening. The whole Returned structure seems to support this.

What if Tukks was deformed because of the battle?

I mean, I don't see how it is any different than putting it into a steak.