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I just had a thought... Kaladin could start to teach them some of the skills, and in doing so could become something of a saint to them. If we follow this thread to it's completely ludicrous conclusion, he fights to defend all of the Parshmen/Parshendi/Listeners from the horrible bad evil humans and becomes Odium's champion by nature of his actions, not his intent to destroy Roshar. Windrunners are one of the martial orders, if not the most martial order, so it could happen....

What I find interesting is that the ARCs are softbound, looking like trade paperbacks. Thanks to all for deciphering.

He might be referring to the idea that fighting Sadeas contributed to his wrist still being in pain instead of healing in a more normal timeframe.

I believe so, but that it would have interfered with his surges. Which is interesting to consider.

I repeatedly read this as "strengthening the body through aggressive punching" emphasis mine

Another thought I had after reading the "swinging around by the ankles" comment from Syl. What are they actually supposed to do with the dead Shardblades? There's no known way to get rid of them and they are probably too invested to be soulcast into smoke.

Two thoughts on Glys. 1. He is on the spectrum, if possible. Could explain why he was drawn to Renarjn. 2. Glys is a young spren. None of the other spren have expressed uncertainty in being able to become a Blade, so why was Glys? I think it has been postulated that there were multiple immigration events to Roshar, and in one of them somehow Shin was built and along with it what we would consider normal animals such as chickens and horses. All the other stuff did evolve there.

So they are evolved goats, awesome.

The one thought I've had that I haven't seen written down by others here so far, pg5, is that the ever storm at the onset changed them all into storm form, but now it's just removing the prohibition from assuming new forms that gavilar talked about in the prologue. I don't think that the majority of the parshmen are being changed into voidbringers at all but rather just back into parshendi. The comment about mediation form was spot-on I think.

In the current day, everything left over from the Recreance is a Shardblade. We know from the Dalinar vision that at the Recreance, the KR just dropped their blades and armor and skidaddled. Assuming that everyone dropped their blades while in it's preferred form, that means that every KR used a sword by default. One could argue that by default, they are in the shape of a blade as they were patterned after the Honorblades; however as we see from Syl's comments during the awesome aerial fight, she realizes Kal probably wants a spear. Yes, even though she was summoned initially as a sword. Also, maybe when the KR decided to go on Recreation (get it), they made a conscious effort to put their spren into blade form, or when they broke the oaths the spren went into their default standby state. I dunno, I just want to see a classic shard polearm or another spear or two. On phone, so not restructuring after I wandered.

The general consensus (if we can call it that at this point) is that this is something specific to the Bondsmiths, and not something that would happen whenever two get together.

One of the first impressions I had was that I was reading a "classic" type of fantasy, one that doesn't seem to hold a candle to the current revisions. I also got a kick out of the Shardblades "earning" their glyphs.

I would say that going with the 2D cognitive realm interpretation would work best since Spren are Cognitive beings. However, if I am remembering right, the Spanreed needs to be placed in a special spot (or corner) before it writes what the other side sends. That to me implies that any sort of movement, even as little as slowly carrying the table carrying it across the room, will interrupt its functioning. It could also be that the two halves of the spanreed "know" their relative position to one another, so it doesn't matter if it's curved or flat and the way the reason that they end up "writing" the correct way is they have a common alignment with gravity of the planet so they know how they would align. I would wager that a a pair of spanreed tables (since they need a surface to write on) are oriented in the same cardinal direction since when one draws a line, it would need to have corresponding space / paper to write on the receiving end

i wonder... since Humans weren't native to Roshar like the Parshendi, they aren't attuned to the rhythms and spren, and everything. Hell, they don't have shells. However, maybe Tien was one of the first humans that has evolved a bit to be more in tune with the planet and can start to hear the Dawnsingers some. /tinfoil

https://coppermind.net/wiki/Spanreed

Brandon has been writing the SA for nearly 20 years at this point in various drafts, so he had plot elements long before publishing.

What is this writ you speak of? I don't recall and I'm terrible at searching for specifics like this.

I shouldn't have deleted "yet" from my post.

We've only seen him kill in battle, so while that doesn't make him a murderer, he is nonetheless a killer.

I understand that the vessels were people (mostly) and as such they do have a gender, I just think of them more as a power since they've been around long enough that their core self has probably been mostly subsumed by the Shard.

Regardless of past experience, you asked for a reason why and I gave you one. It's interesting that Bavadin is female since I think of all of the vessels (that's the correct term, right?) as gender neutral.

Simple, in the English language, Mara is typically a name for a female human.

I admit, I haven't paid as much attention to some of those older details and I didn't realize he did know his boon and curse. Has it been stated that he still knows the explicit reason, such as "I want to forget this very specific act/action", or more along the lines of he knows that his boon was to forget "something" and his curse was that "he forgot his wife?"

The more opinions that I read, the more I am thinking that his boon was to forget what "he did to his wife", i.e., that he went on a murder-death-kill spree and slaughtered untold innocents up to and including his wife. His curse was that he also forgot everything about and related to his wife.

Transparent aluminum / aluminium. Discuss