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  1. junior
    I dunno. Looking back, I think there are signs that Taln had already lost it by the time he appeared at the end of WotK. His insanity seems to be more the result of the fact that he was betrayed by his fellow Heralds. I think there's a chapter header somewhere in WotK that indicates that all of the punishment that should have been split between the ten was instead focused on him. And since there's been a much longer gap between Desolations this time around (as evidenced by all of the technological progress that Taln's babbling suggests doesn't typically occur), it's likely that he had both ten times as much torment, and a much longer period of torment than usual. In short, the guy's been betrayed by the people he trusted, and has suffered horribly as a result. And the suffering has gone on for a much, much, much longer time than usual. Small wonder his mind is broken.
  2. junior
    Renarin more than likely already had a basic bond in place with his spren when he received his shardblade. We don't know whether his spren was actually talking to him yet or aware enough of what was going on to warn him that using a shardblade was a Bad Thing (it seems doubtful, though). But more than likely Renarin just accepted that the screaming is what happened when you used a shardblade. And he needed to toughen up and stick with it. Or it was a weird symptom of his "epilepsy". Either way, Renarin more than likely accepted that the screaming was "normal", and the problem was with him. Relis, of course, has had lots of experience using a shardblade prior to this incident. And he's *never* had it scream at him before. When it does start screaming at him, he understandably freaks out. Shardblades aren't supposed to do that. Dalinar has a somewhat similar reaction when his own blade screams at the end of WoR - he's so shocked that he drops it. Also, Kaladin's touch on the blade seems to have somehow intensified Relis's experience. No one else in WoR ever actually hears anything other than mindless screaming, but Relis seems to actually hear the spren accusing him of killing it. Personally, I'm hoping that we get the chance to meet a somewhat more humble Relis in the future.
  3. junior
    I suspect that "giving" a blade to someone essentially grants ownership of it for all intents and purposes. The only way around that is to kill the current holder, as Kaladin does to Szeth.
  4. junior
    Apparently Hoid didn't take the blade. RShara found this while listening to the San Francisco signing - http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/6899-spoliers-dalinars-blade/
  5. junior
    There are a few reasons 1.) When Dalinar last touches the blade (right before he severs the bond with it), he hears it screaming. Ergo, there's a dead spren in the blade. 2.) According to Syl, Honorblades were given directly by Honor. Shardblades came about when spren attempted to imitate Honorblades. Given that the source is Syl, I think we can safely view this bit of information as accurate. This isn't something that she's likely to lie or joke about (and doing so would arguably be dishonorable, which goes against her very nature). 3.) So according to point #2, an Honorblade can't become a Shardblade because the latter is a spren (living or dead), while the former doesn't appear to be so. 4.) Kaladin doesn't hear any screams when he handles Szeth's Honorblade, which once again reinforces the idea that Honorblades aren't formed from spren (unlike the shardblade that Dalinar was using). And one more item worth noting - who would be in a position to "downgrade" Talan's blade? Honor is presumably the only one who would even have that capability if it ever existed to begin with, and he's shattered.
  6. junior
    I don't think so. I think the Spren pre-date Odium's shattering of Honor. Spren, and Radiants, exist in the visions that Dalinar sees. And it seems likely that the events occurred before Honor was shattered (otherwise Honor wouldn't have been able to pick which events to record for the future). Ergo, Spren exist regardless of whether or not Honor is intact.
  7. junior
    Currently, I don't think he knows how to go about learning how to be a good king. Given that's the sort of thing that the heir to the throne is supposed to learn while growing up, I suspect that his father dropped the ball here. And Dalinar's habit of not delegating isn't going to help matters, either.
  8. junior
    Are we guaranteed to only have one viewpoint book per character? Is it guaranteed that we're not going to get another Shallan book? In any event, since Shallan finally confronted her role in her mother's death, the primary obstruction keeping her from her past seems to have been dealt with. So it's entirely possible that her early bonding with Pattern will get a quick chapter at some point that provides the details needed to make sense of her pre-matricide backstory.
  9. junior
    He actually has foreseen Kaladin's abilities. Graves even says as much. And there's a tiny corner of the diagram that mentions the possibility that spren-based powers will reemerge. However, I suspect that the not so good King underestimated how rapidly the abilities would develop. And he *definitely* didn't account for anyone developing them as early as Jasnah and Shallan did (in Shallan's case, at least right up until her mother was killed and Shallan stunted her development as a Radiant). I suspect that T would be horrified if he were to realize just how advanced Jasnah's abilities were, and how long she'd been using her powers.
  10. junior
    We don't know when Shallan's father joined the Ghostbloods. However, given that the family's financial troubles became less when marble was "discovered" on the family's lands, and we know that the "discovery" is a direct result of the Ghostblood's assistance, I think it's pretty safe to conjecture that Shallan's father wasn't a member of the Ghostbloods at the time (and indeed didn't join until right around the time that his eldest son was killed).
  11. junior
    I can't remember where it was mentioned off the top of my head, but iirc there's been mention that Wax's earring - which is a spike - came from a spiked criminal who was executed. So someone at some point post-world change was presumably aware of how Hemalurgy works. Though (Steelhunt spoiler)...
  12. junior
    The one that gets in trouble during the Lift interlude doesn't seem to understand the importance of following the law. Nalan does, though, obviously, since Lift's pardon is enough to get Nalan to back down even though he could have killed her and fled before anyone could have done anything about it.
  13. junior
    You're assuming that Roshone would permit his favorite persecution targets to leave before he utterly and completely broke them.
  14. junior
    But the question seems to be whether he can become a squire, not a knight. Based on the bits at the end of WoR, it appears that becoming a squire doesn't require a Nahel Bond. Instead, the squire needs to be linked to someone else who has the bond. I think we don't yet have enough information on whether Rlain could become a squire. Oh, and Eshonai's almost certainly alive, given that she was wearing shardplate, and Adolin survived a similar fall earlier in the book while wearing his. If she was captured and hauled out of her plate, could she be forced to change to a different form?
  15. junior
    Rhial managed to survive the storm without transforming. So it's possible for a Parshendi to avoid the transformation.
  16. junior

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    junior replied to Dawnshard's topic in Stormlight Archive

    iirc, Brandon Sanderson once made a comment to the effect that we shouldn't rule out the possibility of a posthumous viewpoint character for one of the books. So even if Kaladin is supposed to be the viewpoint character for one of the later books, that doesn't rule out him getting killed in the first half of the storyline.
  17. junior
    Isn't Agoraphobia a fear of wide open spaces? I would think that there isn't anything more wide and open than space...
  18. junior
    There's a very vague hint in WoR that seems to me to suggest that
  19. junior
    Or the personality of the shard might revolve around something like solitude, causing the holder to want to avoid others.
  20. junior
    I hate to say it. Really, I honestly do. But if Renarin ever goes bad... I'm gonna laugh. /duck
  21. junior
    There are a few different possibilities. 1.) The difference in time between desolations would mean a longer torment, which might have contributed to the madness. 2.) It's possible that since he's now the only Herald still following his job description, the torment that would have been split between ten individuals is now focused exclusively on one. This might also have contributed to the madness. 3.) And finally, it's possible that Taln's mind broke when he realized that he was the only one of the nine still adhering to the Oath Pact. Keep in mind that Taln and his companions presumably had a certain degree of trust between the ten of them (I can't see them agreeing to the thing otherwise)... and his nine companions just sold him out. Personally, I'm leaning toward the last of the three. In particular, his repeated insistance that his comrades will help out seems as if it might be Taln attempting to convince himself that all is still well, and that his "companions" haven't abandoned him. And on the topic of Taln, another possibility has crossed my mind. Taln is now broken. I think we can all agree with that. And spren apparently like bonding with broken people...
  22. junior
    Dalinar clearly states that he knows the second oath during his conversation with the Stormfather. But there's a bit of a question mark in my mind over whether his subsequent statement is actually the oath, or whether he's waiting to recite it at a later date.
  23. junior
    I'm wondering whether Adolin is going to get found out for the murder of Sadeas. 1.) It's possible that a witness arrived after Sadeas was dead, but before Adolin finished leaving the scene. Ialai would no doubt love to have blackmail material of that nature. 2.) Adolin threw Sadeas's shardblade to one of the lower terraces. That means that it's just sitting out there waiting for someone to find it. And if someone finds the blade, then it's going to be obvious that the person responsible for killing Sadeas is a shardblade user (someone who wasn't would have bonded the blade instead). 3.) At the very least, Dalinar and his followers are going to be high on the list of suspects.
  24. junior
    More likely, Vasher did... and then lost Nightblood somehow.
  25. junior
    Trying to get people to stop using Shardblades - at least at the moment - would probably work something like this. Dalinar - I need you to stop using your shardblades. They're really dead spren. Highprinces - No. A rule like that would be extremely unpopular due to the loss of power that it represented for those giving up their blades. And Dalinar realistically has no way of enforcing it.
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