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Regarding your first point, I doubt the people would hate on the KR for that. Their conception of history is so distorted they barely even know what Voidbringers are. I highly doubt they would have known there were other creatures who posed a threat other than Voidbringers. The people have believed themselves safe, that they’ve won, after the Last Desolation. Regarding your second point, if the people were hating on the KR because they had gone about killing people, then wouldn’t Dalinar, who knew the truth from his visions, have felt compelled to speak otherwise? And regarding your third point, while it is very valid, I don’t think that’s the main reason. Otherwise it wouldn’t be considered a failure of Vorinism; just an economic failure.

The fall of the KR occurred after the Last Desolation, which people believe involved the Heralds taking the battle against the Voidbringers up to the Tranquiline Halls. If the Voidbringers were gone, what would have been the use of the KR? Why was it so bad that they disbanded?

What about Dalinar and the Stormfather? EDIT: I misread your post; I see you’ve already taken this into account. My apologies.

What’s the biggest archive for fanfiction for SA? (There seems to be awfully few fanfics out there for SA.)

What does it mean when spren die? They lose their sentience in the physical realm, but are they still sentient in the cognitive realm?

May I ask what you mean by ‘proto-radiant’?

But one of the commonly cited evidences of the Nahel bond is a distaste for Shardblades. Dalinar clearly did not feel any animosity toward his Blade. (And I don’t believe him giving Oathbringer to Sadeas was driven in part by that.) Meaning, the bond must have begun after tWoK.

Since Dalinar practically forced the Stormfather to have a bond with him, does that mean that anyone who has been sufficiently broken and acquainted with a spren can become a Radiant? Anyone can demand a bond?

I updated my original post.

There has been evidence in WoR that Dalinar began bonding with the Stormfather before he said his oaths, such as when he felt bad about holding Taln’s Blade or when he recalls having once healed using Stormlight. However, when did the bonding process start? As far as I can see, the Stormfather was quite unwilling to accept Dalinar’s Words, so I find it hard to believe that he initiated the bond to begin with. When did the bonding begin, and why did it occur between Dalinar and the Stormfather? (I used to think that Dalinar demanded the bond with the Stormfather, but it seems that the bond had been forming before then.) EDIT: below are quotes evidencing that Dalinar bonded with the Stormfather before he said his oaths.

The ten heartbeats serve to synchronize the Shardbearer and the dead spren, giving the dead spren a pseudo-life force by which to operate as a Blade. Ten is a common number in the SA universe, so it should not seem aberrant that it will take 10 heartbeats to summon a Blade. Below’s a quote from WoR, chapter 87:

Sorry, but I don’t quite remember seeing mention of him bonding with Glys in chapter 14. Would you mind posting a reference?

I’ve always felt that Renarin constantly tries to make himself useful, particularly to his family and father. I do wonder why he never revealed his Radiancy to Dalinar when Dalinar had reformed the Knights Radiant; Dalinar was looking so desperately for a Radiant, and there Renarin was—yet he did not reveal himself to his father. What reasons would he have for not doing this?

When Mraize discovers that Shallan and Veil are the same person, he reasons that he saw her reveal her Radiance as she helped the army. But I'm not quite following his logic. Sure, Shallan infused spheres and operated the Oathgate, but she never did anything to reveal that she was a Lightweaver. How would Mraize just know that Shallan was Lightweaving as Veil?

TWoK isn’t that clear in my mind right now, but I believe that the incident of Shallan’s first Soulcasting and her ingesting Kabsal’s poison occurred quite closely to each other. She was hospitalized for ‘committing suicide’ to cover up for her Soulcasting, then Kabsal came to visit her at the hospital, and that was when she ate the poison.