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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.

Hmm… this makes sense. I’m inclined to believe that Jasnah siphoned off some of the Stormlight from the gems on her fake Soulcaster and placed it into the garnet, since I doubt she’d be carrying all that Stormlight within herself all the time without glowing perpetually. And I’ve read WoR… though Jasnah’s ability was revealed in WoK anyway .

Shallan turns the goblet into blood using the Stormlight from the garnet broam given to her by Kabsal. After Soulcasting, the sphere becomes dun: However, when Shallan gets poisoned, Jasnah uses the same garnet to save her: How did Jasnah use the garnet when it was dun to begin with? Why would it even glow a tiniest bit afterward?

It’s been established that the more Kaladin acts according to Syl’s nature as an honorspren, the stronger their bond—Kaladin becomes stronger and more proficient at Surgebinding and Syl becomes smarter. This is accomplished not only through oaths taken, but also simply by Kaladin’s thoughts and conduct. What makes me curious is why Syl would become more intelligible over the course of Kaladin’s slavery; he notes Syl following him around as a mindless windspren for a few months prior to the start of WoK, but it’s only when he stops fighting back—when he’s at the lowest of the low—that Syl appears to him as a sentient being. What caused this change in Syl? Kaladin has stopped fighting, has stopped striving for honor, yet it is at this moment that Syl emerges as sapient?

Forgive me for asking, but where in the books does it say that one needs to be broken before a spren bonds to him/her?

Hmm… I suppose. Yet there still stands the fact that having the Blade means having been bonded to Pattern. She must have been bonded to him when or before she first Soulcast the goblet into blood, or she couldn’t have Soulcasted. So the better question would be to ask when she began rebonding with Pattern?

But how could she have remembered how she killed her mother when it was only at the end of WoR that she allowed herself to relive that event?

But on the night where Jasnah killed the footpads, Shallan already knew she had the Blade on her. Moreover, during her very first Soulcasting, when she was afraid of the Cryptics in her drawing, she began the process of summoning her Blade.

What was the point of moving everyone to Urithiru? I thought they established that it was some place in the center of Roshar, and that it did experience highstorms. The everstorm would make its trip around the world and eventually hit Urithiru as well, would it not?

Shallan had her Blade at the time of her mother’s death, but it was locked away afterward, or so she thought (i.e. Pattern escaped). I can see why she wouldn’t have known that she had access to a Blade, since expectations and knowledge comes a great deal into play in the world of Roshar—if she didn’t believe she had a Blade, then she wouldn’t have sensed it with her. That leads me to question when she claimed the Blade again. She definitely had it before the beginning of WoK, but after the murder of her father (or she would have just used the Blade to kill her father). There seems to be some connection to her Blade and her father’s death, since in WoK she states that the Blade was “the fruit of her sin.” Moreover, in WoR, she acknowledges that the Blade has saved her at least once before Tyn: “You’re alive because of that cursed thing. Again. Stop complaining.” What does anyone make of this? EDIT: Upon further reflection, I see that the only way Shallan could have had the Blade before meeting Jasnah was if she was already bonded to Pattern. However, she only rebonded with Pattern in WoR. How can this be?