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31 minutes ago, Keeper Exile said:

I always thought that he was referring to Khriss, but she wasn't present at the Shattering? So that eliminates that theory. But, there are some unknown Shards that Hoid could be referring to. Also, @MEB, did you know that Wit and Hoid are the same person? (if you didn't, then surprise, they are the same person).

 

We know Cultivation is female and on the same planet "these parts" and was since she appears to be original at the Shattering.

On 27/04/2019 at 0:06 AM, MEB said:

2) Shallon to Wit , says:" Stick to women your own age."  Wit cryptically replies: "Well, that might be a little harder. I think there's only one of those around these parts, and she and I never did get along."

I'm reasonably sure he's referring to Cultivation there.

On 19/11/2017 at 4:56 PM, Stromblessed said:

But I can't honestly think of anyone else we know who is a good match for Kaladin.

Marasi Colms. Intelligent, level headed, heroic, addicted to adventure, about the right age. Could turn out to be a totally different Skybreaker.

Admittedly during Stormlight through book 5 she's on another planet, but we know know that isn't much of a limit, for the second half.

"Now, then a keyhole is always a bit more delicate and temperamental than even the finest lady."

-- Kelsier

"I don't think of you as an enemy, Renarin. I see you as a... future friend."
-- Odium

On 04/09/2018 at 3:51 AM, Calderis said:

That's possible, I tend to think an addition of a single power is going to change the resonance though. 

I think of it like musical chords. The resonance is the extra oomph you get from the right combination of notes. 

There's always some resonance between two powers, but above that they need to either mesh properly to give something... Or they interfere and you lose it. 

I don't think it's possible to have more than one. For now we have to wait and see though. 

We got told that there was a limit on number of powers above which you don't get resonances. But since the example for that was Mistborn, who have something like the equivalent of 16 to 64 surges depending how you count, there is plenty of room for extras from 3 or 4 powers.

Myself I'm seeing it more as synergy effects or possibly constructive interfereance..

On 04/09/2018 at 3:04 AM, The Deity said:

That wouldn’t be the case all the time. Kaladin and Lopen have never flown before they bonded, so it wouldn’t have  exactly felt natural to them.

And yet the first time Kaladin flew it did feel natural to him. It was pretty much the best day of his life.

"Yes, this was natural. Yes, this was him."

"I could Lash myself upward, he thought, and fall into the sky forever.
But no, that was how an ordinary person thought. A skyeel didn’t fear falling, did it? A fish didn’t fear drowning.
Until he began thinking in a new way, he wouldn’t control this gift he had been given. And it was a gift. He would embrace this.
The sky was now his.
Kaladin shouted, dashing forward. He leaped and Lashed himself to the wall. No pausing, no hesitance, no fear. He hit at a dead run, and nearby, Syl laughed for joy."

"Fearless, he fell. This was his ocean to swim, his winds upon which to soar. He fell face-first toward the next plateau. Just before he arrived, he Lashed himself sideways and backward."

All from Words of Radience Chapter 52 Into the Sky

Lopen, how would we tell?

On 04/09/2018 at 3:47 AM, Calderis said:

About that... We should get proof on if your right soon enough. 

If Torfin graduates from squire to Radiant, then Honorspren don't really care. 

Or if he starts feeling natural about flying, that could imply you get it from the bond.

Torfin was one of the first members of Bridge 4 to open up to Kaladin along with Drehy back in the chasms. Then he's sort of there getting mentioned once after Kaladin recovers from the storm and not at all in Words of Radiance.

Since being terrified of flying is pretty much his only character trait other than feeling left out he makes a good test case. Of course unless he's already attracted a cryptic he probably can't use overcoming his fear of flying to become both a Lightweaver and a Windrunner simultaneously.

Of course I think every named bridgeman we know who got close to Adolin has become a squire or Windrunner, but there were some whose names weren't given (and we don't know he wasn't one of Adolin's backup) so he might find it easier to become Adolin's squire.

On 29/08/2018 at 11:25 AM, Zellyia said:

Oathgates, however, have two distinct spren (at least appearance) for one object: 

I just found this curious.   Does each one represent a place, like to/from?  Or something more symbolic like the sides of a door?

I suspect they have four, since we always see two at one of the two ends. One for each platform and one for each end possibly.

On 30/08/2018 at 6:40 PM, Angsos said:

Do we actually know the Shin are Team Honor?

They seem more Team Cultivation. Revering those who grow over those who kill.

5 minutes ago, CrazyRioter said:

True but not really relevant. Which order you end up as is based on your general personality and which spren it attracts to you, not your personal preferences on powers.

I'm not so sure about that. Honour spren aren't likely to be attracted to someone who doesn't like flying. And the otherway round there was the implication that some things (inclding how to use the powers instinctively) come from the spren. Kaladin and in his own way Lopen both go on about loving the skies and wanting to fly.

I rather suspect that if he were bonding an Honour or High spren he's be happier about flying. If only because the instincts that were being installed by the process would make it feel natural.

On 01/09/2018 at 6:44 AM, Ciridae said:

Lopen (and maybe even Sadeas' men at the end of OB) show us that the soul does not necessarily need to be cracked, but open, to be able to bond to a Spren. I think children as a rule are more open to this kind of bond. I don't think that Tien or Shallan had cracked souls.

We know from Mistborn the stress of being born can be sufficient to crack someones spirit web (IIRC Vin's sister snapped while being born.) so it doesn't need the rather florid excesses most of our major characters have.

Lopen after all at some point lost an arm and spent a significant amount of time in denial about it. So we can't rule him out of being cracked.

5 hours ago, galendo said:

Still, probably the best squad you could build is to give each of your Radiants one additional Honorblade.  That gives you ten Radiants with access to four surges each, along with the option of having your spren be a shield for your off-hand while still having a Blade in the other.

Presumably they'd also get the five relevant two power synergy effects and three and four power synergies on top.

OIf course we also know from WoB IIRC that you can bind more than one spren if you can hack both sets of oaths and nahal bonds are more stormlight efficient.

On 31/08/2018 at 7:38 AM, Toaster Retribution said:

 He could be a Windrunner as well.

He doesn't enjoy flying.

"Why is it that people like you always think you're more ruthless than people like me?"
-- Shallan Davar

“So,” Jasnah went on, “when you think of how to respond to my question this time, it is very, very important that you bear that context in mind when I tell you that this has been an incredibly long day. I am, as they say, not in the mood. Now, for what will be the last time you will ever hear me speak these words in this order while you are still capable of coherent thought: Where am I?” 

"Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you."

-- Sadeas

"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."
-- Jasnah Kholin

10 minutes ago, Zath said:

"Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to poop on the board and strut around like it won anyway."

-Hoid
(Actually from... I have no idea.  Anonymous, I suppose?)

Snopes says:

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"Modesty would be dishonesty."

-- Kelsier

"I don't speak fluent bumpkin..."
-- Shallan Davar

"Look, sir, I know Melaan. She's not the useless type. She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that."
-- Wayne

"I am Welcomed in the Home of Ravens and Other Scavengers in the Wake of Warriors. I am Friend to Carrion Crows and Wolves. I am Carry Me and Kill with Me and Die with Me Where the Road Ends. I am not the Honeyed Promise of Length of Life in Years to Come, I am the Iron Promise of Never Being a Slave."

-- Nightblood

Just now, Wandering Investor said:

No evidence that Sadeas plotted against Gavilar. It was only years later that he set himself against Dalinar specifically. At the time he was trying to keep Elohkar under his influence.

He was the one supplying the rebellion that got Evie killed wasn't he?

2 hours ago, Wandering Investor said:

Elhokar was naturally suspicious, which when combined with all the other things, like the assassin and seeing Cryptics in mirrors and out of the corners of his eyes, made for not entirely undeserved paranoia.

And of course Sadeas has been plotting against the Kholins since the Rift.

On 18/04/2018 at 10:46 PM, Weltall said:

e's even thought about dead Shardblade summoning if you didn't have a pulse.

Other than Lifeless (who seem unlikely to be summoning shardblades), the only people I can think of having that option are Kandra. Who can also avoid breathing.