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Not necessarily. From here #26: This seems quite possible.

At this point, I don't know anybody who disputes the following timeline. I feel confused in reading Windrunner's post, as he claims to not be sold, but then goes on to agree with what I claimed. Either I miscommunicated again (very likely) or I misunderstood (also quite likely). Szeth receives the original list which includes the Azish Primes. Szeth kills everybody on the original list except Mr. T. Chapter 2 of WoR occurs. Szeth presumably attacks Dalinar.

Please forgive me, but I have difficulties with the scenario. If he was continuously infusing, why didn't he glow? Why would he drain just the gems in a certain place? Wouldn't he have beaten Dalinar in their race by a lot? Why didn't the glyphs on his armor or the armor itself glow? Why haven't the drained gems been noted before or since? With an investigation that would be relevant? If he just started infusing that day, that seems like an unlikely coincidence. When Kaladin infused unconsciously, it was only when needed, why would Elhokar unconsciously do it only when not needed?

I really like the bulk of the above post by marianmi. I would like to make one minor point with respect to the below: Wyndle talks about honorspren coming to see her crystal structures. That would imply that some honorspren have been in the cognitive realm recently, so 1) would refer to at most some of the honorspren IMO. As for Wyndle being Cultivation based, off the top of my head, the plantlike appearance, ability to grow seeds and the references to mother all point strongly in that direction.

The latest Steelhunt content has WoR chapter 2. It includes a description of the assassin in white's activities with this sentence: I'm not convinced that Brandon intended for it to play out that way in tWoK, but maybe he needed to retrofit it for the sequencing in WoR. In any case, I made the judgment that the sentence I quoted settled the issue (to my chagrin). If you disagree, I can change it. As I am administrating this, I want to be careful not to bias toward my judgments being right, and this seemed pretty strong, even if not totally conclusive. With this additional evidence, people who now said that it was before don't deserve as much credit as those who made the call without this evidence. Does this help?

This is a neat idea and may be fundamentally true, but I believe there is at least a semantic issue. There is WoB that Kaladin is immune to the thrill. It has been speculated that this is due to his relationship w/Syl. I doubt that Kaladin would be immune to Honor's thrill, so your hypothetical "thrill" should probably have a different name to fit with canon terminology. The case for your theory would also be stronger if you could provide an instance of someone possibly under the influence of "Honor's Thrill" in your OP. from the Spokane signing:

That is a very creative thought. I believe that there is WoB that Hoid has been able to jump forward in time through use of Shadesmar. Some spren are supposedly partly in the cognitive realm and partly in the physical realm, so it seems that it would be difficult for them, but if one were wholly in Shadesmar and wanted to speed internal time/slow external time, I don't know why it couldn't work. I wonder if it would allow one to do some amazing things.

I had been assuming that teleportation worked in the cognitive realm, until I realized that I knew of no evidence* supporting that assumption. I could rationalize travel in Shadesmar as faster than physical realm travel, but decided that it was irrelevant. Even if travel through Shadesmar is 10 times as fast as in the physical realm, it wouldn't be fast enough. As far as I can tell, teleportation seems to be nearly instantaneous. This means that there must be a point-to-point mechanism in some realm. The obvious possibilities are: Point to point in the physical realm Transition to Shadesmar, point to point in Shadesmar, return to physical realm Transition to spiritual realm, point to point in the spiritual realm, return to physical realm If my location is a cognitive aspect, then maybe 2 would explain teleportation, otherwise 1 is the simplest. Does this make sense? * Jasnah distance soulcasting might be evidence supporting option 2, but I don't feel that I understand it well enough to cite.

Per the latest WoPA (Word of Peter Ahlstrom), the Skybreakers have the gravity surge and can presumably fly (which is what you would hope, given the name), The latest updated chart (that I know of) is here. Edit: Ninja'd, but I'll leave this in for the links

It does have it's own forum, assuming that you want to do the Shardhunt and not just ask the person on Reddit who is offering a code.

Not sure what you are asking for. Here's some stuff: The OP of this thread has links that Windrunner created for many of the preview readings There is Steelhunt stuff that Brandon makes available to people who have codes. If you get a code, don't post it publicly. You can ask for codes or people can give them to you. This site forbids posts (not PMs) asking for codes, but that is just a site rule, not from Brandon. Someone on Reddit invited people to ask them for codes here. This site has a scavenger hunt that may get you a code. The events, signings and stalking subforum has various recent interview information, but it can be a bit hard to find. I recommend the two threads relating to the Seattle signing but there is more in other threads. Hope this helps

Too much about what Wax would do next. I don't have the text to find quotations, as I borrowed the book from the library, but my steadily worsening memory suggests that he seemed to almost have a precognitive awareness of Wax's actions.

Bloody Tan wasn't just any criminal. His crime seemed pointless, and he seemed to know too much. Whether or not random dead husbands are showing up, I'm not surprised to see him again.

A few points relating to what is known. I have this vague memory that the Elantrans had access to something like a library. Assessing their understanding, as of the end of Elantris could change significantly by the day. Wax is reading a book handed to him by Marsh, who served both TLR and Ruin. Whatever understanding TLR passed to his Inquisitors could be available. I guess Marsh knew it already, but we didn't know he knew it, if that makes sense. We also don't know what the people on the other continent know either. Jasnah knows much that we are not aware of yet. With the ability to translate Dawnchant, there will be another knowledge explosion. The societies of apparently ageless spren that interact with the realms seem like an amazing resource as pointed out in the OP. Add in the fact that there are spren left by Adonalsium that are sentient and the potential revelations are astounding. During the Radiant era, there is an apparent reference to "Shard of my heart" and the peasant woman in the Starfalls vision makes a reference to "three gods". The face in the storm knows that "Odium reigns". Mr. T has been collecting death rattles also. Not to mention Hoid. A few sentences from Hoid could change planetary awareness significantly. And where is he "now"? And Taln. Presumably Taln will be a source of information along with any other Heralds that crawl out of the woodwork.

This has always seemed fishy to me. The only explanation I can come up with is that he found something that someone didn't want him to. He could have been killed by someone who wanted to claim the discovery for themselves or by the Nebraskans. If it was a competitor, the discovery would have been announced soon after. If it was the Nebraskans, then they must have a network of spies to learn what he discovered and be able to arrange a (springrail, thanks Shardlet) accident. It was around the Inception day. Coincidence? Am I paranoid or did this seem significant to others? Edit: spelling, grammar, springrail reference

There are apparently neither spren nor highstorms in Shinovar. I assume that spren are somehow dependent on stormlight. This theory would need to account for Cryptics coexisting with Szeth somehow.

I have so many unanswered questions about the opposition in this book. There is only one Tower of Nebrask. Even when the Tower of Nebrask dominated alternate North America there was only one. Why would the Tower struggle to dominate a whole continent and reach for more when it doesn't proliferate? How is it better off with a huge territory when it apparently doesn't use the territory? Does it benefit from the struggle somehow? Is it basically a single entity? Would it be threatened by others of it's own kind? Is it incapable of proliferation? Is it eliminating a threat? It is an artifact, maybe even a human artifact. Who made it and why? Is it a sort of uber-Frankenstein, a corruption created by humans or an evil cabal? Is there a natural or supernatural force that just adopted a convenient structure? A combination? Nalizar seems more capable than the Forgotten that possessed Harding. He seems to be able to act independently. The Tower continues to exist and fight without him. I infer that he is not the sole independent mind associated with the Tower. I also infer that there are peers or superiors of Nalizar. Does this imply that the governance of the Tower is either hierarchical or a sort of council? What does the Tower want? With Nalizar on campus for another year, does a heretofore unknown possibility for communication exist? Could a negotiated arrangement, a peaceful settlement occur? What is Nalizar? Is it an original human body that has been possessed? Is it some kind of Shapeshifter that adopted his form and maybe his memories? Is it a different human that is maintaining an illusion? How was the creature that is now Nalizar so capable of passing for Nalizar? I feel so puzzled and I know that the brilliant and creative minds on on this site are capable of clarifying the fog. Please help.

Good catch! Thank you. I didn't remember that. I had assumed that she was the conduit, but I didn't remember what it felt like for her. I was positing that she will also be able to hold stormlight over time and glow, heal, move faster, etc. I think the quote may support the idea, but it is not really an example of what I meant by infusing. Welcome! And what Shardlet said.

Well, it has sort of buried the city of the Shattered Plains. Kaladin's family has to do maintenance on their house, so live cities have to deal w/the accumulation. Urithiru? Who knows anything about that? It could be buried under crem. Some people think it's in Shadesmar. Others think it fell on the Shattered plains, or was once in the Purelake. I believe it is high on some mountain, possibly above the Highstorms. Without knowing more about Urithiru, I don't see how discussing it contributes to the thread.

What about the Stoneward in Starfall? Lift reports that Darkness is awesome too and is able to follow her unnaturally quickly. While we don't see it, we can't assume that Jasnah and Shallan can't infuse. My working assumption at this point is that all Surgebinders can infuse.

Not to take away from your main point. Crem does accumulate, closing openings, creating stalactites, etc. It might be part of what makes Roshar so rocky.

Welcome in from the lurking! The missing blades and armor could be in Urithiru as you say. The Radiants clearly had a plan for the Recreance which could have involved depositing the weaponry in Urithiru. Some minor points follow: In the Starfalls episode we are told that the Knights don't actually live in Urithiru, but are scattered across Alethela. Jasnah also tells Shallan that the Knights abandoned Urithiru before the Recreance. Assuming that the Knights were garrisoned in Urithiru seems to conflict with some of the little information we do have (although it is all uncertain). Nonetheless, your conclusion that the bulk of them are stored in Urithiru certainly seems possible.

FWIW, Taln calls himself a "Herald of the Almighty". It could mean herald as a representative of the Almighty, who happens to be bearing news of the Desolation as part of his service to the Almighty.

Well, I look at it two ways: Brandon's usage and the underlying model. Regarding Brandon's usage, he capitalizes it everywhere and Szeth is one of our major sources of information. So if Szeth uses it one way and there is no other evidence, it seems (please insert an inoffensive word hinting at "willful" or "arbitrary" here) to define it more narrowly than Brandon's in-world usage. It could be that Brandon uses it as you do and Szeth is wrong. Assuming that without evidence when we can easily qualify some as Nahel Surgebinders seems like it could be confusing if Brandon uses the term as I surmise. As for Nohadon, he talks about Surgebinders needing to be better and how not all spren are as discerning as honorspren. I infer that he thinks the honorspren-bound surgebinders are good enough. If you agree with this, doesn't that imply that he is referring to only some of the Surgebinders when he says they need to be better? How do you know that he wouldn't refer to Szeth as a Surgebinder? If Heralds are also Surgebinders without spren, he apparently approves of them and isn't talking about them needing to be better. All we know is that he has a problem with some non-honorspren Nahel Surgebinders. What did I miss here? As for the underlying model, I have certain assumptions. I assume that Heralds can infuse and Surgebind using the same pattern as the corresponding Radiants (I think they have aditional powers, but that isn't relevant) without using spren. I assume that the Heralds came to Roshar from the Tranquilline Halls, where there are no spren. I infer then, that Surgebinding is an Honor or Honor-Cultivation magic system that they brought with them from the Tranquilline halls. I guess that the Surges would be the same wherever they went, and on Roshar, the system expresses itself through spren in addition to however the Heralds do it. So for me, it makes sense to refer to Surgebinding independantly from the local implementation (spren). TLDR: tomayto, tomahto, I don't agree for reasons that make sense to me, but I don't want to be offensive about it.

That is a clever way to distinguish the two. In the text it is always capitalized, even when Szeth is thinking to himself and describing himself as a Surgebinder. I infer that Brandon is not using the term as you are, but hey, it's a free forum. You can use surgebinder to mean what Brandon apparently calls Surgebinder and mean something else by Surgebinder. As always, I know nothing. WRT the Parshendi, I was just referring to those using storm-form in the theorized possibility that they are Surgebinders ("Surgebinder" Brandon-style, not Gloom-style).