shardbearer589

good point but 1/3 of the way through is very diff from 2/10, which is still basically the beginning of the tale. Also on the back of the book it says: "The world can change. Surgebinding and Shardwielding can return; the magics of ancient days can become ours again. These four people are key. I juss dont think that the plots developed enough too kill off a "key" character but like you mentioned sanderson's done it before.

I was originally going to say that maybe she did slash the corpse thus damaging the soulcaster without doing harm to her fathers body,but that would have been dumb since a Shardblade can indeed cut through dead flesh. So maybe the deathblow killed her father and sheared the soulcaster, which would still result in her father's corpse not being cut into bits.

I personally think the fight will result in Kaladin SOMEHOW gaining control of Szeth's oathstone(most likely with the help of Syl) and then commanding him to stop his attack. Then I think Dalinar and his people will interrogate Szeth thus finding out about the crazy kings plan. Since both Dalinar and Kaladin have showed immense honor throughout SA1 I think they will use their temporary power over him to release him from his oath as truthless, then give him the option to fight alongside them, which I think he will reluctantly accept. Upon having Szeth on their side it becomes only a matter of time before its revealed that both Szeth and Kaladin have special powers(which most likely is revealed in the fight itself) and then results in Szeth training Kaladin on how to better control his new found powers. Atleast I hope this happens because i feel really bad for Szeth since he seems like a genuinely good person caught in horrible circumstances, and i highly doubt Sanderson would consider killing off any main characters just 2/10 of the way in. The only thing for certain is that a meeting between them is inevitable..i just hope neither Dalinar, Adolin, Kaladin, or Szeth die as a result.