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  1. IndigoAjah
    Rlain will be the Dustbringer. It is known
  2. IndigoAjah
    Aluminium is anti-invested, maybe?
  3. IndigoAjah
    I wouldn't be THAT surprised if Nan is a massive hypocrite...
  4. IndigoAjah
    Using a herald's blade isn't QUITE surgebinding though, right? And isn't it full Radiants he wants to avoid developing?
  5. IndigoAjah
    Damning with the faintest of praise
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    by Skybreaker I meant Nan's cronies, the pseudo sky breakers, who don't appear to be Radiants so far. However, as someone pointed out above, unless Shallan broke a law this is unlikely, and then afterward if her mum HAD been a Skybreaker and she a proto-radiant, Nan WOULD have probably been in a position to seek her out. So I agree, my suggestion doesn't work and I quite like the idea that she was a religious nut or freaked out by red/pink eyes
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    I agree, that is fair, though do we know that the trauma leading into the snapping previously doesn't "add up" towards it? I'm also not convinced, and I accept that others may disagree, that emotional trauma and psychological trauma are "better" than physical trauma, or that snapping follows particularly set rules about degree and strength of snapping
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    I can see where you're coming from but I don't completely agree that he is quite too broken. The other thing to consider is that the old Radiants would have senior members of the order, and guidance and support in place to help them when their Oaths became a burden or confusing. Kaladin (and Shallan, who is being set up for another fall in the next book) do not, they have the vague memories of Spren with quite... interesting personalities
  9. IndigoAjah
    Even with Kaladin it was a close run thing.
  10. IndigoAjah
    I don't know. The Radiants we have seen have had preeeeeeetty dramatic trauma in their pasts, and on several repeating occasions. Kelsier and Vin (and Zane) had sucky traumatic pasts, but I don't think it's fair to say that on the whole Snapping is harsher on Scadrial than Roshar. From the little evidence we have seen, both seem close to equally horrible
  11. IndigoAjah
    I suspect many great leaders and heroes suffer from internal conflict though, maybe it makes them so used to fighting themselves that external powers seem less daunting?
  12. IndigoAjah
    If WoT has taught me anything it is that we should treat all prophecies and prophecy like things with maximum suspicion
  13. IndigoAjah
    Short one here. I'm sure there's been a thread before. Shallan is hugely at risk of getting targeted by Nan. She's now quite openly surgebinding AND it hardly takes that much digging to demonstrate that she's committed various crimes as Veil and definitely a dual parenticide. Now, if she admitted these things to Dalinar/Elkohar, she might be able to get a pardon (though maybe it would need to be Mr T who pardons her as the new ruler of her country?), but otherwise she is at serious risk of Nan finding out and giving him the excuse he wants to kill surgebinders. Maybe this and the need for protection against it will drive her into the arms of the Ghostbloods?
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    The other possibility for Shallan's mum is she could be a Sky-Breaker?
  15. IndigoAjah
    When Shallan uses Stormlight in large amounts, as she's only soulcast once so far, she almost exclusively uses it to Lightweave and often her appearance. She also only wields Pattern 3 times in the present in the series. It makes sense that most of the time she might have glowing eyes, she is disguising them anyway. That's usually what she uses her stormlight for
  16. IndigoAjah
    Yeah, and Honour is certainly not always sensible and not even always good. Hatred can be useful, that's why we have it.
  17. IndigoAjah
    Soul casters are implied to be limited in number, certainly
  18. IndigoAjah
    for a legendary herald, living thousands of years, able to fly into high storms, with a secret society and likely able to take on any greatshell by himself? Why would the Alethi Monarchy have more access to stormlight and storage thereof than someone who has watched their civilisation form? Just basing it on the things we have seen from the characters "in the know" in Mistborn compared to what most normal magic users think is possible, and then the way magic in other series he has written for, I expect that not everyone is equal in the use of stormlight and that there are many many tricks that the main cast have literally no idea about
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    Also, Szeth wasn't exactly trying not to be seen, right?
  20. IndigoAjah
    Who says that full to the brim is the same for Kaladin and a Herald? Also, as I've said elsewhere, Kaladin has been actively surgebinding for weeks and subconsciously for maybe 5 years max. Szeth for, let's be generous, 30 years. Nalan has been for thousands of years. His ability was what the spren based their surges on. There's a difference in expertise that is almost beyond comprehension, never mind any quite feasible differences in power
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    Very first chapter/prologue of WoK?
  22. IndigoAjah
    They did have a lot of torture before that though
  23. IndigoAjah
    We still don't know how the magic of Fabrials works
  24. IndigoAjah
    There are another spren species that in theory allow Illumination weaves as well as Cryptics, so could be that one
  25. IndigoAjah
    Also, in a highstorm, stormlight surely shouldn't be an issue? If you flew in the eye of a highstorm, wouldn't your access to stormlight be essentially limitless?
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