IndigoAjah

Amaram's reaction is very dodgy, he draws a shard on Dalinar, basically admitting his guilt

Hoid and the Stormfather seem to think it will do that though.

Surely being pre-bonded is different to dying? Syl was conscious in Shadesmar, right? But not in the physical realm. But if she dies she dies in both and loses consciousness. But she hasn't been bonded to a radiant before? And if she lost Kaladin in the physical realm and became stupid, she wouldn't be able to get back to Shadesmar anyway. Also, she may never have died at all

I thought the "broken" thing was explicit in the text? At the least, it's implied and certainly fits 100% of current Radiants

just to add, on the whole "why wasn't Shallan's blade changing sizes the thing that made Kal think she was a Radiant" thing: 1) he can have multiple reasons. The fact that the blade didn't scream was RIGHT as a reason even if Kaladin's logic goes a bit to and fro on it. That doesn't mean he doesn't think of others - he suspected Shallan was a radiant in the chasms anyway, but the fact that she could handle a shardblade, at that time living shards being something Kaladin had no idea existed or were linked to Radiants, was the thing that made him decide she might not be. It is logical that the fact that he had it the wrong way round was on his mind once he knew about what a shardblade was. 2) Does Kaladin get a good look at Shallan cutting with a shard knife? I didn't think it was clear how close he was or focused he was on her in the text

Jasnah explicitly states in the epilogue of WoR that she did NOT expect the ever storm to transform the Parshendi.

There is never a problem with being philosophical

The implication is that they have to be broken, and to me that implies that Shallan's childhood had its issues before the whole mum death thing and her story is even sadder than we thought, which makes me sad

Why SHOULD his depression react in any predetermined way to a such an awful stimulus? Not everyone with depression has the same or even remotely similar reactions or symptoms...

Yeah, I am pretty sure she was attracted to those qualities in Kaladin, not vice versa, and she even says that she wasn't the cause of his skill with the spear until she appeared to him, just that she was on the lookout for him or someone like him

I strongly disagree with you on the suitability of fantasy to explore these issues then. To me, exploration of real life important issues is a RESPONSIBILITY of Spec Fic. I personally have no interest in wasting my time reading a book that doesn't try to do this

Psychologically these things just don't resolve completely overnight!

The 5 days is weird and doesn't really make sense even in terms of exploring the city. You'd at least expect a broad plan and a debrief from the battle within 5 days. Even if Kaladin has to leave in a hurry before any planning, BS could have had him do all his stuff with Dalinar immediately post battle, fly off the same day and then have the exploration and Adolin killing Sadeas etc continue over those 5 days.

It's a move of last resort

Yeah Relis running off is a big flaw for me

There's a difference between doing it in battle without premeditation and waltzing into his old town as a Lighteyes. There is to me and I'm sure there is to Kaladin

Probably quite effective at scaring them though

Not that I particularly disagree, but was this me at to be in reply to me? It doesn't seem to follow from my post

Ok. As for why he wouldn't go all Lighteyes, not being Lighteyes was a factor (not the main one) for refusing a Shardblade TWICE. There is no way he is getting over that psychological barrier any time soon

Also, why would he need any other weapon? Syl can be a combat knife

Do his eyes go light if he draws Syl without stormlight?

Brilliant. Lots and lots of people with depression can't do that no matter how important it is. I don't even think Kaladin is that emo is this chapter. We all know he's crap at dealing with failure, but he IS keeping it together to deal with the important aftermath of failing to beat the storm and investigate the one place people are likely to go to hide. That guard is NOT capturing him, Kaladin has an instant shardblade but going in guns blazing is, I find, very rarely a good way to gauge a situation, and what's the poor guard done to deserve a beating? If Kal produced Syl, why wouldn't the guard attack him and basically force Kaladin to hurt him

We probably haven't seen much of the practice that any characters have done, because it's not especially interesting to write/read. I don't think you can extrapolate how much ANY character has practiced any skills at all from the text

You see, I accept your opinion, but this is not what I read into the character or the text. Except with people he actively dislikes which ends up being about 3 characters throughout.

Also, with Kvothe remember that, as Maxal says, it's both a tragic story in which he ruins everything because of his character (the Marty Stu aspects are the pride setting himself up for a massive fall) and also it's told by an unreliable narrator who is possibly intentionally inflating his legend for vain or genuinely useful purposes. We know very little of the "modern day" scenario too, and why he is where he is and talking to whom he is talking (I suspect there is far more there than meets the eye, and it's no accident on Kote's part).