IndigoAjah

Rothfuss and Sanderson have different strengths. For me, Rothfuss' prose is beautiful, he writes more elegantly and is one of the best fantasy writers from this aspect that I have read. I thoroughly recommend The Name of the Wind at least

Yeah. I think he would have pursued it soon after but he was VERY preoccupied at the time and then things started to happen very quickly. Same after Adolin tried to work out why he was superhuman, things escalated and other people Adolin loved came first when they got back from yhe chasms

Several possibilities- 1) very few people necessarily believe in radiant powers per say 2) it's a fundamental truth of human existence that we warp our perceptions to what we want to and/or expect to see. Lighteyes would neither expect nor want to see a darkeyes rebel as a being of power 3) everyone bar Dalinar seems to think Radiants are had 4) idiot ball for the sake of plot 5) several people ARE suspicious of Kaladin. Adolin for one pretty much did suspect it. Hoid KNOWS he is. Dalinar suspects it albeit a bit late. King T knows he is. The person who probably should have guessed but didn't was Shallan tbh, though she was probably thrown off when Kal couldn't heal himself. 6) finally for now, Kaladin deliberately didn't use his powers in a very obvious way- nothing overt except in front of his crew who are too loyal to blab. As for the fights, he already has a reputation as skilled from the tower rescue, and he DID beat a shardbearer before any active surgebinding powers manifested (so Amaram for example, who knows some arcane stuff is coming back in his own secret society, could believe his skill without attributing it to surgebinding). Adolin is also very skilled with a different weapon but nobody thinks he is a radiant. Once it became known to most characters that Radiants were back, (and to some of those who knew they might be and anything about them) the dots would be easy to join, but before then the idea of Radiants returning would have seemed impossible, with their powers seemingly thought of as mythical.

II'd agree that it is fundamentally different to revive a dead shard blade because, unless one of the new radiants kills their new blade form spren, the reviver will not yet have a Nahel bond with the (dead) spren through which any interaction can act. It may be that the temporary bond shardbearers have suffices but it seems very different to a true Nahel bond, in which the spren is bound to the human by holding together cracks in their soul. I'd have thought at the very least it would need some powerful external investiture, like a defibrillator of sorts

Surely Shallan has leant much of her skills but suppressed them, so it's easier for her to relearn?

Why has this become Kaladin vs Shallan?

I would pay at least a pound for a Sanderson written chapter that is just the Adolin and Kaladin vs 4 shards fight from the crowd's perspective

Kaladin giving Rlain a spear. So little, so simple, but so perfect. Many others as well, though I loved the symbolism of Dalinar giving up his blade in an exact opposite of what Amaram did to Kaladin. Was possibly the only thing to allow Kaladin any faith at all in any Lighteyes

The one thing that shard plate really puts me in mind of is the carapace armour that Parshendi grow themselves in war form. I think it is something similar, and Parshendi are more similar to spren than humans are- they can see them and the likes of Rock, part Parshendi, can see them. Thus I think that shard plate is not a separate spren or a form of the Nahel bond spren as per such, but rather something that can be grown from such a spren