IndigoAjah

Man, in book 5 I want to see an explosion of full blown, Cosmeric magical combat, where Vasher decides **** has hit the fan and just starts Awakening EVERYTHING, Azure uses Dayblood to turn Nale into a statue, Szeth gives Taln Nightblood and he goes straight to Braize and uses it to utterly **** up every single Fused on Odium's side, Kelsier/Thadaikar sends some Twinborn to cause havoc, someone starts using White Sands magic, Marsh just turns up and kills TOdium with one punch, it all looks like everything is won for the good guys until Dalinar ends up getting super invested and Connects the entire planet in some way that leads to a repeat of the Surgebinding that destroyed Ashyn, and everyone has to flee the system whilst Moash escapes with the Odium and Cultivation Shards as Empire or something. Go that big.

Welp, thank This post has been reported for attempting to skirt the rules Harmony decided to get rid of natural born Mistborn

If she died to a mere Shardblade, wouldn't she be in Braize? Regarding Nale: given he can only kill Radiants if they've broken the Law, maybe Chana was never going to kill Shallan but to make her kill Chana in self-defence so that Nale had his excuse to kill her? Doesn't explain why he wouldn't then come to finish the job though

I think 4 things stood out re Kal's mental health in RoW as particularly good things: the helpful actions of Adolin and Shallan The way Kal still struggles to self-love and accept others caring about him even when we see lots of evidence that they do - which is very real (though some, most unhelpfully his father, really don't get it) The way Kal uses his experience to help others, which is heartwarming And the way Syl feels upset she can't quite understand Kal, and the heartbreaking way she makes herself feel her worst memories to try to empathise with him (which I'm not convinced is a good thing). I liked the balance of understand Vs sympathise in this book. Both are helpful, but as Adolin showed and Syl has time after time, you don't need to understand what someone is going through to support them through it

You know this is going to be what Sanderson writes now

It might just be, and I have to applaud this option, that Kal WON'T get a romantic option. He's not in the right place for one. He's not ready. Lin knew that. It isn't what he needs right now. Syl offers more of what he needs right now. I don't object to Sylladin as a ship, and I think it could work as they really do seem much closer than any other Nahel couple, and they suit each other in many regards, but Syl offers a lot without adding romance in. Not every major character NEEDS a romantic arc, certainly not in-narrative. Sex isn't the focus of the entire universe. Other types of love are important too, and much like say Elsa in Frozen, focus on non-romantic love can be refreshing.

Kal would get "You Will Be Found" from Dear Evan Hansen

I think it's gonna be a book on one of two things really: 1) a book on the Recreance, long lost Or 2) a Shin book about the transfer from Ashyn to Roshar or the like Or maybe 3) about the Ghostbloods 1) would be something like Knights of Woe Knights of Waived Ties/Trust Etc 2) would be Knights Of Wandering Kin of a World Torn 3) Kindred of Worldly Truths?

I think it's because Kal is either always reacting or following orders, except in his best bit where he invents mental health medicine. But then, he's a soldier, in the end in a war that's what he's gonna be doing.

Who says they don't?

Thw other thing is that I really don't think Navani NEEDED to Bond the Sibling in terms of arc and growth. She had a great arc anyway.

Despite the awesome moment of "Journey over Destination, you bastard", I agree with this. It's coerced, for sure, and seemingly irreversible too, though I don't think it's coerced by Navani as such. I don't blame either Navani or The Sibling for giving in to it to survive. I hope it's portrayed as a morally dubious decision, and maybe even painted in comparison to Navani's first marriage, also a dubious marriage of convenience, albeit somewhat more autonomous.

I don't think Dalinar will end up with Honor's Shard to be honest.

A common cold could still wreak havoc!

Has Wit ever given a character in Stormlight Archive a coin permanently? I have a feeling he has...

Is predictability bad? I'm not sure it is. Much better than unforeshadowed unpredictable plot twists which are just pure bad writing. Plus in this day and age, everything is predictable. We analyse these stories thoroughly. If an author has written them well, some of us are gonna guess the major plot details each time. They would have done the same with every book series ever written, had the internet been around at the time they were written. If we don't want stories to be predictable, should we not stop trying to predict them?

Personally I thoroughly disagree but I can see where people's disappointment with the book comes from and you're entitled to your opinion.

Luckily the chump has a giant storm to refill the light in gems etc! But Navani can sort her out regarding that one, I think.

Probably. It's his weird crusade and 10 days in book time is a long time. The actual attainment of an ideal doesn't take long once a character has the right revelation

It's demonstrably not Pattern she uses to kill Tyn

Good point. Man, Shallan is probably very "lucky" she killed her mother and her Spren then, I forgot Nale was around

I agree. I like but don't love Shallan's chapters, not because of the personalities which I think are interesting but because less interesting stuff happens for me than in other characters', at least since Book 2. However, the Testament reveal was clearly planned from the start, foreshadowed in every book and artfully done. I don't really understand how anyone could find out about it and think it was just thrown in this book without thinking "Oh my god, that's why that thing happened in WoR...", But then I've seen the same criticism in things like Frozen where the twist was foreshadowed heavily as well.

Not really. He just has to throw it once and NB will do the rest. Wielding NB is by far the least effective way to use it.

He was working on them for much longer than a book! He still has NB though

I'd say the duel is likely to happen quite a lot before the climax of book 5 to be honest.