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You mean, the unseen darkeyes newcomer-brigdeman-slave that has saved Dalinar Kholin and his army and has just been made Captain of the highprinces personal guard? He must have been the gossip of all the warcamps, along with Dalinar's fits during highstorms.

And he is shown to be an oddball that doesn t belong anywhere. When a lighteyes has a darkeyed mistress and has lighteyed offspring with her, that offspring will be lower dahn full lighteyes, despite being a half darkeye

No, the lighteyes are not a race. If a lighteyed and darkeyed person get together and have kids, the ligheyed ones will be full lighteyes and the darkeyes full darkeyes. If a person changes eye colour he changes his status, too. Now if a black African person from Nigeria has an albino son or daughter, with no dark pigment whatsoever, ethnically that person is still black African, isn't a white person. Ethnic discrimination on Roshar would be Shin people or Herdazians are inferior, just as much as the offspring of mixed marriages with these ethnicities is inferior. In Nazi Germany Jews that were converted to Christianity were persecuted just as much as those who adhered to their native beliefs. Didn't help them when they were Germanic looking, tall and blonde with blue eyes either, the parentage was what made you inferior, not some outer attributes. Just like in the USA, the white majority call people black, even when they have far more than 50% white ancestors and have very light skin colour. Racism is discriminating someone because of his or her biological ancestry, not because of physical attributes. The light- and darkeyed people or Roshar are not different races, so there can not be racism. They are seperated classes due to random physical attributes. They may intermarry and the physical attributes decides in which class the offspring will end.

Exactly what I was wondering. Okay, the Nightwatcher could also be behind this, or some other supernatural force.

But that's almost at the end of book two. If he had suspected this, or considered it possible, he could have investigated and found evidence. He could have confronted him much earlier. Like "how exactly did you save us at the Tower, how is it that we are not dead when the assassin attacked us, how did you figh in that arena fight, unarmoured and without a shardblade. Son, what you are doing is suspicious. What is going on with you?"

And it s unlikely that he had spoken an oath before he bonded the blade, because we see him carrying around with no agonizing effects. So when you have attracted a spren and are in the process of bonding to it, but not yet spoken an oath, at maximum you feel repulsed by the blades, but they don't have the screaming in your head effect

Mmh, he thought that there wouldn't be any new true Radiants and he had to try to turn the shardbearers of Roshar into some sort of surrogate KRs. Do the books mention if he believed (or didn't believe) that the true KRs could be back?

Doesn't matter, appointing a random human doesn't make him Radiant and he knows that, because he has seen the true Radiants in his visions. It s like giving me the nobel prize for physics and then expecting me to be a physicist or handing me a diploma in medicine and then expecting me to operate on someone's appendix.

Oops, fixed that...

When I was reading WoR there was one decision of Dalinar that I found seriously ODD. He appointed Amaram as the head of the Knights Radiant, despite having zero Radiant abilities. I mean, Dalinar even had these visions where he had seen first hand what KR means and what abilities you have to have in order to be one. I mean, this is a joke! He knew, Amaram was only a normal person and how is a normal person be the head of the order of the KR. This decision seems so completely nonsensical. And has Dalinar, when it became clear to him that he has to refound the order, never looked out for people, who repeatedly succeed at stuff when normally the odds should be against them? Did he really never investigate into how bridge four held that bridge and Kaladin was able to rescue him? When Kaladin admitted, he had killed a shardbearer? When some irrational gut feeling tells him to trust Kaladin, despite knowing nothing about his past? He never considered it possible and investigated, instead even appointed a non radiant?

He doesn t hate them becauce of the higher caste, he hates them because the higher caste gives them the opportunity to screw up his and other darkeyes' lives and they have been making ample use of this ability.

I was wondering about the same thing. In pre industrial societies, where food production is very labour intensive more than 80% of the population consisted of farmers. Now at one point in the novels it states, that tenner lighteyes mainly live in cities, working as craftsmen and merchants. If the rural population consists more or less exclusively of darkeyes, as it does in Hearthstone, it's fairly safe to assume, that maybe 20 % of the population may be lighteyes.

Probably the bound human can directly sense the anguish of the undead spren and I assume that in a person with a seizure condition, this can trigger a seizure, just like strong sensual input can trigger migraine in a person prone to it.

Yeah, probably like Kaladin felt a vague revulsion to take the plate and blade he had won under Amaram. A time when he had already attracted the attention of his spren (which probably happened when he was still at home with his parents and felt drawn to life as a soldier because of it) but, no conscious relationship between them had formed yet.

What is also interesting is, Adolin was accepted by a Ryshadium, just as was Dalinar, and those horses were traditionally associated with the Radiants. Maybe Ryshadium have the ability to sense Radiant qualities in humans, even before they turn Radiant/know it themselves. And I suspect that a KR can run his bonded Ryshadium on stromlight, just as his squires can use stormlight in a limited way. Through I agree, that Adolin will probably be an Edgedancer, if he goes Radiant.

Easy? Saying the words is not enough, you have to mean it. If Kaladin hadn t fundamentally changed his opinion, away from the cynical "people who harm others deserve to die, even if they do it by accident, through their incompetence". Saying the words alone, without the change of mind wouldn t have helped him. He never liked Elhokar in any way, shape or form and thorught of him as an annoying weakling and loser on the throne. Plus he is a lighteyes and we know how Kaladin thinks of those. If I hate and despise someone, changing this view to one where I see that this person is genuinely worth of my protection is not that easy.

I was under the impression that the only reason, why Syl hadn't ended as a dead shardblade, that at that point when he broke it, their bond had not progressed to where she had turned into a shardblade.

In WoR when Kaladin swears the third oath, first all the lamps in the corridor go out, then the stormlight explodes in Kaladin. I guess we see these light effects because Kaladin swears the second and third when his life is in imminent danger and he really needs a lot of light to save others. During the second, he has already some stormlight in his system, plus he probably reflexively absorbed everything from charged spheres around him, during the third, it takes a moment for him to absorb the light from the lamps around him. Plus, the different types of spren humans can bond with seems to have a really different mode of operation, so to speak.

I usually associate racism to people, who have prejudice against another ethnicity despite not having had any serious negative experiences with them. Kaladin had never been exposed to a lot of lighteyes. He didn't grow up in a city where there are lots of tenner lighteyes citizens who work as hard to earn their living than their darkeyed neighbours, where there are rich darkeye merchants who marry low lighteyes etc. The only lighteyes he knew until he was 15 were the local citylord Wistow and Laral in his earlier childhood and then years of Roshone's tyranny. Then later in Amaram's army, it seems that they practice race seggregation in their armed forces, they had seperate units for the two groups, so Kaladin's chance to be exposed to nice lighteyes who treat him as an equal wasn't that big either, the lighteyes there were the superiors that ordered him and his men around and not all of them were competent. At that point he was still willing to comply to the system and accept his given place in society, despite the discrimination. Then of course the Amaram affair and his subsequent slavery as a brigeman under Sadeas. No exposure to nice lighteyes there and a valid reason to get seriously paranoid about lighteyes in power and hate for them. Kaladin's opinion toward lighteyes is not racism, it's from his pov a valid opinion based on his collective experience with lighteyes. Dalinar is the first lighteyes since Laral and Wistiow that he got involved with and has shown any sympathy or respect for him, so why should he trust lighteyes?

He probably hasn t had the bond with the spren for that long. When he was bonding the blade Adolin has won for him in that duel he was very likely not having it because he didn t show any emotional anguish or pain at handling his new blade. He carried it around with him for days, the screaming in his head should have shown eventually. The bonding with the spren must have happened in the time between the end of bonding the blade and the duel with Kal and Adolin against the 4 shardbearers where he is unable to fight because of the screaming.

Quit after the first half of the first volume of Mistborn and will certainly not pick it up a second time because I just couldn't stand that female main character.

Unfortunately his plotting is less so. Supposedly Kvothe has narrated the content of these two huge volumes of his early biography in two days besides his work at the tavern, there is only one day remaining and so far he has not even been kicked out of university or found out anything about the big bad antagonist. He spent those volumes bullied at campus, bullied on campus some more, hunting bandits for a nobleman, being introduced to the pleasures of sex by not one, but two women, one a sex elf, the others a ninja fighter, , more bullying on campus, and then he gets a ninja crash course by sexy ninja chick along with a legendary sword. Yawn. Over those two books Kvothe slowly turns into an unlikealbe Gary Stu.

Honestly, with a desolation upon them, probably a lot of people will die, considering that the old reports say, that during a desolation up to 90 % of the population perished.

Kaladin is high raking for a darkeyes. He has no reason to resent higher ranking darkeyes because he was not the object of darkeyes on darkeyes social unjustice.

Ah, so the black people in the USA, that fear white police forces because they are known to shoot innocent, unarmed black kids almost at random are racists because they are weary of the white population?