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you guys skipped tha part where Kaladin is the most aligned with Honor's intent.

will you add the recent youtube Q&A to your next episode?

brandon went out of his way to make sure that the ending of mistborn doesn't happen when he had odium shatter Honor, yet every one act like thats not an issue. you can bend over backward to make it happen but from a doylist perspective its just not happening.

where is this idea that shardbearers would just stand there for mistborn to swing around and attack comes from? urban areas are just as beneficial to shardbearers as mistborn. the can hide behind walls, enter building, jump between roof tops....etc. they can jump tens of feet in the air, kick bodies more than 20 ft, run faster than horses. again, cracking the plate is just a prelude to more cracks. breaking the plate takes minutes long effort the shardbearers won't give you. and those were 7ft tall war form parshendi. and I doubt they cracked it with one blow. shardbearers stand under hails of arrow fire like they were pebbles, and pushed coins aren't that different. now you may say coins rip through bodies. but that's only because the force pushing the coins leverages the the mass of the pusher against the mass of soft intestine or skull or ribs. but the moment coins hit plate the force that was supposed to rip a body will transfer back pushing the mistborn away seeing how shardbearers are are heavy enough to break the back of a horse if they more the wrong way. and no, coins are not launched with the same velocity of a bullet even if it seems like it. if you stop pushing on an object it just drops. they have no momentum.

full Shardbearing radiant without surges but with stormlight beats Mistborn final empire version nine out of ten times, argument for waiting out the radiant's stormlight are not arguments for who can beat who in a straight fight. shard plate cracks are a prelude to it breaking in 2 or 3 consecutive strikes at the same spot is a misconception, that only happens with shardblade strikes and it has more to do with the Conection severing nature of shardblades (separating the soul from the body, separating the lesser spren from each other?) than with the strength of the blade or strike, I think.

The only person we see Gavilar mistreat was Navani. and she herself admits that she was just as hurtful in other arguments.

so, what do we know ? - that shardplate is made up of multiple spren. - can change to accommodate the radiant like a spren blade (lowerglow,closed eye slits). -it gives glass-clear vision from inside the helm and not foggy like dead plate. Speculation : - plate can exist in a spectrum from completely in the physical to completely in the cognitive and a middle ready-to-manifest like state we see from kaladin. - the ability to manifest plate on others, which I assume is not a regular radiant like ability, or even a windrunner ability. I think it has something to do with adhesion (which has been emphasised this book specifically to be the surge of bonds). but I wouldn't be surprised if other windrunners managed it too.

He fits the Stonewards much better. Edgedancer would require too many sacrifices from him to progress.

from a writing perspective this allow kaladin to go from the cool yet repetitive role of a battlefield commander and place him in a more dynamic plot.

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Ishar mixing truth with lies creates a more engaging narrative than him lying all the time. I think he was lying to nale about the radiants accessing greater surges might restart the desolation, but I think he was telling the truth about radiants accessing greater power without honor to regulate them being a problem.

there is a theory circulating in reddit that Dai-Gonarthis the unmade was involved in Moash's sales pitch

I feel like it's underwhelming for kaladin to only get his plate after a two book arc. it's also kinda strange for him to get armor once he accepts that he can't save everyone and he has to allow others to risk themselves. I think when kaladin swears the fourth oath every windrunner in his vesenity get armor too, through Conection,Spiritual Adhesion,or even basic resonance (we know its strength of Squires, could it mean more than just their number?) would be cool that as kaladin accepts and willingly send his men to danger he gives them the greatest protection there is. of course there would be limitation, only those closest to kaladin through shared experience and ideals (basically mostly bridge four) and within limited distance of kaladin.

my theory is that the Fused get a continuous stream of voidlight that corrospond acordingly to how much is required to continually fly, and whenever they use more for healing,lashing or speeding then they are operating at a deficit, that can only be restored if they stop flying all together for a while. that's why they rarely lash or speed up.

My theory, Gavilar found ba-ado-mishram and they made a deal. He binds her to him and frees her, by freeing her he restores the minds of parshmen around Roshar and she gives them powers just like the false desolation. Powers not directly from odium. The peace treaty act as a base for equal cooperation. If one unmade can defect, why not two? I think the more sepiant unmade are coming to the realization that an Odium victory is not in their best interest, because it means they cease to exist. Gavilar is not a vorin fanatic, you can observe this in the oathbringer prologue where he talks about the history of roshar, yes he talks about glory and Destiny but not in vorin terms, he even knows about the almighty dying & the heralds abandoning their duty. a knowledge that broke a devout like amaram but doesn't seem to bother Gavilar in the least. Gavilar got the visions, sought knowledge, discovered and joined the sons of honour and used them, he knew to much and didn't share with them becouse their goals didn't align, the same with aesudan and all the people he named as he was dying. Gavilar saw the big picture that we all have to acknowledge that this isn't about humanity defeating the forces of evil (odium), this is about humans and singers coming together to defeat Odium. Shards dont hold ground, and neither do fused & unmade. Odium needs the singer to willingly join him, becouse if he can't that's game over. He can't win against a United Roshar with just several hundred fused and nine unmade. And...and... sorry went on a tangent there.

Do we know that though ? Or do we assume becouse he wanted to give them their forms of power & wanted an enemy for unity? If so than why did he care about the peace treaty so much? Seems everyone has forgotten this. My theory, Gavilar had access to BAM and through her void light, we know that BAM was behind the false desolation, and made a connection with the singers so strong that her imprisonment ripped their minds & identity. Gavilar was given the mandate to UNITE THEM, so he came to the conclusion that to defeat Odium the humans and the singers have to be on the same side, so with BAM's help he restores the minds of the singer & gives them form of power not beholden to Odium. And the peace treaty was a basis for cooperation, by recognizing the singer's as a sovereign nation, as appossed what they are doing now. Which is basically "they are angry and want what's theirs, so let's kill them before they kill us". The author muddied the water by assosiating Gavilar with amaram so much, it seems like they say the same thing but there are differences. Amaram talks about the heralds coming Back from the tranqualine hall's while Gavilar talks about forcing them out of hiding. Amaram talks about the church & vorinism while Gavilar talks about humanity's history in general. Amaram talks about starting a glorious war while Gavilar talks about ending an unfinished one. the entire thing reeks of authorial misdirection, giving him so many shady associations, having Navani constantly hint at unpleasant secrets, ultimately he is the one who set dalinar on the path to ascendancy, he is the one who told him to follow the codes, he is the one who look for the most important words a man cam say & showed him The Way of Kings.

Kelsier would absolutely be a stoneward. He is dependable & resourceful, he takes the most dangerous missions and he uses himself as bait many times. And he stood up to TLR when everyone wanted to flee.

They may not want to fight the humans, but why would they fight Odium for them? The humans took their minds and enslaved them for millennia. Odium gave them their minds back, Odium gave them their lands back, Odium gave them their powers back. They did fight and they won Alethkar, and there are far more fused to guide them than there are radiants, who don't know their history or their power all that well. honour is dead,the heralds are broken. one year or ten years, it's not gonna make a difference, this is not a war you win with numbers, this is a war you win by breaking old barriers. Like opening a perpendicularity or singer saying the oaths or unmade joining the other side. The only thing a time-skip will do is break narative momentum.

The fused are inpatient with the singer's, the listeners are the ones who fought the alethi. Regals are singers who adapt forms of power by accepting a spren to themselves. You are acting like the only crime of the humans is taking away the singers minds, this entire war started because the humans took the singers home.

you're pretending that they are equal forces, but they aren't. Rebuffing the voidbringers at thaylen city is not equal to losing Alethkar, also Odium's forces are fighting on multiple fronts. They attacked thaylen city while they were rebuilding kholinar, the unmade are loose on the land,the everstorm rages on, bringing in more fused. What lull are talking about? You say minor skirmishes, but between whom? These are Regals and Fused with forms of power and voidbinging, not some parshendi tribe. I almost forgot the thunderclasts. Maybe an alethi army supported by a dozen shardbarers can fight off a fused and Regal army, but what about a reshi army? or herdazian army? or horneater army? I don't mind the desolation being a drawn-out long campaign, but that's not what we got in OB. we got an enemy who is organized, methodical & prepared. suddenly having them stop for a year so the heroes can catch their breath is bad writing.

Dalinar was the quickest way to freedom, that's it. And he didn't seem all that broken up about it when he talked to Taravangian.

Odium consolidated his power, and positioned his troops during Oathbringer, he conquered Alethkar and lost only the thrill in thaylen city.

What about Odium? Is he going to sit on his chull for a year? The idea of a year where nothing happens but the radiant gathering and training is ridiculous. The voidbringers are not hapless koloss or petty nobility squabbling amongst themselves, they are legions of destruction, united in purpose, fighting on multiple planes of existence, using every weapon at their disposal. A year is long enough for all of those restored Singers to start getting with what Odium is selling. The singer's comprise the bulk of Odium's army, since every one of them can take a form of power and also house the fused; odiums most experienced soldiers and general's and voidbinders. If Dalinar,Venli and Rlain manage to flip them from odium's side, it's over. The fused have no hosts, so they are trapped in damnation. The unmade can be captured, and Odium can only win if he start to SMASH things around like Ruin. But unlike Ruin there is another shard waiting to knock his teeth out if he tried. Sorry for the rant.

I really hope he changes he mind about this gap, it's completely unnecessary. Things are just to up in the air for that, after the forth book would be better: - after kaladin shallan swear the forth ideal, and be a little bit stable. - after Venli join the side of the radiants - after urithiru is reawkened And so many things, it took them less than a year from TWOK till now to devolop this much, discover this much, I don't buy that an entire year will pass without any great moves from either side, and if it happens than that's just bad writing

I always preferred a Glaive to a Spear for kaladin. I am no expert but it seems to me that the main disadvantage of a Glaive is weight, but that doesn't matter when it's a spren, you're stormlight enhanced, you're shard plated & you can even reduce the weight with upper lashing.