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2 minutes ago, Nathrangking said:

Also Adolin becomes a riding instructor for kids.

 

And also for Kaladin

2 minutes ago, I Am A Fish said:

Is the coalition trying to be politically correct?

 

I can see why it'd be imprecise for them. They know not every singer is pro-Odium so calling them all voidbringers doesn't exactly work, not to mention it's a term that encompasses more than just singers.

1 minute ago, Infinitysliver said:

So the shin have access to Foresight/Fortune? Like the death rattles? See this has always bothered me because of this one particular Death Rattle from a shin

" I wish to sleep. I know now why you do what you do, and I hate you for it. I will not speak of the truths I see. ”

—Collected on Kakashah 1173, 142 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a Shin sailor, left behind by his crew, reportedly for bringing them ill luck. Sample largely useless.[37]

Szeth may simply think Death Rattles are a Shin thing.

7 minutes ago, Karger said:

Don't you guys know any better!  YOU DON"T THROW DEMONS IN THE OCEAN!

Incoming possessed santhids.

9 minutes ago, Kitch said:

I think it's going to end up being something with her relation to her mother/father/brothers. I wouldn't be surprised if she actually isn't related to her brothers, considering the emphasis put upon family with her chapters so far. Something along the lines that the real Shallan was killed, and "Shallan" was put in her place because of her bond, so that her family would have a radiant in the family.

While it is very likely related to her family I don't think it'll be that she's not related to them. We have:

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JoyBlu

Can you confirm that Shallan is the biological child of her dad, Lin Davar?

Brandon Sanderson

*evil laugh* Should I confirm that? Yeah, I'll confirm that, she is.

Skyward release party (Nov. 6, 2018)

So even if Lin had an affair she's still a half sister to them.

Just to nitpick, the Sleepless call Shallan "the Liar, one who wears the mantle of a scholar over the heart of a thief." She's "the Lightweaver" for WoR. While it's possible she's the one that will destroy the Sleepless/Roshar, it's certainly not guaranteed.

1 minute ago, Valigus said:

basically these 2 characters seem to have been chosen for some reason to become more cosmere aware, which is interesting for kaladin because I was sure he was going to die.

I mean he can still die... and then get flooded with Investiture and become a shadow!

2 minutes ago, Experience said:

...what?  

Zahel would need to speak his native language (Nalthian or one of their languages) to Awaken unless he's reached the 10th Heightening to be able to use mental Commands.

2 minutes ago, Experience said:

Also, the farm. It appears that the spren are feeding off of the stormlight and the rhythms to allow the rockbuds to grow. Does this mean that the rythms can allow other spren to actually effect other things? Such as using a flamespren and rhythms to help make a fire?

Perhaps that's how the singers did things in the past. Using the pure tones of Roshar rather than the prisons of spren.

1 minute ago, Experience said:

Are they actually sensing the Rhythms or just being taught what they are an memorizing them? 

I assume if Rlain says some are showing promising signs then they might actually be sensing something. Kaladin could feel something in the distance, certainly.

3 minutes ago, Ciridae said:

Those Ones of Alteration would probably be either the Transformation of Cohesion Fused, right? 

Probably Cohesion to alter the buildings.

I'm loving Venli's chapters. 

RIP her dream but hey at least she might get a teacher?

No new spren this chapter but a new brand and a name for one we met before. Plus Odium's forces have access to soulcasting but no indication of whether it's by fabrial or Fused.

I would really like to see Shallan soulcast Mraize. "only deals with the ephemeral" indeed.

2 minutes ago, Potus said:

I personally don't want Adolin to be an Edgedancer. Even though we have Lift as our odd one, we already know there are other Edgedancers that were in the first few chapters. I would much rather he be our focus of a new order like Stonewards. Because if we don't get that we have to wait for Taln's book to get that pov, and even then he won't have a spren. 

Why can't Taln have a spren? There's nothing (in theory) stopping him from bonding one.

1 hour ago, Michael Portz said:

I beg to differ and even add an: On the contrary!

Adolin stems from a culture, where shardblades are coveted and venerated  objects. Up to a very short time in the past they where mysterious, too. People only knew that they where immensely powerful. Quite some of them where named by their owners.

My point is: an Alethi like Adolin, educated for warfare, had of course a very personal relationship to his shardblade, even before he learned (less than two years earlier!!!) that they originally had been spren. Hardheaded as he is, he just refuses to change his ways of handling his sword of caring for it, just because, you know, Modern Times.

It might well be, that this is the core reason, that radiancy for him is further away than for many others.

I'd find that quite hard to believe. Not only did Adolin specifically refuse to name his Shardblade like others do out of respect for it, Dalinar's Shardwielding skills were among the best on Roshar and yet he was able to attain Radiancy and bond the Stormfather.

11 minutes ago, PrinceGenocide said:

It's painful true but it's nothing compared to how much the others have suffered to get the cracks in the spiritwebs 

Also he seems to have a much more efficient coping mechanisms

So in other words you think he's not hurt enough, nice. 

1 minute ago, I Used To Be A Fish said:

Certainly, but he seems adept at coping with loss in a way that Renarin, Jasnah, or Kaladin isn't.

That doesn't mean he hasn't suffered, or if we're being direct on what this is about, that he doesn't have cracks in his spiritweb. But to backtrack on my own argument, one way he responded to loss was to kill someone. Admittedly it was the one responsible but still.

1 minute ago, PrinceGenocide said:

Adolin is soooo cool too. Even tho he is so privelaged he never was spoiled. I love him for that. 

But for the same reason I don't think he will become a Radiant. 

Radiance is a function of Pain and Adolin hasn't really felt any in his life. 

He has been in battles and stuff sure. But he hasn't been through trauma or loneliness like renarin or jasnah or kal . 

He's perfectly happy and I really Don't want that to change, even if it means no superpowers to him. He's happy and doing great as is. I think it's best to let him be. 

Is losing your mother (and also the main parent in your life) at a young age not painful? We've been in his head and he's not perfectly happy, he feels anguish. He's seen the men he cared for, to the point of knowing their names and families, slaughtered around him. He's suffered, "not hurt enough" is, in my opinion, ridiculous.

1 minute ago, Nathrangking said:

I wonder who goes on the dedication page. "To Odium, Your passionate efforts made all of this possible." 

"To Evi, I swear to never forget you again."

1 minute ago, Honorless said:

5) goddammit now I see Shallan, Veil & Radiant as different people. I'll be very sad to see them go if she become neurotypical

 

10) wonder if Rock met Hoid, what did/will he say if he did/does?

Even if Shallan integrates and loses her alters she won't become neurotypical.

Rock has met him, when he came through the perp some time ago.

Oh so I wasn't the only one to tear up about the ending, yay.

Nice to see Adolin in the spotlight and signs pointing to Edgedancing, interesting about Radiant going blonde.

1 hour ago, Caden335 said:

Adolin is not an edgedancer. Graceful isn't really a word that suits him.

The man's fashionable incarnate.

Oh and also he duels well.

2 minutes ago, Karger said:

We know that something happened.  We also know or can deduce that Odium has some idea of what.  However I am not sure we can conclude that he was actually the one who started this.  His actions seem too knee jerk. 

Someone on Discord suggested that perhaps it's related to Moash/Vyre and what happened to him. Renarin's situation could have gotten out.

1 minute ago, Karger said:

Sure but whose plan and what deviation? 

The plan is likely Odium's since this all came about because of Leshwi's comment and as for the deviation if I knew I wouldn't be discussing like this  if it's the Sibling, as some have theorised, maybe they were suppose to stay asleep.

2 minutes ago, Innovation said:

I think whatever just happened was the plans for the ”dangerous operation” which the Fused received via meditation. 

Also, there are Fused that can take the shapes of others? Are those the progression Fused or the Lightweaving Fused? 

Probably the Lightweaving Fused. Progression isn't really suited for shapeshifting.

3 minutes ago, Karger said:

So whoever is "keeping score" is worried?  What about?

Any deviation to a plan can be cause for worry.