WhiteLeeopard

Maxal, hope for the best, plan for the worst! You are already planning for the worst, which is always good, but don't lose faith and keep hoping that Adolin will get a good resolution (okay, not good, as nothing short of an entire pov book would be good, but sufficient resolution). I was just reading a reddit thread of your favorite moments of SA and over one third were Adolin's duel, and Adolin offs Sadeas. I find it hard to believe an author as skilled as Brandon would make a character which so many people are paying close attention to (even if he got said character by accident) and then just remove him because he wasn't part of the orginal outline. One of his traits is that Brandon does not kill characters for the shock of it, or because it is/isn't expected, he does with his characters what feels right, and I find it hard to believe tossing out Adolin will feel right to anyone. Personally, I am fully behind you (although I really don't want him to lose his shardblade, that would be almost like losing part of his soul), Adolin is my favorite Kholin, Jasnah is close behind, but still on second place, Dalinar, my main issue with him is his ocassional blindness and how he treats Adolin and Elhokar respectively, Renarin...I don't feel I've seen enough of him to say anything, he seems nice enough but always falls into the background for me on all his scenes due to how Adolin is usually there (of course, I get that that is probably how we are meant to feel), Elhokar...well not much of a fan. But overall, the Kholin family feels very tightly knit together, and Adolin been kicked out would most likely shake the foundations quite badly, specially considering that Jasnah would likely just ask why they didn't send assasins after sadeas earlier on. And using Adolin been sent out of the action to "evolve" the other kholins just feels cheap. Adolin's thread has been one of the most anticipated for oathbringer, a bust there would dissapoint many, even if just a slight bad feeling (not just us Adolin groupies ).

Responding to a point briefly mentioned earlier on the thread. Moash is getting a pov? Ick. My idea of morality is often very flexible in books. Jasnah kills the thiefs: good, they were killing passerby, Szeth slaughtering across the kingdoms: well he thought he didn't have a choice. Moash...did the worst thing in my book that you can do, betrayed a friend, in my opinion after that all you deserve is to fall off your horse and break your neck while no-one is looking. On to the topic at hand, Adolin is one of the characters that I am also most interested for in oathbringer, (the other is Szeth) and I think part of the reason for both is the same, that we readers have absolutely no clue how those characters will evolve or how or where they will go. This uncertainty is specially true for Adolin, as he is not a flashback character, as such I expect the theorizing to continue until oahtbringer's release (My interest in Adolin is also why I have been following maxal's posts really closely, and I will also be heartbroken if he is not explored in more detail). I'm sure this has been said already at some point, but an in between point between semi exile and still keeping him in the loop would be to send him back to Kholinar. As we saw after the 4 on 1 duel, some of the nobles he defeated were sent back to Alethkar "in disgrace". This might both give him some thinking time, and still allow us Adolin fans to see him through the eyes of others, as there is a decent chance main characters will be in Kholinar at some point of oathbringer. And as we might gather from the book cover it would also give him a chance to continue using the skills he already has, and learn who he is as a person without the insane weight of responsability that has been placed on him his whole life. A possible hope to cling to, is that Adolin did not have that many point of view chapters in previous books, but he was still a very integral part of it. He is just such a vivid character that you don't need to see from his eyes for him to shine (of course, seeing him from the eyes of others is always second best, but better than nothing ^^). That been said...Brandon has never yet fully dissapointed me, and killing or getting read of adolin would most certainly make it the first time, as such, for now I will cling to my faith that all will work out.

Roshar will be rayzed and everyone will have to emigrate to Braize.

I doubt Kaladin will care about the legal aspects of it, he will likely decide his stance based on whether he sees what Adolin did as right. The reason why he backed up from the Elhokar plot wasn't because it broke the law, it was because it was wrong to let someone die just because they were incompetent, or for revenge. Adolin did not kill Sadeas out of revenge, he did it out of precaution. Sadeas has already proven that he will do his damnedest to kill Dalinar and as many people around him as he can. In any case, I find it hard to believe it would break a major alethi law. Remember the assasin when crossing the bridge in WoR that led to Shallan and Kaladin ending in the chasms, and countless nameless soldiers dying? Or the 6000 soldiers killed in the Tower in WoK thanks to Sadeas? He did not seem worried that he would be blamed of any law breaking in those cases, and specially in the assasin case I find it hard to believe he would have a lot more leeway than what Adolin did. As such the conflict from his actions should be more with his family than anything else. As for this...I have been getting a niggling feeling since WoR that Dalinar should leave Alethkar alone in the mid term, in either Elhokar or Adolin, or anyone else's hands, and focus on restablishing the Knights Radiant. Applying alethi laws to radiants would be absurd in some cases, and similarly some radiant laws could not fit too well with alethi. Mainly as so far it seems mainy details of the laws could be very order specific. And Dalinar will probably have to eventually accept that. At the moment he has an idealistic idea of what he wants to do, but he can't hope to hold Elsecallers or Dustbringers accountable for some things which Windrunners would see as horrific, but which would be standard matters for them.

Are there any theories on why Kel would want to hide that particular truth? Feel free to link me to any relevant posts

Does storing a memory in copper fully "remove" it or only make it weaker? As I think I've seen conflicting comments about it.

Ohhh this looks like fun. Figures it would be a thread like this that would finally make me post. I'd definetely take And how about a few more electives Religious Studies 160 Starting a Religion Prof. Kelsier, Guest Lecturer Rashek p.s. the guest lecture may be scheduled with short notice as it can't happen until the Professor is off campus for a few days Psychology 300 Dancing, Dresses and Spionage, Prof. Vin and Prof. Allrianne, Assistant Prof. Sazed Physical Education 105 Garbage Disposal, Prof. Jasnah and Prof. Adolin, Guest Lecture by Nightblood History 400 History of the Cosmere, Highest Prof. Khriss