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  1. digitalbusker
    The definite article in your handle is incongruous and you're still using the default avatar. Oh, you probably meant about the thing, didn't you. Hey, you do you. If you feel that way about it, you don't need my blessing, but you have it. Not that I agree with you, mind. I think if he'd killed her in a more visceral way I would have had a hard time believing he could come back from it. I think the fact that Dalinar wouldn't let himself off the hook for something that he could easily have decided wasn't really his fault is pretty consistent with his character. That, and everything @maxal said.
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    A little on the nose, but I'll take it.
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    To establish that the quote must be from Sazed it's not necessary to prove that another person holding Ruin and Preservation would be named Harmony. It's necessary to prove they wouldn't. (Which is to say: we don't know that.)
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    Being a handicapped member of a low-status minority group relegated to a horrible violent death for reasons we still don't know is exactly the kind of easy "blossoms and cake" life that should preclude you being able to bond a spren, sure. But seriously: there's no Radiant Lopen without Kaladin. Rua never would have found the Lopen on his own (if he even decided to go looking for somebody to bond, without Syl's example). The first crop of Radiants are exceptional (in good and bad ways), not because you have to be exceptional to be a Radiant, but because that made them easy to find.
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    Dun spheres aren't worth less than infused ones, it's just harder to prove they're legit. Some small merchants might not take them at all, because they don't want to absorb the risk of receiving counterfeit spheres. Merchants that do accept them, and moneychangers who will exchange dun spheres for infused ones, may charge a fee to cover that risk. But we don't have any indication that the fee is a significant fraction of the face value of the sphere. If ATM fees were tied to the tides it might produce some distortions in the economy, but it's not like the money supply on Roshar is fluctuating wildly from week to week.
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    Great quote, and I suspect you're right, but how are we sure that's Sazed speaking and not some other person holding Harmony?
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    The Surges wouldn't be different, but the way you access them would be. It wouldn't have been a Nahel bond or an Honorblade, for sure.
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    Red is the color of corrupted Investiture, so his Shardplate changed from gold to red when his Passion was corrupted by his Ambition. Torol Sadeas was spiked by Trell confirmed!
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    I read Lift's disorientation in the alley as the prose equivalent of a dolly zoom; letting us know Lift is freaked out without resorting to having her day "I'm freaking out, man!"
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    The only part of this I'd quibble with off the top of my head is the assertion that Radiant Soulcasting can fuel any transformation from any gem. In The Way of Kings, when Jasnah is Soulcasting she drains the appropriate gems. And when Shallan accidentally turns the goblet to blood she's holding a garnet. Counterpoint: if Jasnah is able to fuel any transformation with any gem, then of course she's going to choose to use the expected gem types so as not to draw suspicion. But the fact that Shallan got blood from a garnet indicates there's some association, even if it only comes into play when the Radiant doesn't specify. So it could be that Jasnah can do any transformation with any kind of gem, but it does appear that the gems are still used, and she's not just drawing in the Stormlight and using it directly. (At least in book 1.) Otherwise we wouldn't expect gems to break. We never see any other surgebinders break gems by simply drawing light out of them, but Jasnah breaks I think two gems in tWoK (one in the palace and one in Crime Alley). Maybe it's possible to do it either way (fuel a transformation directly with your own Stormlight or pay for it out of gems you have on you), and the gem only matters in the second case (if at all), and Jasnah either didn't know that or didn't want to risk glowing. Maybe during the battle at the end of Oathbringer Jasnah is fueling all her transformations with light she's already inhaled and so didn't have to worry about having gems of specific types. Or maybe she was carrying around a ton of different polestones and we just didn't get a mention of it because when you're in the middle of a Brandon Avalanche you don't have time for detailed inventory management. We don't get, even in her own PoV, a description of the negotiations with the things she's changing, but from her discussion with Shallan we know it's happening. On the broader point of how the lesser Soulcasters work, I think you're probably pretty close. I suspect there's a spren involved in each transformation. Whether it's the same spren each time or the fabrial is facilitating a deal with whatever spren is handy, I'm not sure.
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    You know, if the Flying Fused have a permanent Lashing that makes them basically weightless, that could explain some of the weird things about them: the floating around all the time like they're not burning a consumable resource to do it and the fact that both Szeth and Kaladin note they take longer to change speed than Our Heroes. If their effective Lashable mass is less, that would reduce the amount of acceleration they could get from any one Lashing, meaning they'd have to Lash themselves multiple times (which I'm assuming takes non-zero time for each Lashing) to achieve the same result as a regular Gravitation Surgebinder applying one Lashing.
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    The Witch-King: No living man may hinder me! Bo-Ado-Mishram: unintelligible voidish gibbering The Witch-King: Nope! I'm out!
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    I wonder if Lift could eat Yelig-Nar and convert it into Stormlight.* * Disclaimer: This thing, I do not actually wonder him.
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    What I got from the flashbacks was that Gavilar and Dalinar wanted access to Evi's shards, and Evi and her brother wanted protection from the people who thought they weren't the rightful owners of same. The "courting" period was mostly about convincing them that marrying into House Kholin was the best way to guarantee their safety. Which is why killing an assassin and taking a walk in a highstorm was considered a net plus.
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    The Highstorm is big, like really big. Big like whoa. If Honor's Perpendicularity is in there somewhere, but not necessarily at a predictable place, it would be pretty hard to find.
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    Look, folks, I'm not trying to tell you your business, but one of these options is a spren who grew extra arms so he could flip people off more efficiently.
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    It sounds like you and I have different understandings of what Allomantic Gold does. And since I don't think there's enough canon information to prove either of us right, we may just have to live with that.
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    "Whole" doesn't really seem plausible. I don't think Gold can show you a version of yourself that depends on other people making different choices.
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    So far we've only seen two Augur visions in the active PoV. In both cases the character saw a version of themselves as they would have been if they hadn't made a particular choice.
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    I dig it, but your proposed 5th Ideal is way too basic. It should be something like "I AM THE CODE!" but expressed in machine code.
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    "Taking" isn't probably the word she should use, but she's still not in her final form, so she's not yet fully beautiful and articulate. She's definitely receiving something from him (sapience) and giving him something in return (cool powers), and you could argue that he wasn't ever given the change to affirmatively agree to that transaction, so in that sense she's "taking" something from him. But we have no indication that his capacity is reduced in any way because of what she's getting through the bond. Think of Syl like a helium balloon that for some reason wants to stick around near the ground. She ties herself to Kaladin's backpack, thus gaining access to his mass, which is enough to keep her from floating away into the air. If he were standing on a really sensitive scale you might be able to detect the change due to the Syl-balloon's attachment, but in practical terms it's negligible. In exchange, he gets a spiffy balloon.
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    Shallan's occasional Lightweavings of a mostly catatonic version of herself remind me of the vision Vin has when she burns gold. So probably one of those, maybe with a Veil and/or Radiant thrown in for good measure. There's clearly some similar Realmatic underpinnings to Augur visions, self-applied Lightweaving, and soul Forging. All draw on your own history but add a "what if" twist.
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    So far we seem to have a theme of acknowledging where we fall short and/or would rather not live up to our ideals, so I'd expect there to be something about admitting the comforting untruths you've clung to and discarding them in favor of uncomfortable truths.
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    I'm with you on everybody except Torol Sadeas. We have too many PoVs from him where he doesn't take the possibility of an oncoming Desolation seriously.
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    I think the most likely plot related to this in the next book is something like this: Kaladin knows his lands are behind enemy lines and so doesn't really think about them or take his responsibility seriously, until some refugees from his lands show up at Urithiru.
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