digitalbusker

I read the sick mind thing as about the hypothetical hallucination, but Vorin prudishness is good too.

I'm not here to enforce forum rules. The question of analysis versus creative discussion was about whether what you're doing is likely to get you what you say you want. I think we're probably past diminishing returns on this conversation now, so I'll take my leave.

It could be that there was something they had to do with the dagger and the Honorblade before giving it to Moash, but we don't have any obvious clues what. It could also be that they didn't want to risk Jezrien seeing his blade, snapping into lucidity, and fighting back with it.

You're not going to figure anything out by ignoring the evidence against your theory. That's not analysis, that's... I don't know, a creative writing exercise? The way to do that would have been to start a topic called "[OB] Ash's Identity" or some such, and open your post with something like "I know this is not the accepted theory, but I have this feeling that Ash might not be Shalash, and I'd like to discuss it...." Would that post have gotten two replies immediately citing contrary evidence and then fallen off the front page forever? Maybe. Is it sad when that happens? Yeah. Is that better or worse than starting a thread and having it hijacked halfway through the first page by a post that starts "The theory that $tangentially_related_noun is $commonly_accepted_synonym is just that: a theory" and then kicks off a giant argument? Unclear.

We know she's getting a flashback (PoV?) book in the back five. We know each of the orders is supposed to "have" one of the ten books. The only two confirmed book characters who aren't already known to be members of an order are Ash and Taln. The only two orders not represented among the other eight book characters are the Stonewards and the Releasers (aka Dustbringers). Taln still seems like a good match for the order associated with him, but Ash has had some personality changes (notably she's destroying art now instead of creating it), so seems like a plausible match for the Releasers. Also, at the end of Oathbringer, when Dalinar thinks he's almost got all the orders represented (the "Avengers Assemble" scene) we can confidently map eight of the orders to characters who are present and have bonded spren. The two orders missing, again, are Stonewards and Releasers, and the two characters yet unbonded (as far as we know), again, are Taln and Ash. Now we don't absolutely know that each book character will be a member of the order that corresponds to their book. But we're pretty sure of eighty percent of them, so....

Marsh: paludal

Dude. Just off the top of my head: * She matches the picture that Hoid drew for Jasnah. * The depictions of Shalash that she's destroying don't actually look enough like her to make the identity theft angle a sensible motive. * When she scratches the brazier outside Taln's tent, she thinks "Don't idolize us". * Neither Taln nor the Stormfather is like "Who dis?" * On the double Lightweaver PoV thing: Shalash isn't a Lightweaver, she's their mascot. And yeah, based on the Avengers Assemble scene, I expect she's destined to become a Releaser. I don't know if you're thinking she's another Herald or just some fan, but she's definitely at least a Herald. And it would be pretty crazy for her to not be the one she seems to be, given we have a even a short PoV from her.

I would swap those, myself.

To be fair, in between those two things they had him killed.

Deevy. (What do you mean, which character? All of them!) Renarin: awkward* *: In the sweetest way. Adolin: best Jasnah: overqualified

I wonder how it would be for a regular human with some kind of filter mask to go bead diving. I would worry about bumping into dangerous submerged spren, but in a shark cage or something it could be interestingly trippy. ETA: There's got to be some kind of maximum depth, where the accumulated weight of the beads above pack the beads below too tightly to penetrate. Although whenever people have fallen in, they seem to be getting into their orifices faster than you'd expect, so maybe we can't really treat them like beads.

Dalinar definitely knows that Taravangian sent Szeth on his latest rampage. Taravangian lied to him about why, but he spun a plausible yarn that wouldn't necessarily conflict with anything Szeth could tell him. He was definitely trying to get out ahead of the story.

Ah yes, the nose and mouth, commonly understood by science to be the only reason we need to breathe....

2 through 4 are just "Bridge 4!" at increasing volume levels. The fifth is a very rude and impractical suggestion for Moash.

I take it all back. This is definitely in my headcanon now. After all, what does a bridge do but bond two places?

Good thing she taught him the masculine "I".

I think we're discounting the impact of "Jezrien's dead" on the non-Vorin nations.

You're conflating the large scale undirected investiture radiation of a highstorm with the smaller directed investiture of a Lashing. Again, it's not impossible that this is a thing. It's just, as far as I can see, not supported by any evidence so far ("wouldn't it be cool" is not evidence).

It's not impossible that there's something we don't yet know that makes this work this way, but right now we have no reason to believe that repeatedly being the subject of Lashings and/or continuous physical proximity to people holding Stormlight would affect an object in this way.

Well Nale wasn't particularly concerned with his objections to whatever he was objecting to, and we know he's got an undeservedly high opinion of Ishar's wisdom.

If it matters, go ahead and game out both branches. I'm not sure it does.

I'm a third-ideal light singer, and my brother is driving a trolley. He's about to run over some especially virtuous orphans, and the only way I can stop him is by pulling the switch that will send his trolley down a side track into the Angry Chasmfiend Methamphetamine Distribution Center. My brother loves me, and would never harm me. The orphans deserve to be protected. Which of my oaths do I break?

Does the third oath have a built in escape clause for people who are trying to hurt people that deserve protection, or is this a deliberate Heroic BSOD trap?

Yes, thank you, that was the joke.

Oh, hey: "somebody says intergalactic when they mean interstellar"... Bingo! I've got bingo!