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That last part is bad! All by itself! Don't do the bad thing! Encourage other people not to do the bad thing! Don't waste energy trying to figure out whether the person doing the bad thing has ever said anything inconsistent with their behavior! ETA: I see how pointing out hypocrisy can be useful rhetorically; if you can convince someone that they're doing something that actually believe it's wrong, you've got a shot at changing that behavior. The thing I'm complaining about is when the accusation of hypocrisy is used as an end in itself, or to shut down debate.

I didn't figure out what the Bridge 4 and Moash icons were showing until my reread, and probably only then because somebody mentioned the relationship in the Moash episode of Shardcast. I thought the patch was a mask, like on No-Face. I am terrible at tracking chapter icons. I was when I was reading the Wheel of Time, too. Other fans would be like "Obviously $NAME is a $THING! Didn't you see that he used $ICON for their first appearance?!"

That's from Oathbringer (the book) right after Dalinar returns Oathbringer (the sword) to Ialai and learns that Amaram is to be the new Highprince Sadeas. Daliar's actual reaction was to have his feelings hurt and leave abruptly. Here's what he should have said: "Storms, Amaram, you've figured it out! You may be the first to ever figure that out! Would you like a... I don't know, a ribbon? A pat on the head? Both of my sons are pretty bright, you see, so I don't actually know what the customary reward is for a slightly slow child who has managed to solve a riddle of middling difficulty. Yes, I have done terrible things. I have killed and burned and ended innocent lives the length and breadth of Alethkar. And in so doing, I have amassed power and prestige which I have no intention of giving up now. It's all true. You want to talk about what morality is and isn't, Meridas? Morality isn't a footrace. You don't get extra points for being less vile than the next man. When we die, the being who weighs our souls isn't going to compare the reading to a ledger of those who came before. I am disgusted by the man I was, but I will use him. I will use his reputation and his ill-gotten gains to stop other people from falling to his level, if I can. Maybe that makes me a hypocrite, maybe just a fool. But I am too busy trying to save the world to worry about that just now. "Enjoy your new title, and your shards. Enjoy swinging around the corpse of a being once bonded to a better person than you will ever be." (Mostly I hate it when people treat "you're a hypocrite!" like a super-duper sick burn. Essentially they're saying "I accept your stated position on what is right and wrong, and rather than debate that, I am going to point out that you don't live up to your standards either." I think hypocrisy might actually be morally neutral! Whatever bad thing you're doing is bad, but saying it's bad doesn't make it worse.)

It takes a while, apparently. And the effects we've seen seem to all be associated with the single-substance fabrials. Maybe the Greater Soulcasters don't experience the same side effects.

Yeah, but the meat it's wearing might count for something. We don't know either way, and it might be different for different kinds of CS/meat combinations.

Listeners is what the Parshendi call(ed) themselves. Singers is what the Fused and the Voidspren are telling the transformed Parsh to call themselves. I find that second bit a little problematic. But so is calling them all Parsh or Parsh-something.

(emphasis mine) *sings: One of these things is not like the others.... Look, you do you. You don't have to like Dalinar. But let's not pretend that alcoholism belongs in the same category as the rest of those character flaws.

Is there a description of the search syntax somewhere? I'd like to know how to search for: (Hoid OR Wit OR Cephandrius) AND (sword OR blade) ETA: Since a helpful resource has been linked downthread, and so I'm not (just) cluttering up the feature suggestions thread with an easily answered question, I hereby suggest a link to that helpful resource be added to the Advanced Search page.

Point.

This is plausible, but I think it's more likely the Stormfather was just avoiding revealing the sibling's gender. Have an upvote anyway.

I'm pretty sure Kaladin outranks him, at least.

It's not exactly made up. It's an existing word, recreant, which means "someone who is unfaithful to a belief", modified to refer to an event.

If he is a Herald he's spending a lot of time in Hair and Makeup every morning to make it look like he's aged. ETA: His reaction could be more than just "Stormfather, will I never be done with this storming family?!" If it is, my money is on a connection to one of the secret societies.

The in text evidence for when it was destroyed is a little on the thin side, but even if it was, it had a working Oathgate, so it had access to the best tech and tools of the time. As for how they were preserved... Shrug emoji. But I don't see any hints of a better explanation.

Probably scavenged from the ruins of Stormseat.

We have seen one other kind of fabrial that directly mimics an application of a surge: Regrowth.

I'm not sure how we fit the guy who got some cloth to sell and had his vision inverted (from the Baxil interlude) into this framework. I could see her using her experiences with supplicants as a source of ideas, but I think it's unlikely she is just swapping things out. For one thing, what are the odds that every single person who seeks the old magic is able to give up something that happens to fit what the next person is going to ask for?

Hoid himself seems to think it's less about where he's fighting than whom he's fighting: Presumably another living worldhopper in Shadesmar would be safe from Hoid.

Maybe because he won't shut up about how untrustworthy his mind is?

Anybody else think that Odium let the Last Legion escape so he could have a possible reserve of free parsh to work with if the Radiants succeeded in lobotomizing the main populace? Most of what makes this Desolation different from the previous ones wouldn't have worked without the Listeners.

Yeah, there's an obvious Szeth parallel, but the punchline of the Wandersail story is the people flipping out as they realize they're responsible for what they've done. Szeth doesn't do that, because he always felt responsible for the sins he was committing. The Knights Radiant, however, after the revelations about their origin and the lobotomizing of the parsh, do indeed flip the Braize out.

Slaveform is not the same as Dullform, although clearly Dullform looks enough like Slaveform that a Listener in Dullform can pass. Parshmen don't look like Parshendi in Slaveform, they are Parshendi in Slaveform.

Huge twist: Tanavast, in his dying state, suffered from some dyslexia-like symptoms, and it's later revealed that in knotting these strings together Dalinar was actually doing the opposite of what Honor intended!

Bands of Mourning Spoilers

I kicked myself at the end of The Way of Kings for not recognizing that Honor's speeches in Dalinar's visions weren't really interactive. I think I spotted Vivenna on the second color metaphor, when really I should have been thinking along those lines just from the name she took. That's about it for Stormlight, I think. My track record in Mistborn is much worse. In particular, I spent all of Hero of Ages