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And we have no idea if that means he gets an honorspren. Being a Radiant has a lot to do with what motivates you. Rock isn't exactly motivated by a desire to throw himself in harms way to protect people the way Teft or Kaladin are.

Common belief holds a lot of weight. It depends how much narrative time is dedicated to that story versus the core cast. I can't see Rock getting that much screen time unless it's the aforementioned novella and well.... I think that would be a rough novella to do until we know for sure Rock's going Windrunner. I'd almost like to see him as a Bondsmith or Stoneward more.

The highstorms are weak because they've blown over an entire continent and they're sheltered by a mountain range. It's noted that Highstorms are stronger the further east you are so Western nations just don't get hit as hard overall with Shinovar barely getting touched. That's also why they can have soil and trees that don't move. On the other hand the Everstorm has probably wrecked shop there but we haven't had the chance to see yet. That said the Terra forming thing is interesting and has potential. It's just not related to the Highstorms.

There doesn't seem to be an interesting plot development there given how likely it is Shallan's profoundly broken family will attract Spren. I'd also like to see Rock not be a Windrunner. He isn't one yet, only a squire and I suspect Squires may attract other kinds of Spren depending on their personality and goals. I also have my doubts on if a Squire will actually hear screaming from a Shardblade. They may sense a wrongness, but I think until they actually have a Spren bond they aren't going to hear the screams.

"Nothing moved. With a start, Rysn realized she couldn’t see any spren. Not a one. No windspren, no lifespren, nothing. It was as if the entire land were slow of wit. Like a man who was born without all his brains, one who didn’t know when to protect himself, but instead just stared at the wall drooling." This bit from Rysn's first interlude really heavily implies there are no spren in Shinovar. Thing about how prevalent the life is there. It's everywhere in abundance. No bare stone. Nothing hiding. The idea that she would see no lifespren in an environment where Life is everywhere is meant to tell us something. The line wouldn't be there if it weren't important. I've always assumed it's a side affect of soil on some level. And probably something to do with a lack of Crem, which seems like it should be noted more. I mean... Without Crem the ecosystem falls apart. And it only comes with high storms. I have to wonder if it isn't of Cultivation/related to Stormlight somehow.

Shardblade cut in all 3 realms. The soul is probably more of a Spirit Realm than cognitive realm thing if it isn't a little more complicated than even that. But that doesn't invalidate the idea.

You can read it that way, but I'm pretty sure they're largely left to their own devices and haven't acknowledged any Kevedian authority. They certainly aren't Vorin, don't have the whole Lighteyes caste system, and go to war amongst themselves enough for Rock to comment on why having Shards would unite the peaks. Not to mention how the quote I gave is obvious foreshadowing. Rock's got some responsibility to take on.

He was already dodging the responsibility of going home and leading his peak after his brothers were killed. From there he's got shards and Dalinar needs someone to bring the Horneaters into the alliance. Seems like it works out really well for everyone but Rock.

It's established in Way of Kings. The first Horneater to earn shards will become king. It was the quest that got Rock enslaved and his brothers killed. It's in Chapter 23 “The nuatoma, they see our lack of Shards as great shame. They want these weapons very badly. It is believed that the nuatoma who first obtains a Shardblade would become king, a thing we have not had for many years. No peak would fight another peak where a man held one of the blessed Blades.”

I suspect they'll be some kind of Horneater royal symbol. Now that Rock is technically King of the Horneaters.

I'd think maybe having a defected unmade capable of manipulating spren types around may just be involved. It would be more interesting to get to see a Nega-edgedancer as well. Adolin sliding all over a battlefield sucking the life out of things around him would be pretty amazing.

I'm not sure I buy that given we've seen what happens when a Shard bearer heads into the Cognitive realm. Seems like it would just be getting the spren to follow you on your trip to another planet's cognitive realm. And if I were worldhopping to Roshar I'd be stockpiling the things just to make sure nobody comes after me with one, even if that just meant hiding them away somewhere and letting them get covered in Crem, never to be found again.

Seems unlikely. She's described Ina way that seems to suggest she was an Edgedancer's blade. Adolin has just interacted with her In a way that seems to have brought more of her cognition back and caused her less pain. Likely due to his treating her like an intelligent being and his respect for the name the Radiant originally gave her. It's not the blade that's special, it's the way Adolin respects her and treats her. And how the way he does so seems to fit the Edgedancer's oaths. We've seen him do some other edgedancery things as well, speaking up for prostitutes, his relationship to Renarin... Even the way he sees through Shallan's veils. He's probably headed more that way.

Not to mention the number of world hoppers who would horde those or take them other places.

That gets into a weird space. Like... How many beads are there for specific things? Take a high thread count sheet. Do all million+ thread strands have individual beads? Is my linen closet full of more beads than there is space in my house? What about every page in a book? What would the Kharbranth library be like? You get to a point where every object has orders of magnitude more beads for the self than they have mass in the physical realm. I know there's oceans of beads, but it starts becoming this bizarre Tableau of dividing lines that would leave cognitive realm 20 times the mass of Roshar In a big ball of beads with no landmass. Without considering whether molecules have beads. Just a planet of indestructible ball bearings. It stops functioning in a logically coherent manner. It seems far more likely that each object has a single bead for its greatest whole part and when damaged or destroyed those beads split off or when created are merged.

I thought she used the soulcaster to burn words onto paper. That suggests she created fire very precisely rather than soulcasting the paper itself.

I'm guessing it would be much much harder with mixtures because they're very intermingled.

That's a good question. But one with a lot of potential answers. The easiest one being Zahel heard about the sword and hid from it and Szeth for whatever the reasons are he hasn't gone searching for Night blood since(likely just grumpy pique.)

I think they actually had to do quite a bit of work to make that cell. The stone had to be layered, and the locations of each quarry were separate, all to keep those identities from mingling. In addition the layers weren't mingled together. They were stacked on top of each other. They're more like books on a shelf and designed to be perceived that way. Jam is meant to look like Jam. Adding in "Poison" just makes it poisoned Jam. It's still all one thing. It's made to be that way. After all, if Jasnah were to soul cast a Cosmo(cranberry juice "poisoned" with alcohol) you wouldn't expect it to come out with the alcohol still there would you? I mean! Think about how many things are myriad ingredients that just get transformed. On the other hand her transforming a layer of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is almost certainly possible because the perception generally is that it's 3 separate ingredients rather than just a sandwich.

It's him or me after a comment about old whitespines dueling for a kingdom is not a statement about political power. It's saying one of them will die and Sadeas will not hesitate to kill Dalinar. He's tried to kill Dalinar and Adolin in the past. He's making it clear he will do so again. Adolin knows it. Sadeas knows it. Hiding behind imprecise language doesn't lessen the lethality of the threat.

Also Treason. He did kill his rightful ruler after defecting to the other side in a conflict. Not his first Treasonous act, but it's the most defining one. Your comparing apples and oranges here guys. Adolin killed a man who had just said he was going to kill his father. Moash betrayed his nation. Their non-comparable. Neither is right. How they respond to doing those things is the important part. Adolin fessed up. He was willing to face punishment(eventually) and the appropriate legal authorities(who admittedly have a conflict of interest) decided not to punish him. Moash has so far continued his treachery and moved on to what amounts to deicide.

I think you're making a big deal over a little line and not including full context as you do so. She's talking to Dalinar about how she was perceived as a result of Gavilar's death. It isn't a clue to her backstory beyond what we already knew. She was Queen. The King died. People started seeing her as unimportant and she felt useless so she came back to the Shattered Plains. Whatever her previous affiliations were, this scene isn't hinting at them.

I suspect it has a lot to do with Gavilar. His immediate family all seem to have secrets about him. Navani and Jasnah both seem to allude to him not being the man everyone saw him as. On the other hand Elhokar has really only said he's trying to live up to his father's legacy. Which to me suggests something similar to Shallan's story. Domestic violence of some sort. Violence that Elhokar acts like wasn't there. Violence that Jasnah dealt with in a different way. Driving them into similar but different orders. Elhokar's hyper-vigilance is very reminiscent of what you'll see from children in abusive homes. There are elements of Jasnah's story that suggest she was a more direct recipient of that abuse, but I don't remember the specifics. Something about her being a fragile child, the way she rejects parenting from Navani, and there's earlier pieces I'm struggling to call up.

You can hate a character and appreciate what they do for a story. Obviously the story wouldn't be as good without Moash, he caused such an emotional impact that it's been an ongoing meme for years. That's a hallmark of exceptional writing. It's a transcendent moment of storytelling. None of us are saying F Brandon for writing the scene because the scene is good. The payoff is huge.

I imagine the Coalition probably didn't do much in Herdaz. They probably provided supplies and the like as best they could, but they were in shambles after OathBringer and Herdaz isn't strategically necessary. They discussed that somewhere in OathBringer. Herdaz would be the next probable target of Alethi aggression so it was too predictable a move. But it sounds like the Listeners kind of followed that logic. They took Alethkar and went for the next likely target. Funneling supplies to fuel the Herdazian rebels as a distraction is a tried and true military strategy. The US does it all the time.