Aminar

I beg to differ. There are boundaries with age that should not be crossed in regards to age that don't go away until at least 25. Kal is 19. He is, despite everything he's faced, still largely a kid. That's why his character arc is about the very difficult for most adults, accepting that which he cannot control. More than just a kid, he's a judgemental jerk a lot of the time. That maturing is something that's dealt with through peer interactions. Jasnah has faced those things. She's self actualized in a way he hasn't. A relationship with her wouldn't be healthy. It would alter that development(and most likely Jasnah still sees him as a child.) They cannot be emotional equals yet. Not for a long time.

They were borderline completely indifferent to her. Not to mention the 16 year age gap(which squiks me right out) and the fact Jasnah has no need for a relationship. A romance arc for Jasnah would undermine so much of her character. I mean, the only thing they had in common was a contempt for Amaram. So in short, no. Jasnah doesn't need to be made human. She's already human. She cares. She loves her family. She has some kind of trauma in her past I suspect was sexual in nature. But she's not a vulnerable person, something that emotional romantic relationships need. Lets let that be her arc. It's already great without saddling her with all the weird emotions that go into relationships.

And this is why, when possible, physical bookstores are the best. (I am aware that is not always the case and Amazon is important to people, but if you have a bookstore nearby please use it. I know it's a little more costly, but man... We'll all miss them when they're gone.)

He's the option that isn't Venli, but I suspect the Aimians are more interested in Venli as the traitor.

I don't think that was lightweaving. I think it was something else. The visions are likely Renarin's resonance. It seems like a twisted version of the Truthwatcher resonance towards predictions and likely outcomes that seemed to explain last book. But I think Renarin's other surge is something different than Lightweaving. Something that gives him power over some of Odiums creations.

I do not hear failsafe. Nightblood is male. Mayalaran was my favorite new character. Just for... All she represents.

What if its "I will take no sides?"

No. It's part of her Radiance(the ability to perfectly memorize things, not her drawing skill.) It's what people refer to as resonance.

Like I said, Eyes are a big deal in the series. They're also how Shallan takes a memory. She blinks.

It makes a fair bit of sense. I kind of hope not, but I can absolutely see it. It would make a great conflict for Kaladin because his lack of will to control his friend/man under his command leads to great danger.

Agreed. I just think that it has to be something in direct conflict with his "darkness" It isn't callous to move on after loss. It's necessary. Whatever the oath is, it's got to be related to that conflict. That Kaladin cannot let go of the people he's lost. (But he's starting to. His infatuation with Shallan related to Tien, and he managed to see his family. Those factors play into this somehow.) Which brings up some things we should probably think on. The oaths seem to have an odd structure. I'll need to look at the Skybreaker Oaths Nale swore and figure out that pattern at some point, but the later oaths seem to be about tempering or mastering the second and third oaths. I can't quite wrap my mind around it from memory though.

Stormlight and blades don't interact though. I imagine its something like the eyes get scratched a little every time the blade is summoned and after a thousand years that's a lot of scratches. Plus it makes the blade summoning crueler because its painful and damaging to the spren, just as much as zombifying it is. But like I said, it's an intuition, not a hard theory.

I don't know exactly. But like, couldn't a gem cause those hundreds of scratches somehow, when the shardblade is being summoned. It's... It seems related. But yes. Like, if eyes are the human connection point for Roshar. And gems are the material collection point they should interact in this case, right?

It seems to me that it will be something about not letting failures hinder his ability to protect others. Something Kal's depression will have an enormousl conflict with.

It's interesting. There's some odd levels of connection to eyes and magic on Roshar. In the first book Kal and Szeth both blink several timed while activating Lashings(Haven't looked through the other two books to see if it continues). Red Eyes are a big deal related to the thrill. Radiants get light eyes. Rosharan blades(but only Rosharan blades) burn out the eyes. Somehow in this case it reminded me of the gems used to make a connection to the blade. But beyond that I couldn't say. That's just an intuition. All those things together do suggest a connection between eyes and the spiritual realm on Roshar.

My favorite part is how he wasn't supposed to be a Herald. He's just a dude that kind of wandered in, decided to help, and was a freaking boss about it while all the royal scholar general types broke under the strain and got millions killed. Not that they didn't do good mind you. The heralds are all epic for doing what they did. But Taln is awesome.

In a relationship. Yes. Pop culture has next to no good relationships. We need to change that. People learn from fiction and if all they learn is drama all they do is drama.

I was pretty worried about the multiple personality disorder thing. the execution works all right in the sense that it's nothing like the disorder and it's clearly related to her magic. I don't like it, I think it'll require more work to be done right, but when they almost cast Renarin as the Villain I did almost put the book down and stop. Between those things I was nearly done. As for everyone calling Adolin and Shallan boring, I hope your in world relationships are like theirs. Relationships full of temper and insults aren't healthy. Kaladin has a lot of learning to do before he'll make anybody happy.

And Adhesion is described as Pressure and Vacuum. In fact the Ars arcanum says, in regards to fulllashings. "I believe this surge may have something to do with atmospheric pressure."

I don't think you're remembering her death in the right context. She let a spen of Odium in. It coopted her body and put her in conflict with one of the best fighters the Alethi have. He killed her, freeing her from Odium's control. Otherwise she'd have been held by the enemy, slowly dying inside. This scene is just confirming the death we should have known happened.

I've said before that Edgedancers are very therapisty. I will listen to those who aren't heard, etc... I can see him kind of getting to that point through Shallan.

Any series with this much violence has to have death. Otherwise it comes across as meaningless. The tone is still not GoT. There's less debauchery, less hate, and way less death. But at some point we have to lose a few good guys. And this series has been plenty dark. Look at the Bridge Runs. What we know of the desolations. If more characters die in the Bridge Runs than the next Desolation Brandon will have failed to live up to the stakes he's set.

I don't buy it. Cultivation has little to do with Kal's surges and Odium is doing other things. We're not going to see new heralds or a new Oathpact. They're outdated. The conflict has to end. The Oathpact failed the first time the Heralds broke.

I don't buy it. He was doing this stuff before Moash killed Jesrian. And it was just an inverted pressure surge. Creating a pressure bubble rather than a vacuum. Sound weather science.

There wouldn't be half this discussion without the preview chapters. They were a great marketing ploy.