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It seems very in theme with the whole system, especially given how breath does heighten the senses. And Brandon's done a fair bit of expansion of Nalthis stuff in Stormlight. I just reread the book and can't remember a single use of weird color metaphors in the entire thing. And the timing would be weird for her perspective shift. Like... You'd think if it were the Dawnshard she'd have noticed color changes and the like right away.

It seems pretty clear the Captain is an Awakener. Just before she enters the cabin at the end the tea gets tastier and the colors more vibrant. Very unsubtly. But it seems off to have her be Vivenna/Azure. Although the mood isn't terribly off I can't see Vivenna being that upset about not getting a boat. Or working for Vistim for that long. Either that or Chirri Chirri is of the 5th heightening. Or we're learning that the Change Dawnshard can convert Investiture types. But that seems unlikely and weird.

I suspect The 4th Bridge is going to be attacked and the Windrunners will have to go. Things will get bad. Kal might swear the 4th oath back at camp as he realizes what he needed and then save the day.

I wouldn't relate DID to neurology. It's a trauma response, which can rewire things, but generally when we talk about Neurotypical we're referring to things with a more genetic origin. Autism and ADHD and the like, where they're a function of how a person's brain is rather than a response to later changes. Shallan will always have a trauma history, that may have lifelong impacts. But it's a different set of terminology.

I'm liking my Rock will be a Bondsmith theory even more after this chapter.

Doubtful. It flies in the face of the system and leaves him in a stagnant spot. Kaladin is the face of Radiance for the first half, our guide in. Him aborting that arc would really mess with the structure. Beyond that, the oath isn't wrong. We can see what he struggles with. His failures. He can't move on from Toen or Elhokar or anybody else he's let die. And you can't live a healthy life obsessing over your failures. Kal has to learn what Dalinar did, but in a different way. That's the oath. It's not wrong. It's just hard as hell to live up to. We haven't finished the finale part either. There will be more.

It strikes me more that this is putting things in a position where Kaladin will be swearing the Fourth Oath sooner than later. We know Part 1 is basically the finale of the hidden drawn out year of war. It makes sense that Kal gets a big finale moment towards the end of part 1 and then we get to see the fallout from that for the rest of the book.

This is flawed. Part of the idea is that A: They're outnumbered by the fused so this amounts to picking the best ground in a hopeless fight already, 300 style. B: It doesn't accommodate the odds of surviving a loss, which is the goal here, don't die, complete battle objectives, use Stormlight to get back in the fight sooner. C: Being any kind of soldier is stupidly dangerous. 35% survival over the course of a year of constant fighting is better than pretty much anything in history.

No but she had illusions running and never tied them to anything so she likely had hidden her glow under those anyway.

I think Suicide. Likely intended to take Shallan who she believed to be an assassin with her via poisoned drinks. Possibly in some kind of failed Princess Bride attempt. But I can see believing it to be murder to be a great red herring.

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I think the Scadralian Fabrials are a stronger connection point.

I would think those operate more like a gas pedal and a brake. They likely regulate stormlight flow or something along those lines. Maybe increasing energy efficiency. The correlation won't be as direct as making what the fabrial does recreate allomancy. More allegorical. You'd have to try to correlate between Allomancy and Feruchemy too.

They're so interlinked their nobility almost certainly are. In addition the metaphors she uses seem very similar to Vasher's and Azure's.

Brain development is involved in decision making and how someone processes life decisions. It's fairly easy to accidentally manipulate a romantic partner whose mind has not fully developed and crossing that barrier by more than a few years can get very messy. There's a reason over the last 30 years(and really most of human history) the lines of adulthood have been creeping ever later. My parents could drink at 18. Smoking just shifted up to 21 in the US as well. Car insurance rates drop after 25 or so because statistics show people become safer drivers around then.

Not Evi. Her people.

It feels very in line with the lighting for his blonde hair to be washed out some. But hell, it could be a fashion thing and he went Platinum blonde. Or he's been strained and the color left his hair. Or the connection between Nalthis and his mother's lineage is made apparent and he learns to change his blonde hair color.

There's a difference in that Kaladin is around 20. The brain doesn't finish developing until 25. The difference between 30 and 45 is much less than even 20 and 30 when it comes to life experience, self understanding, and the ability to be an equal partner in a relationship.

In general... Can you imagine a known heretic coming out with, The Universe isn't what you thought? People in our history have been executed for exactly that. She'd start the Civil War Dalinar barely avoided, Listener Threat or no.

Again, only to a degree. They'rr working with the ability to rapidly alter the direction force is being applied to them in incredibly intricate ways. They can make gravity affect them in dozens of directions at once at varying levels of force. The amount of mass their gear will add isn't going to be a significant factor. In fact they'll probably do better in rigid materials just because the wind will blow over it better regardless of its weight if its something they can walk in. Thr biggest thing holding them back is lack of knowledge and precision. Something Szeth could almost certainly teach them given how precise his lashings have been. Basically the flexibility of lashings makes it so that mass only increases the mental load and stormlight consumption needed to maintain the same ridiculous level of maneuverability. After all, Plate is too heavy to walk in and the Radiants managed with that just fine.

Somewhat. But when you're using a force like Gravity and can apply 10+G's to yourself as propulsion that mass isn't going to be a significant issue.

Until we see descriptive evidence of clothing not being affected by a lashing I'd assume it is. After all, the Heavenly ones trailing cloak things are clearly affected and clothing not being affected would be a major sensory change to the experience. Clothes would billow out in odd ways, tug down constantly in uncomfortable ways while flying horizontally, and in general need to be part of the description. It would be a weakness of the lashing. It's far more likely that intuition of the user plays a big part. They see their clothing as part of themself for moving. But they don't see tears in their clothing as injuries to them.

It's worth noting that while they're ancient, they are also sort of insane. And likely far moreso than they were 4 and a half millenia before. That can adjust their pattern of behavior significantly. After all, they haven't been warring for a long long time. They may very well be rusty or have lost memories of what they once did. Assuming they can grow and change and learn. If they can't then this is how they've always acted. But it seems likely they can.

Any form of combat favors the fused. Their numbers are essentially static while Radiants have to be retrained. This form favors them less sometimes and more others. I don't think it's honorable persay. I think it's competitive in the same way that The Thrill is about the contest. But they aren't doing it because its advantageous.

You could carry blocks up and soulcast them to heavier things. But I'm not going to lie, that seems wasteful and basically impossible to aim. I don't think Soulcasting stuff up high and dropping them is useful compared to what you can do with soulcasters already.