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So I just had this random thought. What if dalinars memory loss isn't dalinars curse but rather evi's boon. My thought is like this: The stormfather insists he isn't the reason dalinar has regained his memory. Let us assume this is true for now. Navani insists that nobody has ever lost there boon or curse and that it has always been for life. Let us also assume this is true. So why is he regaining his memories? I think it is because the boon and curse aren't his. Evi wanted Dalinar to lose his bloodlust, and because of what he did in some battle, possibly the one we just saw having killed his own soldiers, Evi goes to the nightwatcher and makes a request that he be the man she hopes for, free of bloodlust and hate. Her curse being that he would forget about her. he is regaining memories because she is actually dead now when she was just thought dead before.

Alone that could be the term for them, but considering listeners are called vibrant by gavilar, it makes more sense to me that is a term for proto-radiants.

wasn't really my point i included the whole quote mainly for the sense of completion, and of course she used the dictionary definition, how do you think names for things get started, it starts with a definition, say radiant in reference to the knights radiants glowing, then later the memory of what started the name fades and they are known as the knights radiant. I am suggesting that the spren call the knights radiant vibrant, because they are/were vibrant, and it became the spren title for the knights radiant or maybe someone with radiant potential.

I mean it's pretty obvious he was talking about when the listeners weren't living in a stone age, but that doesn't mean he isn't using vibrant to refer to listener or radiant. Gavilar has been known to know more than he should be able to. It is completely possible he would know what spren call radiants. And when you conssider that syl called kalidin vibrant seems to imply that that is what they are called. As for the importance of the word, considering how brandon sanderson writes i find it hard to believe he would refer to the usual magic users of this realm as radiant and than later use the word vibrant to refer to listeners, another magic user of this world. it makes sense that two words that both mean essentially the same thing both referring to magic users could possibly be interchanged, especially considering syl, a spren, calls a radiant to be "vibrant" edit: though now that I write that I am wondering if it isn't the spren word for radiants but rather refers to the potential for radiancy since syl said kalidin used to be vibrant

So i remember a while ago when people were talking about how gavilar told esonai that they could be vibrant again and how that might be a listener equivalency to radiancy. I think this is false. I was reading way of kings and found this quote from syl on page 148 of the hardcover. I propose that vibrant isn't the listener equivalent to radiancy but instead the spren's word for radiancy. p.s. I also am really wondering at enemies looking up to him, and lighteyes.

^ probably is reffering to the scene with the king covered in his "sacrifice".

I think it will be unlikely to have three urithiru chapters in a row. I am thinking a dalinar flashback, shallan chapter, and kalidin. edit: I just realized the first three chapters were all urithiru so I could be wrong.

I really like this and it makes since syl was planning on binding lirin but he failed with his theft and then she saw kal standing up to roshone and joining the army and she thought, hey here is another potential candidate. Not in those words she is syl after all, but the general idea.

Maybe the reason Adolin hasn't bonded a spren yet is because he hasn't embodied the first oath yet, I can see hints of both edgedancer and stoneward in him which is specific to his particular order, assuming he will become a radiant. But if he hasn't embodied the first ideal no matter how much he resembles the ideas that embody that ideal he will never become a radiant. The way I see it, adolin is putting the destination before the journey, he takes the most direct path even if such a path is dishonorable or unjust. And I am only mildly thinking about him killing sadaes. That to me seems like something that a knight radiant could do. But and i say but, I don't believe he had the authority to make that call. additionally when they were initially betrayed by sadaes, adolin was practically ignoring the losses of his armies so that he could save dalinar from the shardbearer. Again moving in direct fashion ignoring the cost and instead focusing on the destination of rescuing dalinar. < that scene is also why I think Adolin might be a stoneward. Also in the arena with the four shardbearers, or rather before, he was so focused on the end goal of collecting shards he didn't really think about how his words could be used against him so he had to fight 4 shardbearers. Also in the arena is another example of why i think he might be a stoneward. He was willing to stand against impossible odds to protect his brothers life again "I will stand". I realize this post is a bit disorginized but basically my thoughts on the matter is TLDR: that adolin isn't bonding a spren because he is focused on the destination before the journey and that adolin might be a stoneward

8 hours from now is when next chapters come in

so maybe his boon requires forgetting his wife?

normally in this situation i would fault the hero for being stupid,but in this case, go get him Kalidin.

I kinda figured dalinar would be the leader and kalidin not the leader but honor's champion. @WhiteLeeopard

he could also have a range of something along the lines of 100km as far as squires go, for all we know he could fall for hours or even days before getting out of range.

@Jaconis pretty sure we have a wob that says bondsmiths don't have squires though i wouldn't even know how to begin to look for it.

@stormblessDave I was thinking parshman too, but because of eshonai's personallity and screaming against what she is doing I figured it was more likely venli who seemed to embrace the ancient "gods"

@Andy92 that is an interesting thought but i don't think we have any evidence of shards being able to "capture" cognitive shadows, I think until that abillity is spelled out we shouldn't base theories on it. I personally am wondering if eshonai's sister venli is odiums champion, and he was the voice that the listeners heard that lead them to szeth.

I don't think we will get sadaes in the first three chapters, we know the first is following kalidin and i suspect one of the first three is a flashback and ... come to think of it probably, though we could get a jasnah chapter

okay so edt, was worried since eastern could also be est

is that 9 am est or edt? That hour matters a lot to me

my heart beat out of my chest and now Tor isn't even delivering...can I have my heart back?

I briefly looked up all known boon's the nightwatcher gave, and surprisingly we only have two, the one mentioned above and a speculation of av's father that it was something silly like a haircut. Maybe the boon is physical to the curse's cognitive.

Maybe he asked for a boon that was specific to a certain order of knights and to do so his spirit web had to be broken in a certain way that caused him to forget his wife...might be stretching here, the idea came to me less than a minute ago.

I kind of thought the black sphere was one of the shadesmar spheres.

So I was skimming through WoK and came across this quote between Dalinar and wit at the end of page 751 of the hardcover book. Now I am wondering has Wit ever died before? We know it is possible to come back from the dead we have examples both inside and outside the Stormlight Archive, but it never occurred to me that Wit might have experienced death. This might also be why Wit tells Jasnah that her sword wouldn't do much to him. On a side note I kind of wonder what Wit would think of Nightblood. Any thoughts?