Necessary Eagle

Heck, why wait?

Must I choose? ....*sigh* fine, Renarin.

Dalinar mentions that he tried his One Weird trick with Nale on Taln and Ash and he couldn't make anything happen.

There's something about Adhesion, yes. But the fact that Lift can get around the suppression to heal (but not to awesome) suggests that there's something about Progression, too. At minimum, I'm not the only one to come to that conclusion.

Adhesion is "the truest surge of Honor". Progression seems to be the equivalent for Cultivation, judging from Lift's experience. Is there a surge that is particularly close to Odium and why is it Division? *side-eyes the Skybreakers and Dustbringers* *side-eyes the name "Division* *side-eyes the most likely candidate for the Surge of Honey I Blew Up The Planet* Yeah, it's Division, isn't it?

I think there was a previous thread that concluded it was the "chain from the lands of the dead" mentioned in the epigraphs.

It sounds to me like he's following Rayse's plan to "kill shards, conquer universe". Just for your own good rather than Rayse's more honest murder is fun!!!1!

Hope this is the right place to ask... I'm writing a ridiculous crackfic that involves a letter from Hoid to Harmony, and I'm having trouble with the opening and closing. I feel like I should be formal, but with a sort of winking quality that presages the silliness to come. Actually, even just the "be formal but not stiff" part is taxing my abilities. Do you guys have any tips?

"I'm not mad at you... just disappointed."

Brandon said on Reddit that he was using verbal commands, just under his breath so that Kal couldn't hear him.

I'm starting to think that Ba-Ado-Mishram was originally Adonalsium's godspren, hence her middle name.

Which memories is she still missing? I didn't get the impression there were any left.

He's anti- a lot of Orders, I guess. edit: though I'd disagree with you on the Bondsmith thing. Gavilar was a proto-Bondsmith, after all. In the same way that you can have badguy Skybreakers and badguy Dustbringers, I think it would be perfectly possibly to have a tyrant Bondsmith.

Huh. And it's the pain that's being stored, not the lack thereof? Really does seem like a cheat.

Well one was voidlight, which was a major theory. In fact, many of Gavilar's spheres were probably voidlight. It's just that we assumed that Szeth's sphere was the same as Eshonai's, which turned out not to be the case.

Kaladin declares that he can't save everyone, and it's one of the most heartwarming moments in the book. Ironically, this leads to him getting the ability to save more people. Todd declares that he's going to save everyone, and it's one of the most chilling lines in the book. Ironically, his plans for "saving everyone" would lead to mass death. I know it's been said before that Mr. T is the anti-Windrunner, but here it's practically text.

Can you store pain without being in agony, though? I feel that there must be so many bodily processes that we don't think even think about that could potentially leave us in agony if our pain sensitivity was dialed way up.

For three books we've seen Odium as the foreign element that needs to be taken care of. Either defeated, or destroyed, or maybe he'll win this one and be free to go gallivanting off across the Cosmere on a new murder spree. Even Odium himself (or at least Odium 1.0) just wanted to get off Braize and go. But RoW keeps emphasizing that Odium has been assimilated into Roshar. There are three pure tones. Timbre tells Venli that voidlight is no more intrinsically evil as a power source than stormlight. The titular Rhythm of War is created by harmonizing Odium's rhythm with Honor's. Over and over, we get shown that just as humans are now children of Roshar, Odium is a Rosharan god. I don't know what the Stormlight endgame is going to be, but I no longer think winning entails getting rid of Odium. I think it will end with, Odium, whether Taravangian or some other Vessel, finding some less apocalyptic expression of his power and being recognized as a valid Shard of Roshar.

Raboniel, Raboniel Raboniel.

Feruchemy is seen as the "there's no such thing as a free lunch" power-- sure, you can be strong or fast or heal super fast, but you have to spend time being weak or slow or sickly in return. Even with compounding, you have to be in a sucky state some of the time. (I think). (I've never really understood compounding). But sometimes the sucky state has its own benefits. For instance, I would love to have a form of Tin that specifically involves hearing. I would blissfully fill my metalmind while my relatives started to talk about politics, or an annoying commercial came on. And most importantly, I would be able to shop during December without ever, ever having to hear another rusting holiday jingle.

I think WoR mentions offhand that there's been a plague in the Purelake.

Renarin was specifically the one who recommended Rlain, though. Unless you think Renarin is a GB? (Man, that would be weird).

Dalinar's Oath at the Battle of Thaylen Fields does bring him back to himself for a short while, so he has to be sharing some aspect of their madness. Though I agree that his different experience means we can't extrapolate anything from him to the other Heralds.

Cosmere dragons are shapeshifters, so not necessarily.