Necessary Eagle

I don't know why the pictures came out all different sizes. maybe because i was too lazy to open the original files and just copied them from my reddit thread.

the ten orders of purrbinders:

One thing this book does differently than the others is that it adds some moral nuance to the concepts of oaths and honor. This is brought up along the course of the book with Szeth, Sigzil, and Adolin, and culminates in Dalinar breaking his oaths to void the contest of champions. I've been trying to figure out if this set-up works for me, and (at least for now) I think it's a mixed bag. Note: I am specifically talking about how these moments affect how the Dalinar climax lands, not their own merits or plot necessarily. I think Adolin and Szeth do work, because they set up the theme of questioning the rigid oath-based system that we've become used to, but they're different enough to make Dalinar's decision surprising and novel. Szeth keeps his Fifth Ideal by breaking his bond with Aux. Adolin broods on the meaning of "oaths", and creates an informal alternative to the Nahel bond based on trying your best. Sigzil, though, is a bit too on the nose. He even uses the same "I renounce my oaths" wording that Dalinar does, and to me it undercuts the shock of Dalinar's moment a bit. You do need someone carrying the theme in the middle of the book, I think, and Szeth and Adolin's scenes are too close to the end. But if Sigzil has to be the one to do it, it should have been at a slightly different angle.

It's an aviar, even regular, un-Invested parrots can live decades.

From what I've seen here and on Reddit, Kharbranth being secretly saved seems to be an unpopular decision, but I actually prefer it. It felt... odd for Todium to destroy the one thing he still loved, especially since his pure emotional half was all "wraaagh, must conquer the universe so that nothing can ever harm my family!" It just felt off to me. Like Mortal Taravangian and Odium Taravangian were now two different characters, instead of a continuum. I don't know, I'm having trouble putting my feelings into the right words. Then we find out at the end that Mr. Utilitarianism can talk the talk, but ultimately can't walk the walk. That felt very Taravangian, posturing about how he's all about the Greater Good and he'll sacrifice anything to get there, but in the end he can't bring himself to do it. Fittingly, he's the hypocrite he accused Jasnah of being. And as he admits to himself at the end, it's a win for Dalinar that he himself utimately couldn't kill his own "suckling child". So I think it works better this way both as a character choice and thematically. I was much happier with the reveal than with the original destruction. (Well, mostly happy, it is also messing with my head a bit because the whole scenario is bizarrely similar to a crack theory I have in an entirely separate fandom, lol)

I think that night actually was when Chana was killed.

Aside from Preservation, none other other Shards are jumping out at me as being obviously Exist-aligned. Like, the Change lineup I'm confident on at least three of the four, but thus one's being difficult.

This.

Where did it say she was pregnant? I missed have missed that part.

Retribution spread out the Everstorm to cover everywhere he owned. Which is pretty much everywhere except Azimir and (i think) the Shattered Plains.

So there's still at least one unknown Dawnshard floating around on Roshar, right? The epigraphs and visions in previous books refer to them in the plural, and no one knew that Hoid had Exist, even had he been on Roshar during the times in question.

Since the question was about The Lost Metal, I believe "this time" is the Era 2, which we already knew takes place during the time skip. Sig and Aux left Roshar on the same caravan, but they weren't bonded yet. So Sig becoming a Skybreaker on another planet or in the depths of the CR wouldn't be what squirrelly ol' Brandon was negating.

Judging by this WoB, Radiants who become Radiants while on the planet Roshar are still stuck on Roshar. Though given the time dilation going on, "no one at this point has figured out how to do it" doesn't mean much, from their perspective it's probably only been days or weeks since the crem hit the fan.

I'm asking specifically about point 2. Yes, but why on Roshar would he think being part of Retribution will be a good influence?

He didn't notice that Dalinar popped up as a ghost in Shadesmar until he went looking for him.