ChazBolt

Im not worried about Lift, her actions are just a bit more simple than Shallan's to explain. EDIT: also, being a spy doesnt make you "unscrupulous" or "disreputable"

Heres my problem with this though. Why was the Stormfather already sending him visions then? You want to blame Gavilar for suddenly deciding "well, how do i keep this kingdom together? War!" when he was already being influenced by the Stormfather. What triggered the Stormfather to start sending him visions? Something was already wrong and the KR were needed back. Gavilar didn't need to train a heir, he needed to bring back an ancient order which was last known to exist during times of war.

Is this something that is capable of being solved or is inherent to some of the Radiants though? As 'good' as Lift is, she is still a thief and a miscreant. Is she going to be a problem?

Well that would be why he wanted to give them a common foe, or have the KR back to keep everyone together. He thought that currently the only reason everyone was together was because of him, and he knew there needed to be more of a reason for them to stick together.

True. However, he knew he would not be around for the whole war. I think this strongly implies that he had a plan to die at some point to further the cause, even if not as soon as he did.

@Mason Wheeler i dont think this means "evil Radiants" or Void-Radiants. it just means that the various spren that are associated with other factions of the KR are not as picky to be scrupulous people. they could be thieves or other lowlifes but still compliment the attributes of that Radiant. @Pattern my question then is, why did the Stormfather send him the visions in the first place? If there was full peace then there wouldnt be a need for him to get the visions. What led him to do these things was the visions, so without them nothing would have begun. This leads me to think that something was already wrong and the Stormfather sensed that and found it necessary to start the process of recreating the KR. Gavilar took the only way any Alethi knew to unite people, through battle, but i dont think he knew how to start that war or what the true problem was. He knew a new storm needed to come in order to bring out the KR and i think he knew it would come from his death.

Well, games-wise, im behind on consoles. I still have a 360 and im not the biggest 1st person shooter multiplayer guy. I mostly play campaign games. Mass Effect, Skyrim, Bioshock etc. I was a much bigegr PC gamer back in the day when i was in a top raiding guild in WoW. I hope to get to make a new PC set up soon and get back into that. Well, i said that more to be esoteric and to sound dynamic, but i do spend alot of my days on the social medias and with friends talking about society and the craziness that currently is the world. Being Jewish from the south and then moving to NY for college, becoming friends (and marrying) an academic, has led to alot of perspective changes in very few years so theres always alot to think about.

got it. Stay away from cookies. im assuming they bring me over to the dark side or something. other things i enjoy are video games, camping, cooking, taking things apart, contemplating social structures within different cultures and playing with my 10 month old daughter.

Hi all! Chazbolt here, new to the forum and i guess relatively new to Branderson in general (in comparison to many other ppl here) but in a short time ive done my best to read all i could read and study up on all available Cosmere knowledge. Amongst my friends who read Sanderson, ive become a bit of the tin-foil theorist, but thats what makes this so much! Id love to become more active here and get to participate in actual discussions that may lead to new discoveries! Who knows!? I did just read the first released prologue chapter of Oathbringer, so thats cool (spoilers!). Wondering very much where Galivar got those 2(!) black spheres, and very excited to see more! Well i guess