Riddlesinthedark

Chakras!?

Szeth is not KR, but something else. So if Jasnah is to..., The book absolutely says Kaladin is KR, but only Jasnah's potentially unreliable authority says she is, iirc. (Or Shallan for that matter, but I feel like the POV evidence indicates nearly as strongly as Kal's that she is bonding to the symbol spren. Though they might not be honorspren...) Syl was the only one being confused as a windspren...; the symbol spren, however, could have devolved into a differnt type of spren. Especially where they are invisible. If windrunner--honorspren are to windspren, what might "truth"spren(honorspren) be?

Also that Pewter-dragging "stretches" your abilities. Edit: Yes, thinking of it in roleplaying/gaming terms. I agree with your last point, all though 99% of what we do here is wild mass guessing, hoping to be that one monkey at the typewriter. I'm not personally argueing, just speculating in hopes of those correct nuggets.

I've seen it quoted that Davy never personally used "aluminium", I think that that blogger gets that wrong. Also telling is that Webster was altering spelling based on actual phonemics, which implies to me that the pronunciation lagged behind the spelling, though that is conjecture.

Are the geographic/physiological changes exclusive? Or could the Fjords bring their magic out of the shadows, and start shaping cities/geography? That could very well be the counter to Elantrian tattoos, if that is the route BS goes. The next book is supposedly set in Fjord, right? Perhaps part of the setting will be a mysterious city-fire, and a massive rebuilding project, to go along with the newly-arisen God.

Perhaps substitute "preparation", which fits my intended meaning better I think. I actually would see countering/disrupting Aons as a magical equalizer to Elantrians, a sort of counterspell. It may be a matter of having the right bone twists, but we've also seen that extended experience/close attention had a palpable effect on the skills of the Allomancers. Not every Soother was breeze, or Seeker--Marsh, etc

OOh, I had forgotten about that. Was that a specific manipulation of the fifty monks ability, or something any monk could do with a little time and understanding, though?

I'm confused on this, since Dilaf doesn't have Aon-cancelling but Aon-Invunerability, from what I remember. He couldn't prevent them from casting Aons or transporting to Arelon, he just shrugged them off like one does a mosquito.

I agree, similar to how Koloss were mentioned in MFE, but never seen onstage. I think Brandon has a good sense of Chekov's gun , so with the Parshendi really not fitting the description, and none of the Parshmen going Balrog, I'm waiting for the next book.

Is it fifty ordinary soldiers or fifty monks? (One hundred men, assuming earlier conversion) I'm thinking we don't have enough information. While the Dakhor do have a huge population to draw from, multiple men going into a single monk still seems a little cost heavy, except in the most extreme cases. But on the other hand, how did they know how to make Dilaf invulnerable unless they had experimented(too post-enlightenment? Did they just get lucky?)

Except that the Brit who discovered it named it "aluminum"... Also, you spell it gaol. Your argument is invalid. Thank You, Webster!

I, for one, will gladly accept such errata.

But he also dismissed her as just another windspren. Why could Shallan not have done the same? And perhaps it is only the growing strength of the bond that allows them to take on more concrete forms. Also, maybe they were sentient from hanging around Jasnah, because of her long time soulcasting, and only recently found a new target. Also is it possible that Jasnah is to Szeth as Shallan is to Kaladin?

Page numbers? Also, support the use of "shear", if possible. I'm rereading and hadn't noticed it being used with even shardblades.

I agree in sentiment, but would like specific source of the highlighted.

I'm not entirely sold on the "Honor is like Aona/Skai versus Preservation" theory, but has anyone postulated that Syl had to regain her sentience because of Honor's death? Also, if that is true, perhaps the symbol spren are NOT honorspren, but one of the sentient types that are "less perceptive"?

Well, despite the honesty oath, Aes Sedai weren't exactly known for it.

Lots and lots of League of Legends, lately. It runs better than Dota on my laptop, and I've fallen in with some old friends that all play often. Summoner name: Riddlesinthedark

If so, why is Odium still here? He didn't wipe Elantris world(Sel?), why Roshar? I don't think Cultivation is out of this fight, nor Honor really.

You're a terrible person, in that I am now going to have to reread the book for a third time already. Especially concerning the KR flashback, since that seems to indicate that her spren IS talking to her.

Thread necromancy

Or if spren in a Nahel bond can even talk if its not a non-honor spren type.

I think I agree, since not every villian is(or should be) some sort of amoral psychopath. Here a young man spent time with a pretty, funny young woman, and... But as a serious question, how much technojumbo was going on with the poisons? I've never really studied them, but it seems like modern chemistry would show that such things lingering in the liver and cells. Seems like eventually you aren't going to put enough jam on, or have enough junk in your system to keel over anyway. Interesting, also do we have a name for the group, ___* of Bridge 4 family was a member, who is looking for the KR? Might be many players to be revealed in a 10 book series. So precious little that we do know at this point. Isn't there a contradiction/contraindication to this in one of the Kaladin flashbacks?

I think we are still running into a semantics game for something that is still pretty much an Easter Egg for his most fanatical readers, at this point. I may just being stubborn, but I want more WoB clarification on "splinter/ed/ing, etc.

We've seen some of the rules about shardblades: 3. If a fighter goes limp , says stop, or taps out a fight is over a shardblade disappears, and is once again ten heartbeats away. See the Szeth fights. 4. When a shardbearer dies, it drops out of thin air. See Gavilar's assassination. 5. The shardbearer can force it to stay in existence, to give it away or to keep it active if he is say unhorsed or otherwise momentarily fumbling. See the Recreance dream or Dalinar's first CMoA. So it is unlikely to the point of improbability that Shallan could ever just "find" it. Remember that there are A LOT of missing shards in the world, based on Dalinar's dream. Shallan's family is an ancient one, and Shallan's father could have kept the Shardblade hidden for decades, and be in fact a family heirloom: a remnant of the house's former stature. Even the ghostblood's knight's shards, if her brother, could have been family heirlooms, though less likely. I also respectfully disagree on him not being the "type". Shallan and her brothers all appear to have deep, psychological scars. Either madness runs in the family or the father was abusive. Her brothers' POV does not imply blame for the father's death, iirc, so Shallan's "murder" was probably something that looked natural, or the body was unrecognizable.(from say a fire...) I do agree that the Shardblade might have destroyed the Soulcaster. Most probable thing, imo, which raises some questions as to the cognitive nature of the things. I love wild theories, so keep going and thinking outside the box, but thats my two cents. I am mixed bag about Dalinar not being the next POV. I really like him, so hope for more from him, but it also means he and szeth probably don't die in the next book.