Wreith

I thought them keeping him alive was explicitly stated. They just couldn't (wouldn't?) attempt a soulforging to heal his mind. Even if not, I feel it's heavily implied, as what I would expect to see at the end would be something akin to a lifeless with complex commands which isn't what we appear to get. Also, I think I should specify, I continued using the word "soul", but I don't actually think this is a spiritual process. I believe it's cognitive, changing the Identity of a thing. like Rosharan soulcasting but more strict.

This was actually my first thought. Not that he was the original one to tell Shallan the story, but that he was the last shadow and was tweaking her lightweaving, adding detail. As I read, it just didn't seem to me that the shadow that calmly walked from the room matched the image of the creature cramming itself through a hole in the wall. I considered that it might be Hoid leading Shallan to what she needed to see. It's probably not true, but it was my first impression.

Based on her appearance in WoK (not sure if actually confirmed or just commonly accepted), I have no problem accepting this theory

The One Who Connects' comment that the shards could step down is true and makes me wonder if perhaps:

In the annotations for Warbreaker 22, Brandon says it is a part of the soul

One of my questions about this story is why tearing down the wall would be a punishment for those inside if they were the threat being contained. I think it's likely that the punishment was for those outside the wall, for allowing the theft of the stormlight or possibly just for allowing one of the prisoners escape. The steps indicate that someone should have been keeping an eye on those inside. Watchers at the rim, anyone?

I'm really annoyed that we're so far through part 1 and the Blade hasn't been mentioned again. Like, I can't fathom Adolin not having gone back to check after the second murder to see if it was still there. I feel like it's already been found we just haven't been told that yet.

There were humans on Roshar before the shattering of Adonalsium.

Av's Brother mentioned in Baxil's Interlude in WoK Pai or Lhan from Lhan's interlude in WoR and then Liss because I think any of them would drastically improve our knowledge of the world.

Stamps rewrite the history of an object. It's not so much that she healed an injury as she made it so the injury never happened. The Emperorrer wasn't dead, but as you say, vegetative. His soul was still there because he was still technically alive. The goal wasn't to create a new soul. It was to as accurately as possible copy the information of his existing soul, so the stamp would "take" with the minor revision that was being made.

The weeping doesn't deposit crem. Thus I wouldn't expect clouds themselves to do so. And that doesn't help with the fact that they look down at the storms which my difficulty with the idea. I'm content with my own variable amplitude solution until it's disproven somehow

there's reference to them looking down at the storms, so I don't think this is correct. The simplest answer is that some storms get higher than others, but that doesn't... and as I'm typing, it occurs to me that everything on Roshar deals with wave forms. If highstorms don't just have a frequency, but also an amplitude, the varying height makes sense. I was picturing them as a constructed front with only the frequency varying.

yeah, but "make to use" when "make use of" would be far better... or even just "use". I don't think the phrasing makes any sense at all if you believe he's just planning to commandeer an existing resource.

yeah, but the first one they get was specifically summoned by the Stormfather to cleanse the plains and counter the Everstorm. Would've thought it one of the bigger ones.

Google doesn't appear to like "make to use." No matter what I try, it only brings up search results related to "make use of." (Or some vague things regarding makefiles and C programming.. ) If you or someone else can provide some manner of english source on "make to use," that would be greatly appreciated, as I can't find anything yeah, you're not gonna find that specific an example. That said, I'm not as sure I'm right about the grammar as I was when I replied earlier. I'm reasonably sure I was taught that --not ending with a prepositional phrase at all, not just avoiding ending with a preposition itself-- in highschool, but I can find no evidence of it, so maybe I'm imagining things. Also English is stupid. That is still how I read the quote though. Can we make, to use, a Truthless (commas added).

I think it's been well established in Oathbringer that Urithiru, or at the very least its upper levels, are above the Highstorms. Such that there are baskets for lowering sphere's to infuse. They seem to make this point several times. My question, then, is why is there crem on top of the tower at the end of WoR when Dalinar goes out to talk to the Stormfather? If rain does actually fall on top of the tower, then I personally wouldn't have considered it above the storms. Note that I'm not referencing Dalinar's assumption that the trapdoor was held in place by crem. I think it's possible that the door was sealed intentionally. I don't want to just come out and make that assumption though, because obviously there is some crem on the tower.

I don't have the book on me, but it referred to the storm as "something new" only old of design yeah, that's the Stormfather talking to Dalinar in chapter 89 of WoR

How does this mean that there have not been Everstorms before? How would Parshendi from hundreds of years ago, know that this time we would have a storm, if there hadn't been any Everstorms before? Likewise, in the first POV from Dalinar in WoK, we learn about the Everstorm from the visions he has been having. If we have to assume that this is the first ever Everstorm, then you actually have far, far more to explain, than if we understand that the Everstorm was a usual aspect of a Desolation. Parshendi from hundreds of years ago know that this time we would have a storm because Nightform predicts what will be. Predicting the future is associated with voidbringers for a reason... Dalinar knows of the Everstorm just as a word used in his visions. Visions granted by Tanavast who, as a shardholder, can see the future. I really don't understand why people still have trouble believing this is the first occurrence of the Everstorm. Every piece of evidence we have says it is.

I did notice that. But it says there were several groups brought together by other yellow spren, right? So I wasn't reading much into it yet.

I really think that the case with Elhokar is a little different. I think if Kaladin hadn't made the promise to protect the king, it wouldn't have been a betrayal of oath to let Moash kill him. Just because we become aware at that point that that is the exact point of the next oath doesn't mean to mea that Kaladin was bound to it yet. Now that he is, that would be a consideration, but I think Syl's near death experience was due to the conflicting oaths, not the lack of action to save Elhokar itself.

If you don't ascribe to a Supreme force arbitrating morality (which I actually do), then practical morality changes with scope. Headhunting cannibals find it morally wrong to kill and/or eat members of their own tribe, but it's expected that they do those things to others. It's Kaladin's internal monologue when they're going back for Dalinar after Sadeas's betrayal "Us and them". We see his scope expand to not just Bridge 4, but a particular group of lighteyes. Then we see it expand again when he includes Elhokar. Now it's expanding again to include the former Parshmen which he'd already begun considering at the end of WoK. If he had truly believed and not accepted lighteyes can be good people, then he might have been morally acceptable just saving Bridge 4. As understanding of other cultures increases and internalization of similarities occurs, moral considerations expand to include new groups. Szeth is an interesting case, because I think until he was convinced that he was in fact not Truthless, he was morally obligated to keep his oath. His scope only encompassed the Shin because that's all he was considering. While he viewed himself very negatively, he saw everyone else as beneath him as evidenced by his eventual rationalizations that their deaths wee their own fault for not being able to kill him. of the examples above, Szeth is the only one who I accept as arguably moral though he perpetrated actions we recognize as immoral

Quick search for "counter" only shows counterweight in reference to Navani's lifting fabrial in WoR. I think you just have to make the logical assumption that 40 guys pushing at the back of the bridge is gonna have some downward force to it.

Shallan actually had pattern help. Kaladin didn't really save Renarin. Renarin survived the duel because of Pattern. Dalinar didn't have a blade at the time and tried in the moment to rent one, but Elhokar wouldn't let him. He was about to go anyway when Kaladin stopped him. I think the dual is a poor scene to pick for kaladin being "too epic". there was a lot going on.

oh, you are correct, but that's not the one I was thinking of. There was one where the questions was specifically about Ruin changing text. edit: I can't find what I was thinking of. I may have lost my mind. It's fine...

We have a WoB from a question about Odium doing things like Ruin that says if Odium is trying to influence someone, it's through the Unmade. So I take that as given...