Kuram

Brandon has said that surgebinders would find it near impossible to become savants due to the nature of the bond. Fused being essentially spren strikes me in a similar manner.

They wouldn't have to cover the top, and even if they did there are heating fabrials that exist.

I guess the theories of Rock being a different order are a little less likely, as he lashes a spear to Kaladin. Still, if he's just a squire, I suppose it's still possible for him to go with another order.

Lightweavers could probably just hide the barge. I figure they'll eventually figure out how to bend light around things, or to have the illusion look like the background. Even if you just make it look like the sky from the bottom.

She is also mentioned to be operating the oathgate at several times in urithiru, so she almost certainly has a shardblade.

It really depends on access to stormlight. Kaladin can fly circles around infantry with a little bit, but Jasnah could just soulcast people at range if she had enough stormlight. I'm thinking dustbringers are probably going to be the most powerful though, they are supposed to be the 'artillery' of the radiants. I am really curious to see them and other orders explored more, we still don't have a clue what a bunch of surges do.

She was? I am thinking spren bond was what happened, Those geometric shapes are almost certainly shardplate.

We don't know for sure, but it makes sense to me with how Brandon described part 1 of RoW.

We already know it's somehow over with by the interlude, as Kaladin and Dalinar are back at the tower.

They aren't actually 3 people. It's just a dissociative personality disorder.

I think making Lirin die is the 'easy' way out and a bit of a cliche. I would rather have them both work at their issues in a more satisfying manner too. Maybe that is the reason Kaladin considers going back to surgery after part 1; trying to get the approval of his father.

Big doubt that happened off-screen. It's more likely Adolin is around because radiants lose a lot of effectiveness in shadesmar; you have to be sparring with stormlight, and you cannot manifest your blade. Adolin is actually an excellent pick because he's had a lifetime of experience with the sword, and can probably handle himself quite well even without a shardblade. Second, he probably just decided to go with his wife. It might not be any more complicated than that. I'm curious about Urithiru in shadesmar. In the physical, it's high in the mountains, but in shadesmar the location would be all beads since land and water are reversed... so I wonder what that looks like. The 'ocean' of beads would theoretically equalize at 'sea level', but the tower is so much higher than that. If they transfer to shadesmar would they fall hundreds of feet?

Spanreed fabrials are supposed to account for those types of differences, or at least brandon has stated they account for things such as the curvature of the planet so I assume it accounts for orientation. Even if it doesn't, it's just a pen so as long as it starts in the center of a page you could write in any direction and it would come out fine. Maybe the airship, being larger (and possibly more primitive) cannot act the same way yet.

Their rebirth in the storm is only something new of the everstorm, if I remember previously when they died they were trapped on Braize again until the next desolation.

Actually in OB Kaladin comments that they fly differently than he does. IIRC they were more graceful but could not adjust directions as quickly as he could. It is more reasonable to assume that there will be differences between the surges than the opposite, but they're probably going to be pretty similar.

I didn't think very many were born afterwards? I thought Syl was one of the youngest, and she still lived before the recreance. I think it would be a pretty easy case to make to the honorspren though. Like "hey look, we already know the truth and we didn't abandon our oaths. In fact we have new people swearing every day."

The updates synopsis on storefronts, amazon for example. I think that also means the gem they used to seal the unmade is probably not hidden away within the tower. Aimia, then? Where else would radiants have trusted to hide it? I think it's the same power, just a way smaller scale/localized thing. He needs to be able to pierce all three realms in order to draw investiture I believe.

The ship is neat but it is such an enticing target. A couple flying fused with firebombs would turn it into a death trap. Navani mentioned it has defenses, I am interested to see what those are. The vulnerability of such a ship wouldn't have been overlooked.

Shallan has a POV in part 1, according to Brandon's recent comiccon reading (he mentioned that he's skipping Shallan's part of that chapter, I think it was c7 or c8). We also know that Shallan will be with Adolin for a time while they travel through Shadesmar, per the recent synopsis update. Has Brandon said whether people will move between these 'groups'?

He said in one of the recent interviews that he was necesarily light on Shallan's affliction in book 1/2 and planned for it to more front and center in book 3/4, so I think we'll still see some Shallan struggling.

I hope it's not Laral, that would be boring and a step back. I'm betting on Venli.

What you quoted suggests to me that the stormfather is not the storm, and only resides there.

So far we've seen no evidence to suggest that Spren can exist independently as physical phenomenon, so I lean towards Stormfather being of the storm and not the storm itself.

There's no reason to believe the storms wouldn't come without his input. It predates the shattering, after all.

I doubt that. The storm would still exist. The stormfather exists within the storm but he isn't the storm itself. And Lirin isn't a coward, that's ridiculous. He's certainly pragmatic, but he has no qualms with working against the Singers. He's just not a fighter. What would standing up do beyond get himself killed and take away a doctor from all the refugees who could need his help.