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9 hours ago, alder24 said:

Yes, that's a Bondsmith power. The Stormfather was seeing something else and was referring to what he saw, he wasn't talking about the perpendicularity Dalinar made. 

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Questioner

Dalinar Ascends, right? Like, right then, there.

Brandon Sanderson

I have RAFO'd that. Whether he is Ascending or not is a RAFO.

Questioner

Okay, because I know he kind of mentions from that, I don't know how to say his name but the older guy who has the Diagram--

Brandon Sanderson

Taravangian, yeah. Whether that deserves to be a capital "A" or not is a matter of argument. It can be disputed.

Questioner

I guess my main question would just be Dalinar's now able to pull Stormlight and give it to people now.

Brandon Sanderson

He definitely can. That is a Bondsmith power, so.

Questioner

That is a Bondsmith power, okay.

Brandon Sanderson

That is specifically a Bondsmith power.

Questioner

Because my roommate was saying well, the Stormfather was surprised he could do that or was the Stormfather surprised that he was able to bridge--

Brandon Sanderson

He was surprised by what was happening to Dalinar as a whole.

Questioner

Oh okay, that's what I thought because I was like, because I felt like the Stormlight, that power would be a Bondsmith power.

Brandon Sanderson

Let's say that the Stormfather and Odium were seeing something in Dalinar that, perhaps, the average person watching even who is knowledgeable about Surges would not completely understand... But he will be able to use that power and Bondsmiths in the past have used that same power.

Footnote: Brandon clarified that he might have been unintentionally misleading in his answers to this question during his Stormlight 4 Update 1.
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Thanks for that WoB had forgotten that

Is it confirmed that the previous bondsmiths could open perpendicularities? 

I thought the Stormfather was suprised that Dalinar could open it, and Dalinar explains that they are something new?

Thanks for replying

Agree with the school, was more thinking in the lines of someone to turn to for guidance in that area.

on another note, Vasher needs to meet Navani so she can get some juicy info out of him

Not really a theory, but havent seen it disscussed alot.
As we progress the cosmere our characters are beginning to understand the importance of Intent, and ive been trying to think of what role Vasher will play in stormlight. 

I would argue that the best use of Intent we have seen is Vasher telling his cloak to protect him. That is such a loose term open to interpetation, that it really needs 100% control over your Intent.

Soo im hoping we will see Vasher not as a swordmaster, but as a teacher of Intent.

Thoughts? 

I believe Nightblood is the destruction Dawnshard.( Explaning the insane effect of the Command he was given)

I think the Unite them Dalinar hears is Tanavast saying unite the Change Dawnshard, the Destroy Dawnshard and the splinters of Honor.
 

Then Dalinar would have the Commands of a God(Destroy and Change), the Intent of a God(Honor) The two things required for the ultimate level of surgebinding and the capacity to defeat/change Odium.

Thoughts?

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