Rainier

I'm just here to remind everyone...

Moash did nothing wrong.

Nicely done, Ben. I didn't realize you two were doing recaps of a new reader.

One question, though. With the hardbound wrapped up, how will you look at all the beautiful colors on the inside?

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Shallan tried to focus on the accounts. She could do these numbers; she’d first trained on accounting when doing her father’s ledgers. That had begun before she…

Before she…

It might be time, Veil whispered. To remember, once and for all. Everything.

No, it was not.

But…

Shallan retreated immediately. No, we can’t think of that. Take control.

Notice how it's Veil pushing to remember everything once and for all? Veil is the most "real" of the three personae, despite the fact that one of them shares a name with the body housing all three.

So what's the trivial connection to Ruin? That Ruin destroys and Nightblood consumes?

What is Nightblood made of? And who might know something about metal alloys and Investiture?

The connection between Nightblood and Ruin is that Nighblood is made of an Atium alloy.

Great to see the cameras. It really helps, surprisingly enough.

I actually listened enough to hear the Nightblood talk. I'm heavily Invested in Nightblood, and I'd love to speculate on his chain of custody. There's not much we absolutely know, and what we do know we know from Nightblood itself, Vasher, and Vivenna. We know from Nightblood that Vivenna held it, but never drew it. That's the only new person we heard him mention as holding it. Given Cultivation's association with foresight, I imagined that the offer to bring Dalinar Nightblood would through be some sort of precognition. She could predict an outcome where Dalinar would seize Nightblood, and offered Dalinar that possible future.

I think Nale was holding Nightblood when Dalinar was visiting the Nightwatcher through nothing but supposition save it could make sense. In terms of Nightblood Chain of Custody, we've got Vasher/Vivenna/???/Nale/Szeth. I doubt Vivenna had Nightblood when the Nightwatcher offered it to Dalinar, so it's either the ??? or Nale.

Shout out to the Oxford comma.

The heart of the passion around this topic is explained by the position in the plot of these relationships. What does it matter if he gets with she? Which he? Why she? If they get together or not, the plot of the apocalypse doesn't really change.

Therefore, the choice of what happens reveals the biases and desires of the author. What is happening? What is Brandon trying to accomplish in this? It's not really deep love with another main character. Their purpose in the story is to be Radiants, not lovers. It's a Radiant story, not a love story.