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Kaladin was never 'made sport of.' His depression and PTSD are reoccurring, frequently rearing their heads at the worst times.... But they are never made light of. Brandon portrays them in an extremely realistic way(Based on the posts I've read from people suffering from such issues) and calling him a crybaby/weak-willed is just insensitive in the face of how heavy a burden depression or PTSD can be.

The criticism about Kaladin's brother seems a tad unfair as well. You need to keep in mind that this series is planned to have 10 books. Things will be brought up only for usage in future. Not to mention that even with Brandon's decent juggling skills, there simply won't be time for some characters.

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9 hours ago, mosaab said:

Radiant are made by their ideals not their professions.

This is the tendency of the fandom to think the only characters that will matter are the character we know right now.

We have only three bondsmiths, why would give one of those roles to a vapid character like navani? I would rather it be a character from another, something not human, or from another shard world, or something more unique. Remmeber this is the god-spren that is supposedly slumbering, the character to awaken it should be just as interesting as dalinar.

Also its an extremely lazy choice, I can accept that the bridgemen can be windrunners because of the nature of kaladin's resonance, but navani is just laziness.

Also navani isn't the one who invents all those fabrial,but her ardent. Sure she is part of the process, but not actually all that necessary.

 

 

I think you're just dissuading their points by way of hatred for a character.

So, Oathbringer has quite a few references to the Sleepless. The one that has stood out the most to me has to be from page 438, during Dalinar's vision of Aharietiam, we get:

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One spot they passed had a whole heap of strange cremlings, burned and smoking. Who would have taken the time to pile up a thousand little crustaceans?

Now, this has multiple implications.

1. Tighter Aimian - Human relations than what we see in modern day. The Aimian actively opposed Odium's encroaching forces.

2. Something has occurred since Aharietiam that has caused the Sleepless to avoid open communication with humanity. Likely related to the disaster said to have scoured Aimia of most of it's people.

Thoughts?