TacticalShardSpork

Sazed learns a thing or two from the Wind about how to better balance both protecting/preserving with weathering/ruin.

I concur, and besides those WoBs, Paliah and not Battar is in the heraldic symbols at the beginning of the chapters she appears or is discussed heavily in (Ch 33 of WoK and I-14 of WoR)

I think it’s possible that Brandon was playing with the assumptions we would make and that Vivenna isn’t actually hunting Vasher. In OB chapter 108, she says that she’s hunting a sword (and gives enough description that it’s Nightblood) and the person who brought it to Roshar. In chapter 110, she asks our Rorsharan protagonists to warn Vasher she’s looking for him. She was following the honorspren because they had noted Nightblood passing through. If she thought that Vasher was the last person to have him, then wouldn’t it have made more sense for her to prioritize finding Vasher over an obscure trail for Nightblood? This is a large jump, but the next question is if she’s not hunting Vasher then who? I’d really like the irony if she was hunting Nale under valid laws.

I’m rereading WoR and am at the Taravangian interlude. I noticed that heraldic symbols at the beginning of the chapter are of Jezrien and Pailiah. I would think that given how Sanderson selects the heraldic symbols and how much T discusses Dova in this chapter that we have some additional support for the herald in Kharbranth being Pailiah and not Battar. Also, I’m not sure if this would be considered necro-ing the thread. I was trying to find out whether it had been argued that T gave Dalinar bad information at the end of Oathbringer, and this thread isn’t that old and discusses that.

:bump: I was rereading Bands of Mourning this weekend and I got really excited that I now identified voidbringers in this chapter. I accepted Wax’s thoughts for what ReLuur saw when I initially read the chapter.