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9 hours ago, JohnnyKaizen said:
Also, Retribution is now 70+ years behind his rivals. Well, he the Shard probably isn't, but his mortal subjects are. The rest of the Shards get to move things into place before the Rosharans can move out into the Cosmere as a whole, and that's amazing. Though, I don't know that Honor-Dalinar knew that or not with his expanded capacity.
That is a very interesting observation! This time warp has put Roshar way back in terms of technology development where earlier they were poised to get at par with Scadrial.
9 hours ago, JohnnyKaizen said:As to did this book change my feelings on the SA. Nope. I loved Wind and Truth. I did have some minor issues with it, but nothing serious/major. I loved it, and I'm super excited for the next few years of other stories.
Same here. I might have a few issues with the book, but it was extremely difficult to provide an ending that would be as awesome as this one is. There were bound to be things we have predicted along the way and a few that I got spoiled on following the fan theories. But there is no predicting anything by anyone what the book 6 is going to be like.
He has changed everything about Roshar and it takes guts to do that! I loved Wind and Truth!
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13 hours ago, Letryx13 said:
The shard of Preservation cared about protecting the people of Skadriel, not just Vin. And if I'm right and such clashes have happened before, then the shard of Devotion likely cared enough to prevent such destruction too.
Agreed. And may be, shard of ambition did not, and that is why the effects of the clash was far more detrimental in the Threnodite system also.
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On 12/31/2024 at 6:42 PM, christianrapper said:
Taravangian didn’t do anything. He only was able to choose Gav because Dalinar went to the spiritual realm
I think that Todium had been working on Gav for a while, even before he went to the SR. Gav was awake and was having nightmares! He was probably going to get him as his champion either way.
On 12/31/2024 at 6:42 PM, christianrapper said:for what eventually turned out to be absolutely no reason.
He went to SR and learnt a great lot about the history of Roshar, from visions, from Tanavast, He realised that Odium can not be defeated through this contest, it is not possible to defeat a shard of hatred and all bad emotions by fighting him as the suffering and pain and hatred war causes, only makes the shard Odium more happy!
While Honor, heralds, Knights Radiants, fused, singers and even the vessel of Odium are suffering from the prolonged war, this makes the power of Odium have a gala time!
Through Tanavast pov, he learnt that there is very little he can do, even after holding Honor, that will even make a dent to Odium. He can frustrate its vessel but then Odium will change its vessel. In the meanwhile the Rosharans will just keep on struggling.
He never would have given up the power, if he had not gone to the SR.
It is also possible that Cultivation manipulated him into going to SR, give up Honor and look, now she is also free of Roshar and far safer from Odium now that she is run away!
On 12/31/2024 at 6:42 PM, christianrapper said:After book 4 he was in a position of strength. In 10 days he managed to squander all of that away.
Yes because the power changed hands to Taravangian! it is not Dalinar's fault. And this just proves that Tanavast's plan of contest of champions was faulty and Dalinar should never have forced it. Dalinar did realise that the contest favours T'Odium and was a bad plan to begin with. So, he was left with no other option but to do what he did.
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I like this post. You have made some really good points.
Also, i want to mention that she did achieve the goal of preserving Roshar. Rayse hated this planet/system and saw this as his prison. He had said to Dalinar also that he would destroy Roshar. While making his deal with Taravangian also, he was willing to only spare Kharbranth. So, in having Taravangian replace Rayse, she also ensured continued existence of Roshar. In fact, T'Odium would not want to destroy Roshar, he wants to rule it.
She also ensured that T'Odium will not try to kill Cultivation atleast not immediately.
Yes she tried to make his see that he can give up war but she must have known that that would not work and that is not something Taravangian can do, given the nature of his power. So, it might have been a ruse, to keep him busy. buy time.
She also went to Dalinar and pointed him towards Honor, Did she really thought Dalinar will take up honor and save them? Because I think she knows the reason Honor can never really defeat Odium, that path would only lead to a temporary truce at max and continued war on Roshar. May be she foresaw the possibility of Retribution, may be not, it is hard to tell at this point. But her nudging Dalinar towards SR and learning about Honor's history caused Retribution to form. Was that what she had secretly intended? it is an intriguing possibility.
You are right that she has wanted to be free of Roshar for a long time, she finally managed to be free.
After Dalinar, she is probably the single person/entity who knows and understand Taravangian and the shard of Odium and the shard of Honor.
I hope that she makes up for it, even if it indeed was a mistake and not part of her plan.
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On 12/14/2024 at 1:43 AM, wormotif said:
It shouldn't be surprising that the new Oathpact doesn't require torture. This wasn't an intrinsic requirement of the bonding, it was just a side effect of being stuck on Braize. Presumably, had the Heralds and Honor known about the torture before the first Oathpact, they could have found a workaround like Ishar did for the new Oathpact.
I think it is almost possible that Tanavast atleast knew that it was a possibility.
It is also strange that he attributes Heralds madness to the fact that he had provided them with a lot more of his power than a human body can endure. But as per the visions we saw, he does not seem into take into account the fact of them enduring millennia's worth of torture and trauma at the hands of the fused.
One more thing that made me wonder is that could they have change the old oathpact to incorporate this new, mind is trapped in a vision and escape all that happened?
Could he have swapped the heralds, found new people?
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I think that Honor chose to hide his perpendicularity in the highstorm because a) it gives him the ability to provide stormlight to everyone on this world and b) more importantly it was a security measure.
Shards, it seems, have to have a place where their power coalesces and these shardpool are a security hazard. They act as perpendicularities and allow all host of people easy access to your planet and vice versa. I think shards do like to keep a tight leash on who comes and who goes. But I also think that these shardpools are vulnerability of the shard. Too easy an access to one, can allow some with enough knowledge to partake of their power and create a lot of mess.
In a world like Roshar, where there are 2 shards, cultivation already has her perpendicularity at the horneater peaks, she has tried to make it as difficult to access as it is possible to make, Honor probably decided that a second stable perpendicularity will simply be too big a liability.
Odium did try to hide his perpendicularity but as we now know there have been people who found out about it and used it for their purposes.
whereas Honor's moving perpendicularity so far has proved to be most secure and inaccessible.
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10 hours ago, spootime said:
Yeah if you remove every single Shallan chapter from this book nothing really changes. Ba ado mishram may or may not be free due to the actions of the Ghostbloods in the spirit realm but her being free or not doesn't affect the plot.
A lot of the fans and readers out there do not keep up with all the information and fan theories as we, the ones active on 17th shard or discord, do. There is a huge fanbase out there who did not already know about the Shallan's mother = Chana! It is one big reveal that comes from her chapters it will have further impact on the story.
if BAM were released by Ghostbloods, it would have led to something catastrophic for the humans! Mraize would have goaded her and god knows used her for what! Her being released by Renarin and Rlain, another human-singer couple, played a huge role in her not instantly destroying all the humans on Roshar and choosing to sit tight, observe and act in the future. Her being free to be a contender for Odium or even retribution int he future is a big plot!
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On 12/16/2024 at 1:03 PM, KaladinWorldsinger said:
What answers? What did we learn that we did not know already? We got some teases about the shattered plains and Braize, but I feel like we already pretty much knew everything else
We learnt that honor had gone to Ashyn chasing Odium! The two had engaged in this war at Ashyn, both were equally responsible for providing surges to humans and the ultimate destruction of Ashyn and not just Rayse.
We learnt how and why the heralds were chosen, I want to know why and how Taln had tried to kill Cultivation, we learnt how the deal was made between the 3 gods
also that Honor was present at the time of ahreitiem and he allowed the oathpact to be put on Taln alone! That he could have helped more, he could have helped heralds, replaced them but he chose not to. As desolations continued, he gave more and more access to Heralds of his power, thereby accelerating their suffering!
we also learn how a 2nd deal was made between Honor and Odium where he had agreed for the contest of champions.
We learn that BAM was a contender to Odium's power! and that Honor agreed to imprison BAM. Then he allowed and rather instigated his radiants to draw BAM into negotiations for peace, only so that he could backstab her and imprison her!
I did not know all of that! the level of Tanavast's failure despite his good intentions!
it was interesting to learn just how flawed, utterly unprepared these vessels for the power of the shards!
And this is the first time (that we know of) where a vessel has been rejected by a shard and has died as a result of.
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4 hours ago, What's a Seawolf? said:
Where the book really lost me was the whole Spiritual Realm adventure and hunt for BAM. The hunt for BAM was a complete waste of time. BAM did nothing and there was a lot of pages devoted to her, building her up, only for nothing to happen.
She will be a mojor player in SA 6-10. It is a mid way book. I actually like that we have a mystery power and a possible contender to Retribution sitting right in his backyard and he can not do anything about it!
4 hours ago, What's a Seawolf? said:The lore dumps in Dalinar/Tanavasts sections were nice, but that was a lot of pages devoted to...what, exactly?
answers, long awaited answers!
4 hours ago, What's a Seawolf? said:too many extraneous viewpoints. I get Renarin, Rlain, Sig and Venli may all be important in the back half, but let them get pages in the back half
They needed tp be there because while this book is the end of arc 1, it is also is required to set up for arc 2!
Venli, Renarin and Rlain all 3 will have a major role in uniting the humans and singers eventually and therefore her entire storyline was important. I loved learning about the Chasmfiends! The mystery of the 4th moon, stone singing is clearly going to be important and odium's, now Retribution's perpendicualrity!! All of these seem to be very important for 2nd arc.
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7 hours ago, gas_and_lies said:
With Dalinar having renounced all oaths, I thought the contract would have been voided as well, but it seems like Retribution is bound by it. What am I missing?
I think the intent of shard of Honor makes it difficult for him to go on a complete rampage. It would not like that.
QuoteListen to me, Honor. I did not break the contract. I kept my oaths. I have let myself be bound by them again and again. I understand you, and how you feel right now. I am worthy.”
T said to Honor shard before he took it. I think he needs to show tot he power that he cares about his contracts and oaths. Power that has resisted taking a vessel for a long time and then chose Dalinar who immediately renounced his oath. T needs to pretend to be better than Dalinar.
Also unbeknownst to T, shard of Honor has sentience equivalent to a little boy (10 yrs old?), T is going to find it extra difficult to mold it to his desires. Now that other shards have taken notice of him, he can not afford to be rejected by Honor.
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12 hours ago, teknopathetic said:
I hope Moash does something eventually. Each book he is just such a waste of page space. We know he will kill a Bridge 4 person and then disappear unremarkably every book ...
He is just soooo boring.This book he certainly was as you said.
RoW not so much because he was trying to get Kaladin to kill himself just so Moash can say he is right!
No redemption for Moash!
He closed that door long long ago!
Can you please, Brandon, kill this guy for good in the next book! He is a total waste of space!
Kaladin the Herald of second chances will take one look at Moash and say "not you" and kill him.
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I personally do not trust her much! Her expression, her greed, not to mention the prize which T offered, getting off the Rosharan System was something too tempting for her.
Some of the blackness has lifted after BAM was released but I dont think that magically completely cures them, so she is, if not a mole, then a dangerous opportunist. She is a big liability on the Team Herald.
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1 hour ago, Sedside said:
They are friends, he gave her a good gift, and there is no single word of appreciation of him from her side. Just silly talks of rejection and rivalry. And "relationship of shared pain", for storms' sake.
Well that is true. Shallan is not at all perfect. She completely ignored Kal after their Chasm scene which should have meant more to both of them. It clearly meant something to Kal. She is a bit immature, she is dismissive of him probably because she wants Adolin and does not want any doubt to creep in. She really maintains her distance from him in OB. But has probably enjoyed knowing that she had choice! Must be a novel experience for her! She has not had much exposure in society.
1 hour ago, Sedside said:I said it's repetitive and annoying,
People in love are annoying!!
Hey, sorry about the tone, my only defense is that English is like my third language and when I said "It is normal you know", it was not meant to be disrespectful.
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I agree, I loved this sequence. To see Theylenah, one of the first and strongest allies, notice the fact that Dalinar will go to spritual realm on Cultivation's suggestion, was discussed in front of Fen, no one from Azir was there.
Fen was that strong an ally. But then to see T win theylenah to his side without needing to raise a single weapon, merely on the basis of his arguments, it was brilliantly done.
It strengthens that T is extremely smart, not only did he outwit Jasnah, in fact his used her own arguments to show her hypocrisy to Fen and broke them apart.
I think it was an important moment for Jasnah, this is very similar to how she needed to be confronted with her flaws, her utter failure and her hypocrisy. She is not a perfect character and she can not always win. It was necessary and it will provide for a foundation for the character struggle and eventual growth that we will see in her going forward in 2nd arc. She is bound to be a major player in the back 5 books.
I am surprised that anyone is complaining about this. I am glad that not everything that T one, was through sword. Frankly, that is not his style also.
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3 hours ago, Sedside said:
The world is ending, the enemy is at the gate, and May Aladar, the character we know almost nothing about, as well as we know absolutely nothing about her relationship with Adolin, brings up their "non-courting", says she is his "ex" (what? is it even a word on Roshar?), despite the fact that they were "NON-courting", and admits how glad she is that it didn't work for them and how good Shallan is for Adolin? Why is this woman deliberately saying something like "when I was your girlfriend you didn't pay any attention to me, and now when you are with another woman you treat her absolutely differenty, I am so glad about it!"
it is possible that May is not fully over Adolin. May be she liked him or the idea of their politically advantageous to each other more than he did. It happens you know, sometimes when people meet their ex after a long time, their ex may talk like this, like still trying to convince herself.
Kaladin also, may be has moved on but sometimes when you see your ex-crush with her husband, you can go, well we would never have worked out or who knows may be we would have but it was never meant to be. It is normal you know.
3 hours ago, Sedside said:Screw you, Shallan. And this is exactly after she admits that his present helped her and relieved her anxiety, and now she is being mean towards him? I couldn't even read the chapter after this, I've skipped it almost entirely, because this treatment of Kaladin infuriated me. What is this all for? Why should Sanderson even address this issue if it's not an issue anymore? Does he think we are stupid? Or does he just like rubbing salt to our wounds
May be, it is time to move on from the kaladin shallan ship.
QuoteWhy should I read about Kaladin's emotionless mask on their wedding and brooding in the corner? What should it mean? "Oh, he is so upset I've rejected him, but he stands tall?"
I think this is more about how Kaladin was not doing very well at the end of OB, he started falling into his depression more heavily after kholinar disaster and elhokar's death. She as a friend is just noticing her friend not doing well.
3 hours ago, Sedside said:I was so annoyed by reading all of this "oh he missed Shallan so much, how is she there?", "oh she missed Adolin so much, how is he there?" stuff.
it is funny because if they had not once said in the book that they miss each other, then fans would have said they are not a good couple, they do not even miss each other.
And when they went to their respective missions, they did not expect shallan to have to goto the spriritual realm or for her to be stranded for 8 days, dude is worried about his wife and he is not allowed to say that he misses her!
and shallan when she is in the presence of a new budding romance of relarin, is not allowed to think and miss Adolin.
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I absolutely loved this book! The Ending!! What has Dalinar done!! It is absolutely insane and absolutely brilliant at the same time!! He even managed to outwit the Wit! He in a very Dalinar like fashion, absolutely refused to play by the rules of Taravangian's, Tanavast's and Wit's game! He broke the game, he broke the whole board.
Taravangian is now RETRIBUTION, Night of Sorrows! it really is the Everstorm now! no highstorms, no stormlight, no Radiants (outside of Urithiru!) almost the whole of the world under T's grip and fully dependent on him for warlight for even basic survival! Bet Fen regrets making that treaty with him now.
Everything that we know about Roshar has changed, I have no Idea how things will progress moving forward and I can not imagine a better mid-way ending for Stormlight Archive.
Dalinar: I have loved his journey of self discovery throughout books 1-5. His acceptance of his flaws and desire to do better!
I also am intrigued by the comment that "He is spoken for by another". By God Beyond? Adonalsium?
Taravangian getting some botched up half way simulacrum of Dalinar was frustrating but he is not Dalinar Kholin and T will soon realise that. I know a lot of people complain that it is not the same as Dalinar becoming the Champion but I think that will precisely be the point.
And Frankly, if after all the self discovery, Actual Dalinar would have gone back to becoming tarvangians Dark Puppet, I would have been far more disappointed.
Kaladin: I loved his whole story and where it led him to. Obviously, Kaladin ascending was most talked of followed by him becoming a herald.
Nonetheless, I would love to see him interacting with OG heralds and teaching them a thing or two. I think Ishar, Nale and other heralds will see what this common "dark-eyed" (as in non-noble) herald is made of. Kaladin and Taln will be besties and deadly duo!
I would love to see B4, Adolin and Szeth reactions when Herald Kaladin returns. Taravangian has no idea what is coming his way.
Shallan's mother = Chana was seriously taken up after SA prologue release, I remember I was absolutely mind blown at the possibility at the time and I know that a huge part of Brandon's Fandom will be equally shocked and amazed because not everyone analyses these books as much as some of us do here on 17th Shard. She is stranded in Shadesmaar and pregnant and essentially in a long distance relationship with Adolin! But I expect her to have learned a lot more about the wider cosmere in arc 2.
Adolin and his band of unoathed spren, it was amazing. He is not a Radiant but something new and i can not wait to see how Azir will progress moving forward.
Renarin and Rlain: absolutely loved their story and look forward to see where it moves further.
Lift: Lift got the worlds best teacher!
Navani and Sibling: I loved how she made dealing with the madness of the SR look so easy. She is in coma but I think her and sibling waking up might be how we kickstart arc 2.
Taravangian: I really hate this guy, there really is no level to which he will not stoop in order to win and in this book he is proven that he is a big humbug, all his earlier claims of wanting good of people were lies, the only thing he cares about is power, control and proving himself right.
I am not a fan of Gavinor being the Champion, I have never been but I am glad that it was just a minor tool point to get Dalinar to really do something drastic and break the game entirely. I can forgive Brandon this one thing.
I did expected a little more out of SR but I think it is only forst time we have gone there and we never strayed out of Honor's power, I bet there is a lot more to it to what we have been shown in this book.
Taravangian is RETRIBUTION, others shard can no longer ignore him, and has been said by Sazed in epigraphs, 1 shard is already infinite so holding more than one does not necessarily mean that he has more power, may be to some extent but the bindings of both the intents of the power and the internal tussle will limit him far more.
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@coolsnow7, @The Stick Szeth = Wholesome? That is pushing it, I think! I mean he needs Kaladin the awesome therapist. Szeth is very confused, always looking to follow someone before he has zero faith in his own conviction, is volatile, unpredictable and very judgmental ! May be he can become Wholesome at the end of this book. It is his book and he might pick up the shard but I think if it happens, it might not necessarily be a good thing. I dont see much likelihood of the vessel(Szeth) steering the shard's intent much, feels like his need to follow someone, is going to cause the vessel being completely controlled by the Shards Intent.
I like Kaladin for this, but at this point I think it is too obvious and is not going to happen like Vin being the Hero of Ages. Same goes for Dalinar, too obvious.
I do like Adolin as a likely candidate.
Shallan: I dont see her as very honorary!
Lift: Cultivation some day may be?
Renarin: No simply because I want him to learn more about him, get his ship going with rlain, get his pov book
Gawx: May be
I like Fen for honor too.
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16 hours ago, feruchemicalrockband said:
This idea about Odium-aligned surgebinders being able to function within Urithiru has been passed around a ton, except we've seen that the Tower is able to repel them. Moash used the honorblade and Stormlight, but because of his connection to Odium he was cast out.
Something weird happened with him for sure, but I always thought that it had specifically to do with him. He was blind after he witnessed the waking up of the Tower may be because he was standing right in front of it. And then he ran out or something, i dont think he was cast out!? I dont think the same applies to all others.
16 hours ago, feruchemicalrockband said:You can assume that the same goes for Nale and the Skybreakers, as they are connected to him through the law. They may not have given him his pain, but they have certainly abandoned personal responsibility to the letter of the law.
I think we have learnt so far that the oaths are very Intentional and subjective and not as crystal clear as one would think. The fact that Skybreakers think and genuinely believe that they are following the word of law, makes it to be so in their case. Now, whose law they need to law, well that is very subjective and I think being 5th level KR, Nale gets to decide. And others, being 3rd/4th level KRs have decided to follow Nale. So i dont see their being a problem. There spren are granting them these powers and have accepted their oaths and not the tower.
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18 hours ago, BinarySecond said:
Until I figure anything else out they're all in Kharbranth getting married to existing citizens.
Yea that would be the only smart thing to do!
But they are diagram aligned and therefore soon will be T'Odium aligned. I would love to see Adrotagia's reaction when she finds out about T'Odium!
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As the title already says "WHERE ARETHE DUSTBRINGERS??"
All we know is that all Dustbringers except the Reshi King have left Urithiru.
We know that Ashspren hate humanity for the recreance.
We know that Malata was one of the first ones and she worked for The Diagram and hence Taravangian and hence for T'Odium!
I think that The Diagram through Malata's spren might have recruited more dustbringers.
What if, while Skybreakers actually are in theylan city but it is the Dustbringers who come to attack Urithiru?!
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If Urithitu is attacked, I do wonder who will be left in Urithiru to defend? It does feel like a red herring where the sibling keeps promising that Urithiru will be safe, although it does feel like a repeat of ROW, but if the plan is to destroy it or kill the sibling using the anti-stormlight? may be!
21 hours ago, Catlito said:Looks like Nale and the Skybreakers could easily take Urithiru
Where are the Dustbringers?
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So, we all know the loophole now and the risks involved and what T'Odium is planning. There is going to be war at multiple fronts:
Azir, Thaylenah and Shattered Plains. Coalition forces have formed a battle plans and forces have been assigned to the 3 battlefronts
and it really feels like the world is ending!
But, I dont think that Coalition forces are going to be able to win all the 3 battlefronts in book 5! Makes me wonder, which battle we are going to win and which are we going to lose before the end of 8 days!
if we lose Azir, we lose all the adjoining kingdoms, and coalition simply will not have enough land/territory to matter anymore on Roshar and it will be a big blow!
If we lose Thaylenah, we lose the entire sea navigation and it is a big lose.
If we lose Shattered plains, which according to me, is most likely, well poor Alethkar, its people do not seem to be able to catch a break! Besides, resources vise, Shattered Plains hold a lot of importance for the sustenance of Urithiru.
and not to count, whatever is going to go down in Shinovar!
plus, Do you think Urithiru is going to be attacked?
So, please share your views.
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10 hours ago, Display-Names-Are-Stupid said:
If he is, it would make his "Honor is dead, but I'll see what I can do." line all the more epic.
According to me, It already is the most epic line, there is! And his first pov chapter was named "Honor is dead"!!
However, I just worry that it is too expected at this moment and therefore may not come to be!
And my friend recently mentioned and I think it makes sense, that Kaladin Holding a shard's power but not able to intervene to help, if it is breaking T'Odium than it will be so much more worse for Kaladin to endure!
I mean they do have a point there! but lets see!
Personally, I have always believed that Son of Tanavast, Kaladin will be Honor.
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12 hours ago, GudThymes said:
What we've seen Hoid do consistently is acquire investiture from every planet he visits.
Yes, and to add to this point, we must note that he had been hanging around Elhokar for years, and we know that for some of those years, Elhokar had attracted Cripticspren: Design! Hoid was around and I am 100% sure that he can sense potential knights radiants as he did with Shallan, Kaladin, Dalinar and Renarin. So, he did not help Elhokar at all with being a radiant.
His goals were clear in that he wanted to bond a crypticspren which he did when El died in Kholinar.
9 hours ago, Ninth of the Night said:I always figured his goal on Roshar was to keep Odium chained. Even if that means one planet has to suffer for eternity, is that really a problem to Hoid? It's an imperfect solution, but one he would accept if there was no other alternative.
well thats true. In fact, to think about it, Tanavast being Honor, also it appears chose the 'honorable' thing to do and decided to let Odium come in and trapped him in the system, for the greater good of the larger Cosmere even if it made the life of Rosharans a living hell! I dont think any shard wants him free of Roshar!
6 hours ago, The Stick said:Wouldn't it be in Hoid's best interest to utterly destroy the Stormfather, and this apparent remnant of Honor's power. After that, wouldn't there not be any piece of Honor's power large enough to negotiate Odium's release.
Rather I think that completely destroying Honor's power might make it easier for Odium to unchain himself. I feel that is Odium's goal.
3 hours ago, Ashbringer said:"You must not trust yourself with me. If I have to watch this world crumble and burn to get what I need, I will do so. With tears, yes, but I would let it happen."
—Hoid (as Wit) to DalinarSeems slightly relevant...And also, In Oathbringer when Wit meets Shallan in Kholinar, in the restaurant:
Quote“Be wary of anyone who claims to be able to see the future, Shallan “
“Except you, of course. Didn’t you say you can see where you need to be?” “Be wary,” he repeated, “of anyone who claims to be able to see the future, Shallan.”I have always found these words very ominous!
Especially, when our heroes are full steam going in the direction of blindly trusting Wit with very important world-changing decisions!
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Did book 5 affect your feelings of the whole series?
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agree with you completely.
I too feel that Twok for me, although a great book to start a seroes, but is my least favourite. The scale is smaller with promise to become bigger as series progresses which is exactly what it was supposed to be. OB is my ultimate favourite book followed by book 2,4 & 5 as very close 2nds.
I too loved the Navani Science part in RoW although while reading it also I knew that a lot of the readers might not enjot it as much as I did. and thats fair too.
At the end, every one is entitled to their own opinions, and as the fandom grows, there will always be many who will love the series and many who will not.
Going more cosmere forward as the series progresses is what I expected and wanted from the SA books.
Changing the whole ecosystem of Roshar, magic system etc which is so much loved by the readers, is a big risk that he took, I think it paid off.
Anti-light research could easily be the building blocks of anti-investiture research and will be useful everywhere in the cosmere. Ghostbloods have the research, they are not restricted to Roshar, they can continue the work on it and make use of it going forwards.