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Welcome to the shard @ToaCalune Oathbringer is my favourite too. I loved reading about Shadesmar especially on re-reads and the ending is way too epic !!

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I don’t think that before honorblades and heralds, any dawnsinger on Roshar had access to surgebinding. We have been told that fused learnt to surgebind after they saw heralds and it probably took them centuries/ first few desolations to figure it out. Forms of power are not exactly surges.

I think if Dalinar can get the story he got, and can still be one of the popular characters of the series, my second most loved character in the SA after kaladin, if Brandon can pull that off, then I think he can write a more than satisfactory redemption arc for Moash. I don’t think Moash has done anything which even comes close to genocide.

Welcome to the shard @Robot I like your theory. I have always thought that dawnsingers created dawncities varying frequency - sound waves. But yup singing to the rhythms makes sense.

I always thought that everstorm is there to stay and it will go only once Odium is defeated. But I like the idea of KRs somehow stopping the everstorm. That would be a big setback for them.

I think I remember Lirin commenting on how Kaladin has a very good mind and he learned everything very quickly and does not forget what he has learnt. So although you are not wrong but still I think Comparing to any average pre digital medical students, I think kaladin would have been amongst the toppers of his class. Showing much more than average intelligence

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Welcome to the shard! Interesting favourite character and place!

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I don’t want Elhokar back to be honest. It would ruin the impact of a great scene in the books

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The terriswomen bodyguard of Kelsina? I think she was a pewter Ferring?

Not at all. Everyday we have new members joining the shard.

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Hey! Welcome to the shard! If Dalinar is your favourite character and you have not finished OB yet! Oh !! You are in for a big surprise!!! Do let us know what you think after finishing OB, looking forward to it!!

Welcome to the shard! Glad to know that you found this site. I also don’t know any fans of Sanderson in real life! That is also the reason I joined here!

Do let us know what you thought.

Welcome to the shard! How is reading white sand going?

Guys read Malazan or Robin hobb and you will know what a book that is gloomy all the time like. Thank you @The Awakened Salad I agree. This is what I was trying to say, the general theme and tone of Sanderson books is hopeful and light. In fact one reason I like SA more than other series of his is because now it appears that he is getting increasingly dark and serious. That is also why I liked HoA more than other two books because it had big time stakes. I see Brandon books as periods of gloomy stuff and hopeful stuff all mixed up. Mostly if we see a character showing hope for redemption, he will get redemption. I think Elhokar was first who showed promised which was crushed at the cusp of fulfilling that promise. Beautifully articulated @The Awakened Salad gloomy stuff presented as something that can be overcome. Exactly. Back to the topic however, @Honorless I do get where you are going with this. No doubt the path Moash took was understandable as in how someone in his shoes could find revenge very tempting but that is not the only path he could have taken. He could have taken the high road. And in a series where so many characters like kaladin, dalinar, Jasnah etc often take the high road, Despite, facing difficulties and hurdles. I think it gets easy for readers to dislike that one character who did not.

I find Elhokar’s death scene as a very surprising, emotional and devastating moment in the series. Mainly because I never thought that Brandon can do something like that. He introduced us in book 1 to Elhokar who is paranoid, spoilt, arrogant and hopeless king. I instantly hated him and thought him the worst thing that happened to Alethkar. He refuses to listen to anything that Dalinar says, stuff that made total sense to me. In book 2, we see another side of him, we see not only how spoilt he is, but, how whiny he is! How hopeless and clueless he is as to the needs of his kingdom and how incapable of bringing about any changes. But in the end, we see that atleast he has realised and accepted his failures and wants to change. The moment when he asks Kaladin how to be a leader! That is a moment I think when his pride and arrogance are broken completely. And then, Brandon made us see him as Dalinar’s Tien!! I think in a single brilliant stroke, he made us see Elhokar differently through no effort on Elhokar’s part at all. But then book 3 builds on it. It appears that he has changed. He wants to be a better king etc etc. in short, he is, it appears, on a major redemption arc and we are buying it all. We begin to root for him. Then the scene comes, and finally a theory I had, since book 1 that he can become a lightweaver is about to become true but just when he is about to do it, he is killed. I never thought that I would read this in a Brandon book. He, as I see it, does not let things get too gloomy. He shows hope to us and makes it happen. First time, he showed us hope for Elhokar, Elhokar was on the verge of achieving everything he hoped to achieve, he was about to become one of radiants, higher than a king in status easily when nope, he dies instead. I think surprise was my major reaction to this scene.

I think all of this is only for teen tv series Honorless.

Welcome to the shard! Congratulations on the baby kaladin! Looking forward to seeing you on the shard more often.