Invocation

First, before I get into this, I want to apologise for any things I haven't worded adequately in this post and and the others and any to follow. I don't honestly think Kaladin will Ascend to Honor. I don't think anyone truly will. Dalinar might, but it definitely won't be the same as Tanavast's Honor. Odium agreed to the champion thing, so, for the time being, yes, one person can, if it's the right person. These two things are not incompatible with what the handing off of the baton from Dalinar to Kaladin that I propose as happening. Should Dalinar Ascend (regardless of my skepticism on this part), he will be continuing the trend of retreating from a battlefield general to a back-tent one by not even technically having a physical body for at least a time (I can't remember if Shards can create bodies or not beyond Autonomy), the torch of Head Battlefield Radiant-General being tossed to Kaladin, who continues to do his whole "protect everyone" thing. Some things are cliches because they have meaning. Having a cliche in a story doesn't wreck the story. In an epic fantasy series such as SA, the passing of the torch makes perfect sense, as it generally does when it's used, since it's literally what happens in real life over time. If/when Dalinar dies, I doubt it'll be through suicide. Odds are, it'll just be because he's old and got caught without Stormlight/while sleeping/they just kept stabbing until there was no Stormlight left and he was too weak to Connect to the other Realms to renew his spheres. Dalinar's arc in Oathbringer was about confronting himself, his past, and how he could help with the future to try to avoid that, while also saving and helping Roshar. He's railing against the rest of the world's shenanigans and reevaluating his own place in it. That's not wasted no matter what happens with his storyline over all. This is the worst possible thing you could have said. The purpose of reading a story is to experience the story. You don't like part of it? Oh well, it's a negative experience on that part. You don't have to read any of this. Feel free to quit because you don't like something that happened. Your choice entirely. You disagree with one of the character bits? That's your right. Have fun. Do as you want. That doesn't mean that the story isn't worth reading, though.

I'm not talking about Ascending to Honor. I'm talking about defeating Odium's forces. Reforming Honor is secondary.

Narrative-wise, Dalinar makes minimal sense. The guy is old. He's had his fighting times. Kaladin makes more sense as a successor to Dalinar, learning from him and fulfilling his whole "save everyone" complex. Dalinar is important, not so much as the hero of the story, but as the Obi-Wan of the story, relatively speaking. An old mentor who has made mistakes with his life teaching a younger generation how to not make those same, or similar, or worse, mistakes. Dalinar will die, though, so in that we agree, but if he does, due to Sanderson's preferences, he will likely die gloriously and Sandman will have pulled one over on us all.

Yes. It gains you more experience in channeling the energy efficiently and allows you to know your stuff better to access more in the next initial equation.

If this was the case, it wouldn't be in the process of getting foreshadowed right now, would it? If that is a twist, it's because there's something to it. It won't have come out of nowhere, unlike some other twists in other people's writing I could mention. If that were to be the twist, there will be something along the line that shows us that Dalinar isn't what we think he is (which, honestly, I'd count his whole storyline in Oathbringer as relevant to that) and why it won't work. Hero of Ages spoilers (even though I'm pretty sure most people have read it, we're still in a different area):

Think of the universe this is set in like a massive chunk of metal for this example. Most metals have a resonant frequency that can damage them, sometimes going as far as atomic dissolution. Now imagine the universe in question has one of these. A large enough number that no person could ever know it, but everything relates back to it. The better you understand the relation, the more you can do. Strike the tuning fork of the universe, in a way, and harvest the energy that results from that to reshape the world around you according to your desire, helpfully directed by the very equation you use to garner the energy in the first place.

Not if you do them right.

If you're still looking for the magic behind the magic kind of thing, like sources and stuff, you could say the universe has a resonant frequency or something, something absolutely massive, and the math problems get stronger the more you know of the things around you and their relation back to it.

I liked the movie. I curse myself, though, for predicting the twist in the end that would have been killer to experience firsthand. But nooooooooooo, I just had to theorize. >:(

Are we attempting to bring this back? Is that a thing that's happening?

WAFFLESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS THEY'RE LIKE POTATOES BUT EASY BREAKFAST AND NOT AT ALL POTATOES

Here's an idea: make them play in place of the credits of the last episode relevant to the part that comes before said interlude.

Nothing like mortal danger to bond with the person killing you!

It could be argued that that means he'd get along with everyone, solely because they're all practice for the betterment of his murdering. Weapons testing, yeah?

In order for you to not exist, you must first exist. You have the thought about something, being whether you are here or not, anchoring you firmly for the moment into the category of Existence. In the next moment, this status may change. But that is not my concern.

That does not matter. You think, you are, you exist. Physical location is meaningless. There is only E X I S T E N C E

Wait you mean you're trying to join the DA? This is a first. You think...therefore you are.

Fair!

It's just what Gasper did for Cesium, only bigger, slightly radioactive, explosion.

Correct!

Did I hear... P E R F E C T I N V O C A T I O N (you can't see it, but I've strapped LEDs to myself and am t-posing)

I'm not entirely sure it works at all. Alloys of atium are strange. They're patternless, which might mean they don't do anything in Feruchemy.

Time to bring back my old joke thread about mercury, because it's the best alternative metal I can come up with since I'm not able to take this subject seriously.

Okay, that's fair. He probably would.

Nah, Thanos was just crazy and shortsighted. Nothing benevolent about him.