SallyA

More reread musings:

Of the Half-Shard Shield: [& the Higgs Boson?  Mass, substance, …]

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Taravangian said. “Crude devices. There are legends of metal that can block a Shardblade. A metal that falls from the sky. Silver, but somehow lighter. I should like to see that, but for now we can use these.”

Dalinar grunted.

“You know how they make fabrials, don’t you?” Taravangian asked. “Enslaved spren?”

“Spren can’t be ‘enslaved’ any more than a chull can.”
The Stormfather rumbled distantly in his mind.

“That gemstone,” Taravangian said, “imprisons the kind of spren that gives things substance, the kind that holds the world together. We have entrapped in that shield something that, at another time, might have blessed a Knight Radiant.”

Storms

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"Do you know how we capture spren for fabrials, Dalinar? From spanreeds to heatrials, it’s all the same. You lure the spren with something it loves. You give it something familiar to draw it in, something it knows deeply. In that moment, it becomes your slave.”

I … I really can’t think about this right now.
“Excuse me,” Dalinar said, “I need to go check on Navani.”

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☆⊙☆ Dalinar who swore his oaths of marriage to the Stormfather … not the Vorin Church.

Corinthians:
But now these three things abide: faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love.