Shardbearer

I wouldn't put any significance to the fact that Nightbloods physical form doesn't move when it's cognitive form does in the CR. You can go into the CR, find the bead of a sword laying forgotten in storage, carry the bead all over Shadesmar,  manifest it, and the physical sword won't be affected at all.

Also, the aluminum sheath might not have a separate bead because he now sees the sheath as part of himself, so even if it wasn't part of his original construction it's now integrated into his Identity. 

Now, I think Nightblood is going through alot of changes in WaT. Talking to honorblades to learn new abilities? Developing what seems to be more of a conscience and becoming more self-deterministic? My gut reaction while reading was that his consciousness was expanded after consuming the power of a Shard. Or at least what was probably an insignificant amount of power compared to the Shard, but was a glut of investiture to Nightblood. 

Oh I caught the crumbling archs somewhere around day 6 or 7 maybe. Didn't even notice Kaladin's new stone in the epilogue .

Forget the Mandela Effect.  It's the Ruin Effect now. changing movies , books, Monopoly Man's monocle...

Well the foreshadowing was already mention in RoW after Shallan recovered those memories.

Pattern acting like a new spren that was just pulled into the CR.

Pattern saying he wa sure she'd kill him, but then saying they'd send a replacement. 

Mainly those, and then I saw people posting about describing different colors for her blades.

Some of your points are good though, like why Testament didn't scream or why she wasnt there for their first trip. 

3 hours ago, Xerun said:

 

If I truly think about it I think Testament was an idea Brandon had writing book 4 that wasn’t planned for as so much about it doesn’t make sense with what we’ve previously been told about Deadeyes. But I’ll need to reread the series to see how wrong I am. 

Theres enough foreshadowing that I think he had 2 shallan cryptics planned at least since WoR.

Well he can manipulate Connection so probably he can Connect himself to Fortune or whatever property atium uses to see into the future.

These flashbacks weren't nearly as emotionally charged as the others but I did appreciate how they filled in some of the details leading up to the Everstorm and return.

I wasnt really clear before on how Venli could have met Ulim before Taln broke. I figured Odiumspren must have been locked on Braize but seeing that he was actually brought in a gem by a Terriswoman serving Odium makes sense .

I just went back and looked at some of those parts again. I think question 3 he was referring to Dalinar. It seems like he sensed something with what happened with Unity. Can't really be sure though.

7 minutes ago, The Night Watcher said:

1. Why was Jasnah in the market and why did she have drawings of the Heralds? Also, did Shallan draw them? 

She was looking for the heralds. I think it said Midius drew them if I remember correctly.

8 minutes ago, The Night Watcher said:

2. Who is the "Midius" Ash mentions in reference to Jasnah's sketches

Midius is another name for Hoid/Wit.

Not sure on question 3. Maybe Nale?

On 9/8/2016 at 3:40 AM, Krandacth said:

I imagine this WoB would also be relevant:

So if you have already tacked one spren onto your sprit web, then another might be repelled by that spren (see Honorspren and Cryptics).  Not all spren will be incompatible, but some might be even if their oaths align (Cryptics only seem to only need truths to be spoken, which is technically compatible with the Honorspren restriction on lying).

 

I think that these WoB's are saying that spren will be repelled by hemalurgy, or the type of person who would use hemalurgy in this way. I don't think Brandon is saying spren will be repelled by a bond to another spren, as you seem to be implying.

If he's writing the prologue does that mean he's done hammering out the outline?

8 hours ago, Green Hoodie Mistborn said:

The phrasing “and the one who brought it to your land” to me has always seemed a misdirect. 

 

I thought the same thing when I recently reread OB.If she was hunting Vasher I assume she would have went with the group figuring they could take her to him.

To my mind these 10 people wouldn't be Honor, if that's how it went. They would be... I dunno, Shardlets of Honor? 

I'm not really sure if that is even plausible. I would guess that with Honor being Splintered it might be harder for someone to become the new Vessel.

Given all the information I know of, I'd say Dalinar's chances of surviving a quite good. I won't be surprised if he survives. I won't be surprised if he doesn't survive. 

I also won't be surprised if he becomes the new Honor, or if he doesn't.

Also MB spoiler:

So it doesn't really matter if Dalinar is being built up to take Honor. I know that it's entirely possible that things will get twisted, and that plot twist doesn't have to involve is death. Or there might not be that plot twist at all.

Actually, this makes me wonder something. A Shard without a Vessel might not normally have it's own sense of identity or personality. We don't really know enough to say for sure...

But I do believe Investiture will begin to gain sentience if there's enough of it gathered together for long enough. So now I'm wondering if the Shard Odium was separate from any vessel long enough to start to have it's own mind, which could be why Rayse is using the "we" pronoun.

I kind of doubt this is the case, considering that Rayse doesn't want to absorb another Shard because that would change him from Odium to something else, but it's an interesting thought.

More likely he really is using it as the royal we.

Or possibly there is a race or culture out there in the Cosmere that uses these types of speech patterns.

Cultivation's? No, she's on Roshar. It would be Aona or Skai's or maybe a perpendicularity for the Dor since there's no vessel for the Shards and their power is pressed together in the Cognitive Realm.

I believe the 4th and probably 5th Ideals will play into two themes that have been playing out all through Kaladin's life, even back into the flashbacks.

First is the idea of knowing when to care and when to let go. And the other is over the question of whether you can kill to protect.

In the battle at Kholinar, Kaladin froze because he saw different groups fighting and killing each other to "protect" (or secure/advance) something they believed in. I think Kaladin will need to accept that he might have to fight people, even people he cares about, if they are fighting for something that brings them into opposition with him.

Later, right as he's about to say the 4th Ideal, his struggle isn't so much about people fighting each other. He's remembering times he failed to protect people. He can't let go of those deaths. He can't let go of the idea that he can't fail Dalinar, but also can't protect him. That's when he admits he can't say the Words.

So I think that the 4th Ideal will be something like "I will forgive myself for those I couldn't protect. I will let go of the responsibility to save those who are beyond my help."

It's not a dawnshard. WOB:

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Hoidonalsium [PENDING REVIEW]

Is the sapphire in the white-gold blade specifically for Jezrien?

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

Uh, yes.

Hoidonalsium [PENDING REVIEW]

Do the gems swap out, or are there different weapons? 

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

I'll RAFO that one.

Hoidonalsium [PENDING REVIEW]

Are they Dawnshards? Or blades of Odium, like Honorblades?

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

Those are not Dawnshards. Good question.

Oathbringer Glasgow signing (Dec. 2, 2017)

And also this other one:

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Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW] (paraphrased)

The knife used by Moash is "something similar to hemalurgy."

I7Ax [PENDING REVIEW] (paraphrased)

Is it a Dawnshard?

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW] (paraphrased)

Good question but no.

Oathbringer Liverpool signing (Nov. 29, 2017)

Yeah, I knew someone from Sel was about to show up as soon as I saw the chapter title.

2 hours ago, CosmereQuestioner said:

Plus the fact that Brandon told us to keep an eye out, we would see Vivenna in this book.

Where does this come from? I haven't seen a quote like this anywhere.

2 hours ago, Calderis said:

Add in that Evi is dead... And I think that's a big nope.

Is that 100% confirmed? I mean it seems extremely likely given what we know, but it could have been a fakeout death... 

But no, I don't think Evi is Vivenna.

Alright, this week I figured I'd try going through my reactions without reading the other posts first, just to see how I like it.

Chapter 19:

I got a kick out of Dalinar's cocky carefree attitude. He just casually strides out into a highstorm because he thinks his knife is in the bunker, cuts open the latch on the door with a Shardblade, and  looks at the terrified soldiers in the room like "what are you guys all worried about?"

And then how he casually dispatches the assassin and doesn't seem concerned at all about the attempt.

I wonder if his little steak knife bent because he was already starting to use Tension...

Also, this line caught my interest:

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An explosive burst of wind drove him against the wall, and he stumbled, then stepped backward, driven by instincts he couldn’t define. A large boulder slammed into the wall, then bounced away. Dalinar glanced and saw something luminous in the distance: a gargantuan figure that moved on spindly glowing legs.

 

What is that creature?

And also this:

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“You really need to pay better attention,” Gavilar said. “We aren’t living in huts anymore.”

They’d never lived in huts. They were Kholin, heirs to one of the world’s great cities—even if Dalinar had never seen the place before his twelfth year. He didn’t like that Gavilar was buying into the story the rest of the kingdom told, the one that claimed their branch of the house had until recently been ruffians from the backwaters of their own princedom.

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Is Dalinar the one that doesn't remember his true upbringing here?

Chapter 20:

Hmm, short chapter that mostly dealt with the White Knight concern people were bringing up a few weeks ago.

Chapter 21:

Uh, did Shallan drink that whole jug of Horneater stuff?

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Her actions felt like they’d taken place in a dream.

Ok, this combined with everything else is a bit worrying.

"No Mating"

Oh, no more infused gems left...

Shallan can repress her stormlight glow. Cool.

And they're going to see Ialai? This will be fun...

Gotta love Sebarial.

Adolin's guilty conscience is showing.

And what the heck is Mraize doing with Ialai?

6 hours ago, ZenBossanova said:

I am really surprised that the Valley is so close to Urithiru. 

The Valley, Urithiru, and the Purelake all right there in a line...

Somethings up.

On 10/3/2017 at 8:32 PM, OathKeeper said:

We learned in an interlude of WoK that the old magic doesn't operate on verbal technicalities. It is straightforward and clear in both curses and boons and you don't have to carefully close up lexical loopholes with the nightwatcher. 

We have one character who believes that you don't need to worry about closing up loopholes in how you word your requests to the NW. And he's probably right about that.

But, that doesn't necessarily mean the words she uses in response to your request aren't important. If she told Dalinar "You will forget your wife" then it certainly is possible that this boon/curse would transfer to Navani.  

Now, do I think that this is what's happening? I don't know. It's a possibility, but there have been other possibilities floated here too, so we'll see what happens.

Also, am I remembering correctly in thinking TWoK indicated that the reason he went to the NW in the first place was because his jealousy of Gavilar and Navani almost drove him to do something drastic? Maybe after Evi died he started having feelings for Navani again and went to the NW to ask for something related to that...

27 minutes ago, Hischier said:

And we don't know the Knight's side of the story but we have the perspective of the Stormfather who no longer trusts humans and feels betrayed by them to the point where he refuses the honorspren to form bonds, and we have Syl's admittedly vague memory when Kaladin asks her what changed (presumably referring to the Recreance) and she replies 'the knights did' or something close to that. 

But of course the Stormfather and other spren would feel betrayed by an act that caused the death of hundreds or even thousands of their kind...

Even if the KR thought they were doing the right thing by doing it. And that is the vibe I get from the Feverstone Keep vision.

On the Shipping Debate:

I'm not taking a stance right now, but I'd like to point out that stories are made up of tropes. Either tropes are played out as expected, or they are turned around. And turning around a trope is a trope in itself.

When you boil any story down to it's basic elements, tropes are always present.

What makes a story interesting isn't whether there are tropes that play out or not, but how the author weaves together all the elements of plot, character, theme, location, etc. into a comprehensive whole that is believable and enjoyable. Brandon has earned my trust in his ability to weave all these together in a way that I find very satisfying, so I'm sure whichever direction he takes will be good, even if it doesn't align with my early hopes or beliefs.

On the Chapters:

Hmm, so the freeparsh have a spren. Is it a voidish or radiant spren? Not really sure at this point, but probably void if I were to guess...

Either way, I'm curious about why this  group is headed to Kholinar. If that's a radiant spren, why Kholinar? If it's voidish, what plans would the voidbringer have in bringing this ragtag group of freeparsh with no particular skills to the capitol?

Maybe the revolts in Kholinar are attracting more voidish spren that can bond with these parshmen...