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Well, if you were leading the Fused having taken Urithiru, why would you leave it intact? I'd wreck the gem column.

I doubt Urithiru could be taken back. If it is lost, the war is lost.

The Recreance cannot have been the first time a Knight Radiant broke his or her oaths. They existed for thousands of years. The phenomenon and the name for it must be older. They just were rare oddities.

True Well, that is quite ambiguous, If Surges don't have to match what tells us that it is Transportation working differently here? dividing body and soul -> Division manipulating the connection between body and soul -> Adhesion How do you know that the builders are not using Cohesion?

That is highly debatable. It certainly did not look like an oathgate or like Jasnah. His spirit/ghost/spren moved from one place to another. But so do spren and other Cognitive Shadows without bodies. In fact so do the Singers who animate Thunderclasts. The only unique ability he has shown was partially dissolving his body and creating a new body. He showed an inability to transport anything but his mind, again in contrast to Jasnah or an oath gate. She was not nude when she met Hoid.

Might also be Cohesion. Or those who teach carpentry and change their bodies do all building. Unknown.

Desolations ended when the Heralds returned to Braize. That leaves two crucial questions open. How did the Fused reincarnate? Why didn't the first Herald's death end a Desolation?

That, however, is an illusion. Would they abandon Kholinar if the strategical or tactical situation demanded it? I doubt it.

I'd say we are about to see that Sja-Anat has defected from Venli's POV.

So can the Nightwatcher See the case of the man who made things fall upwards. The problem is that the concept of bond is used extraordinarily broad. If you see even awakened objects as a bond between an object and Breath, I will have to ask what features a magic system would have to have to not be classified as arising from a bond?

That makes sense, but unfortunately the roster of candidates is slim. Who could it be? The requirements are: death a lot of Investiture male known to Shallan have a way to convince Honorspren to grant asylum not having a relationship to Restares Roshar does not have newspapers, cinemas ot TVs. The number of people Shallan would recognise is rather small. The number of people we have seen die with a lot of Investiture are small: Gavilar -> he suspected Restares to be behind his death Aesudan -> not male Amaram -> reported to Restares I would still guess Aesudan and explain her reported maleness away as camouflage, but strictly speaking I cannot see a good candidate. Nor do I have a better theory that does not involve an unknown relative of hers.

Well, that reduces an external source of Investiture almost to zero. Whence comes innate Investiture? Sure there is, it edits a spirit web. Destructively so, but still a change. Fair enough. Sure, but the Nightwatcher does not. Hence distinct. And the Nightwatcher does it alone. That is pretty much guaranteed by the end of Words of Radiance. The Stormfather chooses to come in with an extraordinary High Storm. You get stronger just by wearing the breast plate. Well, humans are by nature not magic. You need to add it somehow. Editing a spirit web is hard. So using an external source is easier. No. An awakened object, especially a Lifeless, will continue to function even after the death of the Awakener Evidence for a bond is weak Well, the evidence from it coming to the user via a bond is there. That it originates from the bond is difficult. Spren have powers of their own. Well, but where does this leave us? We have corporal entities that by themselves have arcane powers. At a minimum Kandra and dragons. Humans are not among them. That can be changed. Lerasium does it for example. Cultivation can do it.

There is a qualitative difference. Things show as a bead in Shadesmar. Life forms have a soul flame. Well, that is very drastic limit. Well, he creates a gigantic storm for one. Not really. Cultivation handling people and the Nightwatcher handling people are related but distinct processes and have different results. For one, the Nightwatcher does something permanent. Neither do Aviar. And Aviar work on the mainland and even on Roshar (and if Jak is correct on Scadrial) Yet Kandra are physical. And so are dragons. The sword performs arcane acts. It cannot be compared to aluminium. It is physical. Well, no. The fish is consumed after being cooked or fried. At that time it is dead. The spren bond has been broken. A spren may have "charged" the fish through a bond, but the actual arcane end effect features no bond. OK, then what do we have? If you insist on an external source of Investiture and corporal users and knowing them well, then we'll be drastically limited. We have: Surgebinding Allomancy a few Selish systems (AonDor, Bloodsealing, ChayShan, Dakhor, Forgery) Of those only Surgebinding in humans requires a bond. Well, no, they do need an external source of Investuture and grant any user an arcane assistance (no bond involved) and they lock up without Stormlight.

Soulcasters are an exception. And this stretches "bond" beyond the breaking point. A gem stone has no spirit web. And we have: Windspren gluing things together for pranks the Stormfather the Nightwatcher Even free spren have arcane powers. That works for the birds, but not for the other magical animals and plants. Kandra would show in a blood test. Well, no. The Shades wither away people interact with silver They are a very basic system and not easily usable, but they are a system. You can form a Shard fork with no cutting edge. And only part of the Blade cuts. But you consume them. Neither do the symbiotic worms in the Aviars. You will have to make up your mind. Does First of the Sun count or not? And I forgot: Larkin Yolish Lightweaving Aimians Shard Plate

By that logic. All forms of investiture from a Shard should behave the same way. We have hemalurgic spikes Kandra versus Kelsier You'd have to propose that the same effect has to come from two different sources .

No, there are counter examples The Fused Fabrials - Regrowth can come from a Fabrial. The bond allows a himan to use a Surge. The Surge itself exist without a bond. But not the rest of the animals. And the Aviars do work without a bond. Animals gather under the trees wild Aviars spend the night to hide their minds. Kandra (and Mistwraiths) - no bond Shades - no bond Shard Blades - no bond, an unbonded Blade cuts just as well as a bonded Blade Seons - they communicate with each other without a bond Skaze - no bonds Purelake fish - no bond Animals of First of the Sun - no bond Animals shelled in Terken - no bond Royal Locks - no bond

No. You just need to question Heralds separately and compare answers. You can also seek independent verification. For example if they tell you where an ancient fortress was located, you look for traces undeer the crem. Like questioning prisoners, basically. A hassle but doable. Especially not opinion. Scientific study.

You don't have to enjoy the rules. Szeth loathed them. You have to be willing to keep them, no matter what.

Been there, done that, failed. And that even while controlling an oathgate. Laying siege to a fortress with oathgates in it is, frankly, ridiculous. You'd have to storm it. And that would leave you with only the Heavenly Ones against all the crew of Urithiru, fighting in an environment where flight is pretty useless and the defenders have the inner lines. In other words: suicide (well, technically body loss while the Everstorm is blowing) Except for Oathbringer, the translation look fairly literal to me.

Translated version of the Stormlight Archive are usually split into two books. The second release needs a new cover, so we have more covers to look at. Rhythm of War, part 2, German edition, direct link to the publishers subsidiary This shows the cover of the German second book. Does anybody have a version without text? Anyway, this looks to me like somebody is attacking a strong fortress. We have double walls with the crenellations done the right way. This actually looks very strange for Roshar. No preparations for High Storms and no preparation to defend against Shard Blades. The attackers are using siege towers. They take a long time to build. Longer than High Storms and the Everstorm should give you. It looks like somebody is attacking a fortress in Shadesmar. The theme of high square towers is picked up again.

But why? Why do you want to make such a complicated u-turn when you are already at the head of the Sons of Honor. And why wouldn't Shallan not just have him killed? And why wouldn't Mraize just tell her? The man that destroyed her family would make her even more eager to go.

Then why not just say so? Wanting a man who tried to trigger a desolation dead is not a monstrous wish. Nor would Mraize have any problem killing a man. He might give an extra justification, but would say what the Ghostbloods want. Indeed. So are we barking up the wrong tree asking who Restares is? May the question be what he is ardent offworlder a particular ethnicity any ideas? This one feels odd, because usually with these open question, there are so many options, but in this case we are running out of sane options.

Kelsier was about freedom and equality. Is that not incompatible with holding a shard? I cannot imagine Kelsier seeking a power that would in the long run rob him of his mind.

So we have debated the similarity between allomancy and fabrials regarding metals. But what if we took this literally? Fabrials need not be huge. You may swallow it or incorporate it through, well, other orifices. So what happens if you burn the metal of an operating fabrial? And when does the fabrial stop working?

Jasnah had had Shallan's pedigree verified, before she got her cousin a bethroatal. That means that the Davar family needs to have had some history, in any case longer than Lin Davar's alleged life time. Her cousins would not have the Royal Locks, as only those who were descendents of the current king get them. You'd have to propose Lin Davar being the last scion of House Davar.