Oltux72

Well, the book began with multiple bangs and immediately hit a lull. The pacing is a bit unusual. That does not mean that it is bad, but it is different from the other Stormlight books. I must say that the ending of Rhythm of War felt forced. There was no good reason for all threads of action to end simultaneously. In turn Wind and Truth has a beginning that also seems forced. They are all in Urithiru so that the book can start coherently.

I need to note that we are talking about maturing, not maturity. Brandon does it that way on the strategic level, too. We got the first few weeks of the war in Oathbringer and starting with Rhythm of War we have been getting the last few weeks. If you want to point out her state on the day she decided to accept change you will start on a low. She is annoying. Yet I cannot agree that it is forced. That chapter is in character for Lift. That exactly is the issue. (Scadrial) You are looking at an experienced officer and expect him to needlessly rush into a confrontation with an Unmade?

She removes the need to transport Investiture, if she can supply voidlight to somebody on another world.

Because you need to show that she is maturing intellectually, not just sexually. Lift is not stupid, but she is not cosmopolitan for lack of a better word. In the Sibling she is meeting somebody truly alien. True, Wyndle is not human, but spren are known on Roshar. We are getting character stuff in addition. For example she showing ambition for a leadership position.

Partially true. Lift is annoying. However, I think the chapter is necessary to show how a smart, but quite conventional mind, namely Lift's, is exposed to a wider world where the conventional assumptions fall apart. That leaves the question why he is putting it there. My suspicion is that he has needed to establish that Lift's chicken and Zahel are not present. Explaining why Zahel was not in Urithiru when Raboniel invaded is easy, as a sword master ardent is supposed to be in the field when a battle is expected. (Nalthis & First of the Sun)

The Dawnsingers must have been aware of Regals. The songs mention them in detail. They cannot have been originally made by bonding voidspren, as that shows the signs of corruption.

It was rediscovered a few days ago. It is possible that the Ghostbloods have records of Zahel's research.

It does behave like Stormlight in most other regards. As she has no gem heart, simply waiting a few minutes should solve the issue.

Wh are you saying that the Transportation is corrupted? In Renarin's case the corrupted surge is only tenously connected to the conventional surge. THey straight up teleported. That suggests elsecalling. So their Soulcasting or Stoneshaping should be corrupted. So because he/she/it is interrested in Honorblades, he/she/it goes to the one monastery that hasn't held a Honorblade for thousands of years.

Even if that is true, the quarrel wasn't charged with raw anti-investiture. It was charged with anti-Stormlight presumably.

The Ghostbloods apparently used Voidlight to power the teleport they used to get away. Why? Stormlight is ubiquitous on Roshar. Even if they can sing the Song of Prayer to get Voidlight, why did they bother? Even if you have Voidlight, why do you reveal to the Radiants that you have Voidlight? If you have a few spheres with Stormlight on your person, you can be searched without raising an issue. If you have spheres full of Voidlight, you are bound to be called a Voidbringer. In terms of antilight weapons, Radiant troops are likelier to carry anti-Voidlight than anti-Stormlight. Voidlight is a problem if you want to return to Urithiru. Even if you have both, you'd first use up your Stormlight. It is easier to replace and won't last as long. It really, really makes no sense.

She is a Cognitive Shadow. Her soul, or the fossil of her soul depending on your stance on this, is made from voidlight.

The Wind seems to have persisted to the present day. Yet the Stormfather exists.

He will mess with Connection and the Spiritual Realm. That suggests that entities equipped to do the same may detect their action, if they are part of the scene. If Dalinar really wants to ascend, then we have two options and one would alert all Shards, so I'd guess that Dalinar will see the Catacendre.

The Singers need the Highstorm for their forms. Much of the ecology of Roshar needs the Highstorm to recharge their gemhearts. Hence the Highstorm must be ancient. That something so monumental should not have had a spren associated with it seems implausible.

How could Mraize have learned that in time to arm himself accordingly?

Why? What is the point? If they want to control BAM having her inside a gem stone is ideal.

I must say that always struck me as odd. If Kelsier wants to know that, why does he not just make a deal with Kalak? Or outright just pays him? On the other hand if having this knowledge makes him a target, why doesn't Kalak just publish a learned article in some journal in Silverlight about the capture of Ba-Ado-Mishram? On the gripping hand, if Ba-Ado-Mishram needs to be freed, why hasn't he long ago told at least some people where she is?

If the Ghostbloods had a Herald in their employ, it would be very hard to explain why they are chasing Kalak so hard.

She is no longer any use as an agent. Killing her would be like declaring war on the Knights Radiant. His foremost concern should be to keep Odium on Roshar. We might see a peace offer: Give us Ba-Ado-Mishram and we are ready to make peace.

That cannot be factually correct. Kaladin tells us that windspren like to play tricks on people by glueing their stuff to the ground.

Such deposits are extremely rare. Where they occur they do not turn up in large chunks.

Yes. The plan the Set had was in principal sound. You can breed a Mistborn, if you have enough Metalborn. Eventually somebody will do it.

It kind of did, at least to an arcanist. Gender is not original in spren. So she should not show surprise at a spren showing the primordial state. Gender in them is a result of human or Singer thought and the results of that was what they were just seeing in the flamespren. So for an arcanist the topic does logically arise from the situation. Why is the Stormfather male, although it must be older than sapient life on Roshar, but the Sibling, who is younger, shows the primordial state? The only spren among the three Bondsmith-spren that shows the expected result is the Nightwatcher. The question must be fascinating to Rushu (well, even more than most things)

Or she just sees this rationally. A building has no gender. The Stormfather and the Nightwatcher are the odd ones.