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It wouldn't be a title reveal, if we already knew the title, would it? I am afraid from a tactical, writerly point of view, you want to keep one in reserve, just in case you absolutely need to use one. Valor, Whimsy or Mercy. Assuming that "The Grand Apparatus" is Invention. However, if you want a lot of connections, introducing yet another Shard is precisely not what you want. You go to a known, but minor world (as you will tell the stories of the major worlds in future series) I also note that releasing the novel in 2025 lets Brandon use the end of SA#5. Hence: Prequel to Sunlit Man What made U'Tol famous The fate of the Iriali

The fighting style of Lezian the Pursuer argues against that. He would be a fool to not refill his reserves while being discorporated.

Why then were they equipped with the ability to reform their original bodies? No other Cognitive Shadows can do that.

The Heralds have bodies whenever they return The Heralds have bodies optimized for war The Heralds have weapons optimized for war The Heralds have surgebinding, again optimized for war All these capabilities come from Honor. We have to be clear on that. Honor chose as lesser evil or actively wanted the cycle of Desolations

That raises the next question. How did Ishar get the Surgebinders or their Spren to swear oaths? Prestige only? Naked threats? Technically yes, but not before the sixth epoch. By that logic Nohadon must have been fifth epoch or earlier, right? And as he personally sees the aftermath of a Desolation no later than the early fifth epoch. And if we take the notion that people discussed where Urithiru was to go, the Knights Radiant already existed, when it was founded. Is a Desolation long enough for that? That would imply that Odium gave the Fused surgebinding but Honor, still alive and well at that time, did not react. It would seem to me that the sequence of events needs to be the other way round. The Spren learn how to bond humans and Odium is forced to counter that.

I am sorry, but that is problematic. The Oathgates were operational. Operating an Oathgate requires a Shardblade You see the issue? Furthermore if Ishar established the orders that must have happened during a Desolation, mustn't it? Urithiru without the Oathgates makes almost no sense. So what was the sequence of events? If the orders existed in the sixth epoch, the latest time the Knights Radiant could have been founded is in the desolation between the fifth and sixth epoch, isn't it? The thing is that this constrains the time Roshar was without Knights Radiant to the first very few epochs. Do we agree that the Fused must have been equipped with Surgebinding before they returned in the first Desolation that they met the Knights Radiant or they would have been wiped out?

That would be a reason to reinstate the Oathpact, provided you can disable the Everstorm. Yes, it is not a good idea, but they may run out of options.

How? This aspect people keep bringing up was always a mystery to me. It took far longer to get to Lasting Integrity. And then they were fresh and had Stormlight. I do not see how they could possibly return in time. Nor, frankly, do I see why they would want to. They are in contact with Kalak and have a Seon to report back. Why would Dalinar want them to hurry back? He wants to fight himself. There is no point in cutting himself off an unprecedented source of information just to have his son and a few Radiants back in time for a fight they are precluded from influencing anyway.

Brandon's video on the Bondsmiths mentioned that three spren grant Bondsmith powers. One of these spren is the Sibling. It is a creation of Honor and Cultivation. So it should be younger than at least the Stormfather. Does this video give us a lower limit on the age of the Sibling and the Nightwatcher?

It does have to be a willing champion. We may also look at a piece of foreshadowing. Do you remember the story Hoid tells about the game where one of the participants had only concentrated on not losing as opposed to winning?

Let's look at what we know Edgedancer: Lift feels an urge to move and act when becoming awesome Rhythm of War: Lift uses Lifelight You see the issue? Why does Lift feel the effect of Stormlight while she is using Lifelight? Voidlight has a different emotional effect. So this is not explainable by her oaths. My proposal: We are seeing the effect of Cultivantion's Intent, which Stormlight shares because Honor and Cultivation cooperated for Surgebinding. Why is there no influence from Honor? Simple, he is dead.

Are Oathgates an implementation of the Surge of Transportation? If so, how do they work? And what does this have to do with Rhythm of War? Oathgates exist in the physical and cognitive. We do not know whether you could use an Oathgate to transfer between gates in the cognitive or from a gate in the physical to another gate in the cognitive realm. We have seen them used to teleport between gates in the physical realm transfer between the same realm in the physical and cognitive realm Rhythm of War has shown a qualitative difference between these applications. You can transfer dead shard plate between gates, but not into Shadesmar. Why is that? It looks like dead subspren do not transfer to the CR. However, that makes a difference to the mechanics. It calls into question whether the transfer between gates functions through the CR. Rather, it looks like the surge of Transportation is teleportation and the source and destination happen to sometimes be in different realms.

If Dalinar breaks the contract he won't be protected any longer. And further breath is quite clear. He knows that the next baby will come. Taravangian is not going to stop after the first. "Us" is the humans of Roshar. And boring? No, not really. If this contest happens and ends like planned, the Stormlight Archive is over. If there is anything to tell in the second half, something unexpected must happen.

The Heralds are insane. Asking one of them how to remain sane as an immortal being won't work. They simply don't know. Nor does it explain why they want Kalak specifically. Now, it is possible that they just want somebody to experiment on. But then still you do not need Kalak specifically. They risked a Seon, their only Lightweaver, who is even in the leadership of the Knights Radiant, and a weapon made from an ultra-rare godmetal on this mission. They want Kalak. Hence they are after something that only Kalak knows. Two things make me wonder about that, although it is quite logical. First, the Ghostbloods are quite good with Connection. They routinely pick up languages. They can fool AonDor into working on Scadrial. They have duraluminium feruchemists and compounders. Second, Kalak has been knowing where Ba-Ado-Mishram has been stored for millenia. He did nothing with that knowledge for all that time. Why?

At the risk of repeating myself, Kelsier went to the fortress of the Ire before he picked up Preservation. In doing so he already felt the pull back to Scadrial. We can rehash the discussion on which Cognitive Shadows can leave their home systems again, but it is quite likely that there are categories of highly invested individuals, some of whom have no issues with worldhopping, while others do. That is so finely formulated In other words, breaking the bond works to become a worldhopper. The speculation whome this applies to is obvious. Again, nicely formulated. You do not need to get a Skybreaker off Roshar to have somebody bonded to a Highspren outside the Rosharan system. The spren is enough.

I am sorry, but are you proposing that Shallan become a worldhopper in order to find by worldhopping the secret that would allow her to become a worldhooper in the first place? She would have to break both her bond. Consequences for Pattern and Testament unknown. No. He felt the pull as he walked out to the Ire's fortress. That was before he held Preservation.

First of, it was all there from the very start. Shallan got a book that recommended humming to aid in soulcasting. After Rhythm of War it is clear why humming would work. But that leaves out which frequency you should hum at. Honor's tone or Cultivation's tone? And should you use a rhythm? Do essences have rhythms?

That implies that at least 16 kinds of perpendicularity exist. Is there evidence for that? Whose perpendicularity was the one in The Lost Metal ? As it comes through the Stormfather it makes sense that it ought to be stormlight. But Ishar is not bound to the Stormfather. What determines the type of light?

Well, freeing the slaves may backfire spectacularly.

Absolutely, but this naming was most likely done retroactively. Like before the Second World War the First World War was known as the Great War. You need a second or even third Desolation to make clear that you are living in a cycle of Desolations, don't you? And at that time, how do you do the numbering?

In Dalinar's vision where he fights Midnight Essence he is married. The episode is supposed to take place in Natanatan. His imaginary wife isn't blue. Why? Does this give us a data for when the admixture of Aimians happened?

You are raising a question about a detail. Do they name it for the desolation after it or before it? That is had they retroactively named the time before the first desolation thhe first epoch?

Are they physically cut or do their eyes burn out?

What kind of Light were spheres filled when Ishar opens a perpendicularity in your vincinity? If, theoretically, he were to do so on Braize, would it change?

No, he does not need him now. For that to be usable in the contest you have to do the following within 10 days: get to Shinovar wait for Ishar to arrive find him cure him get back from Shinovar have him tell the technique Dalinar to master the technique Sorry, but this is beyond believability.