Oltux72

It was well done. Yes. Though now I must ask. The story has to stay plausible, doesn't it? I fail to see how this can be happen without a certain number of obvious things happening. I would go as far as calling that close to the definition of plausibility. If you want to change things, you will go for those who already have political power, if you are pursuing a simple strategy. If you are a member of a different species, anything else cannot be expected.

Well, if you are going for maximum political reach and the principle of maximum surprise, it should be somebody with outside connections, true outside connections: Galladon, Baon or Felt. Or Brandon goes into crazy-land and Thaidakar becomes a Bondsmith.

Raboniel developed a dagger to be used against the Fused. In a slightly modified version you can kill Spren with it. The Knights Radiant may want to copy it. However, there is one open question. How? The dagger contained Raysium. Apparently El's test confirmed that Taravangianium also does the job. How are the Knights Radiant to replicate that? In principle they may know how to build such weapons. But apart from maybe a few pieces of scrap in Navani's office and the dagger Shallan has retrieved they have no Raysium. In fact they have no god metal at all. So what has she done?

OK, so The Sibling and Urithiru have their own light. So far so good. Yet it doesn't have a natural source. The discovery of how Towerlight can be synthesized seems to be completely new and not known to the old Knights Radiant. There must have been a way to refuel Urithiru. How? Whence does it come? Does The Sibling generate its own light like the Stormfather does? Can Navani now recharge Urithiru's fabrials?

Random chance is one of the most important forces in the world. Suppose polio had killed FDR Suppose the Spanish Flu had struck a year earlier Suppose Gavrilo Princip had missed Suppose the Tunguska meteor had hit something important In fact even microscopic changes can lead to extreme change. Suppose Queen Victoria would have been King Victor. Hanover would have stayed British. The wars of German Unification are totally derailed. WW1 as we know it is gone. WW2 is gone. By one sperm being faster.

Decide is so ambigious a word. Did Honor set out the goals and let the Stormfather decide? Or did he set criteria the Stormfather had to follow? The Sibling is an artificial product. We must consider that Honor and Cultivation took the purpose of their creation into the design of not only Urithiru physically but also The Sibling's mind. Urithiru has a specific purpose. It is best served while The Sibling is bound to a Bondsmith already residing in Urithiru and good in logistics, city planning, science and so on. Now The Sibling has certain freedoms, but we cannot assume that Honor and Cultivation left their creature full freedom to reject a Bondsmith that fulfills their narrow criteria specific to Urithiru after being bonded. In a certain sense the Sibling is a slave and designed and created for that role. I would consider it for example likely that The Sibling would be unable to hide intruders from Navani even if such a decision weren't suicidal. The woman who advanced Roshar's understanding of the arcane arts by decades within a few days is unworthy? The woman who got much of Urithiru's infrastructure running all on her own is unworthy? Cultivation is a member of another species shaped by a Shard for thousands of years. Her measurement of worth is unlikely to be bound by modern human ethical considerations. We have only her own words: "that includes the thorns". These words pretty much rule out some considerations. If your dreams include formenting peace between peoples, well yes. If. Well, if those are your goals you probably won't have a friendly chat with Odium.

Skathan, would be ruler of Darkside, is said to be immortal. Did Baon lie? If not is he a native and using arcane arts native to Darkside did he import some foreign method? Nalthis? is he an avatar of Autonomy?

Sylphrena is a Honorspren. The Sibling is not. And they did not do it then and there. As far as we know there is "Debonder" device bought from the Ire somewhere in Lasting Integrity. Whatever be the case, for sure nobody ever tested divorcing a Bondsmith from The Sibling. A Spren is not the government. In particular they have a problem nreaking their word. The Sibling is a product of Cultivation and Honor. Cultivation is not a fan of regression and stasis. To Honor an oath is an oath.

Brandon Sanderson is devious and slippery answering such questons. "It can be done." does not say "They know how to do it." Nor that they can do it themselves. For example it may require the intervention of a Bondsmith. Nor can we be sure that The Sibling can renege. Dalinar was able to force the bond once conditions were met. But that was with the Stormfather who was under orders. Yes Unclear. He may have been under orders he merely executed. Why could Dalinar force the issue? Honor and the Stormfather are very much letter of the law. It is possible that the Stormfather was not required to admit that he could be forced if conditions were met. Well, to be perfectly blunt, Honor and Cultivation created The Sibling for a reason and, ethics aside, as a tool with a prescribed purpose - namely to be an HQ and fortress. That is likely to show up at some point. The purpose of the visions is to arrange for a duel of champions. Such an agreement requires somebody authorized to mess with the Oathpact. How would that work without a Bondsmith? In particular, as that Bondsmith has to speak for Honor, how would that work without a Bondsmith bonded to the Stormfather, who is Honor's remnant?

Kalak is a Herald. As such he is subject to the Oathpact. Concluding that his nature as a Cognitive Shadow would hold him back is unsupported. Yes. I am afraid you missed two other examples, which are unfortunately extremely relevant Nazrilof's Shadow weapon, which he fired on Scadrial. So it got a shade to Scadrial the Ire in Secret History guarded against Cognitive Shadows from Threnody and even had a specialised defensive device against them The only unambiguous examples we have are Kelsier Spren Stormlight Now we know that Investiture can be linked to Identity. It may just be that if your Investiture's Identity is not your own but a planet's (or an associated entity like the the Stormfather or a Shard) you are linked to that.

Given what we learn in Rhythm of War can we conclude that only Windrunners can do a Reverse Lashing, because it needs a combination of Gravitation and Adhesion?

In Lasting Integrity? Or in Shadesmar in general? That would be difficult. He'd just wait for her to return and have assassins in Urithiru. Adolin overheared that conversation. Shallan has drawings of Mraize. He will have to flee. Hunting him will be a difficult operation. Mraize is in deep trouble anyway. If you lost a Surgebinder, a weapon based on a god metal and a Seon you will need to give a justification. What makes you think that Shallan will return soon? She is just in the place to scout out those alien people. In fact it would be logical for her to send out a few of her people who are not bound to Roshar. She won't get back to Urithiru in ten days anyway.

Era 4 is way too late. In fact they have the tools already in Era 2, as they have statistics and all the metals. You could do large scale animal experimentation and do good statistics. It depends on a number of unknown and undecided factors. can you make artificial spikes? can you actually measure a spirit web and see what you are doing?

You could also interpret it much more concrete. Can she use a Soulcaster without side effects? What happens if Lift swallows Yelig-Nar? Can you use hemalurgy on her?

It does fit. But that is not the same thing as saying that it is the genuine system you get the Heightenings without giving or learning commands the benefits you get from fewer Breaths are not aimed at Awakening. They keep you alive. The idea that the way Breaths are used for Awakening objects is primary may be false. You can heal with them, too. So Awakening may be a small subset of what you can do with Breaths. But everybody who holds Breaths will get the benefits of the Heightenings. In fact, it is involuntary. As far as we know you cannot switch off the boost to your health, perfect pitch or your life sense.

That is still an open question it may be a side effect and Cultivation cared about her ability to make Investiture from food Cultivation foresaw an occasion free Lifelight would be needed Lift may be immune to anti-Stormlight daggers

Looking at the abilities Allomancy and Surgebinding grant this is true. Yet if I take a really hard look at stuff the linkage between Ruin and Hemalurgy really fits Endowment gives you immortality (thinking of Awakening as Endowment's genuine system is wrong - the Heightenings are) the way Dakhor is fueled and Dominion really fit I must say that there are links. The fit is by no means universal. But it seems to exist in many cases and is not limited to Initiation. Nor is the link with Initiation particularly universal. Sandmastery needs to be nurtured, yet it is the system of Autonomy.

And it still has a council of monarchs. Presumably for the same reason. Somebody has to make decisions for mankind on Roshar during desolations. The presence of those thrones tells us nothing about how Urithiru or the Knights Radiants were governed. It looks unlikely to me that the Knights Radiant would accept non Radiants interfering in there internal affairs. It would circumvent the oaths. We do agree that the 1b1ondsmiths were at least more influential than other orders, don't we? Somebody has to speak for the Knights Radiant as a whole.

Perhaps temporarily. And it likely would not have ended well. Tanavast's plan requires a Bondsmith to make a binding offer for a duell of Champions. Hence, had Dalinar not worked out, the Stormfather would have sought another Bondsmith. That potential Bondsmith would then be required to be able to make promises. Any canddidate would have needed to seek the power to command the Rosharan military forces. Dalinar would not have yielded his forces easily, nor would have many people had the prestige needed to build the Coalition. Yes. Hence probably Odium would have won, had Dalinar not acted like he acted. Those are not mutually exclusively categories. Well, you could say that the Godspren appoint the King of Urithiru.

Yes. And you really do not want a regency now. Jasnah has to stay queen. Who are the Knights Radiant? I am sorry if this sounds flippant, but it really is not. Do you let every Knight vote? That means that orders like the Bondsmiths and Elsecallers will be practically not represented. If you let squires vote, you'd better rename them from Knights Radiant to Windrunners and Associates. It seems to me that you'd have to establish something like a council of orders. The next Bondsmith to the Stormfather is unlikely to be a member of House Kholin, for the simple reason of lack of candidates. Nor do I thik the Nightwatcher and The Sibling would just yield to the Stormfather. I can see no real alternative to the title at least falling to the most senior Bondsmith. He is the King of Urithiru by virtue of being a Knight Radiant. You cannot bequeath that. You can have an order of succession or an elective monarchy, but not really a heredatory title.

Because it arose on Roshar. Presumably for the same reason that each Knight Radiant and bearer of a Honorblade gets two Surges. It is not at all clear why the Knights Radiant should be numerically dominated by Honor alone, if they are sponsored by Honor and Cultivation. The Honorblades came from Honor, yet they granted two Surges. Why? This question is a bit circular by setting Surgebinding as practiced by the Knights Radiant as the default. Why? The Fused look a lot more basic. They cannot be original because they have red eyes, but one brand, one Surge looks simpler. Whence comes the taboo against seeing the future? All Shards have that ability.

That would be enough. Locked Plate is even worse than no Plate. You'd be helpless. Or the alternative of wearing them down. Metals last for decades. Gemstones for weeks.

Positive for whom? Why do people always reduce this to a simplistic story? The good of Roshar does not exist. And that is kind of the point of the Stormlight Archive. At a minimum you'd have to ask: Whose Roshar? The Singers have a valid claim. Dalinar comes closest, but even he is only on the human side. One game? Cultivation is playing a game. Hoid & Harmony are playing a game.

Thank you for well founded criticism. You formulated it better than I could hope to. Do you agree that this was limited to Kaladin in Urithiru? Adolin fighting the Tukari was fine, Kaladin in Heartstone was fine and the fight against Ishar was too short?

It looks like he has learned how to transfer Stormlight (if indeed he had to learn that, that is, it is not included in the package of being a Cognitive Shadow).So you just start out with a large number of spheres and start transfering half of half empty spheres' content to another half empty sphere. If all goes well, your reserves are never touched. Nightblood can do it, so it must be possible by Awakening. However, it is possible that it is just part of what a Cognitive Shadow can do. (Scadrial)