Lesser spren

I've almost finished my brandon sanderson catalougue, are there any similar authors that you'd reccomend when I'm finished?

I am unable to address the second point, except to say I think my reasoning is sound and it's possible that the shattering could have exacerbated a certain problem. The first I can say the Odium found a crack, but need Moash to have a Connection to Kaladin. Nevertheless even if my theory is wrong (I also wanted to add bits about how Veil is less able to percieve beauty and hues of color than Shallan, phenomenons link almost exclusively to Breaths and Dawnshards), I think the biggest thing to take away is that Radiants may have damage done to them when their Oath is broken as the Spren they bonded.

I've been thinking about this quite a bit and I think there is some evidence for it. We know that when a Oath is broken between Spren and Human, the spren "Dies" and becomes a deadeye. This is because when a Nahel bond is formed, the two parties investitures (their "Souls") become one, and the sudden breaking of the bond is effectively a crude butchering of that soul. That's why Deadeyes' minds are broken, their memories and cognitive functions are entirely contained in their investiture. So, if all that is true, would it be entirely unreasonable to assume that the human or other physical sapient is not unaffected by this event as well? In ROW Odium was able was to send Kaladin visions because of a "crack" in his soul. We know from HOA and SH that these cracks can occur from only two things, a breaking of the soul from investiture, or insanity. I do believe Kaladin’s depressive spirals are a far cry from the even the most mild example of insanity we have seen Shards exploit. That leaves us with the question, how did Kaladin’ soul crack. Please refer to the former paragraph. In WOR Kaladin breaks his oath and loses Syl, he then is able to reforge his oath, but it is clear that some cracks can never be resealed. So, if a second ideal Radiant temporarily breaks his oath it opens a crack wide enough for a Shard to use, so what happens if a radiant of a higher ideal breaks their oaths PERMANENTLY. Enter Shallan. Shallan has had her mind fractured since childhood, since the “Event”, causing the creation of what would eventually become her “Identities”, (Veil stated she was there after Shallan broke her oath, protecting her from her own memories, even before Veil was a distinct identity, before Veil was “Veil”). My supposition is this: If a Radiant’s permanently breaks their oath, their soul would not just crack, but SHATTER, each piece holding certain non distinct parts of the subject’s psyche, such as memories, skills and even interests. The subject does not lose the shattered as they are all still attached to the body, carried around like a vestigial organ. The Self conscious part of the shattered bits would have very little connection to the others, only able to restore by forming a kind of “Nahel bond” with it’s own bits, explaining why Shallan does repress her memories again, even when she backslides. Obviously the process of reattaching the soul, is much easier said than done, and significantly large shattered bits could be ignored for a very long period of time. These large bits, if the subject is much more invested than the average person, could very well have as much, if not, more, investiture than the average sapient, and if we remember that any significant amount of investiture left together for long enough, will become sapient, then we can suppose that more than one sapience could occur in a single organism, another self, another Identity.

This thread IS meant for venting as well as refutation of the venting. From my perspective Jasnah is meant to be a Steelman of controversial positions, logically sound actions dressed in shocking events in order to engage the reader with serious moral questions. The incitement of Ruthar (who beat his own children), Jasnah disparaging remarks on the platitudes about "Hope", all those are made get the reader reluctantly agree with some parts of her decisions, but remain unsettled by the entire picture as to ponder on the scene and weed out which parts they disagree with. Hrathen from Elantris fills a similar yet opposite role in this regard. His character was based on Brandon's own experiences as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a faith he still strongly believes in. By positioning him as the antagonist it invites the reader (If the reader is of a similar of the same or similar faith) to analyze Hrathen's reasoning and compare it to their own, thereby encouraging the reader to strengthen their own position of their belief by exposing them to similar beliefs that resulted in completely different actions.

sorry The time Jasnah mercilessly killed three men in the street, just to prove a point seems like pretty good evidence.

I should have put this in the topic post, but could you elaborate? What would your argument be to her?

We've all had one moment or another, where Jasnah's reasoning REALLY got under our skin, that is the initial purpose of her character. What moments did you wish you were there for just so could smack some sense into sense into her.

It's easily shardplate's biggest weakness.

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Do you think a careful soulcasting could work? You can't soulcast aluminum, but you can soulcast something INTO aluminum.

Theoretically how tactically useful would an aluminum or aleast aluminum plated thunderclast be? Could such a thing even be possible?

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I accept the WOB. But I have never seen any indictation that Kandra don't have blood, do you have any evidence to that wise?

When does Hemalurgy not require metal touchin the blood?

Unless the "hang" is literal, it's better than any of the other alternatives one might face when they encounter an inquisitor.

I doubt it's as simple as "catch a Shade with an aluminum net, put it in an aluminum box and release when desired" Nicki Savage was able to return the investiture when she touched it, and that was after he shot the "Shade". where as silver simply destroys a Shade Perhaps it could work if you could trap the shade in some other fashion, Maybe a gemstone could work?

Are you implying that Man That Stole the Map imprisioned a Shade in his weapon Danny phantom style? How would someone go about doing that.

If that is the case, and that then the "Pistol" the opponent pointed at her was most likely a form of invested art from somewhere off world. Additionally what would the metal "Kalkis" in the text be? I'm not sure if they are Hemelurgic constructs, as hemalurgy requires blood.

In "The Bands of Mourning" the broad sheet of the book featured a story called "Constructs of antiquity". I, like most people I assume, believed the to be pure entertainment, a fiction within a fiction. That was until I saw this: Why the heck is Hoid in there?! Does that mean the events in here are canon?!

Yes but we do not know if that was the rule or the exception. They do appear to know the origins of humans on roshar better than most societies.