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Spren are fairies. All the KRs fall on a spectrum of Paladins multiclassing as Warlocks or Warlocks multiclassing as Paladins

It might not be particularly helpful to this thread, but the Shin also worship stone spren in the mountains

Horneaters and Herdazians have Listener blood in them. Its why the Herdazians have strange fingernails and its why the Horneaters can eat shells and see spren.

I could have sworn it was seven heartbeats, not nine

I just think its properties as a godmetal are odd for a metal. It never appears to undergo plastic deformation of any kind. Very brittle, very tough, not malleable or even that hard (easily scratched, relatively speaking). It behaves more like a ceramic than a metal

Shardplate behaves very strangely for a metal at roughly standard temperature and pressure. It never dents or tears, but it does crack and shatter. Normally metals do that only under extreme circumstances found in industrial settings. I don't know that comparing traditional armor puncturing techniques to what would be good for cracking Shardplate is particularly helpful.

Its probably worth re-reading the Gavilar's party intros too

I always assumed that was because Bondsmiths Are Weird, but I could very much be wrong about that

People seem to think that each Order gets a big singular Resonance but I've always seen it as a bunch of little resonances. But that doesn't mean that the Surges respond "qualitatively differently" for each Order as @Quantus said, that's just a blurring of lines due to multiple Surges. In theory, Yelig-nar wouldn't be able to blur those lines.

Do they? Jasnah and Shallan soulcast the same way. Kaladin and Szeth fly the same way. Renarin and Shallan's Illumination is different but there's pretty clear reason that that might be the case. Renarin and Lift's Progression seems to work the same way at the very least. Even Dalinar and Kaladin's Adhesion works the same way, unless you're talking Spiritual Adhesion. But I'd chalk that up as Just Bondsmith Things.

Now that you mention it, Helaran trying to kill Amaram is probably directly what caused an opening in Amaram's guard...

Along these lines I've also wondered what happend to Hav, Kaladin's mentor. We know he became part of Amaram's personal guard by the time Shallan was sneaking around in Amaram's part of the Sadeas warcamp for the Ghostbloods, but what happened to him after, especially at Theylan Field? And, if he's in a position as prominent as he is currently in, why hasn't he sought out Kaladin?

I don't think Leras and Ati started as enemies. Frost describes Ati as kindly until Ruin eventually overcame him

Heralds =/= Radiants. Their powers don't even work exactly the same way

The change caused by being a vessel does not appear to be an isntantaneous or even a fast process.

Veden is being described as so close to Alethi that if you can speak one you can understand the other. Almost closer to dialects than naming conventions

As much as I think "cultivationavani" is hilarious, she meets Hoid at the party where Sadeas releases Dalinar's vision. She hits him with paper when he tries to start insulting her and Hoid is impressed

The Virtues you are referring to seem to be different than the attributes associated with each order in the Ars Arcanum. Do you mean them to be something fundamentally different?

I think this is a cleaner explanation of the question you're trying to answer

Each name is also composed of two distinct ideas, which reflects the glyphpair construction the Alethi use. Its why the Dustbringers insisting they're called "Releasers" is so silly. It'd be the only one that doesn't fit the pattern

Lift is articulate enough for Nightblood

It seems pretty clear to me that Tanavast and the vessel of Cultivation (I don't think we know her name) were romantically involved. My strongest actual evidence for that is that Wyndle says he thinks Cultivation has abandoned humanity after Tanavast died, which admittedly isn't that strong, but I don't think its a real reach to speculate in that direction

The Edgedancers are described as incredibly graceful in and out of combat and Adolin has always been that. He's certainly nothing like Lift but I don't think Lift is traditional edgedancer material

The "Adolin shouldn't be a KR because not everyone needs to be a KR argument" has always read to me like "you know what Harry Potter needed? a Muggle main character." To attempt to quote Vasher without WoR in front of me, Roshar is "invested to the hilt and looking for a place to stuff it all." Sort of intrinsically its a story with a ton of magic in it, and I think anyone who's a main character is going to have to interact with it in some way, whether it be as a KR, Navani and her fabrials, or on the weird frontier like Adolin and Renarin are in their own ways. Yes, there are going to be characters who aren't interacting with magic but I think by necessity they'll be increasingly sidelined. And I'm okay with that. In fact I'd find it increasingly difficult to believe that Adolin would be able to contribute much of anything moving forward if he doesn't end up going Edgedancer other than just some background moral support for Shallan and I think he deserves more than that as a character

Its also worth noting that all things Theylan Field are capital-w Weird. I used to think that all the Maya stuff was a temporary effect of Dalinar smashing realms together, but unlike most of the other effects of Theylan Field, Maya seems to have gotten stronger as more time passed, not weaker. I wonder if, since the Kholinar Strike Team went through the Perpendicularity and therefore got a more extreme dose of Spiritual Realm, Maya got a more permanently revivifying effect than say Taln. Though I'd want to see if Adolin can still communicate with her at the beginning of SLA4 to commit to a theory like this