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They went back into "default form" when the knights broke their oaths. Will post WoB momentarily. Here Words of Radiance Houston signing (March 11, 2014) #5 Share Copy Questioner (paraphrased) Why were all the Shardblades swords when they can take on any weapon form they want? Would they all revert to swords when they die? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) When they die they'd revert to the basic form which was a sword since they were patterned after Honorblades.

You can still soulcast that.

We still have a large number of functional ones 2thousand years latter. This does not mean that she is stupid or that she can't do mental math. So we agree that the ghoostbloods have primarily political goals. This is fine but how is Shallan going to make money using the same method? Firearms are realy not the complicated. Rosharans could easily replicate them. Magic often functions weirdly off the shardword in question and does have limited applications in warefar against shards. Many also have complex fuels that you can't easily get on Roshar. This makes more sense thank you.

Regardless about how any individual feels about Oathbringer's revelations I don't think it will effect the working relationships Dalinar has. Considering that the world is on fire and Dalinar is the only person in place to stop it only his current actions and his reasons for his current actions matter. Not actions that happened over a decade ago.

On the other hard they don't seem to go through ware and tear. Just don't smash the thing. Expensive enough that Shallan mentions that they can't afford it despite having enough money that she treats bromes like pocket change. We don't realy know that. Then I would recommend tracking down and assassinating everyone involved. Extorting them for a soulcaster that they are not giving you seems stupid when you can just get it out of them by force. The Davars are not powerfully people. What concessions could they make? Neither of those is much good on Roshar. Could they? They have a limited membership. Much of their strength comes from things that have limited practical use in anything but assassination and they are going up against sharebearers.

Banking is a thing on Roshar. It could be quite profitable to keep prices of certain gemstones at a specific average value for long ranges of time. I thought that they broke it by accidentally stabbing it with a sharp blade(Shallan's patricide flashback) But they do charge. Shallan mentions that you have to pay for it. No it is not. If they could make soulcasters they would not bother demanding their own back and would also rule Roshar by now.

When does he say that? The two are not mutually exclusive. Of course Brandon is going to put what he understands into his work. You can't make something out of nothing even in literature. However just because the author understands their work one way does not make it wrong to understand it another way.

I love Spin. Brilliantly written character.

I just did the thing I should have done at the beginning of this discussion. I looked up a definition of redemption. Redemption: The action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil. From this perspective I am going to say that both good and bad actions carry their own rewards and punishments. As Nohadon said "Life is fair." Weather or not Dalinar deserves redemption is academic. I don't think I have ever met or heard of a human with the capacity to truly decide who deserved anything or nothing. Dalinar is choosing to redeem himself and this will carry consequences and rewards just as choosing not to will.

You could just burn metal for as long as possible every day. This would have the same effect.

This would be nice.

You have found one of the great SA mysteries. Congratulations. You can now join the rest of us in bashing our heads against the wall.

Rock can see spren and I am fairly certain he has super strength by dint of a minor spren bond that he got by going into Cultivation's perpendicularity.

Thank you

I was trying to ask the form generally to see if anyone new(IE an announcement that they are delaying untill next week for some reason that I missed). I was not directing this specifically at Chaos which is why I did not at him. If this was in bad taste then I apologies.

I am aware of and appreciate the effort put into these. I was just hoping it will be out in the next hour or so because I have travel plans.

Check the dates.

Shouldn't a shardcast be up by now?

We have no idea. Again. Maybe. I still have some problems with this. However the plothole is mostly filled if the ghoostbloods are loosing money.

We are going to miss a lot of windrunner stuff(Lopen and Teft learning and teaching). I am going to miss the Heralds. I am sad to miss the Szeth is introduced to everyone(the monarchs) moment.

If Shallan has no money how is she going to get any amount of marble out of the soulcaster. Just having it is not enough. She is going to need some method of getting a moderate number of good quality topazes. This is even if you can actually make money by having a soulcaster(which I don't think is possible). Reread WoKs. Shallan and Co did not know that the ghoostbloods were a thing until after Shallan became Jasnahs ward and their plan was already in motion. WoBs indicate that developing Savantism can take years or decades depending on the person. If we except that these are distinct questions then the ghoostbloods are essentially using the Davar family as a money laundering group. This is the one solution that I actually except to the original problem. IE the ghoostbloods are running things at an absolute loss. However Shallan cannot make money like this because the ghoostbloods are not backing her. We have no idea how often soulcasters break but it cannot be that often or their would be none left(it has been over 2 thousand years). Navani also implies that they are fairly easy to fix if they do break and it is just the fact that Shallan and Co have never seen a soulcaster before that makes it impossible for them to do so. Marble is also used mostly in cities not the countryside. So transport costs are still the same. Soulcasting is also common enough to support countrywide industries(gremfeind farming) so it cannot be extraordinarily rare. Also as this is an illegal practice they can only make deposits of marble that they still have to mine. They can't just make marble slabs the way people who can do so legally do. They are thus at a major competitive disadvantage. I agree with your impression. We never saw he during her active career. Only after deep savantism and her running away. But the soulcaster was "in use" the entire time. Kind of like if a soldier is in the field they are still "fighting" even if they are not actually killing people. Every landed Lighteyes is soulcast at their funeral. Even Roshan's son who was a member of an impoverished noble family. Patently false. Dalinar specifically notes that "The Azish only have a few soulcasters and famously one could make bronze." We also know nothing about the other kingdoms in the empire. They have quite a few. During Taravangian's visit Adrotagia notes that they are one of the causes of the civil war as each army has at least one. Also not true. Jah Kavad's civil wars are almost as bad as the Alethi's. A soldier notes to Dalinar that they fight each other exactly as much as the Alethi. WoBs also indicate that the place has not always been untied. I am not sure how this is relevent. The Altethi clearly have farms despite the fact that war on the plains is maintained by harvesting gemhearts that make food. Yes this is actually why diamonds are rare and expensive in the real world. One company has a huge stockpile of about half of them. Lin Davar soulcasts mines that have to be mined the normal way. The only item he is saving on is the soulcasting fee. Everything else is the same and because he does not have a number of advantages(he can only make one product, he can't make soulcasting artwork, and he has to much higher transportation costs for example)things are likely worse for him. This is not investment it is conversion. Let us say that we are back in the 1960s and we are still on the gold standard. I ask you if you will sell me your dollar bill for .95 in gold. You would say no because you can just go to the bank and get a full dollar in gold whenever you want. Sure you may have to pay a possessing fee but this is likely not that much. Then why did you mention confidence that the king had a hoard of topaz earlier? As to more worthwhile they are useful in emergence military construction. The creation of other semiprecious stones(their is quite a list and all of it fluctuates widely due to economic forces) and lets not forget funerals(every ligheyes will pay for that)...

Its called a police report.

Brandon said is would be accurate to think of Autonomy is an opposite of Honor. I think under this interpretation @Harrycrapper is correct.

The sad thing is I can honestly believe that if we modernize Dalinar's Rift actions plenty of people would be OK with them. In the Alethi culture it must be even worse. The fact that Dalinar can see beyond that is impressive in the extreme. As to deciding if an action makes one irredeemable. Redemption exists internally like forgiveness. Calling an action unforgivable is at the very least problematic.

Love the theory and it makes sense. I was wondering about those creatures. How do they consume watery meat do you think?