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My only real question is what happens to the poor guy Kel spiked physical connection out of? Did he(or she I suppose) just loose any connection with their body and die as a result?

Bonding is not something that you can force. Most of the follows of said gemstone and book man are already bonded anyway. A few other people could try but I would not put it past the Nightwatcher to send them all back with varied curses(or just ignore them). Also she is located in a remote location and there are enemy forces not too far away. It would be interesting if they attempted training individuals based on their best guesses as to what she would like best. If the general sentiment is want to hide then you are not realy going to find that many. If it is want to be found then you are going to have problems with false positives. Also I think Odium will be trying to limit the emergence of new Radiance somehow. The metal came from Hoid. How is Kaladin supposed to know that said metal is available generally on Roshar via soulcasting. Ohhh you mean fabrail capture. This could be interesting. Too many musts in the sentence. While I agree that many of them show suppositions that are reasonable we realy don't know much about the Skybreaker general population. According to Nale most(=>50%) of these guys swore to follow the laws of whatever land they are in. They don't seem to need to eat(I kind of doubt they do actually). Perhaps. I find myself doubting that any Herald will be of any use. Her husband was the most successful at gemhunting and it is not like Dalinar could just take those away from her. She also has whatever portion of her army who were not at Theylen field, her title, her political skill, a grievance against the Kholins, a relationship with the Ruthars... Mraize has Shallan(or seems to think he does) what use can he make of Ialia? Considering that he is a god I don't think that it takes him much time to tempt stupid people to the dark side. I am guessing they have spies in the Ardentia, with the stormwardens, and with various nobles. They can probably get whatever Urithiru intelligence that they absolutely need.

Um because if they fail there is no telling the consequences. Remember in Vorin mythologies The Nightwatcher is associated with death and the things she has done to people are basically their own genre. Because he is a the successor to Honor and as such can release Odium open the Oathgates to CR travel and maybe undo the Oathpact. This is of course assuming that they understand what is happening to them and that the governments can get through the massive amounts of false positives to find them. Can Kaladin correctly ID a metal he may never have seen back home and has no idea how to get from the natural environment? cough cough Glys. This could work if they figure out that the metal is in fact aluminum. I am guessing that Taln and Ash will remain unconscious for most of the novel. How exactly are you planing on finding them? They live in enemy lands an can fly. Along with some disgruntled malcontents. Almost every group of people produces quite a few. Mraize claims not to like her for some pretty good reasons. She is unpredictable, hateful, and a bit to clever for them(in my opinion). Why would Odium not tempt both Amaram and Ialia? The Sons of Honor would likely hate her. She is not religious (even her name is heretical) she is a women (I definitely am picking up some misogyny from them) and her perspective on Urithiru is likely to be limited.

Reasonable.

Szeth is going to have a huge book 5 role.

However the current authority is failing to obey its own laws.

Agreed. However while facepalming I tend to remember similar abysmal decisions that I have made for equally stupid reasons. Is it realy that bad? Been wondering if I should read it...

Agreed. I wonder if the three bondsmiths have different concepts based on their spren.

If that is true then the Oathpact will easily survive through book 5.

I would like to point out that least favorite and disliked are not the same thing.

UNDER 24 HOURS!

I am hoping for at least a brief role in book 4. Stabilizing those kingdoms seems like a priority.

Skybreakers value consistency, impartiality and fairness(much like any good legal system). They acknowledge that law is flawed but they still follow it because the alternative is society without a rule of law. This is perhaps unfair. Skybreakers do their best just like everyone else and are just as prone to questioning their beliefs as anyone else. However can you imagine a legal system in which any individual can make their own judgements about any topic at any time? I don't think any sane person would like the result.

60%!

Only answer that makes sense.

Dalinar knows. Well you can actually. No guarantee it will work. Actually the Stormfather is the most important of the three. This seems to me like a bad way to introduce new Radiants. Still your approach does have a few good points. The stark lack of any Stonewards could be very interesting as a plot point. Agreed. Ialai will probably try to keep as many of her people intact as possible(or possibly defect yikes) but I don't think Sadeas will have much in the way of supporters among the humans and will probably be dissolved.

Hopefully they murder him.

You have previously mentioned that there is a way to turn harmonium into Atium and Lerasium. Would you get exactly equal masses or moralities of both or would there be slightly more of one or the other?

The balance between Ruin and Preservation is extremely delicate and easy to disrupt. When balances are disrupted the result tends to be violent.

We have devices that can use the metallic arts. My belief is that an Excisor is just a device that can help something store its identity the same way those flying machines store weight.

Swallows bleach.

He started writing part two but stopped because Navani left him unsupervised and he wanted to get a few novellas out of his system.

The Davar brothers are not Alethi, May Aladar is an Aladar, and the bridgemen have no experience in government(most of them lack any formal education). I do think we will get a few more Windrunners. However the ring only sent Wyndle so Edgedancers seem like a no. Also if we get too many high level Truthwatchers then we will start having illumination working and that could lead to TMI too soon. Practically impossible.

They totally would have changed it if is not coming out. Also where would they have gotten the massive preview?

Good question. Anyone have an ideas?