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I realize we are talking about spren dying which is not a well understood concept to begin with but it seems to me the most logical that the spren that is the most injured belond to the bondsmith the broke their oath. The stormfather heavily implies that Dalinar could kill him and causes him pain.

True to an extent but the only thing we have seen him do recently is help out a struggling civilization which I would not call immoral. You could say it earns him the secret handshake.

Cool what order of radiant are you? Also do you want some cookies? Their is nothing in them I promise.

Or that the Stormfather was able to survive the bond somehow. How? As far as we have seen when the radiant betrays his oath the spren dies. Also the only spren that seems at all damaged is the sibling the stormfather seems fine. (For a grumpy storm spirit with a god complex)

That is not entirely true. I am fully aware of Kelsier's flaws but he does seem to care about others and he does give up power for the greater good. I feel that excluding him from the good guys club is a tad unfair.

Not a terrible theory. It certainly makes sense in the context of what we know. I personally feel that Kaladin can't swear it because he does not trust others to act honorably and save themselves or work to save others.

This would imply that Melishi did not betray his oath.

Can you give us a ballpark estimate of how much mass/energy/investiture the 16 shards started with? Are we talking suns? Galaxies? Does Hoid have an actual endgame at this point or is he just trying to get somewhere and hoping that he can figure it out from there?

What does it mean? Is he enjoying the irony of being the greatest person who has ever lived and a complete drunk? Is he just nuts? As to the Heralds I am pretty sure Nale and Kelek were there (Jasnah's flashback) and we know that Jezrien was there too. Shallash was there recently per the destroyed statue. Do you all think that there were others present and if so how and why and how many were aware of each other?

My Nightblood's voice is eager like a child who is getting ready to play a game

It is not a typo. As long as Kaladin is alive and fighting offensively the fused cannot turn their attention on Dalinar. The best ways to win in almost any combat setting is to open yourself to some kind of risk. Kaladin does not want to win and so he is not risking anything instead he is just blasting as much light as possible until he runs out making sure that Dalinar has at least that long.

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It is in the Spear that would not break during Kaladin's fight with Amaram 4400 on the e copy sorry the paragraph starts with "Keep moving" Kaladin's reasoning (which I agree with) from what I just reviewed is that he needs to stay on his feet for a while. He can't duck and weave or try and think of a clever way of killing his enemies he just has to do enough damage that he is to dangerous for the fused or Amaram to ignore.

I just checked Oathbringer and it seems that as you use stormlight for long periods of time it gets harder to use. Also at Theylan field Kal is locked in combat with someone bonded to an unmade with several fused coming in at intervals to reinforce his opponent. He is not trying to win he is trying to survive long enough to protect Dalinar so burning through stormlight quickly is actually a smart strategy. He was not playing to win he is playing for time if he max burns stormlight their is no chance he will die and Dalinar will be defenseless until he runs out. If he does not max burn their is a chance he will die and Dalinar will be killed sooner. Max burning against Jasnah would be stupid as he has the advantage in a protracted fight especially if they both run out of stormlight.

He was distracting 4 different fused with an incredibly limited amount of stomrlight as they gave most of it to Shallahn to work the oathgate. I also think although I can't prove it that storlight usage is less efficient in shadesmar.

I also would like to point out that the area close to Dalinar that Kaladin is in likely has less gemstones then Jasnah or Shallahn as he is further from the bank where they(the gemstones) started.

Not quite they can flex a bit.

That is what I meant it was a typo We don't know this for a fact but it seems like a reasonable conjecture. Healing injuries is probably the real cause of his stormlight depletion in this scenario not the flying or lashing he has lost blood and is replenishing mass that takes a lot. We saw 2nd ideal Kaladin fly for several hours during his training montage to fight the assassin in white in book 2. A couple minutes worth of the the amount of stormlight it takes him to fly should be the amount of force that it takes to lash a rock about with about 138 lashings.

try a 100fold lashing remember this is only to a small pebble not a large bolder. Actually giving a bolder a tenfold lashing could make it hit someone like a moving train and bulldoze them Kaladin might want to give that a try.

Alright one step at a time. I am making the assumption that giving an object a double lashing takes1/2 of stormlight as a single lashing. I know we don't know this to be true for a fact but it seems reasonable. I am also assuming that an object half as big will take half the amount of stormlight to lash. I looked up the amount of force imparted by a bullet and found it at 5338N I calculated the force imparted by the single lashing Kaladin uses on himself to fly by looking up Rosharan gravity and estimating Kaladin's weight. Mass*Acceleration gives force which I found as 38.5N. The bullet through this calculation 5338N/38.5N is found to have almost exactly 138.65 times greater force then Kaladin but Kaladin often flies for minutes on end and it does not burn through his stormlight particularly quickly. 1N=1Kg*1m/s^2

No I am pretty sure he is using the surge of adhesion(vacuum and pressure) which can create wind and would not be effected by aluminum anymore then a soulcast blade would disperse if you hit an aluminum shield with it. The force the speed only depends on acceleration due to gravity and wind resistance. When Kaladin uses a single lashing he is (assuming he weighs 55Kg and accelerates at .7g) outputting 38.5N for several minutes without worrying to much about stormlight. A bullet leaving of a high power shotgun is 5338N. I am assuming he only needs to output this force for 1 second. 38.5/5338 is about .008 that means he needs to output about 120 times as much force but only over one second as apposed to several minutes, Basically my calculations show that lashing a rock a bullet speed is about like flying for a minute or two assuming proportionality. (We don't actually know if it is somehow more or less efficient to use a double lashing as apposed to a single so I am just going to say that a double lashing costs 2x as much as a single one).

I personally think that humans came from Ashyn as we know that Ashyn was mostly destroyed and only the flying cities are safe. Also Shalash could mean "from Ash" or Ashyn they do sound suspiciously similar.

Can you soulcast through a shardbubble? Will the spren not interfere?

You also can't do anything to help anyone which is kind of what being Radiant is about...

As you suffocate. Also if a thunderclast kicks the ball you will still die from the transmitted force