Karger

It is a real word that is inappropriate slang for old people.

I don't think so. Using investiture while asleep is not usually possible.

There is an upper limit. However our main character use their powers so often that they have trouble reaching it.

He has breaths on top of the one that animates him. Giving breath is not all or nothing. That is a lie. Warbreaker is kind of confusing.

I do not believe a text form is yet available although someone might have transcribed them.

Any idea what time the newsletter will come out?

He could just break the maniacal. I am not sure that is more secure then just chaining him to a wall. Also what if you manages to drain or damage the gemstone?

Thank god. I was practically itching with anticipation. This will make it even worse!

She knows he is but that is not really how she treats him.

It very clearly does. I think from context that the spears have been demonstrated as necessary.

Why? Szeth still killed him.

I was simplifying. Also those don't hold charges. The source for those is all the same. The mechanic is different. What counter? How does putting a gemstone at the back edge of your spear do anything if all you need is proximity? Kaladin states that the draining only happens on contact.

That was my conclusion as well. I can afford to keep the lights on in my home. This does not mean that if I run too many electrical appliances at the same time it won't cause a problem. It also kind of reminds me of scadrial spoilers.

You would still not need to attach the gemstone to a spear though. Just wear it on your belt.

I think the point is that the spheres that particular fused had(and left in custody of his group) had to get charged somehow. The everstorm is new but the fused got voidlight in prior desolations. Also Kaladin left spheres out during that storm and received no voidlight.

I think this is more likley. Maybe future epigraphs will be from "the ravings of Shalash and Talenel"

Excellent deduction. Like fresh paint on a blue wall! The other possibility is that the spren makes the choice to move toward where the energy is escaping from. We know that windspren follow the highstorm. The crew members on the Honorspren ship also became more active around the highstorm. Basically spren might chase what looks like a food source. If that were true why would the rest of the spear be necessary? Just throw the gemstone fabrail at the person with a sling.

Generally when Brandon says silvery metal he means aluminum. We were given to understand it could block shardblades by Mr T during OB. We don't really know the full properties of silver(or aluminum for that matter).

I don't think that Gavilar's behavior was necessarily as inconsistent as implied. Gavilar wanted to be remembered. This was his single driving ambition. I am not sure he cared much what for. He likely noted that Sunmaker "great men" were pretty common so if he wanted to be remembered eternally he would have to completely change the status quo. Being responsible for the revival of the old war might do this. There are plenty of accounts of likable, great men who are still somehow incapable of treating their spouses with respect and dignity. I believe this is this case. If he manages to actually pull this off (which he technically did) history might still credit him. Also preventing a voidspren from falling into the wrong hands might have been just a reflexive act of "this would be bad. I have to stop it."

Oh I thought that was a figure of speech.

We saw that people don't usually swing shardblades too hard. Dalinar managed to catch one in his hands. This should be good for a few blocks. Could you elaborate?

Even if that was the case you could still easily lop of the tip. Sounds conductive to me.

You cannot soulcast on aluminum. You can soulcast while surrounded by aluminum but not through it or on it. I don't claim is sucks out unless you "ground" it. Just that it conducts. That is not the same thing.

Kind of. It might be more accurate to say that the rate at which they could take it away is limited. I wonder if you could short out aluminum somehow. I think there should be a way to drain a metalmind using aluminum. You just have to ground it somehow. Even a good conductor like copper can hold a charge.

We recently got this intriguing passage. Conjecture implies that this silvery metal is aluminum. However the other property of the spear, stormlight draining, implies that some sort of fabrail is at work here. This is a conundrum as aluminum would prevent any fabrail from working. Somebody suggested to me that maybe the spears just have sides coated with this but I don't think that works. Kaladin and his Windrunners would have long since grown proficient at severing the spearhead and leaving the fused with an aluminum stick. This leads me to the belief that the aluminum is actually part of the fabrail and that has certain implications for how it works. We know that aluminum resists all forms of investiture. I am fairly confident that Kaladin will never manage to lash an ingot of aluminum. We see various uses for this property in many shardworlds(particularly on scadrail). The question that has bugged me for a while is why? How is it that aluminum does this. I think I have an answer. Think of kinetic investiture like electrical charge. Things that are already invested are much harder to effect with investiture. Kaladin actually notes something like this in this very chapter when thinking about lashing his Sylspear. Similarly you can't really overcharge a battery(without a lot of power and then it tends to blow up) and if you break a circuit it stops working as electrons don't want to be concentrated in too small an area. Taking the similarity one stop further what if aluminum is a conductor of investiture? This would explain how they manage to drain stormlight out of a radiant. Connect a gemstone to some aluminum and the stone will pull the investiture out of the radiant and into the stone. Cut the stone right to make sure it leaks easily and you can expend most of radian'ts power into the air. This would also explain scadrail spoilers. People who are good at undergraduate physics and everyone else please correct my mistakes.