Impact

I find Eric’s confusion over human voidbringers kind of funny. Maybe I miss remembering, but I don’t think there’s anything to say that they had to have had powers to be voidbringers. I think that’s just a poetic name back then and the legend grew after the Fused

So we know that Sigzil broke his windrunner oaths and eventually bonded Aux. Everyone assumes that means he became a skybreaker. We also know that the bondsmith spren are all unique, yet provide the same abilities and order. Especially now, knowing that an object like nightblood can provide any set of radiant powers, it starts to make me wonder if bonding a certain spread means you have to be that order. I’m wondering, essentially if Aux could have accepted, wind runner, oaths, even though he is a high spren. part of my evidence, for this is that at the end of sunlight, man, nomad seems driven by protection, and not law, and that is what begins to give him his powers back. My back up theory is that Aux managed to become a windrunner while six over became a skybreaker

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Or it's spren/god *left*

Oh! I had no idea! Thanks for linking! @Riino the mysteries episode is what led me to have this theory, but they never directly address dispersion of it. They still talked about the shards in relation to the moon, not the old gods.

The three moons of Roshar have always been associated with the three shards, but what if we have all been reading it wrong? What if instead of representing Honor, Cultivation and Odium, the three moons represented the Wind, the Stones, and the nNight? That still doesn’t entirely explain the fourth moon, but with the way the system was set up before the shattering, to me it kind of makes sense.

I love that about him. No time to wallow or rue. The only option is to peg up and go

For me it wasn't even abut feeling seen, (the mental health stuff is closer to that for me, and I'm recovering very well) its just cool to see that an injury like that not being portrayed as life ending

I really liked the whole part about how Adolin was able to adapt to his prosthetic because of his background in dueling. I’m sure a lot of people might find it silly, but it actually resonates with me a little bit. I have been doing martial arts for about 25 years and back in August, I had ACL surgery. I wasn’t on crutches, but my leg was functionally immobilized, and it was hard to put weight on it and I could not bend my knee for weeks. I was still able to go teach classes, and even participate in a seminar because I was able to adapt how I stood and moved. I was able to help kids with their cuts within a week, as long as they knew to adjust their stances to be better than mine. My point being that when you’re used to controlling your steps and your weight, you do learn to adapt, so it actually made sense that Adolin was able to participate

Is there a way to move it? I didn’t view it as self protection, but protection in general. Could be for life or anything

Here is my new theory for Dawnshard categories We know change is a Dawnshard, so I used that as a seed to try grouping some and came up with some other options Change Invention Cultivation Virtuosity Ruin Essentially you have creation, maturation, embellishment (art), and finally degradation. All relating to change Protect Preservation Honor Valor Mercy* Keeping things the same, adhering to oaths, brave defiance, and willingness to show kindness Feel Devotion Odium Whimsy Mercy* These shards seem to be more emotion based. I know others are too, but these seem to fit best. Love, hatred/passion, silliness, and kindness Lead Autonomy Dominion Endowment Ambition These shards exemplify different aspects of leadership (to some people at least). Self-governance, governance of others, gifting to others, and internal drive. Obviously these are speculative and none are perfect fits, but I like how this works. I'd be interested to see what other combos everyone else has *Mercy seemed to fit in either spot

It does, kinda. Everything you said is what I was afraid of being true, but I appreciate the confrimation

Does anyone know how to create glyphs from words or sentences? I was trying to figure out how to write “Fleet Kept Running” as a glyph

I was just thinking about the pre-story implications. I think with the bondsmiths being able to refill gems will change things a lot for the economy. And yes, I think stormlight will be extremely valuable in the space age Side note, I think the 2-to-1 lit to dun trade was just what Kaladin offered because he was desperate in OB. I don't think it's necessarily a standard practice to charge that much

Those are both good points. I never considered all the different aspects of animal-based protein. And I suppose that makes sense with the waste, though it would be interesting if they converted it back into food. And that's interesting in regard to fabrials. Since so many are new, would the values change over time?

I'm sure something like this ahs been brought up, but I find it kind of crazy how some of the gems are valued. I get why grain and meat would both be high value, (though I would have assumed they had the same value), but why is the ability to soulcast something into gas considered to be a high-tier use? I would figure that metal or rock would rate higher. I'm also confused why quartz, glass and crystal are so much less valuable than anything else?

I think later on they mention shorter canes, so i'm starting to believe more the "Rosharan chicken" ie they use the term cane for both a walking stick length and a baton length. I see no faults in this logic. you win

In SoS, when at the Governor's party at ZoBell tower, Wayne says he hides his dueling canes in his fake belly. how short do you think they are? I always assumed they were around 3/3.5 feet long, but to hide in a fake stomach, they'd have to be more like batons. Is this kind of like a Roshar Chicken situation, where the term dueling cane is used "one size fits all"?

My theory on the truths: "I'm Terrified" - to testament, allowed the old bond to slightly reforge and let her Soulcast "I killed my father" to Pattern. He was still new to her so he was still kind of "dumb" but his intelligence came at a much faster rate (than say Syl's did in WoK) "I Killed my mother" also Pattern "there is something wrong with all blades except mine" not a personal truth, closer to a Truthwatcher's, doesn't count. Alternatively, it was accepting that pattern was her blade, and was a truth. "I killed my spren" not sure who this goes to yet I wonder if Shallan can get a blade and such faster than a normal Lightweaver because of this being her second bond. I think she breaks the mould.

Ok the most recent WOB shardcast they talk about how investiture can be stored in gems, but only stormlight can be infused by leaving it in a storm, and void light cannot, and presumably mist light (Scadrial) or gift light (Naththis) cannot. I think that has to do with the fact that Honor’s perpendicularity is in some way tied to the storms and the Stormfather. In theory, maybe bringing gems to the Well of Ascension, the emerald pool above Elantris or Endowment’s perpendicularity will allow gems to be infused with their respective lights. it is possible that it here has to be an intention to infuse the gems as well, but this is at least how I can see a passive system working

I did have one thing that I listening to this episode made me realize (and my GF is reading Warbreaker) but I feel like Lightsong may be Ace. Other than someone he had a deep connection with (Calmseer) he has no interest in sex. And maybe I’m interpreting how different variants of ace present but it seems fitting to me

I definitely thought it was around where he stopped wearing glasses too. But if the countdown started beforehand, likely not.

I could swear that the fused mentioned being unable to use Adhesion because it was granted by Honor alone. The physical aspect part was more my reasoning why and can totally be wrong Edit: Rabonial says “they claim a tenth, of honor alone. adhesion is not a true surge, but a lie that was presented to us” (chp 32) I don’t believe the lie part, because I feel like it’s the Fused being salty, but they seem to think it is of honor alone.

I meant that lining up the True Spren with the surges was harder than I thought because how do you determine which Spren offers which surge. Adhesion is supposed to be only accessible to Honor, because of the physical representation of a bond. also, I don’t think the Fused died with the bonds, they split with the True Spren and then became Fused later

At the end of RoW, Leshwi asks Venli if her spren knows a specific honorspren. Honorspren are obviously related to Windrunners, who seem like the counterparts to Heavenly Ones This makes me wonder if all the brands had bonded a true spren before becoming fused, and that spren influenced what brand they became. I don’t mean a Nahel bond, but more like a gemheart bond. So like all the Heavenly Ones had Honorspren in their gemhearts, Masked ones had mistspren, regrow the would have Cultivationspren, the abrasion ones had Ashspren, division would be Highspren, transformation would be Cryptics, Husk ones would be Elsecallers, Deep ones would be Reachers, and whatever has tension would be Peakspren. I know its not perfect, because obviously the spren each grant 2 surges normally, but I still feel like there is something there. I’m sure this theory has been floated some way or another, but its been itching at the back of my brain for a few days now.