Chiberty

Yeah, I can help with that. I just suggested #20 on Livestream 1, but I don't know if I formatted it correctly. I did notice that the audio clip that corresponds to that part only lasts for 12 seconds, but I couldn't edit that.

The surges are things that are viewed as forces on Roshar. The essences are the type of thing that would include water, and they do, under the essence "blood."

All we really know about the old institution is their oaths, and the new info from the quiz. We don't know how the acceptance of Nale's leadership went. The Skybreakers at the time of the Recreance might not have, but then after those ones died, and all of the new Skybreakers were ones Nale chose himself, it makes sense that their view would align with Nale's.

I thought you were talking about the old Skybreakers, not the ones being led by Nale. We all know the modern ones have issues. Nale even seems to handpick them.

I wasn't trying to support either side, really; the points you've made do make sense. I was just saying that that WoB doesn't really support the argument being made.

Everything we know about RoW... Here are a few things you didn't mention: Navani was the most enjoyable for him to write recently (Nov. 26) There is a scene where Dalinar is being flown to a different part of the world by non-Kaladin Windrunners Jasnah has a couple viewpoints - (transcribed below) Rysn will not be a main character, but will have an interlude Group 2 climax is in Part 4, Group 3 climax is near the epilogue, and Group 1 climax is in the normal spot Scientist that was in Warbreaker will be in RoW, talking about some things he got wrong There wasn't room for Rock's narrative that would have been in his novella in RoW Brandon chose Bulgarian cover art that depicts Shallan and Adolin in Shadesmar The author of in-world Rhythm of War is not human There is a character moment in RoW that Brandon had planned from from the beginning as one of the two or three pillar scenes of the entire series, a moment like which we will not get again until SA 7 or 8

That WoB doesn't say that Helaran joined the Skybreakers; it says that there is one group calling themselves the Skybreakers. That doesn't preclude the Ghostbloods from attributing other groups' actions to the Skybreakers.

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Right, but I'm just saying that what somebody says to do will hardly ever contradict a universal truth, and if it did, it would be impossible to follow. An instruction that would require you to go against a universal truth would have to be something like, "Decrease the total amount of matter, energy, and Investiture in the universe." Something like that can't be followed. It doesn't matter if you're a Truthwatcher or not. Universal truths are, well, universal.

Odium doesn't seem to like the Skybreakers. He claims that they are the Order least like him.

I think he's more along the lines of Arcadia. He definitely wouldn't be on the chaotic side of the wheel. I agree with the other ones.

How would that work? "You must divide by zero once every day."

Remember in Oathbringer, when Kaladin is discussing the Oaths with Syl? One thing he asked in that conversation is what determines what "right" means. That marks a main difference between Windrunners and Skybreakers. Windrunners have to keep thinking about that question. Skybreakers make a decision. They don't wonder if what they're doing is wrong because they know whether or not it is to them. The current Skybreakers, in following Nale, don't do this correctly, as Szeth points out. Szeth tells Nale that he doesn't follow his own guidelines, brutally enforcing some laws while ignoring others. This messes up their focus on consistency, and thus leads them to easily make mistakes within their own ideals, like when that one Skybreaker "kills" Gawx. Additionally, they don't really just follow along with a "static society." Societies are not static. They progress over time, and if that progression changes a Skybreaker's code, they follow along with it. Not only that, but Skybreakers don't really need to follow the law of the land. I've speculated before that they might even be able to dedicate themselves to Vorinism. They can choose to follow the code they believe in following. Again, the current Skybreakers don't really do this, and just all choose to follow essentially the same things.

So, the Skybreaker oaths aren't trying to make it so people don't think for themselves; they are aiming for consistency. Even in many laws or codes, there is a lot open for interpretation.

You have to soulcast the cookies to chromium first.

Nightblood kind of is a spren. Spren are pretty much just (semi)sentient Investiture, right? Brandon mentioned that even the Shards would be considered spren.

What about Kill Only with Tears?

Have you read the prose version? It's a whole lot better. Definitely better than the GN.

Sorry, it took me a little while to find the quotes. The Skybreakers don't really care. After Szeth swears to follow Dalinar, Nale is still perfectly fine with training him further and doesn't hold it against him at all: Some Skybreakers swear to follow the local law. Some don't, like Szeth, who follows Dalinar instead. The fact that Szeth follows Dalinar instead of the local laws is support from the books. You seem to be misunderstanding the Skybreakers. They're not focused on justice, or even laws. That's mainly a Second Oath thing. Nale explains it here:

Either, they will be unable to progress to the third oath, or they will choose to swear themselves to some sort of libertarian code. Skybreakers don't have to follow the law of the land. They just have to follow the code that they chose. That isn't an issue. There is a reason the Skybreaker oaths are so personalized.

It was never said that the Skybreakers are "primarily responsible for law." They are responsible for keeping order--the "enforcers of the Knights Radiant," as Brandon called them. The third oath just has to be to follow something external to themselves, which gives them greater ability to be consistent in their judgements. It doesn't matter if it's a law, a person, or just a set of rules they find on the ground; any one of those allows consistency. In what way does he do this?

The oaths themselves don't have issues (they just show who the Skybreakers are), and Brandon did explain that the current issues with the Skybreakers are because of Nale.

A quick Google search reveals that this file is from a site called you-books.com. The site appears to have a library of ebooks uploaded by the users, then made available free for download. One interesting thing to note is that it asks for ebook uploads to be in .fb2 file format. Somebody must have combined Legion and The Emperor's Soul into one file, changed all of the the Emperor's Soul names, then uploaded it to you-books. I have no idea for what purpose someone would do that, though. Edit: I think that you-books.com is Russian site, so it is definitely possible that the name swap was caused by an very odd translation error.