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Yah that’s what I was thinking. Dalinar is Odium’s champion. I seriously doubt he can change that selection, which puts Odium in a sucks to suck situation. Of course if he can re-pick his champion I think this is an incredible theory (though I like the Szeth modification).

@Karger all good, apologize accepted

I was going to come back and edit that to say and the weeping one. As for ones I won’t. 1) stormlight is a more efficient source of energy than food 2) gems are a more efficient means of transporting energy than a backpack full of food 3) no knight radiant is going to be denied access to food or stormlight as long as there in a stronghold for the KR. Lift will have food and Kaladin will have stormlight. 3.5) in a pinch it’s much easier to steal stormlight than food

It probably had something to do with my absurd levels of excitement . . . and my suitcase filled with every single one of his books

. . . fat stores one

@Karger alright, I concede the point

@Karger regardless that doesn’t change the fact that if I’m right about this energy transfer, than there’s no way she could match the amount of stormlight a normal Radiant can with a handful of emerald broams.

She is best friends with the Prime of Azir. She has all the food she wants. Wyndle would beg to differ. WoR, interlude 9, page 838

Maybe I’m reading into this too far but here’s a WoB Questioner Why does Lift need Stormlight? Brandon Sanderson Lift went to see the Nightwatcher, and got a Blessing and a Curse in that she can metabolize food to turn into Stormlight, but she can't use regular Stormlight. And there is something else, as well. He says that she can “eat” stormlight but can’t breathe it. And there’s something else. Aren’t all the effects whether from the Nightwatcher or Cultivation herself binary. Two and only two effects. That would indicate that yes to eating and no to breathing are one effect. An effect that I would argue is a curse.

Two things, one Lift doesn’t have enough foresight to eat a ton and build up fat stores when she’s going to need stormlight, in ED Wyndle gets after her for driving herself into the malnutrition zone. Two she can’t get stormlight instantly. If Kal runs out of stormlight big deal, he needs to breathe. Lift has to go find a snack, eat it, and wait for it to transfer (though admittedly we don’t know how long that takes).

Not to hate on Brandon, I love Brandon, but this may just be an oversight that we should fill in mentally, rather than there being an actual reason.

Let me clarify, the large amount of energy to heal is the “normal” energy. How many calories would you have to eat to produce enough energy to heal a broken bone. I was trying to say that the stormlight is much more powerful and efficient than “normal” energy.

I’ve been pondering our favorite little weirdo’s signature ability to metabolize food into Stormlight, and I think I figured it out. Let’s go. (For the sake of simplicity I’ll refer to the process of eating, turning food into chemical energy, and turning chemical energy into kinetic energy as “normal” energy) We have WoB that Lift’s ability works by metabolizing food into stormlight instead of “normal” energy. The important thing to realize though that this is what Progression does in reverse. Progression takes stormlight and transforms it into “normal” energy in order to achieve the effect of either healing or growth. Once that connection is made we can draw a couple conclusions. Obviously it takes a massive amount of energy to heal injuries, an amount of “normal” energy that stormlight easily covers, however because of the law of conservation of energy the exchange rate for stormlight and “normal” energy is set in stone. This would indicate that Lift’s ability to turn “normal” energy into stormlight is not her boon, but her curse. It means she is working with drastically reduced amounts of stormlight. What are your guy’s thoughts?

I’ve seen a lot of people talking about how Shardplate is formed from the lesser cousin spren, of the radiant spren, but I haven’t been able to find any evidence pointing to that. Where did people come up with and what are the biggest points in the theory’s favor?

I went to a signing in December and came with a ton of questions. Probably 30+. I did not expect to get nearly all of them answered, but he was really nice and answered all of them. So my question is, is that normal?

I want to gather a list of metals that it would be dangerous to stop compounding once you started, because everything would catch up. Atium would be the clear example because of the instant super aging. Gold we know is another from Wax, I imagine because the body’s own immune system is out of practice. I could see the same thing happening with bendalloy and bronze as with atium. Any others that seem like a really bad idea to stop once you start?

That’s fair, didn’t think about it since it’s a different book

Context: this was in regard to a child of Tanavast thread I could definitely see this working to, it would fit while not being the obvious choice which Brandon likes.

I think this is my favorite post from that thread.

Harry Potter died in a great way I cried Eragon died in a great way I cried Death can be a good ending, but not a happy one

It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. The analyses was perfect. I’m convinced.

Dats not ok

Alright so Brandon has done a lot with mental illness especially in SA which I think is great. Not only that he has done an amazing job portraying those illnesses. I have connected on a personal level to his characters more than any other author’s and I have many friends who feel the same. Here’s the but. If those characters don’t get a happy ending (and dying is mutually exclusive with a happy ending unless it’s old age) me, several of my friends, and I’m sure many of you are going to be seriously screwed up. I’m not even sure what sort of response I’m looking for, just want to throw the topic out there.

We hear several characters in SA referred to as child of honor, but Kaladin is referred to as child of Tanavast. We have WoB that that is significant. Is there anyway (timeline speaking) that Kaladin could be a literal descendant of Tanavast, original vessel of honor?

Wait, is that a thing?