Frustration

While disobeying Odium is pretty easy, disobeying Retribution would definitely bring consequences. This is one of the ways that adding Honor makes things more dangerous.

Hey don't be dunking on my Skybreakers like that. They have perhaps an even greater level of self-restraint than Windrunners. While using a reverse lashing to rip someone's head off is brutal, I think that you are forgetting that shards allow anyone to do that. Reverse lashings when it comes to destruction are pretty tame compared to the other surges.

I find this so interesting because I've actually had a lot of the same thoughts, right down to at some points in my life wanting a way out from an afterlife. I also honestly can't say what changed, other than my depression stabilizing that would change it. I just kind of got up one day and decided that living forever sounded awesome. I suppose it might have something to do with the doctrine of eternal families and going "Yeah, I could live forever if I'm with you." But even then I never had a conscious decision point, so I honestly can't say. But I understand entirely if that doesn't sound appealing to you as I've had the same exact idea in the past. That honestly encapsulates a lot of my thoughts on traditional Christian concepts, especially predestination. I'd say our understanding of heaven doesn't change that too much, it's more our doctrine on the pre-existence. I'll skip the scriptural explanation unless someone wants to ask for it, but the TLDR is that we as humans are eternal, and that there was no beginning to our creation. God then offered us the ability to progress and become like him, which was our whole mortal life, heaven and hell and all of that. God didn't create us to be fallible; we were that way to start with, and he gave us the opportunity to be perfect.

So we believe all living things(including plants) have souls of some kind, though they are not in the same category as human souls. The exact relationship between them and states of judgement has not yet been revealed, but we know there will be a resurrection for animals in some way, possibly plants as well though that likewise has not been revealed. That's not a hugely pivotal point of doctrine so we don't talk about it all that much. When you mentioned ape cultures one of the first things that came to mind was a study that caught my attention recently about animal spirituality. Long story short they observed apes and elephants preforming actions that aligned with early spiritual practices, including ritual dance and mourning. Which as a religious individual is FACINATING to me, and honestly has me reevaluating apes in light of my above comments to NameIess. Now I would agree they do show far less formalized practices, much closer to spiritualism than an actual religion, which doesn't prove anything as you can just as easily be said to be an odd evolutionary trait as it could be said to be veneration of a creator; I just thought I'd bring it up because I thought it was interesting. I'd like to thank you for sharing your perspective, it's not one I get a lot of exposure too, and I think it's helpful to try and understand others. I'm actually going to do something rather unorthodox and agree with you on Holy Books, or well mostly. While I believe the messages and principles they teach, I believe that if God were to send an Angel down to rewrite the bible as it was when it was given to the prophets that it would be substantially different. I think a lot of it is men and their own reasonings. I think that over time a lot of the messages we can receive from them or from revelation comes in large part based off of our personal efforts to look into them and our own desires. Does that have elements of confirmation bias in it? Yes, and I won't deny it. We get a lot of what we expect out of it. I also think that's why having a prophet is so important as someone to be a spokesmen for God and to guide us in his path. That's probably a more elegant way of putting the question and a more honest one. I do find the idea of a world without an eternity to be in essence, hopeless. True we can do great things in the here and now, but we have an enemy, and one we can't beat: Time. People forget, monuments are worn down, and eventually according to current projections: the entire universe slips into that sweet goodnight never to return. I honestly can't look at that and say life is worth it. Maybe that makes you stronger, at the very least it makes you more optimistic. Perhaps that's me just being scared and creating a more comforting lie to avoid an ugly truth, but I don't believe that. I can't hear a child's laughter, or see the galaxies we're photographing and believe it's all for naught. Dang now you've got me waxing poetic. Guess I might as well run with it while I have it. I'd like to thank everyone who responded, your insights were definitely a new perspective. While I can't say I agree I do think I can learn. You've all talked in one way or another about the small moments, and making them count. It's definitely something I could do better at, and I want to thank you for that reminder.

It was eight.

On scene in RoW, where the Stormfather himself said that he couldn't even feel the Perpendicularity move. Additionally he had to have been doing it multiple time as that's how he got the Tukkari into the CR that Adoilin fought. It clearly did not as the Highstorm does not appear when Dalinar summons the Perpendicularity. Additionally Dalinar can recharge gemstones and Radiants by touch without the perpendicularity. A Connection to the SR yes. Honor's perpendicularity no.

I'd take maybe twelve people with aluminum machine guns. Have three aim for above the Mistborn, while another four take the sides. The other five flank ang go for the sides to cut them off.

I can't argue against your feelings, but here's why it should still be important. If Yelig-nar is established to be very dangerous, not just stated, but actually shown to us, then he will feel more dangerous against character you do care about in the future.

Or just have Yelig-nar on his own beat the crap put of Sigzil and Co. now, so that in book 8 or whatever when Moash does use it it's even more impactful as we know that Yelig-nar on his own can kill Radiants?

It very much is. They make a whole point that during that battle they've lost sixty radiants. My question is: to what? Aside from the Focused ones and Moash none of the enemies they fight really seem like a threat. And honestly Yelig-nar should make Moash look like a toddler by comparison in threat level, he should put stakes back in the game, actually make it feel like Radiants could lose.

It likely would have worked quite well under Rayse as he was just as sick of the war as the Rosharans were. He wanted to start conquering other places.

The entire fight at the Shattered Plains needed more page time, Yelig-nar shows up for the second time in the series and we just skip over it like it was no big deal.

Your sacrifice will be remembered, but they will erase your name and give you a cool two word title instead. If you jinx this I will [Insert ominous threat involving Hemalurgy here]. Especially the romance subplots, just please I beg of you no.

He hasn't read the Sunlit Man yet

So thinking about two recent topics, specifically these I decided to work out an idea Mission details: During a hypothetical era 3 war a northern Mistborn is causing the Malwish trouble on the battlefield. Your mission is to eliminate them. The Malwish have no metalborn to spare, and all combat useful Medallions are currently in use. What is your plan?

Well, I'm back, and I have more thoughts this time about elsegates. So we come up against something that only brings me questions: Elsegates. These things are wild, and yet as for now Brandon is keeping everything he can about them close to his chest. So here's what I can find and questions I want answered. As always I will frame these as questions for Brandon that I will save for when I next get an opportunity to ask him. If you can find ways these questions could be improved or condensed that would be appreciated. What happens to something inside an Elsegate when they close? Dai-Gonarlthis can only make elsegates between locations with large concentrations of investiture. Can Elsecallers make Elsegates more freely, or is this a common theme? And can you make an elsegate between two places in the cognitive realm, or between the realms and at different places at the same time? You have previously said that Elsecallers can move between locations faster than light, but you more recently said that Elsegates are speed of light compliant. Is this an update as you refined the Elsegates, or is there something else Elsecallers can do? Jasnah and Szeth both had difficulty making Elsegates, however Pozen seemed to have no problem. Is Pozen unusually skilled, or are Szeth and Jasnah bad? Could a Willshaper make an Elsegate similar to what we see Ishar do, or is that an Elsecaller only thing?

Well his only stated goal at the end of WaT was to find these other Skybreakers, so there's some hope for you.

So I was actually meaning the hope that Szeth gets an oathstone back, and swear himself to evil skybreakers... But this is beautiful too, and also answers another question I had. Also I'd agree the characters never having any setbacks or failures really undercuts stormlight as a series.

Wait, why does such a depressing(even by your standards) type of event bring you hope? And/or why do you hope for it?

About two weeks of grinding, plus a little extra.

ALL of them. Even the unsearchable ones that you have to dig through the individual events to find. Every. Single. One. I've even considered digging through the audio files we haven't transcribed WoBs for yet, but I've decided it's not worth the time when I can't even hear what's being said.

Sorry, I don't think I explained myself very well. I think a better comparison between the Fused and the body is not that of a Nahel bond, but that of Hemalurgy. When Dalinar breaks the gemstone in Oathbringer he is unable to dismiss the blade. If the Fused worked similarly we would expect the body of Abidi to show signs of paralysis, or incomplete control. Instead we saw a lack of power, closer to a misplaced spike. While the center of power is 100% the gemstone, I don't think it's a sprenlike bond with the body that causes a change.

If it were just the gemhearts though it wouldn't kill the host or change their carapace and skin patterns. The gemheart might be the entry point, but the whole body is bound to the soul. We can even see this with Abidi, who despite his gemheart being cracked still survives.