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They were very angry.

This new universe was filled with papyrus.

I’d go with grinding colos. Even colo 1 gives like a thousand geo a completion.

Page 16: EmLee finished a Sanderson book and starts reading others, writing up a long essay on why Brandon's books are the best while eating cookies and carrots. Nameless finishes reading Dune and argues that WoT didn't copy all that much from it, starting a furniture/food/knife/finger gun/laser fight, and annoys Calano by aggressively seeking allies in new patients.

That's possible, but we don't know that Elsecallers couldn't use that method to travel into the Spiritual realm (In fact, legends of them teleporting imply that they can) and we don't know that a mini-perpendicularity is actually an accurate description of what Elsecallers do. In any case, Ishar specifically summoned Honor's perpendicularity and Dalinar didn't not any difference between it and the one that he summoned, so its safe to say that Ishar can make perpendicularities that recharge spheres. We know that the Stormfather has been changed by merging with Honor's Ghost, that Dalinar is a Bondsmith unchained in the sense that his powers are no longer regulated by Honor, and that he is capable of doing things that prior Bondsmiths could not do. Nowhere is it said, to my knowledge, that these new powers are due to the Stormfather's change. (Aside from OB, but that was Dalinar speculating, and I don't believe the Stormfather explicitly agreed.) Perhaps Honor's death and the Stormfather's absorbtion of his soul are what caused Dalinar's Bondsmith powers to become unchained, but I don't see any reason to believe that Dalinar can do anything that Ishar can't.

Except that we see Ishar open Honor’s perpendicularity and use it to travel between realms. And the Stormfather was shocked that he couldn’t feel it, which he wouldn’t have been if Ishar was using some method of inter-realm travel that was unrelated to him. Anyways, why do you think that Dalinar can do things that Ishar can’t? He can do things that traditional Bondsmiths can’t, but Ishar is a Bondsmiths unchained just as he is.

Nameless flinched, but began the weave again, this time inverting the weaves so as to hide them from any prying eyes.

Any competent leader that actually had any real knowledge of the history of desolations (such as through contact with the heralds) would not have such an incredibly stupid and foolhardy assumption and risk as Gavilar did. He barely knew anything about the Parshendi other than their descendance from the Voidbringers, and he immediately reveals his plans to return the Voidbringers? That is phenomenally stupid. He cares deeply about his reputation, and his legacy. Perhaps he originally wanted more, but by the time of his assassination, he was all ego. Why else get so angry over Navani's threat to destroy his reputation? His kingdom would live on just fine. He was working for the return of Radiants, but didn't get any Radiants. He's not a scholar? With how much work it took Navani, do you really think Gavilar could have pulled it off on his own? That's probably what all those top fabrial scholars were for, and I assume the Sons of Honor had people working on it. Well I see a man willing to look Kelsier in the eye and say 'you are too late', who knows spren can be bound, has regular meetings with heralds, is attempting to bring about the desolations in order to gain power for himself, and is ultimately an ego-fueled fool who pretty much screwed the entire world by returning the desolations without refounding the KR or really doing anything at all to adequately prepare the world. You don't have to like this direction for Gavilar, but it has been adequately foreshadowed. This isn't a complete 360 reversal of his character, it's been coming since as early as Eshonai's prologue in WoR, and Navani's in RoW at latest.

Nameless wove deftly, forming a dimensional gateway combining the leftover remnants of the magic that had transported someone out of the clinic with his own Saidar weaves. As he finished, a portal split open in front of him, revealing the hallway he'd seen a glimpse of earlier.

The definition of perpendicularity is not a portal between realms. The definition of a perpendicularity is a large concentration of Investiture that pierces all three realms. You cannot have a perpendicularity to only the Cognitive realm. If you make a perpendicularity, it goes to all three realms.

Nameless examined the residue closely, forming a complex weave in an attempt to reconstruct it enough to track its destination. Completing the weave, he got a faint image of a hallway, almost identical to the clinic, but somehow wrong. There were no doors, for one of thing. Standing back from the wall, Nameless scribbled a quick note to Calano and tossed it through a gateway onto his desk. @CalanoCorvus, we might have a runaway, but something’s odd about it. I’m going to try and pursue him.

Ishar literally summoned Honor’s perpendicularity. Are you saying that he somehow made a perpendicularity that doesn’t meet the definition of a perpendicularity.

Nameless frowned, detecting a faint residue of leftover magic. Some kind of dimensional travel spell? Strange, those were normally heavily regulated by the treaty.

So despite knowing there was a language barrier, that these were unpredictable Voidbringers, that he barely knew anything about their culture, Gavilar still assumed that he knew enough about them to manipulate them into doing exactly what he wanted, and didn’t even consider the possibility that they would betray him? That’s not the actions of a master planner like Taravangian. You mean the years he spent conquering Alethkar? Yes, he eventually started following the codes, but none of his actions were inconsistent with a conquering tyrant. As for his actions with Navani, him being a terrible husband wasn’t all that I was talking about. The number one thing Gavilar cared about was his own legacy. Not the kingdom’s legacy, his legacy. Aesudan said that he found ancient spren, but could not bind with them. And Gavilar didn’t discover anti-light himself, he had scientists who did. Try this: ignoring everything about Gavilar that we hear from Dalinar, what image do you see?

See, I don’t think that this Gavilar is inconsistent with what we’ve seen at all. We saw that his preconceived notions of the ‘voidbringers’ (aka the parshendi) led to his death at Szeth’s hands. We saw that he was a cremhole in Navani’s prologue, only caring about his image and legacy. No, we didn’t know for certain the depth of his self-centeredness, but that’s because most of our view of him came from Dalinar, who is very much an unreliable narrator when it comes to his brother. Really, the only revelation related to Gavilar’s character in the prologue that would in my mind qualify as a plot twist is the extent of his incompetence. And that had plenty of foreshadowing. The sons of Honor, started by Gavilar, were the least competent of all the secret organizations on Roshar. He provoked the Parahendi into attacking him, not even considering the possibility that they would do so. While I’m sure Brandon will revise the prologue quite a bit, I don’t see this as anywhere near a character assassination.

Nameless began walking back to his room, contentedly reading a new Sanderson book. He was so wrapped up in his reading that he didn’t even notice the wall until he ran into it headfirst. Ow. Who put that there? Rubbing his head, Nameless reached down to pick up his book, only to freeze, noticing trim around the blank section of wall. That shouldn’t be there. Drawing in Saidar, Nameless reached out curiously, examining the wall for any sign of illusions or magic.

Things escalated.

It threatened to destabilize the cosmos.

Lark kept his theories to himself, but he did invite Random Fellow and Bookwyrm to his new class on managing attachment to fictional characters.

Or did he? Nameless was confuzzled.

The confusion was contagious.

Yep. Alright, so now we've talked about sports, what other boy stuff should we talk about?

Same. You like cornhole? I'm pretty okay at that.

Archery is pretty cool. I'm pretty bad at it though. You ever tried axe throwing?

Alright fine, we can talk about boy stuff. You like sports?