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  1. NameIess
    I think that Elantrians (and probably Dagkhor) need regular investiture to sustain their lives, but are constantly fueled by the Dor while on Sel. While off Sel, Elantrians need to consume investiture regularly, as we see in SH.
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    I don't think that would work so easily, although it might. Elantrians can transport the dor offworld, and might be able to use alternate forms of investiture to fuel their powers, but I doubt it would be so easy as drawing an aon on a metalmind.
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    IT WAS RISING FASTER THAN IT EVER HAD BEFORE.
  4. NameIess
    BECAUSE THE GHANDERFLAFFLE EMPIRE WAS RISING!!!!!!
  5. NameIess
    But that was irrelevant.
  6. NameIess
    Yeah, but you think that he is sane when he talks to Szeth, right? He still supports the singers even in that moment. Nale has always supported humans before this desolation, where he is insane. When I say voidbringers, I meant the fused. If Nale was the opposite of confident, he would never be able to make the decision to kill Dalinar. Nale would not have been sure enough in his ideals, or in Ishar's ideals, to justify killing anyone. Confidence does not imply reliance on one's own decision making. It is fully possible to be confident in someone else while not being confident in yourself. That is the entire point of the skybreaker ideals. Being confident in an external code though you cannot be confident in yourself. What authority figure? an unconfident Nale would never remain an authority figure. Confidence is an essential par of leadership, and Nale should have next to none of it. Without confidence, how did he ever convince even a few of the skybreakers to join the parshmen, let alone all of them aside from Szeth? As I said, he is embodying his ideals separated from all that is human in them. Thus, he will remain blindly confident in his flawed assumptions until forced to accept that he was wrong. If Nale was as unconfident as you say, how has he been able to function as well as he has? Shouldn't he be crippled by uncertainty like Kalak at the least? Shouldn't he be even worse? Regardless, we've derailed the thread. This is supposed to be a discussion about Taln's character, not a discussion about the madness of the heralds in general.
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    Poor train.
  8. NameIess
    Nameless rescued Szeth's Use Of Braille from the UNSC by hiring a consultant to sue them.
  9. NameIess
    So you think that Nale, while sane, would accept the right of the voidbringers to rule Roshar? After fighting against them as a herald for thousands of years? If Nale wasn't confident then he wouldn't have tried to kill Dalinar in RoW. There would be at least a few skybreakers that decided to fight against the parshmen instead of with them. We don't see that happening. In fact, when Nale is uncertain is when he seems most sane. When he is admitting that his sense justice is not trustworthy any longer. When he is at his most insane, such as when he is killing radiants, he is utterly confident in his ideals. When he is sane after Lift swears her third ideal is the first time we see him to be unconfident. Even when the parshmen return, he refuses to accept it, because he is utterly confident in Taln's ability to hold them off.
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    So you think that Taln didn't break for four millenia by normal human strength of will? Nale might not be confident now but that is because of the return of the voidbringers and his interaction with Lift. Him telling Szeth not to look at him for an example of justice comes from the last shreds of his humanity that tells him that something is wrong with him. If he was the antithesis of confidence and justice, then he would not be able to make the decision to join the voidbringers, and he would certainly not have told Szeth this at the end of OB: The return of the voidbringers and his temporary sanity with Lift barely caused him to so much as admit that he might not be as perfect a judge as he thinks he is.
  11. NameIess
    Wait. Taln not breaking for four millennia is undependable? Nale is completely unjust despite having a code and sticking to it?
  12. NameIess
    "Okay, maybe it's braile. I probably should have realized that morse code has dashes in it." Nameless ate Szeth's sandwiches.
  13. NameIess
    Nameless laughed. "You think I care about morse code?" And proceeded to eat all of Szeth's pancakes and all of Szeth's waffles.
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    I don't think they all went mad in a way that is opposite to their popular characterization. If they had, then Taln would have broken a thousand times more quickly than the other heralds. I think that they are going mad in a way that removes all humanity behind their ideals. Look at Nale: he sees himself as a perfect judge: emotionless, unbiased. He is actually an emotionless monster that looks like justice, but is lacking in humanity. Some of them, like Jezrien and Ash, seem to fight that insanity somewhat, Ash with her obsession with destroying all images of her (honestly, with how perception affects the heralds, she might actually be the sanest of the group) and Jezrien with his constant drunkenness.
  15. NameIess
    Until he realized that Unintelligible had eaten those.
  16. NameIess
    We don't know that. The books are hazy on how they made medallions, but we will get an explanation in The Lost Metal.
  17. NameIess
    Nameless laughed maniacally and ate Szeth's cheeze-its.
  18. NameIess
    Nameless laughed evilly. Then he ate Szeth's hot pretzel.
  19. NameIess
    I think there is. She was justified in killing those men, almost regardless of how she got there, but she could have not gotten there, or gotten there in a way that wouldn't potentially traumatize her sheltered ward.
  20. NameIess
    I'm not trying to change your mind, I'm just pointing out that while yes, Jasnah was justified in killing those men when she did it, she could have done a better job.
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    (But not actually, because Nameless has a sense of humor)
  22. NameIess
    I feel like the fact that she manipulated the situation in order to kill those men as a philosophy lesson to her ward says something about the morals behind killing them. Not that she was wrong to kill the men, but she could have killed them or gotten them executed in a more moral way.
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    Nameless banished Szeth to the shadow realm.
  24. NameIess
    This was very sad. Too bad Nameless had given all his pure happiness to Truthless.
  25. NameIess
    I would argue that it would be moral to use hemalurgy to execute people. It would also be moral to use hemalurgy in battle. It would be very effective against anyone who is invested, and could be extremely effective against compounders such as Miles.
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