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You could also use a larkin to accomplish this. Just have it drain away any investiture the radiant is holding.

Hemalurgy could seperate their spren from the them. Depending on how live plate is actually formed and what it is made out of, hemalurgy might be able to do the trick there as well. Maybe even if it isn't made out of spren like many people assume, I would assume there has to be some form of Connection that it has to the radiant, snatch that connection with a spike and boom, no more plate.

I'd like to add that in during the Kaladin and Adolin team duel Kal was using the plate piece he took just fine without hearing the screams but when he pulled of the lastclap the heard the screams. Seems to further support the notion that radiants could use the current Shardplate as we know it.

We know that the spren are a later arrival to Roshar, as in they didn't exist before/while the Rosharan system was created, the continent itself cannot be spren due to that. Most WOB's and the little bit of information we have about The Sibling at the moment is that they are somehow linked to Urithiru.

Anything and everything having to do with Azure's sword, how is it different from and how is it similar to Nightblood? If Nightblood's creation didn't go as wacky as it did, what would the differences be then? Which of the swords is more powerful, do they do the same thing/can they do the same thing? What is the command that was used to create Azure's sword? How would Nightblood react to Azure's sword, would he attempt to do anything about it. Also a name so I can stop calling it Azure's sword would be great.

Personally I do think that Maya will be revived and Adolin will become radiant. We've already seen the beginning of it, he has a bond with his blade that hasn't really been seen before and I feel that it would add some more, in my opinion, needed depth to his character. I am curious though for those of you that are mentioning semi-radiant abilities and such, how do you see these happening? If Maya does get revived and bonds with him, I don't see how that would hinder the surges in any way. If she gets revived and doesn't bond with him, then in my eyes, he loses a blade and doesn't become a radiant. If she doesn't get revived in general, no radiant. I just can't really see how his potential radiant abilities would be somehow lessened if Maya gets fully revived.

I would also like to point out that using pattern and shallans bond as a basis for anything isn't exactly the most sound idea. Due to the large gap in time of which pattern was locked away she has been regaining her radiant abilities very differently to how others would. So the fact that pattern knows some of these things and is able to tell shallans could be due to the fact that they had figured out some of it before.

If I could change some things then depends. I'd love to be a duelist, and if i was Alethekar seems like the place to be. I'm not positive if my current eyes would allow for that though, they act oddly and sometimes seem pretty light and other times darker. Also not a huge fan of the whole vorinism thing, but I could deal if I had to. Otherwise i'd probably choose Azir or Kharbranth. If I would have access to the Palaneum and what not I'd love to be in Kharbranth, would never run out of anything to read. Azir, seems appealing because of the laws and everything.

I'm not sure if we have WOBS that say otherwise or anything, but to me it seems that the Bondsmith Oaths have to be a lot more individualized based on the spren that the bond with. I don't really think the oaths that we've seen Dalinar say will really apply to another person that is bonding either of the other two spren. The order itself is so oddly unique. I could see these being the conclusion of Dalinar/Stormfather oaths, but not really when it comes to the Nightwatcher, and we hardly know anything about the Sibling that I can't even make any assumptions there. I do love these oath posts that you make though! Keep up the interesting theories!

So something that we do know is Hoid has an innate sense of where he has to be at certain times, not necessarily what he needs to do, but when and where to be somewhere. I think he realized the reason he felt that he had to be in Kholinar at the time was what he gained, being a spren bond. I don't believe the individual spren in itself is special besides the fact that this opportunity was a thing that was going to happen, if you catch my drift.

I'm curious for those that think Tarah and Kal could be a thing, why do you think that? I haven't done a reread in a while but when I read through I always thought that the ship had set sail and the doors the Tarah and Kaladin relationship had been closed. It seems to me that no matter if Tarah potentially wants a relationship with him or what, I don't think Kaladin would allow himself that. To be fair, that's just the general vibes I was getting and I could honestly be entirely wrong.

Dawnshards, Fabrials, Unmade, Urithiru. What will the arms race be for is the big question? I think the dawnshards are a huge potential. While fabrials will obviously continue development I don't think the singers are going after the fabrials. Shards and dawnshards seem like the most obvious answer. What about the Unmade and the Heralds? What will Nale and the Skybreakers be up to. So many questions to be asked, so many answers to hopefully be found.

I don't think studying nightblood would be too helpful in reality. Azure already has a blade akin to Nightblood, we don't know how similar though. But through many WOB's we know that Nightblood is an extremely special case.

I definitely see Ash becoming the Dustbringer and Taln as the Stoneward still. Ash has been on a destruction spree for quite some time. Taln literally held fast through such a long time alone after the heralds decided to abandon the Oathpact, I don't think it has been enough to completely break him down into a fundamentally different person. Seems to me that his Stoneward stubborness mentality and willpower will come back.

Considering we don't know what the Plate really is yet, though there are theories, such as the lesser spren theory, we can't really know how to get this effect. I don't think the same gemstone idea would work as it does with the blades. The blades are the dead spren in shadesmar, and to be able to summon and dismiss them, some sort of connection had to be developed that would essentially substitute in for the nahel bond, and almost breath a little life into the spren again for a short time. If plate truly is made of lesser spren that are already in the physical realm, then the gemstone idea doesn't make much sense to me. Even if that theory is incorrect, which it very well may be, I don't think that gemstones are the answer here, or else they surely would have figured it out by now by experimenting with gemstones and plate after they figured out that was what did the trick with shardblades.

Probably pretty typical but my favorite is definitely Kaladin. A lot of who he is, I feel like I can personally relate to. Then I just love some of the epic moments and quotes that we get from him as well. Him dropping into the arena to join Adolin, chills everytime. Uttering the oath, "I will protect even those I hate so long as it is right," and saving Elhokar from the assassination attempt, one of my favorite scenes in general. Besides Kaladin, two people come to mind, Szeth and Nale. I wasn't a huge fan of Szeth at first, but now with him joining the Skybreakers and being in possesion of Nightblood, I'm very interested in seeing how the story will progress. Nale being the leader of the Skybreakers, his choices and his morals, I find him to be an incredibly interesting character and I really want more of him to read.

The dawnshards I'm pretty sure are something completely different. We also know that there is a set number of dawnshard by WOB. Therefore, with a constant influx and changing amount of Knights swearing the fifth ideal, it wouldn't really fit for a dawnshard to be the gain. Stormlightning Is there a set number of them[Dawnshards]? Brandon Sanderson Yes. Stormlightning Are you willing to say? Brandon Sanderson No. Stormlightning Are you willing to say if they originated in the Rosharan system? Brandon Sanderson I am not willing to say. FanX 2018 (Sept. 7, 2018) We do know that Nale has sworn the Fifth Ideal of the Skybreakers, his version "I am law". And while we haven't seen too much Nale screen time, we also didn't see him with any type of new weapon or anything like that, we know that he has his own honorblade that he took back. As of now, I think that the 5th ideal is really just becoming more efficient and capable with stormlight usage. We know that Nale is one of very few Skybreakers to swear the fifth ideal in centuries I believe, if there was some kind of extreme powerup with the 5th ideal I would assume more people would choose to pursue it, but many don't and are content with where they are in the ranking.

I can definitely agree with this, by no means at all is Lopen a bad guy, just reading him is almost entirely jokes at least as of now, and to some people like myself, we just don't find those jokes to be funny. I did like Lopen at the beginning, his entrance to the bridgecrew and what he brought then, but its just grown a little stale in my opinion. I could easily do without having to read any more Lopen really.

I agree. I actually enjoyed Wayne quite a bit while reading Mistborn, but Lopen, I really just don't like him. Lift I find acceptable, though a bit hard to read at times.

The__Good__Doctor Hi Brandon! I wanted to talk about the revised ending of Words of Radiance. So, it looks like Kaladin won't be actually delivering the killing blow to Szeth any more. I think that Kaladin was entirely justified in doing this, since it was a fight to the death, and Kaladin was protecting not only Dalinar but his entire squad below. Kaladin even seems surprised when he lands the blow, expecting Szeth to block it like he had been doing the entire fight. The killing was not done in vengeance or with malice, unlike what Adolin does later. Having the storm kill Szeth seems like an anti-climatic way to end the scene, since it takes away Szeth's decision to die by the sword, and means we no longer have an example of why the spren Shardblades don't immediately kill people. Brandon Sanderson I woud be fine having him do it, though I think killing a foe who has given up was against this thematic plot. But what pushed me over the edge to change was the sense that I was pulling too many fast ones on the reader with people coming back to life. I wanted it clear to readers that Szeth was not dead, so this scene wasn't a fake out, which would weaken Jasnah's arrival later. Dancingedge Um, Mr. Sanderson, I don't mean to be disrespectful as you probably have the scene better in your head than I do but how is a man without Stormlight falling from a very large hight, while in the middle of two Highstorms coliding and throwing entire platoos in the air expected to survive? Maybe I don't have the right persective on this given that I saw both Jasnah (the body disapearing is just as much a give away as it never being shown in my book) and Syl (Pattern outright said Sprens can be revived) coming but unless you severly change the fight scene I don't see how being stabbed actually matters for Szeth survival chances. Brandon Sanderson The idea is that the reader didn't see him die, so there's a psychological trigger--one that says "Ah, I didn't see a body. He's probably not dead." Yes, Szeth totally died from that fall--just as the young man that Lift revived had died from what he suffered. We know that Stormlight can fix the body and bring back the dead, so long as very little time has passed. The import of the tweak to me is allowing some question in the reader's mind, so that the return is not a betrayal. The__Good__Doctor That is a lot more understandable. Having too many reveals at the end could be problematic. I agree that Jasnah coming back felt like pulling a fast one right at the end. However, I think the suprise of Szeth coming back was really well done, especially with the reveal of Nin (Nale, Nalan? This dude is so old he has three names!) at the very end with his special sword friend. I feel like that was the real zinger that should have closed the book. I was a little underwhelmed with Jasnah coming back, not because I dislike her, but because I thought she was well and truly dead. She died so early in the book that I was completely accepting of her death by the end, and her coming back in a 'gotcha' moment felt a little hollow. Perhaps this could have happened about a hundred pages into the next book? I don't know the entire story like you do, of course, but as a reader it felt like Szeth and his rebirth should have been the final closing image. Brandon Sanderson This all came about, if you're curious, during the detailed plotting of the second book. Originally, the outline did not call for Jasnah to leave, but I was having real trouble getting Shallan into a place--emotionally and experience-wise--where she could do the things she needed to do while Jasnah was around. I determined that Jasnah needed to pull a Gandalf, and let her ward alone for a while, and I'm glad I did it--the book is much, much stronger for it. However, the side effects of the last-minute change in the plot required Jasnah's reappearance, which sent a few waves through the book. (Szeth's death and survival being the main one.) Sorry, not sure of the exact etiquette for quoting WOB's and such. But Brandon has said that the reasoning for the change was a lot about Jasnah and Szeth and not wanting to fake out the reader with resurrections and such as shown in the above WOB.

Just want to point out that I am almost 100% certain that on Roshar and as Wit, Hoid has had black hair as his disguise. Yes white hair and storytelling is very telltale signs of Hoid, but he is not always following that pattern.

@Coda Intent still matters for the oaths even when they are the same, or similar as the further level of oaths are for each branch of radiant. While you and I may both swear the first Ideal you and I seem like we would both interpret it in very different ways from one another and that is perfectly acceptable. The thing that matters is the intention behind the oath, and the idea that your spren will accept that intention and that oath and that won't be the same for every order and type of spren, let alone for every individual knight and spren.

Shallan and Pattern had connected and then Pattern was locked away, and thus with that Shallan's memories of pattern and how the bond worked were locked away. Shallan has also been lying to herself trying to keep those thoughts out, she refuses to think of PatternBlade as anything but a simple shardblade and thus her intent is to summon him like a normal shardblade, and therefore, using the heartbeat rule.

I would also recommend starting with episode 1 of Campaign 2. The production quality is really solid and so is the actual show itself. There is also the option of watching Dani Carr's Critical Recaps which are on the channel, They're all short recap videos of each weeks episode so if you wanted to just get basic plot points and catch up to the airing of the show you could. Personally I'd say actually watch the show through as there are tons of awesome Roleplaying and story moments that are just simply amazing.

Personally a big fan of Critical Role, try and keep up every week. Depressed Wizard boi Caleb is my favourite character for sure. Super excited for more in his arc and for more in Fjord's arc and his newfound direction.