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Tor did something similar a few years ago (unfortunately the pictures no longer work) and they had some real gems there, including Alex Mallari Jr. for Kaladin and Geore Takei for Taravangian. David Tennant would be my first choice for Hoid, but Hiddleston is awesome as well

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"Beggar, Herald of Kings, saddens Lyn" was the best anagram of "Nonsense, Balderdash, Figgldygrak" I could come up with, but I hardly think it was what Brandon had in mind

I can't provide much information about hardcovers vs paperbacks (I only buy ebooks + leatherbounds), but my personal experience with Amazon wasn't exactly great (damaged books, books not delivered and returned to Amazon etc.). You might want to try Book Depository (https://www.bookdepository.com/) - it offers free (if slow) worldwide delivery

I had this idea recently: what if Odium wants to recruit Kaladin as his champion and (possibly) start creating human versions of the Fused? It might actually make sense for all the involved parties: Odium: he needs a champion, obviously. Corrupting Kaladin would be an absolutely huge blow to Team Radiant and their morale (and also a kind of symbolic victory for Odium after losing Sja-anat in a similar way). Kaladin makes a perfect target, actually: he's severely depressed, sympathetic to the Singers and he had broken his Oaths once. He wants to get rid of his pain and cannot stand the idea that he'll eventually lose the people he loves – and Odium can, in an extremely twisted way, take your suffering and give you everlasting life. The rules of the game have changed: the Everstorm has arrived, the Heralds can be killed. Why not start creating human Cognitive Shadows if that could provide an advantage for Odium's forces? Leshwi: she's clearly interested in Kaladin and shows him that even the Fused can be honorable. She's playing the good cop here Moash: he shows up out of the blue at a very convenient location, with just the right arguments to crush Kaladin's spirit, based on a knowledge he might or might not have gained from his time in Bridge Four. His attitude directly contradicts that of Leshwi, which hardly makes sense given that she's his patron amongst the Fused – unless he's playing the bad cop, trying to manipulate Kaladin into siding with Odium in the end Kaladin: he simply cares too much and cannot let go. Confronting Odium, which represents the direct opposite of this, might be just the thing that leads him to saying the Fourth Ideal in some truly epic way

Rubies are used to Soulcast things into fire, so there might be a connection here

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Navani was able to tell that the spren's eyes were closed, so they couldn't have been that small. Fabrials having effect on spren size are a possibility, but we have only seen anything similar in the Physical Realm so far. Fair point about Jasnah

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The Oathgate spren are also the size of a building and come in pairs, which seem like significant differences. I'm assuming here that spren cannot change their size in Shadesmar, as we've only seen them doing it in the Physical Realm. Cryptics don't have eyes, so they are out of the picture. That leaves us with only Inkspren as a real possibility, in my opinion. My main issue here is Navani, though. She's very interested in solving the problem of creating Surge fabrials, believing (probably correctly) that it would provide clues to fixing Urithiru. If Soulcaster spren were identical (or at least very similar) to known spren, she would likely talk to Jasnah and Ivory about it (or Shallan and Pattern, or the Oathgate spren). Instead, we only get a vague 'A Radiant spren, judging by their shape', which I take as evidence that the are humanoid in shape. Can I be 100% sure of this? Of course not, but I honestly don't see any way of Soulcaster spren being of any known type without making Navani an unreliable narrator and/or introducing easily fixable plot holes

I chose these three because: A. Soulcaster spren are clearly different than Oathgate spren, so I wouldn't classify them both as Servespren B. Inkspren and a Cryptics provide Transformation, and are, once again, different than Soulcaster spren. There are clearly more types of spren that can grant Surges (in one way or another) than we imagined, but I wouldn't classify them all as Servespren I can absolutely agree with the rest of your point (though my guess would be Dawnshard rather than a Bondsmith) My guess would be that they act in a similar way, but their look (and therefore type) is still different

As far as I can tell it's never said explicitly, but the correlation between a Dawnshard located in Aimia, Soulcasters only being created there and modern artifabrians being unable to replicate them is rather striking. I would be extremely surprised if it wasn't true Given the enormous power of the Dawnshards, I think the other way around seems more likely: Bondsmiths were Dawnshard users My best guesses would be splinters from a Shard (an Avatar of Honor and/or Cultivation maybe) that was Invested there and responsible for the original, Surge-based magic, or remnants of the weapon that killed Adonalsium The Bondsmith here was almost certainly Ishar, who had great knowledge about Connection and bonds in general, allowing him to figure out the details of bonding spren on the new planet We know from Eila Stele that humans used the powers of "Surge and spren". With spren being ubiquitous on both Roshar and Braize, I think it's very likely they were also on Ashyn when there was a Shardic presence there. Disease magic, on the other hand, uses local organisms as a focus of magic, which is a feature of magic systems on minor, Shardless worlds (e.g. First of the Sun). It also shares the "boon and curse" paradigm of the Old Magic, another minor magic system from the Rosharan system. The simplest explanation would be that disease magic originated when all Shards (the original Shard providing the Surge magic and/or Odium) left Ashyn

We have a WoB cofirming that they are "kind of" one type of spren: So what do y'all think? Is there a representation of just one of the Bondsmith spren? Is it an abstract representstion of the idea of a Bondsmith spren? Is this a writing error and there was supposed to be 9, with the glowing cloud, tree woman, and figure in front of a circle intended to be the Bondsmith spren? Perhaps the Bondsmiths were supposed to be unrepresented? Brandon Sanderson If you were to see this picture, the painting of the three spren to make Bondsmiths were made to make it visually clear they're the same kind of spren--and they KIND OF are. The three you note above are not depicting the three spren of the Bondsmiths. One is depicting a perpendicularity, and the other two depicting Honor and Cultivation. These aren't the Bondsmith spren, but distinct and separate pieces of art. General Reddit 2020 (April 3, 2020) Also, there are non-Radiant, sapient True Spren: The Soulcaster spren don't seem to be the same type as the Oathgate spren, Inkspren or Cryptics - otherwise Navani would surely recognize them. My best guess is that they are another type of sapient non-Radiant spren. As for their motivation, I have my own theory: what if being in a fabrial allows spren to explore the Spiritual Realm, just like with Nahel bond and Physical Realm? Soulcaster spren are "sleeping" (seeing into the SR), but they must be awake at times (Kaza feels their presence when she uses the Soulcaster), which would explain the Oathgate spren being responsive when there are humans around. That would also work quite well with the Ars Arcanum, which states that the third magic system (clearly fabrials) is even more esoteric than Surgebinding and Voidbinding, despite the fact that regular fabrials work in a way that is extremely logical and scientific

Just for fun, I tried to do the same with my native language (Polish), and I'll tel you this - in my case single words are exactly the weirdest Here we go, starting with the simplest translations: Bondsmiths ---> Smiths of Bonds Edgedancers ---> Dancers of Edges Lightweavers ---> Weavers of Light Then there are some slightly off, but still recognizable: Stonewards ---> Rock Guards Truthwatchers ---> (the Ones) Seeing the Truth Some get shortened: Willshapers become simply Shapers Releasers remain Releasers, but Dustbringers are translated as Dusters. At least that's consistent with Voidbringers becoming Voiders in Polish translation And finally, the big trio: Skybreakers are translated as... the Heavenly Ones (or 'the Ones of the Sky', it's one word for both heaven and sky). That's going to cause problems for translating the names of the Fused Orders Windrunners are translated into a weird neologism ('Wiatrowi'). Winders? The Ones of the Winds? The Windy Ones? Anyway, the name sounds really cringe-worthy to me Last but not least, the Elsecallers, translated into Transmitters It was clearly meant to mean something like Transporters/Teleporters, but the word ('Przenosiciele') still clearly means Transmitters

They are given to publishers before the official release, but the translation might take time. The Polish translation of Oathbringer was divided into two parts: the first was released in November 2017 (same month as the English release!) and the second in April 2018. I would assume something similar for bigger books (e.g. RoW). Novellas, on the other hand, seem to get much lower priority. Snapshot, for example, will be officially released in Poland at the end of this month

Honorblades are pieces of Honor's soul and are bonded by individuals, so the bond is here - just not a Nahel one. But I agree, the definition gets fuzzy in this case What she says is definitely mostly about Ishar, but (RoW spoilers) I think that's how Navani could become a Bondsmith without bonding the NW or the Sibling

Syl's Interlude, from one of recent newsletters: If we consider a (Nahel or otherwise) bond to be part of Bondsmith definition then the cap is obviously 3. I use a broader definition here - a Bondsmith is a person with access to both Tension & Adhesion, including their Spiritual aspects. Ishar's Honorblade apparently provides that, so I'm willing to use the name here. It's not as powerful as what Dalinar has, obviously, but I believe a person wielding this Honorblade could, for example, imprison an Unmade. The same applies to (RoW spoilers)

There is also the Iriali concept of "Long Trail" - not to mention the recently deciphered Eila Stele

The deadeye spren had some portion of their soul ripped off and they still retain their original appearance, so I doubt it. I wonder however, if the weird spren would act (and look) differently if another Soulcaster was nearby. Like, what if a person had Soulcasters in both hands, mimicking the Oathgate situation? Maybe that would change something

It's an interesting theory, but the problem is that the other spren from Surge fabrials we know (Oathgate spren) behave completely different. They are definitely not sleeping and come in pairs, looking kind of similar to Inkspren. The Soulcaster spren, on the other hand, seems to be singular and of unknown type - it's not a Cryptic (having eyes) or an Inkspren (since Navani must know how they look like). We're missing something bigger here, I think, but it's hard to say what exactly at this point

As much as I'd love it to be the Sibling, my best guess is one of the Sleepless. I find it very hard to believe that they would let the expedition leave Aimia without having some high-ranking spies amongst Team Radiant and it would be extremely easy for them to sneak in the ruby. Navani seems to be on the right track to figure out the Spiritual Realm and the origin of Surge fabrials, which likely leads to the Dawnshards - and these are extremely dangerous. The Honorspren are probably not to be trusted because they believe that Roshar is doomed anyway, while the Dysian Aimians are still willing to fight for it

There's a WoB about that:

Me too For some reason this is something that never seems to be discussed (at least I've never seen a thread about it), but technically up to five Bondsmiths could exist simultaneously on Roshar. Three get their powers from godspren, one from Ishar's Honorblade and Syl's Interlude seems to indicate that (RoW spoilers)

For a lack of a better word they are usually referred to as stormstriders and we know very few things about them for certain:

The Fused are pretty much made of Odium's Investiture and so is the Everstorm, so I don't think Braize would be so harmful to them. Also, if that was be the case, Taln's sacrifice should have had a huge impact on the Fused and for now we don't have any evidence for that. For the record, according to the Stormfather, "each rebirth further injures their minds", so it's entirely possible that it's possessing the Singers that's harmful, not the death itself. I would also assume that the Fused that are still lucid at this point are the ones most resistant to the negative effects of their, let's say, "lifecycle", so the effects of death and rebirth are lessened to some extent