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    If you think about it, it wasn't that handwavy. The people who knew had strong Connections to Honor. Dalinar was a Sliver of Honor, and the Sibling is his child. They therefore had a strong Connection to Retribution.
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    By the way: best single thing in WaT was that Sebarial and Palona finally got married, just as they thought the world was ending (chapter 129, they're wearing wedding ribbons).
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    To fight, is my best guess. If it seems like Retribution found a way around the new Oathpact (like he did the old one), they would come back to continue the struggle. I said elsewhere that I'm hoping they stay off Roshar for 2 or 3 books so we can go back to having stories about people. And I'm incredibly bored with Kaladin having the same story arc every book.
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    The point is, using American slang was not a thing in books 1-4, but suddenly is in 5.
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    You aren't wrong, but Brandon himself uses the word inconsistently sometimes. Same with Avatar. @WeiryWriter complains about this a lot on Shardcast, and I have decided to believe whichever Brandon said the thing I prefer.
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    I have my criticisms of the book, but this is unfair. Two people swore the Fifth Ideal, one immediately gave up his oaths, and then like half an hour passed before the book ended. Presumably we learn more about the Fifth Ideal in the back half.
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    Barring some kind of futuristic life-extension technology, Brandon will not live long enough to write anything post-Space Age. It won't even start, at the most optimistic estimate, until he's over 70, and I'd expect it to take 10 years to write, what with also writing Dragonsteel.
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    The Wind accepted Kaladin's Fifth Ideal, for what that's worth. The Stormfather was made specifically to replace the Wind, so maybe she'll step back into her old job. I'm assuming that the Nightwatcher is also still operational somewhere, like the Sibling. Retribution can't absorb and Unmake the spren because of the new Oathpact.
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    The Sibling also knew what was going on instantly. It wasn't very concealed.
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    I agree that they have distillation. Somehow in those 15 normal books worth of text, I forgot that passage. "Wine" can't be alcohol, because there's a non-alcoholic "wine" in that color-based system. They don't really have chemistry per se, or even alchemy, just a sort of much-better-than-anything-real system of herbal medicine.
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    All Returned are Slivers of Endowment, though. At least, that's what I remember. the search for the Arcanum doesn't make that easy to prove or disprove. I found one other forum message saying that, but nothing else.
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    Nightblood could presumably consume Light directly from a gemstone, without "filtering" it through Szeth first. There's also a WoB somewhere that it is, in fact, possible to heal the Spiritweb. I mean, the deadeyes are healing, finally.
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    I stand corrected. I still think they would be unlikely to use English/US systems for quantifying the alcohol content by volume, mind you.
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    Not a typo, but did Brandon mean to have the phrase "200 proof" in the bit where Kaladin is throwing off Ishar's depression cloud? I mean, they don't have distillation on Roshar that I know of, because they use Soulcasting for all their materials. For Kaladin in particular to apparently think that phrase .... Chapter 139.
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    The phrase that gets me is "200 proof" (when Kaladin is resisting Ishar's depression magic). So on Roshar, which doesn't have distillation, they use the American system of grading spirits by alcohol content? When they don't know what alcohol is?
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    How about raysium dagger to put one of them in a gemstone? Maybe Braize doesn't have gemstones the way Roshar does?
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    For that matter, why wouldn't the Fused on Braize just use anti-Light to kill them, while they're helpless because their minds are somewhere else?
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    I can't read Brandon's mind, but I like the idea the Edgli is being a nice version of Autonomy, sneakily gifting various people and cultures with things they don't even notice. Her unwilling, unwitting agent on Roshar is Vasher (who is canonically a Sliver of Endowment), and his training Lift might be super important, for instance.
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    I'm not thrilled, myself. The rebels are yet another secret society, but this one pops out of nowhere for plot convenience. It's pretty deus ex machina.
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    Szeth is planning to join up with the rebel Skybreakers.
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    Drift, I guess, but maybe Sazed will start spawning spren. If it's good enough for all three Rosharan Shards, and also for Virtuosity .... If he spawns a bunch of Ruinspren, could he reduce his excess Ruin enough to be less distracted by the need to control Ruin?
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    There's the thing the Sibling always worries about: consent. Ishar in particular was forcing Connection a lot, but even artifabrians were doing small-scale versions with lesser spren. Maybe Adolin could become a Bondsmith the Tower could wholeheartedly support. If it had a heart.
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    There was a WoB a few years back saying he had only visited Roshar.
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    You raise a good point. It probably isn't possible to judge this book fairly for 20 years or so . (My prediction is that the SA won't finish for 20 years.)
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    You're sort of implying that Adolin will become the Nightwatcher's Bondsmith. (She's the megaspren who presumably accepted Edgedancer Oaths. Adolin is bound to an Edgedancer spren. Connection is the characteristic of Bondsmiths.)
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