AllHailStick

As someone who was listening to SP4 in the background at work (therefore, not listening particularly intently), I didn't realize it was Sigzil...and I was definitely content with the story regardless. I would vote that you don't technically need to know anything Stormlight to enjoy the sample chapters, but obviously it's going to be profoundly important as the book expands on what he's doing and why.

Also, I don't think anyone needs an excuse to read Stormlight. Just do it, and thank Brandy Sandy later.

On 8/29/2021 at 8:35 PM, KandraAllomancer said:

I've always interpreted the "Bondsmiths bound other Surges" as the way people formed bonds with spren on Ashyn: they clearly didn't have anything like a naturally occurring Nahel bond (that was only discovered on Roshar), so the Bondsmith (possibly the person holding the Dawnshard that binds) Connecting individuals and spren  and therefore granting Surges was the only possibility.

I could be forgetting the context to that quote, but I think I lean towards pre-binding Rosharan magic being more OP, like maybe surge binders had access to more surges at a time (or all). Then after the binding, surges were bound to each other in the way each Knights Radiant order only has 2, and each surge is bound to two others.

Wow, maybe I do enjoy Era 2 far more than I recall...

6 minutes ago, Child of Hodor said:

One is a spear the other is a surfboard he can lash and ride around on (I know it would likely resist lashing, but let me dream). 

On the Sharcast they talked about how Shallan is good at lightweaving and really bad at soulcasting. This suggests she is getting lightweaving from Pattern and soulcasting from the deadeye. This fits with her soulcasting in Way of Kings after talking to a voice that she later said didn't sound like Pattern. 

Oh gosh, I wonder if that could be. I really like that theory.

Also, 1000x yes to the surfboard. He's even got the beautiful flowing locks to match. XD

@Jofwu's aside about if Kaladin bonded 2 spren just has me imagining all of these variants of him zooming around with dual shardspears, a shardspear and his traditional knife he used in the army now shardknife, a shard spear and shardshield at the same time, etc.

And now I want it to be so.