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    2. If the surges are dangerous then it makes no sense that the less powerful orders have less potential to do damage. But that's beside the point. All the blades are dangerous, the bondsmith blade is just the most dangerous one. 3. I actually wonder why the SkyBreakers never tried to stop Szeth. It sounds like the sort of thing Nale would do, or at least investigate him. But even with other radiants available, how much damage could a rogue Honorblade do? 4. The radiants have at least some checks on their powers, via their oaths. The honor blades have no real check on their power. They are more dangerous by far. 5. It was a perpendicularity, as I and several other people have argued. There's no reason to think that it wasn't a full perpendicularity. 7. Soulcasting is incredibly powerful, as Jasnah proves on several occasions, but without the healing power an Honorblades also provide, any archer could defeat someone using a soul caster. Someone using a soul casting fabrial has to touch whatever it is they are transforming. 8. Nale is mentally unstable, not evil. All the heralds are insane, to some degree. I don't think that's a fair comparison. As for the DustBringers, their spren think that the humans are evil and they are fighting to avenge their friends and families who were killed during the recreance. That's all a matter of perspective.
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    I don't know, but it sure makes Hoid seem a lot scarier all of a sudden.
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    1. I have, or at least listened to it. All it confirms is that a LightWeaver like Shallan who understood the unmade imprisoned her. We know nothing of the circumstances surrounding this event. We do not know that the LightWeaver acted alone, or exactly how the unmade was imprisoned. If I'm wrong and you know these details, please provides them. 2. I was not aware of the DawnShards involvement in Ashyn, but the point remains about the level of power of BondSmiths. And if Division is the only dangerous surge, then why did all the orders need to end? If that's the case, then only DustBringers and SkyBreakers needed to disband. 3. He wasn't the only SurgeBinder. The SkyBreakers had been continuing in secret for centuries. But even if someone who had stolen an HonorBlade was eventually stopped, how much damage could they do in the mean time? 4. Again, how much damage could someone like Amaram, Sadeus, or any power crazed fool do with one before being stopped? 5. It's specifically referenced as a perpendicularity as Ishar and his troops pass through it, read RoW. 6. He's a fast learner, they mention that in WoR, but so what? There's no reason to think that a thief who'd stolen an Honor Blade couldn't be a fast learner too. Exactly, this is my entire point. The power of the HonorBlades come without any major restrictions. The only minor one is the Stormlight efficiency problem. Ishar probably used the power of his blade to take over that country and get others to follow him. Who knows what else someone might use the HonorBlades for? Dalinar is at least checked by his Oaths, something Sylphrena references at the end of WoR.
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    Yeah, I have to agree with you there. At that point, only a keeper would have had the knowledge to save Scadrial. Ruin's work was too far gone to stop otherwise. And I agree that Vin feels like a good balance between the two.
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    1. We don't know how the LightWeaver imprisoned the unmade, or that they did so alone. The gemstones referencing the plan to imprison Bah-Ado-Mishram specifically mentioned requiring a BondSmith, Melishi. It seems highly unlikely that Melishi's ability to imprison BAM came from the connection. If connection is all that's required, almost anyone could work. 2. If SurgeBinding destroyed Ashyn, how much power would have been required? And if BondSmith's unchained weren't a danger, Honor wouldn't have enforced laws (which he did, according to the StormFather) preventing the misuse of SurgeBinding. Admittedly, this applies to pretty much all the orders (if he'd still been alive, the recreance probably wouldn't have happened) but out of all ten orders, why wouldn't the most powerful order be the most concerning? 3. Szeth single-handedly caused the collapse of the second largest kingdom on Roshar. The danger in the Honor Blades is that any lunatic can gain the powers of the Radiants by holding one. Moash has been bad enough. How much of a disaster would it have been if Sadeas or Amaram had one? Or just some thug would got their hands on one and went on a power trip. They could do a lot of damage before being stopped by the orders. 4. That's just in reference to the blade's fixed shape and the extra cost of stormlight. Being inefficient with Stormlight is the main weakness of the blades, but the SurgeBinding powers themselves are no different. And the powers are the real threat, not the ability to change it into a spear or other weapon. 5. What is it that Dalinar can do that Ishar can't, and how do we know that Ishar can't do it? 6. Moash wouldn't have had much time to observe, if I understand the timeline of WoR correctly. Maybe a few days at most. And that's all it took for him to learn to start using the surges.
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    If you're referring to Kaladin's fight with Szeth, it's explicitly stated that Szeth let Kaladin kill him. Dalinar at the third Ideal managed to imprison one of the Unmade. The Unmade are supposedly on the same level as the StormFather, or at least in the same ballpark. And the storm father is the source of high storms. That speaks volumes to a BondSmith's power. Not to mention the fact that Odium (Rayse) seemed to be frightened of Dalinar reaching his full potential. If that doesn't indicate a BondSmoth's potential power, I don't know what does. While it's true that Szeth's success had to do with people's ignorance about SurgeBinding, Kaladin never actually defeated Szeth. And as for learning to use the Honor Blades, Moash was able to take to the air immediately after being handed the WindRunner blade. So it's possible to learn the surges quickly.
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    The only thing that goes against this is the fact that Shallan's shardblade could change it's shape when she was in the chasm with Kaladin. That strongly suggests (if not outright proves) that it was Pattern, not Testament that she was summoning as a blade. It's also strongly suggested that Pattern is the blade she lends to Kaladin when she thinks about attaching a LightWeaving to Pattern as a distraction for the chasmfiend. I see two possibilities. Either LightWeavers earn their blades earlier than other orders, or Shallan remained at a higher Ideal after killing Testament/skipped over Ideals when bonding patter. Sanderson has said that most Radiant orders follow a set order through the ideals when earning their blades, but it seems likely that LightWeavers are the exception to the rule, since their Ideals are different from the other orders.
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    I made a post like this a couple of weeks ago. I don't think they could make span reeds into radios, but it's probably possible to use the surge of Illumination (which can mimic sounds) and link two fabrials to make a kind of surgebinding radio. In my head, it's a pair of mirrors affixed with gemstones that each reflect what the other one is showing when activated.
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    I suppose it's possible. If compounding works, in part, because of the combination of two shards, then I suppose this could be a different form of compounding. Renarin has trouble with illusions. He doesn't seem to be able to create full illusions intentionally, just balls of light. Other TruthWatchers, such as the stump, are able to create illusions, according to Navani. And I don't think he made that illusion of Moash intentionally. What would be the point? And not to nitpick, but I'm not sure Electrum is the right metal. It's more like Gold, but of someone else. Malatium, maybe? The point I was making there is that from what Szeth told T at the time, T could have assume the person Szeth saw healed someone else's wound. Which is why he might have mentioned a blade that granted regrowth. Unfortunately, this is true. We don't have a good comparison, yet.
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    Do we know that it's the regrowth that causes this? The only instance I know of this happening is Renarrin. A squire is certainly less powerful than a full radiant, but members of Bridge Four could heal from shard blade wounds after they became squires. I agree, Renarin is the only example we have of a Radiant healing more quickly . I admit, at first I thought the surge of progression is what caused this, but in RoW, Rabonial mentions how radiant's and Honor's power is external focused while Odium's is more internal. It's entirely possible that this is what makes Renarin's internal healing more effective. I don't think it's compounding, I think it's Odium's influence making the power more internal than external. It interferes with the surge of Illumination, so it's not unreasonable to think it could alter his internal healing.
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    Reading through the quote just now, Szeth never actually says that Kaladin heals his own arm, just a blade severed one. The power of regrowth can restore another person's limb from a shard blade cut if they get to it quickly, so maybe that's why Taravangian mentioned regrowth. So I think it's likely that honorblades can heal wounds as well as a radiant bond; they just need a lot more light. I've had a new idea for how Moash should be punished. Instead of dying, he should be made immortal and forced to relive all the horrible feelings from what he's done, over and over. Sanderson repeatedly reinforces the belief that living is harder than dying. This seems like a much harsher punishment to me.
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    Revisiting this topic after a while. I still wonder whether or not the Honor blades are too dangerous, but perhaps their usefulness balances out the extreme danger. They can be used to teach radiant powers when there are very few members, such as currently with ElseCallers, or times when there may not be any of a particular order, such as BondSmiths. But the danger is still very real, so I wonder how they might be balanced. One thought I had would be to bind them to a specific location, such as the crystal pillar room in Uritheru, to prevent them from being stolen. It sounds like the sort of thing a BondSmith could do.
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    I know Intent is the most important aspect of the Cosmere, but does it matter in this case? Based on the conversations between Shallan and Mraize, not to mention Navani and Rabonial, I was under the impression that any invested individual was tied to the world where the shard had "planted" itself.
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    I agree with Sanderson's descriptions of Kelsier. Even in WoA, Vin notes that Kelsier sacrificed himself in a way that played into his sense of grandeur, ensuring people would remember him for centuries, and she even calls him out on how much his motivations were selfless as opposed to selfish at the end of Secret History. I respect that he started channeling his energies toward helping the ska, but even then, it was as much about himself and revenge as helping them. My brother thinks he'll likely end up being the villain of a future MistBorn era. Part of me wants that, but in a way that ends up with him playing more to his emotional side. Sanderson describes his way of writing as coming up with an epic moment, and doing whatever is needed to get to that. I want someone to confront Kelsier, asking, "Do you still represent that which can not be destroyed? Are you still hope?" as a way to get through to him. Dramatic, but that's why it's perfect for Kelsier.
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    I doubt very much that we'll see a concrete answer before Stormlight 6, but the ghostbloods will probably have some information in book 5. If I had to guess, the full answer will come up on a different world. Maybe Scadrial. But obviously, some people know ways to accomplish it. Otherwise Hoid, Vasher, NightBlood, Vivenna, and Galladon shouldn't be able to be on Roshar in the first place. It's just a question of when the information becomes widespread.
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    I hadn't considered the shard metals, but that does seem like a possibility. And a way for other invested people to move off world. The version that I had always imagined (if they could ever figure out how to do it) would be have a large gemstone the size of a room somewhere in Uritheru, and have it be like a radio transmitter, with smaller gemstones cut to act as receiving radios. But your idea of the shard metals makes me think that maybe an ancient style fabrial could be better. Either way, it would be like having a lifeline to the shard wherever they are rooted, so it could allow the invested person to travel freely.
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    Well, what I'm suggesting here isn't actual radios, but transmission via radio waves. Using the same concept of radios, but transmitting stormlight instead of sound. However, I'm fairly certain there will eventually be fabrials on Roshar that can transmit light and sound using light weaving. In my head, it's a pair of small mirrors, conjoined via fabrial, that create light weavings of what the other mirror reflects. And sound tags along for the ride, in a way.
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    Okay, so I had this idea after reading RoW. It's a little out there, but I was thinking it might be a way for invested people on Roshar to travel off world. Thanks to Navani's experiments, we know that stormlight and voidlight are connected to the tones of Honor and Odium, respectfully. Almost certainly the same of lifelight and Cultivation. I wonder if it's possible to transmit that in some way long distance, like a radio. Now, I don't that radios don't actually transmit the sound itself. The sound is encoded into radio waves that can be received and translated back into sound on the other side. Maybe if two gemstones were conjoined like span reeds, then a constant source of stormlight could be transmitted. Or maybe gemstones cut in a certain way could receive the tone sent out by a large gemstone transmitter or something, like car radios receiving a signal from a radio tower. Such a thing would need to be limited, only so much stormlight could flow through at a time, but a constant stream of stormlight could maybe act as an anchor to Roshar. Kind of an out there theory, like I said, but it could be a way to get stormlight, and possibly radiants, off of Roshar.
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    I’m all but certain that the fourth or fifth ideal of BondSmiths is about giving up power when it’s appropriate. Dalinar has a lot of trouble with that, so it’s probably a perfect one for him. StoneWards are about being reliable for other people. So I’d bet their fourth idea is about putting themselves first once in a while. Similar to the WindRunner ideal of accepting they can’t protect everyone. It could also be the EdgeDancer ideal instead.
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    Probably. At least to some extent. Well, Preservation being in that kind of state could be the exact thing that turns him into a good villain. Something that would normally be considered a positive force; order, maintaining life, etc, and turned into an obsession to keep things exactly the way they are, no matter how bad.
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    Words of Radiance is my favorite, despite my favorite scenes being in other books. I think I like the idea of conflict being mostly political. Yes, there are Adolin's duels, Szeth's assignation attempt, and the battle with the Everstorm at the end, but the conflict is mostly political in nature. I know a lot of people don't like Shallan's backstory chapters, but to be honest, I'm not fond of most of Kaladin's or Venli/Eshonai's either. I like about half of Dalinar's chapters. I love the scenes where Kaladin says his second ideal and Dalinar says his third. In my opinion, those are the moments of their most significant growth. But there are a lot of chapters in both books that I can just skip through. Shallan isn't all that interesting in TWoK (outside of a certain encounter with street thugs) and the journey through Shadesmar seems a little drawn out to me in Oathbringer. As for RoW, it's good, but it's definitely a set up book, meant to set the stage for book 5.
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    Honor's madness always felt like Odium's doing to me. So it's kind of hard to compare the two. Is there a difference to innate character going in to becoming a shard and what happens to the person afterward? Hard to say. And, I think it's more about the concept of the shard itself. Honor (not the shard) is a very subjective concept, very nuanced. As is cultivation. Because of that, there are different ways to look at them. Preservation and ruin on the other hand, are more direct ideas. Preservation is about keeping things orderly and the same, while Ruin is about breaking them down to their most basic components. I think that straightforward nature makes it harder to control, like driving on a more narrow road. Actually, I agree with you about WoA. I like the idea of exploring what happens after the evil emperor is overthrown, which is usually where most stories end. Building up is much more difficult than destroying. Of course, neither Preservation or Ruin could truly build on their own, but that's a different matter. I just think it's an interesting idea to explore the story where the protagonist and antagonist swap perspectives. Kind of like when they made that Maleficent movie, with her as the protagonist.
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    That's probably true to some extent, but some individual shards seem to have been ok. Endowment doesn't seem particularly dangerous. And both Honor and Cultivation were able to get along fine before Odium came to Roshar. On the other hand, Preservation and Ruin might seem dangerous in isolation because we know exactly what they'd do in isolation. Even the StormFather thinks that Odium is the most dangerous of the 16, so it's safe to say there are a few people who know about the shards and how dangerous they are relative to each other. Granted, the StormFather probably only said that because Honor told him, but still. Based on what we've seen so far, Ruin is second only to Odium in terms of how dangerous it is, at least in my opinion. As for Ruin itself not being evil, it feels similar to Nergaoul, the Thrill. It wasn't malicious; Dalinar confirmed that it was more animal like and wanted to please people. But that didn't stop it from being dangerous, and leading people to do evil things. Of course, if evil were so simple to define, then a certain sentient sword wouldn't be nearly as dangerous (or entertaining).
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    Agreed. Large scale production of these kinds of fabrials seems unlikely. But considering how much of a difference the soul casters make, and there doesn't seem to be more than a few dozen of those, even a few such fabrials would make a huge difference. And there are likely at least a few of such fabrials already made. I love the idea, but they'd have trouble maintaining tracks because of the high storms. If they could figure out a way around that, it'd be amazing.
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    I've never heard of that trilogy before, but I'll look into it. And that's the whole point of the shards, I think. Perspective shapes everything. Preservation in the positive is a force of maintaining life, but in the negative is a force of stagnation. Ruin in the positive sense is a force of moving forward and progressing, but in the negative is a force of destruction. Although, to be fair, Hoid implied in one of his letters that Ati had been twisted into something dark by the power he held. So it's probably not completely neutral.
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