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The Truthless may be anything, but they are not liars.

That's the more likely one. But he could've become a Herald, then become a king (of Alethela, for example), then decided it was not for him, and in a few centuries - Desolation.

The only order?

I almost feel like it would be more feasible for her to buy herself a glider and use that instead. As I understand it, Wyndle is actually quite a large spren, so Lift would need more than just a few windspren for this to work, since they are not terribly big themselves. Considering that a normal gust of wind will attract only a few (pseudo guess based on a scene where Kaladin sees a few windspren during one of the bridge runs; he doesn't remark on a particularly strong wind, so I imagine a few spren in normal wind are normal), and that spren, even the common ones, don't always show up, and that windspren are not terribly sentient, I doubt Lift will be able to do something like this.

I would urge you to find a quote or WoB that suggests Seons existed before the Splintering of Aona. I don't remember seeing anything like that, and your entire idea after this hinges on that assumption.

It's possible. He should be able to guilt trip them, if nothing else.

Which might very well be a flawed assumption. Navani's notebook suggests that it's not the roundness or the... facetness?... of a gemstone that matters, it's the exact shape.

@Meg, it's worth noting that Rall Elorim is an Iriali city. Knowing that Lift was there (and in some sort of captivity, real or imaginary) makes things extra confusing. All we know about the Iriali is that they have golden hair (locks?), they are "peculiar about their chastity laws," they are kind of relaxed, and that their hair is considered a ward of good luck in other cultures. Nothing really useful...

This is proof enough to me that Jezrien was a king before he became a Herald was, temporarily, a king sometime during his Heraldship

Not easily, at least. As I understand it, a Shard might be able to drain already Invested objects - I seem to recall a WoB from not-to-long-ago saying that it's not impossible, just very very difficult.

That works too, I suppose...

@Shardlet, you are correct. I see. You definitely understood me correctly, and I suspect I was mostly wrong then. I am yet convinced, however, that it's entirely up the patient. Wyndle seemed to imply that Lift lacked the training or practice, not the power, for a Regrowth. Assuming that Regrowth is up to the target, what kind of training would Lift need? All she had to do was dump some Investiture (of Honor) into Gawx, maybe add some healing intent, and voala! I think you draw your conclusions from Scadrial, while I was originally thinking of Sel (despite my Scadrialian example). Elantrian healing is very much Elantrian-oriented. Raoden couldn't really get away with just drawing Aon Ien with power modifiers to heal Roial - I remember he complained that the power was too unfocused. So while a general Aon Ien would heal a little bit of everything (implying that a target-heavy healing does work), a more directed healing Aon is much more akin to the type of Regrowth Lift wanted to do (and that's much more "caster"-heavy).

I don't remember anything specific about that book, but I was left with the impression that it's something else entirely.

I am not sure I understand the distinction. The healer's idea of health is "stored" in their Cognitive aspect, it being an idea and all. Feruchemical healing works this way - it restores the Feruchemist to what he or she (subconsciously?) believes their natural state to be. I don't think my response contradicts yours, it's just less... technical.

The Alethi do use Shardblades to break the chasmfiend chrysalises - but the Blades are not exactly common even within their armies. They are just careful about it.

I think there is a big enough distinction. Destroying is very different from holding. Voidbringers can presumably use the Stormlight they hold; larkin can't do anything once it's gone.

She should be able to go all Spiderman, yes. Edgedancers (and all the other Orders, I imagine) will have their own equivalents to the Windrunners' Lashings. On the Growth vs Regrowth... I would imagine that when you are growing something, you are not really changing anything about the object, you are just kind of giving it time. You let your target do what it already knows how to do - you can grow an entire vine from a single seed because the information on how to do that is already encoded in the seed. Now, if you were regrowing something, you are imprinting your own ideas on how the thing is supposed to work. Your buddy gets a severe case of cheststabbing, you can't just grow tissue around the wound, that's not how the body naturally works. Tissue repair is not the same as tissue growth, even though the two sound very similar. So you need to imprint your idea about what constitutes a healthy (human?) body on your Surgebinding - and that, I expect, takes either experience, or power, or both.

I am not convinced. For all we know, Lift has always acquired her Stormlight from food - she wouldn't even think about getting it by inhaling the light stored in gemstones (in fact, she was wondering why Darkness' minions were doing their thing with the shifting of spheres as they walked). So she wouldn't consider to put herself in the right mindset to draw Stormlight from the gems. Whenever she wants awesomeness, her brain would go "get it from food" not "get it from gemstones" (which is what Szeth and the now-trained Kaladin do) or "get it from anywhere" (which is akin to what Kaladin was doing before he knew what he was doing).

Did you just make a joke about a man and his sword?

Jezrien could be a recent addition to the highstorms'... content. It's possible that before the last Desolation the highstorms were just that - extremely powerful storms. And sometime after that Jezrien chose them for his new home. Yelig-nar was probably one of the Unmade - which are probably the opposites of the Ten Heralds. We don't know much more than that. Also, even if any one of the Heralds could laugh in the face of a single Thunderclast, a dozen, or a hundred probably would've been a problem. It's similar to how Shattered Plains warfare works, really - a single full Shardbearer could plow through the Parshendi lines like they are wheat, but all it takes is a single lucky hit in the visor and he would be taken down; or he could even be pushed into a chasm, overwhelmed by numbers. Kelek dying to a Thunderclast doesn't imply he was fighting against a single Thunderclast.

It is possible that he made a mistake - first edition books often have many of those (I now cringe every time he writes "Gaz's eyes..."). I am afraid I don't pay as much attention to detail as you apparently do, so I don't actually have any impression on Navani's eyes. As for Brandon's other books... Frankly, grab anything. Mistborn will probably feel the most like TWoK. Elantris and Warbreaker are both nice standalones (I personally prefer Elantris, but having recently reread it, I can definitely see that it's on the level of TWoK; that doesn't make it bad though). Legion, The Rithmatist, and Steelheart are all pretty quick and pleasant reads - you could read those inbetween Brandon's other big works. Alcatraz might feel weird to you, but it's still a fun series.

There are some answers, though none are available to us. When the Wheel of Time Encyclopedia comes out we'll get some of those things cleared up. Mat and Tuon were actually supposed to get a sequel series (no, that's probably not happening now) where they "go on adventures," presumably in Seanchan, but we'll have to get their story from the Encyclopedia. We'll probably get a little bit about the afterstory of each major or semi-major character - Robert Jordan had a few sentences / paragraphs written for each one of them.

I think - and this is very unfounded "I think" - that Taravangian might be concerned about Alethkar united behind the Blackthorn. If the king of Kharbranth believes the kingdoms of Roshar have gone slack and corrupted in recent millennia, then he might want to get rid of any strong party that might attempt to maintain the current state of things. Having ten Highprinces, divided and competitive, might sound more manageable to him than a single nation united behind the Highprince of War, a man with a considerable fame of a warlord who has earned said fame with precisely those means Taravangian wants to purge from the world. To be fair, I don't think I believe this is the case. But I am tossing it out there, as food for thought.

It would be practically impossible for me find an answer to this, even if one exists. Not in a reasonable amount of time, at least. I am fine with the question making it to the list.

Dude, back off my girlfriend now!