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Sounds reasonable. Is this canon?
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Finding and saying the First Ideal doesn't make one a Radiant - it only puts them on the path. This makes me wonder, what benefit is there to becoming a full Radiant? There has to be something... Also, I believe that Nalan's remark can be reasonably interpreted as purely semantic. "You are an Edgedancer" could easily be equivalent, in his head, to "You would be an Edgedancer, if you were a real Radiant." This being said, while I disagree with the significance you assign to these words, I too believe that Lift has voiced the First Ideal.
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This is the specific post I was referring to.
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Which is why I asked - I had been re-listening Graphic Audio's Elantris (while re-rereading The Way of Kings, for twice as much Brandonism!), keeping an eye (ear?) on mentions of magic, so I vividly remembered those words from the one of the books Raoden was reading.
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I know I don't. In fact, I'll probably take a day or two off work.
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You know, I wouldn't be at all surprised if that were the case...
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Essentially the same arguments WeiryWriter used to crush my excitement
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I was referring specifically to his spren prompting him to do so when he is being chased by probably-Nalan. It's not a part of the transcript we have, somebody apparently attended a signing where he read the entire interlude, and spoiled the ending for us
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Are those two in particular confirmed to be cousins, or are all spren said to be so? I seem to recall theories from years ago that revolved around the idea that all spren were once one single entity - and the core of that theory was a WoB that all spren are cousins. TheoryLand is being silly with searching (lately? for me?), so I can't find the answer myself quickly enough. I also don't remember the split of the Double Eye between Honor and Preservation being left/right. This, I think, came from the the idea of the two dragonwasps - larkin? - meeting and merging, and the assumptions that they represent the two Shards. I was coming from a different split - one where Honor is top half and Cultivation, the bottom. This would place Jasnah, Shallan, Lift, and Ym in Cultivation's domain, with Jasnah being closest to Honor, followed by Shallan and Lift, Ym trailing behind, associated most closely with Cultivation. Which, I admit, could be a problem...
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A bit of character analysis from the flipside of the fandom...
Argent replied to FeatherWriter's topic in Stormlight Archive
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We know that honorspren are Splinters of Honor - this is by no means a guarantee that the other nine... I shall call them radiantspren... are of similar nature. But I do agree with you on Shallan's peculiarity. If I were to try to normalize her experience - and I am not sure I want to - I'd say that two theories come to mind: Shallan does see a single spren. However, due to the Cryptics' nature, this singular spren appears as if it had multiple bodies, sides, aspects. Interesting (to me), but not terribly well supported. What's slightly more likely is that she sees something similar to the Ring Wyndle refers to. A group of spren deciding whether she will receive a spren to bond with, and if she will - which one. It's been a while since I've read those particular chapters in full, but I seem to recall that Shallan hears only one voice asking her for a Truth.
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I thought it was one of the Tai'na...
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A bit of character analysis from the flipside of the fandom...
Argent replied to FeatherWriter's topic in Stormlight Archive
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I was under the impression that it's the flesh that matters for the kandra. The bones would serve as foundation so it can get things like height and posture right.
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I did count Ym to be in the Cultivation half of the Double Eye. His spren is why, but she might know who the Dark Constable is and from what I understand she did prompt Ym to use an infused sphere, presumably so she and Ym can do some Surgebinding. That seems to imply a higher level of awareness and / or knowledge than anything we've seen from Syl for most of her post-bonding life.
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I don't think the power of prayer / worship affects a being's own power. But Jaddeth being a "minor rock god" (or something to that effect) might tie him to TES.
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Same! On the lectures, there is a website... WritingWithDragons, I belive - that had then.
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I am not sure I buy into the "cousins" idea. Spren (which is a word my phone now recognizes as a valid English word!) are very closely related to very specific... things. Honor is nowhere near wind on conceptual (Cognitive?) level. I don't see why they would look and even behave alike. Unless Kaladin's first impression of her was flat wrong - it's very possible that of he wasn't aware honorspren existed (which is very likely), he would think Syl to be whatever made sense at the time. But even so, this doesn't suggest relationship.
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You and me both.
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One problem that comes to mind is that while the Heralds don't talk about Honor, they are aware of the the Oathpact. Maybe not all of it, but certainly their part of the deal.
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Yep, it's pretty direct. It made me wonder if Szeth's list didn't include rulers of ALL the nations.
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That I agree with. But you had me worried there for a second.
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The only reason I brought Odium up is because I didn't want to repeat "Honor's Splintering" - for purely linguistic reasons. I didn't mean to imply that all this was his plan. Merely that it could've been an unforseen indirect results of his "assassination" of Honor.
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But surely, not all windspren were bonded to Radiants? It is strongly suggested that all of them exhibit very short memory span, inability to comprehend complex thoughts, and playfulness. If the reason Syl lost her memories was because her previous Knight had severed their bond, they you must apply this rule to all of her kind - and that's a lot of spren.
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Is this in reference to common physics or Elantris?
