Cavani Kholin

You talk about Kaladin’s views about lighteyes as if he was born hating them. He wasn’t. In his flashbacks, he regarded lighteyes as heroic, courageous people. His best friend when he was young was a lighteyes. But then, ‘it’ hits the fan. Roshone starved his family, married his best friend and conscripted his brother to his death. Amaram, a lighteyes who was meant to be honourable and have never lied, killed his squad and sold him to slavery. Then, another lighteyes, Sadeas, shows no regard for darkeyed life and has Kaladin strung up in a highstorm. At this point, Kaladin has barely even had a conversation with a lighteyes who didn’t harm or kill him or his companions. And you question why he finds it hard to let go of his beliefs? Old habits die hard, especially when those habits are forged by extreme oppression and circumstances. It’s pretty much the same with Shallan. Mental health cannot be pushed aside and dealt with later, in real life and on Roshar. That is one of the main themes of the series

I think that you are thinking of blindness in the wrong way. Close one eye. You can still see, out of the other, but there is no ‘black’ in your vision. Being blind doesn’t mean you see black. You just see nothing. It’s similar to asking, ‘what do you see out of your elbow’. There’s no black, there’s simply nothing. That’s the way blindness usually is. Despite this, it doesn’t really affect the rest of your argument. As well as that, they probably could project out the blackness, but I think a better way would be to make a ‘black box’ that blocks out the light. Just 6 thin screens, surrounding you and your opponent. I think that would block out sunlight and have essentially the same effect, with far less stormlight

I don’t have the exact quote, but I remember an interviewer asking were lighteyes descended from Radiants and Shardbearers, and Brandon said RAFO. Hopefully we learn this in a future book, as it will tell us more about the nature of dna and spiritual dna in the cosmere

Thanks very much, I’m quite new to the website so I just threw it up on the first place I could

Do Shardblades change the genetic makeup of a darkeyes, when they bond? Shardblades change a darkeye’s eyes, and make them lighter. However, would this make them truly, genetically a lighteyes? I was rereading WoK, and during a conversation Kaladin had with his mother, it was written that if he married Laral, their children ‘would have a chance of being lighteyed or darkeyed’. If Kaladin (with lighter eyes) conceived a child, would the child have a 100% chance of being a lighteyes, or would it be about 50/50? Or are Radiants different, as Kaladin’s eyes went back to normal after a short while? Does this only apply to darkeyes who won a Shardblade? I don’t think this can ever be answered apart from WoB, but I think it’s interesting

Dalinar has one of the best character arcs in fantasy ever though. I don’t think I’m alone in thinking that either. But this is all personal opinion at the same time