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Saying he died easily from some spears is a massive disservice to the feat he and Ash accomplished. They absolutely destroyed numbers of Fused that would have given an army trouble, and I believe it was something like a dozen or more spears (can't check as I don't have my book on my currently).

An interesting theory! I wondered if the Iriali might be some aspect of Adonalsium spawned post-Shattering to go forth and learn, and then come back together. In chapter 50 Hoid says "I'm a puppet for raw Investiture, propped up and speaking like the sock on a child's hand. Damn. Is this how the Iriali feel all the time? No wonder they're so storming odd." He basically insinuates the Iriali are puppets of raw investiture, and they have their big world-hopping quest for the One. Are the Iriali the result of leftover bits of the Shattering? Are they little fragments of Adonalisium that didn't make it into the Shards? And their quest for learning and their journeys to multiple worlds is part of learning how to be a better god?

Also if he was off Roshar when he swore his Plate oaths, how did the Spren reach him? I thought there was a WoB that you could take them with you if you swore on Roshar, but if you swore with none of them there they would be unable to form. Maybe this is changed with the end of SA5 being a protection of the Spren.

In chapter 50 Hoid says "I'm a puppet for raw Investiture, propped up and speaking like the sock on a child's hand. Damn. Is this how the Iriali feel all the time? No wonder they're so storming odd." Several curious things here. 1. The Iriali hadn't arrived on Roshar at the time of the Ashynite's migration, they arrived later, but Hoid already knows about them. Not surprising due to his age, but still and interesting tidbit. 2. He uses the phrase 'storming', which I thought was specific to Roshar due to the highstorm, I wouldn't have thought it would come from Ashyn. 3. He basically insinuates the Iriali are puppets of raw investiture, and they have their big world-hopping quest for the One. Are the Iriali the result of leftover bits of the Shattering? Are they little fragments of Adonalisium that didn't make it into the Shards?

Red is corrupted Investiture, Black is kind of like excess waste of Investiture. Nightblood consumes so much that he leaks off the excess,

I'd agree with this. I believe there was a WoB where it stated that Cultivation caused Lift to exist partially in the Cognitive Realm, which is why she can touch Wyndle and use him to climb when he is in vine form. It could be that to make her that way Cultivation just gave her a tonne of Investiture. Or something else entirely.

TLM takes place after Stormlight 5, so we will find out whatever has blocked them from Roshar/happened to Iyatil in this book

It's an interesting theory, but my main question is how did Nohadon live so long? Unless their brief switch happened long before Tanavast's actual death. Because Nohadon was around at the formation of the Radients, hundreds of years before the Recreance, and Tanavast was still alive at the Recreance.

Humanity has never been in a better position for a Desolation in terms of advancement, that's something that Taln thanks Ash for in his moment of lucidity. The big disadvantage humanity faced was that there was so little time between Desolations to recover and prepare, less than a year between the final 2 I believe. So back in the day Desolations were very effective because humanity was eventually worn down to a horrible starting point, but this time around they were a lot more solid.

And one of them was Sho-Del I believe.

It's almost like Mistborn and early Stormlight catfished us into thinking Brandon was like Tolkien or Jordan XD I agree with you on the merch. It works for movies and TV shows which are cheaper than books to consume, but we already pay a lot for books, and the physical books themselves are the best merch in my opinion I loved Wayne in books 1 and 2, but in 3 and 4 it was like Brandon didn't know how to stop himself from leaning into ridiculousness.

Exactly! I know Kaladin still beats himself up about how he handled Moash, but never frames it from this angle. I think the biggest issue Dalinar and co have with Adolin murdering Sadeas isn't that he did it, but how he did it. If it had been in a duel with the exact same result it would have been fine, but because it was a 'back alley' stabbing they're a bit squirrelly about it. But Sadeas was too crafty to ever get pinned into a formal duel, and could wreak so much damage in the interim. Haha, thanks! I wanted to start posting on the forums, and was stuck for a name, but had just finished The Lost Metal XD

Not to mention what Kaladin did set up Moash to run off and then all the trouble that has led to. I'd be interested to see how Moash would have gone down without having to run away like he did.

100% agree with the cartoon-y feel you describe. Leans more into an anime feel than serious prose, which I suppose was what he was going for, but I feel it's executed quite in a clunky way when you think about his earlier works. Not that authors can't try new things, but that doesn't mean they will be good at them. I think Sanderson is trying to appeal to everyone, and it comes off feeling like a patchwork quilt.

Thanks for the WoB! So the anti-stormlight baggers/weapons wouldn't be much use in a battle where spren manifest more physically, more as a spy/sneak attack weapon.