Malim

Just a random thought that popped into my head: What if the honorblades were given to the KR at the end of the last desolation? Doesn't tell us where they are now, but I can see a conversation like this: Jezrien: Hey guys we won! You can keep our swords as a symbol of our great victory!! KR: That's awesome! You guys rock! Random KR: Hey, what about Taln's honorblade? Does my order get that one too? Jezrien: Umm... No.

Hi all, Here's how I see it. 1) The KR were primarily a military order that was based in Urithiru. It would make sense then, that their armory and primary garrison was located there. Now, in most militaries, there are a certain number out on patrol/remote postings at a given time, while the majority are confined to garrison, especially in times of relative peace. In Dalinar's vision, while there is a border skirmish going on, there is no reason to suspect that a larger war requiring a large deployment was taking place. 2) There is no reason why shardblades have to be permanently bonded to a user. In fact we have seen two cases where they are specifically not: When Dalinar trades his blade to Sadeas, and the custom of renting plate/blades for duels. This could mean that when KR weren't in the field they kept their armor and weapons stored in case they were needed. (As pointed out, Mr. Sanderson said they were available to all the orders, even those that didn't generally use them.) 3) If the above 2 suppositions are true, it would stand to reason that most blades/plate were stored in Urithiru at the time of Recreance. It's quite possible, then, that what Dalinar saw were the only KR in the field at the time. The rest could just have easily left their armor and weapons in garrison and walked away. Since no seems to know where Urithiru is/was, and it may have been largely inaccessible to the general population, I think that most blades/plate are still there, wherever that may be. If you subtract the blades that are held and not known, and those that have been lost over the years (shipwrecks in deep water, etc), I think we can arrive pretty easily at the known number out there. Just my 2 cents. *goes back to lurking*

Greetings all, I've been a long time reader of these forums, but just now decided to come out of the shadows. I discovered Mr Sanderson through his work on TWoT series. I was crushed when Robert Jordan died and was worried that any other author wouldn't be able to bring the series to a good conclusion. When I found out that Brandon had been picked I went out and got a copy of Elantris and became hooked. I love all the theories and discussions on these boards. They keep the fan boy in me under control enough to wait for the next book, so keep 'em coming! See you all in the forums

I actually see this as evidence for Shallan being a lightweaver. From what we have seen of lightweaving, it involves creating illusions, etc. Bending or translating light if you will. Shallan's artisic ability strikes me as another form of this. She takes a "Memory" ie a mental photograph, and translates it into an exact drawing. Interestingly it seems to work on things that cannot normally be seen (the truthspren). While this might simply be transformation, it seems to me that the Lightweaving we have seen also involves transformation: Hoid's fire became a picture show. Also, Hello all from a long time lurker