Azul

I thought Breaths were Endowments investure on Nalthis and that Endowment gave the Returned their divine Breaths. The weakness the Returned feel could be from their divine Breath beginning to slowly drain back to its source. As for what Nightblood actually does I have no clue I was just pointing out that it doesnt appear to actually need more breaths to power itself.

I never saw Breaths as something that replenish or get consumed. To me it was just something that was moved from one vessel to another, much like pooring water from one bowl to another. With the Returned their divine Breath returns to Endowment after a week and they die unless they are given another Breath. So isn't it possible the Breath they receive simply takes its place and returns to Endowment instead of the divine one? As for Nightblood I'm not quite sure but it sort of feels like a black hole for breaths. Drawing them in and perhaps storing them. If it consumed them in some way wouldnt that suggest going without would cause it to weaken?

Likely he wouldn't even have to wrap it in cloth. If if is Nightblood or a similar awakened sword there is a chance it could change its physical appearance in the same way the Returned can. Or

I get the question of the OP, I was just curious if anyone remembers the Parshendi have avoided wounded in major battles? Also pointing out that perhaps how you treat a few dozen men attacking your army of thousands is a bit different than facing another army of equal numbers.

First, who says the eye can't be both creepy and cool Shardlet! Next, is there any other example of the Parshendi exhibing this sort of behavior with other troops? Is it possible they acted towards bridge four in the way they did as a sign of respect? Sure they may hate them for desecration of their dead but I could see also them respecting bridge four at the same time for charging in alone to help Dalinar.

That is how i read it as well tbh but thought I'd point out its ambiguous enough of a statement that it doesnt necessarily mean its a continuity error.

In the reading didn't he mention that he had visited the area and wanted to go to the purelake and his guide or whoever asked him why he would want to visit there? Also there are two ways you can take his thoughts in ch 11. He mentions it reminds of him Sela Tales and the Purelake. We learn from Ishikk that Sela Tales was the Epoch Kingdom that the Purelake resided in. We can assume that Dalinar has never visted Sela Tales as it no longer exist as a kingdom but he could have heard stories about both it and the purelake. In grouping these two thoughts together its possible he is saying 'this reminds me of what i imagine these places to be like' rather than 'this looks like a place i've seen before'

well what I actually think it looks like and what i see in my head when I read don't always match All the description of interlocking plates and the internal straps tightning up on their own brings the image of power armor to mind, i just can't help it!

I thought she was the one in the forground saluting? Looks like Kaladin or a bridgeman in the background with a spear. Would make the crab like symbols on the banner and cloak make more sense as well.

Medieval Iron Man is all i can think of when it comes to Shardplate

I get the honorspren part (with the leaf) but I can't think of when we have seen Cryptics affect the physical realm. The closest thing I can think of is when Shallan reaches out and feels something but that shows us more about Shallan that what the Cryptics are capable of doing.

Is it possible that spren are both drawn to and can exert some power over the thing they are drawn too? Only most of them are not sentient enough to bother?

Something i've been toying around with for a bit concerning Szeth's blade (may have been discussed before but i missed it). Szeth says he can't use surges and plate at the same time as the plate interferes with it but we know from Dalinar's visions that Radiants in the past used both. Also in the prelude it does not appear that the Heralds wear shardplate which I found a bit odd. If theories are correct and Szeth's surges come from his shardblade could this be an indicator that he does in fact wield a Honorblade ?

I always got from that that while Amaram may have let others convince him it was the right thing to do 'for the greater good' deep down he knows he is being a bastard and is conflicted by it.

If it was binary, all in or all out, then yeah it would vanish. But it could exist in both realm and need a medium to bridge the gap (if that makes any sense). So if the gems are just removed the armor becomes inert but when taking damage that link is forcibly severed which causes pieces to crack or even explode. The glitch in the system is very plausable or the Knights could have just had much more control over the armor, able to bring more of its spiritual self into the physical (ie the glow we see) and vice versa with sending the actual physical armor to wherever. And i reserve the right to call any theory i come up with as crazy talk

I would agree that plate is likely invested. What i was trying to suggest is perhaps the gems and stormlight are sort of a anchor for it on the physical realm. So what is taking damage is not the plate itself but its anchor. In Dalinar's visions its possible the plate was anchored by the knights themselves which would explain why they glowed and their helms could simply vanish and reappear. Don't take this as some developed theory , cause I tend to suck at those Its just a off the wall idea I had.

My guess would be that since plate is powered by infused gems that are drained and/or damaged when the armor takes damage so what we are seeing is not the plate itself be damaged but its power source drained. Blades dont require a power source that we know of.

From the Ars Arcanum EDIT: If i'm reading your question right this sounds like a reverse lashing, where someone gives a object its own gravitation pull like what Kaladin did with the arrows on the latter bridge runs.

In regards to Renarin's 'blood weakness' The article on Tor about how sprens have affected the advance of medicine on Roshar. It suggest that while people dont really understand things like germs and what causes a lot of sickness they can see how the spren react (you can see that washing your hands chases away rot spren). Add this to old ideas you would see in our world about leeching and blood letting and his 'blood weakness' could be anything they don't really understand. I also noticed that his fits sound a bit similar (viewed from the outside) as those Dalinar has sometimes when the Thrill is on him. If whatever is effecting Dalinar to make him feel sick sometimes while in the Thrill has always effected Renarin then him training to be a warrior would be near impossible and could lead to them labeling it some 'blood weakness'. Though why he would have a fit after the vision.. ;p

What i was refering to with 'kung fu grip' I just couldn't recall its name off hand.

I guess you could say its from gaming. Mostly from wow but other games as well I've used the name 'Azulmar' (yes yes i know it means blue sea so laugh it up now!). I have played with the same group of people for over 7 years now and they all call me 'Azul' on TS and such so its just sort of stuck and became the user name I pick most of the time.

It does not sound to crazy to think that the blades we see the KR use in the vision could be different than what everyone is currently using. Something was different about the armor and it seems odd how much Sly hates Dalinar's blade when all the KR were bound to similar sprens.

I may be wrong but I think what you mean is Truth as in Facts (factspren sounds pretty silly though) vs truth as in 'i will not tell a lie'. and Jasnah is all about the Facts.

I just had a crazy imagine of Szeth and whoever trained him replacing people in bug's life "pretend this rock is spren...." As it stands now Szeth would likely wipe the floor with Kaladin sadly. His understanding of lashing plus a shardblade plus kung fu grip .. ouch! Though I still have some crazy hope that something in Szeth's personal code of honor will require him to train Kaladin before doing anything else.

Hello all, I, like may of you I'm sure, first learned of Mr Sanderson when he was selected to finish the WoT books. So after i had finished TGS I had to pick up the Mistborn trilogy and the rest, as they say, is history. I have read everything but the Alcatraz series (and re read WoK enough times to break 2 kindles...). Since then Sanderson has become one of my all time favorite authors and I have shamelessly pushed him on anyone I know that enjoys reading, all of which have fallen in love with his works just as much as I have (well except one .. so if anyone lives in sweden i have a friend that needs a good slap on the back of the head ) I also enjoy reading Rothfuss, Butcher, Pratchett and Weeks. Thats about it other than I've been poking around the forums for a bit now and finally decided to register in hopes to contribute to some of the amazing ideas I've read here... even if some of them make me feel like I need a PhD in physics... -Azul