SpiritOfWrath

It doesn’t matter how powerful the magic is, as long as it is cool (pretty freaking awesome man), and there is something else to counter it.

One series I know of that makes similar religious points is the licanious series. Spoiler:

Sanderson supports the laws of conservation. So even though stormlight is readily available, the energy required is so incredibly high that perhaps even a Shard wouldn’t be able to power it. But the reason amethyst wouldn’t work is bc of imbalanced forces. Even if they are bound to each other, the parent object can and will rotate when touched. Even if this is minuscule rotation, it’s enough to set off the “ow that gemstone just exploded” rotation. So I doesn’t necessarily cancel out, like you say, but instead gets rid of the source of both forces. (Another note. The forces aren’t divided between the two. Otherwise a spanreed would feel only half as much gravity.) One interesting thing you bring up, though, is rubies. The forces don’t logically cancel out, but is it much of a stretch to say that at some point in time they have had the same force apply to them? No, absolutely not. But something that is mentioned over and over with spanreed me is frame of reference. Since the entire system is affected by gravity, then the frame of reference adopts gravity, and the spren no longer thinks it’s other half should be affected by the gravity it is feeling. (If any of this makes sense. I get the feeling I’m rambling. Also, soorry if I’m being a joy killer. I do think these ideas are cool.)

Nonono put the infinite energy up to smt like a chainsaw. Disposable shard blade! One note, though. This may “generate” energy, but not really. Remember, gemstones understress crack. Sad. Also, investiture is used up.

Aren’t the death rattles just a side effect of the Unmade’s influence? I could swear I saw that somewhere, but I can’t find it (I think it might have had something to do with Deathspren) I think I found it. One theory was that the death rattles were unintentional. They were Moelach feeding on investiture via Deathspren to see into the future.

I posted something similar on another topic, but to shorthand it, the nine Unmade may be originally old magic spren. Them plus the Wind gives ten, a significant number in roshar. I give more on the topic. I believe it was the nature of the wind. I’ll edit this when I find it. The topic (thread?) was “Wind is Chemoarish”

What if the Wind is the one Old Magic spren that wasn’t unmade? That would put us at a whopping ten total, a number we know roshar holds dear. It would also explain why there are nine surges not ten. Odium bound nine Old Magic spren to him, creating the surges (or at least he only recognizes the surges of the nine he corrupted). Out of respect (something quite honorable), Honor created a tenth surge for the Wind. Oh ye I only read the first few replies. Soorry (I can say that cuz I’m Canadian!) @CognitiveShadow @duladen

I think the action packed too much in a scene is purposeful. Remember, they are rushed bc they have naught but ten days. And I don’t mind it. That said, I do think this “perfect” situation he is throwing at us is about to fall apart, which is seen by the Felt fiasco.

Do we have any confirmation that this is even obsidian? It cud just be something abstract.

With the Soulcasting Jasnah uses, the effects are extremely powerful, but also extremely difficult. With this, Shallan may say, hey, everyone is covered in solid investiture. And then on on greater levels this could create an explosion due to the displacement of the air. How much acceleration do the air particles have? A heck of a lot, since one moment they’re there, and the other, they are, say, 20 feet away. They would be moving at a substantial fraction of c. This has already been seen on some level with the density changes due to Soulcasting. When Jasnah soul cast a large boulder into smoke, the smoke expanded outwards. This wouldn’t do anything much in shadesmar because the general populace doesn’t know much of physics near Roshar.

This contains stuff from RoW

The Grand Knell could be the location of the Dor (Or at least where Dominion and Devotion died). It would make sense, because of the philosophy of Elantris (I can’t remember the exact philosophy, but it is something like the Dor corresponding to a current). Also, the Dor is very location oriented, so compasses would be thematically appropriate. The Dor is also the location of the investiture of not one, but two shards. That’s a lot of investiture, so it makes sense it could be pinpointed from far away.

Remember, Honor was not the human’s Shard. Honor was first working with the Parshendi. Odium is the one who brought the humans to Roshar (the whole “weeeee are the voidbringers morale debate”)

We know what the words the real stormfather needed were. Life before Death, Strength before Weakness, Journey before destination. So either the Stormfather is evil, or someone else is talking to Gavilar. Plus, the Stormfather lied. We know that going against the intent of a Shard is lethal to the Vessel, why should it be differ for fractions of a Shard? The Stormfather is the biggest fraction of Honors investiture, and I don’t think extensive plotting and lying is not very honorable (Although Syl, imitating an voidspren, and Pattern, lying to the Honorspren, have both lied). We can extrapolate that this change in personality is not bc of Gavilar, because the voice implies that it was plotting before it decided to chose Gavilar.

Guys. Guys. Listen to this. “Give it to me!!!!!” (Or so) is apparently close to the words Gavilar needs to say. But Gavilar HASNT EVEN SWORN THE FIRST IDEAL. So unless “give it to me is similar” to “life before death”, I think Odium (or a third party) was piggybacking Gavilars bond to the Stormfather to be able to talk to him.

But when Dalinar sees nales bonds, he doesn’t see anything bout a spren bond, does he?

I think Wind and Truth was likely written by Sigzil or Renarin. We think of Lightweavers as the only Radiants to deal in matters of truth, but Sigzil was both a Windrunner, and a Skybreaker. Renarin works with Windrunners but LITERALLY a TRUTHwatcher. Plus, those two are the only ones able to write in bridge four other than Lyn. Plus, Wit mentions that the Wind listened and talked to him, and he supports Kal bc it does the same to him. We know that the author heard the Wind, but doesn’t now. Coincidentally, Sig was Wit’s apprentice, but isn’t anymore. Wit probably chose Sig because he knew Sig heard the Wind.