ShadowBroker

Nightblood can replicate the effects of 9 out of 10 surges now. And while radiants with access to progression are functionally useless outside of locked-down Urithiru where there's no access to Stormlight, cutting people like Adolin off from regrowth, Nightblood can consume any form of investiture, including potentially abundant warlight. It shouldn't be hard for Szeth to get his hands on some spheres (though maybe he'd have to buy them from the Listeners? Maybe not? Maybe he can get some in Shinovar?) and work with Nightblood, who's gotten a big leg-up in the whole self-control thing. Losing his arm seems like it should be only a minor inconvenience for him.

what. When does Dalinar do anything even close to this?

This was also, by far, my favorite moment in the book (the close second is Adolin's armor spren yelling "Sir!"). My favorite moment from Words of Radiance is when Kaladin realizes "Elhokar was Dalinar's Tien." So the inversion of that moment was especially effective on me: Tears. Lots of tears. I'm usually a bigger fan of print than the audiobooks, but I can't stress enough how much Michael Kramer's performance of this chapter truly elevates it. The emotion is just so intense. And I can't wait until the Graphic Audio releases: Robbie Gay's Kaladin and Bradley Foster Smith's Szeth are phenomenal.

I think it works thematically for Szeth's Fifth Ideal to supercede this restriction. Szeth becoming the law effectively means he no longer needs to care about arbitrary rules like "You can't get your 5th Ideal before your 4th."

I was so on board with Moash redemption right up until this book. At this point, I'm just totally sick of his rust, and I consider his return to Odium here to be the final nail in the coffin of the point "no matter how many chances he's given, he will always make the wrong choice." He really feels like the Padan Fain of the series at this point, just always stooping even lower.

Hey, arcanists! To anyone heading into Nexus tomorrow: Just sorted through my group's story cards trying to get full sets and was wondering if anyone might want to meet up to trade cards this weekend. Maybe we could post our Looking-Fors and our Available-to-Trades?

What if El is for Adolin's plotline? Everyone else has some pretty obvious villains ahead of them except Adolin.

Nah. You're neglecting that Odium already is vengeance. The full definition: o·di·um /ˈōdēəm/ noun general or widespread hatred or disgust directed toward someone as a result of their actions. That's why the Singers are the soldiers of Odium, they have a legitimate grievance for which they seek vengeance. Vyre's fall to Odium also represents this, his hatred for Elhokar and the Lighteyes doesn't come from nowhere.