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Pretty much this. Assuming you have read all the prior material I don't view them as even counting as spoilers.

Who knows? Depends on what the person thinks the purpose of the system is. As for Tors position on sample chapters they have been, comparatively, slow adopters of e-books. Baen by contrast jumped in with both feet early on and understands that posting the first quarter of the book isn't giving the work away. It is getting their customers hooked on literary crack. Generally making the customer base very happy and by extension increases the probability of purchasing.

I don't doubt it will be announced if/when they do it. Just keep an eye out on the Tor site, here, or Mr. Sandersn's blog a couple months before release.

A quarter is the amount of chapters that Baen usually posts for its books. So I can see that happening.

Strangely, I have a similar but kind of opposite reaction in my impression of what you were saying. My impression was that you were saying that without the bond Kaladin has no real skill with the spear at all. That his capabilities were entirely due to the bond. Given that he trained almost fanatically for years in the army I find that hard to accept. My perception was that Kaladin was at least very competent with the spear and when it was combined with the bond it enhanced him to superhuman levels. Which is what both Syl says and Teft believes. Which is again why I'm looking forward to getting my friends in Boston to ask Mr. Sanderson about it at the Boston signing. Explicit clarification would be nice. I'll say again that Teft is obviously not an "expert." That being said he obviously knows more then the average person. Enough that he was able to recognize what was going on before Kaladin himself did from a few clues that no one else noticed. Other then that...Your are again correct. Their really isn't anything more to say.

Awesome video of an F-16 launching from a full stop to 15,000 feet. Nice music for it as well.

Kaladin's ability is corroborated by Syl. Explicitly. So, as I also said in the other thread where you discussed this, two in world sources, one which I do view as an authority on the subject, agree on this. I'll need either a word of Brandon or something in world explicitly countering this to believe otherwise. I was hoping at the time to get some friends of mine in Boston to ask him at the signing, that was unfortunately cancelled, about this. Fortunately there is another one coming up next month where they will get a chance to do so. I'll include the extra here for completeness and form. My apologies if you felt I was incomplete. I still feel he was not trying to firmly assert that all the Radiants could do all things. As you pointed out he himself was unsure about that. He understands the limits of his own knowledge. As for the last two points you claim they are incredibly minor and "vague". I'm perfectly willing to concede the very minor point. I'm not as willing to concede the vague point since I see them as specific pieces of information that the general public didn't know and regardless of how minor and vague they were they were still correct. Is Teft an "expert" on the Radiants? Hardly. His knowledge is imperfect, incomplete, and very limited. Something he is clearly aware of based on several statements he makes. Though he has shown enough correct knowledge of the Radiants that I'm not willing to automatically assume anything he says as wrong. Back in that other thread I recall you basically stating that you automatically assumed him wrong unless proven otherwise. Which I thought was overstating the issue. As for his knowledge of squires your totally right. It is clearly based on his personally witnessing some of the members of bridge four glowing and listening to some of the readings of Dalinar's visions. His guesses are reasonable supposition based on that and not special prior knowledge.

On the five ideals of the Knights Radiant. Regarding the orders interacting with each other. Regarding the nature of Kaladin's abilities. Each of these is corroborated by at least one other source in either Way of Kings or Words of Radiance. I believe the part your referring to is this. This statement is true in and of itself though imprecise and certainly does not invalidate everything else he says.

I believe this is the relavant quote. As for your views on Teft's reliability when it comes to information about the Knights Radiant. Well...It would be nice if you could site a single example of any statement he made about the Knights that was incorrect. Every example I've been able to find of his assertions has been, so far as I have been able to determine, accurate. His knowledge is obviously incomplete but what he does know, and has mentioned, has been accurate.

He was not brain dead as Naln points out. So I guess it comes down to how you define death. I, personally, define it as past the point of no return.

I think that Renarin's initial(Pre-oath) bond with Glyss formed some time back. I had the impression that all the various nahel bond spren started searching for people to bond with around the same time.

Well one point that you might not be aware of is that Mr. Sanderson has changed the ending of Words of Radiance. In the changed version Kaladin does not kill Szeth. Szeth allows his bond to his blade to be severed and "dies" falling into the storm.

Kaladin was able to get a glimpse into the cognitive realm when he first lashed himself to the chasm wall. Perhaps if he could train himself to enter whatever mental state he was in at the time he could maintain that connection. Edit : This isn't to say I think he could transfer himself over. Just that he might possibly be able to maintain the perception that he briefly achieved.

It has also been made explicitly clear that the in-story Words of Radiance is unreliable. It is my feeling that Nohodon's words in Dalinar's vision provides a better look at the situation. This seems to strongly imply that it was Nohodon that sought a way to make the Knights better through the oaths. The prior desolation was over and Heralds would have left until the next desolation. So at least at that time the Heralds had not yet instituted the oaths and it would likely be centuries until they would have another opportunity too. If it was Ishi'Elin and not Nohodon he, at the very least, waited an entire desolation cycle to actually institute it. The information is sketchy but my impression from this vision and from parts of the in-story Way of Kings is that the Knights were actually founded by Nohodon and the Urithiru likely built during his life time.

The Radiants arose independent of the Heralds or the Oathpact. Because of this I'm not particularly inclined to assume there is any direct connection between the Oathgates and the Oathpact.

I don't think we have confirmation, other then Lopen, but there are a few I would be willing to bet money on. Skar, Rock, and Teft I'm certain with a high probability that all the original surviving members of bridge four with the obvious exception of Moash. The big question in my mind is whether or not Rlain will be able to infuse.

It wouldn't really be about how great a revelation it would be to anybody but Shallan. Particularly since it involves issues of family which seem to matter a great deal to her. Yeah its tricky. We simply don't have enough information yet. I'm certainly not going to go to any effort trying to convince anybody. I just think it is an interesting possibility at this point.

Actually I'm positive something was happening. Recall that Pattern was attracted to Shallan before all this went down. At the moment I'm wondering if Shallan was actually a member of the Davar household. It is only a strong suspicion at this point. Though one with good cause I feel.

I actually have a similar sentiment. If perhaps not so strongly felt. Shallan is bonded to spren who loves lies and using truths to create deception(Cryptic). Kaladin is bonded to a spren who reveres truth and hates lies even to the point of being unhappy when truth is used in a deceptive fashion. These attitudes are reflected in part by there bonded partners. These differences in personality do not make for a stable long term relationship in my opinion.

Actually when Shallan speaks her third truth it is strongly implied that it was Shallan that killed both her mother and the man she was with. Though I agree with the sentiment that both Lin and Shallan were basically suffering from traumatic information overload. Normal reactions just aren't under those circumstances.

Perhaps. Shallan at least seemed to feel that there was a good chance that any possible future children they might have would have a mix of all three. That and there were at least a couple statements in WoK that indicated that Alethi hair always breeds true in proportion so it seems a high probability that any children would have at least a noticeable number of black hairs mixed in with the red and blond.

I believe that the hair would be a proportional mix of the parents. Shallan does comment at one point that their children would have the strangest hair.

This is why I have never had much issue with Jasnah's actions in this matter. To me it seems that most of the objections don't seem to be about whether or not these people deserved what they got so much as how Jasnah went about doing it. Since it is also made clear that the normal methods of law enforcement were being circumvented I have no objections to Jasnah's actions or methods under the circumstances in evidence.

To me it seems fairly obvious that the humans of Roshar have a number of odd biological traits. I have never seen any kind of verification of this but I suspect that Rosharan life spans are longer then human normal. Cultivation's influence perhaps? Edit : Though most of the cases that cause me to wonder about this also have stormlight possibly skewing the issue.

I believe that Kaladin mentions he has hit his twentieth birthday in Words of Radiance. So that would make him about 22 Earth years of age.