Xabben

In earlier books, we have seen the consequences of the everstorm in many parts of eastern Roshar. That being said, one could think that the consequences in Shinovar, the part of the continent where the everstorm strikes first, would be much more severe. However, when Szeth and Kaladin visit Shinovar in WaT... Everything seems to be fine (at least from the physical destruction point of view). How could this be explained without considering it a huge oversight from Sanderson?

There is something strange about the philosophy of skybreakers. They think that humans are unreliable, mostly guidad by emotions, and hence, they need a higher, inmutable "law" to guide they actions. For me, this is a clear sign of the influence of Honor in their way of thinking. However, when they were faced with the decision of whether to support humans (and hence, Honor) or singers (and hence, Odium), they quickly decided to help the Odium side, which is the one focused on emotions and all those things that skybreakers really despise. How does this make any sense?

The usage of an oathgate in the physical realm is pretty clear: you use a shardblade to activate the fabrial, and you move the "dial" to one of the 10 possible destinations. However... What do you do if you instead want to go to Shadesmar? Is there an 11th option in the "dial"? On the other hand, in the Azimir's battle, the singers are able to transport back to shadesmar without using any shardblade (that we know of). How is this possible?

For me, this is not exactly true. I mean, I think that the oathgates in the physical realm are just like "doorbells" used to contact the inksprens in shadesmar so that they know they have to send you to another physical place. If you break the "doorbell" (that is, the fabrial), you cannot contact the cognitive realm, and thus, the oathgate effectively stops working. However, if you are in shadesmar and you want to transport back to the physical realm, you don't need to use the "doorbell", as you can directly speak to the sprens. That's why you don't need to use a shardblade to activate the oathgate from the shadesmar side. Thus, even if they broke the physical oathgate, the singers could have still used it to enter Azimir.

I've read many post critizicing the fact that, in WaT, the coallition didn't even thought about destroying the oathgate in Azimir to avoid the singers' invasion. However, for me, this is not a real plothole, as I doubt that physically destroying the Oathgate would have prevented the inksprens from transporting the singers from shadesmar into the physhical world if they wanted to. What really bothers me is that the Azish could have easily built a totally closed, thick bronze dome around the oathgate's control room. By doing so, they would have completely trapped singers and gained a considerable amount of time. In fact, they could have built multiple concentric domes by using soulcasting to hinder the advance of singers even more. Why didn't they thought about this?

I have just reread chapter 23 of WaT, and notice that Sebarial literally says that Radiants also need gems to soulcast, and that they can also break them. So I think that settles it. I would quote the incumbent segment, but I don't really know how to do it...

This is a good explanation, but does not address the reason why some characters (I think that one of them is Sebarial) mention the relevance of harvesting emeralds to create food... I think that, once you have a good amount of Radiants that are able to soulcast, the importance of gemstones would diminish greatly.

For me, this is a BIG problem. It means that Radiants have infinite resources when they are in Urithiru, as the Sibling automatically recharges their stormlight and, therefore, there is no limitation for what they can create... Moreover, in WaT, they say multiple times that "they cannot lose the Shattered Plains because they need to harvest gems for growing food". This makes no sense if soulcasting does not require gems...

According to early books in the series, it is clear that one of the limitations for soulcasting fabrials is that they often break gems due to the fast extraction of stormlight needed by the transformation process. However, radiant soulcaster don't really need gems for soulcasting, so... Isn't this basically a infinite food glitch? As long as they have access to stormlight, they should be able to create food (and other materials) without any real drawback or physical degradation...

Okay, but they didn't need to bring the others just to the gates of Lasting Integrity. They could have brought them some kilometers away, so that the other Honorspren couldn't see them, potentially shortening the entire trip to just a couple of hours at most. Obviously. But if we just accepted this kind of justification, then this forum wouldn't have a reason to exist

One of the main plot lines of RoW is the travel to Lasting Integrity of Adolin, Shalland and company. However... Why didn't they use Windrunners to arrive earlier to the city? They were clearly in a hurry to convince Honorsprens to participate in the war, and still they took the long and slow path. And don't tell me that stormlight leaks faster in shademar, Windrunners could have brought the entire party close to Lasting Integrity in less than a day.

The thing is... Why did the Stormfather lie to Gavilar? And why did he mentioned in Oathbringer that "no herald had died for centuries" if that was not true?

After reading the first four books in just 4 months, I have finally reached Wind and Truth. I was really excited to begin this journey but, after reading the prologue of WaT, something felt really wrong. What the h*** was that? That was definitely NOT the Stormfather, right? His behavior was totally off. Is this something that was intended? Or a legitimate error? I have found many post about this topic, but all of them are from the first previews, and therefore full of speculations...

But the text explicitly states that Nightblood appears in the "Odium's realm" before Taravangian even grabs it... PD: By the way, I wanted to include the exact citation here for reference, but I'm quite new to the forum and I don't know how to do it...

[WARNING, SPOILERS OF RoW] At the end of RoW, Taravangian uses Nightblood to kill Odium. However, there is something a little bit strange in how Nightblood appears in Odium's vision. Some people say that Nightblood can appear in the vision due to the high amount of Investidure it contains. However, in that particular moment, the sword was inside its aluminum sheath, which should have "blocked" the effect of the Investidure. Am I missing something?