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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?

Okay, that makes sense. However, there are other parts of that night that are still a little bit strange. The parshendi (with the exception of Venli, which wanted to cause a war) only wanted to kill Gavilar to prevent him from causing a new Desolation. However, they gave oddly specific instructions to Szeth, indicating that he had to "kill, destroy, but leave witnesses. Wounded, but alive". I don't really understand why they would do such a thing, as they would only make Alethi angrier without a real reason...

I think it is implied somewhere that Szeth was abandoned as soon as they left Kholinar. Therefore, who kill these 100 horsemen? Surely not a small group of (mostly diplomats) parshendi... I suppose that it is a very minor detail, but it still bugs me.

One of the most unbelievable parts of the entire Stormlight Archive, for me, is the escape of the Parshendi from Kholinar's palace after killing king Gavilar. Even if the group of parshendi left a couple of hours before the assassination, the parshendi needed to navigate through a completely unknown territory for weeks before reaching the shattered plains. Moreover, we know by chapter 81 of RoW that they did not transform into war form until they reached their homeland, which means that they travelled using other, much slower forms such as the work form. Is it really believable that humans, with access to much faster travelling methods such as horses, wouldn't have found these parshendi just outside the capital city? PD: Recall that the assassination was planned the same day that happened, which means that they didn't have much time to prepare for the escape.

In RoW, when a group of deadeyes begins gathering near Lasting Integrity, everyone seems to assume that all deadeyes correspond to Shardblades in the physical realm. However, is it possible that some deadeyes are not associated with a Shardblade at all? For example, could deadeyes be created by Radiants who had only sworn the First or Second Ideal? I've read some WoBs about the topic, and it seems that Brandon always assumes that deadeye = shardblade...

In chapter 71 of RoW, the Stormfather mentions that the stormlight of a Radiant gets recharged after the "centerbeat" of the highstorm. However, we have seen Windrunners constantly charging their stormlight by just flying near the stormwall... Am I misunderstanding something?

I mean, he knows that radiant powers are being suppressed, as some of the Windrunners that he sent to Urithiru fainted after getting too close to the tower. Moreover, I think that "Navani" told him that, in order to contact him by spanreed, she had to sent someone to the mountains so that the fabrial could work... So, in my opinion, he should be much more worried about the situation.

Right now, I'm in chapter 65 of RoW, and there is something that it's bugging me A LOT. Let's briefly describe the situation: A- The fused have conquered Urithiru. By doing so, they have incapacitated most of the radiants and fabrials. B- Dalinar suspects that something goes wrong in Urithiru, so he sends some Windrunners to watch the tower. Obviously, these Windrunners cannot get close to the tower without getting affected by the tower's defenses, so they cannot physically enter the tower to check if everything is okay. So, given A and B, wouldn't the most logical solution be to bring some non-radiant person with the Windrunners, leave him/her near Urithiru, and then make him/her go to physically check if everything is okay by foot?

I would say that Shallan is, at the same time, one of my favourites and less favourite characters. I like Shallan from WoK, but I really hate her multiple personalities in later books (I'm still in the middle of RoW, so no spoilers please!). I mean, I get it, I like the story behind Shallan's traumas, but I really miss her old personality.

If that is the case, why not leave a spanreed near the Oathgates of Urithiru in the cognitive realm to communicate with Adolin, Shallan etc. during their trip to Lasting Integrity?