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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?

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?

Do spanreeds work in shadesmar? I suppose that the answer is no, but I haven't found any explicit mention to this issue in the books...