Gloom

I'm extremely skeptical. I'm not certain, but I vaguely recall mention of dragons on Yolen. I could be mistaken of course.

I would love to respond to this thread, but I'll refrain since this isn't posted in the WoR topic where I could freely explore this topic without concern for creating a spoiler tag for every line of text.

I believe that Szeth is a very complicated individual being used in a very complicated set of circumstances. Being bound to an Oathstone may be a means of preventing him from being bound to a spren. Being given the particular blade he carries was also no accident. I'm fairly confident that he was given the blade because he began showing signs of not only being a surge binder, but because he was showing signs of becoming a Wind Runner in particular. The type of individual who would become a Wind Runner is also the type of person who would take their oaths, and their honor very seriously. I believe that it is altogether possible that the people who arranged for Szeth to receive the blade were also involved in ensuring the right people knew about him and what he carried. Taravangian is very well informed, not only about who Szeth is, but of what he carries. I'm sure that Taravangian has seen Shardblades before, and has even employed those who carry them from time to time. Why is Szeth blade monsterous? Why was he given a Shardblade at all? There are too many questions and not nearly enough information to answer them. Is it an Honorblade as many speculate? If so is it possible that the Blade Dalinar gave away is also an Honorblade?

I am inclined to believe that the Emuli worship Jezrien whom they refer to as the Prime Kadasix as the Almighty. I would also say that there are vast regions of Roshar that we have absolutely no knowledge of what beliefs they harbor. I'm inclined to believe that the beliefs of the Shin are somewhat different from Vorinism as well. Most of western Roshar is still a mystery to us.

LOL, oops! I could totally see that being used in a video game. Instead of having your sniper shoot enemy troops, he shoots his teammates when they get injured.

Looks to me like Syl already has a radiant blade. It's even capable of driving off other spren, which means it is manifest in the spiritual and cognitive realms. Sylphrena can only exist in the spiritual and the cognitive. She can't exist in the physical unless she has a Nahel bond. If she can make herself solid now, while the bond is at about half strength, what will she be able to do when the bond is at full strength?

I believe the Reckoners opened and modified the phones. I also believe that Knighthawk dabbles in other things besides phones. They aren't Knighthawk telecom, they are Knighthawk Foundry. I believe that Knighthawk is also a specialty arms manufacturer. The mobile phone is just their best known breakthrough. They may keep their arms research low key and only trade through arms dealers to appear less threatening. Someone puts a lot of time and money into researching epic tech. The Gauze Rifle isn't likely to have come out of some low budget secret laboratory. It takes a lot of money to properly develop a high tech fire arm. Then their is the douzer, and I'm sure there are other devices we haven't seen yet. I won't say Knighthawk is the only company that could have created the Gauze Rifle, but I doubt that their are all that many industries that have remained profitable and free of epic oversight.

Alternately, Knighthawk Foundry created the anomaly known as Calamity, or has convinced all the high epics that this is so. Attack Knighthawk, and they shut Calamity down.

Yeah, you might consider cutting back on the amount of Melatonin you take at night.

I find it likely that Aimians are bound to a spren as well. The laws of physics generally apply in Roshar, if something is behaving oddly, it isn't unreasonable to assume the magic system is to blame, and that those troublesome spren are once again getting into mischief.

LOL, I'm picturing the E-Trader baby trying to convince SH to invest in Knighthawk Foundry stocks. SH gets pissy, and the kid pulls a Dirty Harry 45 and caps him. Then his mother comes over and takes away the babies phone.

I think that Knighthawk is a corporation that took advantage of the annexation act to set itself up as a service provider. It would hypothesize that it's in a rural area that has little of real value to offer epics outside of the corporation itself. I would also hypothesize that they offered their services to all high epics either free of charge on the basis they are left to run the business without interference. I would further hypothesize that they have pretty heavy security measures in place to deter ambitious idiots who happen to be lesser epics but feel the need for fame. So, a rep from Knighthawk stops by Newcago and informs SH that they have a phone that can transmit without signal loss in any environment and is unhackable. They will provide SH with enough devices to operate his government free of charge so long as they are allowed to do business in Newcago. Then they inform SH that Knighthawk industries is located in the middle of nowhere, and that the entire complex is rigged with multiple types of explosives and other fail-safes. Should anyone decide they want to control Knighthawk, then they will deprive everyone of the capacity to use their tech by destroying it completely right after they broadcast the identity of the epic that deprived the rest of the country of this priceless new technology. This creates a zero gain scenario for any epic that wants complete control of the communications industry. But also paints them as a target for everyone who is now deprived of that same technology. Even with epic psychology this could work. I would also hypothesize that Knighthawk industries is one of the locations that buy the DNA of dead epics for research purposes, and utilize weapons created from this research in it's own defense.

Wild animals fear humans in most cases, and they react to aggression with a fight or flight response. Both of these responses can be attributed to fear. A rabid animal is no different. In a rabid animal, the fear response triggers an opposite reaction than would ordinarily be anticipated. A rabid animal can appear friendly, it may be curious about humans where it would ordinarily be wary. This doesn't change the basic physiological condition of the animal, it only changes the response that animal makes as a result of those stimuli due to the disease it suffers from.

I would agree that it looks like the two men are Heralds, and that it appears Szeth is carrying Jezriens' Honorblade. It would also appear that the Heralds are suffering under some form of curse. I wonder when that started. I wonder if Cultivation cursed them when Tanavast was killed. I think that Ash being Shalash is a reasonable assumption. I would agree that it looks like Jasnah is indeed in the early stages of a spren bond at this point, though I don't find that terribly surprising. Good catch on the two gents Cheese Ninja. Up vote for you.

Yes, definitely new information at the end of that reading.

First, lets establish the quote: Once Ja-ana touches them. This doesn't sound like it's void spren. It sounds like it's a spren that was corrupted by Ja-ana, whom I believe is one of Odiums ten Anti-Heralds, or Fools. This point is important to note. For void spren to exist, it establishes that Odium invested Roshar with spren. Corrupted spren on the other hand require only enough investiture to corrupt an existing spren to serve Odiums purposes. We are talking about a pretty big power differential between the two. Think of it like this. If Honor created wikipedia. Then Odium will occasionally go in an alter a document to serve his purposes. The premiss that a corrupted spren exists in that little gem is possible, it may even be probable. It's still just one spren. It would be capable of creating one Voidbringer. Hardly a desolation. If Odium was forced to create a race of sentient beings as a part of the Oathpact, I could easily see him creating the Parsh like so. They are enslaved to spren. Without spren they are simple, dull creatures with little ambition. With spren they are a vibrant intelligent and deeply cultured people. When Odium corrupts those spren they become deadly hateful monsters intent of the destruction of life itself. This way the Parsh would loath losing their spren bonds, but the price they pay for those bonds would be that of turning into ravening beasts when the desolation comes. I'm not saying this is the case, it's just what I think Odium would do should he some how get cornered into investing in a planet.

I'm hoping it's not true, even though it looks like it's almost a certainty. I really wanna see Kurkistan eat a hat.

Mobs don't write history. The fact is, that this history was written by the church and spread to the populace through its ardents. The Day of Recreance is a recorded event. It is the day the Knights Radiant betrayed mankind. This is pretty specific, the day, not The Time of Recreance, or The Year of Recreance, but The Day of Recreance. This isn't a history relating specifically to events that occurred in Alethkar, or Jah Keved, in regards to the Knights Radiant, it is a common theme known in lands far and wide. The Shards didn't travel very far. Most of the Shards in the known lands are in Alethkar, with about twenty sets in Jah Keved. Outside of those two nations, most nations are lucky to have a single set of Shards. The Day of Recreance is known through every nation that we've encountered. This tale has crossed language barriers, mountain ranges, and braved High Storms. It has persisted for hundreds of years. If this tale wasn't championed by the church, how did it travel so far, and last so long? We don't even have any specifics on it outside of the vision that Dalinar witnessed. All we know is that the Knights Radiant betrayed mankind. All we know is what the church teaches. There are no specifics about how they betrayed mankind, or who they betrayed specifically, or why it was considered a betrayal. There isn't any social memory of this event, no one has a clue what the Radiants did that was so bad, they just know what they were taught. They just know what the ardents told them.

I'm a little confused. I know a bead of Lerasium can make a person into a mistborn. Outside of this, both Ferochemy and Allomancy are supposed to be inherited. What is the premiss that would allow Hoid to become a Feromancer?

No plan is perfect. KISS is the best policy. If he cuts his way in, you can still release the nerve agent. If he lingers to get his bearings, it could still kill him. You just have to release enough to contaminate the room. He will still believe his target is there, and as long as he doesn't know it's a trap he will still be likely to investigate the thug you left tied up inside. If he does cut his way in, you cordon off the building with bio-hazard tape after the fact and hope no one else decides to crash inside. If they do, hey, you can't stop stupid. Give them a Darwin award and carry on. If Sword lives, you make sure that it looks like he was set up by another epic, walk away from your contract and live to kill another day.

Okay, from what we've been told, some equipment is powered directly. Helicopters and battle suits apparently required too much juice to run on battery power. That isn't to say that everything was run by direct gifting. Conflux charged power cells, and those power cells worked independently of him. If Conflux was still powering the cell in the gauze rifle, it wouldn't have run down to almost empty before David broke it. That being said, I can't believe that SH didn't have at least some of his equipment capable of running off alternate power sources. We do know that SH didn't bring any heavy equipment to the final fight. No additional helicopters, no battle suits. SO it appears that Conflux was powering either the equipment, or the operators.

Sword Barer: Hire him to make a hit. Have the target appear to be hiding in a stainless steel walk in freezer unit without a light. Seal the door and release VX nerve gas. Make an expedient exit just in case he cuts his way out and releases the gas. He's dead unless he is hiding the ability to regenerate if he fails to exit his location in seconds.

The actions of the soldiers that picked up the discarded Shards may have been a factor, but I seriously doubt that the church wouldn't have noticed the difference. Even in the event that they failed to do so initially, over time it would have become apparent. The church chose to advocate the discrediting of the Knights Radiant even after evidence would have proven they had simply retired from service. The church made a concerted effort to villainize the Knights Radiant for there own purposes. The Knights Radiant abandoned Urithiru before the day of Recreance. We don't know how long before, but it may have been a significant amount of time.