Gloom

The way I read the quote is this. Brandon feels Hemalurgy is evil. I don't see a lot of wiggle room here. Now, I think what Brandon was saying is that he could understand how someone else might feel differently and offered up some ways that someone might be able to justify the use of Hemalurgy to themselves. "Why waste it, he's already a deader." Because it isn't just power, it's a part of someones soul, and to use it, you have to attach it to your own soul. This is the horror of the Frankenstein Monster on a spiritual level. What I'm saying, is that if someone offered Brandon a Hemalurgic spike he would need a very good reason before he accepted it, and even then he'd be torn. I think he'd use the power to save his family, or a child, but I also think he'd hate himself for doing it. But I think if you took the spike and used it to save your family or an innocent child, he would be willing to give you the benefit of the doubt rather than revile you on the same level as a cannibal. Edit: I Up voted your down vote because I didn't see a down vote as justified. Your interpretation of the quote is valid as far as that goes.

Not the Shin. What if they accidentally cut a poor innocent rock in half? The horror! No way, the Shin may use Shards to cut people in half, but not their precious stones.

Okay, I'll weigh in. 1: Yes 2: Abstain 3: Abstain 4: Yes 5: No 6: Yes 7: Yes 8: Abstain 9: Abstain 10: Abstain 11: Yes — I'm not positive it will happen in WoR, but I'm fairly certain he will get his spear. I'll vote yes based on the UK cover though. 12: Yes 13: Yes 14: Abstain 15: Yes 16: No 17: Yes again 18: agree again 19: No, I don't think it was planned by the KR. I think the Vanrial acted independently to save what they could. 20: Abstain 21: Yes, Honorblades are Shardblades, so I don't see how you can agree Szeth has an Honorblade and disagree with this. 22: No, the Parshendi killed Gavilar because he sought to find a way to bring back the KR. 23: Meh, I wouldn't wish any of them on anyone in a relationship. 24: Abstain 25: No, Sylphrena is Windrunner (Honor) spren, and other Windrunner spren will share her characteristics if not her personality. 26: No, and I doubt he would survive the trip. Roshone hates him and blames him for his sons death. He would kill him on the road. 27: Yes 28: No, I'm already on record that I believe he will be a Bondsmith. 29: Abstain 30: No, I think were past that point already anyways. 31: Abstain...I'd like to think so though. 32: No idea what order they are 33: No sex scene. Nothing more descriptive than a passionate embrace and some kissing. 34: No 35: Yes 36: No

I believe this is being unfair to Adolin. I will agree that he is a bit flighty in his relationships, but I don't believe that he is a womanizer. I'm fairly certain that he treats the women he courts honorably. I'm also fairly sure if he was doing otherwise it would get back to his father and there would be hell to pay. When the prostitute in Sadeas camp offers to spend some time with him to thank him for his assistance, he refuses by saying his father followed the old ways and would kill him if he accepted her offer. I have yet to see any reason to suspect Dalan of nefarious purposes.

Just hide your previous posts. What I find interesting about the quote regarding Kammar is that it appears that these martial arts were developed by the Radiants. A specific martial art for those who infuse with their hands is actually something that was mentioned. This isn't saying necessarily that this was, or is, the only martial art that the Shin have kept alive. I wonder how many other arts, martial or otherwise, the Shin have kept alive from the days of the Radiants.

Eh, how about this scenario? If the Shin believe the Heralds that the Desolations are finished and will never return to Roshar, then Voidbringers don't exist. If they are the guardians of the Honorblades, they have something of incredible value to protect. If Szeth challenged these ideas, it's possible his honor would demand that the Heralds lied and that Voidbringers do indeed still exist. His punishment is only valid, at least in his own mind, so long as he lacks evidence of the Heralds deception.

The theory is plausible and well thought out. I don't have any doubts that the Shin have a larger number of Shards than people realize. Of course, most people wouldn't credit the Shin with even one Shard. So yes, I have no trouble believing the Shin have Shards. No, I don't believe they have more Shards than everyone else. Just to be clear I'm not trying to say the OP felt they did, I'm just clarifying my position. I don't believe that the Shin are hiding hundreds or thousands of trained Shard wielding warriors.

I don't know, the ardentia isn't exactly clueless about realmatics and the history of Roshar. Yes, a lot has been lost or obscured, but Kabsal seemed to have quite a bit of knowledge. I believe that belief in the three realms is part of the Vorin religion. If this is true, then I don't see why they wouldn't know about Shadesmar or the spiritual realm.

Jasnah hasn't been careful about keeping her soulcasting hidden, she's been careful about keeping the fact that she is a Soulcaster (Elsecaller) hidden. I find it unlikely that you can use a soulcaster fabrial to travel to Shadesmar. Yes, I know there are some people who believe otherwise, but I'm not one of them. The difference between hiding your Soulcasting, and hiding the fact that you are a Soulcaster is quite large. Jasnah is known to use soulcasters. Taravangian believed she was in possession of a soulcasting fabrial at practically the same moment that Jasnah was introduced to us. As far as we know, Shallan is the only one that knows that Jasnah is a Surgebinder, and she only discovered this because she stole Jasnahs fake Soulcaster, had experience with Shadesmar herself, and caught Jasnah Soulcasting when she was in possession of a fake fabrial.

Okay, I wasn't trying to say that silica was rare, just that it wasn't as easily accessible as it is on earth. I would imagine that it is a fairly common waste product of mining. We know that mining exists, it was mentioned several times in TWoKs. I'm still extremely doubtful that spheres are soulcast. I'm even more dubious that anyone with a soulcaster would feel that spheres are a good power source for soulcasting. I'm not saying that you couldn't use a sphere to soulcast, I'm saying that it would lack a great deal of usefulness do to the size and quality of the gemstones embedded within them. That anyone who had access to a soulcaster would more than likely have access to gems that would be of greater utility. Soulcasting exacts its own price. It leads to gemstones which are shattered, which leads to gemstones of lesser value. I know that the gems don't always shatter, but I don't know that their is a known threshold, or that any existing thresholds for stormlight usage are constant with any given gem type.

Well, we know that Kaladins parents had hopes that he would become a successful surgeon in Kharbranth and marry a light-eyed woman of lesser means. We also know that just because your a light-eye doesn't mean your influential and powerful. Both Lamaril and Matal were pretty low ranking light-eyes. I would assume that there were others light-eyes who for whatever reason were financially impoverished and needed a good match for their daughters but lacked the prestige or financial security to capture the interest of other light-eyes. I'm not sure what to make of this though. We know that prostitution is fairly common, and we know that prostitutes have children. So this would mean that the light-eyed children of prostitutes have a higher social ranking than that of a high ranking dark-eye. If it is possible for Kaladins children to be born with light eyes, then it should be equally possible for the some of the children of a prostitute to be born with light eyes. This leads to the potential of light-eyed street urchins, which just seems counter to the entire social structure of Alethkar.

This just means that, while they would like her dead, she is not a high priority for their organization. She was likely a secondary or even tertiary target. Kabsal may have been in Kharbranth for another reason and was redirected to assassinate Jasnah when the opportunity presented itself. On topic, I don't think that taking a few minutes to write a colleague via spanreed would be a very involved process. Write the letter, get a confirmation or refusal, and grease the wheels with a harbor master about one passenger. I don't even think it would take any real effort for a noble light-eyes to have that type of information altered considering that assassination appears to be a fairly common occurrence in the upper levels of the nobility. All that would be required was that the colleague was important enough to Jasnah to have set up spanreed communications previously.

Sand is not a thing on Roshar in many places as brought up by name_here. So it either has to be imported, or silica has to be mined. Now beaches will have sand, regardless of the ferocity of highstorms. Not all beaches mind you, Roshar likely has a large number of rocky beaches, but sand will accumulate on beaches in some parts of Roshar. Sandy deserts on the other hand would be very rare. This would eliminate the possibility of people generally making their own spheres unless they reuse broken glass. Glass can be made far more durable than what we see in general usage today. Most glass objects today are made fragile. Not so long ago, a lot of commonly used glass containers were much thicker and capable of surviving being casually mishandled or dropped. We know that glass isn't exactly common place. Kaladin had to have Sylphrena search the war camp to find the bottles he used to store his sap, and even she could only find broken bottles with which to do so. This leads me to believe that finished glass objects are reused fairly frequently. The point is, that while I suppose that anyone capable of working with glass could create spheres, there are a limited number of people working glass do to the scarcity of raw materials. This would lend itself to becoming a trade commonly controlled by the nobility because they have the resources to acquire the raw materials necessary. If soulcasting is actually used, I find it far more probable that they are soulcasting rocks into silica and melting it down into glass to make the spheres, rather than transforming air into glass to surround each chip. It would require less energy to transform one type of dense matter into another than it would to transform air into a type of dense matter.

Nothing saying they have to manufacture spheres at the war camps. They can always ship fragments back to Alethkar for cutting and sealing. Travel to and from the warcamps seems to be a fairly regular occurrence. I think it's unlikely that the glass is soulcast. Why risk a valuable gem to encapsulate what is basically a waste gem? I'm sure that the manufacture is highly regulated and most likley requires representatives from foreign governments to be located on site of the manufactures to ensure quality control and adherence to standards.

Eh, well, I feel it was implied pretty strongly that Jasnah was trying to lose Shallan. I also believe that she had visited most of the locations she had Shallan stop at previously and made contacts with the local scholars. It's just as possible that Jasnah communicated via spanreed to some of her acquaintances and informed them about a potential irritant that petitioned her to be her mentor and requested they grease some wheels to make it appear that she had arrived and departed at a couple of ports she actually never even visited as a means of discouraging Shallan and slowing her down. I'm sure more than a few scholars would be interested in currying favor with a princess of Alethkar.

I had a pretty good memory of what the quote actually said, so after some fumbling on Google, I remembered to use the words odium, dictionary and Brandon Sanderson together and found it through a straight up Google search. The fumbling was using defin instead of dictionary because I thought it was definition or define.

I should mention that this source was a pain to track down.

@KiManiak — see Natans post above. I couldn't have put it better myself, even if I don't agree with it. By the way, if you read the cover blurb of WoR, it sounds like Kaladin and Shallan will be spending some time together on the Shattered Plains. Just saying. I personally could care less if Kaladin burns all the ships and pillages the natives like a good conquistador.

Cept how did Hoid get to Sel? He's from Yolen. How did he access the Dor on other planets, since this is actually one of the types of magic that Brandon says would be the most difficult to use because it's so localized. How is he still alive since forgery doesn't actually let you live longer than you would naturally? How does he travel through time? Hoids got some neat tricks, and I don't think that he is dependent on the magic of one world. As to the matter of Lightweaving, I believe this is a skill that Hoid learned on Yolen. Brandon has said that basically all illusion magic will work in a very similar fashion on any world, and since all Shards came from Yolen, it makes sense that any Shard that developed such a power would refer to it in familiar terms even if they aren't exactly the same.

Just a hunch. They are related, so I think it likely that they are related because Windrunner spren are basically the same thing as windspren with enough investiture to become splinters. So basically they are the same, but the amount of investiture they carry differs greatly. I'd compare it to the difference between the Parsh and the Parshendi. Same basic thing, but drastically different behaviors due to investiture.

"Ahh, there he is, the sixfingered scar faced man!" Moash says as he approaches the Azish man with a pale cresent-moon shaped scar on his cheek. Moahs glares at the man and lifts his spear. "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya Moash, you killed my father, prepare to die"

Wow, some strong opinions here. I found this paragraph amusing. So the destitute noble woman is too storybook, but hooking up with the princess is cool? A Windrunners abilities lend themselves to melee combat. They can be used for other purposes, but they are quite efficient when used in combat. They are faster than others, more skilled, and better trained in combat, because combat is what they do and stormlight aids them in that purpose. An Elsecaller may be trained in combat, but even if they are trained exclusively in combat, the talents of a Windrunner lend themselves far more perfectly to combat than those of an Elsecaller. I think the answer to your question is the Windrunner would stop themselves being taken out by a simple knife. Sure in the chaos of battle, someone may get lucky and stab a Windrunner to death, but they would really need that luck, because Kaladin has been surrounded on all sides by Parshendi warriors and he managed to get by just fine. "Oh Szeth your bald head and round eyes are so cute, it's a shame you had to murder my father in cold blood, but I'm so over that!" LOL, that's a pretty funny ship hoser

So we know that any magic system could be used on any planet...probably, if you know what you're doing.

Because unless you specifically state otherwise, when you ship two people together, your assumed to be speaking of a romantic relationship.

I would say that for this pairing to reach any kind of real social parity, Kaladin would first have to become the leader of the Windrunners, if not the Knights Radiant as a whole before he could be deemed a social equal to Jasnah. I don't find it beyond belief, but I do think it would be a long and drawn out romance. It is entirely possible that the process of infusing (and healing) slows the aging process, something Jasnah may have been doing for about six years. If this is so, it would minimize the age gap somewhat.