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  1. Bloodfalcon
    Nah, you can clearly see they are not in the storm yet in that picture, so they still need stormlight (not the scene that the bridgemen dump out lanterns for Kaladin), and his efficiency is not the only factor. If Szeth were to cut a few more limbs of Kaladins, he would need access to tons of Stormlight to heal them. He has every reason to bring a large gem.
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    Find me any point in time when Kaladin is above a glowing puddle during the Szeth fight - he is reaching down onto the ground and holding a shiny *anything* and I'll assume it isn't a gemheart. But it is.
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    I don't think this was one of those times where the artist was just making things up hoping it would be in the book. Why would Kaladin be pinning a gem to the ground if he didn't get some direction there? A gem that big? It seems like you are able to pass it off as not existing, but the thread is about the gemheart that is actually there in the first draft of the cover.
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    You had the entirety of his Szeth fight described to you. DId he make many puddles?
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    Lol you had to reach for that one. Good effort.
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    But like is that part of the picture fuzzy when you imagine it? What else could it be? A Shardpuddle?
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    In what way does this post contain any spoilers whatsoever?
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    Dude, you are looking at a large uncut gem on that cover. It is glowing too. Honestly it makes more sense NOT to bring it back, as it is really suspicious alongside Kaladin's bite wounds! I think it was supposed to be part of the sequence but got cut. Maybe Brandon didn't expect them to just dip down into they highstorm to recharge initially, or maybe he just didn't want to have to write in Kaladin going through all of the tents trying to find the gemheart. I don't know, but that's what he is holding there. He very clearly doesn't have his hand flat on the ground, and it has a very distinct shape with a glow. Yeah, I think Dalinar's POV or Adolin's would have mentioned the soldiers being in possession of a gemheart and then tossing it on the ground. It would look a bit odd, don't you think? The way they talk about how much they are worth and all that?
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    Now that Jasnah is back alive, I have no reason to believe that seeing a body means anything. Probably right that Ym doesn't qualify, but I meant to point to more Nalan scenes more than anything. Bartbug, great point that he ended up falling to the ground through an Everstorm.
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    I don't think that Heralan is alive, but you are attributing things to coincidence by default when they clearly would not be. He is in a shady organization that is all about behind the scenes trickery. The Shardblade and potentially plate that he would have might not have been his to give to begin with. It wouldn't be that massive of a conspiracy considering he is only really relevant to anybody because Shallan is one of our main characters. Also, Taravangian admits to being wrong on things, he is not all knowing. Again, I think he is dead, but not for those reasons. I just think it is supposed to set up hatred for Kaladin/Shallan, and I don't see a ton of value in his character unless he was full blown KR at the time (which Mraize (?) said their house had a lot of involvement with bigger things so idk).
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    Yeah, I was going to suggest that he was either removing the bond and then resurrecting them OR just instituting that sick sense of justice he has by killing them for their crimes and then reviving them as a sort of ritualistic rebirth or a way to offer them a spot on his team of buttheads that he is apparently forming.
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    The purpose for him dying at Kaladin's hand is that it creates obvious drama down the line when Shallan finds out. She instantly hated Amaram for that reason alone well before he was accused of other villainous activities. The dude definitely took a knife to the face unless he is the masked ghostblood leader now. I forget how to spell the name but it has an M. Mraise? I don't know, but it's a long shot any way you put it.
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    Long story short Szeth got brought back to life with a crescent shape fabrial. Nalan brought him back, so I was hoping to get a collection of information on a couple things: 1. Szeth thought the fabrial looked familiar - do we have any guesses as to where he might have seen it? 2. Every event Nalan has been at is now suspect in my eyes. I don't think Brandon wants to bring characters back to zombie life often, but I'd like if we could consider all of the other possibilities there. I.E. Can we think of anyone that has died within 5 minutes distance from where Nalan has been? We know Ym had some problems.... what about our boy Gavilar himself? Could Nalan have revived him and smuggled him away?
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    I'm positive that the gemheart Kaladin and Shallan brought back from the time they spent in the chasms was supposed to be significant or at least utilized in the final scene between Kaladin and Szeth. The largest piece of evidence is that the original drafts of the cover had what looks to be a greenish gemheart in Kaladin's hand: The build up is good - they go fight a Chasmfiend, they kill it, decide to get the gemheart out, finally make it back - but then Kaladin tosses it on a counter or something and it isn't seen again. What is with that? Does anyone know or have a hypothesis as to why that idea was scrapped? I guess it might downplay Kaladin's abilities if he had the advantage of a giant Gemheart to siphon Stormlight from, but.... I don't know, it seems like it was swapped out to me.
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    The warning given by admins was "If you don't want to see Words of Radiance spoilers, don't come on to the Words of Radiance board after March 4th, because that's what this board is for."
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    Great first post. Good point. I don't see it as holding much water, but it is relevant. I don't think Dalinar identifies with his scars more than Lopen possibly could have with a missing arm. Additionally, In the time we have seen Dalinar getting highstorm visions, he hasn't had a single arm injury that would cause a scar. I thought the same thing - that he had maybe had the attention of that spren since those visions (maybe why he sees them), so there really is no reason to believe he might have been using Stormlight previously.
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    Yeah I thought so. I was specifically watching for that because Brandon has said in interviews that he wanted to be very careful with bringing people back to life in his series. That fabrial had better be rare even on top of the stipulation that they need to be fresh bodies (to put it creepily).
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    Perhaps I am putting too much weight on the prologue stuff, but it doesn't change the real points: Shardplate, and really all gem based items (fabrials as well), use the stormlight in the gems attached to them, and when too much is drawn, the gems crack. Additionally, we have seen non-Radiants glowing before. The scars thing I am more confident on. It does seem like a good way to say he might be healing himself, but Kaladin was literally hung up in a highstorm and almost died of the injuries, then healed via stormlight and there isn't any indicator. Hell, Lopen is growing limbs. I think it is a stretch to say Dalinar's body only used half the stormlight required, so there is scarring. To me it also seems like something that spren grant (obviously) - and while Dalinar does have some relationship with this spren, it is also doing just about everything it can to spite him. He basically trapped it in oaths, so I don't really think it was allowing Stormlight inhalation before that.
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    I'm not so sure. He has been in Shardplate for years and that usually disrupts Surgebinding and Stormlight inhalation (as it wasn't full KR plate). So his fighting abilities are his own as far as I can tell. And the fact that there is a lot of scarring actually says the wounds weren't healed by Stormlight, unless there is some caveat of the healing we don't know about. The convincing one is the catching the claw thing, but even that is explainable. Stormlight drains from the Shardplate as the plate is used, so that much durability being expended might have done it, but my other thought is that we know another Surgebinder was around Dalinar at the time - Renarin - who did end up helping. Not sure how it explains Dalinar himself being the one to catch the claw, which is the most convincing piece of the theory, but it's possible perhaps that Renarin also granted Dalinar some Stormlight unintentionally. I guess it's hard to say because we don't know how long the Almighty spren has been watching him, but it's not an impossibility by any means!
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    Great point
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    Less official actually, because the official stance is that they are unnecessary. You just like that it looks dangerous.
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    Hahahaha, I love "because of reasons". Yeah there seems to be discrepancy between Brandon, the speed writer who expects the book out fast, and Peter, the assistant who has said the assistants need more time. Hahahaha that all makes sense to me. I am going to expect it early 2016 as a compromise between the two. There is no real answer here.
  24. Bloodfalcon
    Between calling out spoilers and people putting "Baseless speculation" on their titles, every thread title looks almost identical when I'm scanning a page now. It's not the biggest concern, but it is really irritating. Thanks for helping me get this nailed down, guys.
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    Good call there. I was confident that the word "fabrial" was used, but maybe I'm wrong. Either way though.
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