Chrono

Thanks! It's always nice to be appreciated. Edit: Had to actually look up what germaine meant. LOL

In one of the Shallan chapters, after she's in the hospital, Shallan remembers how she changed the goblet into blood. I'm not sure exactly what you meant by "infusing" stormlight, Hoser, but I believe that Shallan's order at least can hold stormlight inside their bodies. Whether this was the Stormlight simply passing through her body to the goblet, or whether she held the stormlight and then gave it to the goblet, I have no idea. If I completely misinterpreted your words, I apologize in advance.

Considering that Kaladin has kept all of his promises so far, I think that would happen, although his priority right now is trying to figure out just exactly how he's going to train a thousand former bridgemen to be soldiers. It would be interesting to see how Lopen would be able to fight one handed. From what I can tell from the book, most Spearman have a shield and a spear and dual wield it. Also, a person with two arms is able to apply more force behind a blow than with just one arm, so I'd like to see how exactly Kaladin will train Lopen to overcome that disadvantage.

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Yeah, I don't really see Adolin freaking out that Renarin gets Radiant powers and he doesn't. This is the same Adolin, who at the end of the book when he's about to die with Dalinar because Dalinar trusted the visions (and wrongfully interpreted them to mean that he should trust Sadeas), says, "You are right to follow the Codes. You were right to try to unite Alethkar. And I was a fool for fighting you on it every step along the path." (Ch. 66 "Codes", pg. 907) He gets some pretty prime character development, especially for a character who's not in the spotlight for most of the book. Renarin's even further from the spotlight, so I'm hoping for great progress from him. But yeah, I've got the feeling that their brotherly bond (which I too find adorable) will be too strong for petty things like jealousy and/or envy to get in the way. They might, but it'd probably be a small five minute thing, and then they'd be over it by the next chapter.

I think that if the Way of Kings was adapted into a manga style graphic novel, that could be good. My beef with movies is that there's only so much that you can reasonably cram into two hours, and that's if you cut out all of the emotional and mental turmoil of the characters, which is very hard to portray accurately onscreen. A TV show wouldn't have the budget for a huge project like this, mainly because of all the CGI and special effects things like Stormlight and Soulcasting would be expensive to produce. A videogame... Now that's a good idea, but I think it would be hard to come up with a fun gameplay system. Perhaps if you played as a Knight Radiant before the Recreance, that would be cool.

My personal opinion about why Shallan and co. didn't sell the Shardblade is that it's far too risky. It's not like there's just a black market for Shards sitting around, and even if they just bee-lined it straight to the King of Jah Keved and offered him the Shardblade, there would be many eyebrows raised. House Davar is described as of middling importance - ancient, yes, but not very powerful or influential. The King would probably not buy their story of "We have no idea how our father got this Shardblade, but please buy it so that we can save ourselves from debt," even though it's the truth. There's just too many ways that he could think of how Old Man Davar got the blade, all of them suspicious (assassinating a Shardbearer, theft, etc.). I also can't imagine that such a deal, even if it were to go through, could remain secret for that long. It would attract a huge amount of attention to the Davar house, which is exactly the opposite of what they need (an argument could be made that with the ludicrous amount of money made from selling the Shardblade, the Davars could simply bribe people to keep them quiet). If someone discovered that they also had a Soulcaster, they would probably get fried for heresy, and all the risk of selling the Shardblade would be for nothing. Is stealing from Jasnah a better idea? Probably not; it's still insanely risky and there are about a million ways it could go wrong. However, if Shallan was able to pull it off, she would be able to create those mineral deposits that made their family rich in the first place, give it to the Ghostbloods, and essentially kill two birds with one stone. If she simply sold the Blade, she would have nothing to combat the Ghostbloods with except bribes (which probably wouldn't work). I'm not trying to disprove anyone's theories or ideas; this is just my own opinion on why Shallan decided to not sell the Shardblade. Now that I think about it, your theory works a whole lot better, Gloom. Ah well, this is all just an idea of mine. As for the Soulcaster: it states in the book that Shallan's father's soulcaster had been sheared in two places: "across one of the chains and through the settings that held one of the stones." (p. 502) Since Shardblades (presumably) cut through the Spiritual Realm, it would make perfect sense that the Soulcaster was damaged so that the trapped spren or whatever powers it was released or damaged. Probably stating the obvious here. Also, if Shallan did kill her father with an ordinary weapon, how did the Soulcaster get cut with the Shardblade? Or did she immediately take the Shardblade after he died and start hacking at him with it?

Why thank you. The only reason I remembered that phrase was because Battar's First Divine Attribute is wisdom. I guess it just stuck with me. I believe Ishi (Ishar?) is also mentioned when Kaladin is storming swearing or something. Again, not much, but it is something.

Battar is mentioned in one of Dalinar's visions. IIRC, it was the one where the two KR come to the small village to fight the Midnight Essence. I don't have my copy of TWOK with me, but I do remember that Taffa (the woman that the voice speaks through at the end of the vision) says something along the lines of "Sweet wisdom of Battar!" as they're running from the Midnight Essence. Not much to go on, but she is mentioned. As for the others, I have no idea.

Hi, my name's Chrono. I've actually been hanging around 17th Shard for a while, but I was too lazy to actually create an account until now. Anyways, I first heard about Brandon from my brother, who heard about it from his roommate at college. He talked about the Mistborn Trilogy, and I shelved it away as another one of those silly suggestions from my family to read some book they loved. Boy, was I wrong! A few months passed, and I remembered my brother's suggestion. I was really fed up because I couldn't find a good book to read, so I picked up The Final Empire at the library and gave it a try. I finished the book addicted, and then I started going after every single book I could find that was written by Brandon. I really love his unique magic systems and vivid characters- which was exactly what I was looking for in a good fantasy novel. Anyway, I'll quit blabbing on and on. Hello all!