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It isn't, but Breath is what makes Awakening actually possible. You can retrieve the Breaths after use, but without it nothing would actually come to life. That's why I see the Breath as fuel for Awakening. Even though the color is consumed, it's not what fuels the Awakened creature. But I can see why you posted that. After all, I did say that fuel was consumed in my definition of fuel. Sigh. As for the body heat issue, what Moogle said could be a possibility. Or the frost could be a by-product of Stormlight consumption. With only small amounts of Stormlight, there's little to no frost. But when Kaladin glows it up? Gigantic amounts, enough to create the Windrunner's sigil. Maybe the process of consuming Stormlight creates the frost, similar to how a fire leaves behind ashes. Now, why it can form into a specific symbol, I have no idea. Address and rip apart as needed.

We really don't know about the KR orders enough to answer this. Honestly, any one of them could be taken down by the other as long as one has more Stormlight. But, for my answer I choose... Hoid. More seriously, Dustbringers. They can blow stuff up with their minds, judging on the stuff I've seen. Elsecallers do seem to be at an advantage, but Soulcasting is supposed to be extremely dangerous. Look at when Shallan tried it. It took her five minutes, she nearly fell into Shadesmar, and she still couldn't do it. I'm reasonably sure that Elsecallers do not have an Insta-Kill button quite like that.

Hm. Trolloss I think would win, mainly because trolls are tough, and koloss are tough, so this is gonna be one tough mother to take down. 150 skeletals might be enough. I'll be excited to see how it ends, though!

To me, it seems that Stormlight is the fuel and body heat is the catalyst. Similar to Warbreaker, where the fuel is Breath, but the catalyst is color (a voice just directs the Breath, and surgebinders seem to do that mentally, so there is no vocal component). However, I guess that it really depends on what you define "fuel" as being. To me, fuel is what is consumed and directly supplies the magic.

This. Just this. Kaladin's occupation, as a bodyguard, is to protect his charges. It is an expected part of the job that the bodyguard remains as inconspicuous and unintrusive to his charges as possible. Kaladin doesn't just fail at that, he blatantly ignores it and speaks whenever he wants. Dalinar must like him and trust him a LOT, because otherwise, he would have just fired him. Now, you can argue that Kaladin has done a bunch of heroic stuff, and I won't disagree with you. In fact, I don't like how he was treated at all. But the fact that Kaladin (to the eyes of all lighteyes present) basically took the rules and said, "Screw you," to them, is it any wonder that he was thrown in jail? As Dalinar said, he was lucky to be alive. Elhokar was at fault here certainly, but Kaladin was too.

I get that you're talking about romantic love, but Dalinar is seriously guilty on this charge if you're talking about familial love. It's been noted several times that he's made some pretty poor choices regarding Elhokar (the whole Silversmiths issue was the first issue that came to mind). People will aways make stupid decisions based on love. How much attention is put on those stupid decisions is crucial here if we want to avoid the overdramatized love stories that everyone detests these days.

You might be giving Elhokar the short hand of the stick here. Yes, he's a brat. Yes, I wouldn't shed a tear if Szeth suddenly came, killed him, then disappeared without a trace. But that doesn't mean he's not trying. Remember the scene in Kaladin's barracks? Even though he instantly killed the effect by being bratty again, he lowers himself down to Kaladin's level and admits he has a problem. Doing that, even though he certainly did it in a fairly annoying way, is true humility. Brat Elhokar actually fessing up that he made a mistake? At least give him pointers for that. Also, as to Elhokar destroying the plan with Adolin and the duel, Kaladin also botched it as much as he did. Kaladin knew at least as much as Elhokar did, blatantly went against Lighteye political protocol, all so that he could pretty much satisfy a grudge and get some revenge. Elhokar seriously let his brattiness get in the way, but if Kaladin had just stayed quiet and kept his temper under control, the entire situation never would have happened.

I've seen two main camps of people who don't support the Shalladin Ship. If there are any more that I haven't noticed, please help me out and post them below. Thank you. 1. People genuinely want Shallan and Adolin together because they like their chemistry and want Adolin to finally get the girl for once. And they feel it would be the nice solution to the whole love triangle problem. Which leads into... 2. People just don't want love triangles. I see this as the most common camp. Even among my friends, this seems to be the common consensus: I asked my friend whether he was for Shalladin or Shadolin, and he responded Shadolin. I asked him why, and he paused before giving the explanation above. Love triangles have been so overdone and so dramatized that people are just sick of them. Even I, a Shalladin Shipper, don't want this to be a traditional love triangle, though Brandon has stated that he won't take it in that direction (as in, traditional love triangle, not no love triangle at all).

I think in the case of Miles, it would be dangerous for him to stop because now he can actually die. Imagine if he ran out of gold while he was fighting bandits. It would kill him almost instantly. People like Miles learn to take risks and to stop hesitating because they're practically invincible. If you take that away, the instincts of "Oh, I'm invincible, so that bullet won't kill me," are still in place. And there you go. Dead Miles.

Actually, Tarachin is a game that requires a huge field, with people who literally have the strength of gods throwing the balls. Something tells me that's not it. However, it's almost definitely from Nalthis.

I've always found the idea of incredibly mundane people worshipped as deities to be hilarious, so that might be a subtle humor that's suitable. Examples include the town drunk, a dirty old man, an old crone that still fancies herself a looker, a thief, etc. Another thing to note is that honestly, the Greek Gods were incredibly immature. For goodness sakes, the Trojan War was started because two goddesses were offended that one dude didn't choose their gift! They acted suspiciously like bratty six year old kids with ADHD (which is why I found the Percy Jackson series to be so painfully accurate and humorous). Also, if you're going for a specific character, I'd like mine to be an extremely voluptuous and seductive woman... whose domain is purity, chastity, and virtue. And if a man dares to think dirty thoughts about her, she'd hit them over the head with something. A whip, I don't know. I think that'd be pretty funny!

Hrm. This is an interesting dilemma, mainly because we know that Adolin and Renarin are incredibly tight, but Adolin kinda went off the deep end at the end of WoR. I for one would love to see Renarin trust in Adolin and talk about Glys. We get the feeling that the main reason he didn't talk about it is because he thought he was cursed ("Almighty, why have you cursed me so?) or because, you know, seeing the future is kind of a huge taboo in Vorin culture. I think it'd lift Adolin's spirits if Renarin started talking to him again. Now, of course, there's the possibility that Renarin still won't confide in Adolin, that Adolin will grow jealous of Renarin because he has super-cool Radiant powers, that Renarin will be too busy to talk to Adolin, or that Adolin will be so consumed with guilt that he'll cut himself off from his family. Either way, it's going to be hard for everyone.

Man, I really like your Sadeas! However, it's stated in the book that he's as old as Dalinar, so I expected more grey in his hair. Nevertheless fantastic job! And, can I also just say that picture of Jasnah pointing Ivory at Wit looks epic?

I always felt that Blushweaver was just misguided. You have to remember that one of the main themes of the book is communication problems. I always laugh when Vivenna is like, "Oh, my poor sister Siri, stripped of her dignity and honor, forced to live in this land full of heathens," and Siri's like, "This is FUN! I hope Vivenna's doing okay as ruler of the kingdom!" Likewise, one of the reasons the Idrians and the Hallandren are fighting is communication errors. The Idrians feel like they're being threatened by the Hallandren when in actuality they're just being ignored. Same thing for the Hallandren. Blushweaver in this case sees the Idrians as a threat, and so she's doing the only thing she can do: gain control of all the armies. She legitimately thinks that this is the best option for her people. I think she even mentions that she's doing this for her people to Lightsong, when he thinks that she's just trying to gain power over everyone.

Holy crap, Goob as Nightblood! This is now a thing! As for the casting, I really love the idea of Jewel Staite as Siri. She's the perfect amount of bubbly.

Looked at the title. I thought, "Ah, there is a troll among us." I was not disappointed. I have to say though, that's quite the number you've done on that book there. I've managed to total books, but never that severely. I'll have to get back to work on it.

Well, Sigzil teaches a betting game with stones to Teft, so that's probably an Azish thing. Vasher/Zahel's playing a game with colored stones which may or may not be from Nalthis. Kal got into a quarterstaff fight with another kid, suggesting that that might be a common thing among Alethi darkeyed kids. There are some festivals as well. The Reshi seem to play and have fun all the time, so I think they're covered. As for some joke games, I can think of One-Armed Herdazian Tag, Hide and Choose Dullform, and some Rosharan knock-off of Trivial Pursuit.

I've always imagined Tarah as the hooker with the heart of gold. Now, I'm really curious to see if she comes back, because that could lead to some very interesting conflict. Also, despite Adolin's reputation as a Serial Romeo, Kaladin is the guy who gets the most chicks in the SA. Women just flock to him. Why? And, lest Lopen be quoted, all of them were into Kaladin before he could glow.

Knowing them, they'd try to replicate Kaladin's Highstorm survival stunt and have to reengineer a new Buster.

Hey, welcome to the forums! Have an upvote for your actually interesting idea. I really like this theory, mainly because there's tons of evidence to suggest it. Taravangian has without exception chosen to off all of his competition instead of cooperating with them. Dalinar is a great example. Instead of sending him a message by spanreed (Hey, Dalinar. I've heard that you have these strange delusions. Perhaps one of my medical teams could come to the Shattered Plains, you could get a diagnosis, and we could talk about the future of Roshar.), he pretty much says "Oh, whoops. We let him have too much power. Oh well, gotta kill him now." There's also this: "You must become King. Of everything." Sounds like there's not a lot of room for competition there.

Going on a more serious note and answering the OP's question, I believe that Kaladin's parents are both alive and living in Hearthstone. Laral will be unhappily married to Roshone and raising his child. Roshone is a drunkard and regularly abuses Laral and their child because he is still angry about losing his son. Lirin will also be a drunk (If he and Roshone were drinking buddies, I would laugh so hard, but the possibility of that is zero). Both he and Hesina will be ecstatic to see Kaladin, but Lirin will mildly resent Kaladin for failing to protect Tien and leaving to join the army. It's not a happy scene, but ever since Roshone's shown up, Hearthstone has not been a happy place.

With Shallan's Father, I could see him being very cold and uncaring to Shallan's siblings, but kind to Shallan. Or even, he could have been a great guy, but Shallan's mother going downhill could have caused him stress and angry outbursts that he tried to repress when Shallan was near. Note that after Shallan killed her mother, Lin either looks guiltily at Shallan or tries to stop his rages if she is nearby. I find it very significant that Shallan wanted her mother to love her in the imaginary dream she tells Hoid. For a child, simply not paying attention or favoring another sibling is a traumatizing thing. Shallan's mother could have favored her sons more than Shallan, or simply not taken interest in her daughter's life. This could be enough to draw Pattern.

I've also noticed that some Orders seem very disadvantaged in combat compared to others. But, we have to remember Jasnah's quote. For every Radiant on the field, three more were scholars, engineers, and dignitaries. Now, her statistics might be off, but the principle is very sound. You don't want just soldiers on the battlefield. You want combat engineers, combat medics, military strategists, logicians, quartermasters, what have you. Without any of those things, an army falls apart. Heck, even without scholars, the Knights Radiant could have fallen due to not understanding the weaknesses or strengths of the enemy. As a plus, each supposedly non-combat oriented KR can double as one in a real crisis. Lightweavers can distract their enemies and kill them. Truthwatchers, same thing (except they can create the illusions as cover while they heal themselves or others). Edgedancers can slide around their enemy and heal allies. Elsecallers can transport supplies and such while Soulcasting the ground into water or something. Willshapers and Stonewards can manipulate the forces inside of atoms to do basically whatever they want. *Insert technically correct description of their surges here.* Basically, what I'm trying to say is that not every tool fits the same situation. An army without any support besides fighters is absolutely screwed. Anyone who's played any RPG ever knows that.

Apparently, trespassing in the holy room while the Kadasixes are conversing about who should be Prime is punishable by death. When Nale charges in and captures Lift, he gives the lady in charge a paper that explains for what crime Lift is about to be executed. She protests, but Nale tells her that Lift had committed a crime punishable by death (trespassing). The Kadasixes give no more verbal objection. Since Azir is a country that is all about proper forms and legal matters, I think that Nale's paperwork is in order.