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If Seon bonds supposedly should be able to grant some sort of power when relocated to Roshar when they basically did nothing prior, I'm sure the Nightblood bond will do something other than just vaporizing everything it cuts.

According to WoB it gives some sort of power but not like a nahel blond. The principle is the same but the outcome is different. Like how Vasher cannot Awaken on Roshar. I think you have to rewrite their spirit web so they could firstly access the main source of investiture and secondly adapt their abilities which might not even be useful in the new system. Like using an adapter when you visit another country.

We see Vasher doing several things in Warbreaker with Nightblood drawn that he cannot do his his own. (vaporize lifeless and a giant circle in the ceiling, for starters). You could argue that that's just Nightblood, but I could also argue that Kaladin's powers are just Syl. No Syl, no windrunning. No Nightblood, no vaporizing. Yes, Vasher has abilities of his own due to being Returned, and yes Nightblood is separate, but drawing Nightblood grants new powers, just like bonding a spren does. 

I disagree. Anyone using Nightblood could do those things. Like anyone using a shardblade could cut inanimate objects that doesn't mean they are defiantly bonded to them and are automatically a radiant. Kaladin used Pattern when he was in the shattered planes with Shallan yet he was unbonded to him. If he was he could do lightweaving.

I'm just saying that since Nightblood didn't grant Vasher any special powers that were independent of wielding him like gaining an extra heightening or something related to awakening on his own world, it is unlikely that he would be able to use the "bond" they have to access stormlight and utilise it the same way as Skybreakers do on Roshar. 

All of this is fascinating but we keep avoiding the fact that Nightblood didn't actually didn't give Vasher any new powers. He was returned on his own... he created Nightblood (Well Shoshara? did). Nightblood is an separate entity to its wielder. A bond with a Spren however does give new abilities like using stormlight.

It sounds very romantic to have a sword that can "destroy evil" but Sazed without stormlight will not be as effective of a fighter especially against other radiants with shard blades.

No Surgebinders, just people. Interpol, not the Justice League.

Brilliant! I laughed so hard when I saw this. That's kind of what I think. It would be interesting if Spren start to bond with "real" Skybreakers and then they have to have a showdown with the fake ones.

So I know there are a lot of theories on Darkness being Nalan and if he is actually the Patron of Skybreakers but lets say he really is Nalan and recruited Szeth.

If Szeth is on his way on becoming a Skybreaker where is his Spren? I know he has Nightblood but from what I remember Nightblood didn't give his wielder any extra powers. So does this mean he won't be able to use stormlight anymore? Will he get a spren later or Nalan is so against spren that he won't allow it (seeing as he kills all potential knights)

So thoughts?

Actually that WoB refers to the fact that Vasher was in the original 2002 draft of WoK and so has been on Roshar 12 years "our time".  It does NOT refer to how long he has been on Roshar in-world.

Figures. I thought I would've seen a WoB like that before

Well, Vasher's been on Roshar for twelve years, so I'm guessing she's dead, or they broke up.

How do you know Vasher has been on Roshar for that long?

On another note... I was listening to the WoR audiobook and before Gavilar dies he's talking to Amaram. What if the "brother" he is referring to isn't Dalinar but Amaram? He seems to have told him a whole lot more about stuff and Amaram is supposedly working towards something Gavilar wanted.

The SLCC transcript partially confirms your idea

Awesome! I hadn't seen this so thanks for the new reading material

I was going through the wiki and reading about feruchemy where I found this:

"Duralumin is used to store Spiritual connection."

I know the Ars Arcanum specifies that Duralumin helps with frienships but what if Hoid uses it to "connect" to the spiritual realm on each planet and tweak his Spiritweb so he can access the magic systems?

Thoughts?

When you believe that you should translate all of Brandon's books into another language so an entirely new country would benefit from the awesomeness of Brandon Sanderson's work and wisdom.

According to WoB, Kaladin has met two Lightweavers. I wouldn't say that this immediately disproves your theory, but it heavily suggests that Elhokar is a Radiant.

I know most people assume that Elhokar is seeing Cryptics but he doesn't seem like he has the characteristics of a lightweaver. Shallan  first saw pattern in her drawings but Elhokar sees his spren in the mirrors. I just think that if they both are from the same order their spren would show themselves in the same way. Also unless paranoia can be considered the art of spinning long tales on alternative death scenarios then he is no artist and having creative streak was essential to becoming a lightweaver.

Awaken a puppet with the command "Be a real boy."

Possibly the best command ever! It would be even better to use the Mona Lisa or another famous painting and drain its colors to awaken the puppet.

This might be an extremely stupid question and the answer is possibly staring me right in the face but how on earth did Szeth get to Urithiru in the interludes? Did he come through oathgate in the shattered plains or maybe a locked on? If so do honor blades work the same as shardblades as a fabrial key? If he didn't get through the oathgates did he just stumble upon it one day or the Stone Shamans told him about it? So many unanswered questions!

I got Brandon to sign a few of my books and write some stuff in it. First, I asked him what Sazed was up to and he said he was "Harmonizing". Then I asked him to tell me something about Nazh and Khriss and he wrote that "Khriss is Nazh's employer. He gets the worst end of the deal" lastly i asked him to write something about the Nightwatcher and he said "The Nightwatcher isn't the same as Cultivation"

I thought of hundreds of better questions later but I completely forgot them when I saw him and fan girled majorly from what I got from him it confirms Khriss and Nazh's relationship and that the Nightwatcher is likely Cultivations spren like the Stormfather. When I asked him about the gender of the Nightwatcher he hesitated a bit and seemed uncertain and first said its not the same as cultivation which is female then referred to it as a she which was confusing.

I've also written down the answers to the questions that I asked when he was signing my books, two of them are about White Sand, so I don't think I should copy them here, but the rest of them are as follows:

Can you please PM me the answers to those questions?

If I can drag my best friend to London thEn YES!

When is his signing? I've never been to London Con, tbh I don't even know if its a thing but I would love to go to a signing!

A Holy Relic!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=632462813510805&set=a.275543499202740.64355.240775436012880&type=1&theater

I think this should be the official symbol of the church of the Stick!

When you fall asleep every night listening to every single Sanderson Book.

When you have more theories about SA than theories involving your research project.

I just finished mistborn, and

 

Through out the whole final battle Ruin talks about how its not about good and evil, since Ruin for example doesn't care if he kills "bad people" or "good people", it all depends on the onlooker's point of view. In the same way, Preservation (at least as the shard's intent, not holder) might do nothing against an evil tyrant, since his intent is based on stability and lack of change.

In the end, I think the only shard that can be called somewhat Evil is Odium, and even he (as mention above) is not purely evil, but rather depends on the context. (Same goes to Honor BTW, just the other way around, it all about perspective)

I actually agree with this but I just think that honor might think that ruin is evil or any of the other shards. Syl couldn't agree with the killing of the King and others but other orders might not think that way. I think Brandon said somewhere that Adolin killing Sadeas wouldn't be considered bad in some KR groups. However it wouldn't be tolerated with Honorspren. The same goes for the shards. The KRs are mainly of honor and since honor doesn't like the idea of the other 6 shards he doesn't use 16 orders but 10. Preservation is all about "preserving" so he used 16 in the allomatic arts.

When does someone yell "Pervert!" and bring out a mallet?

By the way...I want to see more. I read a bit to Brandon tonight.

Please say that he loved it and he's going to put it in as a summary in the next book

I found a generator and, oddly enough, got the title Sword of Sparks. I would actually read that.

 

The dynamic duo that is Nightstick sets out to destroy the Firebringers once and for all... and learn a little bit about true love along the way.

That is an awesome title. I also like the description as well. Though maybe they would set out to destroy the fire quenchers to restore the light of the world instead?

If you call it Nightblood: Inter-species Romance, you could probably convince them that it is a vampire romance.

How about A Bloody stick in the Night: Conquering evil. I guess that's a bit gothic. Or maybe Destroying Evil: How their love "beat" destiny. I'm horrid at picking names. Especially romantic ones. I actually typed Stick and Nightblood into a romance novel name generator but I kept on getting "The White Enchantress" which makes no sense

Brandon Sanderson has said he's considered doing a Nightblood POV, so I'd say it's a distinct possibility. I'm inclined to think it would be in Nightblood (the novel) as opposed to taking up valuable space in an interlude. Interludes that can be better used giving us cryptic hints about worldhoppers and worldbuilding.

I think if we continue with this new relationship the new Warbreaker book should be called "Nightstick: A love story" rather than just "Nightblood". Who knows it might even persuade Teenage girls that its a teen romance and they can join the Church of the Stick