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OMG WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?????

Yeah I'm waiting to get my copy but amazon says it will be delivered at 9pm on the 6th. What's up with that?

OMG I WANT THIS BOOK! It won't be released till the 6th in the UK though. I feel like crying

Just because Szeth us an abnormality we can't generalize that everyone else is not like him. Also we don't know if he does have an honor blade.

No. I don't believe that they are all descendants. Were there even KR who didn't give up their blades? I just think the people assume that lighter eyes = more power but they don't know why they think that. The reason behind it is that in generations past they linked that to the KR having light eyes from stormlight.They knew it back then so it wasn't as important, or they thought it would help with being a surgebinder but they just forgot that part in later years cause of all the taboos associated with the KRs. Kind of like the legends about mistwraiths had a grain of truth to them with the skaa but they had no idea what they really were or how they became smart.

Szeth has a shardblade but his eyes arent constantly light only when he uses stormlight. Also I think that Amaram would have gotten the shards one way or another. I think Brandon said in an interview or somewhere else that in the first edition of WoK he had Kaladin accept the shards but Amaran took them anyway and made him a slave.

Yes I did mean that. darkeyes becoming light eyes I don't think its the shards that make your eyes glow but rather the stormlight. The myths didn't distinguish between the two because most radiants had shards anyway and if they did "back in the day" most vorin people hate KR so they just tried to forget the information and it was lost over the centuries.

Isn't that the same thing? investiture = lighter eyes. Also I'm not sure if the darkeyes' eye colour changed at Feverstone keep. my reasons are: 1) They didn't care about eye colour then so they cold as equally have been light eyes 2) the whole "light eyes become darkeyes" is a myth. Your eye colour and shards would change if you were a surgebinder.

OK... this also might sound stupid but what if having lighter eyes meant you had more innate investiture (possibly using the wrong words) in you. For example you had a higher chance in becoming a surgebinder than a normal person. Think like the nobles and Skaa. The pureblood nobles had a higher chance of becoming allomancers than skaa-noble pairings. I might be totally insane and yes I do know that kaladin is a darkeyes. But think of all the others who show powers: Jasnah, Shallan and etc.

Well played my friend. I can't argue with Hoid. He is awesome... FACT.

That escalated quickly. I have to agree with Aether though. I think the visions are new.

I did check the book and it said he had blue eyes. It might have been dark though.

damnation and I thought I was smart!

How do you even become a beta reader? I WANT TO BE ONE!

What if Syl is not from Cultivation? If she is from Honor (Note "honorspren") maybe she didn't retain her memory because he was shattered?

Another thing that I also noticed was Hoid's eye colour changing. I'm pretty sure he had a mid colour eye when he was Wit but at the very end of the book when he's left and he's at the gate waiting for the "end to come" the guards say he has light blue eyes. Is that lightweaving or stormlight?

Whilst leafing through the WoK I noticed something. At the very end of the book when Honor talks to Dalinar he says he doesn't know who he is or if anyone would see these visions. But something in the death notes caught my eye: “That chanting, that singing, those rasping voices.” - Kaktach 1173, 16 seconds pre-death. A middle-aged potter. Reported seeing strange dreams during highstorms during the last two years. Does this potter dude have the same visions that Dalinar had or were they different? Honor showing another part of his to him or asking him to find the honor blades or something?

This will probably sound stupid but I just finished a re-read of WoK and I was wondering if you started using stormlight would your eye colour change to a set colour or just become lighter? Szeth's eyes glow sapphire even though his eyes are green and Kaladin's glow amber but the Knights Radiants of each order have plates that glow a different colour (i.e. Blue, red and whatever) so does a similar thing happen to their eyes?

It still seems that there are hundreds out there. I know Dalinar says there are about 200 but in his vision, Almighty says that the group of hundreds of radiants were the first so we have to assume there were more radiants thus more blades. Also before anyone says anything... yes I do know that some orders didn't fight

I agree. They are probably right under our noises...

Oh and on the subject of blades... Where are the rest of the radiant swords? Are they stored with the Honorblades?

Thank you Aether! I think they are in my vision but I just didn't notice them. Stupid move I know but hey I'm human.

I seriously seem to miss a lot of stuff. Can someone please put up the photo of the blades. I have the UK version and it doesn't seem to have them. Or I missed them.

Hmm. This is all really interesting. I always assumed that the shattered plains were the last desolation occurred OR where Honor died. I also think that honor's shardpool would be somewhere buried beneath the plains as it was a sight of "great magic" as BS said. As for the blades my best guess is Nightwatcher and the Shin still. I guess I'm quite hard to sway.

But when was the city destroyed? and what did she say in the reading? I read it months ago.