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Odium?

Odium?

Maybe simply a translation convention? The characters didn't speak Engligh at the time, did they?

This confirms that Kaladin cannot use the Stormlight equivalent from the Everstorm, otherwise there would be no reason for him to walk the last 30 miles. Which leads me to believe that the black sphere that Galivar gave Szeth at the very start of Way of Kings contains 'Voidlight' or 'Odilight' or whatever you want to call it.

Everlight?

(Does it not shine light, but do the opposite? Like casting shadows instead of illuminating things? We've seen similar things done, think Jasnah and Axies.)

 

Makes me wonder though, how come his spheres didn't fill up with voidlight?

I thought maybe Odium uses different crystals — or its essences are manifesting by something different, not crystals.

But it would make no sense. Firstly, the black sphere Gavilar gave Szeth was made of crystal. Secondly, Parshendi transformations were feeding of the highstorms and it's what caused the Everstorm, not the other way round. (Or are we mislead?)

Adonalsium is not every shard combined. Adonalsium was merely the person that held all the shards. When all shards are combined it becomes something else entirely.

As per Word of Brandon, in the Cosmere the word Shard means both the person and the power. So Adonalsium would be both the sixteen powers combined and the person holding them.

How many books will there be in Stormlight Archive?

Over nine thousand!!!

But seriously, what the other folks say, two pentalogies.

And yes, rereads are fun.

It's a little emo...but...cut open a flap of skin somewhere, put a little bit of steel and pewter in there...then stitch it back up...just leave it there...

Wouldn't it be a little bit too much Hemalurgy-like?

Go to a wax museum and awaken all of the statues with the command "Don't move"

Go to a Scadrian wax museum and awaken the statue of Wax Ladrian with the command "Be Wax".

I was trying to figure out the ten surges and what powers they could produce when I realized something. The names of each order generally seem to be made of two parts, each part in reference to the two surges with which it is affiliated.

I'd follow that track, but go in a slightly different direction.

Each Order's name consists of two parts: the noun part and then the verb part. Say the two refer separately to two associated surges.

In fact we've only seen three different Orders in action:

1. Windrunners

Element: air

Attributes: protecting, leading

Purpose: protectors

Surges: adhesion (wind) and gravitation (run)

Spren type: honorspren

2. Skybreakers

Element: smoke

Attributes: just, confident

Purpose: judges

Surges: gravitation (sky) and division (break)

Spren type: ?

3. Dustbringers

Element: fire

Attributes: brave, obedient

Purpose: ?

Surges: division (dust) and abrasion (bring)

Spren type: ?

4. Edgedancers

Element: crystal

Attributes: loving, healing

Purpose: healers (?)

Surges: abrasion (edge) and progression (dance)

Spren type: ? (Wyndle is one)

5. Truthwatchers

Element: plant

Attributes: learned, giving

Purpose: spies (?)

Surges: progression (truth) and illumination (watch)

Spren type: cryptics (?)

6. Lightweavers

Element: blood

Attributes: creative, honest

Purpose: artists

Surges: illumination (light) and transformation (weave)

Spren type: cryptics (liespren in particular)

7. Elsecallers

Element: oil

Attributes: wise, careful

Purpose: scholars

Surges: transformation (else) and transportation (call)

Spren type: cryptics (?)

8. Willshapers

Element: metal

Attributes: resolute, builder

Purpose: supporters (?)

Surges: transportation (will) and cohesion (shape)

Spren type: ?

9. Stonewards

Element: stone

Attributes: dependable, resourceful

Purpose: constructors (?)

Surges: cohesion (stone?) and tension (ward?)

Spren type: ?

10. Bondsmiths

Element: flesh

Attributes: pious, guiding

Purpose: mediators (?)

Surges: tension (bond?) and adhesion (smith?)

Spren type: ? ("specific" spren, e.g. the Stormfather)

So far we've seen three Surges being extensively used:

Adhesion (The Surge of Pressure and Vacuum)

· creates adhesive force, gluing objects together

· is accessed by Bondsmiths and Windrunners

Gravitation (The Surge of Gravity)

· creates gravitational force, pulling an object towards another

· is accessed by Windrunners and Skybreakers

Illumination (The Surge of Light, Sound, and Various Waveforms)

· creates illusions, changing appearance of an object

· is accessed by Truthwatchers and Lightweavers

Another four were used by PoV characters:

Abrasion (The Surge of Friction)

· manipulates frictional force, faciliating sliding on a surface or sticking to it

· is accessed by Dustbringers and Edgedancers

Progression (The Surge of Growth and Healing, or Regrowth)

· manipulates growth, accelerating it, enables healing others

· is accessed by Edgedancers and Truthwatchers

Transformation (The Surge of Soulcasting)

· enables turning one substance into another

· is accessed by Lightweaving and Elsecallers

Transportation (The Surge of Motion and Realmatic Transition)

· enables quick traveling, probably by teleportation

· is accessed by Elsecallers and Willshapers

And there are three that we know almost nothing of:

Division (The Surge of Destruction and Decay)

· it might be able to separate fragments of an object

· is accessed by Skybreakers and Dustbringers

Cohesion (The Surge of Strong Axial Interconnection)

· it might be able to alter plasticity or shape of an object; this one is somehow confirmed

· is accessed by Willshapers and Stonewards

Tension (The Surge of Soft Axial Interconnection)

· it looks like a concept similar to Cohesion: maybe enabling one to manipulate elasticity or stiffness of an object, or maybe its density

· is accessed by Stonewards and Bondsmiths

The pondering could be slightly easier if only we knew more about the orders of Skybreakers, Dustbringers, Willshapers, Stonewards and Bondsmiths. I could try to focus more on that, but I'll need a reread of at least some fragments (especially, the pre/interludia and Dalinar's visions).

I don't think his observed behavior fits him lying to himself. He's not "excusing" himself or any way, or saying it's the Nightwatcher's fault - he takes full responsibility for every atrocity he commits and cries when he sees what he did to Jah Keved.

Have we seen the exact way he reacts when he is in an above-average intellect state? If I am not mistaken, there is only one chapter from his PoV, and he doesn't look too much emotionless there.

I now wish he had visited Vasher...

 

He tried, but arrived too late?

Use worldhopping to transport to a planet where the ibuprofenum is sold in paper boxes instead of bottles.

The Radiants existed for some time after the falsely named Final Desolation. So, it seems logical that the Stone Shamanate have some kind of knowledge regarding the dissolution of the Radiants, and why they cannot return (…) It's obvious that the Stone Shamante at the very least have knowledge regarding the Radiants that is lost to the rest of the world.

Hmmm. Is it probable that the Heralds are directly responsible for the Shin (i.e. the shamanate) so dogmatically believing the struggle is over?

I mean, we know that they told the mankind the Voidbringers are finally defeated. The nine, no more bound by the Oathpact, could help to start rebuilding the civilization. What do you think about these people being an origin to Shin Kak Nish?

Even better, what about the Stone Shamanate (or their predecessors) being the only ones informed about the oath being broken?

Or, just because I want to bake people's noodles, it was a Death Rattle.  We've seen similar "instructions" in the Death Rattles before, and they were fairly vague too.  ("He must pick it up, the fallen title! ..." to name one.)

There seems to be a WoB jossing that.

Edit — found it:

OK, death rattles have been going on since about the time the Parshendi were first discovered. Soon after this, King Gavilar was killed, and he said something that sounds kind of nonsensical. Was that him talking, or someone else?

No, that was Gavilar.

Make Hoid tell them stories all the time.

Drawback: need to find Hoid first.

I'd put here some Rothfuss reference, but I'm afraid it would be too Hermetic.

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Is it connected with those post-ascension new emergent religions?

The part about Sazed is in the Alloy of Law era?

Is it about turning weaknesses into strengths?

Kaladin trying to save people and Sazed trying to preserve religions?

The way how Kaladin's father's bon mot relates to the two shards Sazed united: "people who kill" (Ruin) and "people who save" (Preservation)?

Them both having no children?

Or being male?

I wish my sunglasses weren't affixed to my face, and they only blocked ultraviolet light.

Granted. Except now you can see only ultraviolet light.

I wish the Nightwatcher didn't exist.

Isn't “12 years our time” referring to the 2002-2014 timespan?

Then the foreground secret could be a spoilerific novel and the background secret could be something completely different. Like a script. Or not.