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I thought she was Venli's spren.

Kamehameha wave.

Maybe the point of The T protecting Karbrath is protecting the library? Think of the amount of information that will be available once Dawnchant is fully translated.

Ah Dalinar, classic addictive personality. Swapping bloodlust, for booze, for sweet, sweet Stromlight

at the risk of having full wine bottles thrown at me: In order: Stick Nightblood Lify

I like where you are going with this Shawn, In the first instance it's a classic case of divide and conquer. Why expend energy you don't have to? Also your point regarding possessed by evil forms is good. "Humans" bond Spren, but are listeners bonded by Spren? In artform, scholar form etc. they go out looking for the Spren they want. Taking his further, maybe it is a case of bonding the voidspren because they are seriously angry, which is understandable as this feeling and voidspren are closely related.. "Humans" bond based on ideology, Listeners by need? That's vaguely cognitive vs. physical right?

In Australia, we got the paperback off the bat

The type of PoV has already been covered by the: I am a Stick deleted chapter

OK, bearing in mind that I accept the influence/interference of the investiture innate in an object on another, I cannot help but wonder at/if there is an area effect limit. Consider someone: surgebinder or ardent with a fabrial, got hold of nightblood (or a haemalergic spike to reduce the values of energy required. For the record, I'm in the minority who'd prefer nightblood) and soulcast the air around it into stone. How much stone would their have to be to negate the innate resistance to movement by lashing of the rock? Would the invested items "weight" just add to it, or would there be a point whereby you could consider it just a rock? I would think that there would have to be so that begs the question, can we quantify this relationship? Please suspend disbelief/that would never happen for the next part. Put a more gruesome way, a steel inquisitor shows up on Roshar. Kaladin does not like the look of him. Hoid says it's got a spike the size of a kidney stone in it's kidney because Kal's father put it there. Could Kaladin remove it by lashing the kidney? If not, and if there was a handy sized rock directly behind the inquisitor, could Kaladin lash the rock in a direct line through it? Or would the invested item act as a dampening field / blind spot?

Boom! P.S Smurf *Hugs*

Full Disclaimer: I have a major man crush on Neil Gaiman. I won't hear a bad word said about him. Well I will listen, but I will dismiss them out of hand because (see start of sentence). That said, he will not be everyone’s cup of tea (as per OP) as he can be quite macabre, graphic and at times very unpleasant. Neverwhere was my introduction to his work. Saw the BBC TV adaptation mid 90's and was hooked,. Croupe and Vandamar are among the greatest mercenary/villains of all time. Sandman was a complete revelation, I'd read graphic novels but never anything so adult before. I can still vividly remember the diner scene in one of the earlier books. I was equally repulsed and drawn to it. It is so awesome. I still use this as a case study for people who go: comics are for kids. American Gods was fantastic, I really enjoyed the interludes when you saw the gods coming to the country as well the characterisation in general. (kaladam - I thought the Kobold reveal was better IMO) The Ocean at the End of the Lane was just so nice to read. The Truth is in a Cave in the Black Mountains is a rollicking great short story with extra added awesome. His short story collections are similarly fabulous. His YA work is phenomenal too, Stardust and Caroline are *run out of positive adjectives* stories. If you have a young daughter or like nursery rhymes Blueberry Girl is a great poem. In short: See first sentence.

Complete: Incarnations of Imortality Harry Potter The Belgriad Watchmen The Deverry Cycle Incomplete: Kingkiller Chronicles A Song of Ice and Fire Stormlight Archive

In order: Nightblood Stick Lift

My vote is other (Roshar) Szeth if I have to pick a biped.

WoK, hands down. It set the bar really high and even though WoR was almost as good, to semi paraphrase Hoid about brilliance - doing something first; timing and all that. Some scenes in WoR were better: 1) Szeth vs. Kaladin; 2) Moonlit chasm stroll fun; 3) Adolin being not so one dimenional 4) Flight of the Skajaquada / everstorm But In WoK we had: 1) A world that previously didn't exist - creation will always trump elaboration; 2) The uberfication of Bridge 4 special shout out ot my PK brother and sisters, ; 3) Tien flashbacks and 4) The Taravangian reveal. all of which add a little bit extra to my mind.

Absolutely no proof of the following statement nor do I believe there to be any. Wouldn't be awesome if Shallan was his long lost sister. That would make Kaladin Luke, Shallan Leia and Adolin Han.

Which is what OP is suggesting.

I always took Shallan's levelling as her becoming more self aware. As such, she just needs to realise her truth which she could either do piecemeal or all at once. Or, if I am wrong (not the first or last time for that) does she need a number of truths as such, and if so, at what point does it degenerate into sillyness (which I'm all for by the by). "Pattern" "Hmmm" "I killed my dad on a Jesel, not a Chachel" *full disclaimer: the date is probably known implicitly to most people, I am too lazy to work it out* "Hmmm" Shallan earns half a level and loses the need for a focus with her illusions.

Swapping seek with need bypasses that limitation

+1'd. I'd also recommend Lion of Macedon and Dark Prince by Gemmell. I also +infinity Neil Gaiman. China Meiville is fantastic too, hard work though.

Elo

Highstorms travel east to west and while they reduce in strength with distance given that Larkin fly they could ride the winds. They are a delicacy in Aimia, eaten with fava beans and Chianti.

They were Araman's house band.

Nightblood (NB) showing up just about ruined WoR for me. I understand / read somewhere that Mr. Sanderson wrote Warbreaker (in part) as a kind of introduction to Vasher and NB who were/are Stormlight Archive characters. But I want NB to disappear, and I want Szeth to do it, by running NB through Odium and starting some sort of infinite feedback investiture loop overfilling him resulting in rift in the Cosmere space/time continuum which collapses sucking NB to the far side of the universe, taking stick with him. A boy can dream.

Only working my way through season 1 at the moment. Can't recall any interaction with Helena, so I'll have to say Allison. And it is so good.