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Ahhh, but what if someone on Roshar bonds Kelsier and, through the bond, he manages to physically manifest himself a new body there!

I think that the reason the Stormfather survived the Recreance is because he didn't form Shardblades or (and I'm assuming this happens when a KR gets to a certain level) Shardplate for his knights.

Assuming the Stormfather is the one spren that all Bondsmiths bond (or whomever Dalinar ends up belonging to), I think that his knights weren't able to "abandon" him in the way that the knights in Dalinar's vision did. Since they weren't able to plunge him into the earth and shrug off their armor, he was able to survive.

I think a big part of it was also that even though he swore to protect those who couldn't protect himself, he agreed to go along with the plot to kill Elhokar.

I don't have the book handy, but at one point Kaladin mentions how, having made conflicting oaths, that maybe they are hampering his surgebinding abilities.

I KNEW IT!!! Ahhh, this book, there's SO MUCH in it!

I voted Shallan. Partly because it's her book and partly because she seems like she'll actually embody the ideals. Jasnah, as mentioned, is pretty dismissive of the label of Knights Radiant and, I believe, even shrugs off the Orders themselves as societal labels and nothing more.

Shallan however is young, full of fire, and ready to take the next step.

I'm assuming that, just as the relative magnificence of the Knights Radiant's plate/blades faded when they discarded them, so to would an honorblade not look as radical when being wielded by someone who is not a Herald.

Clarification: I understand the quote you were thinking of. The character in question was indeed Dalinar, but the answer was stated to include everyone:

 

 

You might be thinking that because he specifically says Dalinar's name, but that is only because he was specifically asked about Dalinar.

Yeah, that is absolutely what threw me off, thanks for finding that.

EDIT: Just for relevance to the thread, I wouldn't be bummed if Szeth ended up dying at the end of WoR. He definitely deserves it (both because of his heinous actions and the fact that he's obviously in a lot of psychic pain committing those acts) and I think him passing away after some epic fight would be appropriate.

Also, I know there's a WoB around that says magics from other books will be involved in the climax of WoR, and I'm kind of hoping it'll be Galladon, Demoux, and the 3rd traveler from the Purelake interlude throwing down some Aons and Allomancy.

Nope. He just said it would be possible for that sort of thing to happen. 

Ah ok, I must've just made the assumption however long ago and forget it wasn't fact.

Not super related, but I thought the implication of doing a flashback book for a dead character was that Dalinar was going to die before his book came out? I don't have any quotes handy, but I always thought that's what he was referring to.

The drunk just asks "have you seen me" or something like that. 

 

Also, Szeth was a respected member of Shin society before he was truthless. He could have been a great warrior. i think we now also know him to be around 38 years old. That's like twice as old as Kaladin was when he mastered the spear. It's not hard to believe Szeth has had a lot of time over 38 years to train in any abilities.

If Szeth was a respected member of Shin society (I just don't remember reading that), it definitely wouldn't have been because of any warrior-type prowess. The interlude with the merchant makes it clear that even picking up a weapon immediately bumps you down to the lowest level of their society. My guess is that his great skill with the abilities came about when and immediately after he became Truthless. As we don't know how that happened, and I don't think we'll find out until book 3 (I think that's supposed to be Szeth's flashback book), we'll just have to keep guessing.

It doesn't, but if Syl says something is dangerous, then I take her at her word. It's possible I'm overconfident in making the connection, but we do know that the listeners (typing this name felt weird but I like it more than Parshendi) use spren to change form. Stormspren resulting in stormform is a pretty easy connection to make.

Ah yeah. I guess we don't explicitly know they're called Stormspren, but I see the connection and it makes sense to me as well. I'm excited for more Listener POVs, because it seems like they're trying really hard to break their connection with Odium.

And since stormform uses the red lightning bolt spren that Syl sees, is this evidence that Odium is sending the highstorms? Perhaps when he Invested himself in Roshar it caused the highstorms.

Where does it say that stormform uses these lightning bolt spren? So far we just know that Syl has seen them in the distance and Eshonai attracted them once when she was angry.

12: "The murderer's of my husband..." WHICH ONE? Gavilar or Dalinar? Or both, maybe.

 

I'm pretty sure in WoK Dalinar said there wasn't any way they could be married, the Ardents wouldn't allow it.

I came to the forums to see if anyone knew if we were getting more WoR today and I'm not disappointed. Now I just have to wait 38 minutes uuggghhhh

I've always assumed (and you all know what that means) that Hoid was the Pug of the Cosmere.

Haha yes yes yes

This topic... again, I was about to misread and reply to that with how much I hated Macros the Black. Maybe the later trilogies redeemed him, but A Darkness at Sethanon left me completely uninterested in reading another damnation book of that series.

I read up through the Riftwar Legacy books and really enjoyed them, give them another go if you've the time.

Hi, I've read almost all of Brandon's published stuff and have gotten more into learning about his Cosmere, so I eventually found my way here. Not sure how active I'll be, but thought I'd say hi!

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