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Dalinar "caught" the claw and the weight of it drove him to his knees. That is not quite the same as a hammer hitting a person in shardplate. On the case of the chasmfiend, Dalinar basically displaced the force a bit by sinking with the blow, kind of like how a persons knees bend when they land after a jump--shock absorption. Granted, Dalinar is a special case and we do not know if the weblike cracks in his shard plate are because of him being slowly crushed like a nut in a nutcracker or if he was draining the stormlight from his armor for a strength boost or both. That is the only instance we see in the book where shardplate is being crushed with slow pressure rather than being hit by a rapid blow.

1 & 3. He heralds the desolation since his boss is dead. Also, honors death does not seem to have impacted the immortality of the other nine, but their abandoning their oath does seem to have damaged their minds by inverting their core traits or perhaps all those years of torture finally broke their minds. Perhaps their abandoning their blades and breaking the oathpact is what actually killed honor or perhaps he died later and his death prompted the recreance or he recreance prompted his death.2. The honor blades are probably fragments that Honor split off of himself prior to Odium killing him. Kind of like atium was the body of Ruin in physical form. My guess is that since Taln retained his blade, he has all the same attributes that he did when Tanavast lived. But if he honor shards come from honor, then I really want to know where shard blades come from. Anyway, my theory is that the heralds are splinters, but not of honor. We still do not know what the dawnshards were and maybe they are immortal because they are invested with them in some way. 4. Honor may not be able to see his heralds when they are in limbo between desolations. Also, it may be that he assumes they are gone because of the shattered oathpact. Who knows.

@bloodfalcon I think Truth as it is put in that passage sounds like a living entity in all but one of the sentences. Like maybe Truth was the Shard of aldonasium the the shin worshipped. This was an early draft and Brandon appears to have swapped in Cultivation as the shardic entity linked to the shin. Though it looks like honor is more the reason that Szeth behaves as he does, or rather his tortured idea of honor. the lethani is as the lethani is.

what?! I could have one more page!?

Considering that the shin place a great deal of importance on truth, it is very likely that he was truthless specifically because of his claims that the voidbringers are real while his society decided the opposite is true. Truthless=liar in is case. The blade belongs to the stone shamans and may have been part of his punishment for claiming void bringers were real. The curiosity is that he knows kamar in a culture where fighting is deemed wrong--though perhaps their prohibition is on weapons and not fighting. One thing I find strange about the Shin is their worship of stone especially considering that thundeclasts are stone. Is someone over there actively working to protect the soldiers of Odium? Additionally, why are we not allowed to go the their farms? What are they hiding? Do they have a bunch of cultivation spren helping them out? And if they don't make armor, why do they need all that metal? The shin are up to something. I saw we go kick their scrawny little...oh...sorry got a bit carried away...

It's from the prologue to WoK. When the herald dies he goes to that other place. A place of torture, etc. also later in the prologue it mentions that of the herald was dead, then his blade would have gone as well. I forget the exact quote.

Those Cryptics that Shallan saw were not in the physical realm. When's he blinks/closes her eyes, she links to the cognitive plane. He cognitive plane is where the cryptocs who were watching her existed. What she drew was a blend of two planes of existence in a single image.

I do not have any evidence, but heard a rumor he might be a member of NAMBLA. Seriously though, I suspect whatever he is keeping secret has so etching to do with his conversation with darkness at the beginning of WoK.

Night blood was awakened using 1000 breaths. By this point it has far more since it leeches the breaths, or investiture, from the wielder and has had centuries to accumulate more.

I liked the little kid who counted steps. Can't remember his name, had a bit of a shock when he hopped into the pile of elantrans

Darkness only kills people who have broken the law and use surgebinding. The king is a law unto himself in most medieval societies, so it places him outside the law, plus he has not been actively surgebinding. Kaladin does not have any outstanding warrants out for his arrest and has already been punished for any offense he might have committed as a slave by having been branded with the Shash? Glyph. Additionally, most of his obvious uses of surgebinding were out on the plains where battles were occurring. This probably would make it difficult for Darkness to track exactly who the binder was--especially since all of Kal's spheres were drained each time he came back. The real question to my mind is: why hasn't darkness gone after Szeth?

I was torn between the idea that his boon involved Renarin and that it involved his feelings for Navani.

I am thinking there will be two. The whole champion remark at the end of WoK

@swimmingly I forgot to keep an eye out for anyone in a black military outfit in Sadeas's camp. :-( but thinking about Darnkness, I also wonder if that is who Hoid is avoiding. @Moogle Also with Cryptics being the least picky type of spren, I expect to see a lot more cryptic bonded people than Honorspren bonded people. I think wind runners will be fewer in number even if they play a more prominent role in the book.

From what I can tell, highstorm winds are so powerful, no ship could survive--though the wander sail did survive in Hoid's story if only barely. Submarines also would be a poor choice since there are likely territorial sea creatures (great shells) in the deep oceans that would attack a submarine in much the same way a chasmfiend will attack a chull. The best bet for highstorm survival would be a rubber life raft that had a sealable canopy to keep water out and maintain bouyancy even if capsized. The problem is of course that you can not stock such a raft with enough supplies to survive a trip around the world. Additionally encountering a sharp piece of debris or a reef pretty much ends the trip.

So after rereading WoK, again, I had the distinct impression that Gaz is being haunted by Cryptics. From Jasnah's identification of Shallan's spren as a liespren, I believe Gaz will be of the same order as Shallan. My guess is that he did not have enough stormlight to accidentally trigger a surge until after Lamaril died and he no longer had to pay his blackmailer. It would not surprise me if Lamaril was actually blackmailing Gaz because of Gaz having accidentally used his abilities. Much like Kaladin, he would not want people to know that he had any powers associated with the fallen Radiants.

1. He could have the fifth heightening and learned to mask it. 2. He could have mastered Aon Dor and be using illusion to hide his appearance as an elatran--galls don does describe him as having white hair though he dies it. 3. Since he has a bead of lerasium and is a fermuchemist, he could be compounding youth. 4. He could be rewriting his own history using forging in some way 5. He could know of some way to suspend aging while in a sleep state. 6. Etc.

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Very true. Wax, just as he is, is pretty awesome. Part of what makes him such a compelling character is that he is not yet another super powerful mistborn. It makes it so the story can be gripping without the introduction of antagonists of still greater power. It would still be interesting if he got spiked. Now that Hemalurgy is not linked to Ruin, but to Harmony, I am curious to see just how it will function. Will the bearers of spikes be more prone to seeking balance or will they still act like a thing of Ruin, seeking to destroy?

Blah. Guess Hoid is right. What we really value is timeliness. +1

Good point.

Rybal, I think you are correct about Kaladin's eyes as he progresses to Radiant status. The eye color change associated with shard blades is probably due to some blades being like Szeth's or because of a long forgotten association between radiant eye color and their having carried shard blades. Szeth's eyes changing color has to do with his shard blade--though I do not know if it is one of the Lost dawn shards or an Honorblade. I lean toward the former since Honorblades are described as works of art and his blade is not described as a work of art. His eyes changing from green to blue is a bit strange--it's like it takes away the yellow component of his eye color. I wonder if this is significant in any way. Would brown eyed people using his blade get violet eyes? Doc, It would not surprise me if the entire idea of light eyes being superior and meant to rule is because of the fallacious argument you summarize. When a new group fills a power vacuum they often try to find a means of legitimizing their claim, so the idea do radiants having light eyes and those with light colored eyes being fit to rule is not as stretch. Also, since the radiants lived all over Alethkar, it is even less surprising that eye color would be used to determine the ruling class. Investiture for humans and parshmen/parshendi on Roshar seems to be directly linked to spren. That being said, spren are the ones with innate investiture.

Can we be absolutely certain he did not attract a different kind of spren? Seems that whatever spren is stalking Elkohar may also have been stalking Gaz.

Sazed gave spook the full load at Kelsier's request. There is nothing to stop him from doing so again.

Judaism is considered both a race and a religion. Further, in Judaism, if one does not practice, it can just mean that they do not go to synagogue, light candles on the sabbath, or pay attention to high holidays while still believing in G-d and the basics like the Ten Commandments. I think Brandon is just saying that Wayne does not practice the Terri's religion actively, but is still a Terrisman in his behavior. I.e. "Collecting" accents, gathering information, etc. I am curious to see if Wayne will be granted a full measure of Feruchemical abilities just like I wonder if Wax is gaining a full measure of Allomantic abilities--at the end he could almost physically feel Marasai's emotions though he attributes this to body language. Anyway.