Witless

Did Brandon say which incarnation of the skybreakers would disapprove. The modern ones or the old school ones?

What if Kaladin's gravitational ability is enhanced spatial awareness that would certainly explain his fighting ability, particularly in situations where he fights multiple opponents, and how quickly he picked up the change in perspective required to fully utilise his gravitation abilities.

I imagine that without the abilities Kaladin is a fairly gifted fighter he would just need to adjust to the loss of all the extra information.

Love the theory btw.

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Perhaps the more honourable orders, windrunners I'm looking at you, took exception to the idea. The question then becomes how do they infiltrate society? Without the chaos created by the parshmen turning deadly stormform just doesn't seem that dangerous. Adolin made a mess with no radient powers, a dead shardblade and dead plate.

What I don't understand is why the heralds/knights radient didn't destroy the parshendi at the end of one of the early desolations. Obviously they have seen the parsh turn voidy and I would assume they would understand that it could happen again.

I appreciate some orders may have had issues with this approach but I would assume other orders are more pragmatic.

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As a side note Kaladin is probably the most capable of defending the Blade if the Shin Stone Shamans come to reclaim it.  He is the best fighter/most accustomed to his powers of the junior radients.  Worst case scenario six or seven honorblade wielders come for him he can fly away and he will only have to fight one maybe two, depending if the pressure surge allows the user to fly.

I imagine shadeplate also protects the radient from their stormlight/surge fuelled strength.  Kaladin breaks both his legs kicking someone in the duel an injury he probably could have avoided had he been wearing plate.

Just some thoughts:

My immediate assumption when Jasnah said Soulcasting had become more dangerous was it was a recent thing ie. within the last few years. Jasnah is a scientist it seems out of place for her to make such a definitive statement with out first hand experience.

How about "I will discover truths that are hidden" for the 2nd ideal of the lightweavers. 

I've heard it theorized that Urithiru may only be accessible through the Cognitive Realm and this may be nothing at all but I noticed this in the prologue of WoR.

"She stepped up beside the bead statue, noting for the first time the strange clouds overhead. They seemed to form a narrow ribbon of highway, straight and long, pointing toward the horizon."

Maybe it is a sort of highway to Urithiru; it's probably nothing and I guess it could lead to a number of places but I thought I'd mention it. If someone has already mentioned this I apologize for being redundant.

Thats a nice catch. Yasnah does seem pretty confident when she tells Shallan that Urithiru isn't in the Shattered Plains.

Interestingly all the bonded humams are pretty isolated from society as a whole.

Jasnah hardly seems like the type to make friends easily.

Shallan seems to have lived a fairly isolated life.

Lift is constantly moving from place to place.

Kalidin is probably the least isolated of the bondies having had his former bridge crew around when he attracted syl's eye.

I wonder if this is a requirement of the bonding process or a reflection of the spren themselves. I imagine life in the physical realm can be particularity lonely for a spren.

Any theories on how a shardspear would work. Specifically the butt/shaft would it be hard or would it "cut", would a blow from it have the same effect as a shardblade. I would assume that it is hard but that would make it far less effective the a shardblade.

 

That soft, feminine face had a nobler, more angular cast to it now, like a warrior from a forgotten time. Not childlike at all. She stood guard on his chest, holding a sword made of light.  That glow was so pure, so sweet.  It seemed to be the glow of life itself.  Whenever one of the deathspren got too close, she would charge at it wielding her radiant blade.  The light warded them off.

The quote (emphasis mine) suggests that she looks like one of the Radiants.  A warrior from a forgotten time wielding a radiant blade.  

I know WOB is their are 3 types of shardblades that we have seen. Radientblade, Heraldblade and other. Could the other blade be the one weilded by Syl while defending Kalidin from the deathspren in the high storm.