Terra of Roshar

Yeah, that's what it sounds like to me, too. Although, since he's saying it aloud, I still think he's talking to someone other than himself, too.

Clearly this is Kaladin talking about Amaram. The question is, is he talking to Syl or does he explain things to Bridge 4? Edit: Ninja'd by Moogle!

It's good to know I wasn't the only one who thought this. More seriously, though, my second thought was that it was a Herald, but now I'm thinking Syl makes the most sense.

That glyph hat is pretty much the best thing ever.

I imagine Taln would be a little off, too, after being abandoned by his friends to 4500 years of torture. I read the "torture sublime" bit as a sort of coping mechanism, trying to downplay how awful the torture was by focusing on its purpose: "for life it meant." Although, that's not really very journey before destination, now, is it? Did the Heralds follow the Ideals? It seems like they should, but I don't know... Edit: spelling

I guess. But the diction sounds a little over-formal for Szeth to me. "torture sublime, for life it meant" sounds like a sentiment Szeth would agree with, but I don't feel like he would use that phrasing to express it. It sounds more like the style of the death rattles to me, or maybe Taln, because we don't really know what his internal monologue sounds like yet.

Sound like a death-quote to me. Or maybe from Taln's POV? Or some other Herald?

Shallan POV? No matter whose, what is she doing out in a highstorm? Unless it's Syl... That could be great.

I really, really hope Renarin is actually reading, not just glyphs.

Yeah, I guess that could be the case. It just seems to me like we would have seen more instances of people only using part of the stormlight in a gem if that was the case. But, like you said, we don't really know. Maybe WOR will clear things up.

Is there WOB confirming this? Because I had always assumed that gems could be infused with stormlight several times in a single highstorm from this: This is from the first chapter after Kaladin wakes up after the highstorm, and he's thinking back on the experience. I assumed when I first read it that it meant the sphere was recharged several times during the highstorm. Is there some reason to believe otherwise?

My intention is to read the excerpts again when I get the actual book, but I'm not sure I have enough self-control not to skip to chapter 7... and I'm likely to accidentally see bits near the end trying to look at the Ars Arcanum.

He has three glyphs on his forehead, the shash glyph and a glyphpair. I forget whose glyphpair, but it's probably either Amaram's (as the one who branded him) or Sadeas's (as the highprince over Amaram and Kaladin).

Yeah, it wasn't until after the first set of interludes that we got a chapter without double Herald icons in TWoK (well, technically one was double Wit, but still).

There's also the fact that surgebinding or Nahel bonds could be hastening the return of the Desolations, as Darkness believes. And someone on the Honorblades grant surgebinding thread (I forget who, sorry) suggested that the Heralds could have some innate powers, and the Honorblade only gives them marginally stronger surgebinding abilities than they would have without it.

It's okay, Feather. I was reading the chapters in class, and it must have looked like I was having a seizure at the end of chapter 12. Also, speaking of the end of chapter 12, someone needs to give Kaladin a hug. Wait, 14 interludes? how many sections are there? if there are 5 like in TWoK, we'll have different numbers of interludes between each two sections, but surely there can't be eight, not to mention that then there would only be two per interlude-set.

The "soul-shattering" thing comes from the back cover, which is posted on Brandon's website. We don't know what traumas the characters you listed had specifically, but the general idea comes from this quote and is supported by the similarity to Snapping from Mistborn. And a lot of people think Jasnah had some horrible experience that shaped her views on marriage and influenced her decision to kill those thieves in WOK. This is Shallan's narration after Jasnah explains her actions:

My ship seems so much less crack now. On a more serious note, I agree that Dalinar and Amaram's friendship is not going to help with Kaladin's trust issues. Just when it looked like things were going our way... hopefully he talks to Dalinar before Amaram gets there.

No, the interludes will presumably be between "books," like in WOK (so three sets of three interludes, wih Eshonai as the repeated POV like Szeth was then).

WOR Chapter 8 Dalinar agrees that it was probably him.

Actually, we do have evidence that Dalinar isn't the only one recieving the visions (or at least that's how I've always interpreted it): (WOK paperback p. 1126) Edited for spelling

I'm pretty sure death of the shardholder doesn't mean that the Shard is splintered. In the letter from the epigraphs in WoK, it says "Aona and Skai are both dead, and that which they held has been Splintered." Why would the author specify that the Shards had been splintered if that was an inherent part of what happens when the holder is killed? Also, on the subject of whether the Shattered Plains were shattered when Honor was splintered and there not being similar destruction on Sel, could the Chasm that messed up the magic in Elantris have been caused by Devotion or Dominion's shattering? Sorry this is kind of late, but I thought it had been overlooked.