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  1. IllNsickly
    AAAAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!! So, Odium cannibalizes peoples Passions. Thereby providing self-justification in claiming himself as Passion. @Calderis. Yes, I absolutely appreciate that now. (Hmm, no feeble attempts at self-justification here). There isn’t any way to spin ‘Odium’ or ‘Odius’ or any derivatives in a positive way. Damnation these life choices.
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    I feel like this was addressed In World and in WoB. Passion was/could be used in place of Odium. or am I misremembering?
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    With the possible exception of the detalis about what happened at The Rift, nothing in Dalinar’s past is a secret. He is The Blackthorn, the whole world knows how brutal and bloodthirsty he has been. We have already seen some of the fallout from that, but I am sure there will be more.
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    Odium has already chosen his Champion, though. And in choosing Dalinar, things went terribly wrong for him. Does Odium get a Do-Over?
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    Though, now that i think about it, there are 2 people who were presented with additional knowledge after reading Way of Kings and incorporating the wisdom into their lives. Perhaps?
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    We know almost nothing about who he really is. from our 3rd person removed (or whichever) perspective, we KNOW that he lied to Kaladin and Teft and then to Bridge 4. Please understand that I am not passing Judgement on him, I am making an observation. He will have to overcome his refusal to accept the responsibilities that he has inherited. Regardless of how those responsibilities became his. I am really looking forward to finally learning his whole story and reading the arc that his story takes.
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    I don’t see him as evil. He is the embodiment of what he considers Justice. That is his guidance and his reasoning. He was either given a task by one of the other Heralds (can’t remember his name right now) or in conversation he was convinced of the necessity of preventing any of the other Orders reformation. I guess I’d call him blinded, but i can see where Evil fits well too. My only evidence AGAINST Evil is that he allows Szeth to swear his Oath to Dalinar, the man leading the armies against the Listeners and Fused. And Nale has sworn to fight on the side of the Listeners and Fused, because Roshar was (evidently) their planet first.
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    I can’t recall the scene with any accuracy. It may be possible that something about it put her in full crazy panic mode and she suppressed it. When Dalinar mentioned it, it simply jogged something. Again, I can’t recall the passage. I really do like the idea of WoK being some sort of Heraldic Primer, though. When someone with “X” quality or qualification reads certain passages it imbues more specific knowledege.
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    I am not disparaging Rock for it. Everything in the SA so far has been about Becoming. Becoming something new, different or someone Better. He has kept all of his, Stuff I guess, internal and no one has had any idea exactly what’s going on with him. We have just been given a glimpse of what is in his head, heart and soul. Part of his arc is going to be about learning to accept the responsibilities that are his to carry. I absolutely agree that he is being a Coward with regards to his place on the Peaks. He is afraid of the responsibility he will have to take and he is afraid of not living up to his and the rest of the Horneaters expectations. That’s what I think, but I am usually wrong.
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    Refusing to accept responsibility may also be construed as cowardice. I don't think your heading is untrue at all.
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    I like this. I don’t have any references, but my knee jerk reaction is that Shallan HAS read the In-World ‘Way of Kings.’ I seem to remember her referencing it a time or two. She did have a Damnation time finding ‘Words of Radiance’ though.
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    DAMNATION!!! It’s been a while since I saw that WoB... This is a very fine point that leaves plenty of wiggle room if so.
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    Back on topic, though. I like this theory. Something about it feels right. Kowing that Hessina’s parentage has been RAFO’d, that she had one Lighteyed parent and is more educated than you would expect from a Darkeyes. Also, the sort of phonetic similarity of Aesudan and Hessina is very suggestive.
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    I’ve got a shiny that I’ll bet says he finishes before Rothfuss.
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    My contention still agrees. Rapid decompression creates an endothermic reaction. I cannot cite any science or in world relevance, but the effect still fits pending further In-world evidence.
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    It absolutely HAS to be Odiumium. I will accept nothing else.
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    Like I described above with the air tank.
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    There is absolutely a thermal effect. I hope I didn’t come across as disagreeing with that. The first evidence is in the first Szeth chapter, when he is murdering his way to Gavilar. There are a multitude of examples, including all of the references to Shardblades forming condensation. I have been waiting for something In-World to give clues, but haven’t really seen anything. For now, I’m sticking with the decompression effect.
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    Hmm. Someone has a thread on Cosmere/Investiture Thermodynamics. Heat=Energy. And, well, I’m not educated enough to even try to summarize his post. This may be related, though.
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    To the, umm... Frosting effect of using large quantities of Stormlight and Swearing Ideals. I guess I have just associated that with the effect that compressed air has when it is rapidly decompressed and never thought about it. If you open the dump valve on a full air tank the valve gets cold, and with enough volume will frost up.
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    Freezing just refers to the Plate locking up because it hasn’t got any Stormlight to power it. Not a reference to temperature.
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    I totally read the title as ‘Heat Investiture’ because of Chemistry class in high school. Weird. But, I do think Cultivaton is taking a long view of things. Even if Lift is an odd case because of an odd request, there is a plan. I think Lift is and will stay unique, but there will be a situation where her uniqueness will be absolutely vital.
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    @Llarimar, I understood the point you are trying to make, and it is something I have thought about in more than just Mr. Sanderson’s work. ‘Justified’ is a bit off putting. Like @Greywatch says, it is easy for the Ruling Caste to say ‘THIS is why We have been placed above Them.’ Bigger, Smarter, Faster, etc. and then use that reasoning to help themselves FEEL justified, to assuage any guilty feelings. A common theme across, at least the Sanderson books I have read, seems to be the effort and time spent in dismantling the social structures that perpetuate those systems. It isn’t fast, it isn’t easy and there is no instant success. One side flips on the other, equilibrium can take centuries or even millennia to establish.
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    This!!! I cannot put red hair and chops on Rock in my head because he looks exactly like a friend of mine from school 20 years ago who was Samoan.
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    ‘Was only a small log!’ This line always pops into my head when I think about Rock. I don’t recall him ever making an Oath of non-violence, he has simply refused to participate because it is ‘Not His Place.’ It is for 4th son and below. Because of events and circumstances, he has gone from 4th son to King Rock on the Peaks. He had trained in combat skills when he was younger and then found himself in a position where it is no longer his place to fill a Warriors role.
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