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They don't communicate with the Rhythms. They're a Spiritual Realm thing that they can tune in to. At most, they use it to tell time a bit.

No OB spoilers in this forum though.

I can see it, though I don't know if it's more than an unconscious influence. And yeah, I didn't mean that the Neanderthals were behind humans of the time.

Shardblades sever the soul from the body, but don't destroy it (I don't think). Once freed from the body, I think the Fused would be able to take a new host. But they do seem wary of Shardblades, so maybe I'm wrong

Mmmmm why is everything bolded? I think you're underestimating the Singers. They seem to have had reasonable technology and sophistication (for the time period) before the Desolations and the incident that deprived them of their minds. They're only less artistically inclined because they lost the knowledge of artisanform (or whatever it'll be called) when they fled the domination of Odium. Ditto with pretty much every skill that they're lacking right now. There might be some influence from Homo Neanderthalis, but it's fairly slight, as the Singers are waaaaaaaaaaay different, other than being a sapient species co-habiting a planet.

This. Shardplate, either regular "dead" Plate, or Radiant "living" plate definitely enhances strength. A lot. Stormlight by itself, held by a Radiant, enhances strength a little. Probably to the optimum amount based on build and musculature, but not really beyond human norms. Olympic athletes sure. Tarzan, Conan, etc? Nah. Those fictional characters have absurdly exaggerated strength, especially Conan.

Yep. Lots of "so the soulcasters got enough stormlight to clear out the latrines, oh and we figured out how the plumbing works." Maybe a few, "catalogued how much stormlight in a chip vs a mark vs a broam" and "diminishing by x amount per day after highstorm infusion."

I don't think anything significant will happen during the timeskip. It's probably going to be everyone consolidating their forces, getting agents out in the field and information back to their commands. There was a similar timeskip between Well of Ascension and Hero of Ages, and that's what happened during that timeskip.

He is not. Cusicesh is at a level below the SF and NW.

I'm not entirely sure what you're arguing right now. No one is arguing that Plate increases strength substantially. But stormlight by itself doesn't. It increases it a little bit, and heals strained muscles and dislocated bones, so you can take advantage of that strength better. But I don't think it doubles your strength. Rock is just really really strong naturally, and with the bit of a boost that stormlight+healing gave him, he was able to draw the bow. A normal Radiant or squire wouldn't be able to no matter how much stormlight they're holding. Also, no, if you know how to use a bow, as Rock should, you do NOT use one arm to draw it. You should use both arms and back muscles to properly draw a bow.

The thing is that you're making a lot of assumptions here, when Kaladin says flat out that stormlight doesn't increase strength very much and that Rock shouldn't have been able to shoot the giant bow (meant for someone wearing Shardplate) because of that. If stormlight made someone strong enough to move in completely unpowered Shardplate, then Rock (or any other squire) would have no trouble using that bow and Kaladin wouldn't have been surprised. Also if you could break your text into paragraphs, it would be a lot easier to read

The Lifeless were probably created in small groups over time, not all at once, as Breath became available. And as Singers aren't human, a single Human Breath wouldn't be able to make them Lifeless. If you mean people took the Singers' Breaths, that's also not possible because only Nalthians have usable Breaths that can be given away. (And yeah, Warbreaker takes place on Nalthis, a different planet and solar system than Roshar).

Dalinar shifted the stone a tiny bit at a time, and dislocated his joints doing it. Also, the spren of the temple was helping him, and his surges were likely working on it as well, since the rest of the temple repaired itself without him touching it. Yes, stormlight makes you a bit stronger. But there's no evidence that it makes you... I'd still like that citation, by the way. Oh, and the strongest person I've known, who was the VP at my last job, could just about bench press a VW Bug.

Can you quote where the strength test happens? Because I don't recall it at all. Kaladin says specifically near the end of OB that stormlight doesn't grant markedly increased strength. Shardplate is powered by stormlight from the Radiant when it's living. It doesn't require extra strength. Radiants can and have had lots of children as I showed with the lighteyed heritage. On mobile so can't easily link it but there is a WoB about it.

Mmmm. Wouldn't it be better to post this in that thread rather than starting a new one?

You can't observe without interfering. Also, as you said, the Seventeenth Shard is actively looking for Hoid, which I don't actually think Endowment would be interested in. She'd want to stop him messing with her planet, but wouldn't care what he did off of it.

Biggest problem with this is that Taln looks Alethi, and Elantrians would have "Shin eyes". Also, the Heralds being created almost certainly pre-dates Elantrian civilization. They abandoned the Oathpact ~6000 years after the Shattering, which means they would have been on Roshar for probably at least another couple thousand years before that (referencing how there were hundreds of years between Desolations at first). Not to mention however long Ashyn was occupied. While we don't know exactly when the original Elantrians or the events of the book Elantris takes place, it's very likely after this point, since 4000 or 5000 years post-Shattering isn't really a lot of time, given all of the events that would have had to occur. Another problem is that all of the Heralds are extremely suffused with Honor's Investiture. I feel like this would be very hard to do if any of them were already invested by the Dor, given that investiture resists investiture. I think Taln was the one who was never supposed to be a Herald because all of the other Heralds were kings and nobles and generals and the like. Taln was the regular guy.

It's up to you whether you want to read unpublished stuff. Some of them will likely change quite a bit before they're published (Aether of Night, Dragonsteel, Liar of Partinel), some not as much (White Sand). None of them are technically canon until they're published, though, so no guarantees. I found them quite interesting and worth reading, myself.

See the second post in this thread

Also the reason lighteyed people's eye colors don't change if they wield Shardblades or become Radiants is because of the lighteye sDNA that comes from having a Radiant in their family tree.

What's weird is that twice in WoK, Yelignar is referred to without the hyphen.

I might be working on something like that. Sorry, the Lifeless are just humans who've been turned to Lifeless. I don't think a human could turn a Singer into a Lifeless with one Breath, and there's no evidence of the Lifeless looking like Singers. (Lifeless are dead humans who have been brought back to some semblance of life with a Breath). There's a small possibility there, but I doubt it. The Divine Breath is a very special Breath that I don't think humans can re-create.

There's a whole thread full of essays and essays worth of arguments on this topic

The physical analogue to the TQ is Ashyn. The mythological analogue (heaven) is the scholarly/philosophical debate.

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