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Theory: The Heralds are responsible for Honor's fate.
RShara replied to potato's topic in Stormlight Archive
WoB is that they're tangentially related, but not directly responsible. -
From the WoBs that I pasted right above, a Shardholder CAN survive the Splintering. So killing a Shard is not the same as Splintering it. Also, a Shardholder dying doesn't necessarily Splinter the Shard. There is a WoB that if Harmony were to die, he would drop Harmony, not Preservation and Ruin, so it seems that once Intents are intermingled, they tend to stay together. I would think it'd take something like the shattering of Adonalsium to separate the Intents again. Having someone else pick up Odium's Shard seems like it would be a lot more difficult. First you'd have to find someone who could be a Shardholder, and then get them into the right position/circumstance/Spiritweb to be able to take up that power, and not immediately turn bad. Then convince that new Shardholder, who may already be turning into Odium, to take in the power of the Stormfather and Nightwatcher. It's certainly another method to go about it, though.
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There isn't a definitive quote, but Brandon lets it be implied that Odium splintered/killed him. There's also these bits:
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Odium's splintered 3 shards--Devotion, Dominion, and Honor--that we know of. Honorspren and the Stormfather are what are left of Honor. Cultivation (possibly) splintered part of herself to create some types of spren and (maybe) the Nightwatcher. Stormfather and Nightwatcher are the two most powerful spren that we know of. Brandon has said that he doesn't want the cosmere to take the forefront in SA, so it's not likely that other shards will come into play. That means that what we see is what we've got--Honor, Cultivation, and Odium, and their spren. I suspect that Honorspren/Stormfather are going to be the key players here, because some Honor tempering Hatred could be a powerful force for good instead of bad.
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I was just thinking about that! There's this Death Rattle: That could mean that at first, the Stormfather will refuse to do this, and so Odium "wins" for a while. And Dalinar or others will have to find and convince the Stormfather to merge with Odium to save the world.
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Do all magic users have to have a broken soul?
RShara replied to snote's topic in Cosmere Discussion
Yes. Great emotional or physical events cause cracks in the soul. Those cracks let Investiture in, and allow the use of magic. I think the back cover of WoR says this, plus heavily implied by WoBs. On Scadrial, there's clearly Snapping. In SA, it seems to be more general, and less understood--explanable since the KR have been gone for so long. Sel, I'm really not sure how the Elantrians transform. That one is confusing! -
I wonder if in the end, in order to stop Odium, the Stormfather and Nightwatcher are going to have to sacrifice themselves to force their Intents onto Rayse. We know that if a Shardholder dies, the power itself will eventually gain sentience. If a Shard is Splintered, those Splinters can also gain sentience. So just killing/Splintering Odium wouldn't be very useful, unless having hundreds of little pieces of Hatred running around is a good thing But if the Stormfater and the Nightwatcher, joined their powers in with what Rayse already has, then his Hatred would be tempered with Honor and Cultivation (which implies protecting/growing). In the Chapter 71 Epigraph, we have this: So if he is reunited with some of those virtues, it stands to reason he might then become a reasonable Shardholder, who would no longer run rampant across the cosmere. Thoughts?
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The quote from Nohadon was before the surgebinders were Knights Radiant though, so before the Ideals were in place. Anything after the KR were formed would be a lot more strict about what their bondmates did at that point.
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Um, sorry, when did Taln catch a Shardblade?
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Gavilar's Shardblade Was An Honorblade (Potential Spoilers)
RShara replied to Smye's topic in Stormlight Archive
Here's the description of the practice blades: -
That's quite an elaborate gif there!
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I really don't think that Taravangian can be a surgebinder. He's pretty much doing the opposite of Journey Before Destination, Life Before Death. He's also dividing, (although in order to later unite). But dividing at all is probably against the second Ideal. Edit: Double ninja'd!
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Here is one that kinda touches on it.
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You could certainly bring a recorder, and ask politely to leave it on the table by Brandon. He's usually pretty cool with that. I really want to know who all the back 5 PoV characters are. I know Jasnah, Renarin, "Taln" but who is the fifth?
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I'm happy with my Words
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Well played read, sir! I'm in the "Buy a hardback for the shelf, and an ebook for the abuse" camp
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This thread may be of interest to you. It covers a lot of the different possibilities.
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Assuming there are machines that can replicate Allomantic powers.... Pushcarts--Cars that can fly by Steelpushing on metal plates in the ground, and on strategically positioned poles. Coppercloaks--Hide those pulses! StudyHall--Places where time moves more slowly, for those all night cramming sessions! Tin-I hearing aids and glasses (Tinitis is a ringing in your ears).
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Because breaking their oaths mean killing their spren.
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I'd be interested in it too.
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The problem with these is that they're essentially murdering their best friends (the spren). I don't think, given that Windrunners especially would need to be pretty honorable, that this is something they would do over a fit of pique. It would have to be something significant and important.
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I think it'll turn out that either the spren have some hidden motivation that is possibly sinister or misleading, or that surgebinding has some hidden effect that made it so giving up their Oaths was the best choice possible.
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I'm pretty sure that's intentional too. Starting, in that context, is like jumping or jerking. "He started in surprise," vs "He was startled and surprised."
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I believe they are, yes. As are spren.
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Sorry, what?
