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    This was my first time going to a signing and I didn't realize the theater was going to be sold out. I was about 10 people away from being let in from the standby line, so if anyone can tell me what I missed from the reading is appreciate it. I don't know if this has been asked or discussed before, but I asked Brandon if it was possible that Hoid had any descendants running around in the books. He replied "It's possible." But wouldn't give any details on whether or not we had or would see it.
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    I don't know if this has been asked or discussed before, but I just left a signing and asked Brandon if it was possible that Hoid had any descendants running around in the books. He replied "It's possible." But wouldn't give any details on whether or not we had or would see it.
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    I know Brandon said that it would be possible for one person to bond 2 spren, but are there any WoB about whether or not multiple people could bond the same spren? I think it would make just as much sense for all the Bondsmiths to bond the Stormfather. It would explain why expanding beyond a few members was looked at as almost treasonous. Syl said Kaladin is taking something from her to get his powers, so if a few dozen or hundred Knights were bonded to Stormfather it might change him too much. It also fits with why he won't be a shardblade for Dalinar. If he was being a blade for one of his Bondsmiths that might take him away from the others for that time.
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    The ability to touch spren could be her curse or her boon, I can see it both ways. Obviously it is an advantage being able to touch and climb Wyndle, but when she runs into voidspren it might be a distinct disadvantage that spren can physically touch her. Same problem with metabolizing food into stormlight, it is advantageous because food should be more prevalent than stormlight, especially during a time like the weeping, but it also seems like a much slower way to get your stormlight, and potentially pretty dangerous to your health.
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    Is it possible that Reya is the name of the woman that wrote the book on Roshar describing and assigning the masculine and feminine arts? I think the book has been named at some point, but the only reference to the author is made by Hoid (to Kaladin believe). She obviously wrote it a long time ago, and considering the impact that it had on Rosharan society, she could have been turned into a legendary character and had a star named after her. Also, I just thought it was weird how Hoid seemed to go out of his way not to name the author as he was talking about her.
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    Wow I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet. Its the only time I can remember actually standing up and fist pumping while reading a book.
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    I think that Nighblood as an invested item must be able to infuse itself with stormlight. I can't imagine that any spren is going to bond with Szeth while he's carrying it. The Heralds were examples for the Knights Radiant, but I don't think they have any direct control over them, and I don't think they can create new ones. The Knights Radiant were created by the spren, and I'm pretty sure that sprint are directly the reason that KR get powers, e.g. the Stormfather approving Kaladin and Dalinar's Words. My guess is that Nalan uses Szeth to enact his own twisted brand of justice, and will even call him a Skybreaker, but he's not going to be an actual anointed Knight Radiant.
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    Maybe he discovered he could inhale storm light and has been off practicing in private. Explains the odd breath comment.
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    I know this was already mentioned in abridged for up ahead, but it was the funniest line in the book to me, so I wanted to give it its due credit. This, my friends, is worldbuilding lol.
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    This last glimpse kind of seems like something Dalinar might say to Elhokar.
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    I don't think this is a KR surge, it seems too redundant when you factor in the shardplate. I mean I know there was surgebinding before there were KR and shardplate, but it just seems much more like a Parshendi, Voidbringer, or Herald ability
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    I just went back and read the quote. Apparently Gavilar had Sadeas duel and kill someone named Yenev, a Highprince that was against the unification of Alethkar. The quote doesn't specifically mention shards at all, so it could have been just conventional weapons, but that seems unlikely for a duel between Highprinces. It wasn't a duel for shards or honor though, it was a duel to kill someone over a disagreement. Still interesting that Gavilar chose Sadeas to do it.
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    I can't really answer why Sadeas never dueled anyone to get a blade to go with his plate, but I have been wondering about how good a duelist Sadeas is. In WoK it gets mentioned pretty early on that even though he doesn't have a Blade, Sadeas is an excellent swordsman. And then in one of the released chapters from WoR I remember Dalinar talking about how when they needed a rival Highprince taken out in the days of the unification of Alethkar Gavilar had leant Sadeas his Blade so Sadeas could duel him. I thought that was strange that neither Dalinar or Gavilar would have done the fighting considering how good they were both supposed to be, but I also took away from it that the King completely trusted Sadeas' martial abilities with Blade and Plate.
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    I know I said I think he's talking to himself, and I still do, but I just had one other possibility that makes sense pop into my head. He could be talking to Hoid. I'd imagine Hoid would be maybe the one person we know that could get Kaladin off-guard enough to be talking/monologuing to himself to work through a problem and solve it.
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    I'm firmly in the camp that thinks this is Kaladin talking to himself, probably while pacing in his barracks, preferably upside down on the ceiling completely unconsciously having discovered use of the final lashing while he was distracted. I think the real question here is whether or not this delays Kaladin's partnership with Dalinar to re-found the KR.
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    I think it's gotta be the Stormfather talking to Syl, my question is who is coming for her? Unless he meant so ethi g like Szeth is coming for Kaladin, and thus through him Syl, I'm not sure who has the ability or the inclination to attack spren. Obviously Odium himself springs to mind. I do t think it is a rogue herald, because they seem to get their powers independent from spren (from what we guess) and I'm not sure what power they would hold over Syl.
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    I've seen this question on other forums for other books. And I didn't read through the 3 pages of posts, but I honestly can't fathom skipping to the end. The whole idea seems to fit somewhere on the spectrum between uncomfortably abnormal and downright heretical to me.
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    I'm hoping these glimpses were picked by Brandon or his editor in order to avoid anything too spoilerific.
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    I've always imagined a full lashing is effectively the same as doing the same thing as reverse lashing two objects together simultaneously, so they are constantly pulling at each other. It definitely seems like a gravitation surge ability.
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    It could be as simple as the Voidbringers may have Parshendi as their foot soldiers, but the actual Voidbringers that lead Odium's armies and summon the thunderclasts and other 'monsters' are surgebinders (and Knights Radiant) that went bad, a la the forsaken and dreadlords in Wheel of Time. Darkness might be opposed to any surgebinders gaining powers because he knows they have the potential to become evil and bring on a desolation someday. In fact that sort of ties in with Dalinar's vision of Nohadon when he is talking about how a group of surgebinders had turned against them and made the Desolation worse.
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    I don't think he'd say anything, even to Bridge 4 unless they directly asked him, and why would they if they didn't know? He's never been very talkative about spren, remember in the training chapter with kaladin sticking rocks to the wall he notices some spren that no one else sees and then when he realize nobody else can see them he shuts up about them.
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    True, but none of that explains Darkness's reticence and overly careful nature in confronting a 13 y/o surgebinder that has only had her abilities for what seemed to be weeks. Perhaps he just didn't want to make too big a scene with a big fight, or he was being careful because he doesn't have his Honorblade, but it still seems odd to me. In the series prelude Jezrien tells Kalak that humans will be ok because they have the KR to protect them so they don't need the heralds. Maybe it was just wishful thinking on his part, but Honor didn't tell Dalinar to find the lost Heralds or or their Honorblades.
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    Something caught my attention while reading the Parshendi interlude. When her sister says that they need stormform, because the Alethi now have surgebinders, Eshonai tries to counter it by saying that maybe he only had an Honorblade, the indication being that that would be something less worrisome than having to deal with a surgebinder. Combine this scene with the Lift interlude where Darkness (for the sake of this point I am assuming that he is indeed a Herald in disguise)waits to confront Lift until he has observed her for a few weeks, then waits until she is alone without friends, attacks her with a couple of shard-wielding lackeys in support, and after draining her of stormlight does everything in his power to make sure that she is unable to suck up anymore through spheres in the corridors before trying to give her his judgement. It seems like people are more scared of half-trained surge-binders and potential Knights Radiant than they are of either a Herald or their weapons. Is it possible that a fully trained and armored KR is a more devastating and fearful warrior than one of Honor's chosen ten Heralds? Or is it more likely that we just don't know the full extent of the abilities of the Heralds?
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    Getting back to the words, since each is based off of a parable from Nohadon's book, has anyone here tried to make a list of the stories from that book that we learn from Dalinar? We could try to pick out the morals of them and get the essence of what some more of the immortal words are.
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    If we accept that Odium is selectively altering theologies and cultural beliefs on Roshar perhaps he built up the reverence that the Shin have of stone. Here's my reasoning: Via Szeth we get some insight that the Shin are not nearly as helpless as the rest of the world seems to think. He knows that if he died his people would come and take his shardblade back to Shin, and it doesn't sound like he worries about their ability to do it, even though they'd likely have to fight multiple shard bearers to do it. This implies that they have other shard bearers and/or surgebinders. (Perhaps a lot more, we can extrapolate from the Feverstone Keep vision that there were once at least 1500 shardblades in the world, assuming all ten orders had blades and were about the same size) With the KR gone Odium might view the Shin as the most dangerous group on Roshar. If that is the case it makes sense for him to alter their beliefs to make them want to stay isolated in the west, away from the east and it's ubiquitous stone.
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