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    Since nearly all the shard holders seemed to have known each other before taking up the shards, It is likely they either witnessed the shattering or were a part of it. They didn't put him back together because they either didn't want adonalsium reformed in the first place or they coudn't agree on which one of them should wield them so each took one.
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    Kal glossed over the details of that part of his story in a way that didn't indicate he was the one that killed the shard bearer that attacked Amaram. When he realizes later on that he killed her brother he actually thinks back and confirms to himself that he hadn't told her those details when he related his story to her.
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    I read that more as indicating that the writer and Hoid had encouraged Rayse to take up the shard of Odium thus making him what he is today. Not sure you can infer from this that they helped split adonalsium into shards in the first place (though I'm not against the idea that Hoid played a part in it). Also, seeing as how the writer encourages no interference, I highly doubt it's Mraize since he is obviously interfering quite a bit.
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    Is anyone else a little disappointed there was no spren-spren interaction? After Jasnah's statement in WoK about honorspren and cryptics being at odds, I was really looking forward to seeing how Syl and Pattern would react to each other. It seems with how often kaladin, shallan, and renerin were around each other, their spren really should have noticed each other (I know Syl glimpsed pattern during the arena fight but nothing came of that). Edit: I should mention this was only a minor thing and overall really enjoyed WoR
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    Last two chapter headings. I will upload them to the wiki in a minute, Ozyara, so everything is ready to go for the WoR summaries. Lift Chapters: Taln Chapters:
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    What swimmingly said but also, the fact that his spren is so different implies he is in the other regrowth order. Brandon has yet to show us two surgebinders from the same order (Szeth doesn't count because of how he gets his abilities).
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    Before the advent of the radiants, the desolations usually took humanity back to the stone age and the few centuries between was not long enough to progress very far technology wise so the heralds would have to teach various levels of metallurgy when they returned. It seems he is currently just reciting rote instructions he had repeated countless times.
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    The only problem with that Hoodie is...
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    It comes from some of the things brandon has said about investiture around the cosmere. Aonar linked some of the quotes at the start of THIS thread. I think there have been more but those are the only ones I can find. Edit: I should also mentioned that the "cracks" which allow the investiture to fill in the soul can come from any strong emotion, bad emotions just happen to be more powerful and most often are the cause.
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    I get the feeling his state of madness is extreme compared to normal. There used to only be centuries between desolations in which the heralds had to endure damnation. There were a couple millennia since the last one. Taln had to endure far longer time being tortured so has gone a little insane as a result. Granted, it doesn't seem like 100 or 1000 years of torture would make much difference (you'd go wonkers either way) but I have a feeling the heralds didn't come back like Taln has with the previous desolations.
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    There is a pretty long discussion on that HERE In short, yes gravity could account for all of them BUT the Ars Arcanum states a full lashing is based on adhesion and there is WoB that is correct.
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    Judging by what we saw of her family in the flashbacks and the fact that her mother agreed to kill her just cause she started surgebinding, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say its pretty likely she had experienced other traumas from pretty early in life that "broke" her enough for the bonding to work.
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    I was thinking this too but after reading WoR I decided that would be super OP
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    Yeah that bothered me too. It seemed strange the heralds would be weaker than the KR but I started to think that maybe the honorblades only give a partical effect to people who aren't their herald owners and not the full power that the heralds themselves have. I would compare it to the partial investing the KR seem to be hinted at being able to give to their "squires". So, Taln for instance would be far more powerful when wielding his own blade than say if Adolin was using it.
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    Tanavast mentioned to Dalinar that Cultivation was good at seeing the future as well so some of the surges coming from her spren could grant that power. It was just the church that spread the idea that seeing the future was of the voidbringers. Edit: i think the deck would be stacked too highly in the void's favor if they could see the future and the light side couldn't.
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    After hearing Jasnah tell Wit what she had been up to that whole time, i found her "death" to have been almost required for this book. It was already freaking huge so there was no way to include her travels in shadesmar. Having the characters come to terms with her dying added much more to the characterizations than if Brandon had shown her alive in shadesmar but then completely ignored her storyline with a "find out next book" attached to it.
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    I'm sure you've read far enough for this not to be a spoiler but for anyone that hasn't finished WoR, this will be answered pretty well.
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    It could be a reference to Kal uniting his spear with the Kholin crown and tower but we also discover in WoR that:
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    Yes peng and hero, you two made a good tag team that pm is priceless hero. Despite the praise that was given for taking out spiked, I made a huge mistake coining Aonar over Wilson. I was convinced Wilson was the coinshot but I also was sure Aonar was lurcher so would negate any attacks on her until I took him out first. If I'd have really crunched the numbers I'd have realized that our only chance of winning was to assume there was no lurcher and eliminate Wilson. Just so many variables in the game to consider which I guess is what makes it fun
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    Well most of my favorite "moments" have been stated, so instead I'll quote this epigraph after which reading I did a double take and then laughed for quite a while: I read that last line and thought, Lift is their representative now? Genius brandon.
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    iBooks released it for download 5 minutes ago. I'll be gone from the world for about a day
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    Didn't you know, that's how Kaladin will eventually fly. He's gonna ride a bridge around like a flying carpet.
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    Yeah, I'll probably go back to my tried and true edgedancer icon eventually but think I'll stick with this one until a little while after the release in honor of it being her book. I love how the inverted colors turned out. It was a good suggestion by Ozyara.
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    What I don't understand is why don't they have groups of parshendi jump the chasm and chop down the bridgemen before they set the bridges? They can't defend themselves so it would be quick work taking out the crews. From the way it's described in the books, it seems like the bridges run pretty far ahead of the main force so just wait until they are about 30 yards from the chasm, jump it, and slaughter them before the army can get there. This would force the Alethi to start sending escorts with the crews which would be even more easy targets for the archers to take out.
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