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not if his master instructed him not to.

Sunmaker is my best guess

Don't say that! *cries on Feathers' shoulder* I think more souls would be broken than Adolin's

He he! outrageously suspect indeed.

Ooo... an awakened Shardblade. So Adolin talks to his for a reason... Edit to add Quote

Yay! That makes me happier.

So if this is the last pre-release material, what is Carl Engle-Laird alluding to at the end of this post? What is coming next Tue?

I can't help but see a parallel between Szeth's story and that of the Uvara in TWoK Wandersail chapter as told by Hoid.

perhaps not a surgebinder per se, but he sees a spren

Edit: added quote I agree, hoser Note that Dalinar is hearing the whisperings again. from The Tower battle in TWoK, I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong, please.

Guard duties extend to Jasnah and Shallan both when they finally arrive I'd wager. Like you pointed out though, Rock is the cook, not a guard at the moment. Rock can't exactly flag their spren (or Renarin's) if they haven't met. There seems to be a lot leading up to the sparks flying when Kaladin and Shallan meet, and not in a warm and fuzzy way.

The "new kid", or ship's cook, is definitelly going to play a role, IMHO. Sanderson really shoves him in your face there. Bad or good, I cannot say.

I love Dalinar's character inTWoK, but I begin to fear for him. He certainly has honorable intentions, but he's terrible with politics. He is going to great and sometimes questionable lengths to unite the High Princes at the risk of internal war. I kinda doubt that's who the giver of the visions was talking about when he plead, "Unite them." After all, the Almighty didn't even know who he was talking to, and its all of Roshar at stake, not just Alethkar. If anything, the Princes are becoming united in their distrust of Dalinar. We've been shown that the spren are sometimes a odds with one another too. The unite them phrase could be referring to spren, the orders of KR, all humankind, the Heralds, restoring the bonds between men and spren... or all of the above. Navani's journal entry about the writing on the wall is certainly ominous, but rather vague. Many fingers point in both directions. My hope is that Dalinar will indeed become a KR - not the champion Odium is driven to choose.

Since Szeth was given instructions to be quick, and our bright scholars have been delayed at sea, I doubt Jasna or Shallan will be present to have a POV. Therefore the assassin will have to face the men, and be spared the fate of joining Navani's rare-paperweight collection. Edited to add link

Or Kal just throws the thing at Szeth who learns its "secret" the hard way. Immunity to surgebinding... Aw, nuts! Death by paperweight... A rather anticlimactic end to our troubled villian - Alcatraz style! (as if Szeth wasn't broken enough already) Rutabagas, anyone? Edit: Sorry, that was painfully bad. Severe lack of sleep speaking.

Do the ideals have to be said in a specific order/chronology to be effective? ie, first ideal first, second next, followed by 3rd, etc? Does my question make sense? Would it matter, or even be possible, to espouse the fourth Ideal before the 2nd, for example?

I've thought about this too. I had that epigraph on my mind while rereading parts of TWoK and came across a place where Kal is thinking about how the stormlight rages within and we get something like "...Kaladin was the storm." (here I wish I had the ebook version to search an reference more easily) Then I reread the epigraph and thought, Huh, so maybe its from Dalinar. I could realy be from anyone though, and I'm confident in Sanderson's ability to make us love or hate a character at his will and pull off a compelling turn of events in any case.

I like the idea of the 40 parables reflecting the ideals. Didn't Dalinar listen to a reading of one about candles and individual potential? Someone help me with the quote? I can't pull it up right now.

Maybe you could also add the words of each of their Ideals as we learn them?

I agree with Yalb on the issue of forgiveness. Amram murdered good men who had faithfully served in his army and had just risked their own lives to save him - men under Kaladin's command. Kaladin doesn't need to forgive him IMHO, but he may be forced to work with him. Seriousness aside, as anyone considered... Kaladin broodily stands guard, while Amram - finally able to breathe again now that he realizes Kakadin isn't going to kill him... yet - discusses important matters with the Kholin men. Then who does the storm blow in but Jasna, eager to inroduce the betrothed. *Shallan* So this is Adolin Kholin, famous duelist, heir to a princedom. My future husband. Handsome too. Wow. After a few apropriately clever and funny comments, "Um, can you hang on a sec? I just noticed I need to kill the dude behind you... the one wearing my brother's shardplate."