Tarion

Specifically, he has a duel with Adolin Kholin coming up in the not-too distant future. I don't see it going well for him. In Words of Radiance, we find out a lot about duelling. A formal challenge to a duel is a contract between houses. And memorably, Sadeas is corned into a duel with Adolin, but is quick enough to put it off. In the most recent OB chapters, Amaram becomes de facto Sadeas, and so will presumably be required to honour Sadeas' debts. Unfortunately, if this pays off*, I'd expect it to be after Oathbringer or very late in the book - We're at the beginning of the year, and the duel is schedules for ~20 days before the next Lightday. Still, it's something to look forward to *I don't actually expect it to happen, but it's a fun quirk of Rosharan law, if nothing else

"Before the storms" and "a wall kept out the storms" is interesting. It makes sense a couple of ways, and I'm not sure which is best. 1) Differentiating between "highstorms" and "storms". It was before the Highstorms were what they are (SuperInvested), but it still kept out the lower case storms. 2) A quirk of language - it was set before highstorms at all, but Alethi uses "storms" as a catch-all for bad weather. 3) It's a faerie tale, so consistency isn't required. As for the meaning, my first bet is that it's an old Horneater story that crept into Veden culture through the intermixing, with the Horneaters being locked away in their peaks, considered monsters for their Parshendi blood. But thinking about it, and considering the physical changes of crossing over, stealing stormlight from a perfect society, I think it's a story about the human spren relationship. I can't quite work out which side is which. The perfect society being the Spren works - Human crossing over to Shadesmar and back fits a lot if it. The seemingly insurmountable wall that no-one wants to cross is death. The character dies, experiences something in the Cognitive Realm, and is restored with new knowledge. On the other hand, I could see it the other way - A spren, trapped in the cognitive world, crossing over. Seeing the human world, and taking something from humanity (Experience, the ability to think in the Physical realm).

Worth noting that the spren Syl is talking about is a "he", while the spren Kaladin interacts with is a "she". We may well have a couple of Spren hidden from Kaladin, one Voidish, one not. Sensing the Everstorm is pretty damning though (Which is a shame, I want to like her! ). One potential saving grace would be if this was the comet-like Spren that Eshonai was interacting with in WoR, still bonded to her in some way (But not the voidspren giving her Stormform) and able to sense the Everstorm through her, rather than it's own natural ability.

I think you can get away with claiming a "neighbour" order, as Shallan is doing. But Stoneward powers and claiming Dustbringer seems particularly difficult, when they have very different powers (Although I suppose you could use Cohesion to fake Division, by reducing Cohesion in a thing until it collapses). The bigger question would be why - I can't see any benefit to claiming the "wrong" Order in these circumstances, especially when you're claiming the more disreputable option.

So I found the quotes. It's never described as "Yellow" in WoR. It's only described as "cometlike". Which... isn't helpful. I was picturing it as yellow, but there's nothing objective to it

In fairness, "chicken" is what the Rosharans call all birds. https://imgur.com/gallery/VmFxx

Is there anything ruling out the possibility of one spren, flitting between the groups? It's largely invisible to Kaladin, so it could be pointing them in a direction, and then flitting to the next group to course correct them.

So I was just thinking about this. We've seen that even early in the bond, Syl could travel some distance from Kaladin. And the Willshaper Spren, the best fit for Eshonai, might be able to travel further (Because otherwise, Transportation as a surge could get quite dangerous). I could totally see Eshonai's spren guiding her people, even while Eshonai is under Odium's influence.

I think it's important to remember what Jasnah was saying to Shallan at the beginning of WoR - The Radiants were a group with a set of cultures, histories and traditions. Current era Surgebinders are not part of that group. They don't share these histories and traditions, so they won't share the same taboos. She's got no reason to be offended by something because it offended someone with the same skills thousands of years ago.

Woop, got my wording on Dalinar's request almost perfect in an earlier post so I'm smug about that. Also as a reminder, "chicken" is Alethi/Rosharan for bird. Which changes the look of the scene significantly. And good reason to believe that Jasnah is not the author - She's one of the smartest living Alethi, if her reputation is anything to go off.

I wonder whether suppressing the Stormlight is a Stormlight technique, or if it's an application of Lightweaving. I could see arguments either way (If it's Stormlight, I wouldn't be surprised to see it as a step towards one of the Plate theories - Controlling and condensing Stormlight seems like step 1 towards creating physical objects with it).

I think this misses the true nature of Dalinar's Curse/Boon. It's not just that he lost all his memories of his wife. He also loses new memories. It's an ongoing affect that triggers whenever he hears his wife's name. I think it absolutely makes sense that his Stormlight healing triggers in response to new damage being done to his memories by the new mention of his wife. It's also worth noting that we've seen conditional Stormlight healing before. When Kaladin heals his arm of a shardblade wound it required him to think of it and actively heal it. Stormlight healing is more complicated than either simply working or not working.

Mraize just jumped to the top of my list. He's a hunter who uses the tools of the locals, and considers torture "fun". I can totally see him recreating murder techniques precisely.

I don't think the KR were any more involved with the Recreance than anyone else. We saw them at Feverstone Keep, IIRC, but all but one Order was involved equally - They all abandoned their Oaths at once. And there are other options than just flying down. Anyone with Transportation could leave, as could anyone with Friction, presumably (Manipulating air resistance for reduced falling speed). Which, overall, means roughly half the Orders could leave, even assuming that you don't just take in as much Stormlight as you can and just jump, as Kaladin did in the Chasms. Overall, I think if there was anyone left with a living Shardblade (I.e. anyone capable of actually locking the Gate) there was someone who could leave.

I like that. I'm not sure it's as straightforward as Alethkar = Warform. Shattered Plains for the form we saw there, but there's not significantly less war actually in Alethkar (Most of their fighting is elsewhere). But that fits, since the ones Kaladin is after don't seem to have gone full Odium. They're probably the Parshendi equivalent of farmers. There definitely seems to be a connection.

Some very good answers already posted, but also: Rock. His ability to see invisible spren only makes sense as an ability if invisible spren are actually kind of common. He's not surprised when he finds spren that only he can see, it's not some huge deal. Between him and the Parshendi, I've always had the impression that humanity only sees a small proportion of the spren that are there.

I feel that's a fairly big assumption. We see a lot of windspren. That doesn't mean that they're usually visible - It's equally possible that they're just common, and there are even more that we don't see.

Yeah, I'm leaning towards the shame being that he didn't have it in him to kill a child. Not doing so was the poor tactical choice, and posed more of a risk to Gavilar's throne.

Better man could be interesting, because it has a few different interpretations. On the one hand, he's a morally better man. On the other, he's also done a few things that seem to go beyond the limits of normal people, whether it's his recovery from injuries or catching a Chasmfiend's claw. He could well be a physically better man as well (Of course, stormlight on the route to Bondsmith are another potential source for that).

The difference between oldschool evil warlord Dalinar and modern Dalinar make a lot of sense if he's forgotten a lot of the nastier experiences of his life. If, after losing his wife, he asked for his pain to stop (For example), the Nightwatcher may have scooped out a lot of the other things he regretted as well. It suddenly seems significant that his biggest regret that he thinks about is almost killing his brother. Not any of horrible things he actually did. Modern Dalinar may well be a decent man because he doesn't have the weight of every bad thing he did, a gradual slide into evil where each bad choice makes the next one easier. EDIT: Another point for asking for an end to his pain - His ability (apparently contrary to biology according to the surgeons in WoR) to fight past his injuries.

Words of Radiance has a (currently) unique phenomena within the Cosmere. When someone reads WoR and asks what to read next, they're told Warbreaker. When someone talks about reading WoR, they're told to read Warbreaker first. Roshar has a fairly big Cosmere presence - You can't make it through an interlude without bumping into a worldhopper. I think this will continue in Oathbringer and we'll have a new book we recommend to people. My money's on Sel. Either through seeing more Galladon or through a Forger (Which is both an interesting, recognisable magic system, and something that a lot of the secret societies would be keen on). And let's be honest, more people need to read the Emperor's Soul, because it's Sanderson's most beautiful work.

Do we know when it happened? I can't remember either Adolin or Renarin mentioning remembering her. It's entirely possible it happened before they can remember (Although with the age difference, it would have to have been when Renarin was very young).

Well, Nightblood destroys singular targets, but that's still pretty broad. The actual damage isn't confined to the part it hits. Lifeless hit by it are destroyed entirely. When it hits a wall, it takes out a significant chunk of the wall around where it hits. Feed it enough Investiture and hit a planet, and who knows what would happen...