Aleksiel

If Brandon used it as simple someone who can use the surge, then it's Hoid. I guess we'll find out at a later point whether it was this or an actual (proto)surgebinder of the LW Order.

According to WoB Kal has met two LW, but it doesn't state whether Kal met first the unknown or Shallan. I'd apologize to Vargo for not using proper titles, but he no longer has crazy surgebinding assassin, so he can't make me

So he can revive his Blade thus becoming an ED, and explode with light in the middle of Urithiru Kaldin style. Talk about mitigating circumstances

The way I read it once you enter physically you need a particular point, not every point on Roshar is available for elsecalling. I base this on what her spren told Jasnah in Shadesmar. I have some faint memory about the surge not working as before, but I might be confusing it with soulcasting since I couldn't find WoB for this.

Both can hide him with him with illumination. Urithiru is enormous and full of too many people to notice of there's suddenly one more darkeyestable boy. No need to be overly dramatic and fly away.

I like your idea, but could they have had enough time for that? They would need at least three Honorblades - one with Transportation to take them as close as possible to (not)Taln's location, another with Gravitation since we know from Jasnah she couldn't make it to Alethkar itself, only relatively close, and then finally a Blade with Illumination to hide themselves and switch the Honorblade with a Shardblade. Even if that was theoretically doable, they have no Honorblade with gravitation, I'm skeptical sliding would be fast enough. Yes, Szeth was 100% sure they'd go and retrieve his Blade, he never said anything about doing it fast.

Renarin or Shallan could do the same. I don't think Dalinar and Elhokar are in any position to punish severely Adolin as at least half the surgebinders and a lot other people will likely be on his side. A slap on the wrist is the most I see possible, though that doesn't mean Adolin won't take it hard.

Syl is bothered by lies, so just protectionspren feels too limiting. Pattern told Shallan she needs truths to progress, so I think you put too much emphasys on her drawings just because she's the only LW we've met so far, but if I recall correctly WoB has it Kal has met another LW before her, yet she is the only one with this particular skill in art he has met, so artists are probably more likely than others to be LW material, but not necessarily the only ones, thus I'm skeptic about creativespren as an alternative for Cryptics. If I had to chose another name for them I'd go with self-awareness spren. For inkspren I'd go with logicspren. When Jasnah first met her spren and it threw her in Shadesmar (not fully), he expected of her to use some basic logic to get herself out of that situation. You call it learned, but that wuld imply it's a spren you attract after you learned something imo. About Vargo I saw someone mention him as potential second BS. I don't remember who suggested it, but it's an interesting possibility.

Ah, I thought you were talking about something from this week's release. Yes, it's an interesting catch, but I don't know if you're onto something, you might be. What follows from this? Can you apply the novel to OB plot somehow? I haven't read it, so I can't tell.

FMA was made before the manga was completed, so from one point the it continue with no source material. FMAB is remake after the manga was finished. In my opinion:

Could you be more specific? Which chapter title? How is it referencing the said novel?

Well, I said I don't have anything in support. It was mentioned several times since WoR Jasnah and now Shallan hope to find some information in Urithiru, so it will be underwhelming if there's not a single book there. How did the book get there? May be one of the Stone Shamans, Szeth, Nale... or may be this time it's actually aliens Dying people do seem to get a glimpse of Shadesmar as we've seem from the death rattles - yes, one of the Unmade is involved, may be some near-death experience can give a glimpse into CR for a moment. May be one of the Horneater springs that contains a shardpool was involved. May be he had a vision based on something he asked the Nightwatcher for. How does anyone see beyond Shadesmar and is that the Spiritual Realm is more interesting to me. The fact that the author knows the term Shadesmar is in itself very telling about his knowledge and we know the Sunmaker spend much time investigating the claims about prophecies and visions.

I'd say Zahel is with Dalinar's ardents as he was before. Do you have any reason to think otherwise?

I strongly lean towards the Sunmaker, because: Oathbringer was the name of his Blade, so why not use it for his book, too He would have been seen as heretic for daring to challenge the Ardentia Him writing a book would make vorin women uncomfortable (it was already established in his time writing was for women only) as implied It's very fitting for the Bondsmith book As mentioned above in-world WoK and WoR were ancient texts, so it's reasonable to believe the trend will continue That's two in-world and two outline reasons I can give. I have a pet theory (nothing to support it) that Oathbringer will be the book Shallan discovers somewhere in Urithiru.

I've been thinking why it is and will be difficult for Dalinar to get other kingdoms to work with them. I think Dalinar is missing something rather important - he thought how he knows little of other kingdoms and how to talk to them, but is what we saw in this chapter actually adequate attempt? So Dalinar had translators, but still relied on alethi language. I find this a poor choice on his part. From his conversation with Fen: I don't think troops are the only thing the queen was thinking of. Alethkar already has quite the cultural influence and obviously even when attempting to unite others alethi elite doesn't have the mind to use the language of the other side, which is very disrespectful. And why wouldn't they? Why would non-alethi join this Urithiru that is basically an alethi province? The city of the Radiants was intended to be above kingdoms, yet it currently isn't. Even if I'm more lenient in my views, I still see no reason for a non-Vorin surgebinder to be particularly eager to join the current Urithiru that is dominated by vorin customs. Dalinar needs to realize KR belong to all cultures and none at the same time. He won't successfully unite Roshar if people feel alethi are trying to take advantage of the situation and dominate them all.

I think the author of the in-world Oathbringer is more and more likely to be the Sunmaker since that was what his original Blade was called. His ideas must have been borderline heretical at the time (challenging the ardentia) and at that point I think vorin women already were the only ones who wrote, so the Sunmaker writing a book must have been unsettling as previous epigraphs implied.

Cool, thanks! Now that's another good reason to finally read Sixth of Dusk.

Too many WoB to keep track of them all, that's what I think This opens the interesting possibility of seeing a magic system that was designed by Adonalsium pre-shattering.

An interlude by a new surgebinder will be very nice, (Edgedancer spoiler) As for places I'm most interested in Kurth, the City of Lightening and Rall Elorim, the City of Shadows. Oh, and hopefully we'll get to see Redin again even if not in an interlude.

I expect some characters to make a return - Rysn, Szeth, Taravangian, Eshonai, Lift. I'd like to see the everstorm (or at least its effects) through the eyes of one of the Sleepless.

The way I understand it the Heralds didn't have any special powers before they became Heralds, hence 'no innate powers', however since then during the extended period they were exposed to investiture they developed some powers that remain integrated in them even after they ditched the Honorblades.

From WoR: I don't see a reason to believe spren couldn't have have bonded men before him, they probably just had no reason to consider such a thing. Honor certainly didn't realize it was possible, so he didn't affect them, at least not intentionally. Of course, you can interpret it another way, but Tanavast takes no credit for Nahel bonds and the surgebinding that comes from it.

That was kind of my point, actually, may be not articulated well enough. Although I don't completely agree with the 'from Adonalsium' part, that depends on your definition. Did it come directly from Adonalsium or is it just part of how the cosmere works? We don't know enough.

The magic that came from Honor and Cultivation is unlikely to predate their presence on Roshar, because otherwise why have magic from them, but not from other Shards? More importantly we know for certain Honor created the Honorblades and they were powered by him, so that kind of surgebinding is directly created by him then and not something from before. Does that mean he created the surges though? Or did he simply use something already part of that specific world? We don't know much about the Old magic and about the rest it depends on your definition of magic. Do Parshendi bond spren because of magic for example or do we consider that natural fenomenon? What about the Sleepless, do they count as having magic? I believe magic in general does exist pre-Adonalsium shattering, but I also tend to think the specific magic systems we see on different Shard worlds are the result of certain Shards settling there. We've seen Hoid's magic works on Roshar and WoB has it Vasher can use stormlight, so there is some compatibility between all investiture and magic systems, however I can't say whether the magic system themselves are the way they are because the Shards created them that way or the Shards only molded something preexisting that can not be replicated elsewhere. By that I mean could Honor have created surgebinding on every planet or would the Honorblades works as they do only on Roshar? I have no answer for that, although I'm more inclined to say yes, they would work the same anywhere he invested. However surgebinding could not have been replicated elsewhere the way the spren did it. It's interesting to note spren could have created surgebinding without Honor if they had the mind for it. They simply borrowed the idea according to what we know so far, so I'd say the supports the likelihood of having magic in the Cosmere before Adonalsium shattered.

It's a very interesting concept. May be have him follow some in-world religion or philosophy as an outside source of morality and make him struggle with seemingly contradicting ideas - how to be honest, yet at the same time be nice to people. You can explore the difference between what is right and what is good. Does he retain a sense of empathy? I suggest you look into psychopathic psychology, that's characterized by having no sense of right and wrong.