Aleksiel

Elhokar had people who were supposed to set a trial for them. A ruler can't do everything by himself, he delegates. Where were the scribes that were supposed to prepare the paperwork so the trial could start? What about his advisers or those handling legal processes? Surely the dungeonguards and their superiors could have taken a lttle more interest as to when was the old couple going to be trialed as Moash's grandparents died in front of their eyes. Also, please you the quote button at the end of my posts, else I don't get notifications.

Brandon said he has no problem writing flashbacks of dead characters, nothing's for certain. Jasnah is also getting a book, so hopefully we'll still read about the Kholins, though Dalinar might die of old age after 10+ in-world years since he's in his 50s in WoK and we don't know alethi life expectancy.

Well, Kal lost the family he found for himself and his little brother because of Amaram, so really had noone left to protect unlike Adolin. Kal wanted justice, not revenge. He never went for revenge. It made no sense to me when he agreed to help assassinate Elhokar, but didn't even think about killing Amaram. Since Amaram did what he did to Kal, it's likely he won't hesitate to do other bad things to other innocent people. I don't understand your desire to make Kal look bad is comparison to Adolin. Adolin is still wonderful and fascinating. I agree punishing Elhokar for Moash's parents is uncalled for. No matter how thoughtful and experienced a ruler is, they're bound to make some mistakes. Elhokar's fault was trusting Roshone too much, but he couldn't have known better. I understand Moash was bloodthirsty, but I think he didn't know about Roshone and was wrongfully under the impression Elhokar purposely let his grandparents die. Also, Moash was the only one after vengeance.

I see your point here, but it's not like I think much about my glasses. Putting them on is a habit I don't do consciously, just part of my morning routine. You can also look at it in another way: you think about your glasses, not your eyesight. This is a tricky one, but arguably thinking you must put your glasses on isn't the same as thinking you have bad eyesight and this was the loophole that allowed Renarin's eyesight to get healed. I still think it was much weirder for Lopen to grow his arm back. Yes and no. Dalinar had a vision of Tanavast's vision of a future. Tanavast had recorded (can't think of a better word) the vision Dalinar had in the past, so what Dalinar saw is still something from the past. Also, I think only Navani was there when Dalinar had that one and it was never commented as a vision of the future, so Ren really had no reason to believe his visions were anything like Dalinar's.

I think the hightstorm Shallan and Kaladin spend in the chasms is when many Parshendi went to Stormform, thus they were the chanting Kal heard. The strange red and violet spren are stormspren. They were inside the highstorm as we saw in Eshonai's PoV, but she didn't comment on any giants, so they either they didn't reveal themselves in the presence of a Parshendi or have always been there and were nothing new to Eshonai, so she didn't mention them - the legends of Voidbringers and shadows of KR and Heralds walking during highstrorms must have originated from something after all.

Does it matter which is worse when both are wrong? Kal shouldn't have agreed to help 'the patriots' assassinate Elhokar, this doesn't excuse Adolin. Adolin killed Sadeas for a future crime he was yet to commit (if spreading rumors can be called crime), whereas Kal sought to punish Amaram for murders he had committed, those are two very different things. Adolin did't go Batman on Sadeas, he murdered him because his anger took the best of him. On a different note why Kal never finds Amaram's guards and Restares (who convinced Amaram he had to kill Kal and his men according to what Amaram said to Kaladin before branding him) as guilty as Amaram himself is beyond me.

So, you change your argument against Kal, from Amaram to Moash? I agree he should have handled the situation differently, but that changes nothing about Adolin's actions. Dalinar is working so hard towards unity and here you compare Sadeas to another country's prime minister I really don't see the he-threatened-to-spread-nasty-rumors as a reason to kill Sadeas. What makes it wrong is precisely the fact Adolin killed Sadeas. It makes little difference whether it was in cold blood or rage, the result is the same.

Kal was wrong to think about killing Sadeas, you judge him for that? I really see no reason to compare one guy's thoughts to another's actions. Adolin takes no moral high ground here. He killed Sadeas for what he probably would have done in the future, not as some act of serving justice.

Kal was wrong about what exactly? He tried to duel Amaram, but never to assassinate him. He didn't even think to 'accidentally' make him trip into a chasm, not enough imagination for that. Anyway, it's not right to kill anyone without a trial just because you've already sentenced them in your mind. Adolin didn't kill Sadeas for revenge or for what he did, no. Adolin killed Sadeas for what he might do.

Ym is not there to show us how different Lift is because of her connection to the Cognitive realm, we've already seen a few surgebinders. Ym was meant to show us Nin, the new spren, possibly the Iriali trail and the like, but I wouldn't say he was there just for contrast with Lift. Also, I don't think healing someone else is the logical progression of healing yourself. If you are a good cook, that means you can prepare nice meals not that you can touch someone and turn them into a good cook as well. The mechanism of healing yourself and healing others is different and only a limited amount of surgebinders are capable of healing others, but all can heal themselves. It was important to see the surge of re-growth. It foreshadows what Lift did and foreshadowing is something Brandon does often. You are a different person. I seldom think about my glasses despite wearing them from the moment I wake up in the morning until I go to sleep. I really don't understand why it is such an issue for you that Ren healed his eyesight. Just accept it and move on. That was not a vision of the future. What Dalinar sees is a recording and the monologue is always the same. Dalinar saw a vision in which Tanavast talked about the possible future, but Dalinar did not see a vision of the future like Renarin did. Dalinar does not see the future, he sees the messages Tanavast has left in the past, therefor all Dalinar sees is past. Now to say something more relevant to the topic of Truthwatcher or Edgedancer, I'll repeat myself and say again that I consider Ym's spren and Wyndle to be quite different. It's too soon to say Lift sees spren differently. She hasn't commented on that and she doesn't see any objects or living creatures in a none-physical realm manner, so it's unreasonable to say she'd see only spren in a different way once they've crossed from the Cognitive realm to the Physical. Appearance aside, Wyndle grew in the direction in which he wanted to move, whereas Ym's spren had something grow from it when it stopped moving. No matter how they actually look in the Cognitive realm, there's no reason for the same kind of spren to move in the physical realm in a totally different (even opposite) manner. That being said, I agree it's prematurely to put Ym as a Truthwatcher in coppermind when it's not canon yet. But I think there is more evidence to that than you give it credit. The other times someone (including) spren has talked about using light, it was about Illumination, Ym gives shoes in exchange of learning a story and this fits the attributes quite well. Also, as I said, I strongly disagree Ym's spren was like Wyndle.

He'll steal some from Hoid

Adolin snapped, he'll be an Allomancer!

I also have problems with this 'learned' thing. We don't know how accurate the attributes in the Ars Arcanum are. Lift isn'tt different because she heals, she's different because she's partly in the cognitive realm. Healing someone else is a huge stretch from what we've seen in WoK, it's completely different. Passive healing ability possessed by all Radiants vs specific healing surge limited to two Orders. Assuming healing yourself is like healing others is a fallacy. He could have seen the result of the two storms colliding and falsely concluded they were going to die. He was in the middle of this huge event, so may be he could see himself or may be he he saw others and thought his fate would be the same. Seeing major world events isn't the same as seeing yourself, so don't assume seeing yourself in the middle of a huge event means you can foresee your own future. You also seem to assume just because Renarin saw it happen it has to. Foresight might deal with the likeliest courses of the future. That doesn't make it the only outcome. We do not know what Renarin saw. We don't know how foresight works or how accurate it is. His blood weakness is part of his self image, whereas the glasses weren't. Again, Lopen regrew his arm after 10+ years. Dalinar never had a vision of the future.

Lift is still too young and her personality is yet to develop. She's mouthy, so she could get eloquent in time, she has it in her. She's fascinated by 'rich people's' atuff and lifestyle, which seems fitting for an Edgedancer. She thought when sliding on the floor to safe her life that her 'pose was not particularly dignifying', she has a small-picture kind of thinking that Nalan described as typical for her Order, she remembered a forgotten boy and went back to save him instead of run for her life (the bigger picture). She fits quite well the description of her Order and I expect her stay in the palace to let her shine in full Edgedancer manner. (Unlike Kal who probably wouldn't dress fancy even if his life depended on it.) Ym is esoteric - being religious counts imo. He is a learned man as he is quite the shoemaker and he is also giving. Keep in mind that we don't know how credible in-world WoR is, so not fitting the description is not really an issue. It's not like his shop is on 5th Avenue or any expensive shopping street. In fact having a shop doesn't mean one has money. My overall impression is that Ym lived a modest life with few spheres. Also, he said those 5 spheres were all he had. The healing we saw in WoK is not part of the Progression surge. We saw Kal healing his own wounds with passive stormlight related ability, not Kaladin actively healing anyone else with the surge of re-growth. It's different. Brandon is all about foreshadowing and he usually shows things he plans on using latter on in key events. We saw Shallan Ligthweaving before she needed it to escape the ship or convince the deserters. We saw Kal surgebinding before he used it to save Bridge Four and Dalinar. We see re-growth before it saves a key character who then saves a future main character. It's about foreshadowing. We have no idea what he actually saw, we only read his interpretation. While it is a good point against the Truthwatcher theory that Ym didn't seem to have visions of the future, we simply do not have enough information. It doesn't matter how long. Lopen had one arm since childhood, but he was able to grow himself another one. Kal only has his slave brands for a little over a year, yet he thinks they are part of him. I personally seldom think about my glasses, so I'd hazard stormlight would heal my eyesight as well because I do not think of myself as someone with bad eyesight. What do you mean Ren had Dalinar's visions? Ren only saw the coming of the everstorm. At any rate seeing the past was ok unlike seeing the future. They even discussed it in WoK that it's fine so long as Dalinar's visions were only of the past. It is logical to you to accept both kind of visions, but they are different in nature much like healing yourself with stormlight is not like healing someone with re-growth. Accepting visions of the past doesn't mean you accept visions of the future.

That data about the Edgedancers is from in-world WoR, not Lift. Being born a noble doesn't mean you automatically like expensive things. Ym hadn't save money for anything fancy, so I say he wasn't interested in fancy things. Else he'd at least charge people. Ym had only five spheres, how is that a successful businessman? The interlude is not pointless. It did some world-building (new religion and town), we saw a new kind of spren and the surge of re-growth before Lift used it, thus we are introduced to the healing ability before it is used to solve a problem, so it doesn't feel like it came from nowhere. Also, we learned a lot about Nalan, so it's not a surprise for the reader he wants to kill Lift. There is foreshadowing Ren's going to be a Radiant like his glasses and the problems with his Blade. From a meta-text perspective becoming a Radiant was the natural progression of his character. Giving the description of the Truthwatchers, it wasn't unpredictable which Order he'd be, but I admit I didn't expect Ren to be a Truthwatcher. Renarin didn't saw anything about himself as far as we know, so why would Ym? There's little on foresight, but it predicted one major world event and nothing of personal matter, so I'd hazard the Truthwatcher either has to be more experienced or there are limitations preventing one from knowing their destiny. Renarin starts with seeing the future - something forbidden and blasphemous in Alethkar, associated with the Voidbringers. It's completely natural he wasn't accepting it and Glyss probably had memory problems, so he couldn't explain anything (like Syl in the beginning of WoK), because their bond was relatively new. Ym on the other hand has no such upbringing and a talking spren didn't bother him. edit: typos

It doesn't say luxury anywhere, but they are supposed to be the most refined and very demanding, so I figure preference for expensive things is common for Edgedancers. Theymoved gracefully and were articulate and refined, which sounds to me like the Edgedancers being (or at least) acting like nobles. It's possible to interpret their description differently, however this is my reading of it. People that get labeled as strange are usually not the popular crowd and someone who doesn't fit is more or less an outsider like Renarin and Kaladin's father. I am under the impression people went to Ym only when they needed shoes and he has a rather lonely/isolated lifestyle. Ym did talk, but what he wanted was to learn the boy's story, so Ym had a preference to listen rather than talk. I in no way mean to imply Ym is a foreign non-Vorin version of Renarin, only that their personalities have some similarities. At any rate, the said similarities aren't the main reasons I believe Ym's a Truthwatcher.

The Knights of each Orders have specific personalities, so it is relevant that Ym didn't refer to things described as common for Edgedancers such as luxury and elegance. I disagree Ym's nothing like Renarin, though we haven't seen the latter's PoV yet. Both Ren and Ym tend to listen instead of talk (to analyze others), both are outsiders, people find them strange, both have specific and somewhat limited interests (fabrials and shoemaking), both make others uncomfortable. Rock is very respectful if not even worshiping spren. He wouldn't speak of one which wants to remain hidden. The guy apologized to the spren on the rock Kal sticked to the wall.

One could have disobeyed like Syl and Ivory did and went to someone despite his peoples wishes.

While I agree Lift may be could see spren differently, I do not think Ym's spren was like Wyndle. Wyndle looked like he grew to move, whereas Ym's spren stopped moving and then something started to grow out of it. This is too different a mechanism to be the same type of spren. However, I don't find the 'use the light' as evidence Ym could lightweave. The spren could have very well meant stormlight. Both cases are about use of illumination, but I think generally 'light' can be used for short of stormlight especially by a spren with memory problems. I also find it interesting Ym's chapter has double Vedel icon. When Kal has two Jezrien, he does something super Windrunnerish. However, I'm inclined to believe Ym was a Truthwatcher because he was religious (into esoteric things), a shoemaker (learned), gave shoes for stories (giving and learning), his spren moved around very differently from Wyndle, he was an outsider and didn't care about Edgedancer things like 'rich people's food', expensive clothes or doors, and he didn't think anything like Lift in the lines of 'the pose wasn't particularly dignifying'. Overall prestige, luxury, looks and the like weren't part of Ym's PoV. Ym cared whether or not the shoes fit perfectly, not about making them look nice. May be this offended Nalan's fashion sense and that's why he killed Ym. edit: spelling

Here's the first full length trailer: The Doctor riding a horse in a pajama and dinosaur in London, that's... unexpected. Did he go to a parallel universe again? I hope the Doctor will get a new companion before the season ends.

You say there's a science behind it, but how exactly does one lose their abilities when they conceive a child? If a male Manipulator impregnates a girl, he suddenly loses his abilities? I could accept this happens to a woman, because hormones, but there's nothing different in a man when he's going to be a father. Many Manipulators probably won't want a child until they are over 30, males probably even older. Also, it would be an extreme loss for two Manipulators to have a child together. Do Manipulators lose the ability immediately after conception or after the child is actually born? You basically have a fixed number of Manipulators in the world, but they seem extremely easy to be wiped out. Kill a pregnant Manipulator or a woman having a Manipulator's baby and that line is lost. Pregnancy seems like something that should be kept top secret and women with Manipulators babies should be guarded.

Navani seems to have a preference for Chana's name. May be it depends on where one grew up. Kelek related swearing comes up more often because Teft uses Kelek's name when he curse and he does it often. Not that he's the only character to say Kelek-related swearing, but most of Teft's swearing involves Kelek. Aha! More and more proof Kelek is related to Nalthis! May be the missing Honorblade is actually a sentient awakened object and walked away on its own.

And their biggest rival will be the Shattered Plains Academy

Here's another teaser if you haven't seen it already: I watched a video where it was claimed the voice is Davros's and he'll return in season 8.

Hmm, I've forgotten it was Kalak who said that. May be because they use less stormlight and change shape to anything very fast, though there might be more to it. edit: I got it wrong and thought Shardblades being better Sorry about that. Well, I have no idea why Honorblades should be considered more powerful if we count Sharblades as granting surgebinding.