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  1. Aleksiel
    A broken soul is a must for a bond, so most likely we just didn't see what broke hers. Their mother died 10 years ago, so I do think it counts for growing up without a mother. Also, it doesn't matter that you don't see the problem. It was a problem fir him, something that bothered him and pained him. You think he shouldn't have made it such a big problem and I do not argue with this. All I'm saying is it was a problem to him. I don't think that was what broke him, but we'll see. He was friendless until later WoR. Only his sibling was by his side before that.
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    Oh, I'm ok with her being a Radiant, just meant to illustrate the difference between her development as one compared to Kaladin's. Edit:
  3. Aleksiel
    Overall, I agree with you. Brandon put so much effort into Kal and now his path outshines too much everyone else's so far.
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    Kaladin talked about some folklore believes of Voidbringers bringing back/possessing the dead, so may be voidspren could inhabit a dead parshendi body. One of the problems here is it would give Voidbringers a huge advantage that's hard to overcome. But it fits the title, because like the Shardblades, the dead parshendi would be just a little alive in a non-traditional fashion. There's likely some ground in the believe, because it has clearly influenced funeral rituals - souldcasting or burning the dead body. The Parshedi don't move the bodies of their dead, which I'm not sure how exactly fits in all of this; parshmen take care of their dead, basically the only thing they are passionate about. So there must be something.
  5. Aleksiel
    I think your dissatisfaction comes from the fact we haven't been with either of the other Radiants through their sufferings and brokenness. They have all felt different kinds of pain. We know the most about Kal and we were with him on his oath of becoming Radiant, so it's natural to feel for him the most.
  6. Aleksiel
    We don't have a clear idea of how many Radiants were there. Only that some Orders had very few members like the Some Orders were mainly scholars, may be they didn't leave behind their Shards when they broke their oaths. Yet this leaves a few hundreds Shards. Some might be hidden in Urithiru, others are probably in the hands of all the secret societies going around, others with the Shin or But overall I don't think there are a thousand missing Shards.
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    Just because there are people who has suffered greatly doesn't mean everyone else's suffering is insignificant. Your own pain doesn't go away when you think of someone who had it worse, does it? There is a character I believe had it worse than Kaladin She had it worse, at least Kaladin had something it the beginning. But that doesn't make Kal's story any less of a tragedy. Laral was raised with no mother and I doubt anyone was really her friend. She was the daughter of the city lord and must have felt detached from almost every other child. We saw how they treated Kal, no reason to believe Laral had anyone beside him. Then her father died and she was forced to be whatever the new city lord wanted her to be. Forced to marry and obey a repulsive violent old man, when she was so young. Her story is heart-breaking in a different way than Kal or Shallan's, but nonetheless painful and imo tragic. Laral never had brothers like Shallan to give her strength and reason to fight back. What hope was there for her? She had nobody to go for help, no ways out. Nowhere to go. A young lighteyed girl can't just pack a bag and run away. She would have just been dragged back. All this is enough to break anyone's soul. Whether or not she is a (proto-)Radiant will depend on how she chose to react to what happened to her after Kaladin left. I saw no foreshadowing in his past to point in the direction of Laral being a potential KR, but I wasn't really paying attention to her for such clues. I won't be surprised if she's a surgebinder now and I won't be surprised if she isn't. I just hope she won't be portrayed as a victim who never stood up for herself and those abused by Roshone.
  8. Aleksiel
    Yeah, when she sees Wit. Here:
  9. Aleksiel
    I kind of got that, however I don't understand why Shaggai concluded that from my post he quoted, because my point was exactly the opposite. Most likely we'll see all death rattles happen, else Brandon wouldn't have included them, so it's highly unlikely for any of them to happen off-screen without being specifically mentioned.
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    While I agree with the rest, I think you might be giving too much credit to Transformation. Soulcasting (as far as I understood it in WoR) works better if you aim to soulcast the object of choice into a substance with similar or lower density, thus soulcasting air into a trap or explosives will be nearly impossible. We also don't know if any poison can effect Voidbringers, so the poisoned mist might only take innocent people and allies rather than destroy its target, not to mention how hard will be to control it once the wind starts blowing the wrong way. We also don't know if soulcasting can have direct effect on Voidbringers. Szeth thought how they were better at holding stormlight than him. This, combined with how Lashing can't be used on someone with a Plate (invested object), makes me think it's unlikely to soulcast anyone or anything that's invested, so Voidbringers might be immune to any direct surges used against them. It's also too soon to predict how effective Transportation will be in battle. Teleporting yourself around and slicing enemies is very powerful, but is it possible? It's true Jasnah didn't have enough practice with this surge, but we still don't know any specifics. It might not be precise enough to do what you described. Or may be it drains all the stormlight the Radiant carries regardless of the actual amount needed for the destination of choice. There are some unknown restrictions here like how gravitation surge allows accesses to three Lashes, but not unlimited telekinesis. About the Bondsmiths, I wonder if Dalinar's soldiers will turn into squires now that he is a Radiant. It hasn't happened in the past according to WoR, but there might have never been someone like Dalinar who already controls and has the loyalty of thousands of men. If he can have squires at all, of course.
  11. Aleksiel
    We haven't seen them and they are yet to happen as far as I'm concerned. The death rattles you chose aren't in the 'confirmed events' section, which I was referring to. How exactly did you conclude logic demands they've happened already?
  12. Aleksiel
    By this logic, all of them could have happened when we weren't watching. I think Brandon will shows us all mentioned death rattles, else he wouldn't have written them. With what's so far considered confirmed, we have chapter titles and seen event to back them up, You are speculation without much proof Vargo might have done something we didn't witness.
  13. Aleksiel
    Thus we technically haven't seen this death rattle happen. Also, they probably use needles. It's supposed to be a controlled process after all. With a knife, you risk killing the person too fast for the to rattle anything. Vargo might kill with a knife a child later on, but so far he hasn't.
  14. Aleksiel
    Vargo doesn't use knives and strictly speaking we haven't seen him kill anyone.
  15. Aleksiel
    It's gemHEART, it counts. True that drinking wasn't involved, but the stormlight was in fact on their faces. There's plenty of literacy in the death rattles. If they were mainly metaphoric, they'd be practically useless. Your reading of that death rattle assumes the whole sentance was a mataphor with no actual child, knife or breaths, which doesn't fit the pattern we have so far.
  16. Aleksiel
    Technically he doesn't fly, he falls the wrong way. What's over-powered about it? Kaladin's supposed to fight Voidbringers with powers imitating the powers given to Jezrien, the king of Heralds. I think it's natural for Tanavast to have been more generous than Leras, considering. Surgebinders in general are more powerful than mistings and arguably mistborns, but hey, Radiants are mimicking the guardians of humanity who were created by a Shardholder after all.
  17. Aleksiel
    But the death rattles we've witnessed so far were lieteral with all that 'drinking the feast that clings to their faces' and 'a heart in their hands'. So I expect there to be a literal knife and a literal child, even if the breath is metaphorical.
  18. Aleksiel
    If a surgebinder simply has to say the words without any subsequent control, does it really do anything? If the spren doesn't react to breaking it, is it really an oath? And who would follow a rule breaking the which stays without consequences? It doesn't serve the purpose of allowing the bond as both Kaladin and Dalinar had started bonding without saying any ideals. It can't be there just to ensure surgebinders become better people, else there would be consequences of breaking it. It might be something that all following oaths have to be in agreement with, but then we have Shallan. Admitting to murder doesn't fit with the spirit of the First Ideal the way I understand it, though it could be interpreted as fitting. I agree the First Ideal doesn't seem to have much of a purpose nowadays, however I doubt it has been worthless in the past. If the Desolation and the return of the Voidbringers isn't happening as it used to, then it makes sense to me that something will be different about the KR as well.
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    There must be a way of ensuring the First Ideal is followed, because a law nobody enforces is useless. So, if it wasn't the bonded spren who assured surgebinders were in compliance with it, then who? Ishi certainly couldn't have watched day and night all surgebinders and the Stormfather likely didn't have the power to forcefully return a spren back to Shadesmar when their human misbehaved. If breaking the First Ideal has no consequences, there's no point in it, which is what you are saying. However, it must have had power in the past regardless of how things are now. It has served a purpose then, but something changed. Is it because the Almighty is no more? He was surprised by the surgebinders existence, but didn't say he never got involved with them. Ishi seems directly responsible for the First Ideal if we assume it wasn't there in the first place. May be the Bondsmiths were meant to ensure (guide) surgebinders followed it? Though I don't see how they could have done it and how it would fit their surges. Regardless, I still think the First Oath must have value. Perhaps not speaking it means you don't get to be a KR, but a mere surgebinder and before you speak any oath, you have two ways ahead. So Kaladin wasn't on the Radiant path when he almost killed himself, and that was what kept his bond with Syl intact despite his actions.
  20. Aleksiel
    Wouldn't letting himself die/be killed like that violate the First Ideal? Since it didn't prevent Renarin from bonding further with his spren, I think he tried to do something, else it would have been a broken ideal.
  21. Aleksiel
    I agree with you. But I also think it's curious Elhokar sees them, whereas Vargo is unaware of their presence. This makes me think Elhokar might be forming a bond with a non-Cryptic that would allow him to see other spren as well. Perhaps the moving shadows is his bonding spren.
  22. Aleksiel
    Don't take for granted lies are what attracts Cryptic. There's no proof Shallan was a liar before she killed her mother, only that she drew. Lightweavers are about honesty after all and what Pattern seemed to consider lies were mostly figures of speech and metaphors. Creativity is their leading trait and Tien's sculptures fit well. There's a nice thread on on the importance of attributes, which allows Tien to be proto-Lightweaver without him being a liar like Shallan.
  23. Aleksiel
    Unless we consider going after Tien and leaving her with Roshone, but I admit I over-exaggerated the 'dumped her again' part to make it sound better.
  24. Aleksiel
    Yeah, as if Szeth will be cheerful
  25. Aleksiel
    Plot twist - Laral became a Lightweaver and posed as Tarah to be with Kaladin, but he dumped her yet again. Poor Laral.
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