Aleksiel

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Yellow text on kindle? This is the first time I hear such a thing is possible. Anyway, I have no explanation why it was used. My best guess is to represent the e-page being old, almost falling apart. Ok, it doesn't make much sense...

Only WoB has it Skybreakers wouldn't approve of Adolin's actions. But yeah, some Orders would be ok; Eslecallers certainly considering Jasnah. Not that he has the personality for her Order, but still safe to assume they would approve of what he did.

This is an interesting take on what happened. However, I have a different understanding. Feel free to disregard it as I don't have much to support it, but a feeling it's right. I view Syl as an extension of Kal's consciousness at least to some regard. After his first talk with Moash about the assassination attempt on Elhokar, Kal started having problem with his weapon (same happened after Syl died). Note that Kal felt it was wrong to do nothing about Moash, but Syl didn't hear what was all about and Kaladin didn't tell her either. Yet he was not at peace with himself and their bond was disturbed. Later on, Syl disappeared when Kaladin went to speak with the men that persuaded Moash to help them kill the king. Kaladin knew in his heart he shouldn't do it and so Syl was pushed away from him. Kaladin never felt assassinating Elhokar was truly the right thing, so when he silenced the voice inside him (his consciousness), Syl was silenced as well (aka dead, back in Shardesmar). She can not answer questions Kaladin can't answer. He asked her why she hadn't told him he could heal from a Sharblade wound (after the fight with Szeth) and she told him: Much the same, Syl doesn't know what right and honorable until Kaladin decides. Thus why Kal hesitation to help Dalinar in WoK didn't create a problem - at first Kaladin though Dalinar didn't deserve to be saved. But in WoR Kaladin knew in his heart allowing Elhokar to be killed was wrong, he just spend a lot of time not being able to explain why it was wrong. Kal acted against his own consciousness and thus against his honor and bond with Syl. So no, Syl wasn't forcing Kaladin to do anything, all he had to do was follow his heart. No, she couldn't give neither answers nor words as they should come from his heart. He is the one making or breaking promises, not Syl. edit: adding some additional explanations and changing some words I used wrong.

I think a Shardhammer will smash rather than cut, but that doesn't make it any less deadly. I'm reminded of how Dalinar wondered why there weren't any Shardtools in WoK and how much easier labor like digging would be with them. Little did he know the ancients actually had Shardtools, That gives a whole new level of understanding how the KR used to help humanity rebuild after Desolations.

Syl told Kal she was drawn to him when he started defending those young experienced boys on the battlefield. Jasnah's issues with religion don't strike me as a sign of a metal problem. I suppose having a mental disorder makes a person prone to break more easily than people without one, but it's the same as those with mental illnesses getting spren. Being broken/having a mental illness is not enough; that's why there are word/truths/whatever that has to be spoken so a surgebinder can progress. (Side note:I'm using illness=disorder and I have no idea if that's correct, but hopefully the meaning is clear enough regardless.)

And that's why the Dustbringers rage quit during the Recreance, one mystery solved

I'm pretty sure there are WoB on the Heralds either not being originally or just RAFO if they were Rosharian, but I can't find it right now. What you makes sense and I'm not saying it's not possible. Just kind of fits nicely for each Shard to have their own magic system.

But that would mean you have Cultivation more than Honor and Odium, doesn't really seem balanced this way to me. edit: also, Tanavast said spren imitated what he'd done with the Heralds. And he gave them surgebinding, so even with spren of both H and C involved, originally surgebinding is of Honor.

There are three magic systems, it's not only surgebinding.There is a voidbringers chart in WoK along with surgebinding one, so I find it more logical to have a magic system from each Shard rather three systems that have inner Honor/Odium/Cultivation balance. Syl speaks of 'spren of him' implying Odium and Wyndle call the Nightwatcher his mother (she is in some way associated with Cultivation according to WoB but not in the same way the Stormfather is to Honor), so I'm inclined to believe each Shard has their own spren.

Well, Mraize had Veil to investigate Amaram, later on Hoid insulted him openly and basically accused him of having the blood of innocent on his hands. Yes, Kaladin accused Amaram of killing his friends before it, but Veil also delivered information to Mraize before Wit's confrontation with Amaram. I'm not saying it's perfect prove, but there is a lot of foreshadowing.

Because one's personality determined one's actions and those actions are what draws a certain kind of spren. It's very logical to me that the personality ('nature and temperament') is behind what surges you get. Even Nohadon talks about personalities and what surgebinders those people make. I agree Honorblades might grant more than what we've currently see, but not all surges.

Nazh is a man, not a woman. The female of Hoid's age is likely Cultivation herself.

Most people say Mraize isn't Hoid, but the chapter where Mraize is introduced has Hoid's icon and Shallan thought of Hoid when she first saw Mraize: He explained that: In the epilogue Hoid told Jasnah: He knew she was alive and went to get the information he needed. The best way to get whatever information he needs from her would be to persuade her to tell him. Hoid told Dalinar their goals are very different and he wouldn't mind letting the world burn if he could get what he wanted. I am not convinced Hoid and Mraize aren't the same person. Sure, there isn't absolute prove that Hoid=Mraize, but there are enough similarities to consider the possibility.

I like the first version of Jasnah better, the second one has a too big mouth imo. Perhaps make her lips a bit thinner if you wish to change something in the first one? But I think it's her eyes are what don't really match, not her mouth, because they don't look like having an epicanthic fold and seem blue rather violet to me. I don't know, sorry. But I really like the first version anyway, it's great the way it is now.

No Knight Radiant in the new system then or is it above Mistborn?

Hmm, if Brandon won't make characters aware of the other Cosmere worlds yet, perhaps Jasnah met with a worldhopper who gave her the bandolier rather than going herself to Scadrial to get one. I doubt there are bullets in it though, there hasn't been any foreshadowing of Jasnah having combat training or access to something more powerful and unusual than soulcasting. Perhaps the spren gave her whatever is in the bandolier, because she spoke of meeting with highspren and Hoid said they aren't used to dealing with someone as demanding as her, so she could have mm...persuaded them to give her some means to deal with the Voidbringers, so that's why she was worried why things are different now than they happened in previous Desolations - because whatever she currently carries might not be helpful in this new circumstances.

'By the Damnation's eleventh name, don't you dare give me delicious food when I'm depressed!' I like them all and I really love the pokemon reference! I hope you get inspired to do a Kaladin-Dalinar sketch or comics

A 'traditional love triangle' to me is one in which the girl (it could be a boy if it was a triangle with a boy and two girls, but that's not the case here) is toying in one way or another with the two boys not being able to decide who she wants for a while until she settles for one of them. So I think it's save to say this won't happen considering Brandon's answer. Nontraditional ways to deal with it: Shallan staying with Adolin? Nah, there won't be much of a conflict between them, so probably not. Too easy to happen. Shallan and Kaladin? Well, that's kind of a traditional outcome, the girl leaving one of the guys for the other, so I'd say no. Shallan with non of them? Possible, especially if someone else catches her attention. This kind of escapes the 'love triangle path' with Adolin and Kal, and creates new conflicts depending on the guy she picks. One of the Ghostbloods would create a whole new level on trouble. Though it would mean another triangle if she doesn't break up with Adolin before it, so probably won't happen. (Well, there's always the chemistry between Kal and Adolin. I'm joking.. sort of. But I could spare my Jasadin ship for Kadolin What's more nontraditional than this outcome? Unlikely, but still funny to toy with the idea.) Or Shallan could just stay alone and become a worldhopper and end up in later books with someone from another world or be alone like Hoid. Though I'm not convinced Shallan being single fits the nontraditional requirement. Shallan and both of them? Well, that's definitely nontraditional, especially if pulled WoT style, but I doubt Brandon will use it. There's the Navani solution - marry one of them, wait till they die, seduce the other one. But Brandon used this already and as much as symmetry is important to the world of Roshar I doubt he will resolve the same problem in the same way, because it's kind of predictable and Brandon is not predictable in his writing. Adolin could be the one ending their relationship, but that would make things a bit too easy for Shallan, so no conflict which is not what we're looking for. We know Drehy will get a boyfriend somewhere in the series. I'm not implying anything, but Any other nontraditional outcomes I'm missing?

He didn't finish the sentence because Renarin interfered and I admit we can't be sure what he was going to say, but he also talked being scared to refuse Dalinar, so that's why I think he's stlll talking about Dalinar and not his wife.

I think what he meant was that Dalinar was the most influential one; he had until the Tower the most powerful army and certainly has the king's favor. I agree Dalinar's wife is more important than she seems right now, but I think you are reading too much into the quote.

There is another type of Shard on Roshar. Take a look at this from WoK: Sounds like Dalinar going to the Stormfather to me although it's not a death rattle, but 'Poem of Ista'. So far we know nothing about the Dawnshards. They could be another type of blades that shift much like Shardplate to fit the one bonded to them. There is a possibility what Dalinar bonded was neither Honorblade, nor Shardblade.

Definitely the best bromance in WoR! Well, the series end for Shallan once she's dead so the question doesn't necessarily mean she survives the end of SA. The point is who she will be with when her adventures in SA end.

It makes perfect sense, I just thought garnet can only be deep dark red until I googled 'pink garnet'. Perhaps if someone took Taln's Honorblade before he even made an appearance during the end of WoK, his eyes darkened? Though I don't think in Dalinar's vision of the Recreance a change of the KR's eyes happened. The easiest explanations is that this is Taln only someone took his Blade while he was still dizzy and gave him a Shardblade? Ok, this doesn't make much sense, why give him a sword at all? I'm just shooting in the dark here.

Or, you know, plot twist - Kadolin!