Shardlight

Congrats to Brandon and the whole team!!

Does anyone think Adolin killed Eshonai when he pushed her off of the ledge? I don't think she died, being she is going to have a book of her own. She was a character I really liked. I was bummed when she couldn't stop her transformation to stormform. Maybe the trauma of falling into the chasm was enough to allow her to take control of herself.

I was happy to see Sadeas dead. I'm not sure how I feel about Adolin doing it though. Right away, when I first read it, I though to myself, that is not going to end well. I can't believe Dalinar will be happy when he finds out Adolin did it. This might alienate Adolin from the rest of the family. I was just beginning to like him more.

I also ordered it for the nook but this is my first pre-order on the nook. I've done a hardcopy every other time.

We really don't know much about the stormfather/face in the wind yet. We don't know who's side he/it is on. He could just be trying to screw things up for everyone. I can't wait to find out some of those things in the next book. My guess is that Brandon will toss some of the things we believe out of the window, and we will have/get to rethink a lot.

My question is, why would anyone duel Adolin for shards when he is known as such a good dueler? Especially when he starts winning shards in WoR. Sadeas would be the same. It seems like a huge risk to bet shards on a duel against anyone who is even considered just "good". A loss of a blade that is considered worth Kingdoms is a crazy risk.

That's what I was hoping for. It's fun to learn and see new surgebinders and what they can do. Hopefully Ym get away like Lift.

I don't think we have seen the end of the Ym interlude have we? If I recall it just says Everything went dark or something like that.

I think don_karma_II is right. The wording of that quote made me immediately think of Darkness. The other side of that would be why wouldn't Darkness have stayed to take care of Kaladin? Maybe he wasn't bonded enough will Sly yet?

I like the idea of Dawnsingers being a lost Parshendi form. Maybe the Dawnsingers were created to counteract the voidbringers, or stop the storms. Maybe Stormform was of Odium and the Dawnsingers were of Cultivation.

Does the maturity of your spren determine how well a surge works? It seems to me that it does. Kaladin didn't start doing awesome things until Sly was more developed. Once the bond developed more between them he started affecting larger events. Like the arrows on the bridge run that he pulled away from his crew. Previosly it was smaller things that others attributed to luck. I think that as Sly matured Kaladin's abilities were enhanced. That may also mean that Shallan won't be able to change larger events until Pattern matures. Jasnah may have to be the one to save them on the ship.

I think Jasnah will be the one to do the saving. She is further along in with her surges. Do Shallan's surges depend on Pattern? He is so un-developed still. Will that matter, or can she do things no matter what state pattern is in?

I voted for Jasnah mostly because I like her more than Shallan. I think Jasnah has probably spoken at least 1 already so it is not very likely, but I would like to see her do something awesome. They seem to be at a point where they're going to need something awesome to get out of their situation on the boat. I'm not sure the puppyspren can help Shallan much yet and Ivory is more developed.

Cool, thanks for finding that. I guess that answers that question.

I'm new to this place so sorry if I missed this somewhere else, but when Adolin took Salinor's blade Salinor had to touch the gem to release his bondon the blade. What happened when Kaladin won the blade from the Shardbearer in WoK and then Amaram took it? Did Kaladin have a bond that had to be broken or hadn't a bond been established yet? Does he still have some kind of bond to Amaram's blade?