Shards of Mist

Awful. It would be a Rosharan Pride and Prejudice. Please no.

Because the rules don't apply to Kaladin Stormblessed, that's how.

Talenelat is a BOSS. Seriously. If they defeat Odium, then no one deserves more credit than Taln. Who endures endless torture for 4 1/2 millennia! Taln. That's who.

Adolin lets her be her. He doesn't need or want her to be anything else. That's everyone's reaction to Kaladin. It's not Shallan specific. It's what Kaladin is. Sure he's a protector, but even more than that, he's a leader. He inspires others to be better than they were. This will be IMO where his next Ideals will go.

So... seeing the future is of Odium.... but has Sja-anat corrupted that? How else would Kaladin's vision lead them to exactly where they needed to be. How else would Renarin be wrong about Jasnah killing him? Mr. T joined Odium supposedly, yet didn't tell him about the part of the future Odium could no longer see due to Renarin, so maybe he didn't really? I'm interested to see how this plays out. Odium believes he can see the future, but can't see the part that was influenced by Renarin/Sja-Anat? That will be interesting.

Kaladin will be redundant in part 2 IMO. I don't believe he leaves Urithiru with Elhokar until part 3 because there's too much to discuss with Dalinar, Navani, and Jasnah!!! right now. I think most of his time will be spent in council with Dalinar, which means we'll get both of them from Dalinar's POV, and I also think we'll see him in Shallan's POV as well. I think we'll be forced to wait on Jasnah's POV until Part 3 because we'll see Shallan's reaction to her being there first. If tertiary character 3 is Adolin or Renarin(I think it'll be one of them), then we'll get even more Kaladin from their viewpoints which further makes his POV in part 2 redundant. So I put my guess on Kaladin.

You're right. That was on some other post I'd read and saved that part. My bad. I thought I'd had it from an actual chapter.

Dalinar's boon is for the memories of his wife to be taken away. We already know this. This is from Dalinar talking to Navani in WOR. So, that means his boon is gone. It could be because of the way he asked and now being remarried nullified the need for it or it could be because of one of the many other theories out there. The biggest thing is that we still don't know what his curse was and what it means that it might know be lifted also.

Lovely little book. Very Rothfussian for sure. Not really a traditional book as there's no real plot. Brings Auri and all her mystery to light. It seems like she isn't too different from Elodin. Maybe even more perceptive to the world than he is. I have a feeling she's gonna get her heart broken, which just guts me. She clearly cares deeply for Kvothe and his eventual disappearance from her life is going to be a struggle for her, no doubt. The one line that did catch me immediately was "and he was absolutely not a selas sort." Maybe a foreshadowing of Kvothe and Denna's eventual strife and Auri's ability to see the truth inside Kvothe?

I'm sorry Moogle, but I have a fundamental disagreement with what you are stating. Being honorable means being someone who is worthy of honor. Szeth is not worthy of honor in his actions. Killing innocents to appease your masters is not honorable. It is obedient, but obedience is not synonymous with honor. You could say that Szeth is the most obedient man on Roshar and you would have no argument from me. The SS were the most obedient men on earth back in the 1940s, but just because they blindly followed their evil leader does not make them honorable men.

No one on Roshar can make stick do what stick does not want to do. The only reason Kaladin was able to use stick is because stick wanted to fly/stick to the wall.

Yes, he wrote the story long ago, but it was never finished in the sense that it was all ready for publication. A Wise Man's Fear had more manuscript pages when it was finally done than the entire trilogy had to start with. He's added so much to the story(which benefits the story greatly) that his original manuscript can't be considered any more than an outline at this point.

Saying a set of ideals doesn't make someone a master of their craft. Kaladin was always amazing on the battlefield. He nearly killed himself in training to become so. So, give him superhuman reflexes combined with his battle sense and he becomes Superman. It's not even a surprise. I expect if you were to give Adolin or Dalinar the same type of abilities that Kaladin has you would see them become forces of nature as well. Shallan really does have amazing powers. She's able to fool one of the deadliest organizations on Roshar for most of the book. These aren't average people. They are people who know and understand investiture and are seeking it out. She still fools them until the end of the book. She also will likely amaze us all when she finally starts working on her soulcasting. Lightweaving is a much more subtle power. It can be powerful, but isn't so much in your face. Soulcasting is in your face. The things she could likely accomplish as a soulcaster at this point are vast. She just needs practice on doing it. That said, it does seem like Kaladin is able to do more with Stormlight than anyone else at this point. It could very well be that a stronger bond with your spren gives you more power. We still don't understand entirely how it all works. It's also very possible that, even among Radiants, people are given different levels of power. We've already seen on other worlds that not everyone has the same level of power granted to them(i.e. Mistborn).

What a tease. So far the only "real" spoiler that I've seen regarding the 3rd books is that Kvothe (in his tale) will visit Renere. Which isn't much of a spoiler really. We know he's gonna travel more because of all that is happening in the frame. It will be nice to have the Bast story and the Auri novella this year though. I actually expect I'll like the Auri novella better than the 3rd book. Unless, of course, Kvothe finally stops being an idiot and realizes Auri is the bomb and quits chasing that whore, Denna.

Wow. Didn't even think about it at the time, but you are absolutely on to something. Look at this Brandon quote from a Q&A a few years back: So, obviously we aren't going to see SA viewpoints traveling to other world's, but after saying the books won't dive strongly into other worlds he states that the Epilogue of WOR should excite us. Why would there be any excitement for the Cosmere literate if all Jasnah had done was access Shadesmar? Clearly IMO the bandolier is exactly what it looks like.

Jasnah is asexual at this point in the book. I don't think she could see herself having an intimate relationship with anyone. Why? She doesn't trust anyone. Someone cannot love another if she cannot trust another. She doesn't even trust her own family enough to let them in. She has assassin's at every corner because she doesn't trust the people she's placed them with. We've heard from Navani's character that Jasnah wouldn't let her be a "mother". We see in the prologue that Gavilar casts suspicion towards her. Very clearly her trust issues run deep and I think it will take some serious work on her part to ever get over that. How would it happen? Well, who is the one person she seems to respect in the world? Dalinar. Why does she feel this way? Honor. I think Dalinar (and by extension now Adolin) is the only really "honorable" man she knows. He does what is right, not because of how it benefits him, but because of how it benefits society. So what does this all lead up to? I don't think Jasnah is homosexual. I may be proven wrong, sure, but I just think she doesn't view men in a positive way because almost every man she's known has been dishonorable. What it will lead to, IMO, is her discovering a man more honorable than Dalinar. A man smarter than Dalinar who could conceivably even cause her to challenge her worldviews. A man who holds much of the world's fate in his abilities to protect it. And I don't think she'll care if that man is 15 years younger than her. Call me out if you like, but it's the pairing that makes sense to me and the one I hope for.

I think seeing Laral will be another growing up moment for Kaladin. She obviously had real feelings for him as a young woman. She wanted him to go to Kharbranth to train as much as Lirin did. Had he become a real surgeon, he would've been a high enough darkeyes that a union between he and Laral wouldn't be looked down on. Obviously that all changed with her father's death. At that point she had no one in life to take care of her. She was at the whim of a greedy man who wanted her father's wealth for his own. It probably didn't seem so terrible when she was intended for Roshone's son, but I'm sure she never felt free to be herself even then. Then, with the death of the boy, life became a nightmare for her. She was now betrothed to a crippled old man and given no choice in the matter. So, I'm willing to bet she will be ecstatic to see Kaladin come back as a lighteyed shardbearer(a Radiant even)! I think it will bring back the hope of her childhood to her. She will see him as her savior. However, I think Kaladin will find out that he holds a lot of hate towards her deep inside him and he will crush her hopes and dreams. He will become to her exactly what he's believed all lighteyes(before Dalinar) to him. I imagine it will continue his growth on his Windrunner path to work through it. His parents will be nothing but happy to see him. They knew when he left that his promise to keep Tien safe was going to be near impossible. I think Lirin might have a little resentment that Kal didn't come home after Tien's death, but I expect when he hears the story of Kaladin's life he will quickly get over it. I don't know how the parents of a man like Kal could be anything but brimming full of pride for who he has become and, more importantly, how he got there.

Well, given that Shin has animals you would expect on a human world, maybe the anatomy of Rosharan wildlife changed due to the highstorms in order to survive. It could be that the disgusting slime and the crab-like thing with 17 legs used to be the bunny rabbit and the chick.

The thing is, we don't really know how the Nightwatcher operates. We know she grants a boon that comes with a curse, but to what extent? What if the curse she gives someone is equal to the boon she grants? In that scenario, Taravangian would have the ability to save mankind AND also ensure its destruction. How would he know which one is which? I don't really believe that the Nightwatcher would do something like that to the detriment of mankind, but it does bring up interesting dialogue.

I am a stick! Well, you will become a stick on fire. I am a stick! Listen, you little f@#%er, if you don't change I'm taking this bead over here and turning it into an axehound who likes to eat sticks!!! Oh S@!&! (bursts into flames)

We know that the shape spren take depends on how humans define them(evidenced by the flame spren experiments). Maybe the spren who bond with surgebinders are the same way? Syl is a female because Kal perceives her to be. Glys is a male because Renarin perceives him to be... etc. Maybe their perceptions give us insight into their sexual preferences? Obviously it doesn't work with the Stormfather and Dalinar, but I would say that's different because the whole continent calls him the Stormfather. That spren has already been thoroughly defined by humans.

I think it's pretty clear who has it. When Taln showed up, there was a man waiting for him. A man who knew who he was. A man whose interests on Roshar are completely his own.

This was a part of the story that really sort of depressed me. The man had personal demons from this incident. Clearly he loved his wife, yet he also loved his daughter. To have one kill the other, either way, was going to break the man. Having his beloved firstborn leave and denounce him for something he didn't do would've broken him further. It didn't justify his murdering his second wife, but it was still a little demented for Shallan to have been the one to kill him. I can't imagine what his thoughts would've been staring up into the eyes of his death and seeing the eyes of the one he suffered all of this for.

Graves and Moash talking at the end made it seem like assassinating the King was completely separate from the Diagram. Graves was only instructed to keep Kaladin away from Dalinar. He just so happened to decide to use the king's assassination as the way to do so. It brings up an interesting conundrum. The members of the Diagram are free to pursue their own interests when not "called up" for a task. Yet the Diagram is basically an outline of how to bring Mr. T to ultimate power. Why is it then ok for one of the members' side interests to be assassinating the King of a nation. It seems a move that important could have ramifications that affect the Diagram's plans. I expect we'll see more insight into this when Mr. T learns of Graves' actions.

It seems to me that there is a marked difference between Kaladin and the reaction his Ideals invoke and the other Radiants. When he says the second Ideal: When he says the third Ideal: We don't ever see the other Radiants, or Radiants in training, have markedly visual examples of their change. Is it just his specific order? Or are Kaladin and Syl different than the other Nahel bonds?Also there's this: This is right before he first is able to lash himself to the wall, so maybe every Radiant will eventually see a part of Shadesmar, but so far only the Radiant orders involved with soulcasting and now Kaladin have done so that we see.Finally, I've mentioned this in other posts, but why is it that Kaladin, a man named for Kalak, is of the order of Jezrien? Shallan is in the order of her namesake, yet Kaladin isn't? Have we seen anyone else named for the Heralds in the series yet? It seems pretty suspect that Kaladin would be named for a Herald and be a superpowered Radiant, yet be of a different order. Mostly just some random musings on all this, but it gets me thinking. Just seeing if any others had some thoughts to add, or maybe contradictions to mull over.