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The latter is quite possible, but I don't think you're interpreting the first part correctly. Laral wanted Kaladin to become a soldier instead of going to Kharbranth, so that he might win a Shardblade (which was ridiculously optimistic of her, but ironically, is actually what happened): and finally The 'become surgeon -> high nahn -> marry Laral' idea is from Kaladin's mother: I would imagine Kaladin's return will initially vindicate Laral. I don't really think Kaladin would hate Laral (he's attracted to the last point he see her, his enlistment, and he should be over the lighteyes-are-all-terrible phase after the chasm scene). Her life probably hasn't been particularly happy; it'll be interesting to see if Kaladin is sympathetic to her brokenness (if any).

I'd figure some kind of reflection of the Second Ideal: I will lead those that can protect themselves into protecting others.

Another possible item of interest is that Tyn makes a similar joke that Hoid tells in the epilogue, in Ch. 28: vs. There's also a reference to an apprentice of hers named 'Si' who apparently was a problem: It's extremely tenuous, but maybe a connection?

One of the major things I think he still needs to learn is that he needs to be able to let go. He's still too overprotective of his men; they aren't the powerless any longer, and he has to accept that one of the consequences of that is that his men may choose to sacrifice themselves for what they feel is important. In particular, Kaladin has to realize there's a difference his men being in danger unwillingly versus accepting danger to protect others. Syl seems to recognize this in the chasms: He can't save everyone...by himself. He has to be able to accept help, and that means that sometimes other people are the ones that put themselves in harms way. Look at what he's doing at the end of WoR; he's taking it completely upon himself to save his hometown, despite Dalinar's actions to warn Alethka in general. He has to learn to let go; that's the part about leadership he still needs to accept.

Obviously Adolin killed him. Ha ha, of course that's crazy talk; happyfunAdolin would never murder someone in cold blood. It's actually pretty strongly hinted that Sadeas is the Stormfather. We never see Sadeas and the Stormfather in the same room at the same time. Coincidence? Also: Who else would consider Kaladin a traitor? Obviously Sadeas. Sadeas is really bitter about Kaladin's 'betrayal'. Kaladin recognizes it because he's quite familiar with Sadeas's anger. Dalinar gives up his Shardblade to Sadeas for Kaladin and the bridgemen at the end of WoK. Dalinar gives up his Shardblade to the "Stormfather" for his Radiant bond (maybe he'll give up his third Shardblade in book 3?). The parallel is obvious. Note how Dalinar confronts both at the end of the book and forces both to accept his offer. Yet another echo of WoK: Sadeas abandons Dalinar on the Tower, the 'Stormfather' abandons Dalinar on another plateau in the climax of the book. Could this be more obvious? Eeriely similar to what Sadeas says about Dalinar's final plateau expedition. Amaram hinting to Dalinar the truth. The reason Oathbringer is found in the flowerpot in Urithiru is because Sadeas wasn't expecting Dalinar to call him. In Stormfather form Sadeas can't carry Oathbringer (he has no arms) so he had to drop it in a hurry to meet with Dalinar (usually he leaves it in the table). Once Dalinar binds him, Sadeas can't go back into human form. It's why he's so angry about the binding; Dalinar has 'killed' his human form by doing so:

I think what makes that so hilarious is that it's usually Jasnah who far ahead of everyone else.

Might be overthinking it, but the phrasing of the two sentences is somewhat different: - 'Awaited the era of endings' implies the era of endings isn't there yet. - 'Waiting at the ending of an era' implies the end of the era has already arrived. Meanwhile, the phrase 'They sat atop the world's highest cliff, overlooking the land and seeing nothing' reminds me a bit of the epigraph from WoK: and also the vision from the last chapter of WoK: which makes me wonder if the story he tells Shallan is about the future.

I'm not sure there's any reason why you couldn't Lash (or Transport) a Ryshadium. It might actually be more efficient if the Ryshadium could somehow contribute some Stormlight, or something about their makeup might make them less costly to Lash than their size would indicate.

That sounds hilarious, but seems rather unlikely - Kaladin's probably going to be gone from Urithiru for much of the next book, and I'm not sure he'd even have an opportunity to interact with either of Shallan's personalities. I also wonder if she'd actually be able to fool him. Kaladin also seem rather obsessive and focused. It'd probably have to be a pretty intense encounter for him to even get his mind in that direction; he's sort of the opposite of Adolin in that regard. I was going to say that it was hard to imagine such a situation, given that Veil would probably be doing some questionable things, but actually it's pretty easy to think of a parallel - the 'escort' scene with Adolin in WoK. Now that I'm thinking about it, I could definitely see Kaladin intervening to protect someone who looked like they were in trouble and ruining Shallan's operation. Would be hilarious, though I don't know if it would actually result in a relationship. It would be kind of weird to have her pursue that so far.

They're either coincidence or intentional. If intentional, it means it almost has to have been directed at Shallan or her family (somehow) because it's unclear who else it would have mattered to. If the choice of the red hair and confusion potential was intentional, it means whoever send the Shardbearer had to have thought he would have been killed (otherwise why does the hair color matter?). It's either a giant coincidence or it's a particularly convoluted and wide-ranging conspiracy for something that doesn't seem to matter in any way besides one that seems impossible to have predicted.

Actually, I think I'm remembering this wrong. I was trying to see if I could find the reference, but I cannot; the closest is actually a statement saying that it's possible to bond more than one Shardblade, and that the bond to Shardblade was related to a spren bond (which would make the opposite of what I thought was said more likely).

That's an interesting theory. At least, the connection between the spren types is intriguing, though the connection to shardplate I think is pretty tenuous; the best argument for it seems to be that we don't have any other really good theories about Shardplate. But regarding the different spren connections - Syl is obviously closely related to windspren, and one of the WoR epigraphs mention that Lightweavers are almost always artistic types - the sort that would draw creationspren: This is clearly a reference to Shallan's Memories, but may go beyond that. We do see that at least part of Kaladin's fighting skill (speculated to be his 'gift', like Shallan's Memories) appears to be due to being able to 'read the wind': Perhaps their non-surgebinding 'gifts' are somehow related to the lesser cousin spren (the base spren?). I believe this was jossed by WoB recently (can't bond more than one spren) though there may still be some other relationship with a different spren.

There was WoB that indicated the 'last chapter' of the Stormlight Archive could be found in some form between WoK and WoR, so heavy foreshadowing is probably par for course.

This. The funny thing is she probably could have (the power of inspired scholarship); if she hadn't been 'killed', WoR likely would have been about 200 pages long.

I believe this was mentioned in another epigraph thread. However, if is referencing Kaladin's Second Ideal, and the above epigraph is Kaladin's Third Ideal, maybe all of the Ideals are represented in the first book's epigraphs (or Death Rattles). I'm not certain if you have seen it, but someone else pointed out that 'True Glory' is referenced in one the WoK epigraphs, as well.

One of the Parshendi epigraphs say: Given that kind of set up I have to think that the narrative practically demands that there be a Parshendi Radiant.

1) Nin, based on what we've seen in the interludes, doesn't really seem like the sort to manipulate people on that grand a scale (he's a very personal fellow). Mr. T's agenda doesn't really seem aligned with Nin, either. 2) It seems almost certain that Moash will learn something about Taravangian. It feels like it'd be a tough sell to Moash that the Diagram is the solution to everything. Given Moash appears to have a strong incentive to try to 'redeem' himself to Kaladin, I could believe that Moash might prove to be how the Diagram gets resolved. 3) I'm on the side of 'never'. Taravangian isn't really Szeth's issue; Szeth's issue is that he killed a ton of people when he didn't have to, which starts well before Taravangian (Taravangian didn't help, but if it wasn't for his being named Truthless, it never would have come up). If he does address Taravangian, I think it'd be much later. 4) I want to say he'll continue. The law is clearly the most important consideration in his mind; if his thinking that Surgebinding would bring back the Desolation was really his top priority, I would have expected to see him be willing to bend the law for it. Since he wasn't willing to bend the law despite (allegedly) potentially dooming the world before, I don't think he'll stop now either. 5) As mentioned above by Moogle, I don't think the Diagram has failed in this regard. It appears to make predictions, but also allow for contingencies. It would really only 'fail' if something happened which the Diagram didn't have a contingency for. 6) I don't think we can conclude the Diagram is destroying humanity's ability to fight. 50% of the military pointed in the right direction is vastly more effective than 100% of the military fighting with itself. We see an example of this in the Shattered Plain during the assault on the center. This doesn't rule out the possibility that the Diagram is in fact flawed, just that I don't think Jah Keved can be used as proof that the Diagram is corrupted. 7) I'm not sure you can ever really rule this out (well, until the end of the series) but it feels a bit cheap if that ends up being the resolution to every misguided secret society. I have a feeling that the main difference is that Taravangian's solution is the most conservative, least risky solution (it'll save some remnant of humanity with high probability, but won't take any risks that might have a higher ROI overall); it _will_ save some humans, but by sacrificing much of the reason for saving them in the first place.

I think it does take a fair bit away from Lin's arc, mainly because the influence of Odium removes a lot of his responsibility for his actions. If it had been all Lin, we have a person whose heroism eventually proves to his downfall; a thoughtful inspection of how good intentions can ultimately turn bad. If it's all Odium, it's about a hero who gets replaced by an evil robot; not quite as interesting since they're basically two different people being examined. Obviously the 'real' story is somewhere in the middle, and hopefully we'll find it's a light touch (maybe even an incidental one), but it does take something away from the deeper (well, arguably) interpretation.

While we don't have any evidence specifically about Renarin's preferences, we do have evidence of the common preferences of humans on Roshar. Barring any evidence about the specific instance, it's not unreasonable to make an interpolation if a choice has to be made for the sake of argument. If I had to bet on his orientation right now, I would bet that he's heterosexual. This is because I have no other information specifically about Renarin, but I do have information about humans in general on Roshar (that we've seen, anyway). What the lack of evidence means is that 1) I'd consider a new position with relatively little or less conclusive new data compared to better supported hypotheses, and 2) I wouldn't use this conclusion as strong evidence for other conclusions. It doesn't mean I can't come to a conclusion if necessary to do so. The most likely option is always the most likely option; what the level of evidence indicates is how much MORE evidence is necessary to change what option is more likely. In this case, it's very little: one passage would probably be sufficient. But it's fallacious to argue no conclusion can be drawn.

I have to imagine that Eshonai is going to be one of the ten principle Radiants, given that she's getting a PoV book and every other book PoV we know of is a Radiant. It might not be her Shardblade that she hears screaming; maybe it's her proto-Surgebinder bonded Spren... The only question is, Willshaper or Releaser?

Wyndle appears to have been 'prepared' somehow for the trip. It's probably reasonable to assume that Syl didn't have that luxury, seeing as what she's doing is in defiance of the Stormfather and/or other honorspren. Spren also seem to be attracted/strengthened by their respective human emotion. It's not clear yet what kind of spren Wyndle is, but presumably the world is a better environment for that emotion than honor in Alethkar.

In a literal sense, that is what happened (she did something, it makes Dalinar cry), though my wording was intentionally obfuscating to make it fit the theme of the list. In "Contradictions" (ch. 78):

Squires are probably from several orders. In Dalinar's vision in "Taker of Secrets" (ch. 4): and later: Given the color of her armor, she is likely a Releaser or Lightweaver (more likely the former, as she appears to use the Abrasion surge while walking through the water). The men are almost certainly her squires.

I'm confused as to how this is even a thing. As far as I can tell, there is zero evidence for Helaran to be alive and a huge amount of circumstantial evidence that he's dead. Shallan's father thinks Helaran's dead, and he has enough information to place where he thinks he died. In order for this hypothesis to work, you have to assume that - Helaran gave up his blade - It was to another Vedan - He coincidentally vanished around the time of the Shardbearer's death - Taravangian is incorrect about Helaran being dead (in his interlude he specifically declares Helaran dead) From a meta perspective it was a pretty good guess even pre-WoR that the Shardbearer was Helaran. And it just doesn't make sense narratively that Helaran isn't the Shardbearer that Kaladin killed. There's clearly a huge blow up over that coming in the next book (it's protected way too well in WoR), and if it turns out that there was some massive conspiracy (a completely unforeshadowed one) that renders it pointless...well, I'd be pretty disappointed.

I'm inclined to say a Regrowth fabrial is probably pretty useful even if you aren't looking to resurrect people, just on general principle. I'm assuming however that the fabrial is not specifically for reviving people, but is a general healing tool. The bigger question seems to be how the heck he knows where Szeth is going to land? Maybe it's something to track Surgebinding as suggested, or maybe it's some kind of prediction? He also seems to know a lot about what Szeth has been doing - maybe some kind of clairvoyance fabrial (something Truthwatcher related, I'd assume, if so)?