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Um, why?
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Theory: Nightwatcher boons and curses are the same thing
Eejit replied to shawnhargreaves's topic in Stormlight Archive
The whole Nightmother boon and curse 'thing' is massively fairytale, no just that one story. -
You need to watch more sitcoms I think you are all infected with Alethi snobbery! A powerful, intelligent and plot-important character? Well he's got to be at least semi-Lighteyes secretly, right?! You all make me sick!
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The story gets worse. Some characters, worldbuilding and events are inconsistent to an almost retcon-like degree. Jesus-style plot armor is prevalent. The big finale was a rather cheesy anti-climax. It wasn't all bad by any means and Malazan certainly still outclasses Sword of Truth, but I'd never list the books as top-tier. The Deathgate series is another one I found disappointingly overrated. Approach with caution and be warned that if you didn't like the first book it doesn't improve that significantly.
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And my point was that even that is an unwarranted assumption.
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Well,
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Odium is not entire, parts of his power are invested in the Unmade, the Parshendi gods. So Broken One fits.
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The pacing was naturally increasing from it's nadir even before BS took over as the series built towards to climax and threads started to come together again.
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What makes us believe that Cusicesh is actually a spren?
Eejit replied to JamHeretic's topic in Stormlight Archive
Except possibly when we have the viewpoint of a Shard such as Harmony -
Not really, since those aspects of Williams' books were themselves "inspired" by Tolkien with minor tweaks...
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Different strokes. I'd forgotten all of their names until I read your post.
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GRRM's work is excellent (apart from the "erotic" scenes) as are his anti-heroes like Tyrion or Arya. It's just Abercrombie's writing that is gratuitously dark and unrealistic. How do his characters deal with a hard knock life? They become sociopaths. Yawn. People say that this is realistic, but if you want to read about someone suffering from PTS-like issues in high fantasy look at Rand al'Thor - that's real, it was based on RJ's own experience of 'Nam.
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I'd definitely agree with rating Sanderson's stuff above Abercrombie's dreary and gratuitously grim-dark depressionfest. Just when you start to think one single character is not an cremhole he suddenly beats a female relative for no good reason. Malazan didn't do much for me either, characters are killed off even more quickly than in GRRM but it's never permanent - everyone returns from the dead, sometimes repeatedly. Very tabletop-RPG derived. Oh and just avoid Sword of Truth like the plague. Ayn Rand with dragons. And evil chickens. Just no. I'm loving the Kingkiller series though, and Jim Butcher's work. I'd also recommend you all check out The Long Price Quartet by Daniel Abraham, an excellent character-driven series in a really unique fantasy setting.
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Thinking "what would Jasnah do in response to these events/circumstances" is not the same as seeking her approval at every turn. One can emulate a person's actions without copying all of their personal attitudes.
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WoB is that if Odium were to leave Roshar now he'd leave a large portion of his power behind. Which implies that he is not whole. Also there's this:
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Amaram didn't have any problems understanding Taln. It's down to mumbling, not accent.
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Everyone has an accent. Therefore saying he had no trace of an accent (especially in the context of Taln not looking Alethi) would mean no trace of any foreign accent, only an Alethi one.
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But he was bonded to a Spren. Adolin - not bonded to a spren or the blade in question. Renarin - bonded to a spren. Relis - bonded to the blade. Kaladin - bonded to a spren.
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Well I suspect that they were the Parshendi Gods. Made (by Cultivation), then Unmade by Odium. Originators of the "native" and, later, Voidbringer Parsh forms.
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The Parshendi may not have had other forms before their "gods" helped them out, but that doesn't mean their gods can't pre-date Odium either. The Unmade could have been their gods who were then subverted from Cultivation by Rayse, then with new Odium-spren added new EvilForms. Why would any form originating with Odium not have the cruel rhythms we see with Stormform? Why would any of his forms have a Rhythm of Peace to attune to? No, the "standard" forms pre-date Odium's influence. Whether they're actually represented on that diagram isn't as clear - it being a mirror of the Surgebinding diagram has indications both ways: association with magic and association vs association with two different Shards.
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Do we know that the spren of the "mundane" forms are mindless if in Shinovar/bonded? There could be a situation similar to windspren/honorspren where "cousins" with different potentials are almost indistinguishable when in the physical world.
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I agree with some of this, but I suspect the voidbinding chart may be broader and it may in fact be a "type of Parsh" chart. Perhaps half of the forms are the "mundane" ones like numbleform, warriorform, scholarform - all of which are of Cultivation and spren associated with her. The other half would then be Stormform, smokeform etc which are of Odium and spren associated with him. We know that the Parsh bond with spren when assuming different forms. So far only one has shown any kind of "magical" ability, Stormform. However, the "natural" forms (other no-form, the Parshmen slaves) than could pre-date Odium's arrival, and be a result of the Parsh's ancient relationship with Cultivation and the Spren in general.
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Syl's reactions wouldn't include accusations of Relis having killed her. However it makes some sense if it's the blade's dead spren screaming.
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It's the dead spren in Relis' blade screaming when touched by a Knight Radiant.
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I had a similar thought, that Cultivation voluntarily and maybe even reversibly splintered herself. We have been told that the Holder of Cultivation is alive but C has been conspicuously less of a personality in the story than Vision-Honor or the Spren, Stormfather. Could it have been a move of self-preservation? To avoid Odium doing the same to her but more fatally/permanently? Or to continue the Oathpact (e.g. Odium agrees to remain until he splinters both H and C, succeeds with H but C pre-emptively splinters herself)? Perhaps as another means of preventing Odium from leaving? If he left with the job unfinished perhaps C could re-constitute herself and even manage to revive H in some form. Lots of crazy possibilities.