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    This might be relevant: http://brandonsanderson.com/annotation-the-alloy-of-law-chapter-twelve/
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    As far as the "flattening" goes, I think there are a couple possibilities. One is just that the border forms at the point most distant from any sentient beings. It would make sense, then, for it to typically be in the middle of the ocean somewhere, though, it's plausible that on another world it might be in a desert or other wasteland. Second is that it just forms in the way that most people perceive their world to be. So, for example, if there was a cognitive realm for earth, it might roughly be in the shape of a mercator projection just because that's the dominant way that the earth is perceived (I think. Maybe that's just an ethnocentric perspective, but I think it is).
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    I like it.
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    I find sometimes find his attitude annoying and a bit petulant, but totally understandable and completely within character.
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    He may be dead, but he's definitely not inanimate.
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    Hm. Possible, but the italics really make me think that it is an external compulsion. And I'm even going to stick to my guns on the Thrill. It's an almost exact inversion of what the Radiant said should be happening. Instead of those with the desire to fight being compelled to Alethela, people in that region feel the desire to fight. I can totally see a spren (like the Stormfather, but bound to the earth instead of the storms), having it's mind ripped apart by the Recreance, going on with some strange perversion of what it had been doing previously.
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    The Heralds might have used the existence of the Radiants to partially justify abandoning the Oathpact, but ultimately, I think they did it because they were tired and broken.
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    Fair enough. Though, it does still seem to me that people who feel the desire to fight being compelled to Alethela is something of the Radiants. The Heralds aren't around at the time and it doesn't seem to be present in the time of the books. Maybe it's not related to the Thrill, but I still think it might be related to a Bondsmith.
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    So, the Heralds are off wherever to be tortured and when they returned to Roshar, the Desolation began, after which they needed to return, lest another Desolation start up again. The nahel bond is the spren copying the way that Honor empowered the Heralds. In Dalinar's visions, we see the Radiants fighting all kinds of strange creatures that do not appear to be present on Roshar in the first two books. Is it possible that the Radiants and their bond were somehow drawing forth the very things that they were fighting against? Clearly, it wasn't a full-on desolation, but if they discovered that they, themseves, were the source of all this misery, I can see them abandoning their shards and breaking their bonds/oaths as a way to protect Roshar. Also, one of the Knights in a WoK vision mentions that anybody with the desire to fight should be compelled to come to Alethela. That sounds a lot like the Thrill, sort of. Could it be that the unmade, back in the day, was Bonded to say, a Bondsmith, and he somehow drew fighters to him in Alethela? And then after the recreance, he was "unmade," his mind broken, it now just gives off the effect of the Thrill? Just some thoughts.
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    Edit: never mind. It seems more likely that the senescence phase is just another pupation into a larger entity. Like a big rock cocoon.
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    All she needs to do is to carve out a handhold. If she manages to do it before she hits the bottom (which seems possible given the abilities of Shardplate and Stormform), she's set. If she hits the bottom, once she manages to get even a slight handhold anywhere, it should be relative easy to make more and then a shelter. Finding random bodies is easy. Find a specific one, I think is less plausible. If anybody knew that it was out there, you might get a few individual treasure hunters, but Dalinar has bigger things to worry about than one set of Shards. Most people probably aren't even aware that it happened.
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    There's no evidence of anything here. It's all speculation. I don't think Syl was screaming. After all, she wasn't trapped in a Shardblade. By the time Syl is arguing with the Stormfather, Kaladin has already taken up his oath again, by deciding to protect Elkohar.
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    If Taln still has his Honorblade, that could explain his ability to snatch a dart out of the air.
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    Well, even if Hoid didn't switch them, that doesn't necessarily mean that he doesn't have the Honorblade. He may have taken the Honorblade and somebody else provided the double. It might even have been Dalinar. His son came into a bunch of extra blades recently.
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    Denial is a powerful thing. In her fight with Tyn, she thinks ** Ten heartbeats. But for her, it didn't have to be ten, did it? No, it must be. Time, I need time! ** Then, later: ** He could come more quickly than the ten requisite heartbeats. He'd done that before. She hadn't been willing to admit that he was capable of it. Admitting it would have meant too much. **
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    Given that there was a flood washing through the whole area, I would think that it would be almost impossible to find a single specific piece of equipment (or two pieces, as the case may be) on the Shattered Plains. Kaladin and Shallan survived in the chasms during a flood and they didn't even have Plate. She could have just carved out a shelter like they did.
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    Where did the other Shardblade come from in that scenario?
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    I'll just say that it never even occurred to me that she might have died until I saw people asking about it.
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    I got the impression that those spren are pretty much always screaming, 24/7 - damaged and broken as they are. Just usually, nobody can hear them. Those who have bonded with spren can hear them, probably because of their connection to the cognitive realm. What Relis got was likely just an echo, due to his contact with Kaladin. As far as the original topic goes - I do think it's possible and probably all it needs is a bond, just like we saw with Kaladin and Syl. Unfortunately, having being driven mad, "killed," and trapped in a blade, those spren can't go looking for humans that are appropriate to bond with now that their original humans are gone. They probably do try to bond with anybody who takes up their Blade, but given what we've seen of Shardbearers so far, it's not surprising that none have been suitable. Adolin may be forming a bond with the spren in his Blade. I think it may even be responsible for his murder of Sadeas. If he was bonding with a half-mad spren, just emerging from years of endless torture, who's ideal involved justice or something like that, I can see it causing him to strike out like that.
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    Obviously, spren don't experience death the same way that humans do. The spren trapped in Shardblades, for example, seem to be about as dead as you can get for a spren, yet they still exist. They scream, to those who can hear them. But they can't be brought back to full capacity. Or at least, nobody has been able to yet, that we know of. Syl was, apparently, in a similar state to those Spren, at least for a while. But as Kaladin renewed his oaths, she was restored. The Shardblade spren largely don't have that option, as those they bonded with are long dead. Pattern doesn't seem to have reached that same level of "deadness" for lack of a better word. He pulled back, but was not gone.
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    I don't think anybody's misunderstanding anything. I agree that Sadeas is a horrible person. And for the purposes of this discussion, let's say that I agree that he deserved to die. That still doesn't mean that I think he should have been murdered in cold blood. And certainly not by Adolin.
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    Right, I know that they're just trapped in slaveform, but from what we read, it sounded to me like the Parshendi needed to perform the ritual on themselves - they couldn't do it to others.
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    Do we know that the Parshendi can convert Parshmen into Parshendi? I don't remember that.
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    I doubt there is a one-to-one sort of matchup here. Eshonai says that the old songs mention hundreds of forms. There are probably as many forms are there are types of spren.
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    The only ability that we've seen actively used by two different types of Radiant is Soulcasting from Shallan and Jasnah. From what we've seen so far, Shallan needs to be in physical contact with the things she Soulcasts, whereas Jasnah has shown that she can Soulcast things from a distance. It is possible that transportation and transformation combine in such a way that enables Jasnah to do this, but it's equally possible that Shallan just hasn't learned how to do this yet, as she is not very experienced.
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