PudgyNinja

Here's a question - could the death of Adolin's ryshadium have anything to do with the way he snapped and murdered Sadeas?

The Radiants' plate didn't interfere with their surgebinding at all, whereas Szeth says that Plate would block his ability to Surgebind. Now, he's using an Honorblade instead of a nahel bond, but I don't see why that would make a difference. The way the powers work is basically the same, except less efficient.

Nevermind.

Oh, yeah. Good catch. You're right, without a natural blade it's a perfect fit. And he already gave up his armor.

So, at the end of the book, team Dalinar/Kaladin has Szeth's honorblade. Who do you think is going to end up with it? No obvious answers spring to mind. Bridge 4 seems like they're already going to get Windrunner powers through their connection with Kaladin. Adolin, not being bonded to a spren seems like an okay candidate, but the Honorblade wouldn't work while he's in plate, and that's one of his main assets - being a Plate and Blade duelist. Dalinar, Shallan, Renarin and Kaladin are all Radiants with their own spren/blades. Wouldn't stop them I guess. Kaladin could bond with it just to keep it safe, but it seems like a wasted resource. Who's left? Navani? Shen (I forget his new name)? Man, Shen with an honorblade might be a force.

If she does end up with someone, either she or he (or she?) will be dead before the end of the series. So nobody.

Here's my question about Shardplate - is it also spren-based? The Radiants in Dalinar's visions could make their helms disappear, so they would seem to some similar properties to shardblades. Syl clearly can take any shape she wants, from a sword, to a spear, to a shield. There's no reason to think that she couldn't also become armor (aside from the mass difference). Much like active Blades, Plate can reform itself depending on its bearers needs. On the other hand, Radiants don't seem to have the same reaction to interacting with Plate that they do with Blades (Renarin seems to wear the Plate just fine, but hates summoning the Blade). Is this because the screaming is caused by the bond that allows the user to summon the sword from mist, which they can't do with plate? Would an unbonded shardblade let the Spren remain dead and therefore not cause the screaming? Can Plate be bonded? Would a Radiant need to bond with a second spren to get Plate? Or does Kaladin just need to say more of the oaths to gain the ability for Syl to also provide armor?

Well, the real basis of the economy in Mistborn was Atium, not other precious metal coins.

Just a clarification. I'm fairly certain that Wyndle was referring to Nightwatcher as his mother and not the Old Magic, directly. Much in the same way that Syl refers to the Stormfather as her father. It makes sense since she's related to windspren. If the Stormfather is the spren left behind after the Almighty was killed, Nightwatcher may be the spren left behind when Cultivation was killed. It would make sense since both are apparently capable of great feats (granting wishing, summoning storms) that ordinary spren cannot. It would also make sense that a plant-based spren would think of the spren of Cultivation to be his mother.