[OB] Kaladin and Adolin free Shallan discussions.
I'm not a shipper. I don't hold it against anyone who is, and it doesn't bother me if you are.
What does bother me is that any discussion of Shallan's future devolves into Shallan as an extension of Kaladin or Adolin's storylines or vice versa. This bothers me a lot.
So here's a place to discuss Shallan, her powers, her future with the Radiants/Ghostbloods/her family, Pattern, whatever, that is strictly Shadolin and Shalladin free.
I'm increasingly convinced that what Shallan is doing with her personas is a typical ability of Lightweavers. However, she is possibly getting ahead of herself.
We also see more similarities with Soul Forging:
Overall, I would guess that Soul Forging is more advanced and more powerful than what Shallan is doing... but also much more complex and harder to use.
Lightweaving creates complex virtual things. Soulcasting creates simple (?) physical things. If we consider that these th