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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Hopes/Predictions/Wild Theories for Book 2
« on: December 31, 2010, 06:52:05 AM »
just read someone elses post,

they said they want to see the Herald returned Taln fight Szeth cos he'd understand the Assassin in whites powers...

maybe he would understand them but i think Taln represents a different set of powers, he probably founded the only other Order of Radiants mentioned in WoK the Stonewards, so i think Jezrien (who the Alethi call Stormfather) probably founded the Windrunners/Surgebinders since Jez is the lord of winds...
so Taln would know of Szeths wind-powers but not necessarily be able to stop them...
He is a Herald but the Heralds continuously died in the hundred or so desolations and returned to their torment in the fiery pits where i'm guessing Odium awaits the final desolation...
so Heralds can be killed, they just come back every desolation.

now just a guess but i think the Almighty created the races of man and Odium created the Voidbringers/Parshmen and couldn't share Roshar so they made the Oathpact, whereby Odium would send the desolations with all the monsters and cause the parshmen to rise up and kill mankind and in return the almighty got to choose ten Heralds to come forward each time and lead mankind in the fight to survive... but each victory they had to go back into torment by Odium until the next desolation.

Also im dead certain Hoid/Wit is one of the Heralds who forsook the Oathpact maybe lost their powers but stayed immortal... maybe Kalak since the book starts with Kalak and Jezrien and ends with Hoid and Taln... bit of symmetry for you...

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Hopes/Predictions/Wild Theories for Book 2
« on: December 31, 2010, 06:32:09 AM »
i've only just really gotten into Brandon's work,
Way of Kings was my first and Mistborn book 1 is my second,
haven't read anything else but am damned impressed by him!!!!

well right off the bat i want to know about the Dawnshards - are they the shardblades of the heralds? because in the prelude a line states "these Blades were weapons of power beyond even Shardblades. these were unique. precious."

And more on the Dawnsingers (who supposedly created everything on Roshar as far as i understand it) and the Dawnchant.
was the Almighty a Dawnsinger? is Odium one also just gone bad?
we all know the Almighty is dead since he tells Dalinar odium killed him in one of the visions that the Almighty seems to have left inside the magical stormlight inside Highstorms and Dalinar sees them every Highstorm.
also somewhere in WoK (dont ask me which page) it is mentioned someone else gets these visions so that implies Dalinar isn't unique... so maybe Dalinar is a descendant of the radiants just like Kaladin but of a different Order...
only problem is Dalinar doesn't have an honorspren like Kaladin has in Syl... and on that subject i want to know all the orders and their powers and i want to know about Honorspren?

it seems Jasnah and Shallan are some kind of Radiants because they can Soulcast without a Soulcast fabrial, but they have those puzzle-headed spren i'll call "Soulcaster spren"
near the end of the book Elhokar also mentions seeing these Soulcasterspren in the mirror or out the corner of his eye, which is why he's so paranoid about assassins.
also honorspren seem to have a default type when not bound to a radiant, Syl starts off as a windspren until she is bound to kaladins honorability and binds him with the powers of Surgebinding and i assume windrunning, (only cos Szeth says that he is a surgebinder and windrunner somewhere)! so if a firespren is actually a honorspren does the radiant it binds get firepowers? etc?
did the radiants lose their light and powers because they somehow lost their honor and so their honorspren left them powerless? maybe thats why modern shardplate doesnt glow - no spren magic?

So the parshmen/parshendi are supposedly the voidbringers, so does that mean they wait for the Desolations Odium sends and then use their telepathic communications to all rise up and kill humans? or do they start the Desolations and summon those Shadowhounds and thunderclasts with Stormlight magic?

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