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I think the second picture from Navani's sketchbook is definitely some sort of teaser to something in a later book. But I would like to hear people's speculations on it.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WoK: Shalan - near end of book **SPOILERS**
« on: September 16, 2010, 03:43:09 AM »
To support this, Vorin Law says that you can only gain a shardblade by killing a shardbearer.
Or by someone else giving it to you.

True that, but normally, the person who gives it to you already has a shardblade and doesn't need another one. That is why when Kaladin gave his blade to Amaram, he had Kaladin's squad killed and Kaladin branded a traitor, because no one would believe that someone without a shardblade would give it up.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Way of Kings early?
« on: September 16, 2010, 03:28:36 AM »
I can clear up this issue. Some books are embargoed, which means that even if the supplier receives it early, they cant release them to latter. If they're not embargoed, then they can be released as soon as they are received. I work in a bookstore, and I know for a fact that the UK/Australian version was not embargoed, so in Australia, the WoK was released about a week early.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WoK: Shalan - near end of book **SPOILERS**
« on: September 16, 2010, 03:24:06 AM »
From reading the passages concerning Shallan, I am certain that she gained the Shardblade after killing her father. At one passage she refers to the shardblade as the fruit of her sins. And considering that the most drastic sin she probably committed was killing her father, I would safely assume that she gained the shardblade after killing her father.

To support this, Vorin Law says that you can only gain a shardblade by killing a shardbearer. I assume that the only person Shallan has killed is her father, and thus earned the shadeblade that her father had.

Why they didn't sell the shardblade? This one is trickier. Considering the vorin law regarding shardblades, you can't just sell a shardblade. Of course, no one always gains a shardblade by killing a shardbearer (Brightlord Amaram is a good example, but then he didn't leave anyone alive to say otherwise.) Maybe they thought that if they sold the shardblade, the person they sold it to would kill them to stop anyone else finding out that he bought it, not earned it.

My other theory concerns the fact that Shallan's father is very sneaky. No one knew he had a soulcaster, as it came from (i presume) illegal sources. Maybe he also came by the shardblade the same way, and didn't tell anyone about it, so not to give his enemies a reason to move against him. If so, this is a good reason for Shallan to also keep the blade.

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I believe that the first sketch from Navani's sketchbook is the fabrial which dulls pain, mentioned in one of the later chapters (i forget which).

The second sketch is not explained. However it does resemble the Double Eye of the Almighty and the ten essences. Thus I think it might have something to do with the essences. (see front cover of the hardcover? I actually have the UK version which doesn't include the drawing of the double-eye of the Almighty so I can't be certain of where you can find it.)

EDIT: Come to think of it, maybe it is a modified Soulcaster that Navani is trying to produce. Definitely the first sketch is something new that has yet to exist, so maybe this is also something new that Navani is trying to create,

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Splinters - SPOILERS for TWoK and Elantris
« on: September 16, 2010, 01:59:22 AM »
So basically, what I’m proposing is…what if Odium killed the Almighty BEFORE the founding of the Ten Orders and the Knights Radiant? 

I don't think the Almighty was killed before founding the Ten Orders. In the last vision the Almighty says that everything that has been shown he had seen himself (implying that he was alive). This includes numerous visions of the Knights Radiant. The earlier visions were also a lot clearer, with specific people and events.

The last vision, however, was what he SUSPECTED would happen, using his limited vision of the future. Thus the image was not so clear, just a city and an incoming wall of shadow. So I think that the Almighty was killed maybe during  Aharietiam (the last desolation), which would explain why there hadn't been a desolation since then.

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