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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...
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...