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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Warbreaker: Free Ebook
« on: April 26, 2007, 02:21:36 PM »
That's a really good point, Qarlin, about Lightsong and Susebron that I hadn't thought of. If Lightsong's miracle was something like "heal him," then would not just his tongue but also his need for Breath be "healed," and his inability to use just a portion of his Breath be eased? (If indeed he is a Returned; not being one would also solve the problem.)
I always figured that the one-use-of-Breath thing was a property of being Returned, not a question of limited amount of Breath. That is, a Returned God could not just go out and purchase an extra 100 Breaths, and then use them to Awaken and Command. But I have no evidence for this other than the fact that it never happened.
Not sure yet what I think about Lightsong...if he is the main "good" character to die then it might be best if he dies on-stage, since the "bad" Denth did and all the other "good" characters have died off-stage (Peprin) or without any detail (Tridees). But we need to read the next two chapters to see what happens and how the pacing goes.
firstRainbowRose, we know that the Manywar started after one of the Five Scholars discovered a way to make Lifeless with only a single Breath, thus causing a military power imbalance in favor of Hallendren. We know from just a few chapters ago that it was Denth's sister who made this discovery (thus she was one of the Five Scholars). We know Vasher was a compatriot of Denth's sister also engaged in research into Breath (thus likely also one of the Five Scholars), and that he killed her around the time of the Manywar to stop her from arming the Lifeless with other sentient blades like Nightblood. We know that possessing a large amount of Breath wards off the effects of aging. So Vasher's age isn't meant to be a surprise at this point, I don't think.
The new bit of information in this chapter was that Vasher "ruled and started wars" -- makes me wonder if he was one of the people we've heard about already in connection with the Manywar...
MattD
I always figured that the one-use-of-Breath thing was a property of being Returned, not a question of limited amount of Breath. That is, a Returned God could not just go out and purchase an extra 100 Breaths, and then use them to Awaken and Command. But I have no evidence for this other than the fact that it never happened.
Not sure yet what I think about Lightsong...if he is the main "good" character to die then it might be best if he dies on-stage, since the "bad" Denth did and all the other "good" characters have died off-stage (Peprin) or without any detail (Tridees). But we need to read the next two chapters to see what happens and how the pacing goes.
firstRainbowRose, we know that the Manywar started after one of the Five Scholars discovered a way to make Lifeless with only a single Breath, thus causing a military power imbalance in favor of Hallendren. We know from just a few chapters ago that it was Denth's sister who made this discovery (thus she was one of the Five Scholars). We know Vasher was a compatriot of Denth's sister also engaged in research into Breath (thus likely also one of the Five Scholars), and that he killed her around the time of the Manywar to stop her from arming the Lifeless with other sentient blades like Nightblood. We know that possessing a large amount of Breath wards off the effects of aging. So Vasher's age isn't meant to be a surprise at this point, I don't think.
The new bit of information in this chapter was that Vasher "ruled and started wars" -- makes me wonder if he was one of the people we've heard about already in connection with the Manywar...
MattD