A lot of people describe Scalzi’s Old Man's War novels as military science fiction, but I would classify its sequel Zoë’s Tale as a space opera. It’s a story about, well, Zoë, a teenage girl whose parents are invited to take leadership roles in building a colony on a new planet. Zoë is an enthusiastic member of the group sent to colonize Roanoke, despite the risks—and the risks are considerable even before the political machinations of greater powers boil to the surface. Continue reading Zoë’s Tale
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Where else would Taln be? out looking for the rest of the heralds? he needs to deal with a desolation, so naturally he would be around the king and the minister of war, the two people Kaladin needs to protectIn prison, for heresy?
I don't think it meant becoming a light eye literally but more social status wise.That's not the impression I got. According to Kaladin (in one of the flashbacks to when he was growing up):
If a man wins a Shardblade on the battlefield, his eyes become light.
I could point out that the Terris prophecies were gender-neutral because Sazed was not a man, but I'll restrain myself.Yeah, but there's absolutely no reason that Sazed would become female or refer to himself as a woman. He used to be male, and ended up as a eunuch. Maybe taking the shards would make him male again, but there's absolutely zero reason to think they'd switch his gender. I could see how you could maybe kinda sorta suspect that might maybe happen if Preservation and/or Ruin had been female, but that's just not the case.
I think the fourth shard is based on Brandon's Law of Pairing.I don't really think there's any indication that applies to Roshar. On Scadrial, there were all those opposites because you had two shard that were exact opposites. Unless the Almighty's shard is love, that's not really the case on Roshar. Plus, Cultivation would still be mucking things up just by being there.
Basically, when we look at mistborn everything can be broken down to pairs. Two metals that are similar but do opposite things (pewter and tin both affect the body, but one is internal, the other external). There are two shards that both are related yet are opposites, like two sides of a coin to use the old cliche.
Anyway, fans have applied this law to the Stormlight Archive. I don't know if I agree with it, but there is definitely space for a 4th shard in this series.
I know you didn't say it, I'm just making it clear that this theory, at least, deserves to be dismissed outright.I agree obtaining more than 1 shard will have the shards form together, but not necessarily that Sazed is Cultivation.Again, Sazed can't be Cultivation, because Cultivation is female.
I never said Sazed was Cultivation, I just don't like to downright knock someone's theory off the bored.
Right, but he doesn't appear to have any such compunction about his grandfather. Either his grandfather is dead and is therefore immune to shame (at least in the Shin culture, if it works that way), or he respects his father greatly.if there is one surgebinder in Shin, there are bound to be more. also i dont think that Truthless is a position that any normal citizen in Shin can get, i think that Szeths dad is someone very important, and that is why he refuses to go by his fathers nameHe doesn't go by his father's name because he doesn't want the dishonour of being truthless to be attached to his father's good name.
although it does make one wonder why she didnt just sell her shardblade, it is said repeatedly that peo;e will do just about anything for a shardbladeHow would you approach someone about that when you had a Shardblade that no one knew about, and that was quite possibly obtained by murdering your father?
I agree obtaining more than 1 shard will have the shards form together, but not necessarily that Sazed is Cultivation.Again, Sazed can't be Cultivation, because Cultivation is female.
and it doesnt matter how good Szeth is, there is no way he coud get to Kaladin, Talenel will beat the tar out of himIf Taln is around.
Maybe it created the Skaze.If Odium killing Aona possibly caused the Reod then I wonder what Odium's murder of Skai did to Sel.Hopefully we'll find out soon.
What Never said. :pCultivation is female.
I have a theory that "Cultivation" is the entity Sazed become (simply because that concept incorporates both Ruin and Preservation so well IMO) after becoming a "full" deity.
I think Jasnah is only surprised that Shallan see's them out of Shadesmar, we do not have evidence of Jasnah tied to a Spren.We know that she knows about Spren. But that could be a result of her studies.
But Jasnah certainly knows of the connection to Spren and soulcasting, and identified them in Shallan's images. So we know she has seen Spren, and interacted with them in some form relating to soulcasting.
Jasnah isn't associated with Spren as far as I know. She seemed surprised when Shallan told her about the symbolspren.So far all orther surgebinders are associated with Spren in some way"All other surgebinders"?
There's Kaladin and Szeth. That's all we've seen.
I should have said all other surgebinder\windfinder\non-fabrial soulcasters (or maybe suspected new radiants?)
Jasnah, Elhokar, Shallan, Kaladin,
So far all orther surgebinders are associated with Spren in some way"All other surgebinders"?
