âAnd yet,â Rlain said, âevery single member of Bridge Four now has an honorsprenâexcept me. Curious, how peopleâs decisions are an individual matter when theyâre confronted about themâbut those decisions form blatant patterns.â
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I can't complain though because we finally got confirmation about a fandom theory about the Shard of Honor. đ
CHAPTER 16
âYou guys were⌠watching?â she asked the creationspren.
âShallan! Shallan! Shallan!â
Well, nice to have a cheering section, she supposed. She looked up and found Pattern dimpling the stone of the wall.
Reminds me of when Kaladin chided Syl for watching people have sex in Oathbringer. âAnd stop spying on people when theyâre being intimate. Itâs creepy. . . He tried - unsuccessfully â to banish the image of lying in bed with a woman, Syl sitting on the headboard and shouting out encouragement and advice . . .â
The difference between Shallan and Kaladinâs reactions to this scenario is revealing. Shallan is nonchalant while Kaladin is creeped out. lol
âDonât say it,â she told him, climbing to her feet.
âWhat?â he said. âItâs absolutely allowed, even encouraged now.â
NO MATING. Another great Oathbringer callback.
A note at the bottom said, Looks like Iyatil has called in offworlder reinforcements. Watch them. Theyâre dangerous.
âFortunately, Shallan has a plan. Weâre going to form a strike team.â
Ohhh. I'm looking forward to this plotline.
âYeah, but you heard what Stormblessed did,â Red said, standing up and holding out his arms. âHe can share his armor! Make it swoop in and protect people! Iâve always wanted Plate. Can I borrow it, Shallan?â
She hesitated. Sheâd⌠only just earned it.
Darcira tapped her sketchpad. âIt would be good to know if that works, Brightness.â
A reasonable point. Storming former ardent and her scientific mind. âFine,â Shallan said. âHow do I do it?â
âIt seems like it just kind of worked for Kaladin,â Red said.
âEveryoneâs talking about it,â Darcira said. âKaladin flew around. You know, like they do. And his armorâmade of windsprenâswept here and there, enveloping other soldiers when needed.â
âStorming lordship bridgeman,â Gaz muttered, âand his storming heroism.â
They glanced at him.
âHe does it just to make me feel bad,â Gaz said.
âHe acts like a hero,â Red said, amused, âbecause it annoys you. Really.â
âYup,â Gaz said. âEveryone should be grateful to me. If I hadnât shown those bridgemen tough love, they would never have grown up to be such nauseating paragons of self-righteousness.â
âWerenât you crying the other month,â Red said, âbecause of what you did to them?â
âI was drunk,â Gaz said. âYou canât trust a man when heâs drunk. Heâll accidentally say things he ainât ready to say yet. Anyway, werenât we going to try out that armor?â
So many things going on here.
Iâve wondered whether Kaladin using the shardplate to protect others was limited to the Windrunners or if all orders could use the plate this way. It appears that this is unique to the Windrunners. So, does each order use shardplate according to their ideals?
Again, Kaladin intuitively knew how to use shardplate while Shallan had to learn by trial and error how to use it. Interesting contrast. Maybe itâs because Kaladin was a soldier?
Gaz is still bitter and petty about Kaladinâs heroism. đđ Heâs such a small man. I was surprised to read that he cried about the way he treated the bridgeman. Makes sense though. Gaz's bitterness is probably a defense mechanism to assauge his envy or guilt.
Shallanâs possessiveness over her shardplate is an interesting contrast to Kaladin. Kaladin didnât hesitate to use it to protect others. I guess thatâs meant to highlight the difference between the orders (or Kaladin and Shallan). Â
âWeâre going to do something they donât think is possible: weâre going to steal those secrets.â
Shallan probably will succeed in stealing some of his secrets, but Kelsier is the master secret keeper.
This is going to be interesting. I wonder if Shallan will discover who Thaidakar is and why heâs such a bfd in the cosmere.
âI remember you,â he said.
âI know. You wrote it in your book. I take great pains to remain secret, Dalinar, and you just vomited it all up on a page.â She shook her head.
I love her. Can we have more of her?
I am Unity.
âOnce,â Dalinar said softly.
âI have once as well,â she said. âOne time, other than when you faced him. It is deep in the past.â She idly held up her hand, lifespren swirling and playing around it. âYou need to take a journey, Dalinar Kholin. A dangerous one, but the path to defeating Odium is not through your powers alone. It is through understanding. You need to see the history of this world, live it.â
âVisions?â he asked. âLike Iâve seen before?â
âGreater,â she said. âWhere is Honor?â
âDead.â
âTanavastâthe Vessel that once held Honorâis dead, but the power remains. Somewhere. Itâs a conundrum that few scholars even know to ponder upon. None know what became of Honorâs power. Have you any guesses?â
âItâs the spren, maybe,â Dalinar said.
âSome say that Honor was Splintered by Odium when he killed Tanavastâas he did to others beforeâbecoming the spren, as the power of a god left alone will begin to think.â She shook her head. âBut theyâre wrong. The spren existed before Tanavastâs death. They are of him, but are not the core of his power. It still exists.â She looked him in the eyes. âIt is the power and substance of the visions you were shown, starting years ago. It seeks for men to see their heritage, as it searches for a new Vessel to hold it.â
âWait,â Dalinar said, a cold shock starting at the base of his skull and washing through him, making him grip the banister. âWait. What are you saying? That⌠someone couldâŚ?â
OMG!! OUR THEORIES ABOUT SOMEONE TAKING UP/REFORGING THE SHARD OF HONOR ARE CORRECT!
Unite Them.
I've been dying for answers to this since Oathbrigner.
What did it mean? Was Dalinar supposed to unite The Knights Radiant? Unite the nations of Roshar? Or unite the splinters of Honor?
Still, what is Dalinar supposed to unite? Is he supposed to unite the splintered Shard of Honor and make it whole again? Or is he supposed to unite the Shard of Honor with the new vessel? Maybe both?
And whoâs going to become Honorâs new vessel?
The two obvious candidates for Honor's new vessel are Dalinar and Kaladin because they both embody the shard's intent.
I think Kaladin will become Honor's new vessel for a couple of reasons.
1. The Stormfather calls Kaladin "Son of Tanavast"
2. Wit said Kaladin has a âdivine destinyâ
3. The epigraphs said that the contest in Shiovar is more vital than the contest of champions
4. Kaladin said goodbye to everyone because he didnât expect to see them again
All signs point to Something Big happening with Kaladin.
While Brandon planted a few death flags for Kaladin I think they're a misdirection. Yes, Kaladin's body may die, but his soul - his spirit - will live on because he'll Ascend either as a Herald or Honor. (This is basically the story of Fleet, which has long been theorized as foreshadowing Kaladin's story.)
BTW - Is reforging the Shard of Honor / Ascension related to the âHe must pick it up, the fallen title! The tower, the crown, and the spear!â death rattle? đ¤
âI have my own battles,â she said, turning to trail away.
What battles? Some wider Cosmere problem involving the other shards (perhaps Autonomy)? Â
âI cannot fight yours, but you now know where the power hides. Seek the Spiritual Realm, where gods dwell. You have the ability to get there, perhaps even the ability to return. There you will receive the final truths of the Heralds, the Radiants, and Honor himself. Go and seek it, Dalinar Kholin, if you would finish this journey.â
I am SO looking forward to Dalinarâs story in this book. Itâs a long time coming.
CHAPTER 17 & 18
Colot took a deep breath. âDonât worry about me. Iâll find my way up once the important people are taken care of.â
âNah, youâre coming with me,â Adolin said, pulling him out of the line.
Anyone else get Edgedancer vibes? đ¤¨
Silence. Eyes condemning. This is what you deserve, Father, Adolin thought, feeling the room turnâlike spears lowered at a captured enemyâagainst Dalinar. You always barrel forward. Doing whatever you want. Consequences be storming damned. Like you did years ago, killing my mother. And you never bothered to tell me. Youâ
Translation:
If Adolin doesnât confront Dalinar about his killing Evi in this book Iâm going to riot. I need to see them have it out. It's too big to ignore.
âYes,â Wit said. âAnd thatâs why Iâm an idiot. Not because I missed the intricacies of the legal codeâbut because this isnât something that Rayse could ever do. Itâs not only against his nature, itâs something he promised he would not do. Even without a formal covenant, a god cannot break that kind of promise without dire consequences.â
âSo⌠what?â Dalinar said. âIâm missing something.â
âAs are we all,â Wit said with a sigh. âOdium is exploiting a loophole in your agreement. Rayse wouldnât do that. Rayse couldnât do that. SoâŚâ He looked around the room, meeting their eyes. âSo we are not facing Rayse. My old enemy must be dead, and someone else has taken up the Shard of Odium. I should have seen it the moment he started acting so oddly, but now Iâve confirmed it by sensing the rhythms of Roshar. My friends, we are facing an enemy we do not know and cannot anticipate. And whoever it is, theyâre a geniusâone who has devised a ploy to conquer all of Roshar in ten days.â
Finally! Witâs starting to put two and two together. How long before someone figures out Taravagian is Odium now?