#radiants

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Teft swore his oath “I will protect even those I hate, especially if the one I hate the most, is myself” and I just…

Wow

I had to put the book down, and wait for my full on lip trembling crying to stop before I could continue

I think about that post saying that we can still swear our Oaths, even if we don’t have Spren to bond and hear them, and after that one I am just stunned

I never realized that these books would take me on such an emotional journey of also understanding myself and learning to live with myself, so a formal screw you to Brandon Sanderson for these books. I’m gonna need you to release book 6 faster than 10 years please

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"The slavemasters say one is worth about two emerald broams," Kaladin said, frowning.

"And what do you say?"

"A life is priceless," he said immediately, quoting his father.

Dalinar smiled, wrinkle lines extending from the corners of his eyes.

"Coincidentally, that is the exact value of a Shardblade. So today, you and your men sacrificed to buy me twenty-six hundred priceless lives. And all I had to repay you with was a single priceless sword. I call that a bargain."

"You really think it was a good trade, don't you?" Kaladin said, amazed.

Dalinar smiled in a way that seemed strikingly paternal. 

“For my Honor?”

“Unquestionably.”

But OMG, Testament! What will this mean for Shallan, having two Shardblades? We already know Adolin’s on the way to bonding Maya (maybe with some help of the Bondsmiths?) will it be something like that with her, too? Adolin: the Shardblade Whisperer

.......MR. & MRS. BONDSMITH. Fusion of two spy movie series :D

Anyway thank you for letting me scream into the void

ok, first off, i’m so sorry it took me this long to answer. (long story short i had the draft asks xkit extension and this got lost in the drafts for a while)

yeah that entire scene made me so sad because i genuinely loved that chapter. the vibes, the scheming, everything...minus the whole wit and jasnah are a thing now. also DID NOT LIKE that ‘he seemed to think that sort of thing would eventually spark passion in her’ line like MMM DON’T LIKE THAT. NUH UH NOPE. that’s not a couple on the same page about their relationship. also the knowledge that wit and jasnah...y’know....got it on....just no. genuinely not sure how sanderson thought that scene made any sense. it was just a few throwaway lines, they could’ve been cut easily, and they really took me out of the scene.

also!!! YEAH!!!!! SHALLAN!!!! no idea what this is going to mean going forward. especially because we kind of left off on a cliffhanger with the entire shadesmar arc. they’re still stuck there for now, and the next book will (probably) pick up right after the end of this one, so i’m not sure where they’ll be at the start. they might be making their way back to the oathgate in shadesmar for a significant portion of sa 5, assuming the 10-day timeline. tbh i’m kind of hoping adolin doeesn’t become a radiant, because we already have a lot of those, especially in the kholin family. it’d feel a bit like overkill. i’d rather adolin’s arc be about exploring the whole ‘reviving deadeyes’ thing w/o needing a nahel bond (that’s the technical name for the radiant bond). like...the recreance was essentially a mass genocide for the spren. i mean i know the spren did choose along w/ their radiants, but it’s still a tragedy, and it would still be a huge deal if deadeyes could be revived.

also yeah mr. and mrs. bondsmith lmao (kaladin has a throwaway line mentioning that)