The Knights Radiant Were Pretty Lit I Guess

Kaladin: Two Shallans

Adolin:

Kaladin:

Context.

This is an example of the “Sealed Evil in a Can” trope, which is an interesting story structure because it takes a battle that has happened before and says “yes, we don’t have all the weapons we used to win before, but this time some other things are different and we have some new weapons/people so we may be able to win permanently this time.” (see Korra season two or the first Mistborn trilogy).

Data point 2: The only real weapon that the Stormlight crew have now that they didn’t have four thousand years ago is more advanced technology. Taln even says (in reaction to it the four thousand year gap between desolations), “What a gift you gave them! Time to recover, for once, between Desolations. Time to progress. They never had this chance before.” 

Data point 3: In both the way of kings and oathbringer it is specifically and deliberately stated that whilst the ancients had many more surgebinders and a few powerful devices thanks to spren, by and large modern Rosharian fabrial technology is much, much better

Data point 4: In Mistborn era two we see southern Scadrians with Feruchemy based technology and with those weird world hoppers we saw in secret histories it’s seems clear that the future of magic in the cosmere is going to be very much based around devices that manipulate investiture. (This is arguably symbolic of the industrial revolution and a shift from feudalism to capitalism) The Rosharian equivalent to this is fabrials.

lopen: kaladin where are you going

lopen: there’s no need to get up in arms about this 

lopen: i just had that joke handy

lopen: up my sleeve, if you will

lopen: in all seriousness though it might not have been disarming but i have to say it has affected me very deeply… i can no longer say that i’m all right

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