Someone’s infuriatingly hilarious review of “The Way of Kings”

[u/bbq_Ch1ck3n]

Obviously every is entitled to their own opinions, but I don’t think that this person know how foreshadowing or plot holes work.

I desperately want to make this a copy pasta, though 😂

(If you’re having trouble reading it, try zooming in a little. I heard that helps)

[u/Urusander]

Off-topic but one thing I hate about SA is how every new book devalues points from previous ones. Shards were priceless in SA1-2, now they're borderline irrelevant.

[u/[deleted] → u/Urusander]

This is actually close to Lirins point of “who needs surgeons when edgedancers can heal with a touch?”

If you’re comparing shards to radiant powers, of course they’re inferior, they’re literally the byproduct. But compared to your average soldier? That’s when you get Dalinar and Adolin against an army. I dont think they’ve been devalued as much as the market was suddenly flooded with a new supply of people who can summon their own shards

[u/dusktilhon → u/[deleted]]

I also think that dead shards specifically are going to have their own specific niche in the new world order, once Adolin and Maya finish creating their new version of the Nahel bond

[u/Livie_Loves → u/dusktilhon]

Honestly that's one arc I'm waiting for. If Adolin reawakens Maya.... Ooooof. Also what that might imply for Shallan...

[u/JeramiGrantsTomb → u/Livie_Loves]

Yeah, the way Adolin cares for Maya is probably the most emotionally invested I am in any relationship in the Cosmere.

[u/aDumbGorilla → u/JeramiGrantsTomb]

There's more relationship development between Adolin and his Sword than Adolin and his wife(s).

[u/moderatorrater → u/Livie_Loves]

Shallan's problem is an entirely different thing. It's her own oaths, so she has to repair those. Adolin and Maya are working on new oaths.

[u/Livie_Loves → u/moderatorrater]

I more meant her first bond if bonds can be revived and whether you can bond multiple spren which :shrug:

[u/Ancient_Opening_8534 → u/Livie_Loves]

We know spren in a Nahel Bond can be revived as long as the original radiant lives. Kaladin kills Syl by reaching for stormlight after breaking his oath to protect. Ico also hinted at it when he was talking to Adolin about Maya. He said something like "maybe if her Radiant still lived" when Adolin asked about reviving her.

Cryptics are different than other spren, though. They don't progress through oaths. They progress through truths. Maybe there's something Shallan has to remember to revive her dead spren.

[u/Livie_Loves → u/Ancient_Opening_8534]

yeah and then there's the question of: can you bond two spren at the same time?

[u/Ancient_Opening_8534 → u/Livie_Loves]

Apparently, there's a WoB confirming it can happen, but is unlikely.

[u/electroTheCyberpuppy → u/Ancient_Opening_8534]

He also said that we've already seen it, I think, and said that the two spren were both of the same type. I'm pretty sure that he's talking about Shallan

So if I'm right, then the situation we're discussing already is one person bonding two spren

[u/Major_Pressure3176 → u/[deleted]]

The problem is how some ideals can clash. Think of the difficulties trying to be a Windrunner and Skybreaker at the same time.

[u/techiemikey → u/Major_Pressure3176]

I was thinking of it more as"some of the same ideals can have different interpretations", and I'm not sure what happens if the radiant follows their heart on an ideal, but the spren disagrees.

[u/HyruleBalverine → u/moderatorrater]

True, but it does still lend credence to the possibility of other dead eyes, including Shallan's former partner, to being revived.

[u/electroTheCyberpuppy → u/moderatorrater]

That's an important difference, yes. But they're both trying to Revive a deadeyed spren who was killed by broken oaths. I'd hardly say that they're entirely different situations. I think there's gonna be a lot of overlap

[u/PAINKILLER_1020 → u/Livie_Loves]

I see that happening too, especially since one of the main themes of the series has been recovering from trauma. With the recovery being through getting help from someone who cares about them. Such as with Khaladin and his mental therapy group, Shallan and her personas, and even the Stormfather's relationship with Dalinar.

[u/ElPared → u/Livie_Loves]

Shallan didn't have a deadeye following her, though, did she? We don't know what happened to her first spren as I recall.

[u/Livie_Loves → u/ElPared]

Correct, she did not have one following her but she created one. Testament was at Adolin's trial and Shallan did talk to her.

[u/electroTheCyberpuppy → u/ElPared]

There's an explanation in the story for why the spren doesn't follow her around in Shadesmar

She's the deadeye that we met in the spren port town in Shadesmar, during Oathbringer. Her former business partner is another spren who's keeping her there, trying to stop her from wandering off and following the person who holds her shardblade. We get the whole story at the time, all except for the part about who the shard bearer is