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HeWontEatTheHam
I'm rereading Oathbringer right now, and I'm in chapter 36 (a Dalinar flashback). While reading through it, I noticed Dalinar commenting on a particular flamespren that seemed odd to him.
Dalinar narrowed his eyes at the flamespren. That one did have a sword. A miniature Shardblade.
Knowing that it's almost never a coincidence when we encounter a strange spren, it got me wondering; we don't know what a Dustbringer spren looks like, but it feels like it would make perfect sense if Ashspren looked like flamespren. This led me down a really interesting line of thought:
Would the Blackthorn have been a Dustbringer?
Now that we know that Dustbringers are all about self-mastery and channeling their incredible power, wouldn't that be a really interesting path for one of the most dangerous (even before he could surgebind) men on Roshar? That idea is just terrifying.
Maybe his visit to the Nightwatcher disrupted his progress towards becoming a Dustbringer and led him down a different path?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO. :)
Ghodicu
The pocket companion states that there are three spren that can bond a person to make them into a bondsmith, the Stormfather being one of them. As far as I recall the books implied that the number was low, and implied heavily that it was around that number in an epigraph, but didn't actually have a straight confirmation. So, should I take that as canon?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, you can take that as canon. They came to me for that information.
yahasgaruna
Sweet. I guess it hasn't been canonized which three spren these are? I seem to recall that the prevailing theory on 17th Shard was that Nightwatcher was one of them, and the third was that weird spren with too many faces that Axies the Collector looked at in the tWoK interlude.
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO. :)
jmarsh642
Once we do get to Dalinar's flashbacks
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Will we get to learn his wife's name?
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Is his wife's name one that astute readers would recognize?
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Will we learn why he want to the Nightwatcher - and the boon and curse he received?
Brandon Sanderson
You had to know I'd RAFO this. :)
NeedsToShutUp
Did Vasher or any of the Five Scholars visit the Nightwatcher prior to the Manywar, or have any of them visited since?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Wizardlvl
(paraphrased)
What type spren would be Axies Black Lotus? Like the spren has he never seen that he really wants to.
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
The Nightwatcher. He has gone like two dozen times to the valley but has never seen her.
darkanimereal1
(paraphrased)
Did Taravangian go to see the Nightwatcher before or after Gavilar's assassination?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Um, oh man. I'm going to have to look at my timeline. I believe it's before, but I can't guarantee I'm right, because these things are all happening around the same time.
darkanimereal1
(paraphrased)
Because he says that Gavilar confided in him the night of.
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Ooooh, you're right. Nope, it's after. It is after. You can send that question to Peter so we can confirm it. There might be something I'm forgetting about Taravangian.
Questioner
When did Lift meet Hoid? *inaudible*
Brandon Sanderson
Lift met Hoid in between the visit to the Nightwatcher and her first <interlude>.
mathota123
Also what would happen if I had a LOT of Breath and tried to Awaken something that was still alive...?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO on the second question. You could say that Investing someone with your Breath, however, IS Awakening them.
crocsandcargos
Are Commands unique to Endowment and those with Breath, or do other Shards have an equivalent or similar power / ability? The girl Vasher rescues, his statements to Denth, and your quote above seem to point that Commands can be used on living entities for some purposes... I've always wondered if there was more to Dalinar referring to "unite them" as a 'phantom command'. If other Shards use commands or something similar it could also explain the mechanism of the Nightwatcher's boon/curse related to Dalinar's memory loss.
Brandon Sanderson
Intent is one of the components of the Magic, as you'll see frequently. These things are related.
Questioner
When it comes to the epic-level spren on Roshar, like the Nightwatcher and the Stormfather-- Is the number of epic-level spren equal to the number of Bondsmiths that you can have on Roshar?
Brandon Sanderson
Hmm, is the number of epic-level spren related to the number of Bondsmiths you have? Well, I've said there's a maximum of three. And there are three Shards involved in Roshar. I'm not gonna tell you if that's a coincidence or not. Sorry.
Oberyn
Who was the last person Cultivation spoke to before Dalinar? Is he/she important?
Brandon Sanderson
If you mean the last person she gave a boon/curse to instead of letting the Nightwatcher, RAFO. (But otherwise, she talks to lots of people.)
Questioner
Using Hemalurgy, could you steal the boon from the Old Magic?
Brandon Sanderson
Oh, from the Nightwatcher? This is theoretically possible.
Questioner
Would that take the [curse] with it as well?
Brandon Sanderson
*Hesitantly* Yes. Though it's also theoretically possible to split them apart, that would be a lot harder. Getting the boon, if you knew what you were doing, would not be that difficult.
Now, what Cultivation would do to you when she found out that had happened is another thing entirely. Because those are willful grants of Investiture.
Questioner
Similar to Endowment's with the Returned?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, things like that. When you get a Shard involved and the Shard has.. power to... Same thing like...it's on a much grander scale what's happening with the spren bond, right?
Questioner
When Hemalurgy does spread, most Shards will not be happy about this, right?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, that is correct.
DrogaKrolow
I need to ask, Dalinar lost his wife's name. I was talking about it with Klaudia yesterday and I need to ask, is it punishment or it's-- was it his wish?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
DrogaKrolow
When will it be revealed?
Brandon Sanderson
It will be revealed in Oathbringer. You will get flashbacks of Dalinar going, you actually see him visit the Nightwatcher.
Questioner
Why does Lift need Stormlight?
Brandon Sanderson
Lift went to see the Nightwatcher, and got a Blessing and a Curse in that she can metabolize food to turn into Stormlight, but she can't use regular Stormlight. And there is something else, as well.
Questioner
So they have the same surges or different surges for Cultivation?
Brandon Sanderson
She uses the same surges, but they are powered differently.
Questioner
Has Hoid had a direct interaction with the Nightwatcher at this point. You said he'd be calling her very nasty names?
Brandon Sanderson
*nervous laughter* Hoid is… let's go ahead and RAFO that one.
mbue
Did Tacenda and Willia start out as a pair of twins who visited the Nightwatcher in your head? Their background sounds a lot like a boon/curse pair. :)
Brandon Sanderson
More, I was looking for a curse to be involved in the story (because I liked the flavor of the curse mechanic in Innistrad) and curses/boons tend to be connected in my brain--probably from playing too many D&D games where I got a ring of wishes, and the DM was feeling grumpy.
athos45678
Has anyone in the history of Roshar ever had Lift’s special physiology? Or is she like a whole new human
Brandon Sanderson
You could say anyone that has their DNA or spiritweb meddled with by the Nightwatcher is something new--that said, Lift is an experiment that hasn't been tried before.
ParadoxSpren
Will we ever find out what Lift asked of the Nightwatcher?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. It's probably gonna be her book before you find out. Book Six.
Edwin Tyson
Does the Nightwatcher's boon and curse still affect Taravangian, now that he is Odium?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO. Good question.
Questioner
This is just from our discussion earlier. So Taravangian… He asks for two things. The capacity to stop what is coming and the capacity to save humankind. And then he gets this weird thing to happen. Is the intelligence and empathy thing because both of those things can't come true at the same time?
Brandon Sanderson
That's an excellent question. RAFO!
Moderator
Let me ask a parallel to that. Are those-- Does the Nightwatcher perceive those as the same boon or two parallel boons?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO!
Questioner
Is the Nightwatcher Cultivation or do you not want to say that yet?
Brandon Sanderson
I haven't answered-- I've actually given some very strong hints on that, but I think I haven't answered that. The 17th Sharder can answer me: Have I answered that?
Sharder
No, but it's been very very strongly hinted at.
Trae Cooper
(paraphrased)
With a yes or no answer, would the following analogy be correct? If Syl is to Stormfather, as Wyndle is to Nightwatcher, then is Pattern to Cusicesh?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
No, not exactly.
Questioner
We saw that, in one case that she felt it was very important, Cultivation intervened when Dalinar was asking for his boon from the Nightwatcher. You said that for the most part she just sort of lets her work, but has she intervened in other cases that she feels are important, specifically with Taravangian?
Brandon Sanderson
She has intervened before.
Questioner
Which Bondsmith spren would you each have?
Brandon Sanderson
Emily's in charge of facilities, so a building spren makes a lot of sense for her. I might be more Nightwatcher than Stormfather, with kind of the things that I do.
