#tanavast

[lamaery]

Shard Roller Disco: Roshar Odium has been thirdwheeling for millennia. hmm... song to this in the back of my head: All of the Time by Jungle just for the vibe of the song More Shard Roller Disco AU: Nalthis Sel and Scadrial Scadrial 2 First of the Sun and Taldain Threnody Roshar 2 (row spoilers) Roshar 3 Bonus Dawnshard (spoilers)

[onlycosmere]

Questioner: Was Tanavast a dragon?

Brandon Sanderson: Tanavast was not, but that's an excellent question. There are some other dragons out there. If you keep asking, you might get some yeses; but this is a no.

[twobitsandanibble]

"Et tu, Cephandrius?"

[libralita]

Wait so in Tress, it confirms that when a dragon dies, their body leaves behind dragonsteel. Cultivation's vessel is a dragon and her name is "Koravellium Avast." If having "avast" in your name means that you're a dragon and Tanavast is also a dragon, what happened to his dragonsteel?

[kainekron]

Questioner

Can holders of Shards give them up voluntarily? If so, what would happen?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, a Vessel for a Shard of Adonalsium can give up their power if they wish.

As for what would happen...well, there are some variables in there. Kind of like the variables in what happens to a bucket of water if you dump it out. Depends on where it falls, how strong the wind is, what the air is like.

Power dropped like this, if left alone, could end up Splintering and turning into something like spren/seons. It could become something more like the Stormfather--a large, self-aware entity. It could become something like the Dor or many of the Unmade--something proto-aware, but not truly an individual. There are other possibilities as well, depending on lots of factors. (Are sapient beings involved? what is being done with the power--is it concentrated in the Spiritual Realm as normal, or is it being pushed somewhere else?) FAQFriday 2017 (June 9, 2017)

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[survivorofhathsin04]

Slightly out there theory but I've seen no one else make it and wanna throw it out there. Kaladin is going to become Honor.

It's just a very random hunch I've had the past few days but it makes so much sense to me acknowledging the right details.

Now I dont know if theres a WOB debunking it but as far as I know theres no reason Dalinar couldnt use Bondsmith powers to reforge a shard. Like Honor still exists in Splinters such as honorspren and the Stormfather, so it seems possible to reforge

But even then, why Kaladin? I think its been heavily alluded to across the past few books. Such as the Stormfather consistently calling Kaladin 'Child of Tanavast' and others as 'Child of Honor' Sanderson has said before that it is an important distinction but didnt specify why so my only conclusion is Kaladin being Tanavasts successor in becoming Honor.

Secondly, the Death Rattle from Way of Kings, stating "He must pick it up, the fallen title! The tower, the crown, and the spear!"

This feels so overtly about Kaladin, especially with rhythm of war context. The tower is Urithiru, and Kaladin fighting back the singers and helping free them, the spear is the most obvious and could reference either his decision to join Amarams army in the first place or his decision to train Bridge Four but I think it overall represents his consistency to go back to the fight and do what he must. The fallen title, can be interpreted as Honor itself and how he must carry it on.

The crown is slightly more cryptic and nothing we can currently point to but, if Dalinar reforges the Oathpact with Kaladin as a Herald, the crown title makes sense since Jezrien, the former Windrunner herald was caller KING of the Heralds, and so he also potentially becomes the Windrunner Herald before becoming Honor itself.

And thats like... it.

Not a lot of evidence but my god this feels possible

[ultimateinferno]

Kaladin says god hates him , but I'm going to be fucking honest, I'm certain he's actually Honor's special boy.

[shouldprobablybereading]

I love that the only thing that leaked from the spoiler QnA is that hoid dated a dragon, like either it must’ve been a very boring QnA or the thought of hoid/koravellium/tanavast love drama is just that mind blowing

[youravraragechessenjoyer]

Can we talk about how I'm ROW The stormfather calls Kal "Child of Tanavast" and Dalinar immediately knows who he's talking about. And the stormfather does not explain unless asked.

The stormfather basically said "Jesus Christ is about to kill himself"

And Dalinar immediately knows it was Kaladin.

[highly-invested]

Grown up sized Sliver of the Almighty I’m friends with: The way I be drinking this damn apple juice…ooh chile of Tanavast😂

Me: You can’t be talking like that Stormfather

[lamaery]

do you have some art about the vessels? pretty please i really love your art

in that case I can only point at the Shard Roller Disco frenzy from two months ago. But here is an old one of Tanavast and Hoid building a snow Cultivation.

[onlycosmere]

Shard of Honor by Connor Chamberlain

[hyoukanee]

Ancient Daughter and Son of Tanavast sketch! I re-read the Rhythm of War for the third time and can't wait for Book 5. Initially, I wanted to draw Kal and Syl sitting on the balcony in Urithiru (I couldn’t do it anyway). Therefore, something simpler in autumn colors (?) turned out. I would like to draw more The Stormlight Archive characters. Syl is my favorite and I love her warm relationship with Kaladin. Although this sketch turned out to be very dirty, I'm in some sense happy with the final result anyway. Hope you will like it too!

[knightsgaydiant]

just saw a tag for something stormlight related that said interspecies relationships are weird… my brother in tanavast, are we reading the same book here?

[kainekron]

I've always thought it would be fun to have the original Shard holders be like actually friends and lovers of each other even rayas and for the end of dragon steel to be this little tragedy where hoid see the people he cares about the turn on each other because of power

And that hoid's end goal is just to get his old friends back

This is 0% what's going to happen btw their probably only allies of circumstance brought together by him maybe to take down adonalsium