#truthwatchers

[sorchasolas]

Im doing this super stupid thing where i combine two(eventually maybe three?) knight radiant glyphs into one glyph

So, behold:

Truthdancer & Windbreaker

i can and WILL make more. Recommendations are encouraged.

[themoonstonechronicler]

Them ❤️

[stew4]

Me when I think about mistspren for too long. Specifically Enlightened ones.

[koravelliumavast]

Emeralds are the truthwatcher polestone. And each gemstone used in the Urithiru gem archive directly correlates to the polestone of that radiant order. Could it be possible that Renarin wasn’t the first truthwatcher to have a Nahel bond to a spren enlightened by Sja-Anat?

[blindradiant]

I’m wondering about the Heralds’ relationship with their associated Radiant orders. Like obviously Nale has had a lot of influence over the Skybreakers. He’s the Herald of that order, a Skybreaker himself, and the only living one who has sworn the Fifth Ideal. Modern Skybreakers are the way they are largely because of Nale’s direction and enforcement of the order’s structure and methods.

But what about the other Heralds? Have any of them been involved with the Radiants at all, or do they try to forget? Does it depend on the Herald?

I don’t know if Jezrien was aware enough to be involved with the Windrunners before Moash killed him. We know pretty much nothing about Chanah and Vedel. I wonder what they think about modern Dustbringers and Edgedancers. Same with Pailiah and the Truthwatchers. I kind of think Ash would have absolutely no interest in being associated with the Lightweavers, and would actively try to distance herself as much as human(ish)ly possible. Batah and the Elsecallers??? Kalak is another one who I think would try to avoid any reminders of the past. Taln has been locked on Braize for 4500 years, and is now in no shape to be involved with the Stonewards. And we’ve seen how Ishar treats Dalinar.

I just think there’s a lot of potential to see how Heralds who aren’t Nale might have guided their Radiants at various points over time

[ansible12]

*Rythm of War Spoiler!* I've had an awful thought. Taravagian knows that the presence of renarin obscures the Shard of Odium's Future sight. Taravangian is Odium now. I THINK RENARIN IS GOING TO DIE IN STORMLIGHT 5. THINK ABOUT IT! WE HAVE TWO CORRUPTED/ENLIGHTENED TRUTHWATCHERS, REnarin and Rlain, who are clearly in love with each other. We know that a dead character can get a flashback book(RoW is Eshonai's book). I believe the emotional core of book 7(Renarin's Book) will follow Rlain taking the next step after his love's death, while the flashbacks follow Renarin finding and accepting who he is. The final flashback could end with Renarin professing his love for Rlain. PLEASE, SOMEONE, I DONT WANT THIS TO BE TRUE! SOMEONE CONVINCE ME IM WRONG

[kaladsphantom]

Autism gang?

[sokarera]

I don't think there's going to be a Nightwatcher Bondsmith largely because Cultivation is Doing Other Shit and the Nightwatcher is A Weirdo, but really I wanted to reblog for this addition:

Can a Fused form a Nahel Bond?

Yeah, spren can bond other spren. So a Fused can definitely, at least in theory, bond a Spren. Enlightened Spren would probably be into it. What kind of Surges is an Enlightened honorspren going to provide, I wonder?

Top 10 Candidates for the Third Bondsmith

[major Stormlight spoilers!]

Subtitle: A List Of People Who Don’t Have Radiant Bonds Yet 

Three Bondsmiths are theoretically possible on Roshar: whoever bonds the Stormfather, whoever bonds the Sibling, and whoever bonds the Nightwatcher. We’ve got two…so surely the third is only a matter of time. But who are our candidates, and how likely do I personally think they are for no real reason?

#10: Kaladin again, somehow

I do not think this is likely, but let’s be real. If it WERE possible to form a second Nahel bond, the person to do so would be Kaladin. World’s first Bondsmith Windrunner, anyone?

#9: Rlain

I bring up Rlain mainly because, per this post, he’s apparently a popular guess/desire? To be fair, Rlain was nearly the Bondsmith for the Sibling, and I know that some people felt cheated that that never came to fruition. But Rlain is about to bond a spren of his own, so I don’t personally think it’s very likely that Rlain will abruptly refuse his offered bond and then go bond the Nightwatcher instead. But who knows!

#8: Evi

Evi is dead, of course. But every now and then, we learn that characters secretly had Radiant bonds way in the past–like Tien nearly being a Lightweaver or Shallan’s first spren. So I was just thinking: wouldn’t it be interesting if it turned out that Evi had already bonded the Nightwatcher before her death (if she’s even dead!!)? She does have the connection with the Old Magic, after all…

#7: Moash

Okay, now let’s go through various candidates who don’t yet have a bond, starting with a very unlikely candidate. Moash doesn’t have a spren yet, mostly because he’s on the Fused side, and the spren have mostly sided with the humans. But I think it would cool if Moash ultimately became the third Bondsmith, either because the Nightwatcher agrees that the colonizing humans are in the wrong or perhaps after Moash has a heel-face turn. 

#6: The Mink

Now this I would love. Dieno aka The Mink is a Herdazian General and one of the few characters to consistently bring up the whole “Alethi commit war crimes” business. Right now, not only do the Alethi have a Bondsmith monopoly, but our two Bondsmiths are even in the same family. It’s a Kholin household monopoly. So if The Mink were able to become the third Bondsmith, it would somewhat counterbalance the Alethi dominance of the Radiant order, and I would also LOVE to see the cool things he’d do with that power.

#5: Dabbid

Dabbid formed a close relationship with the Sibling during Rhythm of War, and I know that there are some readers who felt that he should have been the Bondsmith rather than Navani. He’s also, I think, the last remaining member of Bridge Four to not have a spren yet. So there is some setup for Dabbid to become the third Bondsmith and bond the Nightwatcher.

#4: Demid (or another unbonded Listener)

Okay! Now for my actual Top 4 both in terms of what I think might happen and what I wouldn’t mind seeing happen. I’ve seen people express hope that a Singer will be the third Bondsmith–we know Singers can bond a spren, and it would be nice to see the Singers start to recapture the bond they originally had with the spren. The one issue is that our main Listener characters have been Eshonai (dead), Venli (bonded), and Rlain (basically bonded). So…what then? There is Demid, Venli’s once-mate who could well become more of a main character in Stormlight 5. And if he does become a main character, perhaps he can be the Listener Bondsmith?

#3: Adolin

Adolin is the most main character we have who still lacks a Nahel bond. Plus, the other two Bondsmiths are his dad and his aunt/stepmom. I’m still hoping for Adolin’s Radiant / Radiant-adjacent plotline to center on Maya–that he will perhaps find a way to restore Maya and bond with her, or simply stay un-Radiant for Maya. But this just seems SO likely on paper that I have to include it, and at nearly the top spot.

#2: Lewshi 

Can a Fused form a Nahel Bond? Probably…not? But I don’t care! I love Lewshi, and I want her to become the third Bondsmith, especially now that’s she’s living among the Listeners. Now that I’m writing this, I feel a little bad putting someone so unlikely so high up but…eh, whatever! Lewshi Bondsmith supremacy!

#1: Someone who is currently a child

But if I’m making a real guess, I don’t think anyone will bond the Nigthwatcher in  Stormlight 5. I think it’ll happen after the time skip sometime in the later books, and I think it will be someone who is currently a child–like Gavinor, maybe, or even more likely to my mind, Shallan and Adolin’s kid who is surely on the way.

What do you all think? There’s a poll!

[stivya]

Knight au...

Oc on the left belongs to @sadibadimadi

[nauti-ca]

my stormlight oc, lore, and her mistspren, khiteas, in his lance form

she’s an iriali truthwatcher and a woman in stem :-)

[onlycosmere]

Questioner: We've seen Renarin do some pretty *inaudible* things both in Oathbringer and in Rhythm of War.

And my question was, are Truthwatchers able to use aspects of the Progression and Lightweaving surge to have someone or something become a different version of itself?

Brandon Sanderson: They can't make that happen, but they can certainly invite.

[sorchasolas]

It might be Pick Me behavior to make an enlightened Truthwater oc but also when they aren’t enlightened Truthwatchers have objectively the lamest ability set in the Knights Radiant

[meipossum]

Finally the day is here! Here's the collab I've been working on alongside with @truthwatcher-vez and @havens.end (insta) for the @cosmere-mini-bang

Haven and I did ilustrations for Progression. A beautiful fanfic by @truthwatcher-vez starring Renarin and Rysn and a moment of truly understanding between them. Such lovely characters I've loved since the first time I met them reading the stormlight archive.

You can read the fic here

I think this is the first time I can say I am living something as big in terms of fandom. I am really happy about finding the cosmere and people with the same love and interest in it. 💕

[shakesthewizard]

Hey Stormlight fans. Would you like a Knights Radiant quiz that isn't kind of boring? Have this!