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"Pretty much. Which is why I am looking forward to Szeth's continuing evolving character. \n \n\n\n\n\n\tLol sorry. Enjoy reading them!\n \n\n\n\n\n\tNo problem. it happens.\n \n\n\n\n\n\tSo I started, but unfortunately have lagged, looking at every quote associated with Amaram to give him a thorough over look like I did to Jasnah. Amaram is a glory hound. He tried to convince Dalinar to leave behind Sebarial and the other highprince, so just Dalinar, Amaram and Dalinar's men could go off to the center of the Shattered Plains for glory. Dalinar said how they should be beyond such vainglory. Dalinar wasn't sure he would have any other Highprinces to back him up at all, but if you know a military leader lied to you, stole from you, and killed men under his command in the past to further his own goals, would you trust him to lead your own men? For myself, I most certainly would not. So I would out him before leaving, to minimize the potential sabotage he could do to my excursion in retaliation. But that at least is just me. So I do believe Dalinar would have done it around that time regardless, but since Kaladin returned, he did it the way he did. \n \n\n\n\n\n\tSo although not the quote I thought, it does still answer your question:\n \n\n\n\tWords of Radiance page 709\n \n\n\n\t\"He had just enough Light to free himself from the mo9untains and land in a village in the foothills. They often set out spheres for him there as an offering, considering him some kind of god. He would feed upon that Light, and it would let him go farther distance until he found another city and more stormlight.\"\n \n\n\n\tThis was the scene where Szeth hung out at Urithiru\n \n\n\n\n\n\tBrandon tends to focus heavily on world building and thinks of this stuff in advance. The chasmfiends are a prime example of this. Insects and crustaceans cannot get larger than they are due to the inverse square law. Their own body would crush them from the weight. So in order for chasmfiends to still be a thing, Brandon had Roshar have lower than what we know of on earth gravity. But he didn't stop there because the reduced gravity would still result in the chasmfiend crushing their own body. It isn't enough by itself. Which is why he came up with the ecosystem having natural fauna have natural bonds with various spren. The spren the chasmfiend is bonded to, and hangs around it, cause it to be lighter, and thereby exist. Roshar also has a higher oxygen content which scientists theorize would allow for larger insectoid life forms which we do see on Roshar. The is one of the big reasons a lot of people do love Brandon's writing. Because he does account for these things. Or at least to the best of his ability. For instance soulcasting is mass conservative unless certain situations where it is not. Not sure if you know what I mean by that, so if you would like me to explain, let me know!\n \n\n\n\tAs to deus-ex, with all due respect, I do feel you are not using that term correctly. It originated during greek tragedies, because the play would put the protagonist in such a horrible situation that there was no way the person could come back from that. The writers wanting the audience in some situations to still have \"a happy ending\", would insert a literal god, who would take pity on the protagonists plight, snap their fingers, and \"fix everything\". This is a problem because the god insert had no foreshadowing, no reason, and took away agency from the protagonist. It also removed any means of drama, because you would know that no matter how bad things got, it could just be \"fixed\". So it became known as a literary device for whenever something has not been explained, foreshadowed, or makes sense in the world it is in, occurs for no discernible reason. Soulcasting comes up repeatedly throughout the novels. It is explained at length. It was a very real cost to those using the fabrials. It is a rare relic and it is employed as such. The ardentia regulates and restricts it extensively. The fact that Jasnah has one is seen as a great heresy, danger, and she has to fight off people trying to rob her of it constantly. It is discussed in the novels how the highstorms and soulcasting create a great military dilemma. Do you go for the high ground to lay siege to a city, risking your army getting wrecked in a highstorm, or do you go for cover, but lose the advantage? Siege warfare is not something you can wait out. Between highstorms battering your troops, and soulcasters keeping a city supplied despite loss of access to their farm land, generals have to find someway to cope. This is further expounded upon in Oathbringer, but there are plenty of mentions of it in Way of Kings and Words of Radiance. Just like it is constantly mentioned how those in the stormlands live their lives by the storm. Sloping buildings, and the materials they are built with. Purelake functions completely different due to their experience. Shin act even \"stranger\". \n \n\n\n\tAs an aside, another literary device that is tossed around a lot is Chekov's Gun. I am not sure if you heard of that or not, but that is when something is mentioned, and then forgotten. So if the writer makes a point to mention a gun. Describe the gun and call the reader's attention to the gun, then the gun had better matter or fire at some point, otherwise it is just wasted page space. \n \n\n\n\t \n \n"
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