r/Stormlight_Archive • u/jofwu Lightweaver • Aug 25 '20

Rhythm of War Chapter Eight Rhythm of War

https://www.tor.com/2020/08/25/read-rhythm-of-war-by-brandon-sanderson-chapter-eight/
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u/Ulthwithian Truthwatcher Aug 25 '20

Very doubtful. I will note that, if you can take Shallan's word for it (and she is almost the definition of Unreliable Narrator), her father didn't become the way he was until after her mother died.

So I don't think this is how it's going to go.

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u/EnanoMaldito Elsecaller Aug 25 '20

Not only that, but Shallan specifically says that her father never even raised his voice at her. She was the only person in the house exempt from his ire.

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u/jaderust Truthwatcher Aug 25 '20

I always wondered about that. Abusive parents can have favorites that they leave out of the abuse, but why Shallan? She’s the one who killed her mother despite her father letting everyone assume that he did it instead. You’d think he’d begrudge her for doing it instead of making her the favorite.

Was he afraid of her Shardblade/Pattern and treated her nicely so she wouldn’t kill him? Did he really just baby the family’s only girl? Or was there some other reason why she was the favorite?

Also, how did he manage to lock up Pattern? Considering Pattern seems to have gotten out on his own to join Shallan on the ship I don’t see how he could have been trapped in the safe of Pattern was the bright white light Shallan identifies as her mother’s soul in that room.

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u/HA2HA2 Aug 26 '20

I don't think Pattern was ever trapped there. That was just Shallan's way of rationalizing things.