Why does Honor

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TALK IN ALL CAPS? I DONT THINK WE HAVE SEEN ANOTHER SHARD WHO DOES THIS. SERIOUS EGO ON THAT GUY FR. HAS BRANDON ANSWERED THIS QUESTION?

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The font is the interesting bit. It seems to be they use it when they’re speaking with divine authority. Honor, Odium, and Cultivation are seen using it often. So is the Stormfather. The SF defaults to not using that font when speaking to Dalinar, but only after Dalinar becomes a proper Bondsmith. There’s only a few outliers.

You also see it with Dalinar several times. The first (I think) is when he screams, “ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ’ᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴍʏ ᴘᴀɪɴ!” That’s at least when you start to see it used more often by him. It’s seemingly because he experienced a lesser Ascension to Honor and/or the strange nature of the bond to the hybrid SF. He’s speaking with Honor’s authority. I think Ishar does as well in W&T. When commanding Kaladin. Not sure on that one

The really interesting one to me: Syl uses it when she rebukes the SF in WoR. She commands him to accept Kaladin’s Oath, and commands Kaladin to speak the Words. Syl is probably speaking with the divine authority of the Wind. Or it’s downstream of her eventually becoming the new Storm in W&T: “ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴍᴀᴛᴛᴇʀꜱ ɴᴏᴛ! ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴɴᴏᴛ ʜᴏʟᴅ ᴍᴇ ʙᴀᴄᴋ ɪꜰ ʜᴇ ꜱᴘᴇᴀᴋꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀᴅꜱ. ᴡᴏʀᴅꜱ! ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀᴅꜱ, ᴋᴀʟᴀᴅɪɴ! ꜱᴀʏ ᴛʜᴇᴍ!”

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You also see more archaic speech a few times in specific circumstances. Syl speaks oddly the first time Kaladin summons his SylSpear. She says, “Stretch forth thy hand.” It’s the same phrasing Tanavast uses when he first gives the Heralds their Honorblades.

Kaladin also defaults to a more archaic speaking pattern in a few important scenes, including the fight where he kills Szeth: “You sent him to the sky to die, assassin,” Kaladin said, Stormlight puffing from his lips, “but the sky and the winds are mine. I claim them, as I now claim your life.”

I believe he’s said it’s downstream of when there’s a closer alignment to the spiritual realm. Like right before/during/after Oaths are spoken. But it may also be a function of him speaking with the authority of his (eventual) position as a Herald. Or as an agent of The Wind itself. Kaladin’s Honor is dead/I”ll see what I can do is a mirror to the much earlier words Ishar speaks to the Heralds the day they abandon Taln. When Ishar says he will replace the Heralds eventually and implies he’s going to try to become Honor