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I'm expecting his boon to be something along the lines of "get over the death of his wife" and the curse aspect did just that.
To quote Av (one of the minor characters in Interlude 7), "Doesn't work that way...It's not a game, no matter how the stories try to put it. The Nightwatcher doesn't trick you or twist your words. You ask a boon. She gives what she feels you deserve, then gives you a curse to go along with it. Sometimes related, sometimes not."
So, I'm basically expecting the boon to be nothing related to his wife. Knowing Dalinar, I'm guessing it's something about protecting Alethkar or Gavilar's son or something like that. Or if it was before Gavilar's death, maybe something about becoming a better swordsman.
Granted, but I also know that "what people know" and "what's true" in Sanderson's stories are often far cries from each other.
Be that as it may, but this doesn't feel like one of those instances to me. Sanderson has said that he uses the interludes mostly for worldbuilding in this series, which leads me to believe that he was pretty much saying that he wasn't lying to us here.
Time will tell, of course. I don't think there's a really strong argument for either side given what we've been told. I'm just a strong proponent of poetic justice and ironic wishes, or in this case boons, as it generally creates the best drama and the highest falls.
His forgetting his wife is his boon. That helped in his relationship with Navani, which might be some key point in overall plot.
I strongly doubt that forgetting everything about his wife is his boon. I know that a lot of people want to look for sneaky ways to interpret various things in this series, but I think this one is pretty straightforward. If Dalinar wanted to forget his wife, I don't think he would be all melancholy about it as he has been in The Way of Kings. And we would also know something about his curse, especially seeming how the rest of the curses we hear about seem to be physiological. Those types of things would be hard to write around.
I think forgetting everything about his wife is both his boon and his curse.
Okay. I disagree. In fact, I believe strongly enough in my position that I am willing to bet anyone who ascribes to this theory a limerick that his boon is not forgetting his wife and is something else completely unrelated. Whichever one of us loses would have to write the winner a limerick about how they were foolishly wrong and how wise the other person is for being right. Any takers? :P
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I'm expecting his boon to be something along the lines of "get over the death of his wife" and the curse aspect did just that.
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To quote Av (one of the minor characters in Interlude 7), "Doesn't work that way...It's not a game, no matter how the stories try to put it. The Nightwatcher doesn't trick you or twist your words. You ask a boon. She gives what she feels you deserve, then gives you a curse to go along with it. Sometimes related, sometimes not." So, I'm basically expecting the boon to be nothing related to his wife. Knowing Dalinar, I'm guessing it's something about protecting Alethkar or Gavilar's son or something like that. Or if it was before Gavilar's death, maybe something about becoming a better swordsman.
Granted, but I also know that "what people know" and "what's true" in Sanderson's stories are often far cries from each other.
Be that as it may, but this doesn't feel like one of those instances to me. Sanderson has said that he uses the interludes mostly for worldbuilding in this series, which leads me to believe that he was pretty much saying that he wasn't lying to us here.
Time will tell, of course. I don't think there's a really strong argument for either side given what we've been told. I'm just a strong proponent of poetic justice and ironic wishes, or in this case boons, as it generally creates the best drama and the highest falls.
His forgetting his wife is his boon. That helped in his relationship with Navani, which might be some key point in overall plot.
I strongly doubt that forgetting everything about his wife is his boon. I know that a lot of people want to look for sneaky ways to interpret various things in this series, but I think this one is pretty straightforward. If Dalinar wanted to forget his wife, I don't think he would be all melancholy about it as he has been in The Way of Kings. And we would also know something about his curse, especially seeming how the rest of the curses we hear about seem to be physiological. Those types of things would be hard to write around.
I think forgetting everything about his wife is both his boon and his curse.
Okay. I disagree. In fact, I believe strongly enough in my position that I am willing to bet anyone who ascribes to this theory a limerick that his boon is not forgetting his wife and is something else completely unrelated. Whichever one of us loses would have to write the winner a limerick about how they were foolishly wrong and how wise the other person is for being right. Any takers? :P
