windrunningmistborn

This is a legit theory. Humans are an oddity. *except* it doesn't hold for Shinovar. But I reckon there will be elements of truth to your idea.

That cookie was pure, filtered, condensed stormlight. Yum.

I disagree, see the quote I posted earlier. Shallan's reaction is probably the biggest tell we have about Jasnah's emotional state, in response to both these events and their motivation.

Yeah, I know what your mean. Except the bit about sloths, they creep me out. But I did like the sloths in Zootopia! As far as allomancers and surgebinders go, it's a good combo. Allomancy is rules-heavy magic, surgebinding is your fantasy-action movie. It covers everything you'd want, everything I want, out of life.

I think there is significant indication of being a victim of some sort. At least one bit after the "philosophy lesson" suggest this. Of course, one doesn't need to be a victim themselves to be broken by it - witnessing horrors can be enough by itself. We may never get to find out, there's only so much a reader can stomach, and like Vin, you don't always need a complete picture to see the truth in it.

Hey now, don't discourage it! I love cookies.

Well, I'll mention it here because I've been harboring this pet theory for a little while. Spren are reincarnations of people. There's really only one piece of evidence for this theory, and it's quite petty, but yours is a second piece. If you're interested, I'll dig up the quote that made me think of this idea.

It might not work like you think it does. In the first book, the first time Vin uses steelpushing to elevate herself above the street, she pushes either all her strength and comes to rest at a particular height, at some kind of equilibrium height, where Kelsier is also waiting. It doesn't make sense as a force or an acceleration, because in either case she would rocket above the resting position. This alone suggests that there is more than the obvious going on here. Not forgetting that the use of powers is so heavily tied to intent, which you can't quantify.

Last one: there's a lot of this one. When quoting dialogue, the second pair of quotation marks is often the wrong way around. May be an artefact of the ebook, but it is there. Look at the spanreed conversation between Jasnah and Dalinar, eg location 8342. " 'I must go now,' " Jasnah said via Danlan. and " 'I should like promise a date when I will come.' " Dalinar could... The last " in each line is oriented incorrectly in the Tor-downloaded ebook. Subtle, but it's there, and I don't think it's isolated to this conversation. Perhaps search all instances. Or maybe this is not a problem. I'll finally mention that there was a bad line-break that I wasn't able to relocate. It was in the first half of the book, I think, when I didn't think to mark it. It looked like it probably happened where there was a page break in the document as it was being edited, so it didn't get spotted - because it looked fine like that. iirc, it was smack-bang in the middle of a line of text. A grammar checker would probably locate it. Again, may be an artefact of the ebook only.

Another one that might be technically ok, but struck me as weird: Rock gets dialogue in the same line that Moash already spoke: ebook location 19411 Rock shook his head. "Is of the holehental... Perhaps just a forgotten line break?

Spotted in the latest Tor-downloaded ebook (when it was free): Location 16334 "Every bridge run," Kaladin said. "You're going to make us go on everyone." Should be every one, no?

Probably wrong, so here goes: ROCK IS HOID. Proof? Prepare for a you-had-me-at-hello moment: Neither can hurt other people! It's open and shut, bake 'em away, toys. Lowsick airlanders.

r u srs O_o Rysn is the name of the chapter, and in it there are Shin traders...

Rysn, from the second set of interludes.

Hmm, that didn't seem to get anyone fired up, so let me add some theory crafting. Shallan can read minds. Those cremlings were actually a Dysian Aimian or whatever Arclo is, and just by being in their presence, she can piece together memories of where that Aimian has been. And that same Aimian happened to witness his events in those interludes. What do you think? How else could she have known about these events?