Herdazian

You know when I read this part the first thing that came into my mind was the binding of Fenrir the dread wolf. For those who don't know Fenrir is a super wolf from the Norse mythology who was bound by a chain made of among other things a woman's beard. My thinking about this chain is that somehow this is a mixture of several different forms of investment including breaths and stormlight that may be paradoxical enough to have the power to bind and hold anything and everything. As such it could be a dawnshard or it could just be a general investment inhibitor.

So my interpretation is that the Odiums blade worked on the similar principle as capturing spren. However, what the blade captured was either the soul of Jezrien or , more likely, the divine aspect granted to Jezrien by Honour which sent his soul to Braize after he died. If he somehow captured that blessing bestowed by honour then Jezrien soul would not go to Braize but would pass on and that would result in a permanent death.

The Parshmen from Azir seem to be mediation form. They were mentioned in the listener songs as forms that could have made peace but actually delivered treachery and deceit and that is what their endgame right now might be.

So at this point we know that there will be four major mistborn arcs. The final arc will be a space opera that will have FTL. The question then is that how might this FTL work. One of the major problems against FTL is that proposed by Einstein ( I think). If I remember rightly, it basically stated that any increase in speed results in a gain of mass and slowing of time for that object due to this phenomenon FTL travel is impossible. This is because at the speed of light the gain of mass has become so much that time, for that object, effectively stops. As far as I can remember, this is the gist of it. Now, how I might the Scadrians overcome this problem. Simple answer, Iron Feruchemists. As per Copper mind, Iron stores physical mass. Somehow the people of Scadrial are going to figure out how to apply Feruchemists outside of their own bodies. The spaceships can then be divested of their gained mass and allowed to reach faster than light speeds. Propulsion of the ships could also be done through various means including a combination of Nicrosil and Steel.

So let me just scream first AWESOME. There were some things that really stood out. Character evolution of Steris was beautiful and satisfying to watch. That hotel scene had me spontaneously laughing while my family gave me weird looks. That final battle. It's pace the actions. The plot twists. It was rusting awesome. But the best thing for me was the final word of the book. 'Survive' That was truly shiver inducing.

Ok so wild theory time. Adonalsium was an ancient all powerful being that shattered at the beginning of the cosmere and created the 'interesting' situations that we are seeing. What most people seem to think is that Adonalsium's shattering was external but my sleep deprived mind thinks that there might be another possibility. So we know from a WoB that Shards can intentionally create splinters of themselves. That's how we have the original spren on Roshar and how we have the preset spren of Cultivation. So my theory is that Adonalsium for some reason shattered itself. The reason may be that his power was too unstable. Another theory of mine is that each shard tries to mold a person into its own image. This is a forced change. Maybe Adonalsium became afraid, angry or suicidal at this force upon him and decided to stop him. Another possible theory is that Hoids was a friend of his that he trusted. They were trying to change the nature of his power. The method was somewhat like that implied in WoR of taking something apart and then rejoining it. Maybe that was the purpose of the shattering but at the moment of it a team of sixteen individuals possibly lead by Rayse emerged and took that power for themselve. This is all speculation caused by excessive coffee. Please poke holes

Nicrosil compounded with any radiant or elantris powers. Store any amount of investiture then burn it and you get unlimited supply of investiture for the rest of your life. Just keep compounding it like a blood maker.

Simple thought It's coming brings the gods their night What if it really is Its coming brings the gods their Knight

Ok so the truth about what the Dawnshards have been bugging me for a long time. I have finally come up with what may be something considerable. So Brandon once said that Shards can create spren intentionally. He stated that Adonalsium prior to his shattering came to Roshar and left some of his spren there. Now Adonalsium was the amalgamation of all shards. What do we know about the Dawnshards? ' known to bind any creature whether voidish or of Honour'(not completely accurate but the host is there). Now if a power has to have authority over some being it must be able to compel it. Adonalsium's sprens would have that ability. So my theory is that the Dawnshards are the spren of Adonalsium. Feel free to destroy this theroy

First time i have seen people being happy that a beloved character is awful. Actually I am happy too because this fulfilled all expectations and more besides

One thing that may be possible. Maybe making almost all of his family surge binders was the curse. It may in the end lead to internal squabbling or it may put them in the path of difficult decisions. This decision may also lead to one or all of them dying on the path of duty except Dalinar to whom the powers then seem like a curse. This could be his turning to the dark side moment. Improbable but possible.

Re Reading firefight and thought that the thing that prof really did not want to be is someone evil he hates epics for what they do and tries to run away from everything they become. So his weakness is that if someone convinced him that he is evil or that he is the bad guy then he loses power. Just think about it Prof was motivated into fighting epics by, among other things , slaughter of his students at an epics hand so the task of the reckoners may be to convince prof that he has become evil. Value and Exels death may have been rationalised by Prof as right because he thought of them as below him and so thought it his right to inflict punishment on those who annoyed him. It may take the death of someone close to prof to maybe shock him out of his powers and that someone may be Tia

I always thought of whitespines as the equivalent of boars in Roshar

And we also don't know whether rate of loss of stormlight is same or if it is more like diffusion and gets slower the less stormlight there is

All except second wax and Wayne book and the book on threnody