Leuthie

I don't know why Odium used "we," but it's pretty clear in WaT that Honor never died. Tanavast died after Honor left him. Honor was chillin' with the Stormfather the whole time, hidden from Odium. When Dalinar opened the Perpendicularity, Odium saw that Honor was still alive and bonded to Dalinar. Hence "We killed you"

The Sibling is made from the primordial Spren of Stone. Stormfather is made from the primordial Spren of Wind. These two facts have support. Nightwatcher was probably made from the primordial Spren of Night. While the Unmade could have been fashioned from the remnants of these, I'm guessing not. I'm 90% sure that the Unmade were fashioned from the 9 True Spren (Spren that bond with Radiants). Before the Unmade, the True Spren were single Spren. There was one honorspren, one Cryptic, one Cultivationspren, etc. Odium corrupted these Spren to create his Unmade. Since the concepts that created the True Spren still existed, new Spren took their place. Tanavast and Ishar created the Knights Radiant concept after these new True Spren started popping up in numbers and bonding with humans, mimicking the lesser spren bonds with all other creatures of Roshar. They took it a step further and created the Unique Spren above out of the Primordial Spren of Roshar (which, of course, Ishar became the patron of). Unless someone can find WoB to the contrary, this is still what I'm sticking with.

That's usually not his style in these kinds of things. Part of the existence of the Unmade is that their creation further locked Odium to the Rosharan system. It also seems a bit absurd for Brandon to have Odium carry 9 Aethers with him to Roshar to corrupt just so Brandon can use semantics to make us think they're native to Roshar.

I think his rigid structure for Stormlight but propensity for adding more elements during discovery writing is the reason for the issues with KoWT. Too much had to be crammed into a single package. His other works haven't had similar issues.

Do you know the source of your moral code? Do you know why your friends think murder, racism and so on are wrong? Do you think those who murder, racism or so on believe that what they are doing is right? If you don't have a ready answer, that's what ignorance looks like. Don't worry, most people are ignorant. Ignorance of the source of your morality doesn't result in indecision or nihilism (although your statement that the mind rejects those on a subconscious level is wrong), it results in poor choices when conflicting sets of moral touch points are experienced. Not in the person making poor choices, but in the person believing that all choices available are poor ones. THIS is what Sanderson explores.

Your moral conundrum isn't as clear as you paint it. Quantity over quality, sacrificing someone against their will for random people none of you know... Here's my heirarchy of who to save first: The most likely to be saved (closest, least damaged, etc) People I know People I don't know Animals I know Animals I don't know Things Quantity doesn't factor into it. I'll leave 100 people I don't know to save my wife. Hopefully I can come back for them when she's safe. The fact that I'd save them before my dog is good enough for me.

Why wouldn't it? Wouldn't having a humongous pile of Investiture attached to you attract more spren?

Investiture drives the Cosmere. By rule, this Investiture would coalesce over time and gain sentience. This was Adonalsium. The thinking Investiture would begin to consciously drive the universe, shaping it to its will. Eventually, this shaping would go against the vision of enough people that they'd want to remove the thinking Investiture. They'd discover how, gather the bits of power and accomplish the deed. Having split Adonalsium, they could then control the pieces. Better, smarter custodians of the power.

Can Cultivation be a blending factor with Ruin and Preservation? It would give the two opposing Shards a common direction that they could both contribute to. Is that a direction that Brandon is going?

Kaladin's story arc is over. He's now not mortal. There will be no romance.

There's a difference between Taravangian trying to grab Dalinar's soul after killing him and a Shard accepting a vessel. Taravangian had no claim on Dalinar. The powers he held had no claim on Dalinar. Cultivation had a hook in Dalinar related to his boon and curse. The God Beyond is unknowable and also a possibility. Nohadon could be more than just a Cognitive Echo, but it isn't going to claim any souls IMO. Honor didn't claim Dalinar. Honor hardly wanted to be attached to Dalinar for the time it was. Endowment isn't part of this story and her jumping in and claiming Dalinar wasn't foreshadowed in any way. So we have Cultivation or the God Beyond. I agree that the Beyond pulling Dalinar's soul in and protecting it is posssible but boring. Cultivation is where I'm at. She used Dalinar. She knew her use of Dalinar would result in him being vulnerable, so she protected him. I also believe there were lines indicating that Dalinar was in the Beyond in the conclusion, so we'll never really find out the exact nature of that line.

Can a horse ride another horse? It's possible, but why?

He exists as Investiture in the Spiritual Realm as of the end of WaT. That Investiture wasn't missing fingers long enough to "want" to remake itself without fingers. The loss of fingers will never be mentioned again.

If your picture is still on the ofrenda you can be Connected to and used to advance someone's agenda

I didn't think about that. Yeah, they were all done developing. 4 Luke Skywalkers.