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Who are the Stormwardens? Beings who can predict the future of the Storm with maths. Kaladin's father can do whatever they do. The storms are widely believed to be manifestations of the Gods in some way or form. They interpret the Almighty's will. At least one stormwarden is aiding opposition against Ghostbloods. The Ghostbloods are trying to kill Jasnah, possibly due to her research on Voidbringers. They use Glyphs, which you can supposedly use to commune with the Almighty by burning them, which cover the Radiant Shardplates. Glyphs which you see on the front cover as the essences of Surgebinding. Aka, things which probably have magical and religious properties. Voidbinding is centered around divining the future according to Vorinism. Based on all this, I would guess that the Stormwardens are agents of a God, probably Odium but potentially Cultivation who Honor notes is good at prophesies. Cultivation is splintered so she's not a major candidate in my mind. If they are of Odium they may be his priests, there to bring about the final desolation and do whatever things need to be done. In book 2 we should watch them carefully, as most people do- they are regarded as suspicious by most as they predict the future, but used because they are so useful. They may currently be using the power for good purposes, but you should not trust them. Their books of glyphs may allow communion with Odium, similar to how people burn symbols to send their symbol's Souls to the Almighty or how people used metal piercing in Mistborn to commune with Ruin. Those with an appropriate sDNA may be able to do voidbinding using the glyphs contained within to guide them or aid them. Kaladin's father could do the maths of Stormwardens, and so Kaladin may have inherited his sDNA from him.

Don't know if you still need this, but: When the Dark One was imprisoned, if we know that. "At the moment of creation" is all we know. The Breaking. Roughly 3000 years ago, at the end of the Age of Legends. The Trolloc Wars. Roughly 2500-2000 years ago (they lasted for something like 300 years). The War of a Hundred Years. Roughly 1000 years ago, when Hawkwing's empire broke up.

10 billion is the most powerful. You can hire people to do magic for you. Short of that, Feruchemy is the most powerful. It allows you to enhance yourself in many non combat ways, for example becoming smarter, having perfect memory, being faster and stronger, being luckier. You could win the olympics, win any game of chance, be charismatic. All this just at the cost of acquiring some metal once. In certain circumstances surgebinding could be more useful. The transformation surgebinding magic in particular allows you to make food or cure people of deadly diseases. Legion transformations can be very useful to you. Behind that, non transformation surgebindings, allomancy, being twinborn, being returned, and 10000 breaths. They are useful in certain circumstances. A shardblade or shardplate on its own isn't that effective. Neither is a half shard, or a sword. Having a gun is more effective than any of these. Being Brandon Sanderson is costly, in that you have to spend many of your early years not getting published and working a crappy job. It's good once you get the payoff, but not so good until then. He is an excellent author and I am happy to let him do all the hard work for us.

Well I joined not long ago and was reading through Elantris (my first Cosmere book, now on my reread of it still just as good) at the time. So I wanted a name made from the aons. And I also like Doctor Who. Ire means time and well Domi really means love it is the name of their God which sort of gives it another meaning of Lord in being used that way. So yeah loosely my name means Timelord. And that's that in my long winded broken English.

There are interesting connections around the cosmere between linguistics and some cultures. Though different groups of humans were created on different planets, the Shards all share a single point of origin. However, the Tranquiline Halls legends are not related to a Nalthis/Roshar connection.

lets say Odium couldn't sense the location of other shards, wouldn't the best place to hide be right under his nose and in plane sight? I mean if I where a shard the first thing I might was to get as far away as possible and that could work, but if I was odium looking for another shard I would assume he'd come to that same decision and so I'd start looking far away. That is assuming they cant feel where each other are

You are right that the people are afraid of them due to them being socially isolated, a massive transnational organization, they violate Vorin gender roles as with Kaladin. The thing is, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. I imagine being a servant of Odium would make you socially isolated from mainstream society, good at unifying as hate is a powerful unifier, and distrustful of Vorinist, aka Honor, religion. I think it quite unlikely that there is no magical component to Stormwardens. They are, after all, peering into the actions of the Highstorm, which is likely from the gods. The gods are magical sentient beings (or shattered sentient beings) and so predicting their whims would be difficult to do without magic. And people do repeatedly say Stormwardens are predicting the future, that may well be foreshadowing.

I suspect that dead souls hang around in the cognitive realm for a bit, but they have an option to carry onto a final afterlife from which they cannot return. This afterlife is probably similar to the Mormon afterlife. A generally good place to be, where you don't have to be a believer to get in. Edit. Poorly received post.

Modern society often predicts the future with lower accuracy than Kaladin's father does. Stormwarden predictions are very impressive. And we have a lot more science than them. http://forecastadvisor.com/Ohio/Hilliard/43026/ Edit. I am not saying maths is bad. Maths is awesome. But no amount of theory can make up for a lack of objective scientific data. Maths needs physics to help it if it wants to understand the weather and the Stormwardens don't have much physics. I would assume they would be doing their predictions with some degree of aid from Odium, if they were his priests. So they would be working with his future sight aiding theirs to a small degree- his actions would reinforce their predictions. If he opposed them it would of course as you say be impossible for them to successfully do it on their own due to the massive future shadow cloud. There is some possibility that they are contacting Cultivation, and she is less fragmented than we thought in the form of the Nightwatcher. My point is based off Odium being the only Shard around and the Stormwardens predicting the future. If that is not true, as we may well find out in book 2, they may be something else.