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I wonder if there's a relationship between Stormlight and Voidlight. Like, as you use more of one, it turns into the other kind. So radiants could accidentally be giving power to the other side - which would be what is allowing the enemy to strike now.

My guess is that Eshonai becomes one of the ancestors because of Venli thinking about her so much (and maybe others like Relain). So it would still be her flashbacks - but she's not like "dead and gone" just "dead and somewhere else."

That's a cool catch! I had just assumed that all of the books in the series were to be named after other in world books - making the ten in total - an archive of books about stormlight (the Stormlight Archive). It's possible the title works on multiple levels :-D

I think it more has to do with sacrificing himself. He can't protect people if he is willing to sacrifice himself at the drop of a hat. "I will protect myself, so I can protect others in the future." Like putting on your oxygen mask before assisting others when an airplane cabin decompresses. Hopefully it goes into the importance of self-care (which is key - given that he suffers from depression).

I'm almost certain it has to do with Hoid deciding he needs to get in on the magic here. In this same scene he utilizes breath to animate the doll - instead of just using an illusion - which I think was the tip off.

I apologize about the necro on this thread - however I found it while searching up this very question on google. I'm currently listening to Words of Radiance for like the 7th time and I keep hearing similarities between the Makabaki and the Parshendi. The Makabaki that we know can always see spren, and call them gods (Rock). So do the Parshendi. The parshendi have black and red skin, the makabaki have black skin. They both have red hair (there's a description of someone in Nimble form where they point this out). This has further implications since people from Jah Kaved are supposedly related to the Makabaki people. I do think the Parshendi and the Makabaki are related.

Little problems can turn into big problems. I read "I will remember those who have been forgotten" as caring for the sick, homeless, poor, mentally ill, and disabled. If you have enough of these people being ignored, then civil unrest and economic collapse can occur. Importance is very relative. A single individual soldier's life is not necessarily of great importance, but if you ignore the lives of your soldiers you may find yourself without an army.

But the everstorms are a new thing never before seen aren't they?

My post about the world being a drain had 4 upvotes, though I can't see who made them.

I think part of the key is detailed in the Hoid scene. What a broken person wants is things to be fixed. In looking at what Shallan really wants (her family all together and happy), I think we can infer that everything wasn't happy with her family even before her mom came after her. Before her mom tried to kill her, did her mom and Dad fight? I agree with people saying that he must have been a violent man before that event, and that could cause tension. Was her mom trying to kill her solely based on her being a surgebinder, or what that a justification for other negative feelings she felt toward Shallan. Shallan blames herself for her family's destruction, though that in its own way is a lie as well. One thing to note: Hallaran was with some group of people - but he is the oldest and would likely know the most about Shallan's abilities manifesting. I've read a lot of theories that say that Hallaran and Mrs. Davar were part of the ghostblood group. However, Hallaran encourages Shallan's drawing ability. There's something there, I think, about all of this as well. Maybe Mrs. Davar has a little Lady McBeth in her?

I think she wrote her first book based on research while dealing with her Atheism. She wrote her book on gender roles in Rosharan society after a terrible personal experience as a way of coping with it. That experience opened her up to investiture, and she met Ivory. That led her back into study into the voidbringers and the desolations because she now had proof they existed. I think its possible she knows Dalinar's secret as well, but its pretty established about the nightwatcher - almost everyone knows someone who went. Jasnah is also clever enough to figure out what happened to Dalinar as well, so if she doesn't explicitly know, then she probably does through conjecture. However, I can actually imagine Dalinar, Jasnah (and Amaram maybe?) going to the Nightwatcher together. Do we know if Dalinar went to the Nightwatcher pre or post Gavilar's assassination?

Given the position of the purelake, I doubt it could be coincidence. Assuming I'm right. Good catch - I forgot about it draining. Also, it might have something to do with why the land and sea are switched in Shadesmar?

It's a drain. The land mass is slowly going down the drain. There's no plate tectonics, which means an empty core. We already know that the gravity is slightly less than on Earth (due to a lower mass). The only reason that the land mass is still there is the deposits of crem from the highstorms. The Highstorms are saving the world, not destroying it. Brandon once said that "Are Shardblades Crem" was a good question. This is because the matter that they are created from are both from sources not of the world.

We've seen evidence of this - when Kaladin used a ton of stormlight and went into massive shock in WoK. I don't think Syl was acting as a good buffer then.

I bet we'd have been using antiseptic earlier on, if we had magical faeries to let us know where the infections were. Remember they think that antiseptic scares away rot spren, not that it kills off microscopic bacteria that causes infection. Detection is huge for prevention.