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  1. I like your theory, perhaps there is a way for the Honor Blades to be united into a single item. I'm not sure what it would qualify as though, how much of Honors power was disbursed to the higher level spren? Is it enough that even together, the 10 honor blades would only create a splinter of honor and not put the wielder on the level of Odium? An alternative is that Honor is telling Dalinar that he must unite the Honor Blades with the Heralds, although I would expect he would tell him to re-unite them in this case.... As totallly_not_a_worldhopper said, another alternative is that Dalinar has got the right idea of it and he is supposed to unite the peoples of Roshar and/or the Radiants.
  2. I also very much like Jasnah and am looking forward to her backstory book. I don't necessarily agree with the position that she is lesbian however. I think it is more likely that she experienced some sort of abuse or traumatic event involving a potential lover/political spouse. I cannot recall where it is exactly (could be WoK or WoR) but there is absolutely a somewhat subtle reference to this in one of the first two books where we get a Jashna pov. Also, there have been a good number of references (and also many popular theories here) that the Nahel bond works best with a human that is "broken". A traumatic history with male relations would quite well. Granted a history of abuse and being gay are not mutually exclusive and we have seen that the Alethi are open to alternative sexualities (does that count as a OB spoiler?)
  3. Yes, this is most likely the Kholinar Oathgate. I can't find the section atm, but I recall Dalinar saying it was connected to the Kholinar palace and that Jasnah had tried to open it once. The location fits and the description matches the Stormseat Oathgate perfectly.
  4. Has it ever been confirm by Brandon that there are multiple Bondsmith spren, or can a superspren like the Stormfather bond multiple Bondsmiths? Also: “But as for the Bondsmiths, they had members only three, which number was not uncommon for them; nor did they seek to increase this by great bounds, for during the times of Madasa, only one of their order was in continual accompaniment of Urithiru and its thrones. Their spren was understood to be specific, and to persuade them to grow to the magnitude of the other orders was seen as seditious. ” —Words of Radiance, chapter 16, page 14[3] This is the only reference I know of to the "3 Bondsmith" limit. (Maybe there is a WoB?). Doesn't "nor did they seek to increase this by great bounds" sound like 3 is not a hard cap, its just where they agreed to stop growing the order?
  5. True, a shardknife/shuriken/arrow wouldn't cause the blood loss that a normal weapon would, but it also doesn't stop like a normal weapon would. Meaning if you threw it with enough force, it would likely go right through a person's body. Now I don't know for sure what would happen if a Shardshuriken went through one of my major organs, but considering it kills a limb when it cuts through I would expect that organ to die. No blood loss, but a dead lung/stomach/heart would be difficult to survive.
  6. I was reading through a thread on the Warbreaker forum dealing with the investiture and catalyst of the Nalthis MS. There was some question to whether or not the Tears of Egli was required to be used in the dye of something to draw the color as a catalyst for Awakening. Certain scenes of Warbreaker make it seem like this is not the case and that an Awakener can draw the color from any item, but perhaps all things Nalthis are innately invested by Endowment and so can be used. If that is the case, then perhaps color from Nalthis must be used and that's why Vasher hasn't yet been successful. You would think he would have tried this, but as we don't know the circumstances of his worldhopping, its possible he came to Roshar with only items that had already been drained of color.
  7. I believe I remember a WoB stating that Dalinar was one of the original characters in his head before he began any of the Cosmere books. The character understandably changed from his first concept to the writing of WoK, but I think Oathbringer is going to be somewhat of a huge milestone for Brandon personally. I think this will be a really exciting book since he's had ideas about it floating around for so long.
  8. Or perhaps this little tidbit is more of a foreshadow not explored yet. One interpretation could be..... Odium is trapped on Braize ergo he cannot reign. Honor is dead ergo he cannot reign. Therefor it must be Cultivation and we have yet to see how she is broken.
  9. I'm re-reading Warbreaker and then the 1st Mistborn trilogy to keep myself away from the Oathbringer temptations. It's hard when your strolling through the forums here and keep having to leave threads that start building on the spoilers, even when the spoilers themselves are hidden.
  10. So, presumably this has been asked, but I couldn't find it. Please direct me if there is already a thread for it. Vasher must replenish his Divine Breath on a Nalthis weekly cycle. I also haven't found threads on this but I know they exist, I am assuming that he can substitute stormlight for eating a breath. That is all well and good but what does he do during The Weeping, particularly the one with no Highstorm in the middle? Is the Rosharan weekly cycle shorter than Nalthis so he can (very luckily) survive on the gemstones that hold their light long enough until The Weeping ends? Can he even draw stormlight from a gemstone like a surgebinder or would he need the raw investiture of the storm itself?
  11. I think you were on the right track here, but should have pulled the whole epigraph. "Obviously they are fools The Desolation needs no usher It can and will sit where it wishes and the signs are obvious that the spren anticipate it doing so soon The Ancient of Stones must finally begin to crack It is a wonder that upon his will rested the prosperity and peace of a world for over four millennia" Book of the 2nd Ceiling Rotation: Pattern 1 It is a somewhat common theory that Mr. T. had Cosmere and or CR insight on his special day, and so I generally take his Diagram ramblings as more authoritative than most ideas on these forums. However, I have also seen a WoB like whatNecessary Eagle mentions, I can't link it but i'm fairly sure it was to the effect of "The desolation ends when the Heralds return to Braize." This would infer (not confirm) that they begin with the Heralds being released back onto Roshar. It is not that Honor caused the Desolations via the Heralds, but that Odium was causing rampant destruction and Honor instituted the Heralds to combat this. The Oathpact was put in place to confine Odium and end the destruction. When the Heralds break, Odium's power is re-released to Roshar and cause massive destruction again - Desolation. They are tied to the Desolations because they can only occur when the Heralds are back on Roshar, but they aren't the cause. Now, I particularly like the theory that Taln was broken long ago by Odium but was not released back to Roshar. Instead Odium continued to work on him and now has some measure of control over Taln's mind. This would explain why the spren know something had changed. I think this theory stemmed from this line, the thinking was that the words Taln was hearing were never his (but Odium's) but were beaten into his mind so relentlessly that they are now his own words. WoR I-7 Taln
  12. I think there was a mention that the Bondsmiths held a peacekeeping role within Urithiru between the orders. I also remember a reference to them being the diplomatic tie to the Silver Kingdoms. This makes me think that while they may have been leaders (note that is not THE leaders) in the governance of the KR, the Windrunners were the battlefield leaders. Certainly the Bonsmiths were active in battle strategy and the like. As evidenced by one of the WoR epigraphs: “So Melishi retired to his tent, and resolved to destroy the Voidbringers upon the next day, but that night did present a different stratagem, related to the unique abilities of the Bondsmiths; and being hurried, he could make no specific account of his process; it was related to the very nature of the Heralds and their divine duties, an attribute the Bondsmiths alone could address.” –From Words of Radiance, chapter 30, page 18[18] Seeing as how the KR was formed with the main purpose of fighting in the Desolations, the natural leadership role would fall on the battlefield generals: the Windrunners. We have been shown very clearly that Dalinar has been moving from a battlefield general to a diplomat and strategist. While I believe he will certainly be the most natural leader of the new KR from its beginning, I think Jezrien is the "King of Heralds" for the same reason the Windrunners were considered leaders, he was the battlefield general and the battlefield was the sole reason for the Heralds to be back on Roshar.
  13. He may have used the same coding scheme as he did for The Diagram code. You can find a long and detailed discussion of that here: They finally broke the code on page 17.
  14. Oh, maybe Szeth can now shield people or towns (depending on the area that avoids Nightblood) from highstorms. He could stand in the center of the storm like the eye of a hurricane.
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