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Hmm, though looking at the very last page with Dalinar in WoK, it seems like Honour is referring to the Knights Radiant and not the dawnshards.

I think there's a good chance you're right on that point Mr. Crow, but even if not, I think it's safe to say that it's a vital part of what Honour means in his urging.

Ahh, I think I knew that and simply mixed it up.

The thing is, he may possess or be 'hiding' a shard but not wanting to be it's vessel so as to maintain his own mental autonomy, or keep it safe from Odium, or perhaps be attuning himself to each of the powers of the shattered (and some unshattered) shards so that he may call on these later to face Odium, or for his own ascension. Many options here. Him having access to a shard, even perhaps a 17th shard...may be why the 17th shard was chasing him. Definitely some interesting ideas here, many of which I'm more likely to believe than not.

Probably Mistborn, or Enders Game. I re-read both each year, most of the time. I never get tired of wonderfully told interesting stories and beautiful characters. I just wish Orson Scott Cards talent stuck around and that he wasn't a bigot, so that I'd had more to enjoy from him. Much health and many years to Brandon. I can't imagine there being too many re-reads, I enjoy the story each time, even though the surprise is generally gone, I relive the greatest portions and still feel the plot pulling me along, now with a different kind of excitement, instead of curiosity I have a momentum because I know where the path leads and am excited even more for it. Some stories I haven't read in so long that I am not fresh with all of it, so still get to re-discover it. With the Magician Series by Raymond E. Feist, I've only read it all two or three times and many many years between readings, so much of it is fresh. With Brandon, there are soooo many details and links, that I learn more with each reading. I'm rereading WoK in the middle of re-finishing the mistborn trilogy (I stopped that to read OB, then got caught in that loop). How about yours? Favorites? FH and WoR?

Oh it's fine, the desire to know is there! I had to stay off the forums so haaaaaaaaaaard until I finished due to the overpowering need to know. My wife isn't done with WoR yet so doens't know anything about the cosmere besides that it's in the same universe...I WANT HER TO HURRY UP AND I WANT TO HURRY UP TOO (which is hard because there isn't really more to read for me.). + for the signature alone..

Danke! I'm definitely curious about the cookies so far, which seems suspect. Originally it was Mistborn, I'm in my 5th or more re-reading, you do lose count. Once I discovered what the Cosmere really was, I got very very lost and have little left to read besides prime and unpublished works. WoK and the work he does in that rivals Mistborn to the point that it's hard to say, but it may be my favorite. In the end, I feel like the Cosmere as a whole is the work I yearn for and have a hard time separating individual novels. Rithmatist and Warbreaker are also tops. To expand the question in the other direction, Mistborn secret history and the prose within the graphic version of white sand were disappointing even though useful on the Cosmere stage, and Oathbringer was not nearly as polished as I expected.

New to the forum, I believe I have these spoiler things right, so if you're still reading past this sentence and were somehow not expecting spoilers in the theories forum...my apologies. So at this point we know that the humans are in fact the voidbringers, and that in all likelihood that 'void' which was brought was Odium with his desolations and his war on his 'siblings.' We know the humans evacuated their planet en masse to run from the great catastrophe there, which we can likely attribute to Odium if this was not confirmed (I cannot recall if we know this specifically). The whole Vorin religion is the notion of the humans fighting the voidbringers with Heralds on behalf of Honour to win back the Tranquiline Halls, and beat the voidbringers back to hell. Given that the planet they are from is now confirmed as the hell which the Heralds have been bound to with the Oathpact, I have to imagine that the Tranquiline Halls is in fact the same planet as hell, giving some great symmetry and sad irony, as the great home the humans wish to return to is both heaven and hell, and that the great evil they think they fight, at least in name, is kind of themselves. They are heroes and evil at the same time, and so too are the Parshmen. Were they to regain the Tranquiline Halls they would indeed banish the true voidbringers to hell just by their own presence. My point of this post is to see everyone else's thoughts on this, and if I am fully off the mark on the Tranquiline Halls (is it just the cognitive or spiritual realm equivalent attached to their home planet, or is it just the home planet in it's physicality?), and does anyone have any confirmation from quote or Brandon what the Tranquiline Halls really are? I think we're too early to have this concretely down, but given how much we do know and how many little details Brandon loves to give, I wouldn't be surprised if one of you knows. Cheers and thank you for any input, info, or corrections.

Definitely a question which has been bugging me since the second time the UNITE THEM was said, as Brandon does not use language lazily, including omissions. Obviously, it is not Honour wanting Dalinar to unite the Alethi high princes against the Parshendi. I think telling humans in Roshar to unite the shards of Adonalsium or some aspect of Honour is a stretch. I think the two most likely answers are, A: to unite all of humanity, and likely the listeners as well, as while what was thought to be the voidbringers were Parshendi and the fused, some listeners did join humans against odium as well, which we are just starting to see towards the end of Oathbringer, hell we're even seeing spren of Odium (Renarin's bond) and one of the greater spren trying to switch sides aaaaaaaaaand a non-odium spren bonding with a Parshmen to create a Parshmen Knights Radiant, or B: that Honour actually meant unite the Knights Radiant and/or the Heralds, as both of those groups had themselves had a form of shattering before Honour was fully shattered. ooooooooor C: which would be both A and B. Unite all of them to fight the thread that is odium.

Same here, I signed up many months ago and realized today I never got any emails from him. I came here to the forum looking for any white sand prose which wasn't in the Arcanum. Anyone find any progress fixing their news letter issues, and or where to get the white sand prose? Danke

Just dropping in to say hellooooo on my search for more Brandon writing (just a few short pieces left, besides his WOT works and video game book adaptations). Currently seeking out the prose versions of his white sand work as I honestly can't stand it in the graphic medium (the art is cool but the dialogue comes across like the main character is Nelson from the Simpson's; stupid and uncaring.) and anything else I can get.