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Not sure about the rest but the fact that a darkeyes is of the 1st nahn does not indicate that they have any more chance at having a lighteyed child than a darkeyes of the lowest nahn. A darkeyes can move up and down in nahn. It is a sociological rather than a biological difference. As for the ranking of a lighteyes and a darkeyes child - it would efinitely depend on whether they were born with light or dark eyes. Hesina is darkeyed, yet has ties to Alethi nobility - she is still a darkeyes. Something I was reminded of recently is that the terms darkeyes and lighteyes has less to do with the colour of the eyes, than it has to do with the brightness (or radiance lol) of the eyes. So you can have a lighteyes with brown eyes and a darkeyes with green eyes.

Hi all! Thought I would run this one by you, What if the Ten Fools (three of which we have names for) are real, and what if they are creations of Whimsy? Although we really know nothing at all about the Shard Whimsy, I feel that this is right up their alley- Honor creates his ten Heralds, and Whimsy sees their opportunity to parody these solemn and epically heroic individuals. Whimsy creates their own ten highly invested cognitive shadows, each of whom bears a comedic flaw in contrast to the mighty attributes of the Heralds. I am in love with the idea of these ten immortal, super invested, interstellar jesters. Spreading Whimsy, but not being all that helpful to the grand scheme of things. My ambition is to someday put this theory to Brandon to get his views on whether this has any merit. In the meantime, I really wanted to share it with you all! Thanks gang, stay silly

If there were radiants with sufficient understanding of the source of Aon Dor, then they could simply destroy the Aon Rao forming Elantris and deprive the Elantrians of their powers.. In fact, if there are similar geographical forms involved with the other Sellish magics then the surgebinders could focus on creating chasms and the like to ruin the land- thereby breaking the Sellish magics!!

Motivation wise- I think that if Cultivation wanted to assimilate Odium, then she wouldn't have groomed Taravangian so much to take up the mantle of Odium. Practicality wise - I think that Cultivation is too far gone as a shard, and that Taravangian as a new Vessel, will be able to outmanoeuvre Cultivation. Narrative wise - I think that Taravangian as Odium makes a much more interesting villain than Koravari who we know so little about, and who we haven't followed in their journey to deity. -------------- About Sja-Anat, I am not so sure that she couldn't enlighten radian spren before - I think that it more a matter of no radiant spren being willing to be enlightened/corrupted.

Is this on his youtube channel too? I cant find it

I would agree that he does have more connection to those orders, which is why I find it odd that what he says mirrors the Bondsmith ideal so closely. He is a curious fellow indeed!

I had never thought about the parallels in them both being father figures for Kaladin- makes sense!

I have not seen much speculation on this at all - though I may just be looking in all the wrong places In Chapter 43, Lirin says the following; "Because I will take responsibility for what I have done! I will work within whatever confines I must in order to protect people! I have taken oaths not to harm!" I feel that it is quite similar to the Third Bondsmith ideal, as spoken by Dalinar- and the general tone of what he says seems formal in the same way that the Ideals are often presented. I was wondering what your thoughts were on this?

"Puck (paraphrased) Does Aona equal Love or Compassion? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) You have it, it's just a synonym there. You basically have it Puck (paraphrased) Does Skai equal Devotion or Order? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) You're not on there. But you are on on the first one [Aona]." Some cool ideas, though Devotion is already the shard of love according to this WoB.

Ah- I understood that a person could over time interpret the shard's intent, but I had never seen that WoB about A Vessel has a say in how to interpret the Shard's Intent, though eventually the latter would overpower the former "if that holder [Vessel] no longer held that Shard, the Shard will not continue to be filtered by that person". Thanks for the clarification RJ

Ah, Dalinar's interpretation, or the interpretation of the voice in Dalinar's head? Aside from that, I think that Dalinar's Intent would have to be very powerful indeed to reshape the intent of a shard from such a short amount of time.