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Not sure how appropriate this is to this post but similar to how there are 10 radiant spren that can form the nahel bond to form surgebinders my theory is that there are 9 sapient spren of Odium of which Ulim is one of these, maybe a Hatespren or something similar. Now this is where it goes off the rails a bit as I think that Odium has actually used his spren to fuse to the cognitive shadows of the singers and that's where their name comes from and not the fusing to singers (it just doesn't seem permanent enough to me to warrant calling them fused) and also explains how they have access to the surges.

So now we've had our first in book appearance of a Dragon in TotES and learned that various parts, horns, teeth etc are made of actual Dragonsteel do we think that if we ever see Cultivation in her Dragon form that her horns & teeth would appear as Dragonsteel or would they be made of her god metal (Koravalliumium??)? I'm not sure if we'd be able to tell unless we ever see her god metal but I think it would be a cool touch if we were to ever see her in Dragon form.

From TLM and now TotES we're starting to see quite a bit of technology coming out of Nalthis so my head cannon is starting to imagine Nalthis as a neutral planet that's trading technology and to an extent are becoming arms dealers to the cosmere. Autonomy has gone for the full package all upgraded lifeless soldiers where as Riina has just got some bargain basement lifeless that do the job but struggle with anything else.

Also we know from RoW that the metals have effects on Fabrials as well, can't remember them all off the top of my head but Steel / Iron definitely had a push / pull effect on the spren causing different reactions from the fabrial

I thought he was a Sleepless right until the reveal so that kept me thinking along the lines of it being Charlie

I'm still wondering why they were kept referred to as the bearers of the final metal so my pet theory is that they're a splinter group of Iriali who have been spiked with Trellium, only time we see the red eyes in TLM is from spiked members of the set so stands to reason it's a similar process

Ahh never seen that cover before and hadn't realised it was a popular theory - still nice for it to be confirmed though

Haven't seen it mentioned so far but did anyone else pick up how the Ghostblood mark is a stylized picture of a Marewill flower - let out a huge awwww when I read that. It makes sense why he'd choose this as it was always seen in my opinion as a sign of hope that Scadrial would get better which is one of the Ghostbloods main tenets. Anyway just thought it was such a nice touch to give that one line to us readers

I've been thinking about a frictionless abrasion powered mega train for a while now, got to be one of the more practical uses

See I think that we've been interpreting the Fused a bit incorrectly as the term in itself seems more permanent then what we've seen so far - when they take over a host singer it's only until they die so doesn't really fit to being "fused" to that body. My take on it is that Odium originally Fused the singers soul to a Voidspren to make them Cognitive Shadows and it's this fusion that then allows them to access the surges, it would explain how the different types of Fused are created, we currently don't have an explanation for how else this happens and would explain why there's only a limited number of certain types.

I thought that Aviar abilities were directly related to the species of the bird and not just randomly given by the worms / fruit. This is why the woman in Sixth of the Dusk was so fascinated by Sixth's bird that can glimpse possible future deaths (been ages and can't remember any names). So if one Aviar was to eat another then I would think that they'd develop an ability based on it's species and not what abilities the consumed one had

Really like this idea of BaM being the Singer version of what the sibling is to humans. There is something already which links Singers to Roshar and that's the Rhythms so don't you think that's what she would be the Speen of. Would help explain how she managed to get voidlight by attuning the song of power and it'd probably be very useful to get singers to attune the correct rhythm to get them in the mindset to attract void spren for Regals.

Ok so after listening to the last shardcast a little theory starting to form about how the Singers betrayed the spren and vice versa according to Leshwi in RoW. So we know that prior to Humans arriving on Roshar the singers and spren were on good relations with at least one good friendship that we know of, we also know that the surges were denied to the singers (by Honor?) I'm still not sure how the Stoneshaping fits it's this as it's clear they had access to that (and I also think that the Dawn cities were created by large groups of Singers using stoneshaping and singing to a certain rhythm, different rhythm's made different shaped city like cymatics shown by Kabsal). Anyway the Singers take the Humans in and they settle in Shinovar and from likely a little bit of meddling from Odium decide to invade the rest of Shinovar and the first desolation begins. From what I recall Humans had some limited access to the surges at this point somehow which I'm thinking is similar to how the fuse only have access to one surge but the humans access was more limited. So if you were a Singer leader what would your course of action be to try and battle these "voidbringers" with access to power that has long been denied you? You'd try and fight fire with fire and look for a way to get your hands on access to the surges somehow to save your people from being wiped out. Enter Odium. So from Oathbringer we know that Fused can bond with humans, I can't remember the exact wording but pretty sure Odium states that this was always able to happen you just had to get the circumstances right so it doesn't seem that it would be impossible for Odium to tell the singers how they can bond Radiant Spren to their Gemhearts against the Sprens will. So with this new information the Singers started to bond the Radiant spren against their will to help fight the human voidbringers. If the Sibling's reaction to lower Spren being captured in gems to power fabrials is anything to go with I think Radiant Spren would be mightily pissed at this to the extent that they abandon them and cut off all contact with the singers for imprisoning them against their will to use in the fight against humans. It's possible that after this Odium's grip on the Humans lessens or he starts to favour the Singers, I don't know there's a lot that happens in what seems like a short period of time but Spren eventual realise that Humans offer richer emotions and variety than the Singers offered so start to favour them now that they've fallen out with the singers and eventually proto radiants start to form - this pisses the Singers off even more now as they will freely give them access to surges after denying them to singers. As I said there seems to be a hell of a lot that happens after humans arrive on Roshar like the formation of fused, Heralds and the Oath pact etc so maybe a few holes around the timings but it would help explain exactly why the Sibling is so pissed at the humans for trapping spren in Fabrials as they've heard the horror stories of Radiant spren being bonded and imprisoned in Singer gemhearts against their wills. Final bonus thoughts not really related: Do we have confirmation that Fused are called Fused as it's a cognitive shadow being "fused" into a living Singer? Just in my head I have it that in order to make them Odium Fused the Singers "soul" with an Odium Spren and that's how they also have access to the surges and can then bond to Singers / Humans like a Spren would. BaM was/is the Spren of Rhythms - I think that the Rhythms are important enough to the Singers that there'd eventually be a Spren associated with them, after the Radiants spren went over to the humans (see above) she'd side with those that could hear the Rhythms over humans who are deaf to them and voluntarily be unmade by Odium which orientated her from being of Honor & Cultivation to Odium and would explain how in the false desolation how she was able to grant forms of power to Regals and also how she was able to supply the voidlight by basically attuning the Song of Prayer to get voidlight and I think attuning the correct Rhythm could somehow attract the right voidspren to grant forms of power. Thanks for reading my ramblings and would love to hear people's thoughts on this.

I'll echo a couple of people already and throw my hat in for the "strata" patterns on all of the Dawncities and Urithiru and also the Origin of storms - there's got to be something there, the amount of times Dalinar "stares out to the Origin" and we have the lighthouse keeper interlude as well. May be a long shot but in WoK Shallan mentions "strange maps" of her father's they found but never get to find out what they were maps of and then not mentioned again

Great episode, I didn't pick up on that Death rattle actually coming true as we saw it happened so kudos on that. My theory is still that BAM was/is the spren of Rhythms, I'm working to flesh it out how her imprisonment has caused deadeyes and slaveform parshmen