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  1. Yeah I agree. It makes sense that everyone could burn Lerasium, because (1) its what grants allomantic powers and (2) All humans on Scadrial have extra preservation in them. Really the only reason and I can see the retcon making sense is if in the future a non-allomancers has to burn a different godmetal(like Trellium).
  2. Is there an explanation as to why this retcon exists?
  3. It might be accurate to call it Justice or Judgement. But lets just say it would be a rather bloody Justice or Judgement. Which means calling it War seems to fit better.
  4. This seems very similar to my theory. Even our thread titles are almost the same!
  5. I think the problem is that Harmony has trouble acting because his 2 shards are opposed to each. Honor and Odium are not really directly opposed to each other. The fact that their combination is called War should be a hint that combining the 2 won't lead to inaction. If anything I would think it would lead to more action.
  6. A war between the shards of Harmony and War would certainly be interesting. Almost poetic
  7. Am I the only one that finds it strange that all 3 of these things occurred at the same time? So the explanation for the Recreance is that Honor was going crazy and his ravings about Radiants destroying the world caused them to break their oaths. To me that seems unsatisfying and a little like Brandon just needed an excuse to get rid of them. It seems odd that everyone in 9/10 orders would abandon their oaths based on vague fears. And it seems especially odd when you consider that Skybreakers didn't break their oaths. And they have access to the surge of division which seems like it would be one of the more dangerous surges. So if the Radiants were really concerned with destroying the world again why did the Skybreakers stay behind? Of course the other big thing that happened at the same time was the imprisonment of Ba-Ado-Mishram and the trapping of the Parshmen in slaveform. It seems like this will be an important plot point in the 5th book. Her imprisonment also had other effects. From the wiki: It seems that one of those souls would be Honor, who just "coincidentally" died shortly thereafter Another important thing to consider is that originally Honor was the god of the singers. In WOR Kaladin temporarily killed Syl because he put himself in a situation where he swore 2 contradictory oaths(to Moash: kill Elhokar, to Dalinar: protect Elhokar). What if Honor had made an oath to protect the singers. I read speculation from others about why humans didn't wipe out the singers between desolations. What if the reason is Honor wouldn't let them as it would kill him? So then when humans essentially did wipe them out he ended up dead. So that leads to why the Recreance really occurred. The Knights Radiant were trying to save Honor. Perhaps the KR thought by abandoning their oaths it would atone for destroying the singers minds. Or at the very least perhaps it allowed Honor's cognitive shadow to merge with the Stormfather allowing Odium to stay bound by the oathpact. So in conclusion 9/10 Knights Radiant didn't abandon their oaths as part of some vague fears about destroying Roshar, but as part of a plan to directly protect Roshar from Odium. That seems like a much better explanation for why nearly all of them would go along with it. It could even explain why the Skybreakers stay behind. They could consider Honor's death to be Justice for what happened to the singers, or that if too many KR existed it would put the Oathpact in danger and they stay behind to prune any future surgebinders.
  8. Navani would be Dalinar's actual sister Their wedding would have at least one important person die(Sadeas?)
  9. Well to be fair one could easily consider Adolin's murdering of Sadeas to be an example of using questionable means to achieve a greater good.
  10. I think there are several things to be considered (1) From the wiki: It wouldn't be surprising to me if the forms which are asexual have less distinct differences between malen and femalen. Which would make transitioning less of a problem. It also likely has an impact on how gender is perceived by Singers in general. Realistically would/should the human importance of gender still exist in a species like the Singers? (2) The Fused are 5000 year old spirits not people. Their attachment to mundane people concerns such as gender are likely to be different. (3) The Fused have more important concerns than worrying about gender. Like a global millennial war and possible eternal torture from Odium. (4) Singers are used to changing forms. Is the difference between say a Stormform and a Workform less than between a human man and woman? Should there be Singers who are transform instead of transgender?
  11. Im pretty sure it ended up at the bottom of the ocean when the ship Shallan/Jasnah were on decided to stop being a ship
  12. Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir
  13. I feel like this could be important. Rayse-Odium was afraid of breaking the agreement because it would allow Cultivation to kill him. Taravangian-Odium might not be afraid of breaking the agreement because Cultivation doesn't want to kill him.
  14. I think there are a number of things that would have increased the performance of Odium's forces in the past (1) More sane Fused. Both in terms of numbers, as well as individual sanity. (2) Thunderclasts. From the wiki: "They were powerful enough to pose dangers even to the Heralds, with Kelek in particular dying to them several times". So far they have been mostly absent (3) The Singers hadn't spent the last few thousand years in slaveform. A warform Singer probably has an advantage over a human soldier given equal training and weapons. A warform singer also has built in armor. (4) More Regals. Humans might have the advantage in topline strength with the Knights Radiant. But Odium would have the advantage in numbers of mid-tier troops. (5) Gemstones. Necessary for holding stormlight. Maybe gemstones were less common, or less well cut, so Radiants had to be more careful of using stormlight in battle. (6) Overrating of Knights Radiant combat abilities. Windrunners are one of the top fighting orders, and Kaladin was basically a prodigy even before becoming a Radiant. Jasnah, even at the 4th oath, was not as impressive. (7) Ba-Ado-Mishram: Powerful enough to basically power a desolation on her own. Currently imprisoned. What did she do during the desolations? (8) Increased human technology. Bottom line human soldiers probably have better weapons and armor. See point 3. (9) No shardbearers. So in summary. Odium probably had better lower end and mid-tier troops. While humans would probably had better higher end troops with the Heralds and upper-oath Knights Radiant.
  15. I feel there is a mistake here. If the unmade were created by corrupting a spren with voidlight, I don't think infusing them with more voidlight is going to remake them. I think you meant either (1) Infuse them with anti-voidlight to cancel out the voidlight. I think from what we saw in ROW the cancellation would be successful, but have the side effect of blowing up the spren. So a failure. (2) Infuse them with stormlight. This might work. It depends on if infusing them with voidlight pushed out all the original stormlight and replaced it with voidlight or you ended up with a spren the was 50-50 Honor/Odium.
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