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Yeah that's a possibility too.

This confused me too since Moonlight is running around at the end of lost metal, even though presumably the jar should have run out. I think when she redrew the aon using a map of scadrial, it allowed her to tap into the innate Investiture in Scadrial, from the fact that Ruin and Preservation deeply invested the whole planet, and draw on that power instead of the Dor. So she's just a fully powered Elantrian running around Scadrial, with no memory of her old life. The interesting bit is if she continues stamping herself. Because even Shai's best essence marks require stamping every 24 hours, so what would compel Elantrian Shai to keep stamping herself.

Does anyone else think Yelignar is an Aether Unmade? As soon as Twin soul used the crystal armor, that was my first thought. Idk how Odium Unmade an Aether, or even if he unmade the whole aether or just one of the servants, but it would be super cool. There's a lot of similarities beyond just the use of crystal. Yelignar is a gemstone that has to be swallowed, thereby merging with the body, similar to how the Aether bond is described He grants all the surges, which is a unique power among the Unmade, possibly because as an Aether he has a pool of investiture separate from Odium. He's one of the more intelligent Unmade, much like the Aethers are intelligent.

So if 3 of the 4 suits have couples for king and queen, what does that say about Rashek and the Inquisitors haha. I kind of wish his queen was Paalm, even though we didn't see him interact with her, she was his favorite kandra and very devoted. Could have gotten a cool image of a mistwraith and her human form. Plus we already get an image of the inquisitors through Marsh's card so it feels redundant. Still buying these though haha.

All excellent candidates. That last one is almost funny. Have you seen the memes where it's like beat up your nephew and tell him you're dating his mother

10000000% agree with you.

Yeah these are all really good ideas. I didn't catch the whole I'll rise again a better man bit, so thanks for the info on that.

I've noticed in the last 2 stormlight books, we've had 2 very similar conversations at the end of each book. In which 2 characters talk, and me personally reading, was ABSOLUTELY sure it was going to go a certain way, only for the conversation to do a full 180 and leave me emotionally devastated. I of course mean the Ashe-Taln conversation in OB and the Venli-Leshwi conversation in RoW. Between Ashe and Taln, both Ashe and Myself are sure that Taln will be angry, or at least upset with her, instead he tells her what a wonderful gift she's given humanity. And Venli and I were sure that Leshwi would be angry that Venli bonded a spren, instead she breaks down in joy and says they have forgiven us. Two stellar moments that totally shocked me emotionally when I was already losing it with everything else that went on at the end of those awesome books. Anyway I wracked my brains if any of the other books had similar moments but couldn't think of any. Pretty cool we got it twice, here's hoping for a hat trick with SA5

So I was thinking and I'm pretty sure Navani's third oath won't be "I am Unity" like Dalinar, it'll be something specific to her and the Sibling. Not to be pedantic, but something akin to "I am Science" would be really cool, except she's already had her revelation that Cultivation's light + Honor's light = Science, and I wish that could have been the moment of her third oath. Obviously her swearing the third one so soon after the first 2 would be a bit ridiculous, but still I think it would have been a cool moment. She could have held Stormlight in one hand and Lifelight in the other and slammed her palms together and copied her husband lol.

The Radiant spren may have been intended to show up in Shadesmar over a period of time, but I don't know if anyone was particularly looking for them. It could have taken a few years for the spren in shadesmar to notice that they hadn't seen any of the old radiant spren, and by then all the radiants could have broken their oaths and there's no way to contact them. As for why they were in such a rush to break their oaths, no clue. Probably has to do with what they found out about how the surges were used to destroy Ashyn. And as to why all the spren had to take part, I imagine all the surges were dangerous enough to cause the cataclysm, but it's a moot point because we KNOW all the spren didn't take part. The highspren clearly didn't agree and kept their order going, why they felt that way and if it was just a decision based on their belief of following laws/oaths, idk. Why they didn't tell the other spren of shadesmar what happened, who knows? Hopefully we'll find out in book 5 which is supposed to be the skybreaker book.

Well point 2 is what would have happened if the whole BAM thing didn't cause all the radiant spren to become deadeyes? It's what the radiants intended. Point 3 is what ended up happening after they became deadeyes, and none of the old radiants were aware that their plan went wrong. Maya says as much during the trial that they didn't expect the spren to become deadeyes.

1) We don't know exactly why they did it, but my guess is they feared continuously using the surges on Roshar would lead to some cataclysm. In RoW we learn Odium tricked Ishar into playing with surges which ended up destroying the planet so it's viable they were afraid of it happening again. 2) Knowledge wouldn't be lost if the Recreance happened the way I theorize it should have. The spren would have kept their Sapience and be able to teach the future generations of spren about the dangers of surgebinding. Theoretically, they would form some kind of psedo bond with future humans, which would allow them to dismiss the shardblade sans gem, and in that time the spren are in the Cognitive Realm, hanging out with their descendants. 3) No they don't have to do it at the same time, but I think it would be hard for the remaining Radiants to be aware that something weird happened. The gem stone trick to dismiss the shardblades hadn't been discovered until way after the Recreance. So all the spren are in Shardblade form, therefore they're not visible in the Cognitive realm if an Elsecaller or Lightweaver or Willshaper took a look. The only way they would notice is if they picked up a shardblade, which I think is unlikely if they have their own spren hanging around.

So my theory is that the spren and old radiants became afraid of their bonds because something similar caused the destruction of Ashyn, and they don't want a repeat to occur on Roshar. So they think the normal Radiant bond is dangerous and want to stop them, but there's the threat of the singers and the Fused returning again, so the Radiants wouldn't want to leave humanity completely helpless in future generations. So they devise breaking their oaths, with the understanding that doing so will cause the current generation of spren to be unable to form Radiant bonds in terms of granting surges, but may remain in the Physical Realm as Shards and even having some say in who wields them. This way it leaves some weapons for future humans to use to fight the Singers. Of course it all goes wrong with the spren losing all sapience and turning into deadeyes

Thank you that's a very through answer! is the nicroburst affecting only kinetic investiture another WOB?

So as fun as this question is, I believe your initial premise of asking it is incorrect. Despite having more color receptors than humans, shrimp do not actually see more colors. Humans have 3 receptors that can blend and work together to create the full variety of the visual spectrum. Shrimp can only use each of the 16 or so receptors they have individually. So in reality they see less color than we do. Here's a scientific journal making the same point probably better than I did: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14578