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I think we have seen gravitation spren; I think we see them attracted to a lashing Kaladin does in either TWOK or WOR. I think they provide that slight purple tint we see on Skybreaker plate. I think musicspren are perfect for Willshaper plate for a bunch of reasons. First, we learned the connection between music and light in RoW. The main lightspren we know is Timbre, which is a music term. Finally, how cool is the idea that Singers will attract musicspren to form their plate, singing their plate into existence

So I am fully on Fused Blackthorn, but then I thought that would be the end result of the contest of champions for awhile. Zellion sounds like a Fused title to me, and that profile looks more human than Singer to me. What I love about this design is it gives me Vader vibes. Tall, dark and foreboding. I would push back on that being Ishar's blade, due to the length seemingly closer to a Sprenblade than a Honorblade. Though it being the Blackthorn with Ishar's blade is metal as hell, giving the Blackthorn bondsmith powers even if something happens to sever the bond with the SF

Soulcasters are loops of chain, and are also spren. I think the spren must be a single object, but it does not have to be continuous. To avoid spoilers, I won't say more, but there is more evidence than just soulcasters

I kinda like the idea that Chana was keeping Mishram in the safe. It would explain the presence of an unmade, Ms I-can-see-into-the-cognitive Davar would probably see it as a glowing light, despite the safe, and it gives a reason for her to be just hanging out in rural Jah Keved

I think the simplest explanation is that Aux was his spren that he killed at some point. Probably when he chose to hide rather than protect some group of people. Yes, I know he says his spren is female in RoW, but Aux was originally female when Brandon wrote this book. Aux 's speaking mannerisms seem pretty honorspren-y to me, they have that same casual moral and positionally superior that Syl has sometimes. Aux asks "What oaths?" as a sarcastic response to Nomad relying on broken oaths to prevent his torment. Aux says Nomad killed him, in a way that sounds like how spren talk about deadeyes. The deadeye we know best is Maya, who starts to recover when Adolin treats her as a person and bonds with her, even without oaths. Nomad has had centuries to millennia to restore Aux, as compared to the decade or so Adolin has had. Nomad produces a shardblade and makes a jump similar to Kaladin's from TWoK. Both happen when Nomad is thinking about and acting on protecting people. I think involving weird edge cases is unnecessary, when each weird thing is easily explained by concepts we already know about.

So I am sure that the stormfather is acting weird. He seems more empathetic at times and more calculating. His plans also seem to change, though that may just be a reaction to needing to stop a desolation rather than preventing one. If I had to pick a stormfaker, I will go with a Tanavast shadow. First, the characterization fits him best. Driven to protect Roshar, empathetic to Gavilar's struggles even when he is disappointed and frustrated, conniving and willing to lie. I don't think its Cultivation or Odium, because when he shows Gavilar the intent it screams Honor. The overlap of the deathrattle and the warning seems bigger than Ishar and too far from what the stormfather is wont to do. Tanavast fits all these criteria, those I can see a world where the stormfather is just acting weird. I really like Tanavast being the manipulator because I think he has a really great reason to be finding a new Herald. Taln asked him to. In a deathrattle, Taln begs the almighty to end his suffering, and the only way for Tanavast to do that without splintering himself is for him to find a replacement. I like this because then Gavilar guessed the right herald for the wrong reason, which feels very Gavilar to me. As for the rest of the chapter, here are some of my thoughts -I find it weird that Nale, who says he is the law, doesn't just put Gavilar down, if he thinks it should be done. I think this strongly suggests that Nale is not actually a fifth oath radiant or has broken his later oaths. Thought this for awhile, because he is far too desperate to find even the flimsiest justification for his action to be someone who is ultimately responsible for them, and this book will likely be about character coming to term with the consequences of their actions, between Szeth, Dalinar and Shallan. -I think this makes Chana Davar more likely than not, but even if it is not, I think Chana is the herald who died. We know where 7 of the heralds are just from the text, leaving Chana, Vedel and Pali. Pali has been WoB'd to be in Kharbranth, though that might be a good thing to verify at the next Q&A. That leaves Chana and Vedel, and Chana is mentioned in this chapter. I think Liss is Vedel, the description fits and I think an Assassin is a cool reversal of a healer. -Did Thaidakar's appearance add any new information? He seemed to show up, ask Gavilar to do something we see the Ghostbloods want done in RoW, and then get disappointed in Gavilar. As much as a seon in a trenchcoat is hilarious, I'm not sure it added much value beyond confirming that Gavilar was playing all sides.

It is certainly post - stormlight 5, as Design being a full person says they have been bonded for at least a couple years, though it feels like decades or centuries. Would Rosharan worldhoppers be common enough to share differences between Vededns and Alethis, but not common enough to know what spren are? Still seems weird to me

Did anyone else think it was weird when Hoid was comparing spirits to other cognitive creatures, he omitted spren? He compares them to Seons and Fay, and his audience has knowledge of Rosharan ethnicities, but omits spren. The other weird thing to notice is that he says that you may have heard of Design's people. When I read that I took it as Cryptics, but what if he was refering to spren as a whole. DId something happen to spren? I can write this off as a way of preventing spoiling how Radiants work, but this seems like a huge omission to me. Thoughts?

I really like Endowment being the "opposite" of Mercy. They are both gifts, one out of respect, the other from empathy/sympathy. We have heard that Ruin / Preservation are the biggest opposites, so I like several others not being perfect opposites. Here's my pairings in roughly level of confidence Ruin - Preservation Devotion - Odium Autonomy - Dominion Honor - Whimsy Mercy - Endowment Virtuosity - Invention Ambition - Cultivation Valor - Prudence (Wisdom) I think the first 3 pairings are the most obvious, and the 4th makess sense to me as one is about conviction and the other is about spontaneity. I like pairing different kinds of gifts, one being given to one of respect, the other being a gift to those who you see as needing help. The next two are my best attempt at taking those 4 shards and pairing them off. The weird one is Ambition and Cultivation, I look at it as growing ones self or growing others. I put Valor / Prudence at the bottom because it is the most up in the air, but I like more than I do the other two bottom pairings My 2 cents

Because I see the Highstorm being a result of the weird tidal forces from the moons, I think of the weeping as the part of the cycle where the moons don't line up for a while

I took it as kingdoms run by people in silvery armor, Radiants. All shards seem to be silvery, with various colors changing by order

I really like the idea of the Rhythm of Honor being heartbeats. Feels thematic, cool and a way for humans to hear the rhythm in order to reforge the splinters. That said I much prefer the idea that the Stormfather is killed during the battle of champions due to Dalinar's choices. I am currently of the opinion that Dalinar will become a Blackthorn Fused as part of a new deal after the battle of Champins ends in a draw, which forces both sides to create a new deal. Maybe this deadeye-ifies the Stormfather or he pulls a sword out of the storm, breaking his word. I do think whatever happens to cause this will be done with the Stormfather's decision, solidifying the choice Maya talked about at the end of the book

I think intra-system travel will be done with a combination of fabrials. Brandon has recently mentioned that the silver kingdoms had every variety of "smart" fabrials; they could mimic every surge. This means there exists Windrunning fabrials, and gravitation is an open question away from the surface of a planet. We see that lashings are applications of a single g-force in a given direction. If you are traveling through an area of space with a different gravitational well, is the strength of a lashing changed? Once you escape Roshar's well, do you use the star's gravitational force? The other interesting surge is combining transformation and division. If you have a chunk of stone that you are planning to soulcast into your propulsive fluid, you can store in in a pretty small space before transforming it, and then heating it with division (or anti - investiture annihilation). Just my thoughts on sublight travel methods

I think these are all forms of magical symbiosis, and these are what attracted Cultivation to the Rosharan system in the first place. The third, loose magic that Khriss might be referring to is the varios forms of magical symbiosis that happen all through the cosmere but are particularly prevalent on Roshar and Ashyn. But I take this as a connection to a shard, rather than to a particular Light, as the intent is Cultivation, but we have seen these effects powered by Stormlight, Lifelight, and Autonomous light, if not other kinds.

Isn't there also the global heating of millions to trillions of particles falling through a breathable atmosphere? Even if investiture keeps the spores from combusting, the atmosphere would heat from the air being pushed out of the way of the spores