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I have a new theory now that Autonomy is confirmed as Trell. Is it possible that Obrodai is just Bavadin’s name for Scadrial? Justification: We know that around the time of the True Desolation (which is set slightly before the Wax and Wayne stories), Harmony starts noticing other, hidden Shards “encroaching upon [his] world”. At the same time, Autonomy mentions to Hoid that a new female avatar is developing on Obrodai, which could very well refer to Telsin. Autonomy also warns Hoid not to return. We obviously don’t know all the worlds Hoid has visited, but it seems unlikely he’d be frequenting a world without a perpendicularity (and therefor a Shard) in residence. Therefore, unless Obrodai is a Shardworld that will become relevant in other Cosmere books, it must be Scadrial (out of all the ones we know). In-universe reason: Autonomy names Scadrial something different to distance it from the past and make it more independent. Out-of-universe reason: It’d be a big spoiler for Brandon to just namedrop Scadrial in Oathbringer. EDIT: Looking online, it seems Brandon semi-referred to Obrodai as a new Shardworld, but this theory is still plausible since Brandon RAFO’d a question asking if we’ve seen Obrodai before.