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I'm hoping they are kept apart tbh. Adolin is a good guy but he's a terrible influence on Shallan, and vica versa. He indulges all of her BS and doesn't really help her issues with his unconditional support, while she exposes his weaknesses with her behaviour...

I think a Wit+Shallan teamup for book 5 would be great. Imagine how exasperated Wit would be haha. Jasnah knows her potential and definitely knows about all the stuff she's done, the lies etc. so she needs to assign someone to sort her out, right?

If I'm correct then at least on roshar the only way to bind a shard is with some kind of oath. So unless you want Odium and Fused to take over the world, there needs to be *some* kind of agreement.

I like it! So is there anything else we can deduce from that? For example, it must take an absolutely massive concentration of investiture to create a perpendicularity. Also I'm wondering if the warping of air around anti-voidlight has anything to do with this idea.

Its going to need explaining why this doesn't have a gravitational effect, surely

I was thinking about this and wondering if 'unite them' is somehow a message from Adonalsium, and whether a bondsmith has that kind of power to unite shards. I mean we started off thinking it meant the Alethi houses, and then all of the humans, and its heading for uniting humans and parshendi, so how far can the meaning of it regress? We know from Mistborn that this is somewhat possible - uniting shards (I haven't read mistborn past the original trilogy though).

If I have it right, the future sight might be the single greatest counter to Odium, rather than something that is useful in the day to day life of Roshar. Throughout the cosmere future sight disrupts other future sight and infinitely expands the number of possible futures that someone can see, due to two people being able to see each other's possible futures. Todium sees huge numbers of possible futures in RoW. I'm thinking if Renarin is among the important human characters, and Rlain is puts himself among the listeners, it would greatly disrupt Todium's ability to use his future sight to manipulate these two populations. As Renarin and Rlain gain more XP by saying some words, they might be able to further disrupt Todium and make his planning more and more difficult. I'm wondering if future sight may be expanded to be able to deliberately 'plant' false futures for Todium to see.

I've just read up to the end of RoW. It was my first Sanderson experience and I have absolutely loved it. I would say, though, for others thinking of starting the series, by the time you get to book 3-4, the wider cosmere is referenced more and more and I do feel a bit like I'm missing a huge amount. I'm currently reading Mistborn (i'm on book 2) since I was getting a bit of stormlight archive fatigue and decided to read both series. There is one particularly large spoiler in book 4 of SA that pretty explicitly spoils something from the Mistborn series too. That's just a bit of advice for people if they are wondering where to start. Start with Mistborn era 1. Still 10/10 for me so far for the first 4 books of stormlight archive.