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  1. I suppose that could be possible I haven't read up on that specific theory, but it would make sense for the Herald's to go to Braize while waiting for the next desolation as odium would be the one to torture and break them. However, when odium first came to Roshar I would think he'd have been stronger than either cultivation or honor because they gave away some of their essence to create sentient life, but not both. For honor to leave Roshar and go searching for assistance on other shard worlds prior to odium's arrival would mean leaving cultivation open to attack by odium. I'll admit it's possible this occurred before odium arrived, especially if cultivation foresaw it, but regardlessI don't think honor would leave a civilization he created in the hands of other shardworld people. I'd really appreciate a link to that theory. Getting away from the nature of Shards for a little bit, at the end of WoR when Dalinar is talking to the storm father, the storm father says the everstorm will change all of the 'old people' with its coming. A reference to the parshmen, who will be compulsed by odium's void spren to become voidbringers. This makes me wonder why the parshmen are the 'old people,' and then who are the new people? I wonder if odium had a part in the creation of the peoples currently on Roshar, and if earlier peoples, contemporary to the heralds' taking up the honorblades and the oathpact, were mutated into something else by odium's influence or as part of the oathpact that binds him. I'd definitely like to ask Brandon if the parshmen existed before the coming of odium and the oathpact.
  2. Hey all, its been awhile since I've lurked on these forums, but I had a thought about civilization pre-odium on Roshar. I think it obvious that the heralds came from a Roshar population that predates odium's arrival on the planet and thus too the desolations. Meaning the heralds likely have a slightly different genetic and spiritual make up from the current inhabitants of Roshar. What I'd like to see discussed is how the current populations differ from the heralds: are the heralds beings created solely from honor an cultivation, and immune to influences like the thrill? are the heralds immortal because of residual after effects of the oath pact. spren are shattered pieces of honor, that emulate the honorblades and make up a newer magic system on Roshar. Do the heralds know of older magic that came exclusively from cultivation and/or honor, and if so does this constitute the 'old magic' of the night watcher? I'd like to hear what you guys think about these topics, or if a similar thread exists I'd love links
  3. also could the code be related to the calendar system? and maybe broken down phonetically from there?
  4. what about the sequence 10111? This sequence is repeated often, but maybe it's nothing, just thought I'd contribute something that may get someone else a thinking.
  5. So this is a comment I made in another thread, but I was really excited about it and wanted to share my theory and see how well it stands. I think renarin is the traitor from the diagram (epigraph from chapter 86) and his spren is Moelach. Why do I think this? Starting assumptions: Renarin has precognition, a know trait of voidbringers. Renarin has his blood sickness, described as some kind of epilepsy. Moelach is a powerful voidspren, specifically with precognition, and taints a body as it breaks apart from the mind (chapter 82, epigraph). These assumptions have led me to the conclusion that renarin may unwittingly be tainted by void spren, and mistakes his abilities for a manifestation of KR power. Also can't find page, Taravangian says something about Moelach leaving his area of operations, causing death rattles to become more rare. Discuss!
  6. I think renarin is the traitor from the diagram (epigraph from chapter 86) and his spren is Moelach. Why do I think this? Starting assumptions: Renarin has precognition, a know trait of voidbringers. Renarin has his blood sickness, described as some kind of epilepsy. Moelach is a powerful voidspren, specifically with precognition, and taints a body as it breaks apart from the mind (chapter 82, epigraph). These assumptions have led me to the conclusion that renarin may unwittingly be tainted by void spren, and mistakes his abilities for a manifestation of KR power. Discuss! Also can't find page, Taravangian says something about Moelach leaving his area of operations, causing death rattles to become more rare.
  7. I think your focus for this point is to narrow. The act may have been dishonorable, and perhaps even underhanded, but on the larger scale of things the parshendi see themselves as sacrificing their whole population for the greater good. One of the tenants of honor is that to sacrifice one innocent for the lives of ten others is not honorable, but the parshendi remove a threat to the greater good, not an innocent, and then choose to sacrifice themselves to assure the success of the greater good, which I believe is all of roshar when looking from their perspective.
  8. Dude, maybe I'm an old fart, but who would ever read a Brandon Sanderson work end first then story? That's just a cardinal sin I would think.
  9. I HAVE A PLAN FOR WAITING IT OUT!!!!! Just play magic the gathering and believe that the equipment you're attaching is shardplate, shardblade, Nahel bonds, and the colors are shards. White=Preservation Black=Ruin Blue=Honor Green=Cultivation Red=Odium Red/White=Dominion Blue/White=Devotion Multicolor (Red,Green,Blue)/Colorless=Endowment Use it as a poor filling the void substitute
  10. Still points for noticing the colors of the moon
  11. As a point of information, there is a Forrest on the edge of the shattered plains. I believe it was when we first saw Dalinar and Sadeas working together to coerce another highprince into paying for the king's soulcasters for wood. They hinted that the tariffs for logging from the Forest would get prohibitive. I think this could suggest there are Forests in roshar, however they are probably much more adapted to high storms than our trees would be. I also vaguely recall a reference to trees lying down, and having a trunk like a hinge that allowed them to fold over.
  12. I don't think the spren would have been as offended by the breaking of the oathpact, as much as by the recreance. The oathpact was, I'm speculating here, only between honor , odium and the heralds; the knight Radiants were something else entirely. When the heralds abandoned the oathpact, there was no one there to really point out and say: hey you! This post has been reported for attempting to skirt the rules where are you going! The oathpact also wasn't entirely abandoned as talon remains bound to his blade and tortured in damnation. Whereas the Radiants, assumably, each had a spren bonded with them, and then they abandoned their positions of power and leadership, allowing their special weapons to be taken and used by less worthy hands. Here we have humans betraying bonded spren and throwing away their oaths to protect humanity.
  13. I wondered about this too, but my conclusion was that Rysn could be the explorer, and I thought Jasnah or Eshonai a better fit. And of those two Eshonai. Rysn isnt exploring, or fascinated with exploration as a character (at least that we've seen so far) she is training to become a master merchant and do her babsk proud. Her want to visit famous and exotic places of roshar was founded on visiting great tourist spots, places of great fame or comforts, but thoroughly we'll known. It doesn't seem to me that she has a natural want for exploration, but a naive want for wealth and prestige associated with exotic ports. However her interlude from WoR shows her growing up a bit. Jasnah clearly wishes to know the. Truth of things, and leads her to a life of scholarly exploration, however it seems a stretch even to myself. Eshonai's memories of first leaving her tribe and striking out into lands beyond the shattered plains, along with her desire to leave her position of authority and go explore Roshar and it's curious one-form humans speaks to me that from what we know she has the strongest case for being the explorer. I also think the discovery of storm for will lead to some talks between Eshonai and the Alethi, hopefully Dalinar. But that's mostly hopes and speculation This was my thoughts on the explorer from that thread I posted in my previous comment, I haven't quite figured out hoe to do the fancy quote box yet
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