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We have more information about the history of Roshar. I'm throwing down what I surmise here. Please help 'cuz there's a lot I don't know. If there is enough interest, I will update the OP with information, relevant WoB and other people's theories. Sequence: Adonalsium invests Roshar, creates Listeners and the highstorm. Spren may be a result of the highstorm linking of realms. Greatshells are created or evolve. Listeners have 4 genders as do at least some of the spren. Aimians (both kinds) created by Adonalsium? Larkin too? What about the Nightwatcher and the "Old Magic?" Wandering Investor pointed out thatHumans and Parshendi intermixed to create Herdazians and Horneaters before H, C or O ascended. Did Adonalsium facilitate the combination? If so, are Humans and Parshendi essentially both "native" to Roshar. Cultivation and Honor invest the system, bring people to Tranquilline Halls. Braize? A destroyed planet? Ashyn? The interactions between Honor, Cultivation and the Rosharan system creates the surgebinding magic system Wildly speculating about the order here. Odium comes to the Rosharan system, sets up the mountains around Shinovar and brings people there. The yellow flamespren with Shin eyes who walk on stone projections develop here. These holy spren are allowed to walk on stone, but not normal people. Odium messes with the Tranquilline Halls. Surgebinders develop here. Do H+C create the Heralds here and give them the Honorblades while Honor makes the Oathpact with them? Does Odium unmake the Unmade here? Surgebinders destroy the Tranquilline Halls. H+C transport their people to non-Shinovar parts of Roshar. Cultivation helps horses evolve into Ryshadium. Dawnsingers/listeners help humans get established. Stormfather gets associated with Honor/Almighty. Cultivation and the Nightwatcher associate. Conflict arises between the varieties of humans and listeners. Heralds get established now if the didn't exist before. H+C spren awaken that can bond humans. Odium makes spren forms of power for the listeners including stormform. Surgebinders arise. Odium invests some dead listeners to become Voidbringers. The Heralds make a deal to adjourn to Braize with the Voidbringers and the cycle of Desolations start. The Iriali people arrive (from where?). No real idea about where this fits in the timeline. I think they may start in Shinovar. Ishi and the spren constrain the Surgebinders to become the Knights Radiant. The Heralds lose it and the Desolations become quicker, leading to the Last Desolation. Does Stormseat get destroyed here? By whom? Odium still creates conflicts that are moral dilemmas. Does Aimia get scoured here? Who was the enemy at Feverstone keep? Melishi finds a way to interfere with the spren bonds except for the Last Legion. The Knights become demoralized and eventually conspire with their spren to stop Surgebinding, except the Skybreakers. Honor is splintered, but makes recordings to sustain the opposition to Odium. Vorin gender roles develop (is Odium involved?). Hierocracy Sunmaker The events that we are familiar with, starting with Gavilar seeing the highstorm visions, Jasnah and Shallan bonding spren and the Listeners exploration. Vasher and Nightblood arrive, but Nale grabs Nightblood. Questions: What are the Tranquilline Halls? Braize? Another system planet? A planet on another system? Can Honor and Cultivation create the same magic system (surgebinding) on different systems? If another system was destroyed by Surgebinding, did it have spren? Or did H+C have another way for Surgebinders to become invested? When Syl tells Kaladin that people that they were of Odium before they were of Honor, was she referring to humans generally? The Shin specifically? Some of the races? Where did the people come from? Were the Alethi once the people of Dominion? Were the Makabaki the people of Devotion? Did H+C collect waves of people from around the Cosmere? Quotes: Above quote credit to Wandering Investor Above quote credit to Subvisual Haze. Does this mean we have four separate human migrations?