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First post here so I hope I'm doing it right. Being mulling over The Diagram since I finished WoR and wondering why the 'save the world' plan also seems to be a 'kill the rest of the heroes' plan and I think I have an idea why (And I couldn't see this theory anywhere else so sorry if someone has already realised this). First, assume that the Nightwatcher is a lawful neutral character. It does what you ask for, not what's best for you/the world. So Taravingian asks for a way that he could save the world. Sounds like a good idea except... In order for Taravingian to save the world, he has to eliminate everyone else that could save the world. This might also play into the shifting intelligence. When he's brilliant, he doesn't have the compassion to care that he's dooming the rest of the MCs. When he's stupid, he doesn't realise the Diagram is also eliminating the composition. It might also explain why the Diagram is in code (especially the numeric code in one of the chapter headings). Much like Eshonai tuning to the song of peace, the inner conscience of Taravingian was screaming at him as he wrote and tried to disguise parts of the plan in the hopes he wouldn't understand it.

So I was rereading the WoK and I found one of the quotes that come from the dying people. It said; "He must pick it up, the fallen title! The tower, the crown, and the spear!" -Dated Vevahach, 1173, 8 seconds pre-death. Subject: a prostitute. Back ground unknown. I'm pretty sure that the quote is about Kaladin, but I'm not positive, and I also think the fallen title is referring to the Knights Radiant. The spear is obvious but I wonder if the tower and the crown are from the Kholin family sigil. The sigil is a tower going through a crown. King Elhokar changes his so it is a sword instead of a tower, so I don't think it is talking about the Alethi crown. I just wonder.