Unite them

[Kered he/him]

Was browsing Arcanum and came across this wob:

Snoxcatko

Who's telling "Unite Them" to Dalinar because it's obviously not Stormfather nor Honor because he's hearing it even outside of the visions, right?

Brandon Sanderson

He is hearing that, that is a RAFO. You can have a RAFO card.

Prague Signing (Oct. 26, 2019) This then lead down a rabbit hole of looking around the forums for theories. I could have sworn that a bit after the OB release a consensus was made in the fandom that this is Dalinar Connecting(capital "C") to a combination of the remnants of Honor's intent/cognitive shadow. That one of the biggest pieces of Honor remaining was the intent of bonds(unite them being a desire or Intent to form a bond) because Odium couldn't completely destroy this piece because it more resided in the spirit of humankind than a tangible power. I remember that there was also discussion of Intent being separate from the physical power of the Shard if it had not only Invested in planet but also a sapient race. That way pieces of the Shards Intent can exist separately from the power itself meaning that Intent can survive past a splintering of a Shard. But I can't find the topic anywhere. Is this still the consensus or is there a new frontrunner? 

 

[offer]

There is a theory that there is a Unite/Bind dawnshard that Dalinar somehow acquired or will acquire and this is what casuses those words.

It leaves some open questions such as how did he acquired the dawnshard and why we have`nt saw other effects of this dawnshard.

Secret projects

Spoiler

You can find a lot of dawnshard discussions in the secret projecs forum and most think that Unite is one of the dawnshards.

 

[Naignavarat he/him]

I think Dalinar is telling himself “Unite Them” from the future. He needs to unite the 3 realms permanently to become the Dawnshard Unity.

[Skylano]

On 9/21/2022 at 1:16 AM, Kered said:

Is this still the consensus or is there a new frontrunner?

I believe this is still the consensus. I have my own theories about it could be one of the primordial gods (Stone or Wind), but the main theory has remained that he was being told this by some fragment of Honor as of now. However, it isn't confirmed to be canon given the RAFO.