Just some thoughts and speculation on Rock, Gods, and Secrets

[CognitiveShadow he/him]

Ok, in the thread about this week's pre-released chapters, someone mentioned Rock maybe having some kind of bond or protobond with ancient gods or spren. I looked into it and realized I had totally missed the weirdness of Rock being able to draw a shardbow without shard plate and why he would refuse to speak of it. 

His daughter, Cord, speaks about how he was able to draw the Bow of Hours and how he was 'strengthened by spren' to do so. When asked about it, he declined to speak on the topic. In the other post, we were discussing the possiblity of Kaladin bonding with the Wind. Anyway, without further ado (pun not intended but definitely worth highlighting now that I think about it), here is where my theorizing brain is going. Let me know how wrong I am.

Did Rock perhaps discover and connect with the ancient god/spren that is responsible for the belief that stone should not be walked on because it is sacred? Is this a similar type of being that the Wind is - an ancient spren of Adonalsium that has avoided enlightenment/corruption so far? Rock is an interesting name for him to go by if this is the case, and I could see him choosing it specifically because of that connection.

He also tells the story of the ancient gods that helped his people: the waters, the mountain (stone?), and the trees. I wonder if that ancient spren has found a home in the mountains of Rock's homeland, and part of his backstory includes discovering that god and swearing to protect it's secret location. He is definitely tight lipped about it.

I'm aware that Venli speaks to the stone when she is doing her surges and shaping the stone, but that seems to be more similar to the response that one gets when soul-casting and convincing something to change. Maybe there is a more all-encompassing spren/being that is 'The Stone' and maybe that being has had to retreat to a place of safety in the horneater peaks, hiding in the shadow of Cultivation's perpendicularity? Or being protected by Cultivation perhaps?

Anyway, maybe Rock has a bond with the Stone and he is able to draw upon power from that ancient spren in times of need - like when he has to draw a shardbow without using shardplate in order to shoot someone who swallowed an unmade and is trying to kill his friend.

And maybe (as suggested by @Oltux72 on the other thread - shoutout for your comment and sending me down a rabbit hole about Rock and his past) Kaladin is going to go find the Wind and do something similar. We've seen how weird double bonds are now with Shallan, and that's with 2 cryptics. An honorspren bond and a bond with the Wind who is said to also be of Honor would be a wild situation.

Also if any of this stuff is already confirmed or if we know its confirmed to be wrong, feel free to let me know haha can't wait to actually get this whole book and be able to find out what is going to happen!!