TwinStorm He/Him Posted January 25, 2025 Posted January 25, 2025 So me and my brother @BridgeBoi had a theory about the Girl Who Looked Up. The main gist of it is that it is the Girl Who Looked Up's story is set in the future, probably sometime during the Back Half, and Wit foiund the the story due to his connection to Fortune and his experiences in the Spiritual Realm. Our main pieces of evidence is a Death Rattle in wat that could easily refer to the girl who looked up, but Moelach almost always gives visions about the future. Spoiler “I climb! I climb the wall of grief toward the light, locked away above! I climb, the weight of my darkened twin on my back, and seek the captive! The light I love! I ... Storms ... the light I love! ” —Observed circa Ishi 1165. Subject was Tuko The "darkened twin" is voidlight, which she needs, the light she loves is Stormlight obviously, as she seeks the return of the storms I don't have a theory for how she gets stormlight back, except through maybe Syl, but this is mostly just a crackpot theory. 4
BridgeBoi Posted January 25, 2025 Posted January 25, 2025 To add to this theory, the captive is the stormlight which retribution took and held captive. If you think about it, the world of the story of girl who looked up is pretty similar to the end of WaT. That world has no light as Roshar has no starlight, no storms as Roshar lost the high storms, and dwells in darkness as most of Roshar does now. Wit could have seen that world in the spiritual realm and told it to Shallan. 8
Eahlendell Posted January 25, 2025 Posted January 25, 2025 If I remember the sort correctly she climbs the steps and find a world living in light. Could this be Urithiru? The wall being the barrier the Sibling and Navani created 1
coolsnow7 Posted January 29, 2025 Posted January 29, 2025 On 1/25/2025 at 12:39 PM, TwinStorm said: So me and my brother @BridgeBoi had a theory about the Girl Who Looked Up. The main gist of it is that it is the Girl Who Looked Up's story is set in the future, probably sometime during the Back Half, and Wit foiund the the story due to his connection to Fortune and his experiences in the Spiritual Realm. Our main pieces of evidence is a Death Rattle in wat that could easily refer to the girl who looked up, but Moelach almost always gives visions about the future. Hide contents “I climb! I climb the wall of grief toward the light, locked away above! I climb, the weight of my darkened twin on my back, and seek the captive! The light I love! I ... Storms ... the light I love! ” —Observed circa Ishi 1165. Subject was Tuko The "darkened twin" is voidlight, which she needs, the light she loves is Stormlight obviously, as she seeks the return of the storms I don't have a theory for how she gets stormlight back, except through maybe Syl, but this is mostly just a crackpot theory. It’s an idea that has some appeal I’ll say. I like it. But it’s not clicking with me. And one main reason is that so far all of Wit’s stories have turned out to be about the past and to even have actually happened (to some extent, in the case of the emperor in the tower one). It’s also important to note that Shallan apparently had heard this story before too, and it’s not clear how she’d get access to the future. I remain convinced that this is some deep origin Yolen story about the discovery of investiture or something like that. 1
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