The Current State of Roshar

[Raelynn]

It will probably be another six-ish years until the next books for the Stormlight Archive come out, but I was thinking about what could possibly happen. But essentially, everything had gone to Damnation, so I really have no clue what they’re going to do.
Dalinar has died and become some sort of evil spren thing, the stormfather is dead, Stormlight no longer exists, meaning radiants are either stuck in urithiru (with navani in a coma inside some sort of glass-gel-crystal thing) or unable to use their powers, unless they have a corrupted spren, Adolin still only has one leg, Kaladin is having an extended therapy session with the heralds (of which he now is one), Venli’s creating a chasm fiend-listener-singer-Fused society, Shallan, Rlain, and Renarin are trapped in Shadesmar, and Odium has taken Honor’s power and become Retribution, while Cultivation has fled. In addition, Szeth is doing who-knows-what, Wit/Hoid is offworld, Sigzil and Rysn have dawnshards, and I’m not entirely sure where the latter is. And to top it all off, Roshar is in a time bubble and will be for a couple decades, which will be seventy or eighty years to the rest of the Cosmere.

So the question remains: How are they possible supposed to defeat Retribution? I think they need to start by finding some way to unmake him back into Odium and Honor. Retribution is probably going to try and conquer the rest of Roshar, though he rules a lot of it, so they need to stop or at least hold it off until they can find a better way to fight him. How do you fight a god? There are some helpful tips in The Hero of Ages (Mistborn), but it doesn’t quite work the same in Roshar.

I’d love to hear other people’s ideas!