Chana is in the Duel(WoR Spoilers)

[KnightGradient]

While doing my warm-up reread of the Cosmere, I noticed that the chapter "Whitespine Uncaged" has a double Chana portrait at the beginning. This chapter marking the beginning of the super awesome duel got me thinking, maybe Chana is in this chapter.

Then, I noticed the judge, who is a woman for starters, was acting strange. She seemed to be hellbent on keeping this duel a thing, and Dalinar began to suspect she was bribed. When confronting her, she says 

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"I am highprince here, Dalinar," the woman said. "In this arena, my word is the only law, granted me by the authority of the king." She turned to him. "Your son has not surrendered and he is not incapacitated. The terms of the duel have not been met, and I will not end it until they have been. Have you no respect for the law?"

While I'll admit we don't know much about the Dustbringers, they seem to be the most violent of the orders, as Kalak witnesses in the prelude, 

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Smoke curled from the occasional patches of growth or heaps of corpses. Even some sections of rock smoldered. The Dustbringers had done their work well.

Considering they share a Surge with the Skybreakers, they probably also stick to some sort of code as well, bordering more on the "Rules of War" or something. While nothing is concrete here, I think the judge of the duel, named Istow, is the most likely fit for Chana.

This is my first theory in a while, and I'm not entirely sure if anyone has done this before, but what  do you guys think?

Edited November 11, 2017 by KnightGradient

[AbsentKeeper he/him]

I like this theory, mostly because I've never been a fan of the Liss theory.

I don't have anything useful to add to this though, other than to say great idea and have an upvote.

Edit: I've never seen anyone else point at the high judge for Chana, it kind of makes sense to me though.

It fits with the other popular theory about the Herald's madness being an inversion of thier primary attribute, while keeping thier secondary attribute intact.

Chana's are Bravery and Obedience, so its not that far of a stretch to say that she's being cowardly by trying to have Adoulin killed in a 4 on 1 duel, while maintaining obedience to the law and her position.

Edited November 11, 2017 by Cowmanthethird
Added substantive comments.

[Yata he/him]

16 hours ago, KnightGradient said:

While I'll admit we don't know much about the Dustbringers, they seem to be the most violent of the orders, as Kalak witnesses in the prelude, 

The Dustbringers have simply the right power to make those kind of distruction, it's not for their attitude...it's simply their powerset that allow them to be the Radiant's heavy weaponery.

Of course your hypotesis on the Duskbringer could be right but not because the Duskbringers were violent