Child of Tanavast, Ancient Daughter

[Ripheus23]

THEORY: Honor and Cultivation had a literal child, who though not a Shard was still immensely powerful.

The Cognitive Shadow of Tanavast, in the Stormfather, is reliving Honor's having of a son by "adopting" Kaladin in relation to Sylphrena, the Ancient Daughter.

But long ago, the dishardic Child bonded a spren, too. This became, therefore, the Sibling.

Somehow Kaladin and Sylphrena will prove relevant to the awakening of the Sibling, who went to sleep after the Child was killed at Aharietiam.

It was this death that pushed Tanavast into the spiral of raving before his own death.

This was the being who Odium said "you!" to at the Battle of Thaylen Field. Dalinar, via the boon of Cultivation and the Stormfather of Honor, is channeling the Cognitive Shadow of the Child. Indeed, the ghost of the Child is the one responsible for the dream-anomaly involving the image of Nohadon. [I think Nohadon was related to the Child historically, too, though how I have no theory about.]

The process by which Odium assailed the Child produced the Unmade. I.e. Odium ripped off pieces of his own soul and slammed them into the Child; the different forms of torture drew in spren corresponding to certain emotional patterns and this, combined with the Child's special powers, merged the power of those spren with the Splinters of Odium, forming the Unmade. After all the Unmade were born, Odium managed to combine with them to kill the Child and this is why he said, "We killed you!"

[Karger he/him]

Interesting theory.  Shards do have physical bodies and the two of them are confirmed as a couple.  A child of the two of them would be immensely invested.

[Ripheus23]

I forgot to mention that my theory sort of depends on a strong analogy between the Everstorm and the highstorms, i.e. the reason the Everstorm now exists is due to its containment of the Cognitive Shadow of the Child (since this being died during/after Aharietiam) in a way like unto how the highstorms contain the Stormfather-as-the-Shadow-of-Honor.

[+Child of Hodor]

On 3/19/2019 at 9:03 PM, Karger said:

Interesting theory.  Shards do have physical bodies and the two of them are confirmed as a couple.  A child of the two of them would be immensely invested.

Sibling! Stormfather is Honor's godspren, Nightwatcher is Cultivation's godspren, the Sibling is The Sibling because they are of both H&C, so they are related to both Stormfather and Nightwatcher. 

I had a thread on Honor as Father and Cultivation as Mother. It was more about the symbolic nature of Honor's Stormlight fertilizing Cultivation's Gemstones to power the magic. 

 

[Lidolas he/him]

I've always been curious about the name/title "Sibling."  An only child cannot be a sibling. It indicates that there is more than one offspring of the same parents.  Where is(are) the other sibling(s)? 

[+Child of Hodor]

4 minutes ago, Lidolas said:

I've always been curious about the name/title "Sibling."  An only child cannot be a sibling. It indicates that there is more than one offspring of the same parents.  Where is(are) the other sibling(s)? 

Stormfather and Nightwatcher. They are half-brother and half-sister to the Sibling. Stormfather was the only godspren child of Honor, Nightwatcher was the only godspren child of Cultivation and then the Sibling came along a godspren with a combo of the two parents investiture. 

It's like the brady bunch if the brady parents then had a kid together. 

[Turin Turambar]

I always thought that it referred to Odium.