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Okay...I had another thought. Once again returning to the dates that everyone thinks are highstorm dates. Assuming for a second that you are correct, that would make T the equivalent of a super-stormwarden, with the ability to make educated guesses that come dangerously close to predicting the future. Amaram also is a secret stormwarden, and had dates and such in his map room. The stormwardens, according to Shallan, are coming very close to creating a language from glyphs to get around the prohibition on writing. Of course, T can already read and write the women's script, but still, two things spring to mind from this connection. 1) What if the difference between the dates given is related to the parsing of the message. 2) What if T was creating a language much like Amaram was creating, where some things were spelled out alphabetically, and others were just spelled out phonetically?

I'm not sure that we can date it back too far...there was a line from T that said he asked the Nightwatcher for "capacity" to save mankind after having a conversation with Gavilar on the night that the Alethi king died about needing to unite the world against the coming desolation. Gavilar shared his visions with T that night, so I think that's the earliest we could say the diagram was created. Also, I posted this earlier, but I guess it got deleted. "Apricity" is a word that means "feeling the warmth of the sun on a cold winter's day". So when he has a revelation that is obvious, it is "like apricity" or like the feeling of warmth of of the sun on a cold winter's day. I DO wonder if the word "capacity" might be the key word though...given that it is what T asked for from the Nightwatcher, it stands to reason that it would be very important to him.

Has anyone tried writing out the two lines together to see if any pattern can be found that matches the chapter 84 code pattern? When I tried it, I got a lot of areas where you had letters grouping together like "ee" or "tt" or "hh" for example. I would post what I did, but I don't think I got it exactly right when I laid it out, because the one sentence was longer than the other.

Something else of note... "Apricity" is actually a an old word (noun) that means "The feeling of the warmth of the sun on a cold winter's day"

No, this passage seems fairly straightforward...you could roughly translate this as, "You will know someone who has the potential to become a Radiant and who will be swearing oaths by hearing stories of amazing survival against all odds".

I have been following this thread eagerly, hoping that smarter minds than mine will find a solution...but I had a few thoughts. 1) The people who are working on the diagram in the book are able to tell that one of the entries is a list of dates. I know that people on the forum have speculated that these are the dates of highstorms, but given the context, I slightly disagree. Here is my reasoning. These characters are already very familiar with highstorms and the calculations to predict their occurances, but "(This appears to be a sequence of dates, but their relevance is as yet unknown)". This tells me that they do not correspond with currently known lists of highstorm dates. My theory is that they may coincide with dates that the Everstorm will occur and cause parshmen to change into the new storm form, or dates that the Everstorm encounters the Highstorms as the two systems circle the globe. 2) Many of the references in the epigraphs mention "kingship" or "king". I believe that this may link something in the epigraphs to either the Brandon Sanderson novel WoK or the in-story Way of Kings that was read by Dalinar in the first book. 3) Floorboard Paragraph 2, sequence 1 references making a Truthless and using him as a weapon, Paragraph 6 expounds on this by saying that the danger in using a weapon like a Truthless is the possible encouragement of those exploring the Nahel bond to say more words and become closer to becoming a Radiant. 4) Floorboard Paragraph 2, sequence 2 talks about a Parshendi who will gain their power and form a bridge. After reading the Listener epigraphs, it is clear that the Parshendi COULD bond with a spren, but that the spren prefer men. If a Parshendi were to bond a spren (say Shen aka Rlain for example) then that could form a bridge between the two powers of Honor and Odium. Hence the desire to have the Alethi wipe them all out. 5) I don't know if this is helpful or not, but "They will come you cannot stop their oaths look for those who survive when they should not that pattern will be your clue - From the Diagram, Coda of the Northwest Bottom Corner: paragraph 3" A "coda" is something that ends and completes something else. It is the only passage that is identified as a coda. 6) does this sequence strike anyone else as odd? "SetoffObviousRealizationlikeapricity" Anyway...that's all I've got...hope some of these ideas spark something for the rest of you!