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I was rereading Secret History and Kelsier was commenting about how only the mad ones were able to hear him.  Which definitely sounds like what's going on with Szeth. If Szeth is right and they are all the voices of those he killed, that would imply they are cognitive shadows. My impression is that assumption is just part of Szeth's madness.

So who or what is whispering to Szeth then? 

Maybe this is similar to the twinborn perk that we learned of in SoS?

I always wondered if Surgebinders can "unite" their own two Surges in a sort of 'special ability', unique to each Order... but I have noticed no evidence to support this idea. So, I think it's reasonable assuming that Renarin's visions aren't related to Surgebinding: I like this theory.

 

Anyway, like others have pointed, I'm more inclined to think that the visions are of Cultivation instead of Odium.

 

There's this idea of Orders being either closer to Honor or Cultivation with the Bondsmiths closest to Honor and the Truthwatchers closest to Cultivation.

So if Dalinar is receiving visions from Honor it's plausible to assume that Renarin is receiving visions from Cultivation: after all, Tanavast himself (or, at the least, his shadow in the vision) said that Cultivation is better than him at watching future.

 

There's this little problem that foreseight is of the Voidbringers... but what about Odium making mankind think so?

 

 

Kadash says that try to divine future is the soul of Voidbinding... but both Honor and Cultivation, at an extent, can see future.

He says that there were no promises from the Almighty... but there are with Dalinar (well not promises, but you get the point) unless we think there's Odium behind them.

 

So I think the idea of divination being of the Voidbringers is false: Odium instilled it (maybe hijacking the Sunmaker) to prevent case like that of Dalinar (and, maybe, of Renarin).

Since we now know that having investiture multiple sources grants a bonus effect (I'm calling it a perk), if someone has 3 forms of investiture, would they get a perk from each different pair of investitures, or just one for all 3? How many perks does Hoid have?

These words are accepted.

We have WoB that a desolation occurs when all the Heralds leave Damnation.  We also have WoB that 11 parties  made the Oathpact, so its logical to assume Honor + the Heralds.

I wonder if Brandon's comments about the population of the Southern hemisphere using the Metallic Arts in different ways, as well as new applications of the Metallic Arts in order for FTL to be possible, I wonder if a Scadrian "fabrial" is a part of that?

Just because Shallash is Jezrien's daughter doesn't mean she couldn't have been conceived on a world hop, so they still could represent all 10 Shardworlds.

Out of all the theories that have been proposed, I like this one best.

Which Shard has been held by the most amount of people?

Has there been a Sliver whose personality has been 100% changed/turned around by a Shard?

Can a non-sentient lifeform hold a Shard?

I think Ati fits the bill here, at least from the Shardholders that we know of. Hoid mentioned how Ati was a good man, and how much the shard changed him.

Has anyone actually asked if it was an Honorblade? I know all the evidence points to this, but if we are missing part of the story, perhaps it comes from a false assumption such as this. We know Brandon has said we've seen 3 types of blades in TWoK, and knowing that we saw a number of Shardblades, Szeth's Honorblade, maybe Taln's blade is the 3rd type.

Also, going off assumptions we've made, has anyone directly asked Brandon if someone besides "Taln" did anything to the blade? Maybe the blade mismatch from TWoK's Epilogue and when "Taln" shows up at the warcamps is something of "Taln's" doing, and not by an external party like we have been assuming.

While WoB says that the Heralds may have other powers not granted by their Honorblades, that doesn't necessarily mean they aren't native to Roshar. I have a feeling not all of the Heralds come from the same place.

Regardless, I like this theory.

Also, Lift being able to gain Investiture from food comes from the Nightwatcher, its her boon.

What would happen to a sword that had a slight Hemalurgic charge if it was Awakened?

We have WoB that Hoid did not swap the blade.  We also have WoB (courtesy of Argent) that "Taln" who appeared at the end of TWoK is the same man that was delivered to the warcamps in WoR.

So, were lefting with "something else."

I agree with Moogle here. Even discounting Cosmere magic mechanics and looking solely at Roshar, we see that Szeth's Honorblade changes eye color, Shardblades change eye color, and Sprenblades change eye color. The odds of the other Honorblades (or even just Taln's not showing this behavior when we've seen plenty of examples of this happening already.

Actually, a thought just occured to me. What if, like a Returned can suppress their physical appearance change, so too can Heralds/Radiants?

Does Hoid have a Dawn Shard?  If not (or RAFO), does he want one?

WoB from recent signings say that Hoid did NOT write the Ars Arcanum.

CorwinofAmber, on 20 Mar 2014 - 10:20 AM, said: I asked whose points of view we're getting in the ars arcanum and on the back cover blurbs. He said they're not the same person, neither are who you think (which I take to mean that neither are by Hoid/Wit), and the ars arcanum is written by more than one person (17th shard?).

 

Ironically enough I'm quoting another Corwin 

And after posting I realize thats not the exact quote I wanted.  It was on /r/Stormlight_Archive, but I can't find his corresponding post here.  Oh well.

Ah, thanks for clarification.

Now, please help me out once more: Where in WoR did we learn that they're the same, specifically that Brandon thinks about them as being the same? Afaik he could have very well be referring to those as two seperate kinds of Shardblade. Also, I cannot remember any WoB that there ARE only three types of SB. He just said, we had seen three types in WoK.

Edit: Also, I am aware that this discussion borders on threadjacking and I apologize. I do hope, however, that it might lead to my question being asked

I'd like to see someone ask Brandon if Hoid has a Dawnshard.

Just tells you how bad the torture was when a Desolation is your timed vacation.

 

Anyway, I just realised that this means that the timing of the Desolations was pretty much entierly up to the Heralds, so maybe there is something to Nalans clam that Surgbinders cause Desolations, given that they are modeled after Heralds, or he is just projecting their own "fault" on them to cope.

Wasn't it implied in WoR that the spren could sense the upcoming Desolation which caused them to start to seek out bonds?

If so, saying that Surgebinders cause Desolations because of their likeness to the Heralds wouldn't work, since the reason the Surgebinders came back was because of the Desolation.