Fifth of Daybreak

I'm gonna be honest, I'm not the best one to talk to about this. I'll do my best from how I understood it, but if there's anyone else who was more involved with this, has more up to date information, or anything, please save me.

Edit: Thanks to @SilverTiger for pointing out that the scouring of Aimia portion of my theory is solidly debunked. In another thread on the play, I postulated about how it's possible the story is about the epigraph about bonding the Dawnshard, and that the main character is the strider in the storm and the reason for investiture. I want to expand on that because I believe I might have had a breakthrough. I think that this story is actually about the destruction of Aimia, and the main character is a Dysian Aimian, and one of the figures we see striding in the Highstorms. So someone from Aimia, which is walled off from the rest of the world somehow, breaches that boundary, enters the herald's temple, and bonds a Dawnshard, or, possibly imprisons one of the Dawnsingers in a gemstone, as there's only one thing we know about them (if we can trust it) and we also know that the listeners learned how to imprison spren from humans. This causes them to invest far more than they can handle, or as Zahel puts it: I don't want to do too much speculation, but just taking the story at face value, as a result of her theft, the storms come and the wall is destroyed. The story hints that her people were already regarded as monsters: Axies tells us that stories and legends of the scouring of his homeland have crept into society, this could be one of them: Keep in mind that Axies is immortal, so his frame of reference is skewed longer than ours would be. Edgedancer Spoilers So picking up where we the story left off, a Dysian Aimian has descended the steps and gone into the perfect society. That's when the theft occurs, and when I think the epigraph happens, the selection from the poem of Ista: Notice the parallels here: Enormous sets of steps, maybe ten strides tall apiece? Gruesome here could just be comparative. Maybe humans would be gruesome compared to Aimians, as it definitely is the other way around. The Aimian sees human statues and thinks they're very odd. They don't adopt semi-human forms until they're forced to later as refugees under this supposition. There's only one thing that's hard to rationalize here, but even so, as much history as there could be between the events happening, it doesn't even have to conflict, but I'd like to include it anyway to see what you guys think. Edgedancer spoilers. I do have a theory that could tie it together though. This sparked the war Nohadon blames on Alakavish in Dalinar's vision, as I believe this is before the Radiant's were officially founded. Teft says something about the Way of Kings being inspiration for a lot of the organization behind the orders. I don't want you guys to focus on the very tail end though, this is very tenuous in my opinion, and mostly spitballing. What I'm really concerned with is what your opinion is on the liklihood of the story being about an Aimian and the scouring of the Aimian homeland.

Is this what makes interplanetary travel in the cognitive realm possible? The lack of cognitive aspects for those locations and planets essentially 'deletes' them and allows the world-hoppers to essentially fast travel over them to the next cognitively recognized area?

Instabam is an unmade confirmed.

There's might be something to this considering his ability to see invisible spren. I feel like I remember something from way back before I left that it was confirmed answered. Mistborn Trilogy spoilers.

Having the right answer is far more important to me than being right!

I think I found another passage that really helps back up my Theory. I think there's a few things worth noting. It was a special type of stone touched by the heralds, so possibly invested in some way, there's now not only a connection with death Rites but with birth and the origins of a nation, and most importantly, it was canonized by the church. now I know that their records are suspect, but this fits together across multiple cultures and races now

So I have to reconsider and say I'm wrong and this might just be a Lightweaving ability alone and not a mix of the surges together.

But can he see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch? (Sorry. No really I am. I just couldn't resist after the Pringles.)

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I think you're right. Going back to Words of Radiance I had been imagining the scene incorrectly now that I can fill it in with Oathbreaker details. When he 'ditched' it out the window I was thinking the planter was closer the the window, but I see that I was wrong now.

Midnight Pheasants

"Let me get this straight, you spent hours and hours researching and carving a soulstamp to do what exactly?" "It makes it so the baby didn't sleep last night so it takes a nap right now." *Stares* "Best decision I ever made."

Dalinar assumes this, and if the killer isn't after a Shardblade that moves the motive to personal instead of to gain a Blade. Also, Shardblades can be magically dismissed once they are bonded. Dalinar uses this trick to fool Amaram, and he's as high profile as you can get. That's fairly easy to hide. The Blade staying hidden was Adolin's best chance at staying undiscovered. If Ialai insists on investigating the area herself, I doubt she'll come to the same conclusion. She has spies among their clerks who will know that they were using chalk symbols to mark the walls. Until the chapter where they discover a priceless weapon and physical evidence. I just disagree, but I'm more than willing to agree to disagree.

He blackmailed an apothecary, bribed and threatened a superior officer, stole spheres from his owner, and conspired to commit regicide.

I think you underestimate Ialai. It's not so much a matter of finding out, it's a matter of having proof. Adolin's grudge against Sadeas was public in Way of Kings when Renarin had to openly restrain him during the first chapters we're introduced to them. Then, there's the fight on the Tower, and the four shardbearer's duel. Putting Adolin in charge of the investigation was about the most politically dense thing Dalinar could have done, putting one of the people with the most motivation to kill him in charge. They just found the Shardblade. That's huge. It eliminates it down to personal motive since they didn't take the Blade, putting the suspicion square on Adolin. Then there's the scraping on the wall that was noted in the chapter. As soon as someone looks into that other theories will form. If Ialai gets access to the area where it was found, I bet she has people who can put it together, and she already knew that it was a personal plan of Torol to provoke Adolin. In chapter 5 she is setting up her spies among Dalinar's scribes, In Chapter 58 they set them in motion to steal the transcriptions of the visions, puts that plan into motion after Dalinar bonds the blade and Kaladin is released from prison in Chapter 67, and then sets her assassin in motion in 68. She's not afraid of the long con. Her business with Amaram only reinforces that. She's brought in a rival who matches his reputation that Dalinar used to even trust himself but has now denounced, and if she soon reveals that the noble Dalinar Kholin's son, the man in charge of the investigation was actually the murderer, the political gains would be enormous. The boost to Amaram and her credibility would be immense. I think she's biding her time, and the moment is coming soon. I expect nothing less from the person Sadeas described as "the most dangerous woman I know."

I feel like it fits all of your criteria. A character who has lived as a paragon of good for his whole life and is regarded as such commits a terrible terrible act and argues that he did the correct thing and had a moral position for stopping a worse thing. Am I misunderstanding the scenario you put forth? Watchmen spoilers

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I always tell people that Mistborn first taught me how to read, then it ruined reading anything else for me ever again. I will say I was able to pick up Dresden files after snapping though. I like Jim Butcher a lot.

Navani most likely provided the answer.

I'd find it hard to write to if the storming Alethi kept nailing gloves to my hands!

He obviously wants to pull a Kaladin/Roshone and sucker punch Rayse in the face.

have an upvote for your trauma.

My guess is she wants her midnight essence to essentially act as physically real atium shadows, able to predict their copy's moves in battle and kill them.

I don't think it's safe to assume they share the same surges. We see references to Voidbinding. I agree with @Erunion it's more likely to be a Voidbinder than a traitor.