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I don't know if this is the case. The Honorspren talk about keeping the deadeyed comfortable in Lasting Integrity while they can, because they disappear when they are summoned away, I think the reason Timbre's grandfather has remained confined is simply because his blade has not been summoned.

Because Shallan hasn't summoned her in a long while. The Deadeye moves to the physical realm when summoned, but when unsummoned They pop back into Shadesmar where ever the summoner is in the Physical Realm. Shallan has not summoned testament in a long while, I think the only time that she may have done it on-screen is when she killed Tyn.

I added to a theory the other day about Maya and Adolin's bond. But I think the Lighteyes pass their eye colour down on a spiritual level, and what they are passing down is a part of the deadeye Spren that remained in the radiants after the oaths were broken, the loss of this part of their spirit is what turned the Spren into Deadeyes, and it remained in the Radiants to he passed on to their descendants.

Their is a little more depth here. There are the pure tones, which are as you described, a single note. I doubt using these requires any intent, unless perhaps if you are making them yourself, by humming it or singing. There are also rythyms though repetitions of that single note to a particular cadence, like Morse code. This is where the intent comes into play. All shards likely have a tone and a rythym. If you know the rythym and can reproduce it actively, then humming or singing it with the intent of a destructive resonance will likely create the Anti-rythym. To expand on this, we saw the Raysium knife transfer Anti-voidlight. But the knife is made of Odiums Investiture. My guess as to why it didn't immediately explode, instead only reacting with the ordinary voidlight in the pommel, is because the metal is too solidly in the physical realm to be affected by the rythyms, or simply that the rythym wasn't strong enough to force the metal to resonate.

I have always gotten the impression that it was Honor's job to accept the oath's before now, at least for the orders most aligned with him (the top half of the knights radiant double eye), and that that passed to the Stormfather upon his death. I imagine Cultivation still does her job for the other Half, I don't know if I'd trust the Nightwatcher to do it, or the sibling for that matter, for anyone but their own Bondsmiths.

This is the most interesting part of your theory to me, as I think we have some in world evidence. As a modern radiant progresses in their bond, their eyes change colour to match that of their order. So long as they don't have Lighteyes already. This could be a sign of their spiritweb meshing with their Spren's. Both of these are important here. As I think your drawn line between the Spren being deadeyed, while the radiants remained Lighteyed is important. If the Spren lost part of their spiritweb when they broke the bond, and that part remained in the Radiant, then that might be to origin of the rather odd and not entirely genetic trait of Lighteyes on Roshar, the Spren gave up their eyes in the breaking of the bond. The part of the Spren that remained in the radiant being passed down to their descendants. I wonder if from your hypothesis, that because Adolin is forming the bond backwards, he will lose that little extra bit of Spren soul he has from being Lighteyed, and use it to fix Maya. Making him darkeyed, but her whole.

The mix of honor and Odium creates war, which is malice, like Odium, but bounded by terms and rules. A mix of Cultivation and Odium would either be growth with an odius direction, or odium (The emotions not the shard) that enables growth. I would consider the first Anarchy, and the latter Rebellion. Rebellion is the rhythm I think Venli finds there, as she is watching the rebellion of her people, driven to grow beyond by the hatred of their gods.

Vasher once had pretty handy access to a sword that we have now seen cut Connections. Nightblood could be a very dangerous answer to this question for both of the cognitive shadows.

I recently heard some speculation that part of it was that Odium was trying to force the power into a mild it didn't fit and it was fighting him. Rated wanted the power to be Passion, to encompass all of the strong emotions of Sapients, but it isn't. It is Hatred. It doesn't care about those other emotions, it is about retribution, disdain, resentment and vengeance. And Rayse wasn't doing those things. He was beaten over and over, but he didn't hate, he schemed.

He wasn't acting. He made a deal for a contest of Champions with Dalinar, and although he never explicitly broke his word, he dithered on it for a year, never setting terms and avoiding Dalinar. That, combined with his loss of the tower, made the power work against him.

Is shallan on Scadrial? Possibly. But I don't think she is Rannette. Rannette is canonically lesbian, which we have seen none of from Shallan. That's enough to disprove the theory to me, also, I do believe a Seeker would be able to sense a lightweaving, so there is no way she has just been disguising herself this whole time. The characters are too different.

I'm not sure about creating the metals, but if you had the ability to blank out the intent of it, you could probably make an anti, metal for every shard. Interestingly, was the metal in the dagger Odiums shard metal? The one that conducts investiture? Cause if it is, then does anti-voidlight not react with it?

Valor could simply be the honor of a people, as opposed to an individual. As we see many time, honor is the god of Oaths and Law, not necessarily morality or ethics. I could see Valor being the other side of that coin, where he is about the general consensus of what people believe to be right, rather than what the individual considers to be right.

I think this has a lot of variables at play rather than just being lifelight only being used for the progressision surge. I think what is happening is a combination of the tower only blocking the Nahel bond and it's ability to use the surges related to honor, however the more heavily invested, the more resistance to this you have, Kaladin was the first windrunner after Honor's death, and we have seen that investiture with nowhere to go tend to spill out violently when a path is finally made. So this is why he can resist the suppression, combined with Adhesion not being a surge that Odium can block, and Kaladin's closeness to the 4th ideal. For lift her connection to Cultivation also invests her more strongly than an average radiant, and the fact that it is a connection to Cultivation is like part of why progression continues to work for her, despite her bond with Windle being suppressed, the fact that she has the connection to Cultivation, is an Edgedancer (arguably the most cultivation related order), and has access to Lifelight, are like all factors as to why she is awake and can use Progression but not Adhesion.

Venli said she heard the combined tone of Odium and Cultivation when she was letting the stone show her the story of the first listeners, so perhaps Odium(passion)+cultivation could be FreeLight?

Thanks for the shout out! My theory on the nature of the Heralds is a different thing altogether. I believe that Ishar went to honor after the first desolation of the singers, it had likely been a long time as humans had managed to take over Roshar by this point through their own desolations, but after they took over they turned away from Odium and his parasitic nature over time, leading to the ten kingdom's. So after facing a pyrrhic victory against the new voidbringers Ishar knew they needed to stop the war, so he went to Honor and the made the Oathpact, a pact that turned each of the ten into a splinter of honor, allowing them to persist after death in the cognitive realm, (something established in Secret history) by aligning them to the ten different forms of honor (how much cultivation had a hand in this is unknown, but I'm willing to believe that at least the initial Oathpact did not involve her). After being aligned the investiture they were granted to represent their form of honour manifested as the Honorblades, it was this investiture that investiture that prevented the voidbringers from leaving Braize, forming a barrier made of the 10 Honor blades, however of one of the Heralds broke to torture and summoned his blade to fight back, then the next desolation would begin. What the heralds did in the 'last' desolation was simply leave that barrier one sword wide, never 'fortifying' it further with their own blades, this left either the most honorable (or perhaps just the most stubborn) of them to stop the gap alone, and he did so flawlessly for 4500 years. How the heralds get new bodies upon the desolation is beyond me, they may have to find vessels or something, or they May just form one, we haven't been given enough information yet.

This is an interesting though a little off topic. it seems likely that across the different forms of investiture different materials will be required to makes spikes, as metal is the prominent form of power on Scadrial then metals the main ingredient used on Scadrial, however, it may be different on other worlds, for Roshar I personally prefer the use of gemstones.

Indeed, but when ruin created it he did not care who did the destroying or where, so long as it is being done intentionally, this makes the laws of hemalurgy basically universally available to be used with any magic system anywhere by anyone, so long as they know what they are doing.

I personally believe that hemalurgy is not the only way that this can be achieved, fabrials and forging also come to mind as possibilities, though I am more interested in the discussion of the repercussions of this Act than to the rest of the world than only the possibility of a single step to achieve it.

an interesting point but did do you consider... Mistborn spoiler I see this as an interesting flaw in the theory but not insurmountable, the intent for Hemalurgy could come from a whole bunch of place and perhaps the person who made the knife knew what it was intended for and his intent to "make a knife that steals souls" is enough.

True, but perhaps the intent that was needed in this case was the intent to kill a god? It seems like the knife itself might have had the intent of stealing something from Jezrien as it killed him.

It does, but Odium strikes me as someone who likes redundancies, you can never have too many back up plans, and can't be out played if you are already planning for your own failure.

I wonder if the spike would even be permanently necessary, perhaps just shoving the spike into him and letting it bond with his soulweb would to the job, no need for spikes in subsequent reincarnations, maybe the next step is to just kill him with the spike.

This is a theory founded on Moash's last acts in Oathbringer, and built considering that Odium is in desperate need of a champion that cannot lose. The theory is really pretty simple; What if Odium had Moash kill Jezrien, and gives him Jezriens sword, not just for the sake of killing him or for poetic symbolism, but because he intends to have Moash take Jezriens place in the Oathpact? Becoming a man that can be killed Physically only to be sent to 'damnation' with the only way out being the conscious act of betraying mankind (something Moash seems all too comfortable with)? The main queries for this theory are both how and why Odium would do this. The how could be done in a few ways, using the knife that killed jezrien as a hemalurgic spike is the most messy and obvious, the gem on the knife might also be used for this, or might also have its own purpose. The next is somehow having Moash absorb Jezrien's soul and meld with it, making them basically the same individual, and thus making Moash=Jezrien=Herald, if you guys can think of other ways that this may be achieved than please explain, I would love to hear your theories. The why is also rather simple, Odium needs a champion, and he needs one that cannot lose, he had a planned in place for this already, Dalinar fusing with the thrill entirely would have given him an unstoppable force for battle and ruthless tactics, undefeatable in combat through sheer skill, knowledge, and decisiveness. This theory suggests a back up plan, a champion that is an immovable object, if he can jury rig Moash into a Herald than that gives him both an immortal champion and someone to always hold the door open for his minions, because the only way for the ancient voidbringers to leave Damnation is for one of the Heralds to crack and manifest on Roshar to either escape or to willingly bring a desolation (the circumstances to the requirements for this are unclear, do they have to begin a desolation to manifest or does their manifestation begin the desolation?) But either way Moash could just keep coming back. with both Jezriens soul and his sword in hand I feel like this is an interesting next step for Odium, perhaps he even intended it for Dalinar, but is using a promising new tool in his stead due to lack of options or desperation

I don't Know if I agree with the title of 'godspren' for the bondsmith's spren, they are powerful and each seems to be related to the shards, but I feel like 'oathspren' is a more accurate term. Dalinar refers to the stormfather as "a spren of oaths" more than once and the fact that it is the stormfather that decides whether an oath is acceptable or not even for other orders of the Radiants suggests that it is linked to his intent. The nightwatcher also seems to be about binding people to their word, though in a more sinister way in some cases. I feel like oathspren is more precise description of them than 'godspren'.