Random Observations R Me

I confess, I did it twice, choosing different answers each time that worked for me. The first time it was almost split 50/50 between Truthwatcher and Dustbringer as my top two(somehow...), with Dustbringer being 1 or 2% lower. Should I be concerned about my mental health(jokingly)? Because, they seem like VERY different groups to me. The second time I got: 72% Truthwatcher 68% Elsecaller 26% Lightweaver 19% Skybreaker 0% Everything Else Funny Thought: I knew Hufflepuff was hiding something! I mean, the Dustbringers are the loyal ones... The Puffs have great and terrible power!

The texting bit gets a whole lot weirder when you consider that the ardents are priests.

… And completely off the current topic of conversation… Personally, I'm not really sure who I’d like to see Kaladin end up with at this point. I'd kind of like to see him end of with a female Knight Radiant from one of the warrior orders. It would be awesome, and mix up the gender roles on Roshar a bit(something that needs to happen soon in my opinion)I would settle for a Kaladin x Shallan pairing if it came down to that - if only to break Brandon's constant use of the "Happily arranged marriage" trope. It worked well in Elantris, and was pretty good in Warbreaker. But, personally, I'm a bit tired of it. I get that it doesn't usually happen a lot in fiction, but it’s still a bit... repetitive after the previously mentioned books. On another semi-related topic: Does anyone else get the feeling that Kaladin is going to be one of the first men who is taught how to read and write? It was in one of Kaladin’s flashbacks that his mother talked about the possibility. And, it would be another mixing of gender roles.

In the OP the reverse shadow thing is brought up. I find it interesting that during the prologue Jahsna(spelling? I don't have my book with me)'s shadow goes the oposite way as well. I may be misremembering, but I just thought I'd throw that out there.

This is my first post on this forum. So, I'd like to start out by saying "Hi" to everyone here. Now: Theory time Warning: I don't have any support for this. It is pure, 100%, unsweatened, no preservatives added, speculation. I am personally(like a number of other people aparently) a supporter of the Stormfather/Nightwatcher/Coolfish(not going to spell it out 'cause I don't feel like scrolling up and don't have my book within easy reach) idea. Earlier there was a comment about Coolfish being like an echo and broken after the Recrience. This got me thinking, and well: What if Coolfish is in the non-shardblade godspren version of "screaming spren death" - like the vast majority of shardblades(Sylphrena and Pattern excluded), but as a godspren/superspren/Bondsmith spren? This of course leads to another, slightly more disturbing and worrying question: If such a state is possible, why did the Knights Radiant leave their spren in the form of shardblades? Why did they give mankind - who from what we've seen, clearly wasn't ready for such a thing - weapons on the scale of shardblades? True, shardblades aren't nukes, but still... Why?