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Lots of theories floating around! Cultivation said to seek the power of honor in the SR; I bet somehow Kaladin (or his soul) is a camouflaged and dormant hiding place for that power. I’m probably wrong, but he likely dies and Dalinar picks up the shard that instantly shows up. Like the 2013 Superman with Henry Cavill, when Kal El (Russell Crowe) embedded krypton’s genetic bank into baby Superman then sent him to earth. Superman is krypton, Kaladin is Honor.

I 100% concur. As is Jasnah. Which is why I’m long-gaming those two lol. You know **** got real when you named your female cat jasnah, I need a make cat to name Kaladin

Man.... I haven't seen this one touched yet, but i also don't live on this website lol. If I recall correctly, Bondsmith candidates historically have been (predominantly): Rlain, Navani, Taravangian All three are now off the table. I don't think Brandon would make a rando into a bondsmith... seems too "out there". The bondsmith presumably has to be someone of some notoriety. Let the critiques commence, my prediction is yet another Kholin: Adolin. Maya aside, we don't really know what that bond entails or if it eliminates a current spren bond... even if she's half revived. "I will unite instead of divide" ..... the entire trial scene in ROW and presumably the humans and honor spren in book 5?? Uniting all spren and stripping the ash spren of their gripes about human betrayal, possibly turning the skybreakers as well? I think Adolin and Maya just singlehandedly united the Shadesmar scene by exposing the truth. What about Dalinar possibly dying? Who would take his bond? I'm sure there's another character out there who will snatch up the nightwatcher but I hope it's not a fused or something. It could always be someone like Sebarial lol. In the event Dalinar sies, I think we have a candidate for a triple-hatted bondsmith and/or shardholder: Kaladin. His eyes were glowing red after Teft and hes the son of tanavast, no clue on how he's connected to cultivation yet but i'm sure there's something. After all, who was Tanavast into??? Despite a WOB saying Lirin and Hesina are his biological parents, it may be that they physically had him but his soul was injected into that body via an honor/cultivation love scene or something. All this to say: Kaladin is gonna be the eventual bondsmith or shardholder for all three, but the 25 meter target, in my opinion, is Adolin.

Regardless of Jasnah's distraction with Wit.... I'm long gaming Jasnadin still. Sue me lol

Doesnt the earlier stuff specifically say he broke? "The ancient of stones must finally begin to crack" - WOR, 83 Epigraph - and - "...I am Talenel'Elin, Stonesinew, Herald of the Almighty. The Desolation has come. Oh God... it has come. And I have failed." - WOK Epilogue

I picture Adolin reviving Maya and instantly getting whatever level her ex-KR used to be at the time of the Recreance... new territory, unlimited possibilities I guess, I just hope it's level 5 right away. As far as his character, he's definitely a good dude but it's been mentioned a bunch: he's killed hundreds, his dad accidentally burned his mom alive, he had an emotionally abusive childhood, the dude has been through way more than most people so I'm not sure it's fair to say that he doesn't have holes in his spriritweb. Worst case scenario, if revived Maya and Adolin are the equivalent of a level 2 or 3 knight, at a minimum she will have full-knowledge of all sorts of radiant tricks and know-how that no one else will have. I feel like he is going to somehow revive all the dead eyes though based off the quantity who were at lasting integrity. Boring or not though, he's one of my favorite characters.... I REALLY hope he and Kaladin have another arena style moment where they merge their skills and slaughter an entire battlefield...those two at peak condition together are gnarles barkley.

The only thing discussed there is the acceptance of the 4th ideal, not Dalinar using all caps in the book

So check out two chapters later. It seems that Kaladin swore his 4th Ideal to Dalinar ?? See screenshot. Thoughts??

Has anyone else noticed that Dalinar speaks in all caps here?? I’m posting 3 screenshots of the nook version, this is towards the end of Rhythm of War soon after Kaladin jumps off a certain high tower. Pay attention to the font.... as well as when Kaladin hears a voice in the next chapter, screenshot 3.... “not the stormfather’s”

Whoever the champion of Odium is, Dalinar is gonna die in book 5. The setup is too neat: a second bondsmith ready to fill the gap, and the amount of detail and emphasis to Dalinar and Odium’s treaty, should Dalinar lose, is not an accident. There’s a WOB somewhere talking about certain unnamed characters not surviving the first five books... my money is 100% on Dalinar. The question then becomes “who can kill him?” Szeth handled non-radiant Dalinar very easily in WOR. Neither Szeth nor Dalinar can compete against any herald—— if we talk heralds, my money is on Nale, as he’s literally fighting for Odium. Plus we had a foreshadowing moment with those two. El is too random and new... there’s zero attachment to him for the readers. Thaidakar aka K-Money is a possibility, we just don’t know yet. Wit is also a possibility, pending what happened in that epilogue. Overall, Kaladin “should” be chosen... it’s beyond obvious that he’s the biggest bad *** in the series. Dalinar simply made a bad deal and bad champion choice, books 6-10 are gonna be a level 5, 35-40 year old Kaladin redoing the job the right way and becoming the new version of Adonalsium. And he’s gonna have to face-down and kill evil odium-owned Dalinar in the process. My 2 cents

?Combative much? It’s a fictional story man not real life “god of evil” —they don’t see themselves as evil, they see themselves as full of passion. And if they’re all on the same side anyways serving the same god on the same planet, I see no reason why an unmade would be kept captive in a gemstone on that planet.

For an inexplicable reason I’m of the opinion that the gemstone holds The Sibling, or somehow holds several fractured fragments of Honor. If Gavilar got it from Braize, there’d be absolutely no reason for a Braize-ally to be trapped in that thing. Also. Clearly the decision makers never saw Transformers with Megatron’s rescue from the Laurentian Abyss.... nor did they read The Fellowship of the Ring, specifically the Council of Elrond chapter (see pics). Let’s also not forget that an unmade in a gemstone at the bottom of the ocean would likely be a huge This post has been reported for attempting to skirt the rules beacon at the top of a mountain in Shadesmar. Complete rookie movie ^^^ “attempting to skirt the rules”??? about to deactivate this account.

I think Kaladin is going to die but return as a cognitive shadow/herald/zahel equivalent... that seems to me to be what this chapter overwhelmingly foreshadowed. He is literally on everyone’s radar—— the nine, the fused, the pursuer, all friendlies—— the clear choice for honor’s champion. I think his 4th ideal ascension will have something to do with everyone hunting him down and systematically killing his less-capable friends that are now in charge of Bridge 4.

Alright.... so I’m into hair metal/hero metal/opera metal. Admittedly this song has nothing to do the “the tower” from TWOK, but it’s called “the tower”. Definitely picturing it on max volume in my suburban as Dalinar/Adolin and their thousands making a last stand..... then from 4 minutes left to the end to 3:10 it’s Kaladin making up his mind. The rest goes from there! Helps if you’ve got a system lol:

I dunno man..... but (I admittedly just quoted this and skipped every comment in between) it’s plausible that perhaps the Sibling is in Aimia or something and he utilized one of the sleepless to place the span reed and also communicate. Now I’m sorta rusty.... are the sleepless the cremlings that create a humanoid looking body? And the cremlings are given Easter egg appearances all over Roshar.... and somehow transfer the things they observe to like a “brain” way far off right? That’s how the sleepless know so much. it’s possible that the “slumbering” sibling is using this mechanism while hiding out in a place of relative safety.

My first reaction was the exact same—- obviously the mechanics of the situation would need explaining but I thought “sibling” very strongly

Is Adolin holding just a sheathed sword or is that nightblood? Looks black with a metallic sheath, and the cross guard looks like a hugely off-size blade retaining clasp.

Haha shoot man, I wouldn’t be embarrassed...my perception and a lot of other readers who I talk to got the same notion from the book. That’s exactly how it comes off to the reader unless you live on this website for 23 hours every day at the expense of real life and sunlight; the average employed adult with kids can’t know 1/12th of all these details.

I think they were just beat down at aharietiam?? Perhaps them losing their marbles is more recent

Not really. Kaladin did so much good for a single bridge crew as a bridge man wading through neck deep death and b******* on a daily basis. There are loads of examples of Gaz being sadistic for no reason other than his own whims—— which Kaladin identifies in his POV to the reader on the spot every time lol.

I second the darts, I recall mentioning a similar thing to someone on the windrunner vs skybreaker duel but instead had suggested rocks or something.... either way, projectiles are definitely a must-have. In theory they could have essentially magazine fed weapons, when the projectile is in the chamber and getting lashed repeatedly/charged up, there’s a “gate” or block that gets removed with a simple trigger pull. This would allow for sights and more aimed/precise ranges attacks. Even something like a Tippman 98 with a 200rd hopper of marbles or stones would do the trick. If there’s be a way to supercharge the rounds with a lash-inducing fabrial then it’d essentially allow for semi-auto or even full auto firing without depleting the storm light reserve of the windrunner. But if that’s the case, then any order of radiant could roll hot with one. I think with Navani’s fourth bridge there’s the potential for self-contained fighters/jets... smaller scale gemstone controls but the apparatus either lashed by a windrunner or skybreaker pilot to allow for a lighter ride requiring less large scale fabrial power?? Dude in the back seat (like goose in the f-14) could run weapons (like above but larger) while the pilot (maverick in the front seat) runs controls Desert storm style dune buggies carrying a team of Radiants....edgedancers could slick the skids and windrunners or someone else provides the momentum. skybreakers or dustbringers could provide defense to any hostile incoming projectiles??

Anyone read the book, “Hitler’s Willing Executioners”? That’s Gaz in WOK. Dude is a complete toolbag that should have been sent to the front of every bridge run. There are dudes like him in the real army, they deserve what they get whenever they get it, pending some form of repentance and acknowledgment.

This, and .... tells me that if Honor is restored and “the light switch is turned back on”, so to speak, that the Herald’s will likely become sane again....similiar disease to Elantris as well as similar cure?

Possibly—— but he’s also openly admitted his identity to the other sky breakers, they all know his level, and by the end of Oathbringer the cat is out of the bag as far as desolations are concerned..... floating above a battlefield that literally has a physical manifestation of a Shard present, an angry bondsmith in the middle of ascending, a massive amount of fused, tens of thousands of troops, a thunderclast, and multiple unmade present all qualify (in my humble opinion) to override any false senses of modesty. “Nearly” unkillable doesn’t mean “unkillable”. Plus he’s well aware of where he goes if he does die. I think we haven’t seen him rock plate because Brandon simply didn’t want to have too many revealing injects in the story too soon... just my $0.02

If Nale is a level 5 sky breaker as well as a herald, why doesn’t he rock living plate? Unless he simply chooses not to—— but if someone 100% has maxed out the leveling system, and if plate is based off level, then he’d have it.