DreamEternal

You didn't sound snide at all, and there is truly much we do not know. What I am saying is that the Desolationa are characterised by a flood of voidspren of many different types, creating voidbringers and the Ten Deaths. So far I don't have an answer about how they can exist between desolations, but so far I think they are something new too, from after the "Final" Desolation, and the same power build-up that allowed the Everstorm also allowed Odium to send some of his spren to Roshar, also explaining things like the Thrill, or more recently the Death Rattles. But of course, this is especulation upon especulation, and I don't expect to convince anyone, only to say what I think. I suppose we can work on defining what exactly we know or can suppose before discussing personal theories.

Just to nitpick: Stormlight three is now Oathbringer, Dalinar's book. A pity, since Highprince of War was a better title in my opinion. I just hate when authors mash words togheter and make a new word. You can't do that in my language without sounding silly./rant

According to my theory, the voidspren of the minions of Odium destroyed in a desolation return to Braize and reappear after some time like the Atium geodes(althought this is a different thing from the Everstorm build-up). This means the Heralds would have to leave before this time limit, since their leaving cuts of Odium's link to Roshar. This time limit must be somewhat short compared to the desolation itself, since the Heralds had to abandon the oathpact before they could be even sure the last thunderclasts died. I think the heralds leaving before the fighting was actualy done was more common than we suppose. This is also given credit by the idea of Radiants being primarily made to rebuild and preserve knoeledge.

I don't think so. When your qualities allow it, the Hat lets you choose your house, and I think Kaladin would choose Slytherin. He always wanted to be a master of his discipline, be it healing or killing. He yearns fir controlling his own life. He wanted to learn how to think like a lighteyes so he could prove he was not their inferior. Yes, he wants to protect people, but when he doens't see anyone needing protection he seeks to better himself, even better if it is for protecting others. Kaladin may have stronger Gryffidor tendencies, but I think he would choose Slytherin.

In the dark of the night, no one can hear you scream/dream. Seriously, when I try to speak in my dreams I start feeling like I am being strangled and no sounds come. This reminds me of a dream/paranormal experience/semicouncious allucination I had: It was dark in my bedroom, the darkness that obscures the mind itself and dulls thought as it sweeps away all notion of space and time. I was lying still in my bed, eyes open yet unseeing. And I felt a sense of ancious anticipation as my perception expanded and I felt several beings standing around me. Watching. They were slightly short and inhumanly slender, and their bodies were made of cool smokeless flame so dark I couldn't see them, even thought I knew they were there. I stretched forth my hand to touch one, to know if it was an illusion, but no matter how close it was, it was always out of my reach. Then I felt something touch my leg briefily, and they disappeared.

Well, actualy I do believe that in this desolation Odium actualy has a chance of breaking free, contrary to what the old reptile thinks. The confusion was just the part that Odium needed to wait between Desolations to restore his forces. I am sorry if my post was confusing, and hope to learn what do you think is happening, since you disagree with me.

Sorry, I don't understand what you are implying. Under my theory, Odium can only unleash his power after an herald left and built a bridge, so to speak, and loses the connection to Roshar after at least one Herald comes back and seals him back. However while it takes only one Herald to trap Odium it takes ten to stop a build-up of investiture before said herald inevitably breaks. Another desolation would start eventualy because with no Heralds in Braize and the "bridge" up it would be easy for Odium to send another wave of voidspren after the first is defeated and so on. It takes one Herald to delay a Desolation, it takes ten to prevent the Final Desolation by preventing the build-up. The Heralds can't just allow Odium to constantly attack Roshar because the lower power limit, with no build-up, is the one of the Desolations that could decimate Roshar. This Desolation is worse.

And as always, people assume there was a deal between Honor and Odium. The way I see it, the desolations only happened so far apart because it took time for Odium to raise enough strenght to try to breach his prision. The Heralds were sent to damnation to strenghten the prision after a deal with Honor to be his champions, the bulwark of Roshar. The honorblades were made to syphon Odium's investiture while on Braize, making sure Odium was too weak to break out in his own. However, the Heralds were not invincible, and could be broken by Odium, who could send his spren eith them when they left to Roshar. Honor hoped humanity could survive these terrible battles and push back Odium, so the Heralds could return and re-seal his prision, but when only Taln went back and trapped Odium, the prision was flawed, and Odium could influence Roshar with his Unmade. Worse, Taln alone couldn't stop Odium from building up his power for a Desolation more terrible than any other. Part of that extra power became what we know as the Everstorm. At least that is what I believe.

No, that would be unnecessary after my post and make the joke worse. Just don't state the "cannibal theory" like it was confirmed on further ocasions.

I do. That scene was already overdramatic and felt in many ways forced (for exemple, Graves explaining his plans and laughing while he ran). It would be better in my opinion if Syl said something more low key, or at least used "your" instead of "thy".

What was the point of that?

That is exactly what I meant. Plus, comparing restaurants, wich depend much more on sociological factors than technological ones to aerospacial enginnering is very unfair and indirectly assumes all societies must have changed like our own with time, or stayed stuck at a certain level, no matter how wildly the circunstances differ.

But did restaurants even exist in these books? While the word may be "too modern" for your tastes, restaurants in our world are also relatively modern, and the word itself is older than restaurants as we know them.If in Roshar restaurants as we know them arised earlier than we would expect if we took our world as a model due to different circunstances, them why should Brandon make up a world to describe them, or use a world that would be "historicaly correct" in our world but innacurate for how they actualy work in Roshar instead of using a well know and relatively precise word? Roshar is not Earth, so it is best to just assume it is a translation.

You know you are a Sanderfan when you get anoyed people state this meme as a fact.

The same glyph can be written in many different ways, so both could be the windrunner glyph.

Of course, one could say Szeth was also dead... for a while . EDIT: In case anyone doens't notice, I was joking in my last post.

Or we could assume Sadeas is not dead. I can see the bastard laughting as he picks up Odium after Rayse is killed by his own champion... Of course, the logical conclusion would for Rayse to come back too. "All according to the plan." Gavilar said, reclining on his throne as he watched the world burn from the depths of the Expanse of the Broken Sky. Yes, it was good to be the God Beyond. "Now, lets bring forward step two: Adonalsium.".

He recovered a drawing from the middle of the ocean after the ship it was melted into water. Honestly, in order to do this he probably needs to have pretty useful magics or advanced tech he could also use for worldhopping

Does anyone know the color of his other eye? We know some of the childen born of a darkeyes and a lighteyes can have one eye if each color. Losing his eye could also have been a loss of status. Plus, in a universe were weird connections are commonplace (Shallan's brother being the shardbearer Kaladin killed, Tvlak lugging radiants around in the same wagon, Amaram being Dalinar's friend) then maybe he could be related to some important lighteyes.

A rocket ship... how in Braize would a stoneward know how to build one of these?

Cobfused, I'd say Ruin and Preservation are a special cause by virtue if their intents, no matter if they wete splintered or not. The powers they hold naturaly oppose and complete the other, and that was why they ended in the same world. That was why Ati could trick the mists into snaping people. And I suspect that was why he couldn't evade Vin's strike, or even why it could even work. Their powers push against one another perfectly up to a certain energy level, but past this threshold they colapse into one another with explosive force, like two atoms fusing into one.

I theorized Lightweavers progress unusualy fast at first, if not forced to supress memories and re-learn. For me it makes more sense than Shallan already having two big terrible secrets supressed and later acepted even before killing her mother. But currently I wouldn't say Shalkan is learning much faster than Kaladin. It is just that I think truths are only required for progression if the bond was damaged.

Funny thing is, if Ruin was unwilling to give his power to create feruchemy, but Preservation stole it, then Leras was practicing what amounts to a hemalurgy analogue.

Remember that in the cosmere the laws of physics are more like agreements between friends when realmatics are concerned. For exemple, the color-draining in awakening is generaly considered to be spiritual in nature, not physical.