DreamEternal

Still, now I am kinda conflicted, because if Szeth does get more focus in the next I will probaly have to put up with Nightblood all the while, but if he had flashbacks there would be more room for character development and redemption. Now it is likely that his possible redemption will be dragged out throught two books, while his chapters in the third book will focus in his interaction with nightblood. Or Szeth will stay in the background, in wich case it would be better if Eshonai got more attention or Adolin got exiled and his storyline became more independent from the other mains, else I think we would get to much of the same characters in the first three books.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I want my Szeth flashbacks, damnation! Not that Dalinar isn't awesome, of course.

Uh, spren seem to care about stormlight actualy. Fabrials need stormlight and greatshells have gemhearts.

Maybe it is because Endowment's intent makes it harder for her to interact with the breaths that she has already given.

Maybe even Preservation alone may have been able to contain him, since it is the only shard we have seen that could forcibly isolate part of a shard power from it.

Ruin seens to find it easier than most shards to influence people, as I pointed above. Makes me wonder if the only reason Odium was considered more dangerous is because Ruin was trapped with Preservation, who trapped part of Ruin's power in the atium and was amazing at seeing the future, because except for the proven capacity to splinter shards Odium doens't sound anywhere as dangerous as Ruin by itself. Or Rayse is just much worse than Ati

It would be more pratical to wield a smaller sprenblade that wouldb't interfere with his other sword or have a shardbuckler

He wouldn't need stormlight to wield it, but to wield it well. A sword is made to fit the proportions if its wielder, and if a shin were to use a unnaturaly heavy sword made for someone as tall as an alethi his performance would be impacted. Not that he would need much of it, just the same amount Kaladin seems to use on instinct to stay on duty for longer periods of time, not even enough for a faint glow.

We don't know ebough about shard to shard combat to know if he couldn't force Sazed to invest to much of his power into the world and become weaker, or if there are other ways to defeat a shard besides raw power. The only exemple of on-screen shard combat is in mistborn, but Ruin and Preservation are polar opposites in intent, wich may change how they interact. Plus, Leras was able to trap part of Ati's power in the Atium while he was the weakest of them to force him to become his equal in power, even though he lost his mind in the process, so simply overpowering the oponent isn't the only trick in a shard's arsenal, not by a faint breeze or a stormwind.

Granted. However, Cultivation likes change, so all of humanity is locked into cryosleep until bonobos and whales are extinct. I wish for absolute pitch.

Preservation had the mists, his "body" all around in the air, while the Breaths are inside of people and things. Also, maybe her intent prohibits her from taking control of Breaths to stop the lifeless, since they were given by her, so they aren't hers anymore. So the only moment she can interact with people is the very moment they recieve splinters of her.

That assumes the more oaths are spoken the more broken the spren gets when they are abandoned, wich could be truth up to a certain point, but I would say that you don't realy need oaths to revive a spren, only following the principles of the spren's order with all your mind and soul, and get that "something else" done if it wasn't your spren originaly. What ressurected Syl wasn't the third oath, but Kaladin puting his life on the line in a attempt to protect someone he hated that he knew would fail, just because that was who he was, who he wanted to be. A guardian.

Shards have a hard time speaking to people in general. Vin when holding preservation could only nudge Elend in the right direction, Ruin could only influence the insane and the hemalurgic spiked, Endowment only speaks with the Returned when they are returning. Elend held a relatively large amount of Preservation's investiture by being a powerful mistborn, and Preservation seems to be a worse shard at speaking with people than Ruin. Ruin seems to be able to slip into any sufficiently cracked mind, beffiting its goal of breaking everything apart. Plus, I remember an WoB thet said Ruin didn't manipulate writing itself, but the mind of the writer or reader, sadly, I am on mobile and can't post a link. Ruin seems to be exceptionaly good at interacting with people. Endowment can only speak with people the moment they are receiving a splinter of her. Odium, while not as pervasive as Ruin, can influence people in a large scale with the unmade, and in a personal scale too, as seem with Lin Davar(confirmed by WoB) and perhaps Elhokar(both are described as looking at people they love who are proto-radiants with hateful eyes, with shadows beneath the surface, only to stop looking at them that way, the darkness warded of).

Stormlight archive also has prophecies. Except they are also not your usual fare either: Warbreaker probably is were he played the prophecy trope straighter. Altough after Words of Radiance it seems he is starting to play it straight with Maybe he is trying to redeem this so hated trope?

Mistborn: At first I had a hard time seeing Sazed as bald, and The Lord Ruler wears dark grey clothing, not black and white. Oh, and he looks just like Fire Lord Ozai. I also had a hard time seeing preservation as male at first, but that is because in portuguese(I am brazilian, although I read Brandon's books in english since most of them still haven't gotten here) nouns are gendered, and preservation is a female noum. Actualy, the only shard names that would be male nouns in portuguese are Odium, Dominion and MAYBE Endowment.

Nightblood may lack the ability to disappear and be too big to conceal, but at least it looks like a completely normal, if somewhat big, sword if completely sheated. Although Szeth may need stormlight to wield it properly, even sheated, since it is heavier than it should be and it would be already too big for a person as short as Szeth if it was a normal sword.

Actualy, Syl was alive enough to speak with Kaladin and the Stormfather before he said the third oath. I believe he needed to say one more oath to complete the bond because she was being held back by the Stormfather. Adolin most likely would have to say the first oath, maybe the second, live by the ideals of his order and get that esoteric "something else" done, wich most likely involves help from living spren, since Pattern said the cryptics already tried restoring life to the broken spren and failed, or from a surgebinder, since their touch brings dead spren closer to life.

Unless the theory that radiants develop gemhearts after speaking enough oaths is true, in wich case they could just stay outside during a highstorm... Of course, the chance of that theory being true is also slim to none.

Maybe if a Eshonai manages to bond a surgespren she will get a new form instead of surgebinding?

And there is also the popular theory that Eshonai is alive and will bond a willshaper spren... Or maybe she is dead or a voidbringer for forever and we will only get flashbacks and Dalinar will die before he learns to surgebind and we will only get flashbacks.

Uh. The stonewards are Tension+Cohesion, not the willshapers. They were Transportation+Cohesion.

Bondsmiths have tension, wich Brandon is still working on but apparentily can make things sttifier or more flexible, and adhesion, the surge of pressure, used for the full lashing, and maybe the air wave Kaladin created when he said the second oath. Division, the surge skybreakers share with dustbringers probaly disintegrates stuff or explodes it or sets it on fire. There is a theory that says it can disintegrate things and the dustbringers incresed friction to set it in fire, since if ground to a fine enough powder many "fireproof" things can burn. Zahel is Vasher, his lifesense lets he feel people and spren, as shown by his interlude. He can feed on Stormlight instead of Breath, that is part of why he came to Roshar. Now, why nightblood is in Nale's hands is quite another matter.

That is my guess. Maybe there realy is more out there.

Szeth needs ten heartbeats to summon his blade, and it doens't shapechange. All this things are because Kaladin's blade is a spren and Szeth's isnt.

Forgot about Vasher. I guess I can be as intolerant to stupidity as him, and I do like his brand of humor.