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This theory could be proven wrong come SA5, but that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of evidence behind it: I wanted to make a place for people to officially get it down that they believe Gavilar is not always talking to the Stormfather. That is, Gavilar is sometimes or always talking to someone else. That someone else is likely Ishar in my opinion, but other have put forward The Everfather, Nohadon, Melishi, an Unmade, or other as the identity of the imposter. By all means make your case for who you think the Italic Voice might be! ----- Also, please feel free to post the most important memes a man can copy-paste ----- We ain't fallin' for Ishar's manipulations. Who do they think we are, Venli with Ulim? Who's been messing up everything? It's been Ishar all along Who's been pulling every stormin' string? It's been Ishar all along He's cremsidious So heraldfidious That you haven't even noticed And the pity is Pity is Pity, pity, pity, pity It's too late to reswear any oaths Now that Chana died all wrong It's been Ishar It's been ishar It's been Ishar all along! AND I MADE YOU KILL SURGEBINDERS, TOO; MWUAHAHAHAHAHA

Cant wait to see who is right! Though you seem so sure I am a bit worried you have some beta-reader information or something from another book haha

I will defend the StormFaker and the now infamous Chana theory I put forward anytime haha! But thank for another great episode! I know you all must be working overtime on these like mad

Great episode, but I wish you had someone defending the Stormfaker theory. With a poll saying 70% of people didn't believe it was truly the Stormfather, having someone argue the popular other side would have been fun (or at least go over the points people have against it being the Stormfather). A lot of the viewers dont think it was the Stormfather, so no discussion of the other side was odd (especially when not-Chana got time).

Just want to make it clear I think you did a good job! I just thought I would add my two sense about maybe adding is a discussion break in the middle of the plot synopsis. I actually really liked and appreciated the thorough recap, I just lost stamina haha

Nice first episode! Only thing might need tweaking was the synopsis length. I liked it and the jokes were great, but it might need to be broken down into more chunks in some way? It was a tad long and I think I needed some breaks. Maybe half the book discuss, then second half discuss? It was hard for me to pay attention to the synopsis for so long and something to break up the book might help (especially when you get to longer books)

Kal - man with depression continually convinces unskilled friends to die in suicide missions knowing that he himself is not at risk. Navani - Most privileged woman on Roshar trades information on weapons of mass destruction because she feels sad sometimes. Dalinar - A war criminal reads a book on being nicer to people and is then decreed "best person' by God

(The) King of Woes

Hoid said he would let the world burn if he had to, so I think that is what is going to happen.

Lin is protective of Shallan and not the 3 brothers, so that makes me think Shallan is unique in some way. It couldn't just be because Shallan was a girl, but Lin's relationship to Shallan makes me think he views Shallan as inherently more that the other children. I find it interesting that Chana has the divine attribute of "obedient" and Lin is driven to rage every time his children do not obey him. My guess is that they are all Chana's, but Chana added some special spice to Shallan and Lin knew about it.

It is not so much the people being sent to Braize, but the new maker of the Oathpact. Do you see Dalinar being cool with doing that to ten people? Or Navani? I think it would go against what they consider moral even if they had 10ish volunteers. Take meidcal ethics. Just because people volunteer for something does not make the act moral.

But is it "eternal torture before death"?

I get the impression that the heralds didn't fully realize what would happen to them in Braize, but now that we know, I don't think the Oaths would allow sending someone there in order to save the planet. Sending someone to get tortured in order to save the planet is not very "journey before destination". Even if someone volunteers, it still might not be ethical to let them agree to something so horrid.

I find it interesting that Cultivation let someone take up the shard. She could have showed up and said "DONT DO THAT", but she seems to have wanted Odium to exist rather than being split.

When I read SP3, I got the feeling that someone split the planet and separated it into a Light Sphere-Planet and a Dark Sphere-Planet. Painter's planet is described pretty close to how the shadow-orbs are described.

Seeing as very few singers get the ability after entering the pool, there must be something else involved as well.

I have had similar thoughts as well. A main motif of Stormlight Achieve is refugee populations and the migrations of peoples over time (and the consequences of that to indigenous populations). We have the (a)Shin people, the Singers, The Iriali and there roaming, the Horneaters seeking refuge, the destruction of the Herdazians, the genocide of the Amians (maybe both kinds), the deadeyes, and then other weird populations like Thaylens as well. I think we are going to see Roshar-System peoples escape to another world. My guess - Nalthis, since we have been told those worlds are close together and already aligned in the current story.

I also thought it was propaganda by Odium since future-sight blocks future-sight. But then Hoid also says to be very suspicious/cautious with anyone who claims to see the future, so there appears to be some legitimate issue with futuresight. What do we make of the Sel future-sight guy at the lighthouse though? It cant ALWAYS be of something malevolent, right? Maybe future-sight is manipulatable and often untrustworthy?

If that is a corruption, then I wonder what a regular Truthwatcher gets visions of? That order was so reclusive even before the era of peace, so there isnt much of a way to know. We do have that 1 Truthwatcher saying "I foresaw this" in a gem-record, but we also have a WOB saying Renarin is the first to bond a corrupted Truthwatcher Spren. Honestly, I really thought the Truthwatchers had been semi-corrupted before based on the "I foresaw this", but maybe they had some Cultivation forsight here and there.

I have always thought the hidden ending was the vision of Roshar being destroyed. We know that is one possible outcome, so what if it is actually THE outcome.

TLR may have also been able to change the game once he had remade the planet, so maybe TLR just didnt really need to worry about the old status-quo of the pits. Surely he had enough atium to get him to Well Refilling Day. Come to think of it, do we know what TLR would have done at the well had he made it there? Revitalize downtown? Solve global ashing? Attack Ruin in some meaningful way?

My guess would be "someone" found out a herald had 3 sons. Once this was known, either through trickery or temptation, Chana added a bit of spice to the next child she had. We don't get the impression that the boys are special, so my gut tells me that Shallan is something more complex than regular old cognitive-shadow breeding. My guess would be that Cultivation did something that undercut what Odium was doing, and Shallan will be Cultivation's final gambit. But then I also think Shallan is "the one who will destroy us" mentioned on the back of the book, and I think Roshar will die, so maybe hope I am not right haha

I find it interesting that Shallan can almost "watch" what is happening to people from a distance. Shallan shares a surge with Truthwatchers, so is it possible that regular truthwatchers can do something similar but to a stronger extent?

Shallan specifically says that her mother named her after Shallash.

I kind of assumed Axendwith was Kelsier’s doing. We have a terriswoman moving forward a desolation, so that seems like a likely explanation. Seems odd to think a terriswoman just happens to be on Roshar and just happens to be meddling in world events separately from Kelsier when Kelsier says his team has been meddling in desolations.