teknopathetic

This title is too spoiler for my liking....

We need to know if there are other antis as well. Is stardlight unique to the Rosharan system, or do other shards make light as well in some way? Would it be possible to get Endowment light? Also, are there anti other investiture forms? Could one make anti-breath? Anti-aeons? So many questions.

I honestly think Cultivation made a mistake. Shards "can't see the hearts of men", and Cultivation thought Terivangian had a better heart than he did. Hell, I thought he had a better heart, but he flipped immediately when he got power.... And honestly, I don't like it. I really REALLY don't think Terivangian was ever once odius EVER, and I am generally annoyed that he became hateful so fast...

We get that name used on Sel as well (the only other planet we know Odium has been to). This made me think that people from Sel came with Odium, and the term name carried over. Edit: Sel -> Ashyn -> Roshar (Maybe Ashyn had humans already and maybe they didn't)

I felt like she wanted someone who could be more Passion than Odium. She tried todo that by connecting Tod on the day he was most Emotional. However, something went very wrong. The Tod we see, to me, is in no way anything like the Terivangian we say during his final days in the cell...

But what happened with that? Mr.T was trying to do good by killing Odium. He was risking his city by breaking his oath to work with Odium. So .... why does Terivangian go so evil so quickly? To me Terivangian was not 100% evil, but struggled with two conflicting versions of morality. When his morality turned out to be "be evil immediately upon getting power" I felt really betrayed by Brandon. I honestly felt Terivangian had learned a lot in his final days and that he did have the capacity to be emotional and understanding... I was hoping his emotional side would help him wield the shard closer to Passion, but damn did he ever go straight to Odium... On that, I thought Renarin wanted Mr.T to go against Odium in order to stay in the light, but I guess Terivangian shouldn't have done it? I just ... I dont like it from a literacy POV. MrT was not what Odium is and I don't believe he is a good vessel despite what Brandon seems to want him to be.

I do want a shard like Idiocy/Mistake/Error/Hubrace/Folly. I feel like God's errors are not fully accounted for in this division.

We also have something like "Sorrow" as semi kind of confirmed. Maybe Sorrow is a part of mMercy, but maybe not.

We got Cultivation's name as Kora Avast so I wanted to see if it was Tan Avast or Tanavast. I scored down and sat "T" and then went "WHAT ON ROSHAR!". Luckily, I was already on part 5 but still....

My gut was no, but Cultivation may have a piece of him (like she does with Dalinar).

I am surprised no one talked about "Mercy Kill". To a lot of people Mercy is a form of death or ending pain. What if Mercy goes around smothering people with pillows? The Threnody planets also have names that are puritanical like the term Mercy (Elegy, Purity, and Threnody) so to me it seems like Mercy was likely invested there at some point.

I am hoping (oh gosh am I hoping) that Cultivation is not as fooled by Odivangian, and that she still has Lift as the final part of her plan.

What is skepping?

Hold does say "Rayse" a bit too much in my opinion...

Sorry sorry - I thought we had a WOB on this but I am misremembering (or I cant find it).

When Rysn is having a though-invasion by the Dawnshard, she hears "You have been Remade". I find it interesting that we get a capital R seeing that we have some unexplained monsters called the Unmade. Do we think there is a relationship here? My first guess was that the Unmade were people who had help a Dawnshard and somehow those people were corrupted.

In terms of killing a Sleepless, I think if you killed all their specialized memory hoardings you would probably have effectively killed that Sleepless (maybe? Maybe other sleepless could form a composite memory for you but still...)

There are sleepless on other world that look very different. It could be that the Rosharan sleepless are destroyed but other types survive. Just like the humans on Roshar might die but others survive on Sel.

I agree. Regular (small c) commands in Awakening require visualization, and these capital-c Commands might require more visualization that a regular human could pull-off. Makes you wonder if someone as practiced as Vasher might be able to pull it off though, or if Divine breath is enough to do it either. We know Nightblood was made in a weird way, so I wonder if a big-c Command was use in the process.

It did seem like maybe Chiri-Chiri wasn’t alone in that chamber.... I don’t think she made the roar that was heard.

I skipped a lot of the Lopen stuff at the end because I just didn’t care, but the Rysn stuff was amazing!

Part of me wonders if there was another 4th Larkin in that cave? It seemed like chiri-chiri couldn’t have been the one to make the loud roar, right? I get there could be echo, but I think something else was for sure in there. How it hides I have no idea.

Now we get to play Spot the Sleepless in Uritheru, and now there might be around 20+ of them!

Dawn is in so many Rosharan name (Dawnsinger, Dawncity, Dawnchant), so it seems like this planet might just be more connected to them historically for some reason. Perhaps it is something as simple as the Dawnhards were placed on Roshar before the Shattering by A. and then slowly the Shards returned after the Shattering.

Honour/Cultivation's Plan - 1. Lie about the Dawnshards being lost (do this near Honour's death/causing his death since it might hurt him). 2.Make sure Odium gets this false intel (perhaps use the visions) 3. Trick Odium into agreeing to a battle of champions, 4. Use the Dawnshards to destroy him or his champion.