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Renarin also used his light to make a thunderclast unsummon. It wasn't clear how generalized that power was. Could the light-unsummon be used by any radiant, only truthwatchers and a neighbour order, just truthwatchers, or just corrupted truthwatchers? Truthwatchers are in the middle of the order diagram just like bondsmiths, so maybe they have some pivotal power or influence as well?

This is my favourite shard cast program, no jokes

It’s super hard if not impossible to leave the Rosharan system with your spren. But maybe she goes to Ashyn?

Shallan even says Ishnah is a most trusted confidant. My guess is that the poison was in the mouth-gag. The whole thing about “injecting” was a misdirect. Ishnah had direct control of Ialai’s mouth.

I feel the Sibling is slumbering in the Horneater peaks. All the things the tower needs are things the Horneater peaks inexplicably have (plus they believe the god spren were involved)

We do have Tien and his finding "face-rocks". There is a possibility that magic stones do/did exist in some way. Hints would be Tien, Thunderclasts, Shin Stonemages, the Sibling going to a mountain range, and the prohibition against walking on stone. I am wondering if Ashyen magic was more stone based than gem based, and some of the stone magic went with the refugees. A common counter theory to mine is the theory that the Shin were told not to leave the reservation, so they had a big thing with leaving the grassy areas (that eventually became a stone aversion). Personally, I think there have been too many unexplained stone hints and really want there to be some truth to it.

The metals are an access key that let people tap into a specific arrangement of investiture. It would make sense that the metal could be rigged to apply the unlocked effect in another system.

I wonder if Kal will be asked to use Nighblood to perm-kill Leshwi and then I wonder if that would break him

Dalinar has the authority to free Odium, so it isn't a huge stretch that he and the Stormfather have the authority to open the Oathgates.

I also thought Shallan was doing much better. Viel is extremely important to her, so keeping her as a part of her is fine. Shallan is now able to bleed between her personas and control who she wants out in order to suit her task. Thats what I want for her. I don't need her to just be one person as her powers let her be so many and connect in such interesting ways. The fact she can control it is a great step in my opinion. It has moved from a crutch towards being a tool.

Im not sure if Gavilar is really like that, or if an unmade/Braize influence is causing some huge personality changes.

While lamentation is a noun, it is usually used to describe a verb. People say "acts of lamentation" or "He lamented". It is closer to things like "cry" and "wail" than something like Sorrow or Misery.

I always assumed the names were for the death of Ambition, and perhaps the curse laid upon the system after whatever happened happened. My gut was that Ambition ripped free of the planet too quickly, and this had consequences (also in combination with her mortal wound and eventual death). Or, my other theory, is that Ambition is ambitious and made a plan to one day resurrect (leaving magic about that could help that apotheosis occur once again). We have a WOB saying if Ambition were a Magic the Gathering person, she would be mono-black (resurrection and necromancy magic). I have my suspicions that the ShoDell will return.

Maybe Sorrow?

Anguish reminds me of the Iriali religion as well. We know that they see pain as something the universe needs to experience in order to become whole. It is a religion that sees anguish as not necessarily good, but most definitely necessary. A religion like that, from a people that have been chased out and migrated so many times, sounds to me like Anguish.

I think the magic system melds with the planet, so Anguish would be mixed with some other expression. Anguish would be divine regret, sorrow, and despair, and that must be a hell of a shard to hold eternally... edit: spelling

We may not know the exact word, but we at least have the general thrust of it.

I am so pleased everyone is trying to disprove my Roshar is doomed theory! There could be nothing more "journey before destination" than letting the planet burn because the only way to save the planet would be wrong (suckling babe, perhaps?) That's my second horrifying theory: Odium will appoint a baby as his champion, causing Dalinar to forfeit. Danilar (or someone) won't be able to cut its throat despite everyone wanting him to, and despite doing so letting the planet survive.

I wonder if any nation is better at the "future sight paintings" thing that Awakener painters can create. Perhaps there is a medium more suited for the art, or ways to make the reading more vibrant or obvious, or even commands to extract the information from the paintings/viewer. What would happen with people of higher heightenings or a returned creating the art? Could the tears of Edgli create stronger paintings? Since a radiant can see something in the paintings, this art likely could be paired with all sorts of investitures.

Adolin has a vague recollection of the mythical animal called a Lion, so that cultural point has survived up until now. To me, the lion represents the human half of the world while the dragon represents the Singer portion (Fur vs Scale).

I just really don't think they survive the desolation (as a planet). This whole book is "journey before destination", and that journey is going to be about how losing a war with honour. We are seeing the next phase of the Iralia trail, and we are watching "the most important steps'"their society can make before they are called to leave Roshar for good. "I hold the suckling child in my hands, a knife at his throat, and know that all who live wish me to let the blade slip. Spill its blood upon the ground, over my hands, and with it gain us further breath to draw. " —Collected on Shashanan 1173, 23 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed youth of sixteen years. Sample is of particular note "So the night will reign, for the choice of honor is life... ” —Observed circa Ishi 1173 by Taravangian. Subject was King Valam of Jah Keved.[4]

I want him to revive Maya, but to have a weakened bond with her.

Interesting how involved the moons seem in that painting...

People made of bugs seems SO Cultivation to me that I have to assume they originated on Roshar (or anywhere else Cultivation has meddled). Maybe they were from Braize before Odium showed up? Who knows, but Cultivation really should be involved.

Well we don't really know anything about the people or culture back then, so who knows what happened? Maybe Honour just opened a portal, or Odium did to stress out Honour, or maybe they had been using Ashyen surges to travel already (we know they had a variant).