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Cultivation and Odium = Revolution (angry freedom) Honour + Odium = Justice or Retribution

Makes me wonder if Syl pulled fully into the Physical realm with a body Ishar-Style would be able to then take up a shard. Is she a spren at that point? Or a physical being?

Maybe we will get more about Venli’s mother? I’d even take Venli as she has grown on me a lot in rereads. But a plot about humans coming to terms with their colonial occupation, only to have all powers of gods still go to humans sounds … flat in tone to me.

I very much want a Singer to take Honour.

I also wouldn’t mind seeing the humans make it to Shinovar for the first time. Or when honour and cultivation first agreed to accept their asylum.

I wonder if Hoid was around when the heralds entered the Oath pact? That would be quite relevant to know.

What if getting exposed was the Ghostbloods plan? It seems … so obvious that everyone was meeting there. Maybe it didn’t go exactly as planned, but I’m having a hard time thinking the Ghostbloods would be this easy to catch.

I’m very suspicious of Dalinar’s guard who no longer is trying to bond a spren. Why did that stop? Did he get an enlightened spren?

That line about “your children” seemed like a hint that Shallan’s pregnant. Makes me wonder if radiants have heightened fertility, and if/when someone might be able to see a second flame in the Cognitive realm.

Mraize actually working against the Ghostbloods in the end would be an amazing twist.

It makes me wonder if The Pure Lake is actually “The Gods of The Water” that the Horneaters reference once in their origin story. Might also explain why the vision fortress in the Purelake was there.

Could be even more vague. How many Old Gods were on Roshar? How many Old Gods did Adonalsium create? For all we know the quote is about Old Gods and the Broken One is The Stormfather

Maybe “the broken one” refers to The Stormfather.

Maybe Molli is an unmade!

Interesting that Nohadon wants a universal law where people can leave. One could read that as people should be able to break their bonds at any time if they wanted to. Very non Honour (as a shard).

Every gender would have written and been literate back then, correct? They weren’t a way to let men gleam a little bit of written communication like how they work in modern Roshar. Assuming people back then still burned glyphs to Honour, maybe they were a religious language? Or perhaps they worked as a way for the poor to have a way to “read”.

What originally had my brain go “ping” was the fact that Nohadon could only understand the glyphs that the people were using. Sure, a king doesn’t speak every language, but Tanavast would be extremely fluent in the Glyphs of men. Religion about Honour has people burning glyph wards to connect to their people. So what if Nohadon isn’t actually the king of a people, but actually a king of ALL people. Now we have some Nohadon information that seemingly doesn’t entirely fit with this, but I think we maybe have a legend that could explain this. The legend of the Moon God that switched with a Queen could be a corruption of Honour trading places with Nohadon to experience life with his people. And then, to everyone’s great shame, they don’t switch back with him. Nohadon being Tanavast makes some sense with other details we have. Such as The Way of Kings being a magical text, or Nohadon being more alive in visions. I know it’s a crack theory, but I can’t help but feel like there is a trick to what’s going on with Nohadon. In the chapters where wr are learning that picking up Honour might be a bad idea, we have epigraphs of someone who abdicated their power.

Two things: 1. Is Nohadon…. Is the in-world Way of Kings about Tanavast? Is this book about Honour’s abdication and his life as a mortal before dying? Brandon has been cagey on if Tanavast died at shattering or sometime later. Maybe Tanavast walked the world and met people who had come to meet Honour? I know this entirely doesn’t make sense with what we know of Nohadon. But at the same time, the vibes here are INSANE. I really hope Nohadan is actually Honour doing one last life before he passes. I know Nohadon is said to be a king in a desolation. But, this is weird. And Nohadon’s book being the way to connect to Honour, and Nohadon’s weird vision powers, well it’s odd. What jumped to mind is the legend of the Queen switching places with the moon. Maybe Tanavast swapped with a king, but then the swap back never happened? ——- 2. I wonder if this is going to turn into another colonization issue. Roshar had its own gods before Honour and Cultivation showed up. Did Honour and Cultivation abuse these entities? it would be interesting if the “Made” called for Odium to help them and then willingly became Unmade to stop the God Exodus that occurred. Or perhaps maybe Honour and Cultivation sacrificed some of the old gods to buy time? Or what if the old gods were upset that the Shards who killed their god were now trying to take their planet too. I’d be pissed.

Can Shadesmaar be conquered as well in the same way?

There was a WOB on reddit in 2020 that Anguish might be a shard. But it does seem that Widsom/Acumen/Smarty-Pants is more likely. Maybe Anglush was looped into Virtuosity (suicidal artist?)

Team Honour cant just be on the defense the entire time. I hope they manage to make a play for something important in an unexpected way. There has to be a call back to Odium's promise not to touch Karbradth.

I wonder what would happen if team Honour completely soulcast everything around the Azish oath gates? Like, essentially filled the area with concrete. Wouldn’t that stop all but the deepest ones?

What can the humans do? Can they go take some capitals then at the last second?

Maybe he asked to be the best thief ever and he got turned into a ghost

Baxil says he could taste tea before his blessing and before his curse. Did the Nightwatcher give him this condition? Or is he like a Threnody cognitive shadow? Did he die with a threnody chain? Maybe he tried to steal it?