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I'm going to go ahead and say it since no one else has. We've already seen dragons in human form and just don't know it yet.

Yeah I posted something on r/cosmere (I think that's the one) a few days ago about this. I was thinking that Hoid could be a dragon, which would be awesome, because Hoid is awesome and dragons are awesome, but alas that probably isn't true because of other WoBs. On the other hand, someone pointed out that in the letter, Hoid addresses Frost as "you old reptlie." So I'd say there's a small chance Frost is a dragon.

Here is the thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cosmere/comments/4ejm04/about_hoid/

People Moash is working for are Diagramists, right? (Dude with Moash when fighting Kaladin at end of WoR says this isn't what the diagram said or something along those lines)

Shallan is working for the Ghostbloods, right?

Don't feel like finding the quote again (I found this like 6 months ago and thought I had posted it but I guess not), but Shallan's employer told her that Amaram's life is reserved for another.

Moash and the rest of Bridge 4 is, at this point, the only group of people who know Kaladin is a Radiant, and unless the Ghostbloods tracked him all the way from the battle where he became a slave, Moash is the only one who knows that Kaladin hates Amaram (come to think, this might have been after Adolin's 4v1, but I don't think so, and even still there's no reason the Ghostbloods would keep Amaram for him)

Therefore Ghostbloods = Diagramists, or at least they are working together.

This whole theory is from like 6 months ago, so I might be wrong.

I think it might be a characteristic of the spren itself, because I think Pattern is also permanently visible?

I would guess that the original sixteen shardholders were the ones that shattered adolnasium and chose which shards they would each take. They probably planned the shattering of adolnasium, agreed who would take up each shard, and then did it. I doubt they anticipated the warping effect of each shard's intent, though.

But aside from that... If odium had a weapon capable of shattering adolnasium itself, it would have killed all the other shards by now. Apparently rayse knows of this weapon... But it is probably beyond his reach. He might not know where it is. Or perhaps it is incompatible since it is an anti-adolnasium power and he is formed from adolnasium's power.

Most likely, the weapon is not something simple as we think it is. I kind of doubt that it is humanity, but I would not be surprised if it were something like that.

It is an interesting role humanity plays in the affairs of shards, though. With the balance of power on a cosmic scale, sometimes the only individuals who can matter are regular humans. Or kandra. Or parshmen.

I don't think that's the case, because I remember somewhere, I think it might have been the letter to frost or whatever (it's been a while, sorry) that it said Ati was a nice man originally, and you see what the shard did to him (or something along those lines). So at least one of the shardholders was a good person. You could easily still be correct, but I don't think that's the case. Of course, the source does go on to say that Rayse started out mean, so perhaps it was a conspiracy but only some of the shardholders were in on it?

If shardplate is actually made of multiple spren, which I accept as a great theory, I have three questions: 

1. How does the visor black out to protect the wearer from lightning, as in the end of WoR (pretty sure that happened, too lazy to go dig the book out)

2. How is shardplate powered by gems?

3. How can you regrow a full set by feeding one piece stormlight?

I think, assuming this theory to be true, two and three could lead to some interesting points. If shardplate, made of spren, is powered by stormlight, is it reasonable to assume you could somehow power a shardblade with stormlight? what would it do? 

Erm...chapter 19.

What if...Adamir was Brandon's alt account? It's the perfect cover... no one would suspect him (because that's what I'm doing right now, not suspecting him).

It would make sense that he'll be nearly sacrificed, since his blood would form a massively powerful Lenses. And I don't think Brandon would be that mean as alcatraz.

You mean Alcatraz would be that mean as Brandon?

Surface area might have some effect, since we know metals are burned from the outside in (Zane's fake atium).

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By good I mean saving-the-world good, not morally good. We all know he's a horrible person.

Okay. This is a bit far-fetched, but it's the only explanation I could think of for Amaram to be trying to bring the Voidbringers back, seeing as there's no-one around to bribe him with a "position of power in the new government" type of thing.

Dalinar is was a good friend of Amaram's for years, probably since before the assassination, since Amaram presumably hasn't been to the warfront until WoR. Since no-one would want to make friends with the Blackthorn except out of fear, it's safe to assume that Amaram was really close to Gavilar.

Gavilar was trying to bring the Heralds back (or something, I couldn't find the exact quote) and the Parshendi had him killed because that would also bring their gods back, presumably making them voidbringers.

What if Gavilar had told Amaram his plans?

Shallan saw when she went to spy on Amaram that he was trying to bring the Voidbringers back.

What if Amaram, being a smart man, realized that there was no reason the desolations had actually stopped and the Heralds and Voidbringers had just disappeared, and that bringing the Heralds (or whoever it was) back would attract the evil that would turn the Parshendi into voidbringers, and that was why Gavilar was killed?

Actually, let's make this theory crazier and bring the black sphere into it.

So if the black sphere was connected to bringing the Heralds back, and Amaram couldn't find it on Gavilar's corpse, he'd try bringing them back the other way, which is by bringing the voidbringers back to attract the Heralds' attention from wherever they were, or because they appeared right before a desolation.

Actually, this theory seemed a lot better yesterday night...

I hope it sparks some ideas though!

Welcome! Read whatever you want next, but if you have to wait a while to get another Sanderson book, read Warbreaker. It's free on his website.

http://brandonsanderson.com/warbreaker-introduction/

It actually should be possible, because shardplate molds/stretches to fit the wearer. You might not need a specific set designed for horses.

~20,000 breaths brings you to the Ninth Heightning, giving you Greater Awakening, which is required to awaken stone or steel. So yes, you need 20,000 breaths to do it, but only 1,000 are put into the sword.

http://brandonsanderson.com/warbreaker-ars-arcanum/

You won't be able to do much here if you've only read Way of Kings, because the Stormlight Archive forum has Words of Radiance in it.

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From what we've seen, Nightblood hasn't changed at all.

All we've seen is a black sword that can talk and says, "Hello! Would you like to destroy some evil today?"

Even a shardblade can do that.

edit: you can ignore this. Omniscience just said it.

*whispers* check for spikes before you eat the cookie...

That's an interesting idea. It also brings up questions about how Gavilar got this orb that came from a different magic system. 

About Nalthis, the magic system revolves around breaths, each person starting with one. Nightblood was a regular sword infused with 800 breaths to awaken it, with the command phrase "destroy evil." 

edit: 1000 breaths according to Snoopy, and I forgot to mention that Warbreaker is free on Brandon's website, in case you hadn't already heard.

--It's also worth mentioning that the Honorspren (at least Syl) refer to the Stormfather as "Father" and that the Stormfather calls them "Daughter" (or at least Syl) in return. Maybe all the orders have a big fancy spren that's like the progenitor of all the other spren, though I doubt it.

Actually, I had noticed something similar yesterday night while rereading WoR. Wyndle said (page 694 of the hardcover) "What did you ask for, when you visited my mother?" to Lift.

Lots of competing views on this one.

 

My personal opinion:

The stormfather was a very strong spren before the Recreance, like the Nightwatcher is currently. She is sentient in the physical realm without the bond, and I think he was also. How that relates to power and/or Investiture, or whatever, is beyond me, but to me, that puts those particular spren a step above the "regular" sentient spren, such as honorspren and cryptics, that lose their sentience in the physical realm without the bond (and which are themselves a step above "nonsentient" spren, such as flamespren, that are just bits of ideas pulled briefly into the physical).

 

I don't think its out of the realm of possibility for those more sentient/powerful spren to not "break" in the exact same way. Since these particular spren are sentient without the bond, I don't necessarily think that losing the bond means losing their sentience, like it does for the others. So instead of losing his form and becoming trapped in the physical realm "dead" like the shardblade spren, I think he just broke his mind some, and now is kind of mentally unstable. Perhaps before the Recreance he had more powers than just being part of the highstorm and now he's "trapped" as the highstorm spren. Who knows. But, like I said, this is purely my personal speculation

Syl mentioned to Kaladin that her father was "broken" once. We all assumed she meant mad, but what if that "breaking" or going mad was because of the Recreance?

Makes sense... have an upvote for your headcanon, putting you at exactly 2000.

So here's what I found browsing the coppermind today:

The Recreance was the day when all the KR abandoned their duties and spren, and the spren "broke," according to Syl.

There were usually three Bondsmiths, and (at least) one of them had bonded the Stormfather, presumably. (http://coppermind.net/wiki/Order_of_Bondsmiths)

The Spren "broke" when they were abandoned in the Recreance.

So why didn't the Stormfather "break?"

The Words of Radiance cover is really good, but I personally like the Elantris cover better, because of the castle.