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This plots sounds kinda similar to Marvel's ongoing Age of Apocalypse. Except not as dark and more personal. Overall, I'm always excited for more Sanderson and I can't wait to see his take on the tights & capes genre.

Wow, I did not see a couple of those coming. Taravangian getting his own book really blind-sided me. And another Herald? So great! So the question now is, which one is getting the viewpoint? If we have already met them, there are only a couple of canidates. It's between Jezrian, the other herald in the prelude (who for some reason I can't remember the name of.), and possibly Baxil's mistress.

The order isn't for sure though, just likely. So Dalinar could move up or down as needed. Im just really happy that he will survive till book 5!

How about Szeth and Jasnah? Jasnah might be able to get Szeth to renounce his faith and his status as Truthless. He is already having doubts, she might just push him over the edge. The problem with this being he killed her father.

Yes, Odium is a shard.

It's also possible that he somehow used the stormlight from Elokhars plate, cracking the gems. I for one, think that Dalinar will definitely be a surgebinder. I dont see any other way for him to be so attuned to honor that he recieved the visions.

I do agree that there are 10 per shard, but I dont think any of them belonged to Odium because voidbinding seems to mesh with the rules of Roshar too well. If voidbinding is of Odium, wouldnt it go by the rules of whatever world it's from?

I couldnt agree more with this theory. Mainly because the Parshmen/Parashendi dont seem dangerous enough to even threaten the KR with 10 heralds. Sure the initial suprise would kill many, but then it would be a slaughter as 1000+ full surgebinding shardbearers lead by the 10 Heralds would tear them apart like tissue paper.

I've been thinking on this and I decided that Odium is not one of the three. My reason is voidbinding. The little bits and peices we know of voidbinding suggest that it is a mirror image of surgebinging. Now, one of the shards has to power voidbinding and I dont believe a shard from another world would power a magic system that mirrors another from a different world. I also highly doubt that cultivation is the one behind voidbinding. My current theory is that there was/is a third shard on Roshar and this shard is on the negative side like Ruin or Odium. This shard would be the force behind voidbinding. It would then make sense about there being roughly 30 magic systems on Roshar, since as far as we know, Odium doesn't bring his magic to the planets he visits.

I remember the whole "evil Seons" thing as well. The names are also too darn similar to not be related to the shards somehow. Whether they are splinters, the mind or body of the shards, or something we have never seen before, I'm sure they are related to them.

Oh boy, right now im finishing up Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann. After I'm finished with that, I'm moving on to book 2 of the Twilight Reign series and book 2 of the Shadows of the Apt series. And I have to squeeze Wise Mans Fear in there somewhere.

Final Fantasy 13! Although it's not as good, in my opinion, as some of the others, its still a great game.

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It's possible that the Almighty gave the Knights Radiant their abilities directly until he was killed. And when he died, he shattered into spren. Aren't the Seons from Elantris pieces of the shard there? That would explain the lack of spren in Dalinar's vision. Of coarse, that wouldn't explain Nohodan(sp?) mentioning how some spren weren't as discerning as Honor spren.

After reading the thread by DariusJenai about Galivar's sphere, it got me really thinking about the Unmade. So far, all we know about them comes from these epigraphs