Jondesu

Storms, Link, how are you getting your info? It’s amazingly effective! Keep it up! I almost want to just leave the game up to them, but that seems irresponsible. So who would have killed Szeth?

They’re a corruption of the existing magic system rather than Odium being a natural part of it or having his own, I think, hence to red eyes. I could be wrong, but I suspect Odium’s true magic system on Roshar is still developing and hasn’t revealed itself.

Told you killing Az was a bad idea. Not that I had a better one… Dunno what to talk about. Maybe we should just wait for one of us to die and talk tomorrow?

I always got the impression that Mraize wasn’t the one that brought her brothers to Urithiru, but rather he had someone else do it. So they wouldn’t have met him previously in that case. It doesn’t say that, but I thought that from when they first arrived, not just when this scene popped up.

It’s rare for them not to kill since their win depends on them killing enough of us to outnumber us usually (this game is a little different, but there’s still no good reason I know of for them not to kill). It’s weird, and usually points to inactives, or someone blocking it, or a weird situation we might be able to suss out.

I read that as Jochi being right about one particular instance that she asked Shalash about. Not everything.

I see what you did there (Moash didn’t, though).

I think Lift was granted the ability to never lose her childlike innocence (yeah right). Seriously, though, she still sees the world like a child, though, with a fairly simplistic view of right and wrong overall. That may be a significant boon when others get caught up in terrible choices. She doesn’t even hesitate when confronted with the difficult choice: she does the right thing.

Well done Link! Stay hidden and stay safe! Why Azmine exactly? I feel like I must have missed discussion about them. Edit: are we guessing 1 or 2 more Yigas? I have to assume 2 more for safety’s sake, but only 1 would be nice!

Apologies for resurrecting an older thread, but I was thinking about this too and found this. I also looked through that part of the story again and was reminded of this part a short bit later: I don’t know for sure if it was Odium’s influence, but that seems to be what Leshwi is thinking. Unless she’s thinking of something else she didn’t reveal to us, since she didn’t complete her thought.

He doesn’t have to still be alive in any way. We got Eshonai flashbacks in RoW and she’s well and truly dead it seems.

I have Major Depressive Disorder, which means I don’t get bouts of depression like some others were saying they do, it’s all the storming time. I fight through the gloom occasionally, but like Kaladin, it finds its way back when I give it the slightest chance. I absolutely love reading his viewpoints. I don’t have PTSD, exactly, no severe trauma, though I have chronic pain that’s been suggested it could be causing something similar, but the symptoms seem different from what Kaladin goes through. Yet, I identify so much with his struggles of self-worth and not feeling like he can save those around him, even though that’s not the same struggle I go through. I feel like I can’t provide for my family due to chronic health issues, and I feel like I can’t be a friend to anyone because I can’t be there for them. So much of Kaladin’s struggle resonates even though his is a more extreme version.

I think Kelsier is a morally conflicted man who tries to mostly do good, but has taken over an organization that wasn’t founded that way. Not all of its members (Mraize, notably so) feel bound to his sense of ahem nobility. Kelsier has no problem with killing, of course, but I do feel Mraize is doing things that Kelsier might frown on, but doesn’t necessarily know the details of. He simply gets reports on the success or failure of the mission, more only if he decides to push into it. And maybe his position as leader is still somewhat tenuous if he’s new to it, even if new is a relative term for worldhoppers. He might have only had the role for a few years, or a few hundred years, we have no idea. He’s had around 300 years I think, a little less, since his death and subsequent survival, during which he did quite a few other things, the timeline of which is a little fuzzy to me. Was he already working with the Ghostbloods when he saved the Southern Scadrians? When did Wit learn his identity as Thaidakar, because he certainly wasn’t at the time of their meeting in Secret History?

Shallan is the epitome of the the unreliable narrator trope, though. She could theoretically be wrong or lying to us/herself. I don’t personally think that’s the case here, just pointing out that her viewpoints may not be useful as proof.

It’s from RoW:

Yeah, he can’t “die” but he could die onscreen only to be resurrected by one of his many talents. We don’t know how his healing works since we’ve never seen it in action, only that it’s apparently so effective that hardly anyone could kill him, including a Radiant.

Unfortunately, there’s no way to know if or when a new Bondsmith would happen, so there would need to be interim leadership at least, even if they’re depending on that. I’m sure he has something set up, whether it’s Kaladin, one of the highprinces, Adolin, or someone else. Navani might be second in line now.

New one: ”Journey before Destination. You bastard.” - Navani Kholin

Should she? No way, she’s not nearly stable enough to be raising a child. Will she, though? I don’t think Roshar has particular effective family planning, so, there’s every chance she will, and it may be partially a surprise. Probably the soonest would be a pregnancy reveal near the end of Book 5, more likely during the gap between the two halves.

I’ve wondered if any of the Heralds are from Yolen and/or other planets, and I don’t remember if we have confirmation either way. I believe we had confirmation that one or more was a worldhopper, at least, though that doesn’t prove anything about their origin, and he could have been just being sneaky since they hop between Braize and Roshar.

I know, it was more just me wondering if Odium tricked him.

Apparently I can’t remember how to spoiler on mobile, but let’s just say it’s been touched on in a preview of an upcoming work.

You suffer from CII: Cosmere-Induced Insomnia. Otherwise known as the speedbubble placed around you without your knowledge while you finish a Sanderlanche.

I hate that this theory sounds so plausible… I’ve been suspecting Dalinar might not survive the first half of SA, at least in some capacity, for a while.

Okay, so we know Dalinar didn’t think much about the time and date of the contest of champions, other than how soon it was, but there’s no way Odium didn’t think it through fully. The tenth hour of the day of the tenth month. Should Dalinar have checked whether there was a highstorm coming? One that, since they’ve been rising higher, might envelope the very top of the tower right at the tenth hour? Or an Everstorm, which normally stays lower, but which Odium could bring higher, perhaps without feeling he’d violated his agreement?