Runyan Firetree

Spoilers for Warbreaker and Stormlight Maybe I just need more caffeine this morning, but I'm having trouble making sense of a recent reply from Brandon on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/51u8qu/oathbringer_spoilers_stormlight_three_update_4/d9i30dm/?context=3 Am I correct that Brandon confirmed that other shards have an equivalent or related ability to commands? If so, do you think there is more than just the surface meaning of Dalinar labeling "unite them" as a "phantom command"?

Mentioned in one of the death rattle notations, although there's not enough evidence to assume they were the same visions but it's the only other highstorm vision that I'm aware of besides Gavilar & Dalinar. >Subject was a middle-aged potter who reported seeing strange dreams during highstorms during the previous two years

Do we know, either in-text or via WoB, if multiple people received high storm visions at the same time or were they limited to 1 individual or just bondsmith candidates? Gavilar died in 1167, an unnamed potter received visions during the 2 years prior to his death on Kaktach 1173; I'm not sure if that date is prior to Dalinar receiving his visions.

I've seen several interpretations of the suckling baby death rattle, but what if it was literal? What if Odium chooses an innocent baby for his champion? Would the KR champion be able to kill it without breaking the first oath?

I've made a google doc that combines the essences table with the KR/surgebinding table along with the images of the fabrial endsheet table and surgebinding table.

There was a reddit post earlier this week that pointed out that "a mind a soul" is an anagram of Adonalsium, which seems to fit quite nicely with parts of your theory.

Nice post. I imagine that #4 probably also applies to Truthwatchers. Renarin seemed to correctly see the Everstorm before it was released, but incorrectly saw everyone dying as an immediate result of the storm.

Thanks! Is France missing on purpose? It's been awhile but I don't remember that from the books. edit: Apparently it's a running joke from the books that I've forgotten...I was due for a re-read anyways https://twitter.com/BrandSanderson/status/715655106738270209

Not really an Easter egg but I enjoyed catching the similarity between a line from the first chapter of Final Empire and one in Secret History: (Spoiler: Secret History)

I think he could but maybe not directly. All talents seem to be derivatives of the breaking talent, and Grandpa Smedry's ability allowed him to arrive late to things including his own death. That being said, the first Alcatraz either couldn't prevent his death or chose not to, but had enough power to break time around his final resting place before dying.

Could this refer to the shattering, the death of Adonalsium? Whenever you split an object into equal parts, the resulting pieces combined will be less than the original whole. Think of cutting a large cookie into 16 parts, you may end up with 16 equal pieces but also a lot of crumbs from the result of the cutting. Similarly, cutting some objects at high temperature may result in some matter conversion to smoke. And finally, think of cutting a piece of wood; 16 parts and a lot of dust...which brings us to another Hoid connection: Words of Radiance I know we have WoB that Hoid doesn't have a shard, but I'm not sure if having splinters/crumbs/dust of Adonalsium as a result of the shattering has been ruled out. If not, I think there's a case for "made of smoke at its passing" and having the nickname Dust could be connected.

Some dictionaries define odium as more than just 'hatred' but hatred towards someone as a result of an action. It seems partly counter-intuitive, but could Odium hate the shards for their part in the Shattering? Partly counter-intuitive because Rayse obviously took part in the shattering himself, has gone on to shatter other shards, and it doesn't mesh with Hoid's description of his character. However, it could offer a possible explanation to why he targeted Devotion and then Honor; if Odium hates the shards for the Shattering then he may view the shardholders of Devotion and Honor as being especially hypocritical. edit:appears that tobar14 and I were thinking along the same lines at the same time

I like this theory a lot but I think skaa may be more correct. How would the theory address Av's family member's experiences?

My new head canon is that Hoid loves bacon so much that he facilitated bringing pigs from Yolen to other shard worlds post-shattering in order to always have access to one of his favorite foods.

Not sure if this impacts OP's theory either way: Ym from one of the Stormlight interludes mentions his religion holds that his people are part of a "Long Trail" of which they are currently in the "Fourth Land". Assuming this alludes to post-shattering human migration then there's room for one to two other planets in the migration steps depending how you count Yolen as the starting point: 0 - Yolen First Land - Yolen or first destination post-shattering Second - ?? Third - Tranquil Halls Fourth - Roshar

The Author's Forward from Evil Librarians & the prologue epitaph from Final Empire both contain doubts/denial of being a hero, including these near identical lines: "...I'm not the hero everyone thinks I am." - Alendi's logbook "...I am not the hero that everyone says I am." -Alcatraz

There was the scene prior to the climax of Firefight where Regalia admits to being in contact with Calamity and that Calamity agreed to give David a "thematically appropriate" power. She then raised David way up in the air to the point where he could make out Calamity in the sky, then later David hears Calamity’s voice telling him to take the power.

In addition to the above quote, when Shallan is investigating the Oathgate in WoR she specifically reflects on the part of TWoK where Nohadon mentions he walked to Urithiru instead of the direct method.

I'm not sure if it was mentioned elsewhere that Shallan had previously read Way of Kings, but I think she told Jasnah that she had read (or was familier with) the works of Nohadon during their initial meeting/interview.