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This is a little off-topic, but I remember someone saying in another topic on this forum that the Thrill only started to affect people again around when Gavilar died. Is this true? Because it seems like it wouldn't have become such a culturally accepted and known thing so quickly, especially since there seems to be a stigma around ever bringing the Thrill up in conversation.

But at least one of the names has turned out to be prophetic. Vasher was named Warbreaker by the cult of the Returned, and he was the one who ended the Manywar and who will probably play a role in ending the war to come. This could be a coincidence, of course, but it might be a hint at the importance of the names as well. I can't remember the exact details or find it, but I recall a section of the annotations where Brandon describes the process of how the Cult of the Returned pick the names, or at least how they once did, and it had something to do with a process involving Commands revealing the name to the priests.

Also we have seen Nale use at least one type of fabrial that no one on Roshar seems aware of, so it's possible that he has other fabrials which he can use to hide himself in some way, or maybe even travel to Shadesmar.

It is very likely that Nalan recovered his Honorblade or bonding a highspren, in some way regaining access to surges, due to Lift referring to him also being "awesome" like her. If he once again has the powers of a Skybreaker, than he can fly as Kaladin did and travel a great distance very quickly with Szeth's body in tow. It is also possible that after being resurrected from death, Szeth was unconscious for a time, which would allow for more travel time.

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Until now, I had not known that there existed translations of the pages of illustrations annotated with the Women's script. According to the coppermind, the method of translating the script into english was first discovered by Harakeke on TWG, but the link to the source did not work. I really want to know how Harakeke figured out the translation. Does anyone have a working link to their post, a mirror of the post, or just remember how they figured it out? I would really appreciate any help.

This quote from the Letter written by Hoid is what makes me think that he is unaffiliated with them. The fact that they wouldn't have "any inkling" of what to do with Hoid, presumably to kill or incarcerate him, makes me that that the organization does not have much information on Hoid, I would think they would know more about their founder and former leader, though this could just be because Hoid always seems to obfuscate the truth with his jokes and his deflections or because Hoid is just that difficult to hold on to, enough that people who know him intimately still can not stop him. Hoid also mentions that the 17th Shard might do something productive "for once," which to me implies that Hoid has believed this organization to always be useless, so I doubt that this was a group he was at one point leading. I don't know. There's not enough evidence right now to prove or disprove this theory, but your B and C points are true for many things; Hoid seems to have abnormally extensive knowledge about most Cosmere-tier entities and organizations, and also personally knows many if not most of the major players in the Cosmere, and I think we can assume the current leader of the 17th Shard fits into this category. Your D point about him being qualified for the job would probably also be true to a certain extent for other Worldhopping organizations, such as the Ghostbloods, whatever Khriss is doing, or (Mistborn: Secret History Spoilers)

But you're assuming that the rules would be the same for a type IV entity as they would for a human. Who knows why you need to be the tenth heightening to use mental commands? Maybe that's when a person's Cognitive aspect has expanded enough to send out cognitive "feelers" to be able to impart Commands mentally, and Nightblood already has this ability to speak directly to others through the Cognitive realm. Edit: Also, doesn't the "my life to yours" command for breath transfer not really require a mental image of the Intent. I thought that you just have to say the words and it happens, like when Lightsong tells that child how to give him her Breath. It's at least one of the simplest Commands that exists in terms of visualizing it; I think it is reasonable to assume that this is within the cognitive abilities of Nightblood, assuming that it is possible for him to use Awakener Commands at all.

A character doesn't have to be a good person to be a good character or even a likable character. Case in point, Tyrion Lannister is a horrible human being, and yet is one of the most popular characters in both A Song of Ice and Fire and the Game of Thrones HBO series. I wouldn't want to be friends with Wayne in real life, but in the context of a fictional story, most of the bad things he does (thievery and other petty crimes) are harmless, and so aren't as big of detractors as they would be for a person committing the acts in real life. To me, he can be an amusing and often empathetic character, and so I support his continued presence as a main character in this series. I agree with you about the water tower, though; that one I still can't really forgive.

Well, it more that whichever outside influence gets to you first fills the cracks in your spirit web, which helps protect you from other outside influences getting in.

New theory: Nightblood will kill Odium, or someone big and important, by doing the "My Breath to yours" command and flooding them with all of his corrupted Investiture. That could even be him finally "fulfilling his command" by destroying the biggest source of evil in the Cosmere.

The "oceans" atop the horneater peaks seem pretty big too, though, and at least one of those, possibly all of them, are shardpools. And the horneaters swim in them too. I don't know if we can generalize common traits across shardpools, since we've seen so few and the Well appears to be an anomaly, since its power is contained in a small pit and can easily be taken up by seemingly anyone. Also there is at least one possible effect caused by the Purelake: the supposedly magical fish that could help with so many different things, which were brought up in that interlude with the 17th Sharders. But per WoB, Nightblood is "far beyond" a Shardblade, in terms of Investment and how difficult he would be to steelpush. Since Atium seems to be below both of these objects, I would imagine that the factor which affects whether or not something can be easily affected with allomancy is not how pure the Investiture is, but rather the density of Investiture. Nightblood was created with lots of Investiture, but does not seem to be a solid manifestation of Endowment's power like the Godmetals are for Ruin and Preservation. I believe that the same can be said about Shardblades and Plate, but we will have to RAFO to find out whether or not that is true.

Since there are at least two Shards on Roshar, even if one of them is splintered, I would think that there might be two lakes, the other being the Purelake I do not believe that Shardblades or Plate are solid stormlight, or whatever we'd call the solid manifestation of Honor's/Cultivation's Investiture. They are solid manifestations of Investiture which previously did not take a tangible form in the physical realm, the spren, because they existed instead in the cognitive realm. Blades and Plate are solid Investiture in the same way that everything in the physical realm is solid/liquid/gaseous Investiture that has been filtered through the cognitive realm, but they are not the solid form of a Shard's Investiture condensed in the physical realm, like Atium for example. I'm curious: why pewter? I understand the logic in thinking that it probably parallels one of the base metals, I'm just wondering how you came to the conclusion that it would be pewter. Is it because of what using Stormlight does to the body when you breath it in?

We have this quote from a signing on the Cohesion surge (thanks to @Knitwitz) AFAIK, there isn't any information on the division surge. I believe that it is sort of the opposite of the progression surge; whereas progression represents the natural processes of repair and growth, such as wounds healing or plants growing, the division surge allows you to manipulate the natural processes of decay and entropy, like making metal rust extremely quickly or rotting foodstuffs. It might also be able to be used to sort of vaporize things by breaking down ("dividing") all of their chemical bonds, but that might be more on the level of a cohesion-type surge manipulation.

I think it's just because of how complex the tastes of foods are. Tastes are (usually) a weird combination of every aspect of the smell of the food, plus whatever ratio of tastebuds the food activates. In the same way that some Awakening commands are much more complex and difficult to visualize correctly for the Intent, I think that some substances, like food more complicated than grain, are much more difficult to soulcast because their complexity makes visualizing them correctly much more difficult.

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Interesting thought. I had thought that it was confirmed that Jasnah was an Elsecaller, but all I could find was this: That would seem to imply that Brandon is referring to her as an Elsecaller, but I guess "Elsecalling" could just be the in-world term for using the transportation surge. Its possible that Willshapers could soulcast as well, but I'm not sure they could. Maybe while in Shadesmar they could, but we've seen Jasnah soulcast while still present in the physical realm several times from Shallan's POV. Edit: I forgot to mention that you are right about Battah, she is associated with wisdom, but I still think that this was deliberate on Brandon's part.

Yeah, I agree with Unodus. Blowing someone "to oblivion" is a somewhat common expression when referring to using guns and explosives.

Someone has probably noticed this before, but I just caught it on my re-read of WoR Navani, referring to Jasnah, says "Battah send that girl some sense to go with her intelligence" Jasnah is a proto-Radiant of the Order of Elsecallers, whose patron herald was Battah. I know the Heralds aren't the ones who choose the humans to bond with spren, but I still think that this is deliberate and pretty funny on Brandon's part, so I wanted to point it out in the hope that it would amuse a few of you all as well

So a non-meta version of this would just be that they are a Worldhopping civilization that is now on their fourth planet, Roshar, and who have a cultural religious belief in the seventh world that they travel to being their end, when Many becomes One again.

So, I'm going to predicate this with a caveat that what I'm about to say is probably not true, but it is an interesting coincidence. Ym, if you've forgotten, is one of the characters with an Interlude POV in Words of Radiance. He is the cobbler who asks for the stories of people as payment for his services. He is most notable as the first on-page victim of Nale and for his story of the One becoming Many. When talking with the urchin in his Interlude chapter, Ym mentions something that seems to be a part of the Iriali religion that I found interesting. He then goes on to say in the next paragraph: Now, this might be because I'm half out of my mind with the flu, but I think that this is a hint from Brandon. The Iriali are currently in the Fourth Land. Roshar is the fourth Shardworld introduced in the published novels. What, then, is the Seventh Land? I would guess Yolen. I'm going to stop now, because I'm tired of having to think, but I would like to hear the thoughts of others on this. I'm likely wrong, but I do think that there is something significant here, and I thought that maybe suggesting what I thought might prompt someone to come up with other possible explanations.

Yes, it seems that she is one of the Hunters (is that the right name?), since her face has grown into her mask like theirs reportedly do.

I've been wondering if Shards do have near-perfect future-sight when only dealing with humans, but the influence of other Shards clouds the future and makes it so that they can only see possiblities because they lack the ability to predict exactly what another Shard will do, either because of the power and expanded mind of a Shard, or because, as we've seen, Investiture from different Shards does not mix together well.

Even though I disagree with you on all counts, I like the way you think! A couple things, though: Theory 1: I think the Desolations were horrifyingly destructive right from the start, even before the Knights Radiant. This is based on this quote from Dalinar's vision from Honor. You could still be right, however, about the Knights Radiant leading to an escalation of the conflict, but the sides were still similarly matched and so Roshar was still, well, desolated. Theory 2: Your quote that you use to support this is one of the death rattles from the epigraphs, is it not? Those contain a lot of information that would not be known to almost anyone on Roshar. I don't remember any groups, besides maybe the Parshendi, who were even aware of the existence of Odium. Doesn't the Vorin religion only teach about the Voidbringers as being the enemies of the Almighty, and not Odium? I would not say that Odium is a worshiped god on Roshar. Theory 3: I can't find it at the moment, but somewhere out in the ether is a WoB which says that all of the Shards started on very equal footing, Investiture-wise, and that Odium has only become stronger than many Shards because he has not Invested as much of his power in people and planets as other Shards have, similar to how Ruin was stronger than Preservation because Preservation Invested more into humanity than Ruin did.

I believe that Feruchemy comes from Lerasium. We know that Lerasium can be used to rewrite your sDNA in many different ways than becoming a Mistborn if you know what you are doing (if you have the right intent). I think it is reasonable that a few individuals in the Terris population gained Feruchemy, and then it eventually spread to the rest of the Terris population, much as Allomancy has done in the Nobles and the Skaa. The Terris would likely have needed someone to guide them in using Lerasium in this way. The person who did this was likely either Leras or Hoid. Leras because it is his god metal that is being used and the Terris people worship Him, or Hoid because he has access to Feruchemy as well, and so could have gained it in the same way and at the same time as the Terris people. Then Hoid comes back thousands of years later, during era 1, to steal a second bead of Lerasium to become a Mistborn.