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Yixli is the yellow Voidspren from Part 1 of Oathbringer with Kaladin's group of Parshmen. We know that Wax and Wayne is set between Stormlight 5 and 6, and given Harmony is already planning for this I am pretty sure it is the beginning of him grooming Wax into being his sword, which he does in BoM.

I agree actually I think I'd missed that @Beltway2A, it makes way more sense. Regarding the other one I think they are the same person as Lift mentions, but it is also intriguing he has an Aviar in the first place, maybe one that could be a threat to Ghostbloods given they wanted it dead and not captured.

I think here is where this particular Death Rattle comes into play. Not sure if a baby counts as a willing champion, but if it is agreed to be a contest 'to the death' then if Dalinar fails to kill it, does it mean he forfeits?

I believe this is the relevant passage I also think this was the Terrisman who tipped them off about Axwindeth, as he worked in the Palace, and this could indicate that she was a Ghostblood since it was presumably Mraize who killed him.

I think it was definitely good, but am confused as to whether or not this counted as one of her 'Truths' and she's progressed on her Oaths?

My theory is that she is connected to the Ghostbloods. Since Ulim mentioned that she was found out by another of 'her kind' and had to leave. In the 'Lift' interlude we find the corpse of a man with a number of rings missing from his hands, who also owned the Red chicken (likely Aviar) which fought with Mraize's Aviar, and was probably killed by Mraize. So I think this dead Terrisman in Urithiru was the one who exposed her before, and as an enemy of the Ghostbloods Mraize put him down.

I'm pretty sure it is Kelsier, as WoB has stated Kelsier is capable of taking over the Ghostbloods and the name itself (ghost = cognitive shadow, blood = hemalurgy). The fact that Hoid mentioned smacking him around is the biggest confirmation imo, since Hoid is unable to harm people and the only person he has managed to hurt so far is Kelsier's Cognitive Shadow.

So the chapter 64 Epigraph is interesting. We finally know about the chain in Celebrant from Oathbringer. It appears to have originated from Threnody, but the reference to 'Cognitive anomalies' could relate to Nalthis and the Cognitive Anomaly we saw in its star system.

So I guess this line from Harmony's letter was foreshadowing of how dangerous a more capable Odium (Taravangian) could be.

Also, I wouldn't assume that Endowment is linked to the Change Dawnshard. On Reddit Brandon confirmed that the Heightening-like effect on Rysn is due to having a lot of Investiture and that any Dawnshard would provide the same perks in that regard. EDIT: In addition, related to the WoB above: Could this different one be Passion? One which isn't the same sort of command as the others?

I think you're really onto something with Passion and didn't think of it. Brandon confirmed that there was a significance to the way Odium and Ruin spoke about Passion and he confirmed that there would be Shards who did not refer to it that way. Edit: Found the WoB

I think it might be true, though I doubt Preservation would be in that grouping. In addition, an epigraph mentioned something like 'Using the Dawnshard, known to bind things voidish or mortal'. This seems like something a Unity Dawnshard would be capable of instead of one around Change.

I think Kaladin's specialty links to this, and the fact that he is referred to as 'Son of Tanavast' by the Stormfather when no other character has been.

This was actually confirmed in Oathbringer. But I'm glad to know that Dalinar knows that Taravangian and Malata were behind the attack on Urithiru.

The WoB you link there explicitly says that aside from the Physical Realms of Roshar and Nalthis, he has been to places in Shadesmar, which is where sentient Spren live. He would have had to be in Roshar's CR to get to Roshar's Physical Realm, so he must have known about Spren. Whether or not he cared to classify them or told Vivenna the full story in Warbreaker is a different matter. I don't think it was ever a TOTAL genocide. We know not all truespren want to bond, like Ico and others who presumably have their own lives in Shadesmar. I think there were still a significant number of truespren who survived the Recreance.

So Brandon has confirmed that Vasher went to Roshar, most likely post-Recreance with the Shardblades, and wanted to make one himself and that's how Nightblood was created. I agree he visited during this time, but if he had he would have come through Shadesmar where Spren were still alive and active in their cities like Celebrant. Even if he avoided settlements I doubt he would have got through Shadesmar without at least being aware of sentient Spren living there.

So as you all know in Chapter 15 Vasher mentions how he has reorganised his classification system so that Spren are Type 1 and Returned are Type 2, whereas in Warbreaker he considered the Returned to be Type 1. However, we know from WoB that Vasher has been to Scadrial before Warbreaker, and the Shardblades were his inspiration for Nightblood. Assuming he travelled via the Cognitive Realm, he should have met sentient Spren, or at the very least been aware of them even before Warbreaker, so why has the change to his classification system come afterwards? Either this is a continuity error or perhaps he was just reluctant to tell Vivenna about true Type 1s since there was no example of them on Nalthis. Any thoughts?

A random but fun theory I had is that Adolin might be claimed by a spren of a different order (maybe Dustbringers or something) before Maya is revived, which could be a new issue that's never happened before so humans and spren alike don't know how to deal with it.

Something small I noticed - Scadrial, Nalthis and Taldain are mentioned in this chapter. We know in Shadesmar the Expanse of the Densities (Sel), Expanse of Vibrance (Nalthis), Expanse of the Vapours (Scadrial) and the Expanse of the Broken Sky, which I believe has not been confirmed. I believe this chapter confirms the popular theory that the Expanse of the Broken Sky is Taldain, as all of these Expanses neighbour Roshar's Cognitive Realm and would be the easiest to get to (except Sel because of the dead Shards present).

All I'll say on this topic, is that on Reddit someone speculated sexual abuse as being the source of Jasnah's lunacy and Brandon confirmed 'certain types of abuse I will never cover in my books' so I think it's safe to say that sort of history can be precluded from any theory around any char in the Stormlight Archives.

We've had a number of hints now that something weird is going on with the Honorspren. The blurb of RoW says In Chapter 5 of RoW we find that And now in Chapter 9 we have from an unknown source. This raises lots of different questions: What's so special about the single willing Honorspren that hasn't bonded - is it waiting for someone in particular? I doubt it's Moash, but maybe Rock is ready but unwilling to say the Words and be a warrior? Why are the Honorspren suddenly changing? Perhaps it's because no Windrunner has advanced to 4th/5th Oath and they do not trust the honor of humans until someone does? Perhaps it relates to Dalinar using Honor's power now that's causing them to be nervous? Why can they not be trusted? The source from Chapter 9 seems to HATE Navani, particularly for doing things like trapping Spren which the Honorspren approved of. We know they have had wars in Shadesmar, so maybe they're encouraging the trapping of Radiantspren and refusing to bond so that they can conquer Shadesmar with greater numbers than the other Radiantspren? Does anyone have any other theories about what's going on with them and why?

Well maybe it's just a matter of semantics, but I'd argue relying on ANY substance to 'keep going and ignore his problems' constitutes an addiction. If we replaced stormlight with alcohol or nicotine in that sentence I think the word 'addiction' would be the first thing to come to most people's minds.

I don't think Jasnah came through with Honor's Perpendicularity. I think that was just her using the Surge of Transportation, since Hoid asks her So I think it's an ability of Elsecallers as opposed to using a Perpendicularity.

From what I know about depression, medicine helps recovery but only alongside therapy, so eventually you will no longer be reliant on the medicine. Medicine alone is not the solution and leaves people prone to backsliding once off meds, and I think that's what Kaladin has been doing: powering through his exhaustion and dark thoughts by self-medicating and ignoring them, instead of dealing with his issues in a healthy manner. I think part of his arc in RoW will be finally coming to terms with this.

Weirdly enough, Odium assumed that T didn't use Fortune OR The Spiritual Realm for the Diagram. But this is directly contradicted here: