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A very important death rattle: "So the night will rein, for the choice of honor is life" I think that this definitely points towards Odium's champion being someone that the hero will not kill. Because of that, I could definitely see Dalinar vs. Renarin.

I feel like taking to Hoid would destroy a lot of the mystery around the shattering, which I don't want until Dragonsteel. It would kind of ruin a big part of the cosmere imo.

I would choose Jasnah and just question her on everything that she knows lol. Who works you choose?

In the end of skyward, it is implied that M-Bot's new master is Spensa. The thing is, though, that if you look closely you'll notice that he never says that Spensa is his master. All he says is that he picked a new master. Another clue is this: when they were in space, M-Bot says this: "Don't die, okay? If you do, I'll probably have to make Rodge my pilot." If you think about it, this doesn't make sense. Before, he couldn't make Spin his master because his old master was dead and couldn't order him to change masters. How could he get a new master so easily now? Also, another thing: notice he said "pilot", not "master". I think M-Bot is hiding something. Brandon doesn't put hints like these in books for nothing.

I disagree. Those other things you mentioned have implications for the entire world, and have obvious storytelling reasons for being there. The Evi voice doesn't. That's why i would not place them in the same category.

That is exactly my point. Of course animals have bonds with spren. We knew that already. If we both mean the same thing, then you are stating the obvious, in different words.

But then those bonds aren't nahel bonds. The nahel bond is a specific type of bond. That does not mean that every bond is a nahel bond.

What about listeners though? In their POVs they say that the spren is inside their gemhearts, and we never see the form's spren around them.

There's no reason to believe that even if the people did know about quantum fields, the lightweavers would be able to manipulate them. The lightweavers can manipulate light and sound not because of their similarity to each other, but simply because that is what humans grasp as similar - they're both things we can sense. This might allow the lightweavers to use some edge cases, such as making pressure waves like you said, but I don't think that it works allow them to manipulate other fields - its just too different in people's eyes, even if essentially, they are very similar.

I hadn't really thought of Truths that way before, but what you're saying makes sense. After all, there's no guarantee that a lightweaver is supressing exactly five big things. I still think that there's something there. Perhaps not her fifth and final Truth, because of what you said, but I think that the hints are definitely there for a reason (the first is a bit shaky, but the second seems real to me). Thanks for explaining it to me.

I'm not so sure about your theory. So far, all her truths have been about things that have happened to her or that she has done. None have been about theoretical stuff like her needing to accept that she isn't at fault for what happened. I don't think your theory fits that pattern. Besides that, the details I've noticed definitely mean something. Brandon wouldn't have just added them for no reason. If your theory is true, that would mean that she won't have any more big truths, which would be a problem. Also, she still attracted pattern in her youth. Something happened there that we don't know of yet. That has to be another truth. Because she only had on more left, it must be something about her past.

Brandon has previously said that Shallan is one step ahead of Kaladin in terms of oaths. Because Kaladin is on his third one, Shallan must be on her fourth, which means she only had one remaining. So what could that truth be? I have picked up on two hints: When descending down the stairs to fight Re-shephir, she thinks: "The sound of their footsteps vanished into the void. Soon they were alone with the timeless, patient darkness. The light of the sphere lanterns the bridgemen carried didn’t seem to stretch far in that pit. It reminded Shallan of the mausoleum carved into the hill near her manor, where ancient Davar family members had been Soulcast to statues. Her father's body hadn't been placed there. They had lacked the funds to pay for a soulcaster-and besides, they'd wanted to pretend he was alive. She and her brothers had burned the body, as the darkeyes did. Pain..." Notice how she thought about the darkness in the presence of an unmade, that will be important later. The other definitive clue that I've seen is her thinking this in Kholinar, after finding out that she did more harm than good as Veil. "Darkness. A candle snuffed out. A scream cut off. With nothing to see, her mind provided images." This is then followed by descriptions of other horrible things that happened to her, like killing her mother and father, and killing Tyn. Since we haven't seen anything like this from her yet, this must be something new. So what could this be? Notice that in the second clue, she thought about how there was darkness all around and that she couldn't see, just like what happened in the stairs down to Re-shephir. This seems to hint that the truth is related to an unmade. I think that this probable means that her last truth relates to the unmade that was said to be influencing her home. I think that she stumbled upon the unmade somehow, perhaps in the mausoleum, and that the experience scarred her so much that she repressed it, which started the whole thing. Perhaps she followed someone in there and the unmade didn't notice her but did notice the person she was following, which is why she survived it. That sounds like a really creepy scene. What do you think?

Odium can be seen as passion, but Taravangian isn't a very passionate man. To the contrary, he would like to be perfectly logical.

I don't think that it fits him at all. Taravangian isn't evil, he just has an ideology that's different from the radiants. He wouldn't have enough connection to Odium to be able to pick up the shard.

I don't think that it being Kaladin in WoR makes sense though. What was withdrawn from him? When did the king kill his promises? If anything, he was standing against the one who killed his promises. The king was the reason Kaladin has the dilemma, but he didn't cause Kaladin to break his promises. That was Kaladin's fault. When did the storm respond to Kal raising his hand? Syl isn't the storm. It just doesn't match up. Its similar for sure, but the discrepancies are too much imo. To OP: the explanation that it was Kaladin in WoR that the death rattle was talking about always seemed weird to be. I think you are probably on to something. I wonder when this confrontation will happen.

It probably does refer to those, but the other keteks have a meaning beyond their separate parts. What I'm saying is that the combined sentence probably has a meaning as well.

Each book is seperated into 5 parts, each of which has a different thought associated with it that describes it. Combined, all the thoughts form a ketek. In WoR, the formed ketek was made by Navani in her journal. In the third book, the ketek was written by Jasnah for Shallan's wedding. In TWoK, the ketek was spoken as a death rattle by an illiterate Herdazian man, who didn't speak the language the death rattle was spoken in. One more important fact to note is that Brandon has said that, like in mistborn era 1, either the first or second book in the series has a hint toward the last chapter in the series. I think that that hint is the ketek. Notice that in the second two keteks, their meaning makes sense. This suggests that the first one's meaning will also make sense. The ketek itself is: "Above silence, the illuminating storms - dying storms - illuminate the silence above". I think that perhaps "dying storms" could mean that the stormfather dies, and maybe "the silence above" could mean that there aren't any shards left alive, at least not in the Rosharian system. "illuminating storms" doesn't sound like it means anything other than being a filler, but I might be wrong about this. Idk what "above silence" could mean.