Subvisual Haze

In addition to being able to create her own Investiture from food, Lift also is less fixed to the physical realm than other humans. She can physically touch her spren, can see Szeth's spirit shadow imperfectly attached to his body, and she just wanders into Dalinar's vision with Gaz and later Odium. I think just having one leg in the cognitive realm so to speak somehow makes her use of Regrowth less inhibited by the disruption field.

Regarding Raboni my first thought went to Rabboni in the Bible. This verse is an interesting one from a Biblical studies perspective. The New Testament was written in Greek, but it is generally thought that Jesus and his acquaintances spoke Aramaic (closely related dialect to Hebrew). Occasionally words or phrases will not be translated directly into Greek in the Bible and keep the original foreign word, as with Rabboni here. What makes this verse extra interesting is that the writer of John specifically mentions the original word, and then defines the term in Greek (Didaskale=teacher). Also, the more familiar/related Hebrew title of "Rabbi" is used elsewhere in John and the other Gospels without drawing attention to the term or defining its meaning, but here preserving the original spoken variation "Rabboni" is important to the author. So I would go with some variant of "God's Teacher" for the meaning of Raboniel. Or maybe the name has no meaning and is just a name :p.

I suspect Odium's agents abroad are more than traditional Fused. I think that's where El's research comes into play (with his metallic body modifications). Compiling some of his epigraphs: Sounds like hemalurgy (or something similar) is going to be used to construct Odium's Foreign Legion and the troops will be primarily humans.

umm...the last one showing Eshonai's goodbye vision of Roshar was nice. All the other ones honestly felt pretty skippable to me. It felt like the flashbacks were more included out of a sense of obligation than narrative necessity.

Based on his love of Justice/Law, I think Nale was a Republican or at least Constitutional Monarchist, opposed to the idea of despotic rulers and thus a political opponent of King Jezrien.

I loved this part It really drove home how far Nale has fallen

More advancement of the Kingskiller's Chronicles than we'll get from anywhere else

Odium+El, but ironically as a reaction to Kelsier/Thaidakar interfering with Roshar's affairs.

To me at least, Kaladin was at his best in tWoK. He had depression, but depression didn't dominate his character, it was just one obstacle amongst many to be overcome. The most interesting part of Kaladin was when he was inspiring the hopeless men of Bridge 4 to become more. He was an exceptional and inspiring leader, and I craved more of that in the future books. Unfortunately every book since then has to increasing degrees separated Kaladin from Bridge 4 and the more interesting/elaborate questions of what it means to be a good leader, and focused more and more on his depression. Kaladin has shifted from a character with depression to a character where his depression is his defining characteristic. (I say this as someone who has recurrent Seasonal Depression, please stop focusing so much on Kaladin's depression Brandon!) Personally, I think "Die Hard Kaladin" was a mistake. Kaladin is at his most interesting when he is inspiring others to be their best (Bridge 4 and the newly freed Alethi singers). The depression counseling angle did touch on this idea, but then it was abandoned for the huge majority of this book in favor of lots of skulking and Kaldin feeling abused. I think Kal is at his best when he's interacting with and inspiring others. Sneaking around on his lonesome or with just a couple other people dampens what makes him most interesting. I feel like the tWoK expertly expressed a strong emotional arc for Kaladin: beaten down by the world to his lowest point, but he refused to give up and then rode the emotional rollercoaster to new cathartic heights for readers. The darkness of the lowest point gives contrast to the light of the highest. Repeatedly throwing more misery onto Kaladin for him to overcome each book starts to feel kind of repetitive though.

He wanted to make intelligent plans that pursued long term goals. The shard Odium wanted to DESTROY RIGHT NOW. This arrangement worked fine as long as they were touring the cosmere and shattering shards with glee. The longer Odium was held in captivity by Honor in Roshar though, the less capable Rayse was of maintaining control over the impulses of his shard.

"This is a...MERCY!" - the vessel of Mercy killing Ambition while wearing black and listening to My Chemical Romance

In the distant past natives of Roshar probably encountered Elantran travelers making cool magical symbols in the air and culturally appropriated it.

I imagine Kelek's relations with the Sons of Honor are a lot like his relations with the conservative Honorspren. A purely symbolic figurehead used for organizational prestige, but the moment he steps out of line, the powers that be intervene and give him a "time out". Kelek himself seems way too indecisive and neurotic to lead any sort of large organization or make any long term plans.

Killing Phendorana wouldn't have retroactively negated Teft's cognitive self from being invested in Stormlight.

I hope he puts on a black headband and wears flowing desert robes and becomes a mad prophet of regret. His physical eyes have been blinded, but his third eye is finally opened.

We've had WOB references that Honor and Cultivation's vessels were romantically involved before the shattering. Thus, it seems logical that Cultivation's vessel took the -avast family name from Tan-avast. Now in Dalinar's visions, Tanavast appeared as a broad shouldered but normal height dark skinned human wearing a gold vest and puffy pants. What I want to know is if this is Tanvast's true form, and if so did he couple with a dragon-lady? Because mad props to Tanavast if so.

The blue skin and the white hair seemed like too big of a coincidence. Also a fluid physical form and the shadows pointing the wrong way. Honorspren-human hybrid does seem a possibility! I always imagined the Thaylens, Natans, and Marabetha(the people with the blue veins) were human-Siah hybrids. Hadn't given a lot of thought to the origins of the Siah though!

It's like poetry, it rhymes

Odium may have been speaking more truth than we gave him credit for back when he said: Cultivation wants to see progress. If the poor must be processed into soylent green to push humanity forward, that A-OK to Cultivation. (I would note though that these are the goals of the shards themselves. A vessel of a shard might well redirect the shard towards other interpretations of the intents.)

Maps are art, and Brandon likes piling cool artist skills onto Shallan.

Now that Jasnah is asexually coupling with Hoid, this is the only path I can accept for Kaladin. Syl even has the same sadbrains as our boy. Let them be perfectly sad and happy together! The Rhythm of Bittersweet.

It's sad from a meta perspective. The interesting possibility about Moash to me was the will he/won't he question of whether Brandon would offer him a later arc of redemption. That's a tricky balancing act though, and I'd argue this book pushed Moash too far past the moral event horizon to make redemption possible. Oathbringer Moash was interesting because he was such a mess. He did terrible things, but also snuck in a couple good things to make you think there was still a kernel worth redeeming in his dark heart (standing up for the singer slaves and training them to not die in combat). He was also a kind of sad and tragic figure, and his thoughts dwelt frequently on the guilt he felt about what he did to Kaladin. Now he's just the most terrible person imaginable. Encouraging your friend to kill themselves is a new level of puppy kicking villain. You can't even claim "Odium made him do it", because at the very end Odium's connection to Moash is disrupted by the tower. He's offered a moment of clarity free from Odium's emotion smothering gift. Guilt over what he'd done was the last real potential route Moash had to maybe turning his life around. And here in quite explicit detail, Brandon is signaling to the reader "this person isn't worthy of any sympathy, go ahead and take delight in his suffering."

The way he mentioned wanting to "repurpose" humans makes me think he wanted to use humans as test subjects or hemalurgy experimentation fodder. The Pursuer waking up in a room with El at the end also means that the Pursuer's new body wasn't just claimed by the Highstorm, presumably El killed a singer to give the Pursuer a new body. And likely has done so many times before. It occurs to me that El was the reawakened Fused that had Leshwi so agitated in the early chapters. She rushed back to the city in response to a new batch of Fused awakening, but never said which one concerned her specifically. It wasn't Raboniel like I initially thought because Leshwi acts surprised when she appears in the meeting. El seems the likely suspect. "He who quiets" Moash got the title for murdering Jezrien. El probably had the title for being the "facilitator" in granting Fused new bodies.

Brandon's made offhanded comments to the light consumption of Honorblades being "dangerous" but we haven't seen any indication of how that's the case. I'm imagining Moash was experiencing something similar to what happens to non-Radiant soulcasters.

Anger+Planning/Growth = Vengeance-light. The perfect light for concocting elaborate schemes to crush and humiliate your enemies.