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She did, yeah. I have to wonder what it means that after that road trip with Hoid, we only know one thing about her current frame of mind and it’s basically “first thing we do is we kill all the Heralds.” She could be jumping to a conclusion based on whatever he told her, or... it’s something more interesting than that.

To complicate this, the Eila Stele comes out and says what the original Listener gods were- spren, stone and wind (chapter 116 epigraph). Wind/honor is obvious, so you’d think there would be a stone/Cultivation correlation. Which feels weird since it’s usually associated with plants, and growing things... but then there are the million and one references to the strata in the rock, and the garnet running through Urithiru like blood. And the windbreaks in Kholinar and various other structures that seem purpose-built to protect people from storms. I think Cultivation’s been growing all this rock, and if she has, the Shin connection to it might be more their historical respect for the stuff people were worshipping when they showed up. This might relate in another way to whatever’s going on with Urithiru, because that third spren has to be called the “sibling” for a reason. The listeners/singers are the ones who have a gender that isn’t male or female.

I’ve only ever lurked here (sorry) so this isn’t much of a hello but... uh, Odium is kind of the best, in an Alan Rickman in Diehard kind of way. And so the epigram in part 2 is that Hoid sent some kind of [email protected] email? And so far we have responses from Bavadin, Sazed and maybe someone else? Also many other things, but it’s 7am.

This entire theory is brilliant and prompted me to register after lurking for basically ever (hi everyone!). With all this I think you also solved something that's bothered me for ages, namely- Source So Glys should show up with bizarro extra Truthwatcher symmetry, as opposed to looking like Pattern, who clearly has what you've identified as cognitive symmetry (shown here)? You guys are all crazy, I love this forum.