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@Andy92 I believe the voidspren are just odium spren sent to Roshar during the desolation as a way to get past the humans, who it has theorized may be unaware "shields" used to protect the shards (Now just Cultivation). I'm pretty sure they are voluntary splinters created by Odium.

I remember someone in WOR mentioning that storm form is one of the weaker voidbringer forms but I can't remember who said it. I believe that each voidbringer form has its own void spren.

I was thinking that the Odium Spren could have been using surges of their own. Maybe the type of spren that creates a thunderclast could be similar to gravitation Spren, or the type of Spren that grants the surge of adhesion. From the Rosharan essay we learn that bonds are what allow things to grow so large, and grant intelligence to animals like the Ryshadium, so perhaps the Odium spren form bonds similar to those. The only difference would be that Odium Soren could also bond inanimate (or perhaps invested) objects.

While rereading Edgedancer, I noticed Darkness said this while talking to one of his sky breakers. Could it be possible that the voidbringers are actually the Odium spren and not the Parshendi? I know it doesn't make a lot of sense but it would be interesting if true. EDIT: My reasoning for this is that as far as we know the parshmen never left Roshar after the most recent desolation, yet Nale talks as if they did. Also, wouldn't Nale recognize the parshmen or were the true voidbringer forms so different from dull form that he couldn't see the similarities.

@Tsidqiyah yeah you're right I forgot that the picture lists Scadrial's new orbit which means it is after Era 1.

Are there any ideas about when the essays about each System from AU were written? It seems that they were written a long time after the events of White Sand,as Kriss speaks about not being able to visit it for a long time. She doesn't mention Harmony in the Scadrian essay which would seem to be a topic of great importance, but she does mention the IRE so perhaps it happens around the events of Mistborn Era 1. It is possible that the essays were written at different times and I have no solid evidence to the contrary, so please share thoughts on the matter.

@DarkJesterThe recipient of Hoid's letter is believed to be Frost, a dragon from Yolen( planet from Dragonsteel). Autonomy is held by Bavadin who, if I remember correctly, is a woman, although she has multiple personas of both genders.

One more thing is I remembered that when Eshonai becomes stormform there are more rhtyms to attune so perhaps this form comes from a different source than the others(almost definitely Odium) and affects their connection to the cognitive realm differently (Eshonai's personality change could be another part of this). But in that case, the other forms could be from either the natural Spren that existed before honor and cultivation arrived or from honor's and cultivation's spren.

That makes sense, but I can't understand how them being connected to the cognitive realm makes them feel the betrayal of the Spren.

I was re-reading WOR and I came across this epigraph and found it very interesting. The part about minds being too close to the realm, which I assume is the cognitive realm, could imply that the parshendi have an ability similar to Lift's but possibly to a greater degree. The part about the spren wanting what the humans give them could refer to spren regaining their memories from bonding with humans after initially losing them when they first enter the Physical realm, and if the parshendi cannot help them regain their sentience then it is understandable they would want to bond with something that could. Any other ideas/ things I missed? I'm new to the whole theory thing Also, Eshonai radiant confirmed???

My bad. But how exactly do you move it? If someone could help that'd be great.

These puns are gonna Ruin me

Just a long time lurker who finally got around to making an account. As someone who's read basically all of his cosmere books and impatiently waiting for Oathbringer, I thought it made sense to make an account and get more involved in the forums.

Ok thanks for the reassurance! I don't doubt White Sand will good, but it's nice to know that it can succeed with fewer words.

Any idea how many Aimians there are slinking around? As far as I remember there's only Arclo and Axies mentioned by name( and Arclo mentions the other sleepless), but I was wondering if there was a guesstimate.

As someone who isn't experienced with comic books, I was wondering if character development is less detailed in comics ( paragraphs of conversation between characters and their inner thoughts for example). One of my favorite things about Brandon's books are his characters,so I'm just hoping that the comic can build strong characters to the standard of his other works. Although, this fear might stem from menot knowing anything about comic books.