Cephandrius Everstorm

DESTROY, DESTROY, DESTROY... "you are impatient with killing the evil, sword-nimi!" DESTROY EVIL!!! Oh man I feel nightblood's frustration, I was sitting there reading like YESSSS NIGHTBLOOD! DESTROY THAT EVIL!!! (as he sees it anyways) (And Lift and nightblood sidequest? Yes, please! They have such a lovely and common understanding for the need of consumption! In other notes. "I am Unity." That line, that storming line! And Dalinar temporarily uniting the three realms made my jaw drop. Was I the only one who thought that "Unity" was a new shard and that gloryspren was this shards investiture (realized after that they were just drawn to the glorious act of ascension but still I was freaking out here. I also thought that "Unity" may turn to be the united shards of Honor and Cultivation, and even perhaps, a three-in-one unity of Honor, Cultivation, and ma'boy Odium! I have always looked at Dalinar's quest to "Unite them" as much broader in scope than merely the people of Roshar, and perhaps even more than simply, the shards of Roshar "Unite THEM"... all of them... all 16! On that note, how about my namesake, Cephandrius, bonding that cryptic. This highly-invested world hopper is an awakened, a mistborn, and on his way to be a lightweaver and likely is working his way, and is well on his way, to being invested by the rest of the shards. After all when you can worldhop and go under the eye of 2/16ths of God unnoticed (here's looking at you Sazed, my OG hero of ages! *possible need for redaction*) then why couldn't you gather all the investiture you need to say, I don't know, UNITE THEM! (Though I figure the eventual unity of Adonalsium will be brought together not by any one individual, but nevertheless this witty worldhopper will have a willful weighing in on this worldbreaking wonder! (and I do think this is an eventuality, God isn't going to stay broken forever is he?) Moving on to Scadrialin things. The "Evi is Vivenna" theories I heard was already making me look for Vivenna so Azure was fantastic and satisfying, but not totally unexpected as I have been looking for her since my reread of WoK and realizing Zahel's true identity. All in all it speaks of awesomeness to me... and speaking of awesomeness... who else absolutely loved Lift popping up in Dalinar's visions? And how the heck did she do this by the way? Her connection to cultivation? The fact that she exists partly in the cognitive/spiritual realm (i forget which but there is some reason she can grab hold of wyndle/her spren in the physical realm)? As always, Brandon Sanderson leaves us with many questions but definitely had such a satisfying conclusion to this third book of awesomeness and I for one and Stormin starvin for more!

That is a very cool theory, I am not all the way done secret History but the best part about it so far has been the meeting between cognitive realm Kelsier and Cephandrius as well as Preservations observations about Cephandrius. I have been so fascinated looking at all of the different investiture from shards that Hoid has been collecting. I don't know if ascending to a shard would be possible, or if investiture of a specific shard is somewhat limited on other worlds (it would seem from WoR that Hoid may have used emotional or some other type of allomancy when he drops something into his own cup) but it would make some sense that if you could hold the investiture from all shards (including Odium), than you would thereby be invested by Adonalsium himself. However if your theory holds, and Hoid was to ascend and became the 17th shard, would that be something good for the Cosmere or not? We may get glimpses of Hoid's intentions within the existing cosmere novels, but I don't feel that I personally know even a smidgen of what his plans are.