Storyspren

I like the thought. Personally I switch between two views: 1) thinking the lord ruler himself had some post-deathe plans involving this. It seems to have happened post lord ruler death but not sure if these spikes were all placed post well of ascension or not. 2) ruin wanted to was just leveling up minions. Like you do.

Somebody was. No idea who it would be though. I think not the Pancal (sp) folks because their other plan was downright overly dramatic, though sharing the similarity of being longterm. One of the other scholars is a good thought but there's so so little to go on. Yarda could be a pawn of some other force or even a player himself. Really no way to know. If he's a player though, he's really really good at manipulation.

I'm suspicious of this father son team on the umpteenth reading here. Yarda is a bit too confident war is inevitable. And Parlin, his son, has too good advice about blending in. Anybody with me or am I late to the party here?

Good point. Good point.

Didn't Adolin forget his mother's chain before the big duel for shards in WoR? Did we ever see that chain again?

Let's think about this out loud a minute. Reasons somebody might want to find Hoid in no particular order: 1) They are mad at him because of something he did to them personally. (Seems unlikely. Too much trouble to go through for the minor annoyances we've seen. He's just annoying.) 2) They believe he has information they need or want. (Very plausible.) 3) They want to prevent him from doing something. (How though?) 4) Sheer curiosity about the random dude they realized that they have all met or heard of. (Similar to number 2 but they don't even know what they might get out of him. I think if this were the case, we'd already know. On the other hand this would play into their name. Like us 17th sharders they would just be fascinated with this guy. I still like 2 better) 5) They think he has something they want (other than information). (Like oh any of the many things he seems to have stolen. Space police going after Thanos sort of thing). 6) They perceive his very existence as a threat somehow. (Vague but very cosmere-y.) Personally I'm going with a combo of 2 and 5. Some 17 sharders just want info, some just want their stuff back, some might want both. So the cosmere cops got together to find Hoid. I know demoux is in it but please please let Wayne join too. Wayne has a chance of getting inside Hoid's head like nobody else because of his particular talent.

My crazy theory is Vasher gave nightblood to the night watcher in exchange for becoming able to get power from high storms.

Thank you for writing this. I always love a good theory and I'm starved for cosmere at the moment. The best quote in its favor seems to me to be this one: "We took them in, as commanded by the gods. What else could we do? They were a people forlorn, without a home. Our pity destroyed us. For their betrayal extended even to our gods: to spren, stone, and wind." I could read that quote as declaring spren, stone, and wind to represent three distinct Gods referred to as "ours." (Which really would imply that any foreign god would be a fourth). However, "the broken one reigns" could refer to one of the three immediately previously referenced, so I find that less strong. Some of the Dalinar stuff speaks in favor of SOME radical theory or other but none in particular. (I'm thinking either 'Honor's not dead', or 'Dalinar is super old' here but really any crazy theory.) That said here's why I'm against this: Three shards on one world is already enough. The more shards per world there are the less cool Sanderson worlds there are. So I'm against a four shard world. The Oath Pact seems to have SOMETHING to do with imprisoning Odium and I don't see how that can be so on this fourth shard theory. The whole unite them thing seems to be applying to items wider and wider in scope to Dalinar. Ultimately at the end of Stormbringer he unites the realms themselves. But that's still not what the voice(s) want. Uniting at least two shards seems to be in the offing. Four would be tantamount to all though. My super not so secret pet theory is that Noadon took up Honor's power when Tanavast died (or before) and that Noadon is the dude talking to Dalinar keeping the Stormfather out of the loop because Stormfather is actually sketch. Then what Dalinar's supposed to unite on the theory is Cultivation and Odium. Which is actually what Odium wants but secretly Noadon(sp) has already made Dalinar Honor, mirroring Vasher's big unexpected move that he uses twice in Warbreaker. So since your theory wouldn't fit neatly with that. I'm just going to reject it on that baseless reason.

Quite obviously Scarlet Johansen (sp) has to be Blushweaver.

Also, DUDE. Friends don't let friends start Kingkiller.

So um... I need this thread to become longer because... yeah.

They also need to a) attract a spren and b] be exposed via a vector the disease can travel on. If it weren't airborn that would explain it.

What's the line about knowing which stories are false doing on that theory?

So Beard wore a white armband without a glyph ward because he has ways of knowing which stories are false and Noone watches over us according to him. That seems like a huge red flag. Did he get that info from Azur? Is there more to his story? Did we see him before? This guy really has me suspicious to the point of wishing he weren't dead.

You have to be right . The warmth, hoid asking Dalinar about adolnodium, odium saying "we killed you", Dalinar's mystery voices... It all points to a deep secret about Dalinar we don't know yet. We don't really know anything about his and Gavilar's parents. Or should I say alleged parents.

I'm aware of these things but I still think all these Kolin mystery illnesses also play a role. Which makes it unlikely kaladin's family's medical stuff is unrelated IMHO.

Ok.ok. Hear me out. Both Jasnah and Renarin had childhood illnesses. Relatives aka Gavilar and Dalinar probably also exposed. Kaladin and Tien lived basically in a germ factory (surgeon's house). The only cluster that needs any explaining is the Shallan, Helleran cluster. Gotta search for references of Shallan being sick. Anybody know offhand? Lift's background is both special and specially clouded so literally nothing to say there. Both the cobbler and the orphanage lady had a lot of exposure to kids and their germs. I'd say it's some kind of illness kids are unusually susceptible to but people don't usually get as adults because the kids get it doing some kid behavior adults don't do. Probably not airborn.

They run off gemstones, yeah. Knights radiant also run on gemstones. Grown is just a half metaphor. Maybe extrude or produce is a better word. As the parshendi grow armor, so Knights radiants create their own second skin out of storm light. Above is in defense of the crazy theory. I really am convinced though that the gemstone addition to Shardblades was no accident though. That will get clarified.

If it were a perfect analogy it would be called a "same thing," not an analogy. For parshendi they seem to be more fused with their spren. For the human spren it seems more like the relationship between ents and trees. When they hang out trees get more entish and ents get more treeish. So on this theory the Knights themselves project their armor but proper armor can come on and off which is precisely why shardplate has sections that can be dismissed and resummoned. By contrast, Parshendi bodies are by nature a blend of spren and parshperson. It's only together that they form a complete being (With the notable exception the sprenless form, in which they lack full sentience. But then they are arguably incomplete.) Regarding that quote, the "it is said" part indicates that this is just an in world theory. And we know that in world theories tend to be incomplete or backwards.

I'm sure this has been postulated before in various forms but I can't find exactly where to post this crazy theory. Apologies if this is the wrong place. I'll be brief. Theory: Shardplate is grown or extruded just like parshendi armor. It, like carapace armor, is a second skin. Postulated: Existing shardplate retains its basic decorations and structure while conforming to its bearer even if not we'll documented in drawings/paintings. Fact: Shardblades not from current Knights radiant are only MOSTLY dead. Corollary 1: Shardplate is still connected to Knights radiant of the past who are only MOSTLY dead. Corollary 2: those undead Knights radiant did not slam their Shardblades into the ground abandoning them, seeing as their shardplate still works. Corollary 3: The spren/Shardblades of the undead radiants are out there somewhere in the cognitive thus accounting for the missing Shardblades. OK just wanted to log this theory somewhere.

Ah. Guess it's a stretch then to think it's lerasium PLUS eg a spren that he needs too. Darn

My theory on Lerasium (or one of them anyway) is based on the WoB which stated that becoming an allomancer is a side effect of lerasium. So atium relates somehow to the future. Leras is preservation. Whenever something is nowe preserved, it had been preserved in the past. That's what preservation does, it links the past to the present via a staying the same relation. So what if you rewrote your spiritweb to be as it would have been had Adonalsium not been shattered? Thus mistborn would be, in a sense, really old school magic users and probably capable of picking up any shard's power as they are connected at least a little bit, via Adonalsium, to every shard. So then the reason why hoid would need the bead would be to use it to be able to pick up the other magics or manipulate them in some way.

" “Kheni’s husband took him by the arm, smiling. “Can you not stay a little longer?” “I should think you are the first to ever ask me that, Cob,” Wit said. “And in truth, the sentiment frightens me.” Excerpt From Oathbringer Brandon Sanderson https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/oathbringer/id1198279804?mt=11 This material may be protected by copyright."

Has to be movies. Sorry. But I would put in here that the what I would recommend is actually commissioning the programming team of a big cgi studio to write the plug-ins to make the magic physics work. Gravity is rust in CGI still so you will have a software package to sell back to the commissioned animation company. This basically lets them get paid for revolutionizing cgi but since you're subsidizing the work you basically get upgraded for free. And you bring to the table the need to finally figure out eg gravity and mass for a fun project. The whole universe benefits because from then on movement of rigged figures won't look ridiculous.

Hmm mm two questions you guys could help me out with maybe: 1) do we know where the aimians are originally from for sure? 2) Do we know that Hoid was born from human parents? Could he have been created as it were de novo? Human but with a different origin story than most humans? (In a similar way that Smurfette is a smurf but started as an idea of gargamel's.)