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According to available knowledge, no higher spren has ever bonded through the gemheart. Save perhaps the Unmade(?). That's why Glys was uncertain that he could even form a shardblade. And we don't know if Glys can even form the Nahel bond, since he is corrupted.

Which begs the question, how did Odium get to all those Ancient Singer Shadows in the first place? Is was he did to them causing the problem or is it part of the Oathpact?

Plausible, since the new Stormfather is meant to be Bondsmith spren.

I'm not saying the Iriali evolved from the Shin. I'm saying they are also progenitors from the Tranquiline Halls. For all we know, all the various human races came from the Tranquiline Halls and all developed distinct Parshendi mutations from inter-breeding.

Akinah is probably a Fabrial manufaturing lab and research center. Some experiment went wrong and they had to quarantine it.

Perhaps Chemoarish became the Nightwatcher after Cultivations interference.

Kaladin's father will fuel his 4th Ideal. Lirin will remain in Hearthstone and possibly die.

If that's the case we would have seen Rosharan birds or at the very least Rosharan chicken.

Agree. Which is why I'm curious who would hold the Oathpact for that 20 years and who breaks?

You assume the Ashyn/Traquiline Halls exudos are only of the Shin race. The Iriali could have been from there as well. Eshonai having to go into the Highstorm would probably have more to do with the fact that she has to attune to the rhythm of the storm.

Nop, It's baby Renarin. Kinda remains me of dull-form. But then its a baby,so...

When has Alethi valued height? I only see them commenting on the Shin's smaller stature and Shallan gripping about their long legs. I don't recall Syl ever flying through anything.

How so? Dalinar didn't hold any shard.

The Alethi are 'tall'. Their height are mentioned too often and they are as tall as the Parshendi. The Shin height/shortness are supposedly 'cosmere standard'. Which mean the Alethi are taller than regular people. To clarify, I'm not saying that Renarins blood pumping heart is mutated into crystal. I'm saying he has a secondary gemheart like the Parshendi. But the thing is that all the higher spren of the KR do not go into their companion only Glys. Even for Yelig-Nar to go into Amaram, he has to be housed in a gemstone.

How drastic would it be really? How large does a gemheart have to be to house a spren even a higher spren? His quote that Glys lies within his heart is what prompted this theory. Spren only ever inhabit gemhearts. Why would it go into an organic heart? Sure you could say its a metaphorical thought but I don't believe so.

That's why I postulate that the Alethi is part Parshendi and Renarins gemheart is a mutation. It would be no different than having a benign cancer tumor.

I'm not saying he ingested one, I'm saying he was born with one. Perhaps not with a regular sized Listener gemheart, but a mutation. Large enough for Glys to inhabit. Listener tradition of going out in the Highstorm is most likely the lesser spren they bond are in the Cognitive Realm and require the Highstorm/Honor's Perpendicularity to transition to the Physical Realm and bond them. Glys though, is already in the Physical Realm therefore does not need the storms.

Ok here I go, The two scenes come right after each other, what gives?

This is unlike any of the Nahel Bond spren, which do not go into their companion. Which likely means Renarin is not bound by the Oaths. Which may explain why his Regrowth from the Thunderclast attack was so much faster/stronger than Lifts.

Unfortunately the slipper part comes right after the boots.

That's if the Ancient Singers cross directly into a physical host. We don't know that they don't have to first make the transition and then bond the host.

What of the Highspren? They could be helping.. somehow?

Our gods are born splinters of a soul. (The Unmade(?)) Of one who seeks to take control, Destroys all lands that he beholds, with spite. (Odium) They are his spren, his gift, his price. (Again The Unmade(?) or perhaps just higher voidspren in general)

Could their madness tied to their repeated transition to the Pysical Realm from Shademar? The higherspren loses part of themselves from the transition, perhaps the ancient singers does as well.