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Eh, but only if Topaz is the first gem :-)

Other thoughts: "The Sibling" is what most references use. "Sweet Sibling" is used only by Dustbringers -- who are . . . well, the Slytherin of the Knights Radiant.

Ooooor what if Sha-Anat is the mother of Cryptics in the way that the Stormfather is the father of Honorspren? Her children are powerful but unliked and thereby not safe.

. . . Is based on him misunderstanding what Hoid is trying to do. He goes to see the Nightwatcher / Cultivation after Gavilar's death, understanding that something is really, REALLY going wrong. He gets the gift of capacity, with pros/cons of intelligence and compassion. And on the Day of the Diagram, we get this: "But who is the wanderer, the wild piece, the one who makes no sense? I glimpse at his implications, and the world opens to me. I shy back. Impossible. Is it?" Given what Taravangian thinks needs to be done (sacrifice most of it in order to save a few [he also refers to a "seed of humanity" in the diagram), look at what Hoid tells Dalinar: And while I am your friend, please understand that our goals do not completely align. You must not trust yourself with me. If I have to watch this world crumble and burn to get what I need, I will do so. With tears, yes, but I would let it happen.

So why don't lighteyes eye-colors change to match their blade? Why does it only happen to darkeyes?

My earlier comments were wrong. Just finished re-reading WoR, and Szeth can walk on Urithuru because it's the only place where the stone IS holy. Not where it's unholy. This would imply, of course, that all the rest of the stones are unholy. Eeenteresting. It fits in with what we know of the Shin being the real monsters. I'm starting to lean back towards the Sibling being Odium-esque. The fact it doesn't have a name and gets all kinds of positive reinforcement reminds me of the Furies and Hades from Greek mythology. To not piss them off, you didn't call them by their names; you called them by really nice things instead: the Furies became the Eumenides: the Gracious/Kind ones; Hades became Pluton: the Rich one. A serious Odium spren could become the Sweet one. In other news, looking at the map, Urithuru is just a stone's throw from The Valley. Something let life live at the tower. Maybe Cultivation and the Nightwatcher were there and didn't go too far away. Do all Native Rosharan things have gemhearts?

Well, Oathbringer helps answer this.

Query/thoughts: If the Sibling is the Spren of stone / the Spren of Urithiru, why is that the only place where a Shin can walk on stones, where the stones are unhallowed? The three routes I see are a) the tower is artificial so it has no spren (which doesn't make sense, since we see swords and other such creations have spren), the holy spren of stone had fled, or c) the tower was possessed by an unholy spren. Tangentially, looking at the Radiant Chart & Double Eye, Bondsmiths and Truthwatchers are in the center, and both have, um, interesting interactions and combinations of Shardic spren.

I was really expecting this to be resurrected, since Dalinar sees the stormstriders (and seems to think nothing of them) in one of the early flashback chapters in OB. Granted, I'm only at page 500, so maybe there's more to come.