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Fact: Parshendi people value Honor in battle and killings Possible action: Parshendi people were somehow tricked or misguided to hire Szeth and kill Gavilar Possible reaction: Parshendi people did not want to continue to deal with Szeth and did not want the person who gave them Szeth to reclaim him and therefore threw away the oathstone while retreating. 1) Szeth is sold to a merchant 7 years ago in Shin Lands, 2) Merchant made a HUGE profit selling it to someone who knows the value of Shin assassins, 3) ? 4) Shin somehow ended up with Parshendi and kills Gavilar. Logic states that the third point above should be filled with some very powerful man's actions. And why not if it is the King of Kharbranth?

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The quotes from book below prove that behind Szeth's actions were not some random people... those were very informed people. Therefore, I think, King of Krarbranth was behind hiring Szeth through Parshendi. My thought process looks like this: Odium->King of Kharbranth->Parshendi->Szeth->massacres. King's people know Szeth's father's name. King's people know that Szeth was the one who killed Gavilar King knows that Shin people gave this blade to Szeth. It means that he knows pretty much everything about Szeth. At first, I thought that Szeth's remark "You were always him," was meant for the most recent deaths of High princes. But then I came to conclusion that the word "ALWAYS" in this remark included Gavilar's death also. I may be wrong but its something to think about.

It is naive to think that the king all of a sudden recently found out about Szeth's cunning skills. The guys who captured Szeth's stone were VERY intimately familiar with him. And those guys worked for King of Kharbranth. Therefore one can assume that the same king was behind the ordering of Gavilar's death. You may be right. Actually you are quite right, methinks. However, in Stormlight 2 we need to have more specific information on this topic.

Thanks Joe and Windrunner, I got my degree in Business Administration. If you really like that thread, please don't be greedy and press the green "+" sign below it As for time frame of 2030... That surely is something. Actually, if it takes 3 years per book, it'll be 2040 Lmao.

Thanks! Yes, there are definitely strange things going on in Shattered Plains. - Parshendies' refusal to say the reason behind Gavilar's murder, - Parshendies' strange honorable tactics of battle, - Parshendies' strange use of their shardblades, There should be a huge reason for all these things. And only Stormlight 2 may give us clue. P.S.Possible theory: Alethkar has a border with shattered plains. And yet only 6 years ago Gavilar discovered the parshendy. What if Odium through King of Kharbranth (his pet project) created these Parshendy (just recently in large numbers) with some magic and now the king of Kharbranth commands Parshendi. And they do whatever king (through Odium's commands) says. 1) Odium discovered that Gavilar was up to something, 2) King of Kharbranth gave Szeth to Parshendi with specific command to kill Gavilar, 3) Odium waits to regain his full strength and therefore Parshendi are silent, 4) As soon as Odium regains his strength Parshedni will turn into Voidbringers and attack Roshar. EDIT- Good points. My thought process about soulcasters was that, without many soulcasters, Roshar with its weather problems will not be able to provide enough food for its population.

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But nothing stopped him from letting himself be killed in order to stop his massacres.

I've read The Gathering Storms and Towers of Midnight. The Wheel of time books. And just finished reading Mistborn 1. If by spoiler you mean Hoid exists in each of Sanderson's books I know about it. And I know that all of Sanderson's fantasy Worlds exist in one universe - Cosmere.

Hello all! I'm new here. From far away country - Uzbekistan. Currently working in China. Got my degree in USA. Lived 3 years in Thailand. So that's a lot of geography for one person. Love fantasy. Can't wait to get Memory of Light. Hate waiting though therefore, here is my question: When do you think the last book of Stormlight Archives will be published? ;-) P.S. I wonder, is there a profession for people with great fantasy world building abilities and poor writing skills?

One thing which is of great interest to me is the logic behind Szeth's actions. He seems to be a person who contradicts himself greatly. We know that he does not like killings as he worked for some farmers for 6 years and kept low profile. However, when given chances to stop his killings (after he killed Galivar/after his master was killed by thugs), he refused to act on it properly and end his life. Szeth is He who takes away not adds -> He killed plenty of people and does not Like it at all -> The best way to end taking away a lot of lives is to end his life -> And he didn't use his chance to do that. Therefore, he contradicts himself greatly. EDIT- One theory which unites the Wheel of Time and The Way of Kings:Book 1 of WOT makes us think of Baalzamon as the Main Evil guy - the dark one, which was proven wrong in later books as we found out that Baalzamon was an ordinar Ishamael.<br style="color: rgb(28, 40, 55); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(250, 251, 252); "><br style="color: rgb(28, 40, 55); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(250, 251, 252); ">Book 1 of Stormlight Archives makes us think that "Almighty" is dead. I hope that it will be proven wrong in later books and we'll find out that "Almighty of the First Book" was one of the Heralds. EDIT 2- Is there a theory here which assumes Wit=One of the Heralds? If there is one, please let me know, I'd like to take a look at it.

Thanks for your answers. Here is one more thing to look at: Every World has Good vs Evil. And as such, every culture has an idea who's good and who's evil. However, it is strange that Alethkar people know that there is Almighty, but they have no idea who's Odium. And the book 1 does not give any alternative for Odium, i.e. people do not know who is their Evil N1. Or did I miss some mentioning of that?

Hi all, This is my first post here. Thought I'd share my opinions on The Way of Kings which need to be addressed in Stormlight 2. If you think, I made a mistake in my perceptions please correct me. 1) IMHO, Stormlight 2 needs to give us reasons why Jah Keved didn't use a perfect opportunity to strike and conquer Alethkar. Think about it. Jah Keved had these advantages: - Time. 6 years Alethkar's main army was gone. - Power. Jah Keved has the same amount of shards as Alethkar - Internal instability of Alethkar. Alethkar's remaining armies are fighting with each other. Therefore, in order not to perceive Jah Keved's nobility as idiots, Stormlight 2 needs to give some serious explanation as to why Jah Keved didn't attack Alethkar. 2) Kaladin, during his flight within the storm sees that almost everywhere in Roshar there are wars. We know that Roshar's weather makes it very challenging for agricultural crops to grow. More wars -> more soldiers -> less farmers. Therefore, Stormlight 2 needs to give us more FOOD soulcasters. My perception (I may be wrong) from Stormlight 1 was that soulcasters were very rare items. 3) Dalinar is a great general. If we need to continue to think about him as a great general, Stormlight 2 needs to give us a reason why didn't he take away all the shards from high princes when he was conquering them with his elder brother. As the easiest way to unite Alethkar was to get all the shardblades in 1 army. 4) Alethkar has around 150 thousands of troops in Shattered Plains. The first book states that each week high princes fight mini wars on chasms. So, reading through the casualty reports in the book, we may assume that at least 1000 Parshendi dies each week. 1000*55*6years=330 thousands. So we may assume that during these 6 years 330 000 Parshendies died. Ok, let's take half of it. Let's assume that 165 000 Parshendies died. Even this number is too huge. First, where Parshendi gets food for this kind of number of soldiers. Second, Parshendies are great warriors and they have an ability to jump chasms. If they had this kind of huge army, why didn't they use their advantage to jump the chasms and destroyed the Alethkarian Army? Therefore, Stormlight 2 needs to give us some more explanation. Thanks in advance,