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You're definitely not imagining it. I remember reading that WoB

Mood. I noticed the writing while looking at a reddit post and came here to see if anyone else had picked up on it. Silly me, I should have known we'd already have a translation, another piece of text, and nearly the entire alphabet deciphered.

Urithiru

Total shot in the dark: the pits of Hathsin (when the Terrispeople lived there)

Iri? Specifically the Iriali people?

Mount Derytatith

The Reshi Isles

Thanks for the help Technically that specifically refers to being above the mists, and it's an Era 2 term. Luthadel's mistings/mistborn flew though, not over, the mists, and they didn't have a special term for the skies.

Some important location on Dayside? My white sands is rusty. Otherwise the skies above Luthadel

Sel?

That spanreed post that Jasnah and others use to communicate?

If it is silverlight, it's possible that "cognitive anomaly" refers to the anomalous region of the cognitive realm that the city is located in. It's been heavily implied that silverlight doesn't have a physical realm analog (likely if you transitioned there, you would end up in space), which begs the question of how there's enough space in the cognitive to build a city there. Perhaps the anomaly is an expanded region of the cognitive realm where one would expect nothing (since no one is thinking much about that particular patch of space), and the anomalous property is that it exists at all, not that there happens to be a city there. As for why Nazh didn't mark that silverlight was in the anomaly, we've seen exactly zero cities/non-natural structures marked on these charts so far. Perhaps it wasn't worth mentioning when it would be obvious to the users of the chart.

The Kholinar lighteyes feast hall?

The Nightwatcher's............ curses?

If the Returned's painting interpretation abilities aren't augury, I don't know what is.

Reading this, I finally connected the red mist attacking Scadrial that Harmony shows Wax, and the "red = corrupted" WoB that came out a while ago. I'm still not sure exactly what's up and whether it's that Trell's coopting Harmony's investiture, or that they've augmented themselves in some way, but I'm now fairly certain that Trell doesn't have the full force of the shard of Autonomy behind it.

I would love that if we'd heard any in-book reference to the 10 gas giants thus far. As far as we know, they don't have a strong enough presence in the collective Rosharan psyche to possess strong spren. I still agree that at least one of the Dawnshards is a large-scale terraformer, possibly responsible for the deduction of Ashyn and the creation of the Shattered Plains, and is currently being kept on Akinah (hence the best security team possible and the rumors of Soulcasters being kept on the island)

He's not calling out to someone/something, though. He's asking a question because he's confused. At least, that's how I read it.

Notably, the Oathgate platform (or at least the floor of the control room) actually manifests in Shadesmar, which is a trait we haven't seen anywhere else. One possibility is that the stone disk seen in Shadesmar is the spren of the Oathgate, and that the two spren guarding it are it's "soul" in a more metaphorical sense, and in fact only serve to keep it operable. This ties in with the theory that all ancient fabrials are accompanied by highspren who made some kind of oath to keep it operable. Then, the two spren of the Oathgate aren't manifested in the Physical in any way and aren't actually the literal spren of the Oathgate. One piece of possible evidence for this is that when the spren of the Kholinar Oathgate were corrupted, this wasn't reflected in any way in the Physical manifestation of the Oathgate.

I'm not concerned about spren, or beasts coming to the Cognitive from the Physical. My concern is that the beasts in the Physical will be able to see and attack worldhoppers while they're still in the Cognitive. Just like Lift can touch and physically interact with spren due to her being more in the Cognitive than any other human, it's likely that the beasts' mind-sense comes from strong Cognitive aspects, allowing them to see entities that exist entirely in the Cognitive and perhaps even attack them across Realms.

The Cognitive side of the Perpendicularity might well be just as dangerous as the Physical side. We already know from Jasnah's deleted scene that Cognitive entities like spren pose a danger to Physical entities visiting the Cognitive Realm. Considering that every lifeform on Patji has a strong enough Cognitive Aspect to sense unshielded minds, it's entirely feasible that they can attack in the Cognitive Realm. This greatly increases the bar to acquiring an Aviar. You'd need to survive Patji's Cognitive Realm long enough to get close to the Eye, poke through and grab a bird, then get back to safer areas of the Cognitive Realm. Grabbing the Aviar would actually be the safest part of the trip, since the area around the Eye of Patji is automatically shielded. Autonomy's Investiture was always on First of the Sun, able to produce the various unusual effects observed in the Pantheon. We're still not sure exactly when Bavadin started focusing on First of the Sun, nor what she did there, so it's possible the Aviar have existed for a long time, even perhaps before the Shattering.

Threnody is in fact a well known form of mourning song, as is every other planet in the system, barring Purity.

This actually fits well with the theory that the name "Old Magic" is being incorrectly attributed to the Nightwatcher's boons and curses, and is actually supposed to refer to the disease magic we've seen on Ashyn (I can't link to it right now, but there's a thread somewhere). If Voidbinding refers to the Ashynite method of manipulating surges, then under this theory it and the Old Magic would be "cousins", or possibly even the same thing (explaining why Brandon didn't list the Old Magic as a separate magic system, but rather something in its own category).

Yelig-nar was not affecting Sadeas's men; Nergaoul was.

It's certainly not a Shin deity, because Szeth responds with something along the lines of "Sending me so that you can use me to murder for you? Sounds like something one of your Vorin gods would do". The tone I got from that was derisive (Szeth disapproves of Lifebrother and Vorinism in general) as opposed to contradictory (Lifebrother wouldn't do that, that's more your gods' style). I really like this theory, but my main reservation with it is that Lifebrother is a decidedly masculine name, whereas up until now every mention of the Sibling has been intentionally gender neutral. I wonder if the Vorin mythos accidentally splits the Sibling into two entities: Lifebrother and Deathsister, perhaps? Together, these two would form the genderless Sibling. This is a stretch, but maybe that incorrect Vorin belief became so pervasive that it actually affected the Sibling, thus explaining the damage humanity has caused to the Sibling that the Stormfather referred to, and also explains how the Sibling would end up being called Lifebrother when no other major spren's name was lost to time. Realistically, I think that's too far out there, but I still really like the S=LB theory.