Blackwarder

The sibling used to make their own Light until BAM was captured and he lost the rhythme of Honor. 
But honor still lives in the heart of his children so by bonding Navahni he can hear it again and make Towerlight once more.

At least that how read that.

“I can and will!” Lirin shouted, standing up. “Because I will take responsibility for what I’ve done! I will work within whatever confines I must in order to protect people! I have taken oaths not to harm!”

Excerpt From
Rhythm of War
Brandon Sanderson
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I’m putting my money on Lirin.

58 minutes ago, Leuthie said:

I did notice that. Bravery also started every sentence or line it was in. It's traditional to capitalize the first word in a sentence or line. It don't think it means anything else.

That what I though one my first read, but the structure of some of those sentences is weird.

Anyone else noticed that every mention of the word bravery in ch 113 it’s with capital letter?

Don’t forget that Kaladin is special. I’m not buying the 4th ideal theory about why he stayed up when every one else fell unconscious.

There’s something wrong with that boy.

17 hours ago, Zedseayou said:

I'm not sure we know exactly how old Testament is. It's only with the honorspren where we are told every single honorspren had sought a bond pre-Recreance.

“Surely there are others among you, though,” Shallan said. “Older Cryptics? Who were alive back then?”
“No,” Pattern said softly. “None who experienced the bond.”
“Not a single one?”
“All dead,” Pattern said. “To us, this means they are mindless—as a force cannot truly be destroyed. These old ones are patterns in nature now, like Cryptics unborn. We have tried to restore them. It does not work. Mmmm. Perhaps if their knights still lived, something could be done . . .”
Stormfather. Shallan pulled the blanket around her closer. “An entire people, all killed?”
“Not just one people,” Pattern said, solemn. “Many. Spren with minds were less plentiful then, and the majorities of several spren peoples were all bonded. There were very few survivors. The one you call Stormfather lived. Some others. The rest, thousands of us, were killed when the event happened. You call it the Recreance.”

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Words of Radiance ch.75
Brandon Sanderson
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I’m pretty sure she’s a newborn Cryptic. But she might be from the older ones.

On 2020-11-28 at 5:11 AM, handleinthedark said:

 

Kythis

How did Pattern actually become a Shardblade even though he hadn't been fully pulled into the Physical Realm?

Brandon Sanderson

He had been pulled into the Physical Realm before when Shallan was younger, and she almost broke her bond.  And in so doing . . . 

Kythis

But he didn't go mad.

Brandon Sanderson

She didn't completely break the bond.  She didn't reject him completely.  But it was dangerous there for a while.  

Words of Radiance Omaha signing (March 13, 2014)

That might as well been about Testament after all she was pattern for Shallan.

I do believe that Brandon planed all of this from the start.

We have no idea about Hesina or Lirin origins. Would be interesting to see how the stormfather refers to them to little Ordeon.

On 2020-11-20 at 10:09 AM, Zedseayou said:

I think if we follow this theory exactly, it would imply that spren created since the Recreance would not be as suffused with Odium's investiture. This has implications for whether or not the new crop of honorspren (and possibly other, younger spren) are subject to becoming deadeyes from broken oaths.

 

Well we have Testament as an answer to that.

On 2020-11-23 at 1:51 AM, KandraAllomancer said:

I'm not sure about this, as we have 16 Shards and just 7 colors of the rainbow... Plus, Shardic colors are complicated. Voidlight is hyperviolet, the corresponding rainbow color is violet (with an extremely broad band) and the color of Rayseium, also used by Odium in his visions, is gold and white.

Also, we haven't seen Ruin's or Preservation's Lights, just their godmetals (solid state), Shardpools (liquid) and mists (gas), while Lights seem to be something between liquid and gas

Than a unique Adonalsium spectrum fully harmonized.

Is it an elsecaller thing? A Jasna thing?

I don’t remember where I saw it but some of the orders don’t have squires. Could elsecallers be one of those?

I think they don’t know about him. He’s been lying pretty low.

Good catch!

I wonder when we will see Kal fly to space and check those moons up close.

Can’t give any more likes buts that makes total sense.

On another note regarding breaths.

We know that Zahel is on Roshar because it’s easier to get investiture here, iirc there is a wob about how Zahel managed to figure how to turn Stormlight to Breath.

Do you supposed he simply use his perfect pitch in an isolated (awakened?) room to change stormlight rhythms from honor to endowment frequency?

I wonder how much stormlight you need for one breath...

I’ve been wondering about that myself.

I think that we got it the other way around, where it was the dawnsingers who first turned to Odium, probably by some of Odium human agents, and started the hostilities after the Ashyn refugees came to Roshar. At least that started the ball rolling, I’m sure it was more convoluted than that.

On 2020-11-19 at 10:30 PM, Subvisual Haze said:

I feel like Cultivation's vessel might just want to finally pass beyond.  End the war, put the shards in new hands, rejoin Tanavast in the afterlife.

From what we've seen Eternal Life is wearisome in the Cosmere.  Your soul gets thin, your personality is warped to match the power, you develop peculiar insanities etc.

And lookie here, we have Lift whos’ wish was:

“I said, when everything else is going wrong, I want to be the same. I want to stay me. Not become someone else.”

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Brandon Sanderson
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Could it be that Lift is groomed to be a shard holder who can control its shard and not be changed by its intent?

17 hours ago, Toaster Retribution said:

I suspect Nale was a king. Makes sense from how he seemed to be leading a faction opposed to Jezrien, who we know was a king. I also really loved the Nale flashbacks. They show that Nale was once (and hopefully, beneath the madness, still is) a good person. I also think about the vision of him protecting a child from some kind of monsters. Wonder if that was some random kid he found, or someone significant to him.

I think they all were. The oathpact broke them all. 
 

I’m not sure that ruin and preservation are each other anti-light, at least not naturally.

As we’ve seen in Navaho experiments each light breaks up into a rainbow with one color being disproportionately represented, I believe that if you could somehow combine them all you’ll end up with a perfect rainbow of colors.

I loved it. The entire bridge four sequence and how it related to Kaladins struggles was very emotional to me.

Not only Adolin, there are hundreds of dead blades around somewhere, it’s an entire army waiting to get called back.

Not to mention the Sibling who we have no idea what’s going on with it.

Here’s a crackpot idea that just came to me: to heal deadeye sprens you need Sja anat.

You need Dalinar to reenforce the connection and Sja anat to heal the gap in the spern psyche.

Am I the only one who gets the feeling that Navahni is gonna wake the sibling early in the book?

I feel it’s like shalan arc in OB part one.

I think the latter is about the upgrades of urithiro fabrials.

its hurting the sibling and she should stop.

6 hours ago, Bliev said:

 

For me, I think it'll be interaction with Lirin. The same interactions he remembers as a boy, and then seeing how his father navigates the world so differently than he does, but with the clarity of adulthood and experience. I'm thinking that what leads to the 4th ideal might be an attack on Urithiru where his father sacrifices himself, tells Kal he's going to do it, and Kal has to let him go. That some people don't want to be protected, and you can't save them all. That, or it's a clash with Moash that attack and he has to fight his former best friend and acknowledge that he can't protect them all that way. 

Anyhow, just my speculation. 

 

I have a theory that the two last Windrunners oaths are about leadership and the need to sometimes send others into harm and live with the consequences.

Something like 

“I will let others do their part, even if it costs them their life”.