Leyrann

"Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns." "We took them in, as commanded by the gods. What else could we do? They were a people forlorn, without a home. Our pity destroyed us. For their betrayal extended even to our gods: to spren, stone, and wind." The Nightwatcher, the Sibling, the Stormfather. Spren, stone, storm. And: Unite them. A voice whispered the words in Dalinar's mind, echoing with the same resonant sound from months ago, when Dalinar had first started seeing the visions. "I'm doing so," Dalinar whispered back. Unite them. "Stormfather, is that you? Why do you keep saying this to me?" I said nothing. "I am Unity." He dipped his pen again. "Would you close the balcony doors again, gemheart?" he asked her. "The sunlight is distracting me from the other light." "Other light?" (...) As Navani shut the balcony doors, he closed his eyes and felt the warmth of a distant, unseen light. (there's another mention of the distant, unseen light, but I only have a physical copy and I can't find it) There is always another secret. They may not be the arc words of the Stormlight Archive, but they certainly are arc words of the Cosmere. Brandon also likes working with arc numbers; 16 on Scadrial, and 10 on Roshar. Ten, however, does not seem to be the only arc number of Stormlight Archive. There is also Odium's 9, but 3 is also a recurring number; spren, stone, storm. Nightwatcher, Sibling, Stormfather. Cultivation, Odium (?), Honor. Mishim, Nomon, Salas. Ashyn, Braize, Roshar. So, what's my point? Well, Odium doesn't fit. Why would a spren of Odium be a Bondsmith spren? Why would Odium be related to stone, while coming thousands of years after the others? Most importantly, consider the two epigraphs. The Eila Stele, which talks about the first Desolation, before the singers turned to Odium, talks about three gods: spren, stone and wind. The Death Rattle tells us "Three of sixteen ruled; Now the Broken One reigns." Unless this Death Rattle is foreshadowing a multishard (which would be scary, with a name like that), it's referring to Odium as the Broken One, which implies he is not one of the three who ruled. The Eila Stele implies similar: there were three gods before Odium showed up. So, uhm, where did that last shard go? Odium's prison. In Mistborn, Preservation almost completely blocks Ruin from influencing the world. However, that means that he himself can barely influence the world as well. Now compare that with Cultivation and Honor: Cultivation has been shown to appear, subtly influencing plans, but still to a degree Preservation was not able to do after creating the prophecies. Additionally, it is commonly believed she is also behind the Diagram, and may even be behind Taravangian's "prophet" day, altering and correcting the Diagram. Honor, as well, is known to have interacted substantially with the Knights Radiant, plus we have this quote, implying Honor as well had freedom: "Ships?" he [Dalinar] whispered. "They sailed during the storm? He controls it, the Stormfather said, (...). He uses it, as Honor once used me. The situation is, of course, different, as we know this battle as two shards against one. However, we also know by WoB that the actual power of a shard is infinite, and two times infinite versus infinite is still, in a way, equal. That's why another shard has to be Odium's prison. Now that we're done with the sensible theorizing, let's get to the crazy theorizing. Yes, I called that earlier stuff sensible. I am going to propose that this last shard is the shard of Unity, as predicted through The Fundamental Surges Part II: The Shards and a follow-up post I made on it. This shard, due to it's nature, is like the soul or mind of Adonalsium, stripped of it's power. The... centerpiece of Adonalsium, you might say. I also believe that Odium has partially freed himself somehow - perhaps similar to how Ruin was still subtly influencing the world, but over a longer timescale. On one hand, this is what allows Odium to appear to Dalinar and "ride the storm", on the other hand this is why Dalinar gets the vision with Nohadon, putting him back on track, as well as why he feels the "distant, unseen light"; with Odium partially free, Unity is not completely locked anymore either. Alternatively (and we've gone beyond crazy theorizing now), Odium may have killed Unity's Vessel without splintering the shard, and this is what his "we killed you" is about.

Steeldancer = Bavadin confirmed. Steeldancer's AMA:

Allergic to investiture... I feel bad for you.

Exactly.

Maybe Sja-Anat wouldn't have corrupted any spren.

I doubt he'd even notice more torture after 4.5 millennia...

Steeldancer = Brandon confirmed.

Someone should ask Brandon whether Thaidakar is often late...

Well we do have this one so Taln at least is very unlikely to die. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/352-miscon-2018/#e10291 I doubt much is going to come of that plan to be honest. Perhaps "Odium is trying to kill the heralds" is already enough for Jasnah to think "then maybe it's better to have them alive".

Account Settings -> Signature.

When you find yourself without something to spend your free time on now that you've caught up with this thread.

I'm pretty sure the Elantris sequels also play before MB Era 1...

Timbre is almost certainly a Lightspren, the daughter of Captain Ico, from the ship. Remember how she mentions to Venli that her grandfather is a deadeyes, while Ico's father is a deadeyes and he's mentioned his daughter "ran off chasing stupid dreams".

Of the book called Secret Project, of course.

But what was the present?

I want more Rysn.

That raises the question of how Cultivation could do so without Odium noticing. He's probably paying attention to what she's doing, and would notice if someone was changed by her (remember how Lift could "smell" Cultivation on Dalinar?). He's probably not paying as close attention to what Sja-Anat is doing.

I like the idea of hidden money as long as people can't create money out of nothing because of it being hidden.

@Archer That first one in the spoiler tag... I feel you man.

Cusicech and an unknown spren.

When you read through this entire thread and do not post in it in the meantime to make sure you can easily remember where you were; you just go to the first unread page. When you save these pictures for months so you can post them here:

Where are you getting the perfect gemstones from? I'd argue that even soulcasting has it's limits, and I can at least say for sure that modern science can't make perfect crystals.

Truthwatchers, please try to not sneak up behind people and startle them by making creepy predictions.

From Elantris right? Isn't that what Hrathen is?