Leyrann

There's two things to keep in mind there. First, Feruchemy doesn't have clear opposites like Allomancy does, and second, Brandon messed up the Feruchemical table, swapping the effects of Warmth and Determination (I don't remember the metals they belonged to), and he decided to leave it in as a quirk of the system because the first books were already in print by the time it was discovered.

If that was so, why did the time between Desolations get progressively shorter? Just wait 200 years before you start torturing those Heralds if that means you're better off.

I suppose the f-word becomes storming?

*kneels reverently* I am a Stick.

What about splitting those 4 hours into two movies though? (also, was this regarding Stormlight Archive or Mistborn?) Please no. Animated (realistically) is fine, but please no anime style.

The Everstorm is new. It's mentioned several times near the end of WoR and the start of OB by several sources, the Stormfather among them. As @Yata also pointed out, it circumvents the Oathpact (which kept the Fused on Braize after they died) because Fused no longer go back to Braize, but instead go into the Everstorm to be reborn the next cycle. If the Everstorm had existed before, the Oathpact would never have worked. While this granted him some things, remember what Taln said to Ash when he was lucid: Those four and a half thousand years allowed humankind to advance. Previously, Desolations set back humankind further than they could progress in between, and they kept occuring closer together because the Heralds could not hold out as long anymore. Now, however, humankind has advanced technology for four and a half thousand years. They have steel armor, all kinds of fabrials, near-instant communication across all of Roshar, most likely a higher population than previously, and so on. This is the first time that humankind has renaissance level technology to deal with a Desolation, rather than early medieval at best. That is going to make an enormous difference. All in all, I'm not sure if Odium likes having had to wait this long. We know from Brandon that the Oathpact was still kind of working, so most likely Taln being on Braize stopped him from being able to do more until, finally, he managed to position the Alethi and the Parshendi such that the Parshendi summoned the Everstorm. Likely, the splintering of Honor (which seems to have happened around the Recreance) and Odium having to recover from it (something Brandon has told us he needs to do after splintering a shard) took up quite a bit of his time as well.

Huh. I'd probably just set a city on fire.

What reasons are there to assume Mr T was talking about Honorblades over that he was talking about Shardblades? I would say that, if it doesn't talk about Shardblades, it's unspecified what the Diagram is talking about.

Honorblades don't have bonds.

Okay, so we do actually have a hint hidden in Words of Radiance that this theory hasn't mentioned yet. From the Diagram (chapter 78 heading): AhbuttheywereleftbehindItisobviousfromthenatureofthebondButwherewherewherewhereSetoffObviousRealisationlikeapricityTheyarewiththeShinWemustfindoneCanwemaketouseaTruthlessCanwecraftaweapon (every second letter starting with the first) In readable terms: Ah but they were left behind, it is obvious from the nature of the bond. But where where where where. Set off. Obvious. Realisation. Like a pri(ce?) city. They are with the Shin. We must find one. Can we make to use a Truthless? Can we craft a weapon? The first bold shows Taravangian is talking about the blades and the bond (so not the Honorblades, but the Shardblades) and the second straight up says they're with the Shin.

I don't really feel the Taln as Dustbringer thing, as I feel like it would require him to bond first and then start acting like it (while we know spren look for those who fit the others, rather than making them fit the order later on), but I like the reasoning for Shalash to become a Stoneward.

Was rereading Words of Radiance, at some point Shallan is checking in on Taln by order of the Ghostbloods. Amaram appears (and Shallan hides) and Amaram tries to get something out of Taln regarding "a whole cache of [Shardblades]", which Taln seems to have mentioned once outside his mantra. That does kind of imply that a cache exists somewhere, and this theory gives an idea of where that somewhere might be... Edit: I just realized, or was this something that Dalinar had planted with Bordin as part of testing Amaram? That would be awkward for me... (or Brandon's hiding something in plain sight...)

Maybe they'll all become worldhoppers. ...And then they just show up in MB4 Scadrial and start wrecking whatever threat there is with their Shardblades.

I would argue that it is really hard. The 'teleporting' is actually moving to the Spiritual Realm (instead of Cognitive Realm) and then moving back. The Spiritual Realm has no distance, so you can move from anywhere to anywhere (the Oathgates use this, for example). So that should make it possible, regardless of distance. However, Brandon has told us several times that it is very hard, if at all possible (it probably is though) to move a spren off-world. And considering a Knight Radiant, supposedly, needs proximity to their spren to use powers, they would lose their powers by trying to move to another system. Also, if Jasnah is a worldhopper (the theory that she'll become one, if she isn't one yet, is quite a popular one by the way, though I also like the theory that Shallan will become one considering her relationship with Hoid), she could also move just to Shadesmar and then move off-world there. I would argue there's no reason for her to use Elsecalling beyond moving to the Cognitive Realm. Except, of course, if using it makes it considerably easier and faster, which we don't know. I can see teleporting being much harder than moving to the Cognitive Realm and back though, even if only because Brandon needed a power check from a writer point of view.

Good thing you had that disclaimer, because I was about to jump in and forcefully tell you how wrong you were.

That's a shame. Would've been great if he knew what you were going for...

So I came across this earlier today... Why exactly were you curious about this? https://wob.coppermind.net/events/331-orem-signing/#e9430

Great read, and very recognizable.

Just read Archer's signature.

I would argue, though, that a splinter of a Shard cannot have an Intent outside of the Intent of a Shard, even though it might not be the entire Intent of a Shard.

But what about the Unmade then? They inspire all kinds of different emotions. Joy, contest, lust, anger, it's all in there, but all driven to it's extreme, and once driven to it's extreme it becomes negative. I think what we're seeing is not being consumed by hatred, but being consumed by any emotion until nothing else is left. We're just not used to seeing it outside of hatred because, as @The One Who Connects mentioned, most emotions tend to not linger like that. But here, they do. I still believe that Odium is actually about enflaming emotions, but once you enflame emotions too much, or perhaps too long, nothing else remains, and that looks like hatred because it's what you 'normally' see only with hatred. This would actually mean, for the record, that both meanings of Odium would indeed apply to him, in a classical Aes Sedai answer where it's technically true, but very misleading.

So the problem here is that we don't understand Voidbinding very well yet. There are a few discussions on whether the Fused Voidbind or Surgebind, with the general consensus leaning towards the latter, though I have to say I personally believe it to be the former, with the Surges being a very wide, overarching system that can be used in different ways depending on how the Shards limit it, and the Surges even being the groundwork of other magic systems and other Cosmere related things, though that is getting off-topic. We have seen Renarin, in Oathbringer, be unable to use Lightweaving at all, which is arguably an argument in favour of the Fused using Surgebinding, as their Surges do seem similar to what the Radiants use, and so would probably be able to learn from one another. (another explanation, however, would be that Renarin needs to somehow acquire Voidlight in order to Lightweave) That being said, there is a general consensus that Renarin will have a different resonance than normal. The theory I like most is that the difference between the 'normal' Truthwatcher resonance and Renarin's resonance is that a normal Truthwatcher sees the present, while Renarin sees the future. EDIT: Totally missed the part about Venli, I would argue that it works differently for her, as Timbre suppresses the Voidspren, meaning you're either having the Voidspren's powers (when Timbre lets them go through to fool the Fused) or the Willshaper powers (when he doesn't).

They do share fighting in 3 dimensions though, which other combat doesn't have. It's better than nothing.

I am about to get there in my reread. I remember that the first time I read Adolin impersonating his father to meet with Eshonai I found it awkward, and I hate reading awkward, but this (second) read it didn't feel like that, so I have good hopes that the end of the duel scene will not read awkward the second time either.

Isn't it also theorized that Obrodai is actually First of the Sun?