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You do realize odiums the reason the humans did all that on Roshar right? Wheh they first appeared Odium was their god and they used void light not stormlight. Odium whipped them into a frenzy and led them to take over Roshar before defecting sides to the parshendi for reasons yet unexplained

I've seen a lot of posts on here saying Dalinars whole unite them thing is insisting he'll take up Tanavasts Shard and become Unity instead of honor. This got me thinking and I just noticed the similiarity to mistborn. In this series we see a Shard choose someone to be its next vessel, and then that same person chosen to be another Shards champion. Dalinar was chosen to be odiums champion. My thought is that the Stormfather was supposed to show the vessels to the person who would become Honors next vessel. So right there we see that odium groomed Dalinar from a young age and Dalinar was also chosen by the Stormfather aka Honor. When Dalinar visits the Nightwatcher Cultivation intervened knowing that Dalinar was odiums champion. I think that the unite them thing isn't about the splinters of Honor, though it very well could be a reference to him eventually becoming Honor, but I think it's about him becoming all three and achieving this figure of Unity. This could go even further. Dalinar may in fact be the person who unites all the Shards and recreates adonalsium. Or I could be completely wrong and he dies who knows Edit: so I reread the Ascension scene and something that sticks out to me is the way Odium said we killed you. We. We know that Odium killed Honor so I don't think he's referring to him, I think he's referring to Adonalsium.

It's actually of all the Shards we've seen at this point. They can all see into the future to a certain point, with some seeing clearer and farther then others

New to the site and I'm living this theory. Here's two thoughts 1 Hoid could certainly have been the vessel but what if adonalsium became sentient due to the amount of investiture and did away with him because he was human and it thought it knew better. Hoid in his rage then attempted to kill adonalsium but failed( I read somewhere that there was a failed attempt before the shattering) and survived. He learned his lesson and decided to shatter the power instead of kill it. Having once held the power he was able to help 16 others shatter it but refused to take a shard cause he knew what it would do to him. Frost mentioning in that letter about the destruction he's brought is because he wants to see everything adonalsium worked for destroyed. This would also explain why he isn't frightened by Jasnah kholins shardblade at the end of WoR and even tells her he'll watch the world burn if he has to. Hoid goes around constantly stirring up trouble and pitting Shards against Shards. 2 now my second thought is one I haven't seen mentioned yet and actually goes directly against this theory. What if Hoid is the opposing force to adonalsiumm. He poses and a young man on yolen and attempts to kill his rival. He fails. He finds 16 powerful figures and helps them to shatter adonalsium's power. His rival is defeated. He allows the 16 to take up Shards because he knows they can't beat him anymore. This would also explain why he didn't take a shard by was present for the shattering.

The one you're thinking of is when ruin slitghtly alters written letters to make it seem like vin has to give up the power at the well and later when someone( can't remember who) receives a loving letter that is read as a hateful one. Personally I think odium can do this and is in part responsible with so many of the ancient texts of Roshar being vague or destroyed. That was all he managed to do with what limited access he had to Roshar

In the Star Wars extended universe there's a material called coronite( I think) that actually turns off a light saber when it connects and is nearly indestructible if attacked by blasters

Ok so my thought is in the epilogue of WoR we see Wit awaiting Jasnah and after doing some research I found out about the cosmere. stormlight is actually the second series the I've read written by Sanderson the first being the original mistborn trilogy. Now in the mistborn series we see two Shards, Preservation and Ruin. These two Shards banded together in an attempt to create a second species of humanity. The important thing about this is that in creating this species both Shards had to put part of themselves into humans in order to give them sentience and the ability to destroy or save. It was said that a little bit of Preservation lived in every one of these humans. The reason this is important is because in that epilogue Wit tells Jasnah the truth about the Tanavast but the thing that struck me as odd was that Wit specifically said that he believed the Almighty to live inside the hearts of men. Wit knows that the only actual Godlike being in the cosmere was in fact Andlomanius. My theory is that the reason the Shattering was said to be a final option/ last ditch effort type thing was in fact to spread andlomanius's power amoungst the sentient races at that time. Now I haven't read all of Sandersons books and am new to this whole thing so I'd appreciate it if some of you smarter and more versed lorises were to check this out and give me an opinion on this.