blackmagic3

I was re-reading WOK and I think I might have caught something about Dalinar's wife, please correct me if anybodoy else has posted about this but in Adolin's POV he says that his shard plate and blade came from his mother's side. This suggests that Dalinar's wife is most likely Veden or an Alethi due to the most shards being possessed by them. we also he another clue, Adolins blond hair this piece of information tells us that she is more likely to be Veden as Alethi tend to have black hair. In accordance with these fact i think that Dalinar's wife was a Veden in a highprince's family or even the Veden King's family.

I always assumed that the three shards on Roshar were odium, honor and cultivation.

I think you missed my point about Kalak, throughout the book its says that humans fought against the voidbringers in the desolations. This establishes that only the human race in roshar fought against the voidbringers. The second point is that of Kalak seeing orange blood. Now through the previous point we know that only humans fought against voidbringers which eliminates the possiblity that parshendi/parshmen fought with the humans. What else could the parshendi/parshmen be if not the same species as the voidbringers. I am not saying that the parshendi on the shattered planes are voidbringers but they were the same type of creatures that Kalak fought in the last desolation. Edit:Typos

Like may other in the topic my journey to Brandon's works began throught WoT, My friend in 10th grade science class heard I was reading and he told he was reading a WoT and was on the book Winter's Heart. He lent me the first book and in a month i had read the entire series(he is still on the Winter's Heart even though now i have re-read the series 3 times and its 3 years later). I heard RJ had passed away and I was curious about this Bradon Sanderson who was to step into RJ's shoes. I read Mistborn and i thoroughly enjoyed it and I became a fan. It all changed when I read The Way of Kings, as reader I thrive on story and experiences of the charecters but in TWoK its was like Brandon's prose distilled the pure story along with emotion and injected it into my viens like my own brand of heroin. He left just enough hints for me to crave that next hit. Now I can't stop thinking about TWoK and this is why I am here. P.S Sorry if i got a little intense about my experience with TWoK but thats how I feel.

I hate to be seen disagreeing on my first post but i would like to adress two things that you guys have been talking about. First of all the fact that the Parshendi shard bearer was looking at Dalinar's face could have a much more plausable reason. Dalinar was there when the Parshendi were discovered so it isn't hard to believe that some of them would remember his face. Also the fact that in a Shallan POV Jasnah tells her that Gavilar saw a Parshendi thrust his hand out as if to summon a shard blade. It could that same shard bearer who recongises Dalinar because he saw Dalinar during those first days or recognised him through his resembelance to Gavilar. As for the speaking Alethi -come on- the Parshendi were talking Alethi within the first few days of their meeting with the Gavilar's party. The second point is my theory on why Jasnah is right and the Parshmen and maybe the Parshendi are the voidbringers or potential voidbringers. For this we must go back to Kalak POV he saw red, orange and violet blood on the battle field after the desolation. I am pretty sure that Parshendi blood is orange and assuming that also includes parshmen, their blood was there in the aftermath of the desolation but Kalak doesn't see any Parshendi or Parshmen. Also in the book its is implied that human kind fought the voidbringer in the desolations, Parshmen and Parshendi are not humans. Ergo the shard-bearer recognised Dalinar from the intial expedition into Natanatan or through his resmebalance to Dalinar and it is very likely that Pasrhendi/Parshmen were the enemies in the previous desolation. I'm sorry for being such a naysayer and ruining your fun on the topic, but i would have bothered me if I hadn't said something.