Juggernaut

It could be Shallan's father. I am relatively certain that Shallan has a Shardblade, because early in the book (I don't have a page number, unfortunately), she said that she had a secret hidden ten heartbeats away.

Or even an Obligator.

In this interview, Brandon said that there is a "mysterious death in Way of Kings that could use some resources devoted to it." I've only read Way of Kings once at this point, and I can't think of any deaths that could be classified as mysterious. Does anyone have some light to shed on this? And then perhaps we can get to devoting some resources. My only thought is Tien. We never actually saw him die. But his death never seemed terribly mysterious to me.

Tarachin, that game in Warbreaker that everyone but Lightsong knew how to play.

I believe Brandon himself has said that it was the Shards.

I believe the part two epigraphs are being written TO Hoid instead of by him. Hoid is old, and he could be an old friend. We can assume he's essentially immortal as well - he was present when Adonalsium was shattered. And that must have been a long time ago. In the events of Way of Kings, might Hoid be looking for this element, whatever it is, despite the fact that the author of this letter says it has a good home? Perhaps Hoid doesn't believe its home is a safe one. For one, I don't think Hoid would call people old reptiles. We saw how eloquent he was as Wit, with those carefully-crafted insults designed to get under peoples' skins. Would someone that eloquent and masterful with his insults lower himself to call someone just an old reptile? Also, might Hoid be the one with an insistence on nonintervention? We haven't really seen him intervene in a grand way, have we? Hoid's the one with the friends of the Seventeenth Shard, isn't he? I think 'Your friends' refers to his friends. "Our war here." Here, as in Roshar? Could the Almighty have written this letter before he died? But there are also a few epigraphs that make me think they're not written to Hoid. I've attempted to think of possible explanations, though. See, I'm not sure about this one. Why would someone be telling Hoid about these people? Hoid knew them. But maybe the author if this letter (if not Hoid) knew them too and is merely mentioning them, using them as a reference to lead into the question about the stance on nonintervention. I think Hoid would be the one to know that Aona and Skai are dead, which is a point in favor of the idea that he wrote this, instead of someone else writing it. One possible explanation to this: The beginning of that epigraph did say "In case you have turned a blind eye to that disaster", which implies that more than one person could have seen the disaster. Someone who doubts Hoid might be telling him of this, even though Hoid already knows. I'm going to use this quote here too. We saw Hoid being searched for, chased, in the epigraph at the Purelake, which also supports the idea that Hoid is the author of this letter. But then, more than one person can be chased at a time. I'm sure there are readers more observant than I am who can add to this on either one side or another. I just had this idea upon finishing the Way of Kings and I'm wondering what the rest of you think.

Oh, you know, I think I've read that too but entirely forgotten. Thanks.

Here are a few ideas I had for questions somewhat WoK-related. Take them or leave them. What was the Way of Kings re-write process? How much of it was from scratch? (As in, did he re-write worldbuilding information, outline, character histories and so on, or was it just the actual text that was re-written.) Going off of the worldbuilding question, how does he organize all of that information

Wait, you're in line already? ;D

I wondered if the icons represented magic systems, but the Knights Radiant theory makes a lot more sense, since there are ten of each size of icon. The thing is, none of the icons look like the insignia on the flag on the cover of the book (except maybe that one on the right?), and I assumed that related to the Knights Radiant.