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4 hours ago, Green Hoodie Mistborn said:

I don't think the Midnight Essence(s) are that directly related as Brandon said before that similar things get called similar words, just like Lightweaving is called the same regardless of magics used

But I think the biggest issue would be timeline related. Midnight Essence on Roshar showed up in the desolations which are thousands of years before the published Elantris novels based on most Cosmere thought/timelines I've seen. 

I suppose it's possible that Riina is that old, but I kind of doubt it

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Kind of a similar question about the Midnight Essence, now that we have seen that crop up in Tress as well as in Stormlight Archive. Is something similar happening with the Midnight Essence? We have also the nightmares, in Yumi, that appear similar, they're also mimicking things.

Brandon Sanderson

So, there's a couple of things getting interwoven here. The actual idea of Midnight Essence is a concept like Lightweaving that predates the Shattering of Adonalsium, that various magic systems are basically "borrowing" a law of the cosmere and creating a parallel effect from the same basis, if that makes any sense.

Yumi is a little distinct from that. It's feeling similar; I would not call it true Midnight Essence. It's an awful lot more like a Lightweaving that has--because Lightweavings can have mass to them, because investiture can have mass to it--so you're looking a little bit more like... imagine a bunch of Stormlight becoming tangible, you can touch it, because of a powerful Lightweaving or something like that. Of course, these things all bleed together because I'm using the same fundamental principles to make them. But, for me, Midnight Essence has this personality that comes prefixed. What the Midnight Mother is making, what you're seeing in the Midnight Sea and things like this, you're gonna get some similar personalities to these things, and not necessarily the same with the nightmares.

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So it's more of a autonomous-- a Lightweaving that's become autonomous and has kind of broken down a bit?

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah...  the problem is it's also got the Cognitive Shadow, right? It's a really invested Cognitive Shadow that is borrowing this Investiture to interact with the world. Because these are their shadows; these are their Cognitive Shadows, all of these people's Cognitive Shadows. But the power is not themselves. Remember, a Cognitive Shadow is a little bit like a fossil, like Vasher describes it. You've got this pattern there, and then the power kind of makes it manifest and be able to interact, and things like that. And, when that personality asserts itself with that power in the right place, you end up with a person that is the shadow running it. But at the same time, you've got this mass of power and energy that the machine is kind of controlling, which pulls back and overrides the personality sometimes. You've got a very weird set of circumstances going on here.

But it was very fun to figure out all the backstory and the behind on it, and get it all working. This one was a little complex, to get these things all working behind the scenes. I like how they turned out. Yumi, if you dig into it, it has both pluses and minuses. The minuses is - from the beta readers and the alpha readers - the ending for non-arcanists was really overwhelming, which is why we have those Hoid scenes where he's like, "Okay, let me explain." It seems pretty obvious, I would expect that this is, like, "Alright, Brandon needs to do better explanations, Hoid's just gonna do it." But, because of all the work I did behind the scenes on Yumi, Yumi matches kind of cosmerological magic system stuff in ways that a lot of the side projects that I do just don't. Yumi is very deeply intertwined and following all of these processes in a way that works really well for me. But it also gets you into where you start to need a master's degree in the cosmere to figure it all out, which is why to make it easier, we have Hoid just spell it out for people. It is a little clunky; I prefer the clunkiness to the previous version where you needed a master's degree in the cosmere to understand even what was going on.

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Not sure about the timeline theory thing, I'll look into it. Either way, Re-Shepir and Midnight Mother from Dalinar's Vision might not even be the same entity. As TOTES shows Midnight Essenses can be autonomous and afaik the Unmade were 'ummade' at a later stage.

3 hours ago, Duxredux said:

Elantrians have a version of Lightweaving at the very least in the personal disguise department with Raoden using a heavily modified Aon Shao to become Kaloo the Dula. If Riina was the Lightweaver that spooked Re-Shephir then one of two things has to occur:

1. She has to be able to use AonDor on Roshar. This isn't impossible, but figuring out how to use AonDor away from Sel requires advancements that I'm not sure if we fully understand how the mechanics work. Moonlight demonstrates this in TLM and and Riina can use AonDor when rockets, laptops, and tablets with video chat are around. As Era 2 of Mistborn comes after SA5 with the Catacendre about 300 years prior to where we are currently are in SA, it should be noted that Riina was hanging out on the perimeter of Scadrial's Cognitive realm with the rest of the Ire hoping to poach the Shard of Preservation. I think this may also line up with the 10 year time period when the Reod broke Elantris, but I'm iffy on that one. I don't remember anyone using AonDor directly in Secret History, but using it in the Cognitive Realm might have non-trivial complications. Now maybe, maybe the Ire were watching for Honor's death the same way they were watching for Preservation's demise, but clearly no Ire Ascended to Honor. Overall it seems like a pretty long shot to me.
2. Alternately Riina would have to bond either a Mistspren or Cryptic to gain access to Lightweaving and have maintained the bond up to TotES if we're assuming that she's Lightweaving via Surgebinding in the scene with Lightweaving. Also possible, but again using a mechanism we don't understand yet and seems improbable since she would likely have needed to bond a spren pre-Rrecreance. Notably we also see no full humanoid-sized Rosharan spren hanging around Riina during Mistborn Secret History.

Odds are, the false Charlie was just wearing an Aon Shao disguise using the original Charlie as a model and that she had nothing to do with Re-Shephir. It's the simplest answer that doesn't require any more hacking of systems than what we've already seen from Riina.

No, I meant what we saw in TotES was the actual capturing Re-Shephir remembers. Then 'freed' at the ending of the book, it somehow travels to Roshar and gets invested by Odium to become the Unmade.

Could it been Riina? She obviously Lightweaves? And would that mean that some of the Midnight Essence travelled to Roshar ( maybe in exchange for the water there?) and was somehow Invested by Odium's Shard?

I also think that's Shallan and if that's Pattern.. 

Anyway about the foreground I think that's a wooden trunk of a tree with crystal leaves.

As stated in the Coppermind as well, Stormfather has said:

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So if the Stormfather is a collective cognition of who/what people think he is, that means that there are people that believe there is a difference between 'Child of Tanavast' and 'Child of Honor'. And the only ones that can say this are the ones that remember Tanavast right? Like maybe Cultivation's Vessel herself?

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What are Cultivation's feelings with regards to the Stormfather?

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Cultivation's feelings... Cultivation is, *long pause* I just have to decide how I can say things that are not spoilers. Cultivation-- The Stormfather reminds her of certain things about someone else she knew, and she feels the same way about the Stormfather in some ways as this person that she knew.

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I love this WoB. Good job @Winds Alight!

11 hours ago, Argent said:

It is interesting that Dalinar doesn't qualify in the same way though...

So, if we take "Child of Tanavast" figuratively it could mean that a difference exists between Dalinar's and Kaladin's definition of honor. Personally, I believe this to be true but since it seems to be a contesting topic, I will not elaborate for the time being. Maybe this divergence can be compared to Stormfather's existence which has changed across the ages due to people's cognizance of 'what the Stormfather is'. In the same manner maybe we can assume that the definition of 'honor' might've changed, evident in Alethi's warlike society in contrast to other Rosharan nations. We've also had other indications that languages on Roshar have changed a lot, meanings added and removed across the ages, to the point of some knowledge is currently lost.

On the other hand if we take it literary, I believe there is potential for interesting lore to be uncovered from this idea. Multiple waves of humans arrived on Roshar, so that could explain the difference between Dalinar and Kaladin's heritage, as one could be a descendant of a different wave from the other. I would love to know if this entails a restriction of KR powers/surges between the different races/waves of men...

I like both ideas tbh, so I'd like to believe that we might see both of the meanings fulfilled depending on the character point of view discovering this truth. Much like how Christianity's Original Sin, believed to define that all humans were descendants of Adam and Eve, which has divided intellectuals in the past about humanity's origin. I think that Sanderson likes to compare different point of views on fictional often-religious topics (that why we love Jasnah right?) and I think it would provide a lot of points for philosophical discussion.

@deaconI'm surprised that the forum culture I mentioned above has never fallen into your vision. It is the same in almost every theory thread.

And I never said I didn't feel good when it was said to me, I'm not that soft hearted I was just a new member getting used to how things work here I guess and I did express my opinion on the matter without any combative attitude. (Certainly I made the mistake of thinking that an Arcanist was some kind of moderator back then, but I hardly took offence either way.)

Lastly I never demanded anything from anyone specifically, I just requested proof in case there was any, for my personal curiosity. There is no police holding you down to answer, you can even add me on your ignore list if my presence bothers you so. I'm just here for the discussion and if you don't want to participate it's more than fine.

10 hours ago, deacon said:

Requiring people to back up their opinion with quotes and quotes every single time an opinion is expressed comes off as combative

And yet when I first joined the forums and expressed a theory on a thread the reply I got from an Arcanist was:

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Isn't persuading someone to see something your way the point of arguing?  Hmmm.  As I said earlier, building theories based on evidence is great, we all do it and it's fun.

But coming up with an idea and forcing the evidence to stretch to meet your conclusion (i.e. assuming things to the point of implausibility)...well you can do it, but expect to be shot down.

I don't see why there should be a double standard of expectation to what's happening now.

 ( The irony is that in that case I just wanted to discuss a theory, which by definition isn't supposed to have proof but is a supposition in order to explain something.
On the contrary, here we are supposed to be discussing how we interpret Kaladin which is already described extensively in the books. The proof is in there but somehow people shape their own opinion regardless of in book proof. )

But let's go back one step, there is a misunderstanding, to the use of the word 'combative'. Discussion is not combat. Nobody is attacking you personally, not physically nor verbally. Most of the time there isn't even sarcasm or passive aggression. It's just that sometimes there is a request that arguments are backed up by proof. Is that really so irrational?

10 hours ago, DDwindrunnerFB43 said:

He is so possessive and controlling

I agree with most of your post, except from this part above. I honestly never had the impression that Kaladin was possessive or controlling. I'm genuinely perplexed why people, not just you, are expressing this. I honestly want to know if I'm missing some big in book scene that proves this and I just never saw it staring me back in the face.

@Alderant
Thank you for your post. I'm sorry you are going through this and I'm glad you are feeling better on some days. You are a good person that cares for even strangers online and your post is proof of that. Especially when you do it on a forum that people seem to misinterpret everything you say, it doesn't change the fact that your own personal intention is purely good.

I'll tell you now that I'm proof you are helping others by expressing your own pain, and you'll never know how many more people will read your words, even lurkers, in the future. You have affected people positively with this.

Now about Kaladin, depression and his love life, I feel it's very dangerous to even comment because of all the people relating and projecting unto his pain, I feel there is responsibility for even the smallest detail said here, but I'll try.

He needs help, from a person that will truly understand him. Logic dictates that will be an intimate relationship, to be understood so deeply, but maybe it doesn't necessarily needs to be a romantic one. (just like how in real life a therapist or a true friend isn't) - I'd personally want this to be Jasnah.

But whoever his romantic interest will be, they will have to understand him just as intimately, because it's a darkness that will always be there and they will need to fight it together during the times when it will resurface. It has to be someone that truly understands his internal agony and I'm definately sure Sanderson feels the responsibility of it, of making this character and bringing them in their right state of mind before this romance actually happens.

But first and foremost, the most important step is the next one. Kaladin needs to understand he needs help and seek it.

Back on the Amaram topic, it felt that the end of his story came to an ubrupt end because there was information we could've gotten about the Sons of Honor and Heralan, from him especially since Jasnah was now coming into power. So, the fact that he got ousted because he became a twisting-my-moustache villain was such an unimaginative way to do it. And now Mraize can just fabricate the story he feeds to Shallan unobtrusively to thicken the plot. It just feels a little cheap.

3 hours ago, Kramerfarve said:

The knights most definitely would have noticed this. The world around them is surrounded in an almost permanent crust of crem. If crem indeed had investiture of any quantity, radiants would have noticed that as they walk their stores fill ever so slightly. Also, Larkins would be having a grand old time sucking investiture out of the ground, they survive on investiture, so they would have no reason not to be continually feeding.

I'm talking about really really minuscule amounts of Investiture, trapped in the minerals of rainwater. So small to not notice that Investiture interacts, but on a grand scale of, say, the all the water on Roshar, it would amount to one shardpool. As far as knights and larkins go, we don't know too much stuff about them in the first place, but even if we did maybe the amount of Investiture on the ground isn't enough to make them notice? Just an idea that I'm throwing out there, maybe it will spark something in someone's mind.

What I find interesting is that in the WoB that  @Child of Hodor quoted Sanderson took a moment to say that 'shardpool' isn't a word he created and then proceeded to guide the questioner towards a certain trail of thought. I think this points that a 'shardpool' as a word has a flaw that doesn't apply in the case of Honor's perpendicularity. And I think it's the aspect of scale, as in a pool is too small.

We know that gems charge up during a Storm so we assume the storm is the Perpendicularity. But what if it's the rain? Bare with me. If Purelake is invested and the storm is invested the common thing between the two is water, but water without crem. So, we know that gems trap stormlight, so what if crem traps stormlight in minuscule quantities to the point that it's not visible? But then roughens up and traps it on the inside?

I think these are some very interesting WoBs about Shallan pointing out that her path isn't necessarily as straightforward as it may seem.

You can interpret them however you like, but either way I think they are important to better understand Shallan as a character.

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Not sure about my favorite scene in OB, but one I'd like to see drawn is Shallan when she's in the midst of her "experiment" to find out what Shamespren look like after occupied Kholinar.

P.S Brandon was that scene inspired by an "fan-service comedic" moments in anime?

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Not specifically, but perhaps unconsciously. I was simply looking for a way to make the conversation more interesting, and to remind readers that Shallan's way of seeing the world is not always...healthy.

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How could Shallan or Lightweavers go back on the Truths they make? And did Shallan do any of that in Oathbringer?

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No, the Cryptics... remember, how the spren is viewing this is very important. The Cryptics have an interesting relationship with truth. Harder to break your Oaths in that direction with a Cryptic. Harder to move forward, also, if you're not facing some of these things and interacting with them in the right way. But, while I can conceive a world that it could happen, it'd be really hard to for a Lightweaver to do some of the stuff. Particularly the ones close to Honor, you're gonna end up with more trouble along those lines, let's say.

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Shallan is coping with her pain in (best I've been able to do) a very realistic way, by boxing off and retreating and putting on a mask of humor and false "everything is okay" attitudes. But she has magical abilities that nobody in this world has, including the ability to put on masks that change the way everyone perceives her. She's playing roles as she puts them on, but I make it very clear (with deliberate slip-ups of self-reference in the prose) that it's always Shallan in there, and she's specifically playing this role because it lets her ignore the things she doesn't want to face.

She's losing control of what is real and what isn't--partially because she can't decide who she wants to be, who she should be, and what the world wants her to be. But it's not like other personalities are creeping in from a fractured psyche. She's hiding behind masks, and creates each role for herself to act in an attempt to solve a perceived shortcoming in herself. She literally sketched out Veil and thought, "Yup, I'm going to become that person now." Because Veil would have never been tricked into caring about her father; she would have been too wise for that.

I feel it's as close as I can get to realism, while the same time acknowledging that as a fantasy author, one of my primary goals is to explore the human interaction with the supernatural. The "What ifs" of magic. What if a person who had suffered a great deal of abuse as a child COULD create a mask for themselves, changing themselves into someone stronger (or more street-smart who wouldn't have been betrayed that way. Would they do it, and hide behind that mask? What would that do to them and the world around them?

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30 minutes ago, Jace21 said:

Do we know this?

I know pefect gems can be used to trap an Unmade, but I don't remember being told anywhere that Unmade are drawn to them .

It seemed like Dalinar was the one the Thrill was drawn to, with the perfect gem merely being a tool.

I'm just pointing out what Ico said on Honor's Path (see my first post on the thread).

It seems that different people get different interpretations in everything, so your guess is as good as mine at this point.

Alright, let's assume we interpret the WoBs the same way then, do we have one about perfect gemstones being native as well?

1 hour ago, Scion of the Mists said:

The Surges have been naturally existing on Roshar from the beginning. 

Really? I know there is a WoB for spren, but I don't remember anything about surges. Do you have a source for this?

1 hour ago, Winds Alight said:

it was also stated somewhere in OB

Do you mean the Eila Stele? I think that's where I came up with the impression that the humans brought the Surges.

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They came from another world, using powers that we have been forbidden to touch. Dangerous powers, of spren and Surges. They destroyed their lands and have come to us begging. 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. Beware the otherworlders. The traitors. Those with tongues of sweetness, but with minds that lust for blood. Do not take them in. Do not give them succor. Well were they named Voidbringers, for they brought the void. The empty pit that sucks in emotion. A new god. Their god. These Voidbringers know no songs. They cannot hear Roshar, and where they go, they bring silence. They look soft, with no shell, but they are hard. They have but one heart, and it cannot ever live.

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But now that I look at the text closely, I'm not sure the wording says either way; nor that the humans brought the Surges nor that they were already on Roshar.

Okay, so this is the moment where we disagree then. To me, it reads that the self that accepts this place without fear isn't the same as the one that accepted 'I'm terrified'.

As it has been acknowledged above, one of Shallan's truths is " I'm terrified. "

So, what does it mean when she feels

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This is a thread about things that 'may' have been missed so since I was posting for Ciridae, I thought I might just as well post this "Foreign technology,” mention.

Yes, it could be up to personal interpretation and I'm not a native speaker so I might be missing something in terms of syntax. But I could also say that Ico might have the same issue as a spren and human language.

We do know that perfect gemstones draw Unmade tho, so at least the "Dangerous" (from Ico's POV) has to be true.

And I believe that Surges might also be regarded as 'foreign' since the humans brought it when they arrived on Roshar.

So yeah, maybe a hint and not definately something proven yet.

Sorry for the zombification.

On 11/30/2018 at 1:41 PM, Ciridae said:

By the way, has anybody found out what that treelike thing in the bottom right corner is? 

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Once Ico was done resettling the cargo, he gestured for Kaladin to help him pick up the box they’d removed. They maneuvered it out of the hold and up onto the top deck. Here, the captain knelt and opened the box, which revealed a strange device that looked a little like a coatrack—although only about three feet tall. Made entirely of steel, it had dozens of small metal prongs extending from it, like the branches of a tree—only it had a metal basin at the very bottom.

 

A few lines above that:

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“The lighthouse keeper wanted the Stormlight,” Kaladin said. “He kept it in some kind of globe.” Captain Ico grunted. “Foreign technology,” he said. “Dangerous. Draws the wrong spren.” He shook his head. “At Celebrant, the moneychangers have perfect gemstones that can hold the light indefinitely. Similar.” “Perfect gemstones? Like, the Stone of Ten Dawns?”

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Perfect gemstones are foreign technology that 'draws the wrong spren' (and we know Unmade are drawn to them)

I'm certainly not the most empathic or articulate to express who Shallan is but I will try.

A lot of the general Shallan dislike and disappointment stems from the fact that she doesn't always 'make sense'. A lot of readers, in order to start enjoying her, keep expecting that she'll start to make sense at some point, only to get further disappointed later on. It's a 'catch 22' and in the end, it starts to feel that she 'drags the story'.

I don't think her mental state is something a reader would necessarily be able to associate with. And to understand Shallan, we should try to avoid our intrinsic personal projection as readers onto the character (which could work in understanding other characters) but instead understand by empathizing each of her moments separately.

As others have said above, the 'truth' that she killed her mother with Pattern is an immensely traumatic one. We need our parents to ground us to who we are and to teach us how to live, so losing a parent is traumatic for any child (remember that she's only 17). Much more so when caused by death, devastating if their death was of a violent nature, crippling when the culprit is the child itself. Now multiply that (if that can be done with trauma) even further because she doesn't have another parent to get support from because she killed him as well! That's a tenfold of 'an understandable reason for existential crisis'.

So instead of allowing any of those truths to be 'the' reality, she makes that 'a' reality of many. She copies herself to multiple selves, in order to accept each truth and reality to a separate self. From her first chapter in WoK we get the line 'She hated being duplicitous', so that's the foreshadowing that she has been doing exactly that all along. She creates Veil to be the 'undercover one' and Radiant to use Pattern as a blade, but the biggest truth of this is that all of them are real and all of them are her.

Actually, someone could enjoy her character on a re-read even more, by noticing that she has been disassociating as far back as her flashbacks in WoR. There is a detail, a sense of 'coldness' that seems to overtake her on multiple occasions, which I think are the moments she separated herself from reality. She, of course, didn't name those selves every time, so it wasn't an obvious thing for a reader to notice.

I'd also like to add another reason for a crisis. The fact that she had a Shardblade as a child, which she has no recollection of acquiring, and the questions that would make her raise and face, but that's a separate thread in itself. And also the fact that truths aren't necessarily a one-to-one match to Ideals, but that's another separate thread as well.

Lastly, let me say that I really like the fact that you've realized that you might be missing something and you've made a thread about it.
That's a big step that any one of us would struggle to do (I do) and it's commendable that you did it.

I'm not an expert but that's an interesting paragraph and maybe if I say what I'm reminded of it might jumpstart anyone else's memory.

So it reminds me:

1. the WoK Prologue where Kalak assesses the aftermath of a battlefield

2. Smokes taking shapes of faces remind me of Midnight Essense

3. Maybe Salash's picture? :

@LerasiumMistborn

You are misunderstanding my point. You are assuming that Dalinar is an unimportant character based on word count, but for Hoid you aren't doing the same. Whatever you think of Hoid comes from assumptions, not necessarily WoBs and even if they were, Sanderson is leaving enough breadcrumbs for Hoid (and for future books) as much he does for Dalinar (and future SA), yet you assume one is a lot more important in their own series(and their respective future books) than the other.

1 hour ago, LerasiumMistborn said:

Brandon's silence can be interpreted like: 1) he doesn't mention Dalinar after book 5 of SA, because Dalinar doesn't have any role after book 5 of SA (he's dead and gone), hence there's nothing to mention. or 2) he doesn't mention Dalinar after book 5 of SA, because Dalinar has a super-important role to play, and Brandon doesn't want to spoil it.

So, these two variants. I think the first variant is the most likely variant. He never says anything about Dalinar, because there's nothing to say. 

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Let's agree to disagree then because it's basically a RAFO.

I think that Amaram's demise was a little anti-climatic for me, I felt that he would have a more gray role to play in the plot and his involvement in Sons of Honor. I harboured such hate for him since WoK as well and that might've played a role into an assumption that there was something more there. And I'm stating this here because I think this is a done deal otherwise I'd still expect it to be resolved in later books. We just got through the midpoint of the first 5 books after all.

Just because we've had less word count of Dalinar it doesn't mean he is a less important character, or that we will get fewer words in later books. This is a false assumption.

For example, Hoid hardly ever appears, can you say that Sanderson doesn't consider Hoid one of his favourites?

Don't let your anticipation take over, there is still much to look forward to.

I don't see why it's dangerous to have high expectations, the more involved we get, the stronger the feelings we'll have of the books afterwards. I accept all strong, either positive or negative, feelings as a good thing, a way to feel 'alive' so to speak; If that can be said about reading books

Anyway, I think that Dalinar is just the right type of character to have high expectations of and, as the story stands, the most likely to ascend.

I think I've mentioned it before somewhere. I think 'Three of sixteen ruled, now the Broken one reigns' doesn't specifically point to just Odium as everyone assumes. Otherwise the wording would be 'now the Broken, one reigns'  or something like that. I believe that all three of the Shards are the Broken, and concidered 'one' because there is no clear discinction where the pieces, the spren, belong to.

So Unity is the path to get them all back together, to merge that Roshar Investiture into one Vessel and who better than Dalinar who is of Honor and Cultivation and Odium. He accepts all of that into who he is and that's what makes his story interesting.

And what will make this story even more interesting is seeing how those three Intents inside him will battle one another as he unites more pieces unto himself. So his story is far from over.