Scion of the Mists

Brandon has said multiple times in multiple ways that there are only three Shards on Roshar: https://wob.coppermind.net/adv_search/?query=roshar%2Bthree%2Bshard

I think this one's pretty clear: Unyielding Fidelity.

Where did you see this?

The Surges have been naturally existing on Roshar from the beginning. The entire ecosystem is dependent on them (e.g. Gravitation and Greatshells).

Nice 17th Shard-Starfleet WoB, I hadn't seen that one before. Can you link the Ire WoB? I can't find it, but it sounds interesting.

If I remember correctly, Dusk is the only one (or one of a very few) who knows you can bond multiple Aviar.

@LerasiumMistborn Double posting is against the Site Rules. If you need to go back and add to your post, use the "edit post" button. You believe that Dalinar will play a small role in the Stormlight Archives and will die prematurely. That's fine, everyone is entitled to their beliefs (even if they're not backed by any evidence). You may even end up being right about it. However, we have no evidence that this is the case, so you should stop stating it as fact - it's likely to confuse people. @Everyone else - At some point you've got to stop feeding the trolls.

H is the symmetry letter.

The Stormfather is a spren (plus a Cognitive Shadow). Odium is a full Shard. Although there are some similarities, they are very different.

Sorry @Rhapsody - missed the notification somehow. Because our turns almost over, I’ll just lock in our guesses. I’m going to go with Rose Palace and Svordish University.

Speculation is only allowed in the case where the article would be incomplete without it. (See the style guide) The addition of Adolin is fairly recent (last September). It's a judgement call as to whether or not Adolin as a potential Edgedancer is allowable. On the one hand, the article does feel incomplete without addressing it; on the other hand, it's fairly controversial, so it's not a "generally well accepted theory in the community." More experience editors can weigh in, although the wording can probably be fixed a bit. It's definitely not cited, as is required, so thanks for pointing it out. I'll add a citation for Maya as an Edgedancer blade.

You're right. That was an oversight on my part. Word count is probably a better metric (because mutli-POV chapters are common), although I will note that Dalinar has more individual chapters in his book than Kaladin or Shallan have in theirs. Not sure where you're getting this. By word count, Dalinar is in third place (in a series with 10 main characters). He has 21% of all Stormlight words compared to Kaladin's 30% and Shallan's 26%. He has almost 4 times more than the next place character (Adolin). He has 7 or 8 times more than the next place flashback character (depending on whether you lump Eshonai and Venli together). So, volume-wise, he clearly has a major role in the series, especially if "compared with other characters." If you're talking story-wise, well I think Dalinar is the most likely candidate if you had to pick just 1 main character. He's the bonded to the most powerful spren around and Connected to the remnants of a Shard of Adonalsium. He's the leader of the entire human coalition. He's going toe to toe with Odium. He even Ascended (to some degree)! Plus, he's frequently Brandon's pick of favorite character. But he tends to reduce people's expectations, if needs. With Dalinar, he refuses to clarify things. He does not "tend to reduce people's expectations." There are tons and tons of theories and speculations here on the Shard about what's going to happen to various characters. Brandon very, very rarely weighs in on them. I listed a bunch of examples of him taking years to confirm things that were fairly obvious in the books. Almost all questions about the future of characters' plotlines are RAFO'd (which means "no comment"). Did Sanderson ever said: "Dalinar will have a role in the second half of SA and beyond?" No, he didn't. That's why I said he most likely won't. In your WoB he says that characters will die, and those, who survive will appear in the second half. Guess who will die, considering there's a time skip between the books. Maybe he just doesn't want to give spoilers. Maybe this is because Dalinar will die. I think he will die, because characters like Dalinar never lives. Never. I've now caught up on the various threads where you're bemoaning the (purely speculative) fate of Dalinar. I didn't realize that your reasoning was so specious: "Brandon hasn't confirmed Dalinar will survive to Book 6" -> "Dalinar must die before Book 6" By that logic everyone will die before Book 6, because Brandon has never confirmed that any character will survive.

Yeah, Honor's death was actually fairly recent. It was post-Recreance. It's actually pretty strange that we don't know exactly when Honor died. That seems like a major event that would cause something of note on the planet. Plus, if Odium Splintered him, where are these new Splinters?

I don't know that prison guard is the right analogy, but Odium is indeed limited in which actions he can take without "exposing himself to a strike from Cultivation." (OB ch 111)

I'm not sure where you're getting this. Dalinar had 28 chapters in Way of Kings, 19 chapters in Words of Radiance, and 45 chapters in Oathbringer. That seems like a lot more than a "handful." For the series as a whole, he is third in chapter/word count, with Kaladin in first and Shallan in second. It's no coincidence that they're in that order because that's the order of the books. As each flashback character gets their own book, they become more of a focus of the series. RAFO does not mean yes or no. It means no comment. He generally avoids confirming/shooting down theories. How long did he talk about "the man called Taln"? It was only a few months ago that he finally confirmed that Hoid was, in fact, a Mistborn - almost three years after Mistborn: Secret History came out. Even your example of Eshonai only came last year - four years after Words of Radiance. Where are you getting this? I don't remember Brandon saying anything like this. In fact, he's said that he still considers the front five PoV characters to be main characters in the back five, although the focus, of course, will be on the new PoV characters.

Lots of good guesses in these other threads:

Pretty sure that Hoid is not in Aether.

What is a Dahkor koloss?

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They're "powered" by some sort of conduit back to Sel.

From what I remember (although I've only read the main books), ASOIAF's worldbuilding is mostly just genealogies and wars, and is only focused on one part of the world: Westeros. Westeros is basically just Medieval Earth with a few bits of magic added in. Whereas Roshar's worldbuilding is much more fantastical, so it has to dedicate most of it's space to explaining things like highstorms, crustacean flora/fauna, various human and non-human races, tons of different countries/ethnicities/cultures, many different magic systems, etc.

I missed this question. The Aon is the organization's name: Ire, which means age or time. It matches the description of four dots and curved lines: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Ire

We have a fairly recent WoB that Jasnah "definitely beats" Shallan to bonding a spren. According to the Coppermind, Shallan killed her mom during the same year (1167) as the assassination of Gavilar; however, we know that Shallan had been Surgebinding prior to that. Therefore, Jasnah must have started prior to the experience at the feast, although it was clearly the first time she met Ivory directly.

There are a lot of threads about this, but I think this one by @Oversleep is the most accurate.

Good job guys. I think we can safely say that those two were part of the Underground clue. Do we think that the Purelake is the other or should we guess something else (e.g. Fardex City)?