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I disagree, if you react in a violent manner like pulling a weapon every time your angry, that's an issue even if your anger is justified. We see Adolin do this multiple times, in the scenes you mentioned he starts summoning his weapon subconsciously and is later stopped by Renarin and Dalinar in some off those. We know what happened when nobody was there to stop him. Adolin is a great person and I think this issue adds more to his character than retracts, and it could be something to explore in the future.

I don't think Kaladin will die or ascend, for the first time after the end of WoK he has a long term objective, revolutionize Roshar medical system more specifically the mental health part. There's a point in the book where he even feels a calling for it. He is also starting being connected with the heralds and cognitive shadows, the conversation with zahel, which will be relevant in the back half books.

In WoK and WoR, there are various instances where Adolin starts summoning his blade when he is arguing with someone, there's also a duel where he looses control. In OB and RoW i don't remember much about it.

From Adolin right? Shallan is basically just translating.

This is not the first time I saw this argument and I interpreted that scene very differently. To be honest, on my first read i was also mad at Shallan in this scene.

I think you got it wrong here, at this point Mraize knows Shallan true identify they even talk about her brothers and such. In my opinion the truest Shallan we've seen is the one that appears when her survival is at risk, when fighting with Tyn and the Midnight Mother.

I have a different interpretation of the last paragraph, i don't think it confirms Shallan in Group 2. Emphasis mine. 1 - I think this means Kaladin must come to grips with being the Windrunners leader not just a soldier. It reminds me of the Sigzil chapter in OB where Kaladin is neglecting some of his duties because he didn't even know that those were his. 2 - This is mostly a Windrunners problem, so Kaladin has the leader must find a solution. I don't think Dalinar is in charge of all 10 orders recruitment. 3 - The Coalition's envoy is most likely Kaladin. The leader of the Windrunners would be the best option to successfully convince the honorspren to start bonding humans again and in OB he managed to convince the ship captain to help then instead of taking Syl to the stronghold. In conclusion i think Shallan and Adolin are in group 1 with Kaladin, not group 2.

Of the Part 1 PoVs only Venli is not at Hearthstone and according to last year SDCC reading we know she's at Kholinar. So she's most likely group 2 with some other characters. Group 1 should be Kaladin, Shallan and Navani, the PoVs with bigger word count and Lirin with a smaller word count.

This one is oddest to me, i never expected Edgedancers to be ahead of Windrunners and Skybreakers in Honorable actions when the spren of the last two are the ones that identify themselves as "closest" to Honor.

I agree with with @agrabes that Venli may not be in group one. In a recent interview Brandon said that RoW was Venli/Eshonai flashbacks but another caracter was the main character. Also, this is the first book where the flashback character is not one of the main characters, these being Kaladin, Shallan and Dalinar, so the structure might be different.

I agree that there is big evidence that points to Navani, as @ChickenLiberty showed. But I don't think researching fabrials or building new weapons for the war will make her the main character. In all previous books, the main character goes through a major personal arc, at this point I just don't see Navani going through a arc like Dalinar did in OB or Kaladin in WoK. My main candidates are Rlain and Adolin. Rlain because this book is supposed to be the singers book and instead of just following Venli we can follow both of them. Adolin because at the end of OB, he admits killing Sadeas and refuses to be king a decision that goes against his father which he idolizes and was trying to emulate. Finding out that Dalinar was not the man he thought will be a big shock. All this while being married to Shallan and having to fight a war. I know that this book is the Willshaper book and large part of the community thinks Adolin will be a Edgedancer, i personally don't agree with the theory.

If Helaran was a Ghostblood for long wouldn't he have a tattoo or something with the symbol. Amaram had access to the body and still has doubts, i'm assuming he didn't find the tattoo.

Kaladin is Hoid descendent. There's a scene in WoR where Wit/Hoid says "There's a spark of wit in you" and Kaladin immediately thinks that it came from his mother.

Dalinar is already high king of Urithiru and the shattered plains and as long the alethi highprinces are in Dalinar territory they are under his command, which technically also makes him king of Alethkar. This was Elhokar proclamation in chapter 12 of OB, which he sign before leaving to Kholinar. The proclamation also states that the king of Alethkar is a vassal to the high king. The document itself wasn't revealed but i assume Jasnah as queen is under the same conditions. This raises the question, who is Dalinar successor? If we go by the traditional method, Adolin would be the heir but Urithiru is the city of Radiants so it makes sense that the heir has to be a Radiant. So is Renarin the heir to Urithiru or do you think the Radiants would want another way to choose their king? I agree with OP that Kaladin leadership skills and social views would make him more likely to be the next king after Dalinar dies or ascends or whatever.

Shards are bound by their word, that's why Honor advises Dalinar to enforce a duel of champions. Unless Taravangian breaks the agreement first i don't see a way Odium can get out of it.