Meg

I'm sorry, I don't know about this tidbit. Can you kindly give the reference? Is this a theory? Can you kindly provide me the link? And why do you speak of Endowment as "they" and "them?" I'd appreciate your help.

Nice catch! I'm sorry, but you're wrong. The book Gaz got her was Words of Radiance (the copy she got from Jasnah had sunken with the ship).

In The Way of Kings (by BS ) Jasnah asks Shallan about her education and Shallan answered: TWoK Chapter 5 I presume that Nohadon has written only one book (or at least only one book survived and this is the in-World WoK). But then, much later Shallan ask Jasnah about Urithiru and was surprised by Jasnah's answer: TWoK Chapter 45 So, given my prerequisite is right, Shallan should have had heard about Urithiru already. And Jasnah should have noticed this flaw. I don't know what to do with this revelation but it strikes me as peculiar. I won't say that this is an important thing or that there's some special intent behind this discrepancy, but I wanted to share my thoughts.

In the in-world-book The Way of Kings Nohadon said that "lighteyes were beneath the darkeyes." I am assuming Nohadon had been a Surgebinder or Soulcaster himself and thus had light eyes. It seems peculiar to me that there is no description of Nohadon's eyes in his vision (in the Starfall and Feverstone Keep visions Dalinar explicitly mentions eye colors). I'm curious if we are ever to know this detail. Nohadon thinks a ruler is a servant of his people. Other lighteyes ("there are Surgebinders and Soulcasters" {from the Nohadon vision, too}) seemed to be in ruling positions, too, and thus were "servants" of the people. This could have been Nohadon's reasoning to say that lighteyes were beneath the darkeyes. I'd say that the Knights Radiant were "servants" as well. So Nohadon's philosophy might have caused a change from lighteyes ruling to darkeyes ruling (as seen in the Feverstone Keep vision). Then the Recreance happened and lots of the darkeyes got Shardblades which changed their eye color. And with those Blades and Plates they surely continued to rule and -- hopefully -- tried to keep the impacts of the Recreance-event as low as possible, establishing (again) the "god given" rule of the lighteyes. The Vorin Church -- seeing the Recreance as their failure -- might have interpreted the change of eye colors by simply taking up the abandoned Shards as a sign from the Almighty and thus talked the new lighteyes up as 'the privileged class' while the majority of the darkeyes were put down to the 'lower class.' edit: typos

I'm from and still living in Munich, Bavaria (Germany, Europe ). IIRC Galladon is from Germany too, as surely is Ozyara. edit: typo

(my emphasizes) Sometimes I'm really sloppy while reading (even if I should know better when reading Brandon Sanderson ). I read the description of the Oathgate in Stormseat again and further until the lamps there are mentioned and there's a difference: In Kholinar are eleven lamps, in Stormseat only ten (but eleven segments on the floor). Unfortunately there's no description of the floor of the Circle of Memories in Kholinar. I could imagine that the eleventh lamp in Kholinar had been put there during or after the Recreance and that the appearance of the whole Circle of Memories has been "adjusted" to Vorin tenets (for example the eleventh lamp as a symbol for the Tranquiline Halls instead of Urithiru) after the Recreance. Given that the Oathgates in Urithiru all look(ed) (and work?) the same, may be the discrepancy of the Oathgates in Stormseat/Urithiru and elsewhere is the reason that only the one in Stormseat works. I apologize for rambling along.

Do you mean that Braize was the Tranquiline Halls until Odium forced mankind on Roshar and then turned to Damnation? As Porridge already said the Scadrians were made by Ruin and Preservation, but Ruin and Preservation created the humans on Scadrial after 'a model of humans' (for the lack of knowing a better wording) from somewhere else. (Also I apologizes for not giving a reference, but I'm quite sure, I've got this right.) So the Scadrians were not really a unique fabrication of Preservation and Ruin. This was, where I wanted to hint at. The article on the Coppermind says that "Preservation's greatest wish was to create sentient life, humans patterned after the other humans Ati and Leras had once known." I'd think those humans have been from Yolen, so the circle is closed. I for myself have the totally baseless idea that Damnation isn't a physical place, but -- I barely dare say it -- it's Braize's part of the Cognitive Realm.

I kind of doubt that Vivenna (that's the name of the older princess in Warbreaker) is a worldhopper. Also Navani's description of shshsh doesn't fit with Vivenna (who seemed to be smarter). Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 387973120 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 444926256 bytes) in Unknown on line 0

I don't see any connection between the Heralds and (the functioning of) the Oathgates. Though the Oathgates were made prior to Aharietiam the Knights Radiant continued to exist and apparently made "good money" with those Oathgates, as the following Epigraph from Chapter 46 from The Way of Kings implies: Anymore -- just to be said, even if it's not directly connected to this topic -- this complaint hints at the upcoming event of the Recreance. On the other side I can see the Orders blocking "their" Oathgates as part of the Recreance. And if really one Order didn't leave their duty, this might have been the Order in charge for the Oathgate in Stormseat. Then over the centuries this Order died out and the Oathgate was forgotten.

In one of the recent Q&As Brandon said: This implies that Shai is around on Roshar (though we didn't see her yet). In Chapter 55 when Wit reappeared as carriage driver, Adolin told him "Hands off." (of Shallan) and that Wit should stay with women of his age, Wit said that this would "be a little harder. I think there's only one of those around these parts, and she and I never did get along." Now my question: Is the woman Wit was referring to Shai?

Do we have confirmation that Elhokar saw Cryptics? I personally think so because: Honorspren and Cryptics don't get along well. And Elhokar said in WoR when he visited Kal: edit: added spoiler

My guess is that the Ghostbloods think that Amaram still has some knowledge which is wanted by the Ghostbloods. In addition they might have other goals than Amaram even if either of them are searching for Urithiru. Kidnapping him for interrogation doesn't necessarily exclude that they wouldn't kill him when he's of no more worth for them.

@ Numb: Thanks for clarification. Though I don't want to seem unappreciative, re-reading this thread (especially post #4 and it's quotes) one might say the Skybreakers are kind of re-established yet though Nale's minions seem to be "squires" not Radiants.

We know that there are three planets in the Greater Roshar System: Ashyn, Braize and Roshar (in alphabetical order ). Given the information that Odium is on Braize, it was theorized that Braize = Damnation. We know little about Ashyn and nothing about Braize.* This WoB might be interesting, too: source Meanwhile I also saw posts with speculations those speculations that Braize is the former Yolen. I admit I have no opinion about this at the moment. But there's a question coming up in my brain: Though we know that there were planets prior to the Shattering, do we yet have confirmation that all of the now existing planets existed prior to the Shattering? Might Yolen itself have been shattered into three planets: Braize, Ashyn and Roshar? Any ideas about this? I kind of had the idea that Damnation isn't on a planet, not a physical thing, but the part of the Cognitive Realm corresponding to either Braize or Ashyn (my guess is Braize). edit: * Somewhere in WoR Kal said "... Damnation, called Braize in the old stories ..." (heavily paraphrased, can't find the exact quote now). So I think it might be kind of sure to say: Braize = Damnation (or Braize's part of Shadesmar = Damnation, according to my above idea).

1. I agree (though I thought, "another" would/could be Iyatil or Kaladin). To which point in time does this sentence refer? If I'm not (again) totally wrong there was not the talk of a tattoo in this situation. TWoK Chapter 51 Sas Nahn Tattoos were mentioned for Luesh (steward of Shallan's father) and Kabsal. 2. and You say Helaran "joined" the Skybreakers. Am I the only one who is staggered by this wording? If Helaran "joined" the Skybreakers that would mean or at least imply that this order of Radiants is established again. It might not necessarily mean that he's a (an upcoming) Knight Radiant himself, but that could be implied, too. Are there other Orders yet re-established? 3. Shallan once told Jasnah that the women of the rural Veden houses aren't as educated as one might think, given they are lighteyes. And we no near to nothing about her mother: she might have seen her as different, but in regard to which standard we don't know. She might have been superstitious (thinking Shallan's abilities bring back the Voidbringers or that Shallan would be a Voidbringer) or she knew how Shallan would develop and feared this. So "one of them" could refer to different "groups". edit: I'm definitely too slow with my posts.

This forums and this thread is about fictional characters in a fictional world. Though most of the characters are humans I'm sure the users don't mistake the Cosmere -- and here Roshar -- with Real Life. I'd like to add Teft, who surely experienced a traumatic event when the Envisagers were hanged and who, too, has to handle him feeling guilty for that event. Though I'm not sure that each and every such character will become a Knight Radiant, I'm surely curious about his future. And there's Lopen who's arm started to regrow. If the ability to use Stormlight is always bound to a spren, then there ought to be one for him. I wouldn't say Lopen has psychological problems (though his sheer optimism seems kind of abnormal, at least compared to his environment). But I go with the premise, he's mentally sound and ask, whether perhaps severe injuries could change the sDNA as does psychological/mental injuries. And yes: Brandon did include such problems very well. They are part of the characters, which are amazingly complex.

Uhm, what a golden keyhole?

Many thanks! and an upvote for you!

Sigzil is not a Worldhopper: source

This is obvious once one finished WoR. This sentence I don't fully understand. From Jasnah's notes (iirc) we now that the Oathgates are locked somehow. We don't know whether Jasnah figured how the Oathgate works (and if yes, if she was bound to Ivory that strong that he would have served her as Shardblade). So we don't know whether the Oathgate in Kholinar could be used. I reread the last chapters of WoR and didn't find a explicit statement that there had been tries to use the other Oathgates. It's strongly implied that this happened (why else should Dalinar ask Kaladin to go to Kholinar when returning from Hearthstone, if the Oathgate there were to use). I don't believe that there were such a restriction, but that's only my gut feeling. And as for Vedeledev's golden keys: I don't see any connection. Kabsal used that when he asked Shallan whether her skill with the pencil was taught by Jasnah. Aside from this: we never saw any golden Shardblade and the keyhole seems to be of the same material that the Blades.

This one indicates what you remember (though I'm not sure you meant this): source

Hmm, there's another WoB, that is contrary: It's from this signing. I don't know which one is the newest of this two WoBs because I don't want to search "somewhere in this thread." Anyways I'm sure the WoB I quote above is a clarification to the one which says that humans could not bond Honorblades. So I keep to my question.

If a Herald touches a (corrupted, one with a captured spren)Shardblade does he (or she) hear the screams? edit: Another question: If a non-Herald were to bond an Honorblade would that process be the same as with (corrupted) Shardblades (taking five days)?

I don't know if this has any affects to your theory but I remind that in Navani's terms the "fabrial" is not the whole thing but only the gem with the captured spren inside. The end product (gem + metal frameworks) is called machine by Navani. (see Navani's Notebook: One). I've got a question, too, then: Could fabrials be encased in wood or something else? edit: typo

Aside from the real life aspect that seems obvious for me I dare through in the 'cosmere aspect'. I'd say that Kaladin or Shallan (I think Lift as well) are "broken" (kind of) is why the spren found their way to them. The spren bond seems to "enable" the abilities those three get. They did "snap" in their own way. Renarin must have been broken too. I am curious if his "blood weakness" (means him being slightly autistic) had been the trigger or the result. (emphasizes mine) So that 'brokenness' (for the lack of a better word) makes it easier to get Invested or get access to Investiture, what I mean is, the sDNA is likely easier to be altered. (Ooops, I'm tired, does that make any sense?) PS: I don't know why the tags don't work.