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Or they might go to other planets to get resources to fight Odium. Breath, awakened weapons like Nightblood or Azure's sword. Guns from scadrial. Etc. Or to hide something from Odium somewhere he can't reach or see it. There's many reasons someone might become a worldhopper even if they have significant on-planet duties.

Ideals are hard, and get harder. You don't just have to say it, you have to mean it and live it. Kaladin still can't say the fourth ideal, for example.

Shallan would also be a good candidate. Anyone who hangs out with the ghostbloods, really.

More oaths! Oaths everywhere! I don't really want to see Odium have some big victory, but given the position in the story, that's pretty inevitable. I hope to see more of Vasher, Azure, Nighblood, and the unnamed other sword.

Oh, you mean that the secret that destroyed the knights radiant is that the humans were the original voidbringers? Makes sense, that's possible. The humans being the original voidbringers is very likely, I just don't know whether that is the particular secret that broke the knights radiant. It's probably the most likely theory I've seen, though.

Wait, how does that epigraph have the secret that destroyed the knights radiant? I don't get it and that sounds really fascinating!

Yeah, there's clearly some more connection between cytonics and delvers than we've seen. It can't just be that cytonics draws delvers here and delvers are just some random creatures of the deep. Spensa takes on Delver emotions just by using her powers - there's something there.I agree that whatever the delvers are, they weren't around during DE timeframe. I don't think the delvers are former humans (or other species) though. Spensa had to basically teach this Delver that the little specks were also people and not just buzzing dust. If the delvers were formerly people, they would know this already. My guess as to what brought the Delvers forth - the portals to mine acclivity stone, portals to Nowhere. They weren't around during DE time, because they seem to be a combination of Cytonics and technology, the kind of thing that wasn't around until humanity expanded on cytonics. We see the same strange markings near the portals, and in the Delver maze. I think these portals somehow brought the Nowhere closer to our plane. (Reminds me of the Cognitive Realm and perpendicularities, from the Cosmere...) This would be why there's so many delvers, so close, every time cytonics is used - acclivity mining (and exiling) via nowhere portals has been going on, full bore, for a very long time. I don't have a good guess for how the delvers are connected to cytonics yet. My best guess is that the delvers are the source of cytonic power - and cytonic individuals are those that can draw on the nearest delver, or on a particular Delver. (Like people in the Cosmere that get Investiture from a Shard.) This connects them to that delver. I don't know how AI fits into this. Maybe cytonic AIs can draw on more delver power than unaided people, and thus both grow very powerful themselves AND anger the delvers very, very quickly?

I like Starsight better. It just felt like Spensa was not a good fit for the spying plot. I can see what that did in terms of having great character growth potential, but it felt like very much a "round peg in square hole" kind of book. It was clearly intentional! But it didn't work as well for me.

Totally agree. Brade thinks she's irredeemably awful because of her nature - she's human. She's wrong. She's awful because of her upbringing - as Krell.

It feels like right now, we really have no trustworthy sources about the three human wars. The Superiority isn't reliable. The human society doesn't remember. The alien species might not even know. I don't believe Superiority propaganda about it, but I don't see any reason to believe humanity are blameless either. We have plenty of monsters in our history too.

I guess the new canon will be that slatrification was never the solution to that puzzle, the usual sand masters would just be able to control enough ribbons that at least one of the ribbons would be able to get to the sphere without touching the terken sandling. Or maybe the usual sand masters would have enough ribbons to hover over the sand and not disturb the sandling in the first place. I kind of agree that slatrification was a clunky part of the magic system, and it's much cleaner without it.

Yeah, I'm 99% sure that Doomslug and Mushrooms are going to be important somehow. (And wasn't Doomslug muching on mushrooms?) Of course, we've got three more books for that to develop. I haven't the faintest idea of what it would be. Maybe the mushrooms on Detritus somehow enhance or suppress cytonic abilities? And Doomslug teleporting when nobody's looking might mean Doomslug's got his own Cytonic FTL? One more thing - I realized only near the end, that the reason Spensa found M-bot could have been because of cytonic sensing. After all, she heard something calling to her... and that led her to a ship with cytonic capabilities. Not coincidence!

I'm sure we'll see more of her. Her, and Zahel, and Hoid. Worldhoppers seem to consider what's going on on Roshar to be pretty important and will probably stick around until it's resolved.