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Could a Returned's Divine Breath heal an Inquisitor back into being a normal human?

Mi'ch and Josh are actually real-life friends of his, so I assume it was more casual than that. Or it could be your explanation.

This, pretty much. Just because Liss doesn't tell Jasnah, "Oh, yeah, he totally has one of the Honorblades" it doesn't mean she didn't know. EDIT: Also, keep in mind we don't necessarily know that Nale and Wimp (I assume he's Kelek) simply have Honordar and can tell when someone has an honorblade. Maybe they actually saw him wield it, or noted his powers. Szeth says he believes he's killed everyone who knows of his ability, but he could be wrong. After all, Nale's purpose in life is to hunt down those who exhibit a Nahel bond and kill them. While most people wouldn't see dun spheres and a few odd events as evidence of lost and forgotten powers, Nale does, and maybe he investigated Szeth, only deciding not to kill him once he determined that he was using an Honorblade, not a nahel bond. Or maybe they simply know what Truthless means and that it apparently comes with an Honorblade.

Where did the free listeners come from? Where there always a free subsection of them, or is this new? Where did they get Blade and Plate from? Were there some listeners who never took on Voidform? They must've had all of the other Forms once upon a time, or else there wouldn't be a record of it. More Knights Radiant gave up their Plate and Blade than there are Plates and Blades accounted for by Dalinar's reckoning; have the listeners had these weapons all this time, or did they recently discover a cache of them? This might be a perfectly valid question: Which of the secret societies orchestrated the current state of the listeners?

It's possible there were millions, and Venli selected only the stormspren from those options. However if in the past at least 20,000 Stormform listeners existed, why didn't they simply summon the Everstorm? Wasn't it said in Words of Radiance that the Everstorm had never been summoned before?

Small update: Reread Starfalls last night. The Radiant in Dalinar's vision refers to things like the midnight essence as "the Ten Deaths."

This is what he meant. ... Sorry. Great idea, though! Keep brainstorming.

When you watch the episode of Voyager where Seven goes insane trying to download all of Voyager's information into her cranial implant, and you wonder how you can build that machine and fill it with each cosmere book and every WoB...

Well, thank you at least for thinking my other half of the theory is interesting! Maybe I'll wait a few months until people have forgotten this thread and then post just that. Regardless, I got to use the title of an 80's song as a pun-title of a hypothesis. I REGRET NOTHING!

My friend calls them "Voidpets". The Midnight Essence, the Thunderclasts. I have a theory that they're all corrupted Bonding spren. Of the spren we've seen, most seem to conform to their Soulcasting Property. i.e. Syl looks like a windspren, Ivory looks like oil, Pattern travels just below the surface of things like blood. By this logic, there will be one for each of the ten Soulcasting elements. Of the Voidpets we've seen, one is Rock, one is Oil. I just figure the midnight essense gets animated when you corrupt a spren like Ivory, and the thunderclasts are made when you corrupt a spren from the Stoneward order. Just a guess.

I don't know why it amuses me beyond measure that a RAFO is followed immediately by "I'm going to dinner." It's like the Sanderson equivalent of dropping the mike.

Oh. What sort of math does one perform to get a julia set? I guess at this point I'm just being lazy and not asking a mathematician in real life....

It's unfortunate that there are not (I don't believe) other sections of the Diagram available to us about the North Wall Coda, Windowsill region, or even from any part of the North Wall Coda, as sections all seemed grouped together. Knowing what else he wrote about in that area could potential steer us towards the significance. I suppose perfectly accurate knowledge of the Highstorms is a laudable enough goal in its own right, with a great deal of utility, but I can't help but think he'd only write these ten dates if there were some even greater secret. There's always another secret...

But I think you're missing one key. I will try to find the WoB on the subject (and I will admit that until I find it, in case it's less slam-dunk than I think it is, my theory is unsubstantiated). I'm very certain that there's a WoB out there saying that Honor and Cultivation had at least a period of time on Roshar before Odium showed up. While I'll admit it could be a matter "H&C + humans were on one planet, then got chased off, then lived in harmony for a while on another planet, THEN Odium showed up" ... I dunno, that feels sorta contrived? Why the pause? Why didn't Odium chase right away, instead of waiting a long enough period for it to be a substantive epoch? I grant, however, that it's a viable possibility. However, if I'm correct and Honor and Cultivation, plus their humans, lived on Roshar in peace for a while before Odium's attack... then it follows that, since it seems likely that the first attack happened at the Tranquiline Halls, it happened on Roshar. Your points are valid, and I'm less sure than I was previously. I'm going to keep it as my own pet theory, however. And I will be back once I find that WoB. I'll just google Theoryland for Cultivation, Honor, Odium, Roshar. How many hits could that possibly be? ::is never heard from again, lost under a pile of search results::

Eh, I think Dalinar was going for accuracy here. He's trying to count the specific number of visions, and the specific range of time during which it has occurred. These are important details to him, and he gives the impression of striving for accuracy. Still, a valid point. This is an outlier. The Highstorms clearly come something on the order of once every five days, typically. This is a case of Dalinar being wrong, or Mr. Sanderson being wrong (though I can barely bring myself to type the words, while he's amazing he's not infallible), or of simple translation; rather than confuse us by pointing out how much longer a Rosharan month is than an Earth one, he gives us the earth analogue instead.

Maybe with a little practice? They didn't really seem able to control the lightning. If they could direct it better, they'd be MUCH more of a threat. Also, while on a one-on-one scale they weren't able to fight soldiers terribly effectively, recall that they summoned THE EVERSTORM. Millions will die, at a conservative estimate.

This, the first epigraph of the book, a death rattle, was collected on the First Day of the week of Palah in the month of Shallash in the year 1171. According to this document which is simply too fancy for me to doubt, the Everstorm itself came on the third day of the week Ishi of the month Ishi. For anyone keeping track, that's 1,229 days later. I guess the Death Rattle was going more for poetic impact that technical accuracy, but it was remarkably close.

Hey guys... so, I've read the end where we know that the map is a Julia Set. What I'm missing is the significance. What does a Julia Set tell us? I tried reading the OP and the last few pages but... there's a lot there. I'm sure someone explains it well, but my brain sorta glazes over and the words stop having meaning. Can someone just quickly explain to me the importance of the fact that the map is a Julia Set? From what I can read on Wikipedia, it seems like it means that the continent is a natural growth of crem deposits over millenia.

This is from the epigraph in the Diagram, yes? I read this, I didn't think it ever flat out said, "these are the dates of highstorms." Does it say this, or do we simply assume?

There is WoB that Rosharan weeks are five days each, with a month having 50 days. That would mean 10 weeks to a month. In Chapter 19 of WoK, Dalinar comments that it's his 12th vision, that he's only been having them "a few months". Visions always come with Highstorms. So. "A few months" is, what, three months, minimum? Let's say he meant two months and a part of a third. Let's pick 24 weeks, just under two and a half months, cuz it fits nicely. This would mean that one Highstorm comes once ever two weeks. Perhaps a LITTLE bit more frequently, if Dalinar was being inexact. Still, much less frequently than one per week. Kaladin, in Chapter 14 of WoK, mentions that spheres will hold their light for "about a week" Which... actually now I wonder about. Do clips, marks, and broams all hold light for the same amount of time? Doesn't the text during the Weeping belie this theory? Larger gemstones still having some Stormlight when chips have all run out? Regardless. If the average sphere, or even just chips, run out after a week, and Highstorms are not much more frequent than once every two weeks, does literally every chip run out between Highstorms? Shallan comments in the second book that some of her spheres had not been Infused during the most recent storm. Wouldn't that put them at about 3 weeks, triple the length of time a sphere can go without going dun? For that matter... isn't the weeping "four weeks without a highstorm", yet there's one right in the middle? So.... every two weeks, then? So it's not actually much less frequent than highstorms during the year, since at absolute most there'd be two weeks between the final Highstorm and the start of the Weeping, so a four week span, so basically every sphere would appear as though it had missed a single Highstorm. There's something I'm not understanding here. The most obvious thing to say is that when Dalinar said "a few months" he really meant just one month. Cuz that's more-or-less what he would've had to have meant for Highstorms to come about once a week, as seems to otherwise be the case.

Eh. I find AonDor to be overpowered already. Removing one of the only limiting factors in a quest to make it even stronger/easier strikes me as something that would make the system worse, not better. One of Brandon Sanderson's own rules states that strong limitations makes for strong characters. I hope AonDor cannot be powered up quite this easily.

Returned are Sentient Awakened things. Nightblood is a Sentient Awakened Thing. Returned are able to gather additional Breath and use them to Awaken. If Nightblood somehow were given more Breath, could he Awaken?

The library which Raoden discovers bringing that one Hoed to the pool so he can find peace. It was a place with no slime, no AonDor lights, no magic plates. A place where Elantrians did not practice AonDor, it seems. First, isn't that odd? Not necessarily the first thing you'd expect. In their most holy place, why was this talent, which you'd expect them either to revere or take for granted, forbidden? Or at least eschewed? "Because religion" is the easy answer. I wonder if there's more to it... Second, Raoden practices AonDor there til Kingdom come. If the Elantrians chose not to practice there for some actual reason, could there be bad repercussions of his violation of this policy?

We know that the Aon Tia (teleportation) is set up around the city, and that any Elantrian can touch the Aon and teleport around the city. So, we know there are Aons which can be made once, but activated over and over again. This is subtly different from the light aons which appear to simply turn on and then never go off.

Ah. Well, as Hoid would likely point out, they'll be a real "God" and a real "heaven". More a matter that actual things get deified, rather than discovering a literal God or a literal heaven. Sorry for the confusion.