Child of Hodor

It was a living and seemingly very important or powerful entity. I don't think it was like a container that something alive was in, I think the gem was a singular living being in some way. Autonomy calls Hoid "Bearer of the First Gem" sounds like a fancy official title. Makes it sound like bearing it could be both duty or burden and a privilege. It's possible this is the dead being Hoid is looking to restore. Dragonsteel spoilers.

Yeah, it is stated like Judge Dredd "I am the law!", but he is still following others lead, the Singers in this case. The 5th could be be them embodying their ideals fully, becoming an exemplar to inspire others. With Windrunners, Edgedancers and Bondsmiths I see a potential pattern. 2nd: Specific Way You Help 3rd: Don't Play Favorites In Applying #2 4th: OK, I know we said don't play favorites, but sometimes you have to make tough choices... KALADIN! The second ideal seems to be a statement of how their order specifically helps "Protect" "Listen" "Unite". The third seems to stress not playing favorites with who they apply it to "even those I hate" "those who have been ignored". Bondsmith "take responsibility for what i have done" is a little different, but maybe it's don't treat yourself as a favorite, don't be full of yourself you've made mistakes too and don't let self pity lead to giving up. It may be particularly important to address not giving yourself special treatment for an order with a maximum of 3 members all of whom bond superspren/godspren. The fourth may provide guidance for making tough choices or accepting limitations. I think this based on Kaladin's paralysis in OB and the Ch. 86 epigraph "Everyone says I will swear the Fourth Ideal soon, and in so doing, earn my armor. I simply don't think that I can. Am I not supposed to want to help people?" Something like a modified serenity prayer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer "Honor grant me the serenity to accept that there are those I cannot protect, the courage to protect the ones I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

I live for this. Love this idea! Can't decide whether I want Rock carrying him around like the Inuit do or in front like a Bjorn. I know he's not exactly a baby anymore, but he's still small.

If I were to try to get someone into Sanderson, Emperor's Soul is what I would give them. "Here, this guy is great at writing." It's so well put together.

True, she won't be the primary caretaker. Navani makes sense, and it might help her deal with the loss of Elhokar in some ways. I just like the idea of Jasnah out of her comfort zone trying to logic bomb a 4-year old .

Yeah, I was thinking like how Elhokar was paranoid that people were watching him. He wasn't anywhere near speaking the first ideal in the beginning of tWoK, but he was already seeing or sensing multiple spren out of the corner of his eye or over his shoulder in the mirror. Different Spren than her order, but still. It seems like some of the radiant spren types scout potential radiants in groups. When Jasnah earns Ivory's respect in the WoR prologue there are other spren watching: Lift and Wyndle were matched by "the Ring" much to Wyndle's chagrin. Spren other than Wyndle had observed Lift and found her suitable: Point is it could have been very early in the process (like Elhokar) and she could have been sensing spren other than Ivory. The way Jasnah thinks about herself and her one episode doesn't fit with a lifelong mental illness: Ivory has been with her 24/7 for 6 years and finds her remarkably stable for a human: Ivory is not a licensed medical professional, but I would think schizophrenia would manifest at some point in 6 years. He'd notice changes in her behavior & mental state. If she was having delusions that he didn't perceive he would not think that she "thinks by fact". Syl notices Kaladin's depression. Pattern worries about Shallan taking her personas too far and her extreme memory suppression(dissociative disorder). The nahel bond and radiant powers haven't helped their mental illnesses (Shallan's have been exacerbated). As @Calderis said it doesn't usually occur that young. It rarely first manifests before 16 or after 45 and men manifest it earlier than women. https://www.psycom.net/paranoid-schizophrenia The paranoid part fits, but most of the other stuff doesn't. It can go into remission, but for her to have one episode when she was 10ish(?) and none in 25-28 years doesn't seem right. More likely she was perceiving things others couldn't for magical reasons one time and it stopped. It may not be spren bonding, but something.

Sorry, it was when he was with the newly restored Singers early on. The one that catches him hiding in the bushes. Later she appears before him in the storm bunker and questions why he is helping the Singers. "The Spren beside him was glowing yellow, no blue-white. The tiny woman stood on a translucent pillar of golden stone" ... "with large, childlike eyes. Like someone from Shinovar." -OB Ch. 23

@Pathfinder This is really well put together! I agree there is a person who cares deeply in there, but she is afraid of people hurting her. Paranoid for sure, schizophrenic I don't know. EDIT: My guess is she was locked up for a combo of being a stubborn female and telling people she was seeing things or hearing voices which were really a product of her starting to bond a spren. She keeps people at arms length for a variety of reasons. She alludes to her time in the asylum and how people close to her hurt her. That would make a child less trusting. She was stubborn from a young age and didn't like being told what to do or being reliant on others: A lot has been made of her single status "is she asexual, is she bi, lesbian?" I don't know her orientation, but I do know that having a spouse or lover would make it harder to keep her Radiant powers secret. They'd be around each other constantly. She has gone to great lengths for 6 years to make everyone think she has a fabrial soulcaster. Probably on some level afraid of getting locked up again or worse if people knew she could do magic. She seems to hide that she has plate, even now: You're in a huge battle in a city where buildings are collapsing, keep your armor on! A spouse would mean being more tied down and she couldn't travel the world, one of your early quotes illustrates how much traveling she does in her studies. Part of her enjoys having a ward and she gets attached to Shallan quickly, but she rarely has wards. She is afraid of getting attached. Gavilar and her had a weird relationship where they were both keeping secrets from each other. She kept assassinations from him and he kept his secret society from her.

I think the Spren he made himself are like the female one that talked to Kaladin. White/Gold or yellow humanoid spren with Shin eyes. The "screamers" in Kholinar were also yellow. I would lump Ulim in as well, but I guess he is red, at least when he is in lightning form. The human form Odium uses has Shin eyes and wears white & gold. Vyre's white gold knife, when Odium recreates the diagram and shows how much more he sees, the letters are golden. White/Gold power streams behind him when he brings the spren, Fused and Thrill to Thaylen City from the cognitive realm. I think his real color is dark violet, like voidlight and the fire at the core of his being that Dalinar and Venli see, but he likes white/gold when he makes things. Everstorm is possibly a perpendicularity. Usually a Shard perpendicularity forms only when a Shard is "in residence" on a planet (but it's not always necessary) https://wob.coppermind.net/events/315/#e9385 Shard location is a matter of where they're making things and where their attention is focused. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/36/#e1551 There has to be so much investiture in the Everstorm and he's been crafting it for a while. It is his way around the Oathpact, Kalak fretted about Odium coming up with something "a way around this" and he did. Odium did not manifest on Roshar in the books before the Everstorm came. He can appear in person but only when the storm is near. Mr. T had to open the window before Odium could manifest to him. Venli was told to keep the windows open during the storm when he chastised her. Odium manifests outside Thaylen City and brings the Everstorm to a complete stop outside the city. According to a Fused Odium "rides the very winds as the enemy once did" In WoR Ch. 89, the chapter after the Everstorm arrives the epigraphs mentions needing to stop the Parshendi otherwise a bridge will form. Some think this means bridge between KR and Parshendi, but I think it means the Everstorm is a bridge. Odium can directly impact Roshar now, I don't know if he's mostly vacated Braize or if this is like reaching a hand out a window, one foot in one room one in another. Not sure if he is enough "in residence" on Roshar to form a perpendicularity, but he may be.

It is the Eighth Epoch, three thirty-seven of the Triangular Era. Book 4: I think Jasnah struggling with her new roles will be her arc. She is used to bulldozing people with her personality and knowledge or having them assassinated, but that will not always work. She is Queen, but one without a kingdom. Her people are either under occupation or refugees in Urithiru, which Dalinar essentially governs. And Dalinar leads the coalition of nations a more powerful position than Queen of a conquered land. Dalinar respects Jasnah's wisdom and decision making a great deal more than he did Elhokar's, but there will be tension there. Jasnah will adopt little Gavinor. I imagine it will be a Kholin family effort in a way Jasnah, Dalinar-Navani, Renarin and Shallan-Adolin. But, officially Jasnah would adopt him to have an heir, since he was already heir it makes sense. I would like to see Jasnah as primary parent, that would be a different role for her to struggle with along with being Queen. She felt like she didn't have patience or time for an adult ward before, now she has a small human she is responsible for.

Amaram gets between them at the big meeting of high princes after Szeth's failed assassination attempt as well. My first reread of tWoK after WoR I was like "oh yeah, he's been wanting to do that this whole time"

Stormlight is my favorite series of his. The Way of Kings is my favorite of those. I love the world building in it, I love the foreshadowing of the Prelude and the way the Prologue shows off the magic system. No big moments were more satisfying for me than Kaladin saving Dalinar and then "For the bridgemen. All of them." All the deaths Kaladin witnesses and is helpless to stop make it feel so good when something finally goes well.. I am a sucker for big libraries and lore so Shallan/Jasnah reading books was really satisfying for me and I don't mind that it doesn't cross over much with the other goings on. So many amazing opening sentences "Szeth-son-son-vallano wore white on the night he was to kill a king." Child of Tanavast chapter 46 may be my favorite chapter in all of Stormlight. With the weird out of body experience that gives us a first look at the weirdness of the rest of Roshar. "Kaladin dreamed he was the storm" To the conversation with the Stormfather. The one real flaw to me is Kaladin's flashbacks. Too long and repetitive, Tien feels more like a metaphor for innocence than a person and his father annoys me. Shallan's are much better in WoR even though they are also about her miserable childhood. But the Dalinar-Kaladin ending to tWoK makes puts it over the top for me. Also WoR barely has Jasnah and she is one of my favorites. Oathbringer is longer than the other books yet felt like pieces were missing. Szeth explaining himself after the battle and the radiants accepting him, Jasnah greeting her family after returning.

Who is Trell/Red Haze attacking Scadrial? Many think Autonomy, but that's not confirmed. Who is We in Odium's "We Killed You!"? How exactly did Odium get trapped in the Roshar system? What's up with the weird dreams featuring warm, intense light that Dalinar had in WoR & OB of Gavilar as a kid and Nohadon shopping? (Connection to spiritual realm through Honor's remnants?) Who keeps telling Dalinar "Unite Them" outside of visions? Stormfather says it isn't him. (Maybe Tanavast CS) Where is the Sibling? All things Sibling really. What were the Iriali's previous worlds before Roshar? (I'd guess Sel, Taldain and Nalthis, but Yolen would make sense) Where are the Heralds we haven't met yet? What exactly do the Ghostbloods want?

Syl/Tinkerbell parallels are there. I think Brandon has said he makes her shift forms so often to avoid her being too much like Tinkerbell. i don’t think Kaladin is much like Pan. He was always very serious, wanted to be a doctor/soldier. Always kind of depressed. It’s not like he was like Tien and he forgot, like in Hook. He was never a carefree, never want to grow up kid. Syl is there to balance out Kaladin’s darkness.

You're right it does bother him. He's very insecure about it. His wife, his brother, his father all are radiant and he's not. He used to be the great fighter and now everyone else is more powerful. I was very worried he'd die in Oathbringer, but now I'd be surprised if he died before the end of book 5. He's very hard to kill, but the army just ignored him because Odium wanted to make him champion. Would be helpful if he gets plate, which is a matter of debate.

I really doubt she went and got it in the last few months since she's just been destroying art like usual even in OB until Mraize tells her where Taln is. In tWoK I-7 she indicates she doesn't want a blade either: In OB she slashes Mraize's painting with a plain old knife, doesn't seem like she ever upgraded.

Something is getting wrecked, maybe just Shinovar. It would suck if Roshar was wiped out completely. Whatever was done to shatter the plains will be used again. People think this refers to Dalinar watching Kholinar in the Vision, but nobody was crying and there was no water. We have yet to see it.

Stormfather might change his mind. There are times where gloryspren circle close around Dalinar like Windspren do with Kalidan, which I take as a hint at how plate is formed, but I don't think they know how, the Stormfather would need to help them. Dalinar can reach in to the spiritual realm and grab some of that power and use it, but Stormfather hates it and seemed to damage the bond. I don't think Dalinar can force Stormfather to become a blade.

Yeah, I forgot the one we see talk in Shadesmar is corrupted by Sja-anat and I think it's Sja-anat speaking through it.

I'm not aware of any WoBs. Taln gets better and seems to sense Dalinar even though he doesn't know who he is while Ash does not seem to sense Dalinar. Maybe only his connection to Honor is fully intact because he didn't abandon his duty like the others. He also might still have his blade (just dismissed) and that might be giving him the direct connection. Ash didn't seem different, but she doesn't have her blade. Nale has his blade, maybe he could feel something, but maybe breaking his oath matters.

2) I forgot she called him that. I was thinking she said Cephandrius one of his other early names. I think what she called him is his earliest known name. Interesting that a Herald knows him by that name when even some Shards call him Cephandrius. I guess he just changes names like shirts and had cycled back to that one when he met the Heralds. 3) Taln gets more lucid when Stormlight is used around him. When Shallan visits Taln in the asylum she lightweaves and he notices her for the first time, grabs her and starts asking her questions about the KR and such. Ultimately, Stormlight is part of Honor so effectively the same thing. They used to have a direct line to Honor, but it's gone with Honor splintered. Was briefly restored when Dalinar restored the perpendicularity.

Yeah, Stormfather seems clear on that point. "YOU WILL BE A RADIANT WITH NO SHARDS" - WoR Ch. 89 Spren that make the Plate would die if Dalinar broke his oaths. Stormfather hates spren dying. I think it's hinted at that the radiant spren has control over the plate, at least indirectly. Like they have to recruit or make the lesser spren to be responsible for the plate initially. "Talk to your spren" seems like it refers to the radiant spren, because the lesser spren like wind or glory don't talk much in the physical realm.

As people have said you can really only get back to the physical realm on planets with perpendicularities and there aren't all that many reliable ones. Worldhopping via perpendicularities involves the cognitive realm which can be dangerous. There's a giant plasma storm in the cognitive realm Sel.

Rlain bonding the Sibling would be great. Feels like there should be a Singer Bondsmith. Prediction: Dalinar has another weird dream with Nohadon, Gavilar or maybe Tanavast in it featuring an intense bright light. "He stepped to the balcony doors and pushed them open. Warm light bathed him. A deep, enveloping piercing warmth. A warmth that soaked down deep in his skin, into his very self.." - WoR Ch. 89 "Dalinar started toward the balcony, but storms that light was so intense. It washed over him, making his eyes water." -OB Ch. 103

-Ash has been in a coma for the one year gap. She fell unconcious for the first time in thousands of years at the end of OB. Taln is rarely lucid and Ash is passed out. This way the main characters won't learn too many ancient secrets off-screen in between books. -Singers invade Urithiru mid-book and the radiants take it back with help from the Sibling by the end. -Venli switches sides.