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As usual whenever the black spheres show up theories start flying around. Everyone including me has some opinion that the facts come together in some obvious and perfect way. I think stepping back and just looking at when information we have in the black and white. Gavilar has duplicates. While I don't think we know the exact number duplicates existing implies that it is either not a single great spren like an unmade or the sibling. The only other possibility is that each one is somehow unique(supported by Navani's description later) but that implies that Gavilar has managed to track down and capture a large number of these. These duplicates are identical(or at least the same class/type of thing). It is heavily invested. Nothing earthshaking but confirmation is good. It is vaguely but not directly related to the Davar household's situation in Jah Kavad It is not directly so not the unmade directly causing all the issues. Navani's PoV in her prologue. No variation in size although great variety in color and brightness. Whatever is in these things variation exists between them. Szeth's PoV Szeth says this is small. Honor's drop by comparison. Is considerably larger. Unless one of the other unmade are much much much smaller then this is not an unmade. A counterpoint is that some of the unmade might be small enough to be contained in this type of housing like Yalig-nar's smokestone. Rlain ITS ALIVE! I really don't see how Rlain could get this impression from something that was not at least sentient. Kaladin gets impressions from stormlight as well but they are much more vague. Nem. Whatever is in there is vary valuable, very dangerous or both. Gavilar would not waste such a secure gemstone for something he could catch easily whenever he felt like it. A counterargument might be he just needed to transport it over long distances but given "the box" is an interplanetary travel device I would think he could launch from wherever he needed to. Summery. It is some type of spren or at least an invested entity. I think that indisputable as it is a type of Odious investiture that is not voidlight. It is probably not an Unmade(I can't prove it is not but a lot of evidence points against it). Different types of it exist, including duplicates, but this one at least is super important and likely would want to escape given the opportunity. PLEASE let me know if I missed something.

You would let a sapient piece of a god of evil wander around your kingdom? Leaving aside Gavilar's intelligence(or lack there of) he was a man who sought control and domination. He would not permit any loose cannons unless he had no choice or could gain something from it.

Yes but I meant - 12. I think it also has to do with inverse trig functions.

I think it is doable with just U substitution.

What is the integral of cos(x) over sin(x)^2 - sin(x) + 12?

Ulim came from somewhere. Eshonai may have thought that it was just voidlight but it strikes me that a certain sister with more curiosity then good sense who was in a position to study the sphere might have done a much more thorough investigation. Rlian also does NOT know about Ulim or Venli's treachery. I am actually a little confused as to why it must be either an unmade or fused.

I disagree. The thrill is not an automatic win card. With proper planing and training its effects can be mitigated and even used to advantage by a skilled general. However all of this requires that team radiant actually work on this and that they have some idea when the effect is going to hit them. Both would be easier if they had the thrill available for study. A fabrail could be used to give calculated dosses of the thrill to training soldiers and study of the unmade itself could give insight into its fellows. Dalinar seems to have thrown all of this out. WoBs. Brandon has gone into some detail on this but here is one of the more relevant ones. Spoiler for length.

Endowment's is 9 letters and has a number of five. Besides when Preservation and Ruin were developed Brando was still working out 16 shards(something he had not done when elantris was published). Because you know where it is. The way Dalinar did it now he will not know if someone recovers the thrill and won't know to prepare to face it later. No volcanoes on roshar.

I mean sure but he also comes off as an edgelord. Yes I want an eeeeeeviil bridge four uniform. Make it snazy though! Chop chop human slave!

Adolin mentions to Shallan they have been spotted.

Secrets or strength? Enough! opted for secrets. Strong lies strong. Secrets we opted enough? Strength or secrets?

By the same token this cannot be kept secret forever. The methods to locate the thrill may already exist at silverlight. I am also worried that they might need the thrill later and not have it. This approach maximizes secrecy and minimizes strength. While this might seem attractive it has just as many problems as putting your stuff in an "impenetrable" fortress. Yes to both questions although you would have to know to look for aluminium and even when you do there is a lot of AL on roshar generally.

I would be cool with that. Security is a balance between strength and secrecy. You generally can't have both at once so people usually opt for one or the other. I personally think having the "radiant council" send Kaladin to dump it at super specific coordinates and only sharing this info with successors would work quite well.

Sure but I am taller then either of my parents and about 80 percent of people with achondroplasia are born to parents of average height.

I believe it is confirmed that time dilation was happening. L and A from the OB reread think of it as a given and they can talk to Brandon directly.

And everywhere else really. Ahh. I had not considered that. So maybe he is over a year younger then they think he is. I wondered if it could be malnutrition or just genetic.

In theory you should be able to drain NB. In practice that ain't happening.

The primary reason I do say it actually. If everyone did it I would probably not bother.

Apparently yes. It turns out that I was completely wrong.

Welcome to the shard.

A little although I would not phrase it this way. Some chapters work better then other in this serialized format and this is one that does not work too well in this regard even though I would not mind when reading the whole book.

Why? She could just as easily be eight or thirteen. While I absolutely agree with you neither could be trusted. Having a spy network that does not actually work for you is worse then not having one at all.

That would be a VERY short part 1.

What does Gollum look like when he is a thrill junkie?

An interesting theory but I don't think it would be trouble for a kandra. Tensoon figures out being a dog pretty quickly.