Impact

In OB, it showed how they tried, but often would forget him, or do that minority "*you're one of the good ones*" thing, which, even if they didn't mean it, kind of put him on the outside of them.

I had a similar thought after reading a bunch of these theories. What if she never had to reswear the Immortal Words with Pattern, but instead was able to use an extra truth to facilitate the bond. Pattern was way dumber at that point than Syl was at Kaladin's second Ideal

I mean, it kind of makes perfect sense to me. The outcasts spend time together because they both feel unaccepted, and feelings develop. That's pretty logical to me

I'll admit I didn't find Renarin as obvious, but in RoW, Rlain mentions how "mateform never went well" and that one stood out to me. So I didn't really find this as a surprise, even if I didn't connect the dots myself. I'm not sure why they being gay is such a big deal to people? Is it "cramming it in" that we have so many major hetero characters? BS literally crammed in the fact that Kaladin had a failed relationship into like 2 sentences and a couple throw backs, and he has depression. Not sure why someone can be depressed and hetero but someone can't be autistic and gay...

I have a question about the timeline. The side carry is shown to happen before the chasmfiend hunt, though it occurs a full part after in TWOK. How did the varying timelines match up?

I was going to say that the Unmade have been on Roshar, but then i realized that maybe during the previous times between desolations they weren't.

Whoops! brain fart. good catch

I was using that list to try and figure it out originally. But those are good thoughts. Going on the list

That's definitely weird to wrap my head around, but makes sense. I didn't think they did. but I couldn't remember. Back to the original premise! Any ideas about other shardblades?

That's true. They do never mention lighteyes changing colors. Maybe there is something about them not Like, did Dalinar and Shallan's eyes change to yellow and purple?

That WOB looks pretty convincing

@Quantus @RShara Is that just for surgebinders and live shardblades, or all of them?

That isn't based on the holder's original eye color? I assumed he just had dark brown. And when someone's eyes turn blue they had dark dark blue.

Do we have a list of what dead shardblades are expected to belong to what order, based on description? I thought it would be a cool exercise. Here's what I have based on what is known or suspected Mayalaran - Edgedancer (known) Firestorm - Dustbringer (suspected due to flamelike design) Moash's blade - Edgedancer (suspected due to vine design) [See below] Sunraiser - Windrunner (suspected due to the ten radiant glyphs following a "leadership" theme) Edits: Moash's blade - Stoneward because his eyes turned tan Oathbringer - Stoneward (WoB) Eshonai's Blade - Possibly Dustbringer - flamelike design Heleran's Blade - Possibly Willshaper based on description Any other guesses?

I feel like some people on the cast, especially Chaos (no offense) get overly hung up on some of the wording that is used. Like with the whole “back of the book”/Sleepless deal where they say “we may one day again have power” yada yada, I don’t think the “we” is actually indicative of anything. “We” could easily just mean “the sapient species of Roshar”, instead of the Sleepless. For example, in America, we (see?) say that “we put a man on the moon”. But out of everyone who says that, there is a near zero chance that the speaker had anything to do with it. But its “we” as a whole. That’s how I view the back of the book descriptions, and just some of the overly specific stuff that gets focused on. I could be wrong though. That’s just my read

1) Welcome @Blind Radiant! 2) There are very clear examples in the books where spren chose their bonds based on personality rather than skill. By any metric of ability, Dalinar should be a Dustbringer because he is basically living destruction in war. But his personality (in recent years) is of a unifier, which is why he became a Bondsmith. Ym and Stump don't seem much like warriors, and but their personalities lend them to being Radiants (Ym looks for truth in religion, and Stump looks for it literally in trying to suss out children's lies). Renarin has epilepsy. theoretically, that should keep him off the battlefield, but no one seems to question him. 3) Seeing eye spren? Don't see why that wouldn't work 4) Leaders aren't always on the battlefield. Scholars can have things read to them (like every Vorin man). Not all art is paint. etc. There is a lot more to go into, but i'm not great at articulating myself right now

Windrunner, willshaper, stoneward

It doesn't seem like it would be Dullform that they get, because the restored singes don't seem to have the diminished mental state that is associated with it. Though it could be that in comparison to slaveform, they are downright brilliant. I would assume something like nimbleform or something as the default, but that's just how I read it

Holy Damnation, this post is amazing. I used to do this with TV shows, and now I want to do this with every book I read...

Hammers that suddenly increase gravity right before impact, kind of like the gravity hammers in Halo 3

As just overly large, ornate swords, I guess. Kind of like some of the weapons in RWBY, but bigger. The Plate I just pictured Medieval armor, but like, fancy as storms

I know we don't know yet. I also hadn't seen any posts on this particular idea and wanted to see what people thought about it.

That was the closest answer I could find. This is really meant to be a speculation and not something I am expecting an answer on from anyone. I just like sharing theories

So I checked some WoBs, and a few different posts and didn't see an answer to this (I could be wrong which seems to happen every other time I come up with a "new" or "cool" idea) Could the instantaneous travel from the Oathgates be because they go through the Spiritual Realm? If all things are everywhere, maybe the OG platforms do their little switcheroo there.

I believe those are just the "back ends" of two lines that cross the center. As in if you follow them through the center, they reach oathgates.