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while not exactly traditional vorin cuisine, you could do some chouta? like, flatbread with fried lamb, or beef or something. Might be a cool idea. also, cryptic cookies! (cryptic designs with icing or something, that'd be wicked)

Can't wait to make an army of Bippy

I think since Death Rattles are pretty vague, Broken One could still mean Divided One, as they are very similar names with essentially the same meaning. But yeah, I can see Szeth Ascending

Ah well, might as well join in A murder of deadeyes A null of Voidspren A symphony of musicspren A cascade of rainspren A starving of hungerspren A forum of logicspren An inspiration of creativityspren A dusting of lifespren A fret of anxietyspren A shielding of armourspren

oh yes you are right, it is flare, good pick-up!

Wow, that is definitely out there, but super cool!

Here are my direct translation of Navani's notes, as requested by @alder24 (of course, 90% of the way finished translating this, my computer crashed and deleted all the notes. Twice. Lol.) FIRST TEXT: the spren kan be konvinzed to stay in the physikal realm and enter the phabrial by choise (the spren can be convinced to stay in the physical realm and enter the fabrial by choice) SECOND TEXT: A prophphered hot koal and the right tone kalms it and keeps it phrom dissipating (A proffered hot coal and the right tone calms it, and keeps it from dissipating.) THIRD TEXT: they seem draun to many oph the same things ue are rekognishion identity belonging (They seem drawn to many of the same things we are; recognition, identity, belonging.) FOURTH TEXT: Ue are early in development sometimes modern teknikues are still rekuired (We are early in development. Sometimes, modern techniques are still required.) FIFTH TEXT: The spren take on unikue traits as ue see them as individuals (The spren take on unique traits as we see them as individuals.) SIXTH TEXT: phlare oph phlamespren gust oph uindspren aphphliktion? oph painspren this seems like it kould get out oph kontrol kuikly (Flare of flamespren. Gust of windspren. Affliction? of painspren. This seems like it could get out of control quickly.) SEVENTH TEXT: Uill this kreate a strain oph more malleable phlamespren? Kan ue enkourage them to multiply? (Will this create a strain of more malleable flamespren? Can we encourage them to multiply?) Notes on translation: For some reason, in the first text, one of the "the" words is spelt as "T" "H" "E", whereas usually it's "Th" "E". maybe just an oversight on the artists part. Additionally, "Physical" (or more accurately, physikal) is spelt similarly, with a "P" "H" instead of "Ph" like it should be. I think this is basically saying what we already knew from reading the chapter, but it also adds something interesting. Flame of flamespren, gust of windspren, affliction of painspren. What does this mean? Does it mean that the more you individualise a lesser spren, the more it manifests in the physical realm, in terms of it's attribute? I.e. if you call Bippy a cutie patootie, will Bippy become a hotter flame? This DOES seem like it could get out of control quickly. (Edit: I'm silly, I forgot they were naming the groups of spren) Shouldn't scholars (and Navani) understand that spren can't really multiply like humans do? Why would she say this if she knows they can't exactly multiply? Weird. I guess this could lead to spren being more regarded as pets in the coming new ages, replacing axehounds as the favourite pets on Roshar.

I'll make a thread on it Edit: here it is, check it out

Dang. Bippy is adorable. plus the flamespren idea with shifts is pretty cool I'm a little upset that we only really have one chapter this week, we've already seen chapter 24. Maybe not upset, just feeling too much anticipation Shallan is up to her naughty tricks again, I can't wait to see what's going to happen with the Ghostbloods. I wonder if the Southern Scadrian that Shallan Squad is someone we've seen before, or if it's someone new. Either way, they're definitely going to do something after being kidnapped. I wonder if she has a medallion or something, ooh do you think we get our first ever Misting vs Radiant fight?? That would be so cool I'm also a little annoyed that the POVs keep swapping so quickly, there's no time to resolve anything. But, to be fair, it probably is meant to be fast paced, as there is only 8 days until the contest. Also, bonding lesser spren seems pretty intriguing. I wonder what that's gonna be about I can't wait to see what happens with Dalinar and the visions, specifically what we might see in the visions. Well, time to wait another miserable week without more chapters AAGH JUST RELEASE THE BOOK ALREADY

I think it can be Chemoarish, but it could equally certainly be Dai-Gonarthis too. Chemoarish isn't mindless as per Hessi, who said that Nergaoul, Moelach, and Ashertmarn were the three mindless Unmade (I think)

If by tertiary Surges, you mean interactions between Surges when Surgebinding, then... Windrunners get to use Reverse Lashings (Adhesion on Gravitation) Lightweavers get to use substantiation (Transformation on Illumination) Bondsmiths get (?) some form of mending to inanimate objects (Adhesion on Tension) Additionally, there are also effects on other Surgebinders, but I can only think of one right now Bondsmiths and Lightweavers can use Adhesion and Illumination to create (but are not limited to) illusion based maps (like a hologram projector)

Oh that's so true, I didn't even make the connection that Maya inhaled, like a Radiant would for Light. Good pickup! I wonder if the warmth and metabolisation is similar to how a Misting/Mistborn burns metals, but that's getting a bit sidetracked. Again, good pickup!

Ah thanks for sharing these I was just reading RoW before my uni class started, so I didn't have time to check if anyone else has had the same thoughts as me

I'm going to preface this by saying that, like some theories, this is by no means centered in logical thought, or any concrete evidence. But I'd like to think my theory could be correct. Seems cool enough to me, anyways. If you have any suggestions, please let me know as I'd like to try to make this theory either more solid, or disprove it. So. What do we think is happening to Maya and Adolin? Well, mostly all we know is that something very strange is happening, that possibly has never happened in any current spren's lifetime. Some spren can sense a bond between Maya and Adolin, such as Blended, who says (Chapter 94, ROW) This bond could just be Blended sensing that there is the usual dead Shardblade and Shardbearer bond, however I don't think this to be the case, as surely she would be able to tell if that was the case. Though to be fair, this could be the first time that she has seen a Shardblade bonded human in the Cognitive Realm. Regardless, more is poking out to me which I want to consider. In the same chapter, just a little before Blended speaks to Adolin, Mayalaran says (Chapter 94, ROW) I don't want to grasp at straws, but I also don't want to give this an oversight. Mayalaran said the words. The first Oath of the Knights Radiant, which kickstarts the Nahel bond between spren and humans. Another quote: Directly after that, Mayalaran gained what I'd call consciousness, and starts being able to speak. Never in living memory, as far as we know, has this been possible. This mended Mayalaran. In a small way, at least. I want to point out that I don't believe it's a coincidence that Maya swears part of the First Ideal (strength before weakness) after taking Adolin's strength. Additionally, we know that Radiants start showing signs of being bonded, and being able to use abilities before saying the first Ideal, as evidenced by Kaladin, Eshonai, Eshonai's mother (not sure about these last two, but I'm going off what I've heard, and I don't exactly remember), and squires, but squires aren't exactly the same either. So where am I going with this? I think that what Maya and Adolin have done is create a reverse Knight Radiant, of sorts. This bond aims to take from the human, and give to the spren, to heal the spren. We can reason that while the regular Nahel bond is "symbiotic", it's not exactly true. The spren get to be "cognisant" in the Physical Realm, but why not stay in the Cognitive Realm for that? The human gets the most benefit from the bond, by being able to mentally heal themselves (from what we've seen) via the Ideals they swear. Ideals themselves are a way for a human (or singer) to better themselves and heal from past trauma, along with the side-effects of being able to Surgebind and stuff. This reverse bond is a way for spren to heal themselves after being broken (by the way, a LARGE, very prominent metaphor in the world of Stormlight Archive), and to better themselves (? maybe?). TL:DR, Adolin and Maya are a reverse Knight Radiant, and maybe some cool stuff is gonna happen with that. A Maya POV would DEFINITELY be interesting, but doubtful to happen. So, thoughts? Criticism? Let me know.

Ah, thank you for the correction!

In addition to this, Dalinar's vision was around 700 years ago, iirc, so Honor was dead well before the events of this vision. However, no one knew that (in recent years anyway), until Dalinar started telling everyone that Honor was dead. I doubt that the three gods are Stormfather, Sibling, and the Nightwatcher, as they are regarded more as spren (i.e. able to be bonded), although this was the past so who really knows. I'd say it's more likely to be Honor, Cultivation, and Odium, because they're the three most prominent god figures. Though, it's probably more along the lines of "Almighty, Mother of the World, and [Odium]" (I couldn't think of the alias that the Rosharans colloquially know Odium as, but it could be the evil thats in the Tranquiline Halls)

I think this could be solved with Fourth Bridge, the flying ship, as Navani and Kmakl were remarking over how airborne power can vastly overpower a naval army, and I feel like this could be potentially hinting that the ship will be used to defend Thaylen City from the Singer navy. The Windrunners you mentioned could be used to help defend the Fourth Bridge, and also the navy. If they could manage to get a second airship flying, then that could be a potential turn-around for the battle. Something to think about :)

Relaxing in an armchair... TO THE DEATH!

Great theory! Very well put together, and I enjoyed reading it. I think your theory is very interesting, and the implications of this theory too, for what the Unmade could be, are also very interesting. By that I mean the Unmade could have been spren gods, just like the highstorm, and whatever Nightwatcher was before Cultivation corrupted it. But that might be another theory for another day.

I'm re-reading the cosmere right now as prep for WaT, and I'm up to OB. Chapter 110 This means that we already knew shadesmar had a bottom to the ocean Both chapter 110 I don't want to be annoying, but we knew that Shadesmar had a bottom since OB. Also, Shallan makes a room at the bottom of the ocean, which is how they escaped the Fused in this chapter (Heavenly Ones). So, yes, Shallan can make a submarine, and she has done what she did in the preview chapters before, as early as OB.

oh oops LOL thanks, I didn't even see the date

There's a passage pretty early on, I don't exactly remember what was said, but it said that Aux would also be destroyed by the sunlight. However, from the reflected sunlight from the rings, Aux could potentially absorb a few BEUs an hour, but nothing substantial.

I feel like for that to happen, the gemstone would have to be on Komashi, or at least the gemstone would have to be resonating with Virtuosity's Rhythm, whatever that sounds like, but if Hion is a fluid-like Investiture then it should be theoretically possible.

Adonalsium save us from the Fullborn raccoon overlords in Era 3

We still don't really know how Soulstamps are made, but this could be a huge clue as to how they function! Great thinking