Renarin Kholin

The only reason this might work is because Ruin is one of the shards in both of your examples, implying that Sazed no longer holds both Ruin and Preservation. Without another vessel holding multiple shards (that we know of yet), either of those shard combinations could probably do the job.

I just want to elaborate on what I said earlier: "I think a character should be a well-developed character first, and LGBT second." What I don't mean is that their gender identity or sexuality should be a glossed over part of their character. Being LGBT should be a defining part of their character, just not the first defining thing about them. In my experience as an aspiring author, the thing readers will remember most about a character is the first thing to break their imagined norm. In the book I am currently working on, the main character's grandpa is introduced in chapter 2, and the first dialogue he has is the greeting "Ho." I wrote that just as a passing line of dialogue, trying to give him a unique way of speaking. But my alpha readers interpreted him as a chipper old man because of this line, when I actually intended for him to be a very serious character. Now that is the primary way that they remember him. In our culture, the natural assumption of most readers when picking up a book is that the characters are hetero. If the first thing to break the reader's assumptions is that a character is LGBT, that will be the primary way the character is remembered. If you want heterosexual readers to remember the character as anything but "the gay one," then you have to break their assumptions in another way first. Let's use Dalinar as an example. The first thing that breaks our assumptions about him is his visions from the Almighty. If he was gay, but it was revealed after that, readers would remember him first as the guy who had visions from the Almighty, and second as gay.

Not sure I want to get mixed up in this discussion, but I am in a good position to understand both sides, so here goes. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, same as Brandon. I understand both the beliefs and the culture that makes him hesitant to write LGBT+ characters. In LDS culture, we typically have less interaction with LGBT people than most people do. I can see why he would want to wait until he has a better understanding of how to write them before having a main LGBT character. I understand that writing an LGBT person badly is worse than not writing them at all. As a side note, thank you @Elsecaller_17.5 for posting the link to the church's views on LGBT issues. At the same time, I think it could just be an excuse. Even being LDS, I have had a bit of exposure to LGBT people in my life. My uncle is gay. My sister is transgender. I'm sure Brandon has had enough interaction with LGBT people to be able to write them well. Personally, I would be quicker to forgive an honest blunder in writing an LGBT character than him not writing them. Brandon's work is continually amazing; I'm sure he could pull it off well. Finally, I have always thought that an LGBT character should be a well-developed character first, and LGBT second. I don't think of my uncle solely as "the gay uncle." I think of him as the fun uncle who is amazing on the piano, makes cool balloon animals, and used to play MarioKart with my siblings and I whenever he came to visit. I think that Brandon does this fairly well with Drehy, and not particularly well with Ranette. I remember Drehy as the quiet bridgeman who kind of just went along with the group, and then as a gay man (probably because I had already reread WoK and WoR before Oathbringer came out). Ranette, on the other hand, I barely remembered as a character (possibly because I was less invested in the Wax and Wayne series) before finding out she was lesbian. I appreciate that he tried though.

Sorry, I have done so now

"A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind... It means what you want it to mean. The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon." - Hoid, The Way of Kings

Definitely not Syl. She would get distracted and transform into a raindrop or a flower or something.

Ooh, I love this theory! Time to scour Oathbringer for possible evidence of this

I don't want to see all the female Heralds glossed over. All five male Heralds have made appearances and been at least mildly important, but of the female Heralds, I believe we have only seen Shalash. I just don't want the other four female Heralds to exist only as characters for Moash to kill.

Ok, so if that is not a timeline, do we have a timeline at all for the Cosmere?

My understanding of nightblood's appearance in Oathbringer was that it took place after Warbreaker. I know that Vasher and Nightblood were around for a long time before Warbreaker took place, but Nightblood also mentions Vivenna to Szeth, and he would not have known Vivenna before the events of Warbreaker. But in the State of the Sanderson 2019, the Cosmere sequence places Warbreaker after Stormlight books 1-5. Is the Cosmere sequence meant to be more of the general order in which he plans to write the books, or is it an actual timeline of when the books take place chronologically? And if it is supposed to be a timeline, why is Warbreaker after Oathbringer?

Sorry if someone has suggested this theory before. In Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, in "The Scadrian System," it says, That seems to imply that not all Vessels for the Shards were human; otherwise it would be unnecessary for Khriss to state this. Please correct me if I'm wrong about this, but Yolen is where Dragonsteel takes place, so I think that it is likely that the Vessels of some of the Shards may have been dragons, not humans. I really like the idea that some of the Shards were dragons, but what do you think? Is this theory plausible?

My least favorite has to be Moash. No contest.

Hey everyone! I've been reading Brandon Sanderson books for a couple years now, and I've read all of the Cosmere books. My favorite has to be WoK, but Mistborn is a close second. Obviously from my username, my favorite character is Renarin. I took a quiz to see which order of Knight Radiant I would be, and I got Elsecaller. Anyway, I'm excited to join the discussion instead of just watching it!

Ok so I don't know if someone has suggested this before, but I suspect that the beggar Axies encountered in Kasitor (Interlude 1-5) might be a herald. Kalak, perhaps? His actions seem similar to Jezrien's as a beggar in Kholinar. Nale says that all the other heralds have lost their minds, except Ishar. He could just be a throwaway character, but it seems like possibly foreshadowing to me.