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How would Dalinar force Odium to fight anyways? Perhaps something like they both agree to a time and place that the fight would be decided at? Odium tells Dalinar that he's ready to fight, and they negotiate out the terms of the battle, set the date, and after all the Radiants and everybody carefully look over the terms for loopholes, they get to the area ready to fight and see a child. The "invisible but" is that it is a baby. That is "but" enough. The writer doesn't say whether they will kill the baby or not, merely that they are faced by an almost impossible choice. It could also be saying that the darkness will prevail because the Radiants are too split to kill all of the parshmen. It by no means has to refer to a specific decision. Odium cannot simply choose a champion without letting them have any choice in the matter. If that were the case, then Dalinar would be Odium's champion. The champion must agree to be a champion, and I highly doubt that any son or daughter of the Kholin family would ever do so.

Dalinar can accept the challenge, forcing Odium to fight, and then refuse to fight? Odium isn't likely to just leave such an obvious loophole in his plan. Odium won't let Dalinar raise the child. There is not a single chance that he would do so. Dalinar would look for a way around killing the child, but if it came down to killing a baby or letting Odium win, Dalinar would kill the child.

The scenario that came to my mind when I saw the theory was pretty simple: Odium has finally agreed to the contest of champions, and he has chosen a child as his champion. Dalinar can either kill the child and win the contest, saving Roshar and forcing Odium to retreat for a time, or refuse to kill the child and forfeit, freeing Odium and causing the death of Cultivation and most likely the Stormfather and the Nightwatcher, along with the destruction of Roshar. In that situation, he would kill the child. He would not savor doing it, and it would hurt him, but he would kill the child. I do like Dalinar, and I have forgiven him for what he did, and I acknowledge that he has changed. But ask yourself this: Is killing one child that different from what Dalinar has done, and has shown no hesitation at doing? When Jasnah brings up genocide, he doesn't dismiss it as an option. When he learns that the Parshmen are not heartless monsters bent on desruction, he tells Kaladin that he is going to negotiate. He does not refuse to commit genocide, he looks for other options. If he had no other option, he would take the one option that he had left, and kill all the Parshmen. We already have an example of what he would when he had no other options: When the Parshendi refused to surrender, he marched an army out to kill them all, to end the war by any means necessary. The Parshmen are little more than children, manipulated by the Fused and forced to fight. Dalinar would look for other options, try to figure out another way, but when he can't, or if he had no option other than to fight or forfeit, then he would kill the child. To do otherwise would be to condemn millions of men, women, and children to death.

Dalinar will do what he has to. He didn't kill the Tanalan Jr. because he didn't have to, and he didn't have to destroy the entire city, plus Evi asked him to spare them. No he's not, but do you honestly think that Dalinar would trade his entire world for one child? One child is different than an entire race. I'm not saying he's the same man, I'm saying that he can deal with the guilt and grief that comes from it.

Wouldn't they have noticed because of their bond with each other?

Dalinar would totally kill a baby to save the world. He's done much worse.

But when they discovered that Raeth couldn't teleport other people, I wasn't reading it closely, and thought that they had just discovered that he couldn't teleport himself.

With the whole Mistborn push/pull interal/external thing, I immediately assumed that light aether can teleport others, while dark aether can teleport you. and then when they tested whether or not you could teleport others with it, I assumed they were testing whether or not he could teleport himself.

Bob decided to use some dangerous chemicals to make a cookie for @The Awakened Salad.

Bob liked dangerous chemicals.

The reason that this wouldn't work is that we have no idea if they can change the type of investiture that they tap. A regular F-nicrosil ferring can only store their ability to store and tap F-nicrosil, so unless they can convert that investiture to A-nicrosil, then they cannot compound.

Said Larry the zucchini.

*Prepares to enter a ten-page argument that forces mods to get involved three separate times, before finally ending with no one's opinions being changed* Seriously though, Moash is not a psychopath. How would you have felt if Kaladin killed Roshone? Would you have cared if Roshone was trying to be a better person? I do realize that Roshone actually tried to get Moash's parents killed, while Elhokar only did so because of his inexperience, but Moash didn't know that. All he knew was that Elhokar had helped Roshone out by jailing his parents.

Hey! Three odd numbers! 591

What do you want to happen to Moash?

The Lord Ruler worldhopped to Roshar and bonded the Stormfather before going back to create the Final Empire. When he saw the danger of the Storm, he was inspired to create Kredik Shaw, a palace that could withstand even the strongest of Highstorms. The reason that he isn't still bonded to the Stormfather is that he ran out of Atium before figuring out how to get Spren off-world. Nobody knows it, (except maybe Hoid) but TLR probably got the closest of anyone in the Cosmere to figuring out the secret to off-world spren. Kaladin and Raoden.

I would join the religion of the God Beyond.

Also other-respecting narrators.

*Wins for a few seconds*

No self-respecting narrator would ever create such an abomination.

I underestimated my sheer skill at this game, I suppose.

He's a little bit older because of the longer Roshar years.

You read the songs? I honestly just skipped over them.

I predict that I will be winning for about five minutes.

Thinking the not of the needing this class.