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Come to think about it, there's an even simpler way to hurt the Radiants - Ishar's Honorblade should be enough to imprison the Stormfather in a perfect gemstone. This should be even worse than what happened to BAM - Radiant spren would all be affected somehow. It's also way easier to fix once either side wins

Odium is bound to Braize, but his Investiture isn't. He can control the Unmade, and unmade them again into something else. Creating an Unmade (a new one or from an existing one) that can create anti-Stormlight from Stormlight or food from Voidlight seems to be within the realm of possibility. The latter should also be possible for the Transformation Fused The NB was enough to kill a Vessel, so killing a spren, even a large one and bonded, seems possible Technically yes, but once it's flooded with refugees from all over Roshar and doesn't have a sustainable source of emeralds for Soulcasters... Rayse (according to his first talk with Dalinar in OB) had a plan to destroy all splinters of Honor and change the nature of Roshar, so that is technically possible. The number of victims would be huge, true, but that's not something that stopped Taravangian before

I had Nightblood in mind when I wrote it, I should have been more explicit about that Anti-Investiture seems like a plausible explanation for Rayse's Shard Vessel killing abilities; if that was the case, Taravangian should be able to generate enough to take down the SF That's a valid point, but don't think Navani can generate enough Light to match the whole Highstorm and support the whole army That probably depends on how long it would take to defeat the Radiants outside of Urithiru. With a massive Voidbringer offensive, monopolizing the access to Soulcasters (and possibly corrupting them so they run on Voidlight) and the Origin, the ability to create food from Voidlight (Odium is a Shard, so must be able to do that) he could probably win within a reasonable timeline. Then it's only the matter of merging Odium and Honor, at which point he would be free to leave Braize and could restore the Highstorm on his own terms

We know that Taravangian found some loophole that possibly allows him to win with Dalinar somehow, probably based on something that Rayse couldn't have predicted and/or simply would never do. Here I'd like to propose my guess: Taravangian plans to kill the Stormfather. It's actually scarily easy to pull off in just three steps: A. Manipulate Ishar into stealing Dalinar's bond with the SF B. Manipulate Szeth into killing Ishar, killing or wounding the SF in the process C. If necessary, finish the SF off with anti-Stormlight This would probably destroy the Highstorms, creating something like a never ending Weeping (the Night of Sorrows?), described in multiple Death Rattles: Honor's Perpendicularity would probably settle on a permanent location at the Origin, explaining the line from Puuli's interlude (describing Skybreakers maybe?): Without easy access to Stormlight for Team Radiant, Odium should be able to crush them easily, conquer all of Roshar and take Honor's Investiture for himself, which would free him from Braize. A possible Arc 1 ending resolution I see would be something like this: The Everstorm gets taken over by the recently freed Ba-Ado-Mishram, thwarting Odium's plans. Dalinar Ascends to Honor using the unchained powers of Ishar's Honorblade and possibly (Dawnshard spoilers). Kaladin dies, but his Cognitive Shadow replaces the Stormfather in the newly re-created Highstorm, changing its nature to be far less destructive. Dalinar changes the nature of Stormlight and bonds, allowing Radiants to travel across Cosmere. Shallan becomes a worldhopper. Moash bonds with Dai-gonarthis and becomes Odium's avatar: He continues Odium's work on Roshar and searches for a way to free him, eventually starting the plot of Arc 2

The explosion only occurs if the Investiture is under any kind of pressure; otherwise it's simply annihilation

That's a valid point, but there's a possible explanation - Raysium simply conducts Investiture really well and the kinetics of reaction is much faster between Lights than between Light and godmetal, explaining why it was Voidlight that was destroyed On the other hand, Vin, despite using Bronze enhanced by Hemalurgy, finding the Well of Ascension with Ruin trapped within and fighting atium users, never seems to hear any pulses that are so distinctly different than the others that the could easily be attributed to Ruin's Rhytm I also doubt that Honorspren are purely of Honor, but they might have enough Honor's Investiture in them for anti-Stormlight to be deadly. I wonder how it would work on Cultivationspren I really like this idea. We know that Stormlight changes its Rhytm somehow before merging with Voidlight, while still being Stormlight at that point. So maybe instead of one Rhythm, we have some spectrum of Rhythms assigned to each Shard, depending on the Intent of a person holding Investiture. For example, Vin wants to kill Ruin, which changes the Rhytm slightly, so that Preservation's power becomes anti-Ruin; Sazed does something opposite to both Shards

Exactly what it says: some ideas and theories on spren I had after reading RoW Cusicesh, the Protector The Sibling is, well, a sibling of the Nightwatcher and the Stormfather. Sja-anat calls them a cousin, which could imply that the relationship between the original spren that would be unmade by Odium and godspren is similar to the one between cousin and Radiant spren. It makes sense: Re-shephir seems like a superpowered creationspren, Yelig-nar a superpowered windspren etc. If that is the case, is there a superpowered gloryspren somewhere? Cusicesh seems like an interesting candidate, given that his most pronounces feature is the face (OK, faces), something he shares with the NW and the SF The Oathgate spren OK, this is super tinfoil territory, but while reading RoW I thought about the weird potential link between Oathgate spren and Cryptics. Given their Surge, it would make sense for the Oathgate spren to have features similar to Inkspren and Reachers, right? It works for the former, but I cannot see an Lightspren features in them. On the other hand we are specifically told that Cryptics' hands come in two colors, exactly the same as Oathgate spren. Is it possible that association between sapient spren and Surges works differently for Surge fabrial spren? Thunderclasts We know that there is more to Cultvation's magic than Old Magic and ancient Stoneshaping seems like an excellent candidate. It has some decent foreshadowing, really: Singer gods ('spren, stone, and wind') mentioned in the Eila Stele, Shin reverence for stone, Cultivation being identified with Roshar itself by many people. Ancient Stoneshapers being corrupted by Odium also explains the Thunderclasts, the only Voidbringer being we couldn't match to any magic so far. Given that they are essentially twisted Singer souls, it could imply that this Stoneshaping didn't require a spren bond (unless the spren was also corrupted and merged with the Thunderclast). Could it be a genetic ability, like what the Horneater Sighted have, or maybe something granted by Old Magic style spiritweb modification? Stormstriders We now know that larkins are sapient, something that Tai-na also share to some extent - and based on the RoW ending, there's something more to the chasmfiends than we previously realized. From WoR Rysn interlude we know that Tai-na, besides the usual luckspren, also seem to bond some spen (considered their "soul" by the Reshi people) in their gemhearts. If so, this situation could extend to other greatshells, including larkins / lanceryns. It's more intuition than proof, but it seems likely that such spren would be rather huge and unique, as well as easily available in Highstorms (assuming that the bonding mechanism is shared with the Singers). I think that Stormstrides could be such spren (and maybe provide lanceryn Forms?)

One argument against it would be that the smoke Nightblood produces is corrupted Breath: Also, anti-Investiture needs to be prepared specifically for each type of Investiture, with specific Intent. Nightblood seems far too universal for that

To quote from The Hero of Ages: It's Sazed's will that keeps them from mutual destruction, not their nature. It seems that Intent of an individual who holds some Investiture can override how it behaves; for example, Voidlight and Stormlight don't mix, but the joint will of humans and Singers can work as an emulsifier. What Sazed does seems to fall under the same category, just on a completely different scale. Also, the chapter where the emulsifier is discovered is literally named Harmony

Not confirmed explicitly, but as close as we can get right now:

I don't think that the association between Shards and colors is perfect or consistent. Let's look at Scadrial for example: Preservation and Ruin's symbolic colors are white and black, and it's reflected in their mists but not godmetals. Rayse has it the other way around: Raysium had gold-white color, but his Light is "hyperviolet"

Microkinesis allowed for, among other things, nuclear fission: We don't know the details, but nukes + bronze age level societies certainly looks like a bad combination

Absolutely, but I think each Rhytm corresponds to some Intent, which, following the same rules as Investiture, would be some linear combination of 16 Shardic Intents

Kite magic is from a minor Shardworld: It would work perfectly with Whimsy though

Anti-Light is built from Investiture (like everything in Cosmere) and all Investiture got assigned to Shards at the Shattering, so I would assume that anti-Lights and their Intent must be some combination of Shards

I had this idea today. We know that Brandon initially intended the special number for Scadrial to be four: What if the four Dawnshard Commands were hidden in plain sight somewhere in Scadrian magic - namely in Feruchemical Spiritual attributes? They are exactly the basic building blocks of Cosmere, which would make the four basic Commands used to create the world to be: Let there be Investiture Let there be Connection Let there be Identity Let there be Fortune Investiture Investiture Command would cover Shards that give away their Investiture to create sentient life or beings. Definitely Preservation and Endowment, other possible candidates include Invention and Valor (the latter might be under Connection, we don't have enough information) Connection Shards that share the Unity theme - Honor, Devotion, Dominion, possibly Valor Identity Shards that embody living up to your Spiritual Ideal and/or helping others do the same. Cultivation, Ambition, Autonomy and (semi-confirmed) Wisdom. Rysn is this Dawnshard and interprets it as Change / Improvement Fortune Shards covering luck and the ultimate fate of things. Ruin, Odium, Mercy (complements the divine wrath represented by Odium) and Whimsy (as in capricious fate). The common theme is Passion. Futuresight provided by these Shards is described as dangerous (WoB). If Mercy is the Anguish Shard, then these four Shards would be most prone to be being warped by the lack of context from other Shards

They kind of are gaseous, but the type of gas seems to be different on every planet (unlike solid state always being metal and liquid being Shardpools). I would assume that Preservation Investing on Roshar would result in Preservationlight, and Honor would produce Honormists on Scadrial, for example

There are two major differences though: mists seem to be pure gas, while Lights are some gas/liquid state mists have colors, but they don't produce regular light (or suck it from the surrounding space)

My guess would be that he wanted to control people and take their pain - promoting apathy rather than hatred or passion. What happened to the Fused is an excellent example - they're just tired or broken rather than eager for war

I'm not sure about this, as we have 16 Shards and just 7 colors of the rainbow... Plus, Shardic colors are complicated. Voidlight is hyperviolet, the corresponding rainbow color is violet (with an extremely broad band) and the color of Rayseium, also used by Odium in his visions, is gold and white. Also, we haven't seen Ruin's or Preservation's Lights, just their godmetals (solid state), Shardpools (liquid) and mists (gas), while Lights seem to be something between liquid and gas

We have four confirmed new Shards: Invention, Mercy, Whimsy and Valor. Wisdom (or something similar) seems to be confirmed as well: which leaves us with just one, 16th unknown Shard. We also have some information about previously unknown Shards: I would also add: 5. The one that would be used for Dark One, if it was part of Cosmere 6. The "Anguish Shard" 7. Odium's ally that isn't Autonomy 8. The Shard that will be used for Aether magic, as it will be probably changed not to be pre-Shattering Here are my propositions: 1. Wisdom, probably, although they don't want to hide anymore. Seems like a good Shard to be associated with Silverlight, if there is a Shard there (currently RAFO) 2. Probably Mercy, although Wisdom would count in the past 3. Whimsy, maybe? I'd like to hear your opinions on this one 4. The Initiation that seems both random and affected by mechanical devices makes me think Invention and Whimsy. Both also work quite well for magic that combines exact geometric blueprints with chalkling unicorns We'll get more information in Book 2 5. The original idea was based on works of Tesla, which heavily implies Invention. If the Narrative existed in that version, it could have been of Whimsy, making it the same potential combination as the Rithmatist 6 & 7 My guess would be Mercy 8. Could be any Shard(s), really, so I'll go with Valor and the 16th unknown Shard

I believe that the behavior of different Lights, their combinations and anti-Lights can be easily described using simple physics analogies. Shardic Intents are pure states, that, like quantum states, can be added together in any proportions, creating custom Intents / Rhythms. The easiest examples are Investitures of two different Shards mixed in 50%-50% proportions e.g. Harmony (ettmetal) = Ruin + Preservation, War (Warlight) = Honor + Odium, Science (Towerlight) = Honor + Cultivation Rosharan spren are different mixes of X% Honor + Y% Cultivation, where X and Y add up to 100. This would, fortunately, make creating custom anti-Lights rather difficult. Anti-Lights are Investitures of opposing Intents, for example Ruin and Preservation. As Odium seems to lack a directly opposing Shard, anti-Voidlight is some combination of other Intents that doesn't occur naturally. I would assume some mix of Honor, Devotion and maybe Dominion (since they share the Unity theme) and maybe others, mixed in the exact proportions that create the Rhythm exactly opposing that of Odium. With this assumption, two planets of Cosmere (Scadrial and Roshar) correspond nicely to the behavior of two types of hadron particles: mesons and baryons. Mesons are built from a quark and an anti-quark and are inherently unstable. Ruin and Preservation's Investitures being their own anti-Investitures explains a lot: the explosion of power that kills Vin and Ati, Ati being unable to splinter Preservation to Khriss' confusion, mists avoiding hemalurgic spikes. Ettmetal exists only because both powers are held by one individual, and, as mesons, is extremely unstable. Baryons are made of three quarks, so neither can each other's anti-quark. They are bound together in a way that makes them confined together: pulling one quark would require more and more power the further you take it from the particle. It is exactly the same behavior that seems to bind Odium to Braize and H&C to Roshar, the latter described exactly by Mraize in his talk with Shallan

There is an error in OB text, Bondsmiths have Tension and Adhesion. Their application can have some effects similar to Stonehshaping, but it seems to be mostly Cohesion which Bondsmiths lack: Which seems to align with how Brandon has previously described Cohesion in the past, as opposed to Tension. I assume this Surge is what Dalinar used to repair the temple of Talenel in Chapter 59, but that's not actually essential to the point. Peter Ahlstrom I think this has to be an error in the text. Pagerunner Sorry, which do you think is the error? The order of Surges in the Ars Arcanum? Or the Stormfather's statement to Dalinar? Peter Ahlstrom The Stormfather's statement. Peter Ahlstrom I have verified with Brandon that what the Stormfather said here is wrong and will be corrected in the future. General Reddit 2017 (Dec. 14, 2017)

Also, on a more symbolic level, Truthwatchers are exactly opposite to Bondsmiths in the Surgebinding chart