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OK, so I saw a thread from back in 2017 talking about the screams Szeth hears, and someone suggested a similarity between the screams and the description of Yelig-Nar that 'often his voice was accompanied by the wails of those he consumed.' I couldn't see anyone else talking about this, but anyway I have a crazy theory about Yelig-Nar. So they brought up this WOB in that thread: I think this could be interpreted as Brandon suggesting an Unmade is part of the reason that Szeth is able to hear those screams. It seems likely that each of the Unmade was probably a Spren of some kind before they were unmade, and that each now has some kind of general effect, role or power that possibly reflects on what they previously were. There's not a huge amount of evidence supporting that so far, but it is at least the direction that Brandon seems to be leading towards. So then looking at the Unmade: Ashertmarn loves to party, and tries to spread that party to everyone in range. Ba-Ado-Mishram is mostly theory still, but we got a ton in ROW, crafty and intelligent, but we now know that her imprisonment had a large effect on all living creatures on Roshar; she seems to have had some power of Connection. Chemoarish we know basically nothing about. Dai-Gonarthis, again we know little, though the line 'The Black Fisher holds my sorrow and consumes it!' makes him seem very in keeping with the others. Moelach seems to create a generalised effect on Fortune in a large area around himself. Responsible for the Death Rattles. Nergaoul, responsible for the Thrill, mindless battle rage. Re-Shephir we know little about, but she creates the Midnight Essence, and is obsessed with understanding mankind. Also, while she was in Urithiru, several characters felt her as a dark twisted presence, suggesting another kind of area based effect. Sja-Anat, capable of Enlightening spren, which post-ROW we now know way more, but still understand almost nothing about. And Yelig-Nar, who lets people eat him, and then gives them access to every surge. So the majority have some kind of local effect, often to do with emotion. I think the two that are the least in line with that are Sja-Anat, and Yelig-nar, but even then Sja-Anat still feels to me far more similar perhaps because over time she has been continually corrupting spren. Yelig-Nar causes a specific effect on one individual who he bonds to, he feels very much the odd one out. There's also that line I mentioned, 'often his voice was accompanied by the wails of those he consumed.' I think the current prevailing belief is that the line simply refers generally to people who have been overwhelmed by him once they've shoved him in their mouth, which we assume is what happened to Aesudan, but there's actually no evidence of that. So, my crazy theory: What if instead, Yelig-Nar's power/role is that he has been consuming the souls of the dead on Roshar since he was unmade. What if he were something like the spren of the afterlife on Roshar, until he was corrupted. Perhaps his ability to gift the whole range of surges to an individual, is because he has consumed the spiritwebs of people with access to each surge. He is responsible for messing with the afterlife on Roshar, and is the cause of certain people hearing the screams of the dead, as a large scale effect across Roshar. Thoughts? Oh here's that thread I was talking about:

I forgot about this post haha. My other recent thought was that Plamry was another part of Nikli. We got almost no mention of him because he only formed when Nikli needed some assistance. If this is the case, I still don’t really like how it was done. It looked too much like a mistake at least to me initially. Obviously we don’t know that this is the case, and it most likely was just a relic of quick drafting, thankfully it isn’t a mistake Brandon makes often.

So, it looked like after Rysn picked up the Dawnshard she gained at least a few levels of heightening. Do we think this is because Endowment is one of the four shards that her Dawnshard, (the Dawnshard of ... Change???) formed when Adonalsium shattered? If so, what does that mean? Were there any other effects on Rysn that are similar to other magic systems we have seen that I missed? Do bearers of each Dawnshard pick up features of the magic system that their related shards created as a side effect?

Do we think that the Dawnshard of ... (Change???) gives Rysn what looks a lot like at least a few levels of heightening, because Endowment was one of the four shards that it formed? If so, what does that mean? Were there any other effects on Rysn that are similar to other magic systems we have seen that I missed? Do bearers of each Dawnshard pick up features of the magic system that their related shards created as a side effect?

This character was an odd addition. Felt almost like at some point they actually had lines but those were maybe removed in the drafting process. Mentioned in two chapters, once just saying that Plamry is Nikli's assisstant, then just mentioning when Nikli is taken away that Plamry might also be suspicious and should be taken away as well. Did I miss something?

Ok, so my theory is that Silverlight was formed by a group of Rosharan's aided by Khriss. We know that Honor locked the Oathgates just before he died, which we know happened just after the Recreance. Prior to this time we know that the Oathgates were the source of much travel, to the extent that the Knights radiants imposed a tarriff through Urithiru. Up to this point I had been operating on the assumption that this simply meant that pre-recreance, the oathgates were used to allow trade between the silver kingdoms in the physical realm of Roshar. However, we also know for a fact that the Oathgates could be used to travel to Shadesmar before Honor locked them. So, essentially we know that for the entire duration of the Silver Kingdoms era, every city on Roshar had direct access to the cognitive realm. Is it possible, that towards the end of this era, a large number of Rosharans emigrated to the Cognitive Realm, exploring outwards from Shadesmar, and built a city? I would imagine this would likely have occurred sometime between the last desolation and the false desolation, the latter of which probably led to the loss of Silverlight from the cultural memory of Roshar. That rough timeline still allows for Khriss to have aided in the founding of the city if I'm judging it correctly. If I'm missing something obvious that disproves this theory could someone please enlighten me haha, I fear there might be something obvious.

Aha no worries, thanks for responding. Even though it was a very minor change it felt good to contribute something for a change, instead of just spending hours upon hours consuming the coppermind

Hey, I just made an account on here and on the Coppermind, and I made a minor edit to the Hemalurgy page that I just wanted to get confirmation on. The text I changed said 'Ruin crafted Hemalurgy with a flaw', as far as my understanding goes this is incorrect, as the metallic arts were not created by Ruin or Preservation. I copied the text from the Allomancy page that referenced this for clarity. This I was sure about. What I wasn't 100% on, was whether we knew that the flaw was inherent to Hemalurgy or whether Ruin had altered Hemalurgy to create the flaw. Given that we know Preservation could alter Allomancy, in my mind it makes sense that Ruin would also have been able to if he desired. Though I personally think it makes more sense, given the nature of Hemalurgy, that this flaw was inherent to it. I guess it's ultimately fairly inconsequential, but I wondered if anyone knew of a specific WoB or other reference that could clear this up one way or the other.