Zanarkand

I'm wondering if any other person bonded to a deadeye shardblade besides Adolin and Shallan has been to the cognitive realm and met their deadeye. I think this may be the reason Maya and now Testament have begun to heal. Somehow when BAM was captured the radiant spren's connection to the cognitive realm was damaged, and those that were manifested in the physical realm due to the nahel bond were unable to properly return to the cognitive realm. We also know that a sapient spren without a bond cannot maintain their sapience in the physical realm. Thus a deadeye spren is a sapient spren that has lost their mind and is unable to fully manifest in the cognitive realm. Now my theory is that since Adolin is bonded to Maya in some fashion, when he goes to Shadesmar he kind of "bridges the gap" so to speak. Not sure precisely how this works, but I'm convinced it's because Adolin went to Shadesmar while bonded to a deadeye that said deadeye has begun to heal. Also Shallan has apparently begun the same process with testament.

Coming back around to Ishar, I wonder if he was the one who bound Ba-Edo-Mishram. It's in the name kinda, Melishi~Ishar. Plus Melishi seemed to have abilities that were unexpected for a bondsmith. Several of the heralds were present at the binding, including at least Kalek and Nale. Maybe they weren't completely insane yet and were trying to help fight the false desolation. As for T-Odium, going back to Renarin's vision in RoW and interpreting it in the light of Taravangian's ascension leads me to believe that T-Odium will try for a stalemate in the contest of champions, that way there can be no end to the war. Permawar seems to align well with Odium's intent, and it would mean the preservation of humanity on some level which is what Taravangian wanted.

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