Dasak

Well, I've never said that the pact is protecting him. I'm sorry if I haven't expressed the idea appropriately. What I've said is that the betrayal of the pact, which means Odium breaking his word, will cause him to be exposed (the hole in his soul), allowing Cultivaton to kill him.

Yeah, it's another possibility, and the most logical one according to the statements agreed on the pact of Champions. We know Odium refused to break the deal because of Cultivation, he thought she will kill him just after being exposed for the pact's betrayal. But now the situation is different, Cultivation thinks Taravangian is on his side, and Taravangian knows it, he can take advantatge of the situation. We don't know Cultivation plans, she may feel betrayed by Taravangian's escape and will try to kill him, or she will think that as long as Odium not being Rayse, he can go wherever he wants. We will have to wait until 2 or 3 years to know it.

I agree with the theory of Odium/Taravangian trying to force a tie. I take your points of Odium choosing someone who is linked to another planet, and I see it as posible, but also dificult to accomplish (first Odium can't leave Rosharan System, second he will have to find someone loyal to him with no honor/cultivation/odium influence to make the shadesmar interplanetary trip, third the traveller has to convince the choosen champion to accept by giving him/her something he/she wants, and finally all of this will have to be settled in ten days or less). But as I said, It's a possibility. I don't agree with those who are saying the campion will be a child, because a child technically can kill Dalinar, so he will have to concede his defeat to escape from killing the child or the child will have to concede his defeat. My perception is that if a champions can technically be killed by the other, a tie is not an option. So, on both situations, Taravangian will lose (remember his goal is to broke the ties which stop him to escape from rosharan system). Odium's champion being an spren/voidspren it's another possibility. We assume sprens/voidsprens can't interact with physic world (despite Syl doing it) but what if high ranked sprens can do it? Lately has been demonstrated that spren knowledge is not absolute, and their nature is likely to be changed (for example, Maya as a deadeyes can speak). On the other side, navani has demonstrated that sprens and voidsprens can be killed with anti-stormlight and anti-voidlight. My conclusion is that common sprens can't be elected as champions, neither common voidsprens. My guess would be on Odium representing himself, he can't be killed by Dalinar as far as Taravangian knows, neither he can kill Dalinar (because of his pact with Honor). Yes, Taravangian could be killed by Dalinar if he uses Nightblood, but we don't know when Nightblood will be operative to absorb energy (remember that killing Rayse has put it in a kind of sleeping state) and he knows that nobody a part of him knows that Nightblood can be used to kill gods (neither vasher knows as far as we know, but I think he wouldn't be surprised if he ever finds it out). Anti-Voidlight won't be an option, Rebaniel itself constated that there was no possibility to create the amount of anti-voidlight needed to kill Odium. I don't know if there is another entity likely to match with the restrictions to be the champion Odium needs. Cultivation is not an option, because she can kill Dalinar (she is not restrained by Odium's and Honor's pact). I think Hoid isn't option either, cause he will kill Dalinar to prevent Odium's escape. Perhaps Unmades or bondsmith's sprens like The Sibling or Nightwatcher can't be killed by the same reason as Odium. If I'm wrong in a statement I made, please correct me. And I apologise in advance for my grammar mistakes. ;)

Well, I understant your point, but it makes me thinks I've not expessed myself clear. I was not thinking on Ishar's trying to improve the physical state or magic powers of the entire human race, it would be Ishar's trying to give himself and his troops or people on his side (not only in his actual war against dalinar and odium, but also he can be thinking about the future great war that will take place on Cosmere) more power in order to obtain a militar tactic advantage. Nevertheless, as you said, it can be a purpose that only a crazy scientist could imagine. Never mind, I wanted to make the focus on the possibility of Ishar's attack on Lasting Integrity in order to capture more honorspren. Everything I've said is just speculation, but the part of the attack on Lasting Integrity just seems to be the logical next Ishar's step for me (another posibility could be capturing windrunners and his sprens, but due to the nature of their powers and the fact that they are part of dalinar's army, I think they are more difiult to get).

Thanks for the advice, but I'm updated with all the Cosmere stories, excpet for the Rysn short story of Dawnshard.

Hi, I'm Dasak, I'm a non-native english speaker (I'm from Spain) new user, so I'm not sure if I can theorize this here or there is another place to do it (but I think this is the correct place). Firstly, I've been reading cosmere books from 2011 when I started reading 'The way of Kings', and it seduced me as a single book almost as 'The name of wind' did it before. So I was impressed when I discovered that he created not only a saga of novels, but also a group of sagas and short novels taking place in the same fantasy universe (in this case, the galaxy known as Cosmere). Now, there comes the spoiler of the 4th book, so those ones who haven't read it already, don't read the spoiler: I have a few more theories and meditations, but I will keep them in my mind until admins or other users answer me, telling if I can or cannot write them here. I think I did lots of grammatical mistakes, so I apologise for it. Best regards, Dídac